Blog

VirtualTin Obtains ISO 27001 Accreditation

VirtualTin is proud to announce that it has now obtained ISO 27001 accreditation, meaning that not only do we deliver service from ISO 27001 accredited facilities we ourselves are also ISO 27001 accredited....
Read more

Windows XP is now is one of the largest IT security threats

With the desktop global market still showing approximately 12% of all desktop and laptop machines are still running Windows XP (over double the MAC OS X market share) based on usage statistics in June and July 2015 we are now facing one of the largest security threats in recent history. Microsoft have now official stopped providing...
Read more

Microsoft Large Scale US Office 365 Cloud Outage

Customers in North America were unable to access Exchange Online Wednesday evening, with some reports suggesting outage went global Microsoft’s Office 365 cloud service suffered an outage on Wednesday, knocking out email services for thousands of customers. Microsoft confirmed the outage on Wednesday 15th July 2015 evening in the US. Exchange issue A Microsoft spokesperson said: “We are aware...
Read more

Password storage company LastPass have been hacked

Using an online password repository for your companies passwords! If you think about it, it’s most likely not the cleverest of moves! Source for below: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/06/15/lastpass_data_breach/ Passwords to other sites that were stored on LastPass, however, aren't thought to have been compromised. LastPass says it protects its authentication hashes with 100,000 rounds of server-side PBKDF2-SHA256 cryptography, which it...
Read more

IT blackout hits Nationwide building society

Nationwide are the latest victim in a long list of main stream IT systems starting to show cracks in capacity and resilience planning. With the IT market showing an increased focus on price per unit and a disregard for quality within the unit price it most certainly will not be the last. Information technology needs...
Read more

Kaspersky uncover the worlds biggest bank raid

Investigators uncover what is thought to be the biggest ever cybercrime with more than £650 million going missing from banks around the world. British banks are thought to have lost tens of millions of pounds after a gang of Russian based hackers spent the last two years orchestrating the largest cybercrime ever uncovered. As much as £650...
Read more

BlackBerry BES12 Securing all Mobile Phones

Blackberry BES12 has now changed the playing field for the corporate mobile phone market. Rather then focusing on Blackberry devices, RIM has now focused their software skills to deliver BlackBerry security to other handsets. BlackBerry now provide a one stop solution to securely manage...
Read more

ShellShock: Linux and Apple systems major security issue

A computer bug which could allow hackers to take control of hundreds of millions of devices all over the world has been discovered, forcing governments to take immediate steps to protect their critical infrastructure. The security flaw, dubbed “Shellshock”, was found inside a piece of software called Bash, which is used by Apple’s Mac operating system...
Read more

Security experts focus on iCloud backup theory

Security experts are warning that there could be many more compromised iCloud accounts after examining file data from pictures stolen from stars including Jennifer Lawrence and Kate Upton. One theory gaining ground is that many of the pictures had been accumulated by one hacker over a period of time - and were then “popped” by another...
Read more

One million UK properties on superfast broadband after investment

The UK's broadband speeds are faster than in some European neighbours but lag behind those of other nations

The UK's culture secretary has said that more than a million properties now have access to "superfast broadband speeds" as a result of a government-backed rollout of the tech.

Sajid Javid added that the effort was...
Read more