The events of the first week in 2021 makes it feel like we have lived a month of the year already. However, we are only in the second week of 2021 and have already seen so many major events. Beyond living through the effects of Brexit, a 3rd national COVID lockdown, home schooling and several […]
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At GITEX 2020 (Gulf Information Technology Exhibition) yesterday, Trend Micro shared H1 2020 statistics that it had seen around its cloud security. The attacks continue to probe for weak points, with obvious targets including employee’s security awareness, endpoints, networks, and critical infrastructure. Amongst the statistics were some eye watering numbers. They detected: 41,236,550 email
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US Cyber Command has found up to eight new malware types that were developed by Russian-based hackers, that have been involved in recent attacks. Today, cyber security experts reveal the details behind one infamous malware known as “Crutch”. As malware goes, this beast from the east is a relatively old piece of malware software that
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With Covid fast-tracking digital transformation, extend your cyber security and support to overnight and weekends without increasing your FTE. The advancement of digitisation, especially to support new working practices and more remote working, has led to compromises in cyber security and weakness. Scaling an internal team to 24×7 is costly. Managing rotas, planning for illness,
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AWS, which boasts the largest global infrastructure of any cloud provider, had a prolonged service interruption in its US-EAST-1 Region on Wednesday 25th November, taking several hours to resolve. As a result, significant internet disruption was experienced. Unsurprisingly, when a company like AWS has a problem, the internet has a problem. The outage disrupted many
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Keep your business supported and secure through the festive period, extending your internal IT teams with a 24×7 IT Help Desk and Security Operations Centre. If your organisation is relying on a small IT team, it is likely they are stretched too thin. This leads to compromised security, poor technology support, and struggling service satisfaction.
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Our homes are becoming increasingly full of gadgets, from autonomous hoovers, to smart speakers, light bulbs, alarm clocks and doorbells. Our thirst for automation in the search of convenience has never been stronger. For all the positive benefits that come from these “Internet of Things (IOT)” devices, there is a darker side. The more we
The core IT system which is the backbone of the UK Post Office branches unexplainably went offline earlier this month, on November 5th. The system known as Horizon is the central retail and accounting system for the Post Office. Embarrassingly, Post Office branches across the UK became unable to do business. Post Office workers and
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Succinct and to the point, was the statement that Chris Krebs responded to Donald Trump on Twitter, post Trump firing the Director of Cybersecurity and Infrastructure for the Department of Homeland Security in the US. In typical Trump style, the firing was announced over Twitter, coming after the statement from the director that there was
A successful IT Help Desk has customer service and experience at its core. Your IT Help Desk needs to be efficient, proactive, polite and knowledgeable. Your internal employees and external customers expect 24 hours a day, 7 days a week support. If your core hours are 9 to 5, Monday to Friday then it’s not
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