Category Archives: Web Security

Protecting your Passwords

There has been a lot in the news recently regarding hackers stealing login details for various websites and web services and using the same credentials to easily discover passwords for other websites. This is due to the large number of …
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Microsoft encourage surfers to abandon IE6

Microsoft have gone so far as to actively encourage web surfers to abandon one of their own products. It’s not often a company will take this stance but due to the age of the Internet Explorer 6 browser and the …
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IE9 Goes Live

Today Microsoft announced the release of Internet Explorer 9. The company said IE9′s graphics handling, security and privacy features put it on an even footing with Firefox, Chrome, Safari and others. Microsoft said one key feature in IE9 was tools …
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Pressure mounts to abandon IE6

There is currently a No10 petition demanding that the Government move their departments away from using the outdated Internet Explorer 6 web browser. The browser is almost 10 years old and has numerous security flaws and fails to render web …
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Keeping your PC safe

In this day and age it is vitally important that you keep your PC secure and safe. Fortunately this can be accomplished without cost. Here are three tools that will help keep your PC safe and secure for free: AVG …
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Internet Watch Foundation Awareness Day

Today is Internet Watch Foundation Awareness Day. The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) was established in 1996 by the UK internet industry to provide the UK internet Hotline for the public and IT professionals to report potentially illegal online content within …
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‘Fake UK sites’ trick consumers – Use FlagFox

There was an article published on the BBC news site today about the number of co.uk websites that are setup by Chinese organisations to con UK surfers into buying non-existant goods. The Beeb suggest a few things to prevent the …
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Domain Renewal Group Scam

Some of our customers have reported that they have received a letter from the Domain Renewal Group or the Domain Registry of America stating that their domain needs renewing. The company are using the WHOIS database information to get information …
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