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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.
New Peebles Offices
NOTE: CONSIDER IT CONTINUES TO SERVE OUR CLIENTS FROM OUR OFFICES IN EDINBURGH, GLASGOW AND LONDON. WE NO LONGER HAVE OUR OFFICES IN PEEBLES. Con...
Cambridgeshire County Council loses unencrypted memory stick
Cambridgeshire County Council breached the Data Protection Act by losing a memory stick containing sensitive data relating to vulnerable adults, th...
Ealing Council and Hounslow Council fined by ICO – Unencrypted Laptops
Both Councils Fined The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) today served Earling Council and Hounslow Council with monetary penalties for serio...
Google’s asking for it! $20,000 offered to anyone who can hack Chrome
Every year, CanSecWest security conference hosts a hacking contest (Pwn2Own), this year however, Google got a bit upset. Most software businesses s...
80% of people concerned about their personal details online
The Information Commissioner’s Office has revealed in a survey that 80% of people are concerned about protecting their personal information online....
Microsoft has issued a “critical” warning over flaw in Windows.
The bug potentially affects every user of the Internet Explorer web browser – around 900 million people worldwide. In a security advisory, the comp...
Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook fan page hacked
You’d think the head of Facebook would have tip-top security on all his accounts on Facebook, but you’d be wrong. Mark’s fan page, which has nearly...
Natwest Account Maintenance And Verification Procedures
We monitor a lot of spam messages for clients and have noticed a significant increase in the “Phishing” messages coming in pertaining to be from Na...
Google Chrome RSS Live Links
Last year we moved from the Firefox browser to Google Chrome; and boy is it fast! One thing we have missed though is the ability to subscribe to va...
