May 21, 2014
eBay password alert
eBay today announced to the stock market (still not on their shopping portal) that all their customers’ user name, password, email address, physical addresses, phone numbers and date of birth…
December 23, 2013
Windows XP and Exchange 2003 sunset call draws near
2014 sees some significant licensing and support changes from Microsoft. The software giant will issue their last security patch for Windows XP, MS Office 2003 and Exchange Server 2003 on…
October 22, 2013
Edinburgh solicitors held to ransom by cyber criminals
Struan Douglas, senior partner at Edinburgh solicitors, Purdie & Co., sat down at his desk one morning in June to find his network unavailable and a message on his server…
September 2, 2013
Office 365 mailbox size doubles
Microsoft have announced that Office 365 and Exchange Online users are to have their standard mailbox size doubled from 25GB to 50GB, just days after announcing SkyDrive Pro (which works…
August 22, 2013
Malware and antivirus software
We all understand the term ‘antivirus software’ but it no longer tells the whole story. Viruses are only one type of danger you need to protect your computers from and…
August 9, 2013
Passwords are not enough, anymore
If you have not heard about two factor authentication it’s probably time you did. Back in the pre-broadband 90s, when many small business networks were hidden from hackers by dial-up…
April 29, 2013
Web-based browser threats now 70% of malware
Microsoft’s most recent Security Intelligence Report, which discusses security risks the company identify from feedback from over 600 million PCs for the six months to end December 2012, highlighted the…
November 20, 2012
Windows 8, quicker, more productive, enjoyable
We have been using Windows 8 for several months now (since before the official launch), so have had time to form considered opinions on Microsoft's new operating system…… It’s different.…
September 25, 2012
End of security updates for Windows XP and Office 2003 announced
Microsoft has announced that support for their once-heroic desktop operating system, Windows XP, and ubiquitous Office 2003, will end on 8 April 2014. After that day they will no longer…
July 20, 2012
Windows 8 gamble set for the market
Microsoft will release the new version of its desktop operating system, Windows 8, in October this year, replacing Windows 7, which this summer is due to surpass worldwide sales of…
