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Cyber Essentials £1000 Voucher Scheme
UPDATE: As of 27th February 2020, the Scottish Enterprise funding has been depleted and the voucher scheme is no longer taking applications. Buildi...
Vodafone confirms backdoors in Huawei equipment
For a long time now, Huawei Technologies Co. have been accused of planting backdoors into their equipment to enable them to steal trade secrets fro...
Consider IT joins SBRC Trusted Partner scheme
Consider IT is proud to announce that we have been accepted to join the Scottish Business Resilience Centre‘s (SBRC) Trusted Partners scheme. Trust...
Consider IT becomes CREST member
Consider IT becomes CREST member Consider IT is proud to announce that we are now a member of CREST following an extensive and rigorous assessment ...
Government makes CC/BCC e-mail blunder
The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, who are responsible for data protection laws, have made an “IT 101” basic blunder when sendin...
New critical WinRAR vulnerability
WinRAR has a critical security vulnerability that’s older than your children. If you’ve been using the internet over the past 19 years, chances are...
2019 Cyber Security Predictions – From an IT Support Company’s perspective
You’ll have probably read the Forbes 2019 predictions, or the Symantec predictions, or the Malwarebytes, or Webroot, or FireEye… but which ones are...
Remote Control Our Christmas Lights!
It’s back and bigger than before! Jump onto our dedicated page to control our office Christmas lights remotely from the comfort of your seat! We’ve...
Explosive new “bomb in the building” email scam
Over the past 48 hours Consider IT have seen numerous reports of a new scam demanding cryptocurrency. Unlike some similar scams which tend to focus...