Over the last week many people's copies of Microsoft's Windows 10 Pro Operating System have started to report that it is not activated. This seems to have been related to an issue with Microsoft's Activation Servers and they have acknowledged the problem and have released a fix. According to Microsoft running the Troubleshooter should now [...]
On the 14th January 2020 Microsoft will be ending support for Windows 7. This doesn't mean that on the 15th January 2020 your computer will stop working but it does mean that Microsoft will not be releasing any security updates or patches for the operating system. Security updates and patches are an extremely important line [...]
As the hot weather continues and forecasts are for an even hotter period, can we spare a moment to think about our poor PCs and servers! On a serious note, these current high temperatures can have a really negative effect on the components used within the computers and can also affect performance. This is especially [...]
If somehow you have been lucky enough to not receive the countless emails from this company and that company advising you they have updated their Privacy Policy and “We really want to stay in touch”, we just thought we would let you know that The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) comes into full effect from [...]
DrayTek a leading manufacturer of network equipment has released information on a Zero Day Attack that could compromise a large number of their routers. The attack targets the DNS settings allowing them to be changed and therefore directing users web requests to potentially harmful sites. DrayTek have already released firmware for most of the router [...]
When using social media services such as Facebook for example, you may have seen “fun” surveys appear in your timeline. Often linked to by other friends in your social network. These may contain questions like, what was your first pets name, your mother’s maiden name, football team you support, your first school, favourite colour, first [...]
You may have seen on the news over the past 24 hours that a major design floor has been found in a large number of computer processors. The initial release indicated that this affected only Intel processors but it has now be confirmed it also effects processors made by a number of other vendors. Security [...]
A major vulnerability has been found in one of the protocols used to secure communications between wireless devices and access points. This vulnerability in the WPA2 protocol makes it possible for a hacker to intercept communications between the device and the access point and in extreme cases inject and manipulate the data. Whilst all devices [...]
Hackers broke into the Piriform (now owned by Avast) system and modified the CCleaner program to include a malicious program designed to direct computers to get instructions from servers under the hacker's control. A version of CCleaner downloaded in August and September included remote administration tools that tried to connect to several unregistered web pages, [...]
On 25th May 2018 the current Data Protection Directive (DPD) will be replaced with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). In December 2015, the EU announced that the GDPR was being implemented in place of DPD. The DPD was first established over 20 years ago, but it has not kept up with the changes in [...]