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Earlier this year, a friend of mine introduced me to Secret, an anonymous social media app. I had heard about a few of these and as it was free to download I thought I would give it a try. What is Whisper and SecretNumber? These platforms,...
24 November 2014
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A savvy shoppers’ guide The respective countdowns to the big Black Friday and Cyber Monday pre-Christmas shopping sprees are well and truly on for millions of saving-conscious people here in the UK and all over the world. Scouring the internet...
18 November 2014
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Google’s driverless car is pretty smart but your own car is about to get a whole lot smarter too. It’s also going to get a whole lot safer and become incredibly well-informed about the kind of driver you are. How is this going to happen?...
10 November 2014
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What can you do to identify a genuine request from a prospective employer for a criminal record check from a fake ? In England and Wales the criminal record checks bureau changed its name from CRB to DBS (Disclosure and Barring Service)...
23 September 2014
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A data security breach isn’t something that only happens to other businesses: tens of thousands of websites around the world are hacked every day with each breach costing UK SMB’s an estimated £35,000 to £65,000. The tools and equipment...
2 September 2014
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While the online world has radically altered the way children learn and interact with their peers, it has also brought anxiety for parents about how best to protect their charges while still allowing them the freedom to explore and develop. At...
1 August 2014
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We'd like to acknowledge and thank Adam for contributing this blog post. It is technically quite in-depth and we have deliberately left it so to demonstrate the lengths that social engineering scammers will go to to persuade you that they are...
22 July 2014
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It’s something we probably all suspect intuitively, but research into kids' mobile usage has confirmed that most UK children under the age of ten have some form of mobile device. A survey of 2,000 UK parents by internet security company BullGuard...
1 July 2014
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