All businesses worth their salt, no matter what size they are, will have a company website that often acts as the first point of contact for any potential new customers or clients. In many instances however, small and medium sized businesses may have spent a considerable amount of time building and setting up their site…
Following the recent news that Apple Macs were hit by ransomware for the first time ever and the numerous other incidents of cyber-security breaches in the past few weeks, it should be abundantly apparent how important it is to do everything that you can to keep your IT systems secure. With that in mind, any…
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…