At the end of each year many of us slow down and rethink about what happened during the past months, contemplating what went well, what did not so much and what can be improved. I’m sure many of us hugely anticipate the New Year and look forward to starting new plans, achieving new goals and …
Have you read “Where’s my flying car?” part 1? If not you should. I was 10 in 1971 – decimalisation came in that year – and this was on the television: 1971: Tomorrow’s World: Cassette Navigation – YouTube (You should really take four minutes and thirty-four seconds to watch this video – speed it up if you are short of …
Contact form 7 WordPress developers updated their plugin last week to patch a security vulnerability that allowed unrestricted file uploads in all versions up to and including 5.3.1 – so we would strongly recommend that if you are using this plugin for your website’s contact form you run an update asap. Of course, if you are a …
I’m sure many will agree that 2020 will stay in our memory for a little while! Many of us entered the New Year optimistically with new ambitious plans, promises and goals to achieve. The future looked promising and then the bomb was dropped on us all – the pandemic happened! Many small business owners realised …
Email is an amazing technology. It’s used for many things that you probably do in modern life. Companies use it for a day-to-day communication with their customers, to welcome them and to send updates about their services/products, promotions, purchase confirmations, password resets etc. Unfortunately, it can create some problems too. Here are some of the most common email issues and ways to deal with …
Since this version of WordPress came out last week Wordfence, the leading WordPress security plugin, has brought out an update (7.4.14) to prevent a potential security vulnerability. WordPress 5.6 now has application password functionality which will be useful in a number of scenarios including ecommerce plugins, but hackers could gain administrator access rights through phishing …
COVID-19 has changed the world – no doubts about that! Was it for the better or for the worse? Well the answer would differ I suppose depending on who answers – some people would say 2020 was difficult, many businesses had to close their doors temporarily and many for good, whilst for some companies the …
On Monday the 14th December the online world stopped for over 40 minutes – most of Googles services went down. This put a lot of businesses out of action, affecting not only their usual day-to-day operations but also creating a lot of stress and uncertainty. This also had an impact on the whole education sector …
A lot has been said about ransomware and still I feel that this topic is a never-ending story. Each time I revisit the stats about the costs of a ransomware attack to businesses I am shocked. Why? Well, I have only just found out that in 2020 the cost of downtime was on average more …
