It has been reported that Kronos, the payroll system provider for Sainsbury’s and many other big UK businesses was recently hit by a ransomware attack which affected its Private Cloud. For Sainsbury’s this meant the loss of a week's worth of data for its 150,000 UK employees although it is...
Tech Tip – Organise Your Chrome Bookmarks With Folders
If you’d like an easy way to organise all your Google Chrome browser bookmarks, try putting them in folders. Here’s how: To create a bookmark folder: - On your computer, open Chrome. - Top right, click on the 3 dots, then ‘Bookmarks’ and ‘Bookmark manager’. - Top right, click on...
Tech News : Teams App Blocked Emergency Call
It was recently discovered that a bug in the Pixel 3 phone meant that users who had the Teams app installed (even though they weren’t logged in) couldn’t call the US emergency 911 number. What Happened? A Reddit user reported that they had needed to call an ambulance for their...
Featured Article : What’s All the Fuss About Julian Assange?
In this article, we take a look at some of the main details of the case of WikiLeaks and Julian Assange, and what can be learned from this ongoing battle between Assange and the US government, whose secrets his website shared. Who Is Julian Assange? Julian Assange is 50-year-old Australian...
Tech Insight : What Is A Password Manager?
In this tech insight, we look at challenges to using passwords, what password managers are, and why they are still so important. The Limitations and Challenge of Passwords Passwords have long provided a practical way to log in to websites, platforms, apps and other access gateways yet using passwords comes...
Tech News : A Peek at ‘Metaverse’
Meta (Facebook) has released a social VR experience called ‘Horizon Worlds’, giving users the first real look at the ‘Metaverse’ described by Mark Zuckerberg in the company’s recent re-brand announcements. What Is Horizon Worlds? Horizon Worlds (which launched via invite-only in beta last year) is a free, virtual space app...
Security Stop-Press : Apache Log4j Security Vulnerabilities
The Apache Foundation has released an emergency update for a critical zero-day vulnerability in Log4j. This is a widely used logging tool included in almost every Java application. The problem that the update has been issued to address is that a bug in the Log4j library could allow an attacker to execute...
Tech Tip – A Fast Way To Open Items From Your Taskbar
If you’d like super-fast and easy way to open the items/programs that are pinned to your Taskbar in Windows 10, here’s how: - Look at the Taskbar and note which number order (left to right) the item/program is that you’d like to open. - Use the keyboard shortcut Windows key...
Security Stop-Press : News of More Covid Scams
The NHS Counter Fraud Authority has warned of a recent spike in scams around the Covid Passes such as fake websites claiming to sell the passes. There is also news that the fear of the Omicron variant is already being exploited by phone scammers who are contacting people around the...
Tech News : World’s First “Living Robots” Can Now Reproduce
US-based scientists have reported creating “living robots” that can now re-produce. Next Step From Last Year Last year, a team of US scientists reported creating ‘living robots’ which were actually bundles of stem cells from African clawed frogs. The researchers discovered that they could ‘program’ these cells to accomplish certain...