Mobile phone security is something that can just be taken for granted. We all carry our mobile phones with us everywhere and do everything on them – but when it comes to using those phones for business, they often drop out of the company’s IT support. They shouldn’t – that’s why you come to us …

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Robots? Clive did not know for sure but he gave a good answer… A couple of weeks ago we were invited to speak to a Zoom meeting and this was basically a Question and Answer session. After reassuring the group that no question was too silly to ask, just that nobody had been brave enough …

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Today, is a a day worth celebrating. Today we published our thousandth post over on the Smart Thinking Solutions cyber security news site. Clive has written a good article that covers how and why we started Smart Thinking and he has picked out 10 topics that we write about, illustrating them with example posts from …

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Last week I attended a number of very interesting talks, ranging from those given at my party’s Spring Conference, via a talk from one of the professors at my university to a conference hosted by Computing magazine.  A recurring theme seems to be the Digital Divide. What do I mean by the Digital Divide? Well, …

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Yes, it’s π Day again and time to make lots of nerdy maths jokes if you are into that kind of thing.  Personally I find it causes me to make lots of irrational but perfectly rounded plans. I thought my email password was the last ten digits of π, and then I remembered that whilst …

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Who knew that this month was Clean up your Computer month?  I looked at resources online relating to this and most of it was about things people had to do before storage was so cheap and all the files they were working on were actually on their own computer rather than in the cloud.  Still, there are …

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Clive has written a piece on Smart Thinking Solutions (our specialist cybersecurity, governance and compliance site), full of advice for you if you are shopping online this Christmas or in the New Year Sale – which will probably start on Boxing Day!

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If you are a big fan of Xbox – (something that passed me by, but did interest my children), you will want to catch the Live Stream this evening of the twentieth anniversary celebration of all things Xbox. Yes, you read that right. It is twenty years since Xbox burst into our lives and suddenly …

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Over the last twenty years or more, most governments have gently changed our attitudes and behaviours using nudging. How many people would regard it as OK these days to drink and drive, smoke in front of children, or spit in public? In thirty years’ time I can envisage young people being upset at older people …

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