In case you haven’t heard, Microsoft’s increasing its subscription prices for Microsoft 365 in March. It’s the first big price rise for a decade. And you can expect to pay around 20 to 40 per cent more. In fact, it’s not just a price increase. Microsoft’s also changing the way it sells 365. It’s a complicated situation and there’s bound …
Don’t worry about the potential downsides of a password manager. The upsides are far greater
Last week there were stories that a password manager called LastPass had seen some of its customers’ master passwords compromised. The company denies that happened. And it’s possible that some of the people who reported being affected had old accounts with master passwords they’d used with other services. Do you use a password manager in your business? We highly recommend …
The most severe security threat ever is affecting the whole internet. Here’s what you need to know
There’s a major security alert that’s affecting the whole of the internet right now. Security researchers have called it one of the most severe vulnerabilities the world has ever seen. Yet you’d be excused for not having heard much about it. Because, unusually for a cyber security alert, it’s not affecting the normal computers that you use in your business. …
These small updates from Microsoft could make a big difference
Don’t you often find it’s the small things that make the biggest difference? That’s certainly the case with technology. Minor updates to the software you and your team use every day can have a surprising effect on your overall productivity. Microsoft has recently announced a series of small improvements to Teams, Microsoft 365 and Windows 11. It’s keeping its foot …
This new survey confirms what any IT professional could tell you: Phishing is still the most likely way for your business to be breached
A new survey just released by a specialist website has confirmed that phishing attacks remain the greatest cyber security threat to businesses. Phishing is where a hacker sends you an email pretending to be from someone else. They might fake an email from your bank, for example. When you click a link in the email you’re taken to a page …
If your business’s WordPress website is hosted with any of these companies, you must take these urgent actions now
GoDaddy last week announced a major breach in its security, involving more than a million of its customers across several brands including tsoHost, Media Temple, 123Reg, Domain Factory, Heart Internet, and Host Europe. And if your business could be affected, there are some urgent actions you must take now. You’ve probably heard of GoDaddy. It’s been around since the late …
Now you can change the notifications in your Teams activity feed
Teams is an incredible piece of software, and one of the best ways to collaborate in our new world of hybrid working. But the notifications can be endless… a constant stream of activity shouting for your attention. If your IT partner has integrated third-party software into Teams there’ll be even more noise. It’s worse than colleagues walking past your desk …
How was your business affected by the Great Facebook Outage of October 2021?
What a total nightmare for Facebook last week. In case you were hiding in a cave somewhere, all of its products went down at the same time… and they didn’t work properly for SIX HOURS. Yes, the world discovered at the same time just how reliant its become on WhatsApp, Instagram, Messenger, and of course Facebook itself. Meantime Twitter was …