Security

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Important announcement about your online security

Jenny Howell December 15, 2016 0 Comments
As you may now be aware, an increasing number of websites and online services have recently revealed breaches in their cyber security. In many cases, a user’s email address, username, and password are obtained from one website, and then used to access other websites and services. This is because people tend to use the same username and password for multiple online accounts. To be clear, we...
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Keeping Safe with Malwarebytes Anti-Malware

Jenny Howell June 01, 2016 0 Comments
Nearly all aspects of our lives now involve technology in one way or another. Everyone owns several devices that are connected to the internet. Naturally with internet connectivity comes the inevitable danger of malicious activity. Malware development is a booming business and is growing by millions in stolen revenue every year. As malware gets more and more sophisticated, cyber security firms...
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Cyber Security: An Introduction to Malware

Jenny Howell May 29, 2016 0 Comments
Malware is a common term used for the description of software viruses, Trojans, ransomware and spyware. Short for 'malicious software', malware has been plaguing homes and businesses since the dawn of the internet age. What is malware? It is a string of malicious code or script that causes undesired actions to happen to a computer. Malware was originally designed for experimentation or pranks....
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POODLE Vulnerability – We’ve disabled SSLv3 support on our web hosting servers

Chris O'Brien October 17, 2014 0 Comments
On October 14th 2014 Google released details on the POODLE attack, a padding oracle attack that targets CBC-mode ciphers in the 15 year old SSLv3 security protocol. The vulnerability allows an active "man-in-the-middle" attacker to decrypt content exchanged via an SSLv3 connection. While secure connections primarily use TLS (the successor to SSL), most users were vulnerable because web...
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Don’t be misled if you get an email from IGN Domains

Chris O'Brien July 18, 2014 0 Comments
Over the past couple of weeks we've received calls and emails from a few customers about an email they have received from a "company" called IGN Domains asking them to confirm they are the registered owner of their domain name and informing them that, in all cases, someone is trying to register the same name on "7 domain extensions".  The email also invited the customer to get in touch with IGN...
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