by alex | Oct 28, 2016 | newsletter
It is thought that there are more than 75 million unused mobile phone handsets currently in the UK, so rather than leaving it the drawer or even binning it, many people are swapping their old handset for money and / or the feel-good factor. Binning Phones … A...
by alex | Oct 28, 2016 | newsletter
Far from being something confined to the world of games or being something that has potential for the future, virtual reality is being used now in important and beneficial ways. Help With Understanding Autism and Dementia. Autism is thought to affect more than 1% of...
by alex | Oct 28, 2016 | newsletter
In a worrying change of tactics, hackers have used the ‘Internet of Things’ (IoT) to launch an online distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on the DNS service ‘Dyn’ with global consequences. Domestic ‘Smart’ Household Devices Used. Although DDoS attacks using...
by alex | Oct 28, 2016 | newsletter
When the GDPR data protection regulation comes into force on 25th May 2018, a Symantec survey has revealed that 9 out of 10 businesses are not confident that that they will be able to delete customer data on request. Right To Erasure. One of the many important impacts...
by alex | Oct 26, 2016 | newsletter
A new anti-fraud credit card from Paris-based Oberthur Technologies has a digital display on the back which changes the 3 digit security code number every hour. Why? The latest ONS figures show that fraud is now the most common crime in the UK with 1 in 10 people...
by alex | Oct 26, 2016 | newsletter
Facebook has opened up its Workplace platform app to enable businesses to have their own social network while allowing Facebook to compete in the same collaborative and communications business tool market as Microsoft’s Yammer, Slack and Google’s Cloud. New...
