Technology has become an almost indispensable part of modern society. We rely on it heavily for almost everything and may not necessarily notice the seemingly tailored experience that each service provides. For example, Youtube suggests videos based on the ones you’ve previously watched, Instagram suggests accounts to follow and posts to view based on your…
Email fraud is your business’s new headache. We now send over 205 billion emails every single day, and that figure is predicted to rise to 246 billion by the end of 2019. Emails are a key part of the communication networks within business allowing you to easily contact clients, prospects and even co-workers within a professional…
Once you download an app the company responsible can do pretty much whatever they like with the data you give them access to. You may have heard about the recent military heat map story, in which soldiers using a fitness app to monitor their progress were inadvertently providing the app producers with information about the…
As you will probably be well aware Malware and web-based cyber attacks have been constantly in the news recently, with big businesses and corporations having been affected. Malware and web-based cyber attacks are the most popular forms of online attack that are growing in their complexity and method of delivery. Malware includes viruses, worms, Trojans,…
Hewlett- Packard (HP) has announced a worldwide safety recall and replacement program for a battery used in more than 15 of their laptops. The batteries have the potential to overheat, creating a serious risk of fire and a burn hazard to any customers. For this reason, it is extremely important that you check whether your…
Google has released a fix for a bug which could temporarily shut down or cause disruption to home wi-fi networks due to an overload of data from Chromecast and Android devices. What is the issue? The problem arises when Chromecast and Google Home devices wake from a low power “sleep” state. A chromecast wi-fi disrupting…
A BYOD scheme can greatly benefit your business, increasing productivity and significantly reducing costs. However, there are some key things you will need to consider to ensure that your BYOD scheme doesn’t turn into a data security nightmare. What is BYOD? And how could it affect your business? As this video is only a brief…
It was recently revealed that nearly all computers, mobile phones, tablets etc. worldwide have been left vulnerable to hackers through security flaws stemming from central processing units, leaving billions of the world’s devices at risk. Central processing units are the chip or microchip contained within devices. The breach could allow privately stored data contained within…
There is a security hole caused by old user accounts that often gets left unnoticed that is easy to fix with a simple process. When a member of staff starts working at your company, there are often many things that need setting up such as Computer user account Email access VPN access Access to hosted…
Technology moves so fast that one day you are buying new hardware, and the next… you notice that things are running slowly, that they are buggy and all of a sudden your expectations of how it should operate aren’t met. Intalect can help you with the main aspects of getting your IT setup in shape to…