Are printers a hole in your security? March 18th 2022 By Matthew Phillips We all install Antivirus and we backup our critical data (don’t we), we also presume our firewall keeps out the bad guys. Do we consider the other devices on our network, have you thought about protecting your printer from the cyber criminals? We all need to tighten our security. As modern printers have access to our devices, our networks and the internet they are an ideal target

Is Russia a threat to your business? March 1st 2022 By Matthew Phillips All we can feel for the Ukrainian people is sorrow and compassion with Putin invading his neighbour and destroying anything that gets in his way. We in the UK are lucky to be far away from the conflict, but with the internet connecting people around the world with near instant efficiency, how far away are we actually?  We all need to tighten our security. There is no

Does battery life get you down. Febuary 29th 2022 By Matthew Phillips Dad where’s the charger! Charging leads seem to have a life of their own in our house, its getting close to the point of needing a weekly subscription to keep them coming.  I have even had extra USB sockets added to the back of the card for the kids, so they can keep their devices fully charged. Chargers are the bane of my life, you would think that

Microsoft blocks 60,000 malicious emails every minute. February 17th 2022 By Matthew Phillips Email servers must be a really scary place. Microsoft 365 has built in email protection, helping us all to sleep at night knowing that bad stuff is being turned away.  They report to have been blocking one-thousand bad emails every second (that’s a huge amount of email traffic over the year). Most of these emails would have been phishing emails, trying to trick the recipient into clicking a

LinkedIn integration with MS Teams Febuary 14th 2022 By Matthew Phillips We all use LinkedIn and Teams don’t we? I remember the good old days, when users used to ask us to stop Teams from opening with Windows, LinkedIn was a emerging networking tool and Facebook was for the cool kids. According to my children, Facebook is for the oldies and Teams is a standard app that the have grown up using (more so due to the little pandemic you