October 2019

Ransomware is perhaps a term you have heard mentioned on the TV or radio, but do you really know what it is and what the real threat is to your home PC/laptop or worse yet your business device? Basically ransomware can be thought of as malicious computer software, installed on your laptop or PC, without your knowledge which allows hackers to take complete control of...

Almost half a million computers have been hijacked by hackers and used to send "sextortion" emails to unsuspecting email accounts of users across the world, including the UK. The email sent to users claims the sender has obtained compromising photos of the recipients which will be published online, unless the recipient pays an extortionate fee. Obviously no such photos exist, but the criminal sender of...

Customers have taken to Twitter to complain about the recent outage on the Three mobile phone network. Users report that they have been unable to use their mobile phones and other portable devices relying on the Three network, since around Wednesday afternoon. In an apparently unrelated issue, the Three website has also been "down for maintenance" since around the same time. The company has an...