by Alan | Apr 19, 2016 | General, Security
I have seen this twice now in the past few weeks and – I’ll put money on it – no doubt I’ll be seeing it again soon. The scam I’m about to describe is called .LOCKY and it has already caused the permanent destruction of many millions of personal computer files...
by Alan | Sep 3, 2014 | General, Security
The recent publicity surrounding A-list celebrities having private pictures from their iPhone put on public display for all to see, just serves to highlight once again the downside of the ‘Cloud Computing’ model we are all being encouraged to adopt. This was an iCloud...
by Alan | Jun 3, 2014 | General, Security
It seems to be impossible to read – or watch – the News these days without coming across some major new cyber-security warning urging you to take action now to protect your computer, or your data, or your money, or your identity, or something else, from imminent...
by Alan | May 9, 2014 | General, Security
It has been estimated that there were over 10 million victims of some kind of cyber fraud in the UK last year. Added together they may have lost between £600m and £800m. These are seriously large numbers and some authorities believe the problem is continuing to get...
by Alan | Apr 11, 2014 | General, Security
If you have read the press or listened to the news any time since Tuesday, you have probably heard of a new Internet security vulnerability called HeartBleed which the IT security industry has got all hot and bothered about. Well here is my personal (grossly...
by Alan | Nov 12, 2013 | General, Security
In the last few years we must have been asked by many dozens of clients to clean up large numbers of computers with some form of unwanted software on them – call it a virus, a worm, a trojan horse, rootkits, adware, malware, spyware, whatever – I’m just going to call...
