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If there’s one thing General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) did for sure, it gave us a clearer picture of the UK cybersecurity landscape. CybSafe’s new report says that more security breaches were reported to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) in 2019 than in any previous year. A total of 2,376 reports were made, compared with 1,854 in 2018, and 540 … Read More
I’m gonna catch you, little phishie…
Why foiling phishing attacks means much more than just punishing users for falling for them. Some organisations put a lot of effort into training their staff to detect and evade phishing attacks. Some even punish them if they slip up. It’s easy to see why the user has been identified as a central factor in phishing prevention – successful phishes … Read More
How an Office365 Email Hack Cost Thousands
(and How You Can Avoid the Same Fate) Imagine you’ve just made a huge investment in your business. You’ve done your research and are convinced this is the right investment to take your business to the next level. Yet something is bothering you about your last few emails. Why did the other company change the banking details at the last … Read More
Microsoft plans next Win10 long-term release for 2021
Microsoft will not issue another Windows 10 “Long-term Servicing Channel” (LTSC) build until 2021, the company said a week ago. At the moment, the latest version is Windows 10 Enterprise LSTC 2019, which Microsoft launched in November 2018. LTSC 2019 was based on Windows 10 Enterprise 1809, the four-digit yymm-formatted moniker of last autumns feature upgrade. The three-year gap between … Read More
Windows 7 Support
Windows 7 support ends about nine months from now, on 14 January 2020 – and if you’re a Windows 7 user, you’ll see more than this story reminding you of that date. In fact, according to Microsoft, you could see several pop-up reminders warning you to upgrade to Windows 10 before the year is out. Microsoft says that Windows 7 … Read More
IT Support Services
We caught up with Mark from Cookstown Panel Centre to hear how important our IT Support services are to their business operations. Watch the video below to hear why CPC chose Loughtec as their IT service provider.. “IT is critical – if our network goes down, it affects everything from sales order processing, purchase orders being places, picking goods in … Read More