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Grooveshark has been shut down
The online streaming website Grooveshark has been shut down after losing its battle with the music industry on Thursday. The company reached a sett...
Google Chrome ditches support for Silverlight
Google Chrome is ending support for Silverlight – used by NOW TV and BT Sport to play video. The Microsoft runtime depends on an ageing plug-in pro...
Critical Security Advisory: Shell Shock
The Shell Shock security flaw could be bigger than Heartbleed. A serious security flaw recently discovered in the Bash command-line shell applicati...
Counterfeit software could lead to malware on your machine without you knowing
Don’t be a victim of Counterfeit Software… As an IT Support company, our clients put their trust in us to source and supply various hardware and so...
Important Security Notice: Heartbleed
The Heartbleed Bug The Heartbleed Bug is a vulnerability in the popular OpenSSL cryptographic software library. This is the software that almost 60...
8 April 2014: Windows XP Dead
Does the date 8th April 2014 mean anything to you? If you’re a business and care about the security of your IT equipment then it should. On the 8th...
Consider IT achieves ISO 9001
Edinburgh based IT Support company, Consider IT has achieved the internationally recognised ISO 9001 standard, establishing us as one of the leader...
Local Authority fined £80k for losing unencrypted USB stick
North East Lincolnshire Council has been fined a monetary penalty of £80,000 (eighty thousand pounds) for failing to encrypt a USB stick that conta...
Google Apps Service Disruption
At about 3:25pm yesterday (Monday 23rd September 2013), Google Apps suffered some service issues. Clients were noticing issues sending or receiving...
