by alex | Nov 3, 2016 | newsletter
In a speech describing the UK government’s plans for spending £1.9bn on cyber security, the Chancellor Philip Hammond has said that the UK needs to be able to retaliate in kind against state-sponsored cyber attacks. In the National Cyber Security Strategy speech at...
by alex | Nov 3, 2016 | newsletter
‘Desktop’ has always been the way that most people access the web although this trend has been in decline in recent years. Now the latest figures show that mobile access overtook desktop for the first time in October. StatCounter figures for October have...
by alex | Nov 3, 2016 | newsletter
Part of the reason why our email boxes are constantly filling up with promotional messages is that we’ve given companies our details and can’t change them easily. Now there are 2 new apps that combine to help you to take back control. The Problem. Once you’ve signed...
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...
