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In this tech insight, we look at what a watering hole attack is, some examples of such attacks, and how businesses can defend against this threat. Poisoning The Water A watering hole attack is a targeted, ‘supply chain,’ cyber-attack strategy, similar to spear phishing. With this strategy, the attacker identifies a website that’s frequented by … Continue reading Tech Insight : What Is A ‘Watering Hole’ Attack?
In this article, we look at how spam filers work and what can be done to ensure that our legitimate emails reach their target and aren’t wrongly filtered out as ‘spam’ . Why We Need Spam Filters Although we’re focusing on how to avoid spam filters, it’s worth noting how important they are to businesses. … Continue reading Featured Article: How To Stop Your Emails From Ending Up In Spam Filters
It has been reported that 40 themes and 53 plugins belonging to AccessPress Themes, a Nepal-based company were backdoored with malicious code in the first half of September 2021. It is believed that the infected extensions gave attackers full access to sites, and that access also appears to have been sold to operators of spam … Continue reading Security Stop Press : Backdoors Discovered In Dozens Of WordPress Themes And Plugins
Here are 3 tips/tricks for Google Chrome to help with queries and searches that can be typed directly into the address bar (also known as the Onnibox): Find websites that are similar – For example, type related:bbc.co.uk – This will deliver results showing similar (media) websites. – The same type of search can be carried … Continue reading Tech Tip – 3 Helpful Chrome Tricks
The latest Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) report shows that new EV registrations almost doubled in 2021. Bad Year Generally For New Car Registrations The effects of the pandemic and the semiconductor shortage continued to have an affect on car purchases in 2021 as new car registrations only rose by 1 per cent to 1,647,181. … Continue reading Sustainability : New Electric Vehicle Registrations Almost Doubled In 2021
With Microsoft poised to increase its first substantive commercial pricing increase for Microsoft 365 since the company launched Office 365 a decade ago, we take a look at the added benefits and value and the justification behind the price changes. Six Months Ago Microsoft made its official announcements about which prices it would change and … Continue reading Featured Article : Microsoft’s March Commercial Price Rises
The ICO launched an investigation after more than 1,000 Sussex and Surrey police officers were found to have downloaded a free app to covertly record calls with members of the public on police-issued phones. Google Play Store App The app, free to download for the Google Play Store, and called ‘Another Call Recorder’ (ACR), had been … Continue reading Tech News : Phone Recordings Via App – Police Investigation
Los Angeles based Nanotech Energy claims to have developed a fireproof, graphene-based lithium-ion battery that could be safer for Electric Vehicles. What Is Graphene? Extracted from graphite, graphene is a single layer (monolayer) of carbon atoms, tightly bound in a two-dimensional, hexagonal honeycomb lattice nanostructure. First observed through electron microscopes in 1962, it was re-discovered in … Continue reading Tech News : New Graphene-Based Batteries Could Be Fireproof & Safer
In this article, we take a look at some of the ways users can assess how good their VPN really is. What Is A VPN? A ‘Virtual Private Network’ (VPN) is used to keep internet activity private, evade censorship / maintain net neutrality and use public Wi-Fi securely (e.g., avoid threats such as ‘man-in-the-middle’ attacks). … Continue reading Tech Insight : How To Check Your VPN
Figures from software technologies company ‘Check Point’ show that an upward trend of malicious activity through 2020 reached a peak of 925 cyber-attacks a week per organisation at the end of 2021. The result of this trend was a massive 50 per cent increase in cyber attacks on corporate networks in 2021, with education and … Continue reading Security Stop-Press : 50% Increase In Cyber Attacks On Corporate Networks In 2021