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UK Registered .EU domain names to be Deregistered

UK Registered .EU domain names to be Deregistered

22 October, 2019
UPDATE: As of the 23rd October 2019, the plan by EURid has been put on hold due to recent developments.
WordPress Flaw found in Social Media plugin

WordPress Flaw found in Social Media plugin

15 February, 2019
  URGENT – If you use the plugin ‘Simple Social Buttons’ in your WordPress installation, you should immediately update it to the latest version as there has been a serious flaw found in it that could allow an attacker to…

Your email account has been hacked, emails

8 November, 2018
Many of our users have seen this type of email in their spam filters, most don’t actually get through to your account, although the odd one might. That is all the spammers, who are usually organised crime syndicates, need and…

New Spoof RansomWare

27 September, 2018
New Malware has been found that is cross platform, so it works on Windows, Apple and Linux systems. It can also get in to web servers and deletes any MySQL, Mongo, Maria and Couch databases it can find causing websites…

Google Forces Sites to use SSL Certificates

6 June, 2018
***Notice to all Website owners*** That’s right, as of July 2018 Google Chrome will start reporting non-SSL sites (that is sites that don’t use https:// for access) as insecure. This is a major change from the current norm which is…

Update to the new Ransomware

11 December, 2013
For the original post see: https://www.cc-computers.com/ransomware-takes-hold/ In the original post I talked about the new ransomware that it taking hold all over the world. It has even hit a police station in America that had to pay the “fee” to…

New ransomware takes hold

25 October, 2013
New ransomware has been taking hold of businesses and households around the world. Be very careful with the email attachments that you open, although this is probably only the first wave; they will find other ways to get to you.…

A New Domain Name Scam

10 August, 2013
Domain names are big business, well if you hold a lot of them or the right ones they can be. We charge £2.99/year (plus VAT) for a co.uk domain name. I have seen people or companies that charge over £50/year…

Domain Name Owners Beware!

4 August, 2013
It is your Domain Name! Everyone who owns a domain name (which is just about everyone today), needs to be aware of how the domain names work, and not in a technical way. That is to say that there are…

About Mat Honan’s Epic Hacking

27 August, 2012
I am sure that you have all heard about Mat Honan’s very bad weekend by now, But just in-case you have not, here is an overview of what happened. There is a very good podcast that you can listen to…

Mac Virus infects more than half a million Macs

18 April, 2012
As most of you already know, Macs are not impervious to virus’s. The latest one which is spreading like wild fire is the one know as FlashBack or FlashFake. It is very cleaver, for a virus, employing tactics already tried…

New PayPal Phishing Emails

24 March, 2012
I recently received an email from PayPal that said that I had just completed a payment to someone I had never heard of for an amount that gave me the shivers (some 2 or 3 hundred dollars). I did not…

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Fraudulent Phone Calls

CritchCorp . 16 December, 2011
I have previously written in an email about this issue but it is still going on all round the world…

Stories of woe from the Fraudulent phone calls

CritchCorp . 23 December, 2011
There are many cases on the Internet about the problem with fraudulent phone calls from people pretending to be from…

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