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Christmas Opening Hours December 9, 2025 – Posted in: Dates to Remember, News

Merry Christmas, Season’s Greetings, Happy Holidays and an excellent New Year to all. We’re open on Christmas Eve and on the 29th, 30th and 31st of December, when we will be running a skeleton service. We’ll do everything we can to make sure there’s no interruption to your services during these times, and that any emergencies are dealt with accordingly. We would kindly ask that during that time only major, system-wide or critical issues are…

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What’s New Wednesday: Patch Tuesday August 2025 August 13, 2025 – Posted in: Cyber Security, IT Support, What's New Wednesdays

Welcome to Patch Tuesday August 2025. 107 flaws were patched including one publicly disclosed zero-day vulnerability. It’s a good idea to restart your PC today, and we may well restart some of your servers overnight this week if a patch requires it. NEW THIS WEDNESDAY Overall Microsoft patched: 44 Elevation of Privilege Vulnerabilities 35 Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities 18 Information Disclosure Vulnerabilities 4 Denial of Service Vulnerabilities 9 Spoofing Vulnerability There was one publicly disclosed…

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CyberEssentials 101: The Final Takeaways & The Full White Paper July 17, 2025 – Posted in: Cyber Security, IT Support

This is the final article in our Cyber Essentials 101 series. We’ve covered the questions you need to answer and why they are important for your business. Attaining a Cyber Essentials certificate is a great way to make sure you’ve covered the basics of protecting your data and your business. Often the most difficult elements are less around the technical areas – if hardware needs replacing, whilst it costs to do so, the process is…

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What’s New Wednesday: Patch Tuesday July 2025 July 9, 2025 – Posted in: Cyber Security, IT Support, What's New Wednesdays

Welcome to Patch Tuesday July 2025. 137 flaws were patched including one zero-day vulnerability. It’s a good idea to restart your PC today, and we may well restart some of your servers overnight this week if a patch requires it. NEW THIS WEDNESDAY Overall Microsoft patched: 53 Elevation of Privilege Vulnerabilities 8 Security Feature Bypass Vulnerabilities 41 Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities 18 Information Disclosure Vulnerabilities 6 Denial of Service Vulnerabilities 4 Spoofing Vulnerability There was…

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CyberEssentials 101: Malware Protection June 6, 2025 – Posted in: Cyber Security

Malware, such as viruses, is generally used to steal or destroy information. It’s often delivered via phishing attacks – obtaining information by confidence trickery, or social network sites which can be mined for information useful to a hacker to provide a focussed attack on an organisation. Anti-malware solutions (including anti-virus) are available from commercial suppliers, some free, but usually as complete software and support packages. Malware is continually evolving, so it is important that the…

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CyberEssentials 101: Administrative Accounts May 7, 2025 – Posted in: Cyber Security, IT Support

All users need to have unique accounts and should not be carrying out day-to-day tasks like browsing the internet, invoicing or dealing with e-mail whilst logged on as a user with administrator privileges. Admin accounts allow significant changes to the way your computer systems work, doing day to day work logged in as an admin opens the door for any mistaken clicks on malicious software or attachments to cause significantly more damage. It’s also important…

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Cyber Essentials 101: Device Locking March 21, 2025 – Posted in: Cyber Security, IT Support

This is the next article in our Cyber Essentials 101 series, if you haven’t yet read the first part covering why you should consider Cyber Essentials and how to answer the initial questions about your organisation you can find it here. Questions in this section apply to: servers, desktop computers, laptops, thin clients, tablets, mobile phones, and cloud based software services. A5.9 – When a device requires a user to be present, do you set…

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What’s New Wednesday: January 2025 January 15, 2025 – Posted in: IT Support, News, What's New Wednesdays

Happy New Year! The first Patch Tuesday of 2025 was a whopper with 159 flaws patched including 8 zero-day vulnerabilities, 3 of which have been actively exploited. It’s a good idea to restart your PC today and we may well restart some of your servers overnight this week if a patch requires it. NEW THIS WEDNESDAY Overall Microsoft patched: 14 Security Feature Bypass Vulnerabilities 58 Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities 24 Information Disclosure Vulnerabilities 20 Denial…

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What’s New Wednesday: December 2024 December 11, 2024 – Posted in: IT Support, News, What's New Wednesdays

The Microsoft monthly security update release is published on the second Tuesday of each month. It’s a good idea to restart your PC on the following Wednesday – today. We may well restart some of your servers overnight this week if a patch requires it. NEW THIS WEDNESDAY This month’s Patch Tuesday included security updates for 71 flaws including 1 actively exploited zero-day vulnerability. Overall Microsoft patched:: 27 Elevation of Privilege Vulnerabilities 30 Remote Code…

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Cyber Essentials 101: Why Cyber Essentials December 3, 2024 – Posted in: Cyber Security, IT Support

Cyber Essentials is a government-backed program that helps you protect your company from common cyberattacks. The IASME is the company that provides the certifications and assessments. For basic Cyber Essentials you will need to fill in a questionnaire, for Cyber Essentials Plus you will need to meet higher standards and an assessor will investigate your network directly. Cyber Essentials is a great way to show your comers that you’re working to keep their data secure,…