Network/Internet I have had a few instances of clients being unable to connect to their wired/wireless network recently; and I know that Microsoft have had issues with wireless of late (which they are addressing); but I ...
It turns out that a couple of recent leading Netgear routers are at risk of being exploited due to a severe security flaw. Technical details here: https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/582384 The netgear models known to be aff...
As a result of the router hack attack targeting TalkTalk customers using certain routers and some PostOffice internet users too, it seems that a follow-up attack may have divulged your home wifi network name and password...
It’s often called the World Wide Web or internet, but in order to connect us all together the vast array of cables that carry our internet traffic has to go undersea to reach between islands and continents. And som...
In our post a few days ago we touched upon an internet outage at Deutsche Telecom (https://test.siliconbullet.com/another-day-another-security-risk-is-growing-is-your-router-at-risk/); well, now Talk-Talk and Post Office...
Dear Android phone user, hopefully you have played it safe and keep your phone up to date with updates, and installed apps from the curated Google App Store – “Play Store” – which should mean that...
Even iPhone 7 devices are said to be affected iPhone owners frustrated by random shut downs and battery status drops: http://www.v3.co.uk/v3-uk/news/2478753/draingate-causes-iphone-battery-woes-with-ios-1011-likely-cause...
Unfortunately many consumer oriented home user routers are designed and manufactured to a low price and that also means low margins, which means that often these cheap devices are not terribly well designed with security...
Keeping WSUS working well can be a bit be more involved than Microsoft would have you think. If you are finding you are getting “timeout” issues on your WSUS cleanup wizard, then you may need to resort to som...
Another day, another security flaw; we all have to be vigilant and suspicious. http://www.computing.co.uk/ctg/news/2478088/locky-ransomware-being-spread-via-facebook-messenger