7 ways to improve your cybersecurity for 2022 Over the last year we have seen a massive increase in hacking attempts on micro, small and medium-sized businesses, and I’ve written quite a few blog posts about cybersecurity, many of which focus on social engineering. In this post, I will give seven tips on how you […]
How to avoid ransomware attacks: 10 tips Ransomware attacks – an especially sinister type of malware often delivered through spear-phishing emails that lock up valuable data assets and demand a ransom to release them – are a rapidly-growing security threat. We all remember what happened with the Wannacry attack on the NHS back in 2017. […]
mysqldump: unknown option ‘–no-beep’ Here’s a great gotcha! I’ve just upgraded my Windows test server to run MySQL Community edition 5.6.25 I have a script which runs daily to dump some of the database files from test website. The command used is MySQLDump and each dump is performed using a line of script something like […]
Single points of failure In any IT setup there are a number of potential “single points of failure”. By a single point of failure I mean if that one thing fails or goes wrong, everything stops working. In this article I’m going to look at several single points of failure and what you can do […]
Securing data on your PC This morning I spoke at a 4networking meeting in Leicester about securing data on your PC. This post expands on that a bit and includes links to relevant websites to flesh it out a bit. Over recent years we’ve heard of people (mostly government!) leaving laptops on trains, in taxis […]
Top Ten Reasons To Use Cloud Backup Ease of use – the simple set and forget features of the software mean that you simply choose what you want backed up and when. On demand or on a set schedule your data is automatically sent to our two data centres Cost – full data protection for […]
Backup Strategies Paul Taylor, in the Financial Times, 26th October 2007, stated “It’s never too early to call for back-up”, a sentiment that we, at Network Midlands, heartily support. If you are not protecting your business critical data in a timely and appropriate way, you are running the risk of losing your entire business should […]