IT prevention is a fundamental aspect for businesses to work consistently and avoid hiccups. Stable and / or growing businesses want to make sure IT is supporting their employees, not stopping them from achieving their best. To help small and medium businesses we have prepared 7 steps to prevent IT issues in your business. To see…
Earlier this week Alex Cruz, BA’s chief exec, said a major “power surge” at 0930 on Saturday 27 May caused the airline’s systems to “collapse”. Its Boadicea House (BoHo) data centre went down for around a quarter of an hour, seemingly taking the airline’s failover systems with it. The resulting mess caused total chaos for…
Microsoft have built a custom version of its Windows operating system for the Chinese government, allowing them greater control over the platform. The tech giant announced yesterday at an event in Shanghai that its Windows 10 China Government Edition is now ready for use in the Middle Kingdom. The tweaked software allows the government to control the version used…
On Friday night May 12th, security researcher Tavis Ormandy of Google’s Project Zero announced on Twitter that he had found a Windows bug. Well, not just any bug. It was “crazy bad,” Ormandy wrote. “The worst Windows remote code exec in recent memory.” By Monday night, Microsoft had released an emergency patch, along with details…
Dear Valued Customers: On Friday, May 12, countless organizations around the world began fending off attacks from a ransomware strain variously known as WannaCrypt, WanaDecrypt and Wanna.Cry. Ransomware encrypts a victim’s documents, images, music and other files unless the victim pays for a key to unlock them. It quickly became apparent that Wanna was spreading…
A huge outage hit Microsoft services Tuesday morning, with users across the globe experiencing problems accessing Outlook, Xbox and Skype. Users were unable to log onto the Outlook email client via mobile devices and received an error message when trying to access the desktop version of the service. See Full Article here or download the PDF version…
After 11 April 2017 no further updates will be released for Exchange Server 2007. Well, unless of course you want to pay some big dollars to Microsoft to get that support extended. It will likely be less expensive to go ahead and move to Exchange 2016 for on premise use or make the move to…
A sacked system administrator has been jailed after hacking the control systems of his ex-employer – and causing over a million dollars in damage. Brian Johnson, 44, of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, US, had worked at paper maker Georgia-Pacific for years, but on Valentine’s Day 2014 he was let go. He didn’t take that lying down,…
There has always been a class of worker that is paid for their labor, not for their expertise. There is a reason they were called “laborers”. The IT professional used to be part of the workforce where they were highly skilled and earned a premium for their experience. Now employers, often while employing contract IT…
Cisco has issued a warning that an electronic component used in versions of its routing, optical networking, security and switch products prior to November 16, 2016 is unreliable – and may fail in the next year and a half, rendering affected hardware permanently inoperable. Replacement units will be on their way – just don’t call it…
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