The Truth about how long people spend on Facebook at work ?
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According to Cisco’s 2010 Midyear Security Report, workers are accessing social networking sites on company equipment even though policies are there to prevent it. 50% of employees in the survey ignore company social media policies at least once every per week. Over a quarter actually reconfigured their devices to access forbidden content or applications.
The report says “…social [...]
26July
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So should I upgrade my iPhone to OS4 ?
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Short answer: yes ! Here’s Fotec’s advice on how to get the best from the upgrade for iPhone 3G and 3GS users…
1.Tired of your iPhone switching to landscape when you tilt it ?
Lock in portrait mode by double tapping the Home Button, swipe to left and on the left of the iPod controls you’ll see the [...]
29June
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What % of business internet use is YouTube ?
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A whopping 10%, according to new report from The Network Box (http://www.network-box.com/), a global managed security company.
The survey, of 13 billion URLs used by businesses in Q1 2010, also showed that 7% of all Internet traffic is taken up by Facebook. Here are the top 5…:
…websites visited by businesses in Q1 2010:
Facebook – 6.8 per [...]
22April
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How well are small businesses protected by their banks ?
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We all expect our bank to indemnify us against criminal activity: but that’s being challenged now, and we may not be protected at all in the future.
The Wall Street Journal recently led with a story about Sign Designs, a small company in California who’d had their on-line account just about emptied: $100k sent to 17 [...]
22February
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Why pay for AntiVirus products when you can have them for free ?
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Everyone uses AntiVirus products, and there’s a wide range of choice. From Kaspersky to Trend Micro, Sophos to McAfee – Fotec works with them all. But Microsoft is threatening to completely undermine the market with their Security Essentials product set, which is…wait for it…free !
So just how much AV do you get for nothing ?
PCAdvisor ran [...]
18February
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Internet growth: it’s only just started !
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For many of us now, life and work without the Internet is unthinkable (even your author can remember when secretaries typed letters using carbon paper and all phones had wires). But according to research from US analyst Telegeography, it’s about to expand way beyond current usage.
They say that by the end of 2009, here were 1.73 [...]
9February
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So how long should you keep PCs and laptops ?
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Ten years ago business desktops and laptops became obsolete within 18-24 months, running out of power, memory and storage as desktop applications became ever more resource hungry. Accepted accounting wisdom is to keep them for 3 years: long enough to forget what they cost, and just about as long as the user was prepared to [...]
28January
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Should you support your employees’ own IT devices ?
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According to the latest research from Forrester Consulting, then no. Forrester found that 52% of companies currently refuse to support their users’ own phones or smartphones. But they believe that soon, you’ll have to: they say that by 2012, enterprise mobile workers will make up 73% of the workforce.
Their research shows that many companies are [...]
22January
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The Top 10 most used passwords ?
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According to the security web site What’s My Pass, the 10 most used passwords are:
1 123456
2 password
3 12345678
4 1234
5 pussy
6 12345
7 dragon
8 qwerty
9 696969
10 mustang
Even number 11 is pretty obvious: letmein. There are some more imaginative ones though: trustno1 (no. 32), spanky (no. 145), and hooters (no. 180). The full list can be found at [...]
7December
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Top 10 Security Trends in 2010 ?
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Global security company Symantec recently published a White Paper predicting the top Security Trends to watch in 2010.
Some of the threats are very easy to understand, but other developments are simply impenetrable to ordinary people: Fast Flux Botnet, anybody ?
If you have a spare hour or three, go to http://whitepapers.theregister.co.uk/paper/view/1234/messagelabs-intelligence-2010-predictions.pdf where you can download the [...]