Are Your Workers Making these Common IT Security Mistakes?   Despite only 27% of UK businesses having a formal cyber security policy in place, 43% of companies have suffered a cyber security breach in the last 12 months. What's more, negligent employees are the biggest threat to cyber security for small to medium-sized enterprises. With [...]

Top Password Practices for Your Team   For businesses world over, cyber security is becoming a pressing issue. 43% of UK businesses have reported a data breach in the last 12 months, while 74% are making cyber security a high priority for their organisation. While cyber security involves a range of measures, there are some simple practices [...]

Remember Last.fm? It’s a music tracking and analytics service where users sign up to share what their favourite music is so they can discover who they’re frequently listening to, what other artists they might like, or talk to other fans of their favourite groups. It was a pretty unique service when it first came out […]

Opera was once a proudly Norwegian browser that was different from the rest in more than just look and feel. Most other browsers used one of three main core components: Microsoft’s, Mozilla’s or WebKit’s.  (WebKit originated from Apple but has now diverged into separate development streams used in browsers like Apple’s Safari, and browsers like […]

True, attackers can have a lot of fun exploiting software vulnerabilities, but they’re nowhere near the top when it comes to the list of their favourite toys. That’s the finding of a new report (registration required), from the US security firm Praetorian, based on 100 penetration tests covering 75 unique organisations and 450 real-world attacks. […]

Playdom is an online games company that was acquired by Disney back in 2010. Most of its games seem to have been shut down some time ago, with just three titles left on the Playdom website, which is still tagged with a copyright message dated 2014. (Marvel: Avengers Alliance; Star Wars: Commander; and Guardians of […]

Passwords for every GoToMyPC account are being reset following a “sophisticated” attack on the service. Many people use GoToMyPC to obtain remote access to home and work computers via a web browser. The attackers used login names and passwords found in other data breaches to get at GoToMyPC accounts. The global password reset comes soon […]

Microsoft Office lets you encrypt your Office documents and PDF files, allowing no one to even view the file unless they have the password. Modern versions of Office use secure encryption that you can rely on–assuming you set a strong password. The instructions below apply to Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and Access 2016, but the process should be […]

Can’t remember your Mac’s password? Don’t worry. With the default settings, you can simply try logging into your Mac. Fail enough times and you’ll be able to reset your password with your Apple ID. But this won’t always work. If you haven’t enabled FileVault disk encryption, there’s an easy password-reset tool you can access. If you […]

Microsoft Office lets you encrypt your Office documents and PDF files, allowing no one to even view the file unless they have the password. Modern versions of Office use secure encryptionthat you can rely on–assuming you set a strong password. The instructions below apply to Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and Access 2016, but the process should be […]

So you’re connected to a Wi-Fi network from way back when, but you can’t remember what the password is. Whether you’ve changed the default password or not, it’s simple to find it. You can look up any Wi-Fi network password if you’ve previously connected to that network from your computer or phone. First: Check Your Router’s Default […]

If you’re concerned about protecting your email in Outlook from prying eyes, especially if you share a computer with others, you can protect the email in each Outlook account, as well as the calendar items, tasks, etc. by setting a password on each Outlook data (.pst) file. There are a couple of things you should […]

Open home Wi-Fi networks are still too common. The situation has improved as wireless router manufacturers began shipping with wireless passwords enabled by default, but there are still too many unsecured Wi-Fi networks out there. Hosting an open Wi-Fi network can cause a number of problems for you, whether you’re trying to do a good […]

Every year, the password manager software company SplashData compiles a list of the 25 most common stolen passwords from the previous 12 months’ publicly disclosed data breaches. 2015’s results have now been published, and they demonstrate one thing: people are still no good at choosing passwords. No good at all. Here’s the list: Worst 25 […]

We’ll be honest. Today’s Advent tip is a harder sell than most of the others we’ve done so far. We’re suggesting that you don’t stay logged in to your favourite online services all the time. We know how convenient it is to login to Facebook in the morning, or at the beginning of the week, […]

It’s official! Picking proper passwords is harder than rocket science. While the UK is celebrating the arrival of British astronaut Tim Peake at the International Space Station, a reminder that rocket science is alive and well… …the European Space Agency (ESA) is living down a database breach that took place over the weekend, in which […]

Passwords. Until there’s another widely-adopted way to verify that we’re who we say we are, we’re sort of stuck with them. But some people’s approaches to securing their online accounts are leaving us feeling less Buddy the Elf and more Ebenezer Scrooge. Too many people are still using passwords like ‘123456’, ‘password’ or the name […]