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50 Million Facebook Profiles Harvested
The data analytics firm that worked with Donald Trump’s election team and the winning Brexit campaign harvested millions of Facebook profiles of US...
Come and control our Christmas Lights!
We’re at it again! This year is even bigger and better with more lights to choose from. Come annoy the team with the new rendition of Jingle Bells ...
Global Wi-Fi Vulnerability
What’s happened A researcher has found a way to compromise the most common Wi-Fi security standard which allows an attacker to look at traffic on t...
Dell ditch their printer line
Dell confirmed to Consider IT today that they have stopped selling their popular printer hardware. After quizzing a third-party wholesale supplier,...
Our response to the BBC snom VoIP Phone Article
There’s an article on the BBC news website that popped up yesterday that took our interest. It states that a “hack” lets phones “eavesdrop and make...
FTTC: Openreach modem removed from the equation
As of 1st April 2016, there will no longer be an Openreach modem installed for new FTTC connections. This means that when the Openreach engineer vi...
Email Virus: CWIH8974 PAYMENT RECEIVED from Avril Sparrowhawk
We are currently aware of a lot of malicious spam emails currently doing the rounds. As of posting this, few anti-viruses pick up the virus attachm...
How to hack any Linux machine using Grub2
Pressing the backspace key 28 times will let you circumvent a locked-down Linux machine researchers at Universitat Politechnica de Valencia recentl...
TalkTalk hacked – significant data breach
TalkTalk have once again shown their inability to keep customer data safe. Police are now investigating what TalkTalk term a “significant and susta...
