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Keeping your eyes on the horizon and your ear to the ground can be tricky to do all at once, so we're doing it for you. Check out the latest tech news and our own blogs below to keep up to speed with everything you need to know regarding your business IT, communications, and cyber security.
Consider IT achieves ISO 9001
Edinburgh based IT Support company, Consider IT has achieved the internationally recognised ISO 9001 standard, establishing us as one of the leader...
Local Authority fined £80k for losing unencrypted USB stick
North East Lincolnshire Council has been fined a monetary penalty of £80,000 (eighty thousand pounds) for failing to encrypt a USB stick that conta...
Google Apps Service Disruption
At about 3:25pm yesterday (Monday 23rd September 2013), Google Apps suffered some service issues. Clients were noticing issues sending or receiving...
South Korea hit by cyber attack
A cyber alert was issued by South Korea after a hacking attack on government websites. Media sites and even the website of the presidential office ...
Glasgow City Council fined £150k for unencrypted laptops
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has issued Glasgow City Council with a penalty of £150,000 following the loss of two unencrypted laptop...
Important Reminder: Support for Windows XP ends on 8th April 2014
The support for Windows XP with Service Pack 3 ends 8th April 2014. If you’re running Windows XP with Service Pack 3 (SP3) after support ends, to e...
Unlock any iPhone 5 running iOS 6.1
As if Apple weren’t embarrassed enough… Some smart person has found a bug in iOS 6.1 which effectively renders the lock screen entirely useless. By...
ICO fines Nursing and Midwifery Council £150,000
The Information Commissioner’s Office has urged organisations to review their policies on how personal data is handled, after the Nursing and Midwi...
How we did the Christmas Lights with a Raspberry Pi
Please remember this is a work in progress and we’ve just created this page on the fly! The Raspberry Pi The Raspberry Pi just runs one of the stoc...
