by ICT Solutions | Jul 24, 2020 | News, Security
On 15th July, social media giant Twitter suffered its most catastrophic breach in the company’s fourteen year history. Targeting Twitter’s most influential celebrities, cyber-hackers conducted an attack promoting a cryptocurrency scam. The hacked accounts included...
by ICT Solutions | Mar 17, 2020 | IT Support, News, Security
One of the biggest stories of 2020 so far has been the outbreak of Coronavirus (COVID-19). As the virus rapidly spreads across the UK, more and more businesses are under pressure to protect their employees and reduce the spread of infection. With that in mind,...
by ICT Solutions | Jan 9, 2020 | News
On New Year’s Eve, the foreign exchange company Travelex was forced to take its services offline following a ransomware attack by cyber hackers. They are reportedly threatening to release customer data such as card payment information and dates of birth if Travelex...
by ICT Solutions | Oct 25, 2019 | News
It’s likely that you’ve heard about Facebook’s proposed digital currency in recent weeks. The company claims that Libra would allow people to exchange money on a worldwide scale, with the same ease of sending a text or photo. For the 31% of the global adult population...
by ICT Solutions | Jun 6, 2019 | News
A much needed privacy update With a market share of nearly 70%, Google Chrome is the world’s biggest web browser. As well as its speed and simplicity, Chrome is also favoured because of its extensive extension gallery. There are currently over 180,000 extensions...
by ICT Solutions | Apr 30, 2019 | News, Security
NCSC Reveals the World’s Worst Passwords The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has recently published a list of the 100,000 most hacked passwords in the world. ‘123456’ was at the top of the list, with 23.2 million victim accounts using it as a password. Next was...
