Microsoft drops support for all but the latest version of Internet Explorer for your Operating System
By 18a, 21.08.14
For many years, Microsoft has offered technical support and security updates for multiple versions of Internet Explorer. This was largely down to enterprise users where companies had difficulty in upgrading large numbers of computers to the latest version of Internet Explorer either because of the shear amount of work involved…
Spam email pretending to be from Amazon
By lisa, 21.02.14
I've just had an email apparently from Amazon telling me that my account has been suspended.The email reads:Amazon Customer, [my email address]Your Amazon account has been temporarly suspended for security reasons.After our Security Department made a close checking of your account we discovered that on your account were present unusual…
Tips for Installing a 123-reg (GlobalSign) Domain SSL certificate on an Amazon EC2 Instance Running Apache 2.*
By tom, 6.02.14
This process caused me a couple of issues when I came to do it just now, so I hope the following notes might prove helpful to someone (or possibly me next time I come to do this and have forgotten everything I just did!). In no particular order: 1. Once…
WordPress security alert!!
By lisa, 15.04.13
WordPress have been hit recently by attackers targeting the "admin" user account.The incredibly popular website software is used by millions of websites around the world and it's important to keep your installation of WordPress up to date.The people attacking WordPress currently seem to be aiming their attack at both stand…
Facebook rolls out new privacy settings.
By dean, 5.09.11
Yet again Facebook have made some more changes to their privacy settings. They are continuing to roll out new measures to increase privacy to users. The latest, is the ability for users to have greater control over who can and can’t see their status updates. Many people are seeing this as Facebook’s…