Link Hijacking
This may sound over-dramatic, but I don't think it is; there are few things that will turn our attention to the news faster than reports of an aircraft hijacking - and yet there's a different kind of hijacking occurring in…
Take action to secure your compromised passwords
A customer just received an eMail from Google with the above subject line - and wanted to know if it was legit (and if they needed to do anything). The eMail from Google is legit; but the answer to the…
Some Comments on the Current Waikato Hospital Security Incident
As I write this the hospital is entering it's 2nd week of major disruptions caused by a malicious cyber attack. I've read some of the comments written on social media and thought some commentary from an IT professional might be…
Is your computer REALLY slow? The solution can often be easier (and cheaper) than you think.
Over the past year or two I've had several recurring themes in the issues that clients are reporting. One of the most common is "my computer is going very slowly" and - almost invariably - those computers are running on…
Backups. Everybody needs them. Few do them. Far fewer do them properly.
This year we're seeing more and more hard disk drive failures - and in the vast majority of cases people don't have recent (or even ANY) backups of their data. In consequence many are losing years worth of personal and…
RIP Windows 7
If you're still using Windows 7 then ... you probably shouldn't be. To be honest, when Windows 10 was first released, I didn't really like it. But now that it's been around a few years and has matured a bit…