Education, Education, Education – that was the mantra of Tony Blair and the labour party back in 1997. Their aim was to focus the electoate’s attention on the poor state of the UK’s school system. Their goal, or at least their claimed goal, was to lay down core improvements which would enable the UK to […]
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Due to the nature of our business we speak to many people in various industries and something is becoming more and more clear as time goes by – website and web application developers are reluctant to have the security of their work scrutinised. I understand their dilemma – if they have their solutions security tested
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There are many online backup and “cloud” data storage/sync solutions available via the internet. Some offer free backups and the paid ones start from as little as £5/month. But before you run off and pick a backup service for your critical business data based on price alone here are a few things you should consider
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Yet again Sony is making the news for the wrong reasons – another one of their web sites has been hacked with personal details, usernames and passwords of about one million people being stolen. It certainly looks as though they are being deliberately targeted but you have to ask yourself why this might be the
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Data is vital to modern businesses. Some say it’s the life blood of a business. After all we live in the information age. But do we all protect data and information to the best of our abilities? Do we ensure we can recover from its loss, corruption or theft? In information security parlance are we
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Businesses are fragile things. They can be affected in their success by a whole host of factors including market forces, consumer habits, and changes in attitudes. But many aspects of your business success are firmly held in your own hands. You can develop an agile approach allowing you to change your model based on market
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If you use Sony’s PSN or SOE services there are a number of risks that you’re now exposed to. Depending on the level of access gained by the hackers and the information they were able to glean you could be exposed to some or all of the following: 1. Credit Card Fraud Issue: Some credit
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Web site security vulnerabilities are a common problem but few web site owners, business operators or even web designers truly understand the nature of the problem. I wrote some time ago about why web site security is important for everyone but it is a hard concept to communicate to people who have little or no
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News out today that cyber crime costs the UK economy £27bn a year makes for worrying reading. Most of the “costs” to the UK economy fall into 2 areas – £9.2bn in intellectual property theft and £7.6bn in industrial espionage. Both of these categories are areas where losses would occur with or without the internet,
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News yesterday that hackers have been wandering round the networks of major oil and gas companies for years may come as a shock in some quarters. But industrial and national espionage is huge business and the companies involved should have taken steps to prevent such attacks and should have systems in place to alert management
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