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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.
Glasgow City Council unencrypted laptop stolen
A laptop containing the personal information and bank account details of thousands of people and businesses has been stolen from Glasgow City Counc...
Virgin Media and others blocking the Pirate Bay
Virgin Media along with various other ISPs are now actively blocking the Pirate Bay website. Last week the UK High Court ruled that several of the ...
Scottish charity loses two unencrypted memory sticks
A Scottish charity – based in Glasgow – breached the Data Protection Act after two unencrypted memory sticks and papers containing the personal det...
Symantec victim of cyber attack
Edinburgh IT Support company, Consider IT, has recently learned that security software publisher Symantec has confirmed it was recently the victim ...
O2 and Tesco Mobile send your phone number to every site you visit using their mobile data network
Lewis Peckover, who set up a little web tool that displays all the “HTTP header information” sent to sites by web browsers, highlighted yesterday t...
BT recovers from “major business broadband problem”
Edinburgh IT Support company Consider IT reports a few of its clients were left without Internet this morning when BT suffered a major business bro...
McAfee promises to patch vulnerability
Edinburgh IT Support company, Consider IT, would like to make clients and visitors aware of a recent McAfee vulnerability that has been confirmed b...
Action taken after care provider lost unencrypted memory stick
A care provider with offices in Northern Ireland and the Isle of Man has taken action to improve its data protection practices following a joint ru...
Virgin Media UK broadband failure resolved
Some Edinburgh customers told us they had been affected. Virgin Media has said that services around the UK are now fully restored following a natio...
