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The question as to whether or not the UK should leave, or remain a part of, the European Union is hot topic at the moment. People usually talk about the impact that an EU exit would have on trading within the UK, and how the UK’s immigration policy would be affected....

The recent messaging glitch that caused Apple products to crash was a hot topic in the news. Not only can this glitch effect iPhones, it also had the power to cause iPads and even Macs to crash if they received a malicious message. It is little more than a nuisance to...

We have all heard about malware that can infect and corrupt your system, putting customer data and sensitive information at risk. However, ransomware isn’t quite as widely talked about as other forms of malicious software. Ransomware is a type of malicious software...

BYOD, or Bring Your Own Device policies offer a plethora of opportunities and benefits to businesses at a surface level. Giving employees the ability to use just one device for work and personal use means that they remain contactable and able to do work wherever they...

As cyber criminals become more and more aware that targeting middle managers using social engineering tactics actually works, they will do so more often. Attackers are moving away from large scale consumer attacks and opting for more sophisticated attacks that take...

Any company that deals with data in the EU in any way will be aware of the imminent changes to the EU Data Protection Law. This will affect companies that have operations in the EU, store data of customers that live in the EU or deal with data that passes through the...

As the CEO of your business, would you be prepared to take responsibility for any failure of IT security within the company? If the answer is no, you need to be completely sure that every measure that could be put in place has been. According to research carried out...

In general, a business would wish to encourage as much traffic to their website as possible. Because leads result in visitors, and visitors will hopefully result in customers. The majority of the time this is the case, and website traffic is a positive thing. However,...

Considering it’s size, you would presume that Facebook would be subject, and adhere, to European data laws. However, as a result of Facebook’s (seemingly) unnecessarily complicated privacy policies and its continuous tracking of users, even when they are unaware of...

The issue of sufficiently protecting customer data is often talked about in the business world, and the debate over what is enough and what is too much is often difficult to settle on. But are you doing enough to protect your customers’ data? The Information...