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| The Synology DS1513+ 5 Bay server (Image from UK Hardware) |
The Synology small format servers have proved to be pretty awesome devices, allowing for hybrid RAID disk configurations and many enterprise server grade functions by means of downloadable apps.
Recently we had a Synology DS1513+ server that had developed a glitch. Read more
You have probably heard on the news that millions of computers around the world have been infected with a piece of ransomware, have you checked if your home and business PC’s are protected? Read more
Microsoft are starting to move users away from the old style API driven Windows programs and towards the store-based UWP apps like the ones you use on your smartphone or tablet.
Facebook Scams That Demean OthersYou may have seen posts with status messages along the lines of:
And a photo of someone showing a disability or with a disfiguration or medical condition, encouraging you to share the post because no one else will. But these posts are fake and demeaning to the people featured in the photos.
The posts suggest the person in the photo is the original poster and that you, as the reader, are ashamed of them because of their background or disability. It suggests that you help them by sharing the post, liking, and possibly also typing some message or word underneath.
The posts are fake, they are designed to make you feel emotionally involved to increase user interaction. They are conning unsuspecting, kind-hearted Facebook users into interacting with the posts (sharing, commenting and liking) out of shame and pity.
If you come across one of these posts, you should block and report the page using the arrow on the top right of the shared post (be careful here not to block and report your friend by mistake!) If you don’t feel confident in reporting the page as spam, then just ignore the post.
The photos used on these posts (some of them are edited before posting to make it look like they have a missing limb) are stolen from Facebook profiles, Flickr groups or other photo sharing sites and used without permission from the person featured in them.
The posts are disrespectful to the person in them, and in sharing the photo you are unsuspectingly spreading the hurt they cause the victim.
The posters have only one interest in mind, to promote themselves on Facebook at the cost of the poor victims in their posts. Their goal is to get as many people to share and comment on their horrid posts.
Facebook calls this kind of interaction ‘organic’ and the more organic shares, likes and comments a page can generate, the more popular Facebook considers it to be. This helps promote the page on Facebook, and once they have all this ‘positive’ organic feedback, they can then use the page for other uses, like promoting hate speech, trying to distort the ‘now trending’ section on Facebook with their own agenda, and possibly spreading links to other similar Facebook pages and websites.
#WeCanHelpIf you need help with using social media, and in spotting fake and spammy content, we are involved in a free-to-attend drop-in IT training session where you can find out how to be more social on social media. Contact us for information, or head along to the Hub at Ashmore Park, Wednesfield on a Wednesday between 10am – 1pm.
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The number of private home routers being duped into living a secret life as part of a botnet or in serving up malicious DNS results to its users has seen a surge in the latter half of 2016. It’s thought that the majority of traffic in the DDoS attack on various gaming servers in Christmas 2015 was generated from home routers that had been compromised.
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You can’t escape from the adverts. The American Thanksgiving sales day has been ported over into the UK as a promise of great deals for Christmas shoppers, many taking to online outlets to beat the queues.
Retailers such as Amazon, John Lewis and Argos are predicting a record-breaking weekend for their online sales. But as with any event that gets users eager to snap up deals online, the criminals are lurking just around the corner ready to take exploit any unsuspecting shoppers. Read more
A vulnerability had been identified in one of the Qualcomm LTE chipsets used in many modern Android phones. The chipsets primary purpose is to provide access to the LTE network (often called 4G) and the Qualcomm chipsets make up about 65% of the market according to CheckPoint
[http://blog.checkpoint.com/2016/08/07/quadrooter/] Read more
As the UK is basking in the summer heatwave, we’ve got our hottest giveaway to date!
If you’re using your home phone line for internet connection, it’s likely that you’re connected to an ADSL line (Asymmetric DSL) but there are other variants of DSL that may be available in your area, with VDSL currently being rolled out across the UK offering higher upload and download speeds. Read more
Since version v21 for SAGE Accounts (SAGE Line 50) the ability to host a company file from an network shared folder was removed. Well, not exactly removed, but a BIG restriction was put on the ability to keep your data files where you want them. Read more