by Phil Aston | Feb 9, 2021 | Business, Microsoft, Office 365, Technology
In December 2019, Zoom reported a maximum of 10 million daily users hitting its platform. By the end of March 2020, that number had doubled. This has led to terms like “the Zoom Boom”, and has ushered the video calling platform closer to the realm of transitive verb,...
by Phil Aston | Jan 12, 2021 | Business, Growth, Security, Technology, Uncategorised
Did you know that closing your account on LinkedIn doesn’t delete it entirely? Therefore, if you decide to leave the networking platform one day, anything you published there will still be available to hackers, should LinkedIn’s defences be breached. That’s pretty...
by Phil Aston | Apr 10, 2020 | Uncategorised
Cyber criminals don’t need much temptation to exploit weaknesses within a company’s IT infrastructure. This is particularly the case when they identify employees who are working remotely in a less than secure fashion. It’s thought that 16% of companies now exclusively...
by Phil Aston | Apr 1, 2020 | Business, Technology
Why would you ever wait for the worst to happen when it comes to IT? In the digital economy, ‘the worst’ might be very bad indeed. For instance, a data breach could cost your company its reputation, your customers their personal data, and your staff a tonne of...
by Phil Aston | Jan 13, 2020 | Security
It’s thought that 91% of all cyber-attacks start with a phishing email. Even if ‘phishing’ isn’t a term with which you’re familiar, you’ve probably been targeted. At some stage during our working and personal lives, we all receive an email that purports to be from a...