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Monthly Archives: January 2012

Urgent security notice to users of Symantec’s pcAnywhere software


The global security firm Symantec have today warned their customers to disable its pcAnywhere software due to ‘old’ source code that was stolen by a hacking group had exposed vulnerabilities in the remote access program.   Symantec have posted an …
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How green is your IT?


The last few years have been a major struggle for many companies, with budget cuts and pressure to reduce costs affecting businesses of all sizes. Organisations have lost customers, profits and employees during this unsteady time in the UK economy. …
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Managed Services Centre’s Online Threat Predictions for 2012


As mentioned in a previous post, 2012 is deemed to be the year of Identity Fraud. One of the contributing factors to this is the increase in sophistication of cybercriminal activities and the methods used to access and steal data …
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Are you aware of Key-Logging and should you be worried?


Over the last year we have dealt with an increase in cases whereby our customers’ or those of our customers’, PC’s have been infected with key-loggers. Key-loggers will steal all information entered into a computer and then the cybercriminals will …
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Are you safe online?


We want to know how safe you think you are online, from a consumers point of view: are you aware of all the dangers and threats that you face when you interact with a company online?   Please complete our …
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