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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.
Microsoft pulling the plug from Skype for Business Online
Come September, onboarding of new Office 365 users will automatically include Teams as the new normal. The consumer version of Skype is not affecte...
A WhatsApp call can hack your phone – update now
It has been confirmed today that hackers were able to remotely install software on phones and other devices using a major vulnerability in messagin...
Cyber Essentials £1000 Voucher Scheme
UPDATE: As of 27th February 2020, the Scottish Enterprise funding has been depleted and the voucher scheme is no longer taking applications. Buildi...
Vodafone confirms backdoors in Huawei equipment
For a long time now, Huawei Technologies Co. have been accused of planting backdoors into their equipment to enable them to steal trade secrets fro...
Consider IT joins SBRC Trusted Partner scheme
Consider IT is proud to announce that we have been accepted to join the Scottish Business Resilience Centre‘s (SBRC) Trusted Partners scheme. Trust...
Consider IT becomes CREST member
Consider IT becomes CREST member Consider IT is proud to announce that we are now a member of CREST following an extensive and rigorous assessment ...
Government makes CC/BCC e-mail blunder
The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, who are responsible for data protection laws, have made an “IT 101” basic blunder when sendin...
New critical WinRAR vulnerability
WinRAR has a critical security vulnerability that’s older than your children. If you’ve been using the internet over the past 19 years, chances are...
2019 Cybersecurity Predictions – From an IT Support Company’s perspective
You’ll have probably read the Forbes 2019 predictions, or the Symantec predictions, or the Malwarebytes, or Webroot, or FireEye… but which ones are...
