With the expansion of online banking, home automation and much more, we need to pay ever more attention to online security. The last few years has seen a mammoth increase in cybercrime. Criminals are also becoming cleverer in the ways they attack us. Cybercrime isn’t victimless. Even if the bank reimburses stolen money (and spreads the loss…
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To enable us to provide a complete service to our clients we are pleased to announce that we have launched a new, fully Nominet registered and approved, domain name registration and management service. This means that all .UK domains registered through us are directly managed by us—there are no intermediaries at all. This will enable us to look…
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A lot of businesses and individuals have taken up Microsoft Office 365. On the surface there’s a lot to like: automatic software updates, access to the latest versions of key business applications, predictable monthly payments, cloud storage, easy access to mobile and Cloud versions of key Office software And that’s naming just five! As Microsoft Silver Partners, we sell a lot of…
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Digital certificates make secure transactions across the internet work. A certificate exists for every secure domain that you visit (banking, on-line shopping, etc.), and your web browser automatically collects and stores them for you. Certificates include two things: Proof of the site’s bona fides: The certificate describes the official ‘chain of trust’, from the site owner, right back…
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There’s a new expression in circulation, “multicloud”. It’s just the thing for buzzword bingo, but what the heck does it mean? At Bristol IT Company, we’ve been fans of the cloud for years. We use it ourselves and provide a range of cloud services to our customers. If implemented properly, it provides a wide range of benefits and opportunities…
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In the past we’ve blogged on numerous occasions about the threats presented to businesses by email born viruses and ransomware – which is where a piece of malicious software is unwittingly downloaded to a computer on your network and starts to encrypt everything it can find. This includes your data, your documents and anything that it…
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Urban myth: SMEs are not targets of cyber attacks You might think that your SME wouldn’t be a target for cyber criminals simply because larger companies offer greater opportunities, but you’d be very wrong. Such complacency could be very expensive. The total loss to SMEs from online fraud in 2015 was calculated at £9bn, whilst a 2016…
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