Last week, one of our WordPress clients got some disturbing information from a family member: “wordpress had been hacked into and thousands of people were getting viruses and losing their websites if they logged into their wordpress site “ After a week of fretting and not updating their blog, they emailed us to ask if [...]
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Fact or fiction? Be your own sherlock
Posted in Clients, Practical tips, Security, The Internet, tagged anti virus, Backup Smart, backups, F-Secure, hacked, Internet security, php, website, WordPress on 22nd March 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Considering ‘cloud’ computing?
Posted in Business applications, Security, The Internet, tagged cloud computing, outsourcing, SaaS on 23rd February 2011 | 1 Comment »
The subject of cloud computing has come up a couple of times recently. There has been a discussion on the Banbury Business Networking Facebook group, and an article in Computer Weekly last month. Cloud computing and SaaS (Software as a Service) allows you to use applications without them being installed on your PC or server. [...]
Is your personal data secure?
Posted in Security, The Internet, tagged Android, BBC, Google, malware, security, spyware on 4th October 2010 | 2 Comments »
You may have secured your computer using an Internet security application, and you may have secured your wireless network, but what about your mobile phone? A recent item on the BBC News website (Google Android apps found to be sharing data) rang alarm bells for us. According to research, apps which run on Android don’t [...]