Cyber Crime 2015

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Cybercrime is becoming big business

The total number of individuals in the UK who have been the target of cybercrime jumped in 2015, with nearly 44% of consumers in the UK who have now reported cybercrime.

2015 was responsible for 22% of those, with the average cost to the user at £1300.

Of those who reported cybercrime, shockingly nearly half said they had not taken additional precautions while on the internet, such as changing passwords. Read more

Windows 10 Slow NAS access with device PIN

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Windows 10 NAS file access is very slow

If you have been finding reading and writing files to and from a NAS from Windows 10 is painfully slow, you could try this tip that fixed the problem on a clients computer recently;

  • In Windows 10, go to Settings
  • Select the ACCOUNTS menu item
  • Select SIGN IN OPTIONS on the left-hand side menu
  • Select the I FORGOT MY PIN option
  • Enter your full account password
  • When you are asked to set a new pin, leave it blank
  • This will disable the PIN login option in Windows

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Windows 10 Library Folders

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Windows Library Folders

Despite being much less prominent in Windows 8.1 and Windows 10, the Windows Library files, first introduced in Windows 7, can actually be quite a useful way of collecting together various folders under a common heading. What has been missing all along in Libraries is the ability to add a non-indexed network share. Read more

Everyone in the UK should have access to fast broadband internet by 2020

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Broadband for all

David Cameron has pledged that all UK homes and businesses will have access to fast broadband by 2020 backed by a Universal Service Obligation, giving the public the right to request an affordable, fast connection, making internet access a guaranteed service like water and electricity. Read more

Scam emails from @gateway.gov.uk

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Scam Emails Are Not From The Government

Scam emails pretending to be from the Government Gateway are being set out again.

Some scam emails are still offering larger bodily parts or performance enhancing substances but they are easy to spot by both humans and computers. So the scammers have taken things up a notch in the past year or so, creating plausible and relevant scam emails that could catch the unwary.

One such email currently being distributed is pretending to be from the Government Gateway, part of the UK’s e-Government service for various business and tax electronic form submissions. Read more