IT & Security News
IT Security Threatened By Professional Burnouts
A Mimecast spokesman has warned that in a labour market already stretched by shortages, Dutch digital resilience could be threatened if more attention isn’t paid to the mental well-being of cyber security professionals. Wanting To Change Jobs Recent research commissioned by Mimecast in the Netherlands showed that a quarter of Dutch IT professionals are considering…
Hashtag Homework
The humble hashtag has a long and varied history. It’s technical term is ‘octothorpe’ and it can be traced back to ancient civilizations where it was used as a symbol for weight or measure while in the middle ages, it was used in music notation to indicate a sharp note. Recent Hashtag Updates In the…
What Are SPF, DKIM, And DMARC Records?
In this insight, we look at the popular email authentication protocols SPF, DKIM, and DMARC, how they work, why they’re important, and what happens if they’re not set up properly. What Is SPF? SPF, or Sender Policy Framework, is an email authentication protocol used to verify the sender of an email message. It is used…
Usage Based Pricing And Now Hybrid Pricing
Although Openview’s recent second report shows that most SaaS companies used usage-based pricing last year, many are now moving to hybrid models. What Is Usage Based Pricing? Usage-based pricing (UBP) is a pricing model where customers are charged based on how much they use a particular product or service. In the context of SaaS (Software…
2FA Storm At Twitter
Twitter-owner Elon Musk’s latest decision to turn off SMS 2FA after 20 March unless you pay for Blue Tick has caused another storm of criticism. What And Why? On 15 February, Twitter announced that: “starting today, we will no longer allow accounts to enroll in the text message/SMS method of 2-Factor Authentication unless they are Twitter…
Want Free Hot Water? Have A Server In Your House!
Green distributed computer network heating company Heata is offering to provide up to 4.8kWh of free hot water per day in exchange for installing a business cloud server in your home. Green Distributed Compute Network Heata, which began as an innovation project with British Gas, describes itself as “a ground-breaking green distributed compute network that uses the…
Local PR for MSPs
While many managed service providers focus on digital marketing tactics like social media and email campaigns, leveraging local news media through public relations (PR) can offer unique benefits and help MSPs build credibility in their communities. Here are some of the main benefits of using PR through local news media : Increased brand awareness: By…
Stopping SafeSearch From Being Too Safe
Following anecdotal reports that some users can’t turn off the strict SafeSearch settings when searching using Bing, we look at what SafeSearch is, and how to control it. What Is SafeSearch? SafeSearch is a setting in Microsoft’s Bing search engine that’s designed to filter out inappropriate web content. How? It works on the search terms…
Do Hackers Get Pensions & Sick Pay?
Kaspersky research has shown that hackers are now being recruited with dark web job ads offering huge salaries and benefits! What?! According to Kaspersky’s analysis of more than 200,000 employment ads posted on the dark web between January 2020 and June 2022, ‘employers’ have been seeking applications from the best hackers by offering favourable terms…
Google Bard’s $100 Billion Bungle
$100 billion/£82.7bn is reported to have been wiped off the value shares in Google’s parent company Alphabet following a rather public error made by Bard, Google’s new answer to ChatGPT. Bard Originally called ‘Apprentice Bard,’ Bard is Google’s conversational AI service which uses Language Model for Dialogue Applications (LaMDA), Google’s family of conversational neural language models.…
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