No doubt you’ve seen on the news or your favourite social platform that Microsoft officially withdrew support for Windows 7 on tuesday. It has now reached the end of its life.
This means that we can no longer provide critical support for your Windows 7 machines.
What does that mean?
Seasons Greeting to one and all,
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
Remember to have fun if you can and avoid clicking on those phishing links, opening those ‘too good to be true’ emails.
Start MS Word Click File menu option then click Account Click Update Options followed by Update Now A message will then appear
Click Windows flag in bottom left corner of screen then click on the cog
Click on Update & Security
Click the Check for updates button
Using Word, PowerPoint and Excel is so much fun now. Because there are so many things you can do with your documents.
Like scribble notes on them. Perfect when you’re using a tablet.
And did you know, there’s a functionality called Ink Replay that allows you to literally watch the exact moment you scribbled the note again.
Because we rely on email so much to run our businesses, it’s our greatest tool (no matter how much you might sigh when you see how many unread emails you have).
But because there’s so much activity in there. And you can receive emails from anyone, it’s the most common way to try to breach your business.
Hackers are targeting every business, every day. Using clever automated tools.
This is 100% true because they are targeting all businesses, all of the time.
Whereas once hacking was something done for the challenge and the bragging rights, these days it’s a form of organised crime.
Hackers use automated tools that are constantly looking for vulnerabilities they can exploit.
This is why it takes just one click on a dodgy email to let someone into your entire network.
To know what you’re up against, download our brand new guide: The 9 cyber threats you need to know about now.
We’re TKNOWIT LIMITED, looking after businesses in Malton, Ryedale and beyond. And we’re on a mission to educate thousands more businesses around here about how to keep themselves safe from hackers.
Cyber crime is the fastest growing crime to affect businesses. When you see what you’re up against, you’ll be better prepared.
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Wouldn’t that be good. No emails at the end of each day. No worrying that you’ve missed something important.
Or scrolling through the same emails again and again, when you’d rather be playing with your kids (doh!).
Inbox Zero isn’t reached by having fewer emails… that’s really hard to achieve. Instead, you need to change the way you handle emails.
Could a puppy get your business hacked?
How lovely. Lisa in accounts has a brand new puppy.
It’s taking over her life. There are photos on her desk. It’s all she seems to talk about. Hey – she even changed her password to include his name.
And suddenly that puppy has become a security risk to your business.
Because hackers are clever.
We are all familiar with having to run software updates on our Windows products regularly to remove vulnerabilities.
Apple’s Mac and iPhone/iPad and TV range are no different but many people have not been made aware or, in some cases, have been told they don’t have vulnerabilities or can’t get hacked. There have always been vulnerabilities but when it comes to hackers it’s often down to the analogy of shooting fish in a barrel. The barrel containing Windows fish is large and well stocked; until recently the Apple barrel wasn’t that well stocked – but now it is – for many reasons which this post is not focused on.
This week some vulnerabilities in the Apple range have started to hit the mainstream press and TV.
If you haven’t seen any of the news then here are a couple of links
BBC https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-49520355
The important thing to take from the publicity is that you should be regularly checking your devices for updates – even if the device is automatically set to apply updates. It can be several days between scheduled checks and your device is vulnerable during that window between the update been made available and your device applying it.