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Keeping your eyes on the horizon and your ear to the ground can be tricky to do all at once, so we're doing it for you. Check out the latest tech news and our own blogs below to keep up to speed with everything you need to know regarding your business IT, communications, and cyber security.
Police Website Hacked
A Hertfordshire police website has been hacked, leading to the publication of what appear to be login details and passwords for dozens of officers ...
Major BE/O2 Outage
As of yesterday morning BE Broadband and O2 Broadband were experiencing massive routing issues with a significant portion of traffic. Some websites...
Virgin Media broadband down
Virgin Media Broadband Outage Lots of users have been commenting that this evening Virgin Medias broadband and TV on demand service have been unava...
Edinburgh EFM – Ethernet in the First Mile
EFM: Mind blowingly fast connectivity UPDATE: CONSIDER IT NO LONGER OFFERS EFM AS A STANDARD PRODUCT. EFM IS ONLY UTILISED AS A STOP-GAP WHERE ETHE...
Glasgow City Council unencrypted laptop stolen
A laptop containing the personal information and bank account details of thousands of people and businesses has been stolen from Glasgow City Counc...
Virgin Media and others blocking the Pirate Bay
Virgin Media along with various other ISPs are now actively blocking the Pirate Bay website. Last week the UK High Court ruled that several of the ...
Scottish charity loses two unencrypted memory sticks
A Scottish charity – based in Glasgow – breached the Data Protection Act after two unencrypted memory sticks and papers containing the personal det...
Symantec victim of cyber attack
Edinburgh IT Support company, Consider IT, has recently learned that security software publisher Symantec has confirmed it was recently the victim ...
O2 and Tesco Mobile send your phone number to every site you visit using their mobile data network
Lewis Peckover, who set up a little web tool that displays all the “HTTP header information” sent to sites by web browsers, highlighted yesterday t...
