by Mike Knight | Mar 11, 2016 | News and Events
The sad news on 5th March for those familiar with the history of the Internet was of the death of the email pioneer Ray Tomlinson aged 74. It is worth pondering for a moment just some of the ways in which the invention and widescale facilitation of the use of email...
by Mike Knight | Mar 11, 2016 | News and Events
A reporter working as part of a popular BBC Radio 4 programme has caused a HSBC bank to issue a security warning to its customers after the reporter was able to hack in to the programme producer’s bank account and take money from it. The widely reported hack was...
by Mike Knight | Mar 11, 2016 | News and Events
Whatever you base your personal views on with regards to staying in or leaving the EU, a recent Computer Weekly article highlighted the inescapable fact that whether the UK stays in or leaves the EU, the new European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will...
by Mike Knight | Mar 11, 2016 | News and Events
There is a first time for everything, and for some Apple Mac owners, becoming the victim of a cyber attack that has allowed Malware known as ‘ransomeware’ to infect their beloved computers, this is a particularly unpleasant and unexpected first. What Happened? The...
by Mike Knight | Mar 11, 2016 | News and Events
Change is afoot in Google’s search engine rankings for those using a desktop computer. The familiar text Adwords adverts have been moved from the prominence of the right hand side of the results page. They now fit almost discreetly in-line with the vertical list of...