Hardly a week has gone by in 2016 so far without a story of a company, website or organisation being hacked or having data stolen hitting the news. This week the main headline has regarded apps from Chinese internet giants Baidu leaking the personal data of millions’ of users. Any company with an online presence…
Unless you’re considerably behind the curve, the chances are that your company has already looked into how you might use social media in your day to day operations. What’s more, you may well have decided that it is a potentially profitable avenue to explore, and if that is the case, then you will have joined…
Recent statistics from the British government have revealed that there were impressively more than 600,000 new start-ups registered with Companies House during the course of 2015. That represents a slight increase on the already notable 581,000 new firms launched in 2014 and a similar story in other developed economies around the world suggests that there…
Lincolnshire County Council have this week had to close down their computer systems entirely for a total of four days after a ransomware attack demanding payment of £1 million. Ransomware, as we discussed in this very blog just over a month ago, is a particularly nasty type of malware which encrypts data on a computer…
The start of a new year, after the general upheaval that is almost always associated with the festive season, is one of few times when the decision makers of any small business can take a breath and think about the big picture. It is when most managers and business owners devise sales or production strategies…
In an official blog post published last week, Microsoft have revealed fascinating details regarding their new Windows 10 operating system (OS) and most notably of the user data which they are tracking via the new OS. Within the post, the company announced that Windows 10 was now active on over 200 million devices and provided…