by Equity Networks | Dec 4, 2017 | Security
If you want to protect your business from hackers, don’t do what MP Nadine Dorries does and give everyone in your office access to your login details. That’s the first rule of cybersecurity… don’t share your passwords! As part of the row over who...
by Equity Networks | Nov 22, 2017 | IT support
As far as we’re concerned, the Eurozone crisis that started in 2009 had one upside – it brought us senior network engineer Rafael Marti. A gifted technician from Valencia, Spain, Rafael came to the UK when the Spanish economy was at its lowest ebb. He joined Firstline...
by Equity Networks | Nov 14, 2017 | Security
British spy chiefs are concerned that the widely used Kaspersky anti-virus software may be being used as an intelligence-gathering tool by the Russian government, according to the Financial Times. This follows September’s news that the US Department of Homeland...
by Equity Networks | Nov 8, 2017 | IT support
We understand flexible working because we do it too. In fact, does anyone in Firstline IT do a conventional 9 to 5 in the office? We started looking seriously at the idea of flexible remote working a few years ago, when Oxford was suddenly, and most unusually, buried...
by Equity Networks | Oct 30, 2017 | Security
We answer your questions on protecting your networks from ransomware and other cyber-attacks. A new strain of ransomware known as Bad Rabbit is lurking on the horizon. At the moment it is only attacking businesses in Russia, Ukraine, Turkey, and Germany, but it is...
by Equity Networks | Oct 18, 2017 | Security
‘Keep calm and carry on’ is our message to individuals and businesses worried by the news of a flaw in the WPA2 authentication system for WiFi. As usual, media reports are full of doom and gloom. Even the BBC website, which is normally relatively measured, screamed:...
by Jeff Wiblin | Oct 17, 2017 | Network Security
What are phishing scams? Email phishing scams can be devastating things. Their sole purpose is to trick your staff into releasing sensitive information that can then be used against your company. Many of these scam emails are easy to spot, but some of these malware...
by Equity Networks | Oct 10, 2017 | IT support
Is the end of the road for the Windows phone the start of something entirely new in the global software market? In an announcement so low key as to be almost undetectable to the human ear, Microsoft has snuck out the news that it is abandoning further development of...
by Equity Networks | Oct 9, 2017 | Security
Sometimes, as with the implementation of GDPR next year, it pays to be small. The requirements of the General Data Protection Regulation, which come into force next year, are mostly nowhere near as onerous for companies with 250 employees or fewer as they are for...
by Equity Networks | Oct 2, 2017 | IT support
The screens on the wall of First Line’s offices give the place something of a Star Trek feel. The team uses them to monitor the networks they support as well as watching what is going on in the data centre and other parts of the building. The data centre in particular...
