When you’re thinking about the resources at your disposal, what comes to mind? Money? Skills? Equipment? How about time? I sometimes find it easy to forget, but time is as much as resource as anything else. There’s a finite amount of it and, if it’s not used effectively, it can bring a project to its […]
Why you need antivirus
I’m going to tell you a story today. I think it’s quite scary but, as they used to say on Crimewatch, “don’t have nightmares”; there is light at the end of the tunnel. First, the scary bit – I want to tell you about a particularly nasty phenomenon called “Ransomware”. Ransomware is a kind of […]
How’s your password hygiene?
You might have seen some articles online recently saying a hacker has offered 112 million usernames and passwords for sale that were obtained from LinkedIn in 2012. The passwords are encrypted, but in such a way that they are relatively easy to decrypt again. The first thing I wanted to say to you, then, is […]
How to avoid a social media storm
I recently watched a conversation unfold on Facebook that could easily be the end of a business. In this conversation, a bride-to-be asked a question in a Facebook wedding group. It would be very easy to interpret her question as being about something she wasn’t happy with but, to her credit, when another group member […]
Be careful with shortened URLs
URL Shortening services are ubiquitous nowadays, and there are many benefits to having a short link rather than a long and meaningless website address. However, as the final destination of the link is hidden, it is difficult to tell at a glance whether the link is safe or not. URL shortening services hide the target address, […]