We’ve been providing VOIP – Voice Over Internet Protocol or Voice Over IP – telephone services for our customers for years. How does it work? The phone call travels over…
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How often now do you check if a venue has in-house wi-fi ? From fast food outlets, Pubs, takeaways, shops and even church halls have their own in house platforms…
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You’ll no doubt have seen the recent press coverage about personal photos of celebrities being accessed from their cloud storage. Whilst we hope that there aren’t any nude photos of…
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Free WiFi is used by all kinds of businesses to help attract visitors and improve their experience when they are with you. But do you use it to its full…
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Carrying on from last weeks Blog the answer to the “what is malware?” question cannot be complete without exploring the ‘why’ of its creation. By now, you should have a…
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So what is Malware? Short for malicious software, malware is as old as software itself, and programmers have been authoring it for as long as they have been authoring legitimate…
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Microsoft has obtained a court order to halt traffic to servers in order to halt the Cyber-criminal activity of some users. This has had the effect of interupting millions of…
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There are literally dozens of different ways a computer can become infected with spyware, viruses, and other malware. Below is a list of the most common ways a computer can…
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You may have heard or seen the news coverage about a computer virus called ‘Gameover Zeus’. The FBI and National Crime Agency (NCA) in the USA managed to take control…
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Looking at common terms within the IT world we look today at Trojans. Trojans are malicious programs that perform actions that have not been authorised by the user. These actions…
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