Social networking is becoming a risky business if recent news headlines are any indication. It seems that we must be wary of the myriad of ways cyber criminals are using social media to entrap us.
Apparently, we have become quite savvy about spotting email threats, so the scammers and malware purveyors are turning to new fertile [...]

Here at UKFast we pride ourselves on being able to offer the best solutions in the UK and Something we are being asked about more and more is Disaster Recovery, a subset of Business Continuity.
With the increasing prevalence of business critical information technology systems, combined with the transition to a 24×7 economy, the continuity of [...]

Spam emails, we all get them, every day in fact and they are very annoying but did you realise just how big a problem they really are?
Let’s starts with some astonishing facts. Cisco calculated that last year 120 billion spam messages were sent daily worldwide. That was double the previous year. Furthermore, it is generally [...]

The eagerly awaited interim publication of the Government report on the future of digital industries in Britain has suggested that ISPs should be forced to take part in Westminster’s snooping campaign.
According to the authors of ‘Digital Britain’, the UK Government should introduce legislation forcing internet service providers to gather information on customers engaged in illegal [...]

Computer security is a term that nearly all of us have become extremely familiar with. Especially since the Internet went commercial in the mid 90s. I remember when my Dad brought home our first 28.8k dial up modem, and now I complain when my 24Mb aDSL connection stalls a little.
The more computers become part of [...]

An article last week about Princeton University research into the sophistication of cyber attacks reminded me just how important it is for online businesses to take their security seriously.
The great strength of the internet is its accessibility but unfortunately the trade off is that this can also be its vulnerability. Providing access to [...]

Statistical surveys are interesting not just for the results they show but also for why they show those results. It is often said that stats can be made to support just about any contention depending on the timing, question wording, sample group etc. And I certainly give a lot of credence to such a [...]

It’s obviously good news that the UK has fallen out of the ‘dirty dozen’ spam sending nations in a new report by Sophos but the main reason we have fallen out of the list seems to be because other nations are now sending more, rather than the fact that we are sending less.
The new report [...]

Yesterday, the BBC along with getsafeonline.org published the results of a survey about Internet safety. There are some interesting, yet not all that surprising percentages in the stats.
The biggest eye opener is that less than half of us actually realise that the responsibility for protecting our personal data starts with us as users. One [...]

If you are using mobile Internet devices, do you have secure network access and a company usage procedure? This may sound like overkill but mobile malware is a growing threat. According to Sophos’ Security Threat Report 2007, sixty four percent of companies have admitted they do not have any protection in place on their mobile [...]