News – Secure Data Destruction
We Now Offer Secure Data Destruction As identity fraud attacks become more widespread and more sophisticated, it is imperative that businesses and organisations ensure that secure data destruction processes are in place prior to the disposal and recycling of...
News – What are Meltdown and Spectre?
Both Meltdown and Spectre allow low-privilege users who execute code on your system to read sensitive information from memory via Speculative Execution. The difference is that Meltdown takes advantage of a specific Intel privilege escalation issue to do this, while Spectre uses the combination of Speculative Execution and Branch Prediction. Both issues can be addressed with software patches, but this is more effective for Meltdown than Spectre.
Tip – SSD vs HDD Comparison
A video demonstrating the clear speed benefits of a SSD vs HDD The SSD Laptop shown is a Lenovo V110 15VSK - https://goo.gl/jLyNBq Like a memory stick, there are no moving parts to an SSD. A hard disk drive uses a mechanical arm with a read/write head to...
Tip – How to escape Terrible ISP Email
BT, Sky, Plusnet and TalkTalk are all offenders of terrible ISP Email accounts; they are slow, basic and offer limited functionality. In this guide, we will help you make the move away from these email accounts onto an independent Email provider like...
Act Now – Office 2007 End of Support 10th October 2017
Office 2007 will become end of life on 10th October 2017, so what does this actually mean if you are still using the aging software? Microsoft will no longer push out security updates after the end of support date, this means that any security vulnerabilities will not...
Tip – What is WannaCry, Ransomware & How to stop it
What is WannaCry? WannaCry or wcry, is a specific ransomware program that locks all the data on a computer system and leaves the user with only two files: instructions on what to do next and the Wanna Decryptor program itself. When the software is opened it tells...