Following hard on the heels of the Heartbleed exploit, Microsoft has discovered a major flaw in the security of their browser, Internet Explorer. According to a security advisory issued over the weekend, this vulnerability could be used by attackers to gain the same user rights as the current legitimate user. An investigation is underway, but…
Read moreMaintaining Business IT Security
For many modern businesses, IT security is an issue of paramount importance. As customers, we hand over a vast range of personal data to banks, retailers, government bodies and service providers and place our trust in them to keep it secure. The recent Heartbleed issue has brought the subject of IT security to the fore…
Read moreBusiness IT Support and What It Can Encompass
Business IT support immediately evokes images of computers needing maintenance, and indeed a good proportion of business IT support does conform to this ‘norm’. However the phrase ‘IT’ – the abbreviation of information technology – actually encompasses any device that is designed to store, retrieve, transmit and work with data of any description, and so…
Read moreWhat Heartbleed Means For You
Anybody who has been reading IT news in the last couple of weeks will have heard about Heartbleed. Although it’s often been referred to as a “bug” or “virus”, it is actually a security exploit which was discovered in OpenSSL, a popular piece of software used to encrypt sensitive information. What does this mean for…
Read moreWhat’s so Important About an Online Backup?
Backing up your data is one of those things that most people agree with in theory, but far fewer actually take the concrete steps to put such fail-safes into action. In domestic environments, many people take the attitude that ‘it’ll never happen to them’, and so they never get round to backing up any of…
Read moreThe Regulations Surrounding The Disposal of IT Equipment
With the government constantly reiterating about how much of a serious issue global warming has become, the British public are now ‘in the know’ about environmental damage that has taken place over the years. Statistics about carbon emissions are released on a regular basis, and businesses have surfaced as being responsible for the largest amount…
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