If you have a Facebook account – whether for your business or in a personal capacity – there are potential cyber security threats and you need to be vigilant. One common tactic used by hackers is to create a fake profile to target your Facebook friends. How can this happen? It is actually very easy
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For the vast majority of businesses today, technology plays a crucial role across the whole organisation – from managing emails to handling customer data, to sending out invoices. Business owners / directors usually make decisions about which applications need to be used to get the job done. Those applications are then implemented in a controlled
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Nowadays, it’s hard to get through a week without hearing something in the news about Artificial Intelligence (AI). Applications such as ChatGPT, Microsoft CoPilot, Google Gemini and Apple Intelligence are gaining attention and gaining users at an ever-increasing rate. AI is technology that enables a computer to think or act in a more ‘human’ way.
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Earlier this month, Apple held their Worldwide Developers Conference and amongst the news of new features and an updated Operating System, came news of “Apple Intelligence”. Conveniently (for Apple) using the abbreviation of “AI”, Apple Intelligence will provide the latest in personal intelligence for iPhone, iPad, and Mac. It will come with the next Operating
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We have shared lots of information in the past about the risks of your IT systems being hacked, but there has also been a recent spate of hacks to WhatsApp accounts. If a hacker succeeds in getting in to your account, they will have access to all historic messages. For some people, those messages may
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The National Crime Agency has reported that fraud is now the most commonly experienced crime in the UK, affecting UK society economically and socially. It accounts for over 40% of crime in England and Wales. With online crime a major part of this, no-one can afford to be complacent when it comes to cyber security.
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Windows 11 was launched in October 2021 and was greeted with mixed reviews in terms how much of an improvement it offered. Windows 10 had been an extremely popular Operating System and many users preferred to stick with what they were used to. As Windows 11 has now been around for two and a half
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We covered the launch of Microsoft Copilot in an article last October and mentioned that Copilot is integrated with Microsoft 365. This integration means that Copilot is embedded in Microsoft Word and is therefore right where you need it when writing documents – you don’t need to switch between applications. Copilot for 365 is not
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If your business uses Microsoft 365 services, then you’re probably aware that your data is held in a secure environment in the Cloud. It is held there for you permanently – so why would you need to back it up? The answer is that it is only held permanently as long as it isn’t deleted!
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There has recently been another surge in text scams relating to parcel collections, including one that takes you to a very convincing fake Royal Mail page. When it comes to email scams, business owners in particular should be wary of a message purporting to be from HM Revenue & Customs. This dodgy email says that
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