Technology Vs Humans: Who Is Right Or Wrong? Part 1

As I said in my last blog post, I have been an avid technology fan since my school days, but sometimes it may go too far ...

Social Engineering: It All Started With A Game!

Imagine you are scrolling through Facebook and your friend has posted a quiz that asks for personal details such as your birthday ...

Downtime Vs Down Time

In today's technological world, there is an urgency to have all systems up and running 24 hours of the day, seven days a week ...

Houston, We Have A Major Problem!

Let me start by saying that I love technology. I have sold consumer electronics since the early 1990s ...

The Increasing Need For Power In Technology

Virtually everything we do these days relies on nuclear, gas, coal, oil, solar, geothermal or wind ...

How Vulnerable Is Your Smartphone?

I talk often about phishing emails that can lead to hackers penetrating your networks. Smartphones are also vulnerable ...

Cyber Awareness And Training

In a recent blog post, I wrote about the MGM hack and how it was potentially conceived via a phone call ...

And This Is How Scams Start

Saturday night, rushing to try and finish off some paperwork and wanting to catch the last half hour of visiting time at the hospital ...

Firewalls: Test, Test And Test Again!

What do your IT systems, servers, IP telephone systems, network-connected mobile phones all have in common?

Cyber Attackers And Phoney Phone Calls

I have been reading with interest that it has been the turn of the mighty MGM Group to fall victim to hackers ...

The Big 2G And 3G Switch Off

You may remember that in previous blog posts, I spoke about Openreach’s plan to switch off the PSTN network in 2025 ...

Who Do You Do Business With?

Let's face it, we are all entrenched in the digital age. The way in which we do business is definitely changing ...

There's no let up on Trojans, Malware And Hacking

This week has been the turn of telephony software company 3CX to have one of their most used applets compromised ...

Ofcom Regulations: Is Your Business Protected? PART 2

Following on from last week’s blog post about Ofcom, here is some guidance on what not to get wrapped up in ...

Ofcom Regulations: Is Your Business Protected?

The Uk telecoms industry is regulated by Ofcom which is responsible for ensuring we get the best from our services ...

Telephony: It’s Not About Making A Call!

To go back in time, telephone systems were known as PBX or PABX. Go even further back and you have switchboard operators ...

Not All Fibre Services Are The Same

Over ten years ago, Openreach started to upgrade its infrastructure by the addition of fibre from the exchange ...

Should You Us Wired Or WiFi?

Back in the day, all routers by the likes of BT, TalkTalk, Sky Broadband and Virgin Media were designed for one function ...