Season’s Greetings to one and all,

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Hope every one has had a good year, can have a good break from work over the festive period and is looking forward to 2025.

As in previous years, 2024 has been another year when people encountered attacks through phishing scams and social engineering involving random calls from people suggesting the computer is infected or that their bank account has been accessed.

Thankfully education is helping, so many of you have called me to check that they were right to suspect some dodgy caller.

Hacking your accounts is still a major issue. As recommended last year, if you can, activate Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) to reduce the risks, use different passwords for your different accounts and consider a password manager to make these easier to keep on top of.

If you are worried about your passwords or accounts you can try out the email address and password checkers on the website
Has your email address been stolen? – tKnowIT

If you get bored over Christmas you can watch a few “How To” videos on the website.

You can find the entire How To Videos here and don’t forget our downloadable monthly Newsletter

In 2025 we will be introducing addition ways to protect your accounts and educate you.

With the rollout in many areas of fast full fibre, as well as 4G and even Starlink for those in the most remote locations, we have moved more people to Microsoft 365 services for data in addition to email services. That has helped customers access their emails and files in more ways, not just when they are in the office.

Although the big switch-off for traditional phone services has been delayed until early 2027, more customers have migrated to our VoIP phone services, giving them better services, lower costs and more flexibility to work in the office, from home or anywhere else.

As always, let’s make it a Happy New Year and not a Hacky New Year

Hope to see you all in the New Year

Stay Safe

Cheers,

Nick