Happy New Year / New Website
Lakes Computer Consultants would like to wish you all a very Happy New Year. Our freshly designed website is now live, so feel free to have a look round. If we can be of help to you or your business…
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New Ransomware Attacks With JavaScript
A newly discovered ransomware does away with downloading a malicious file, carrying out the encryption itself A new form of ransomware has emerged that tries to evade detection by carrying out all its encryption using the JavaScript scripting language. This the…
New ransomware that knows where you live!
A new email phishing campaign has started sending thousands of ominous-looking emails that contain the recipient’s home address. The well-worded email appears to come from legitimate email addresses, and raises very few irregularities. The email comes with a demand for…
Avast SafeZone Flaws
Dangerous flaws have been discovered in the Avast SafeZone browser. The vulnerabilities allow attackers to retrieve information from the browser like it’s web history and passwords, but could also allow full read access to the entire file system. Avast has…
Superfast Broadband for Cumbria
Superfast, fibre broadband (FTTC) has been available for a while and most businesses who can get fibre have already taken advantage of the faster download and upload speeds it provides. But some businesses have felt a little left out because…
Should You Try An Online Backup Solution?
You have lots of options when it comes to backing up your data. Tape drives, NAS devices, USB drives and of course cloud-based backup. One of the most common questions we get asked about backing up is should we be using an…
Mobile Malware Attack!
Fake Amazon vouchers are being used to spread malware via Android mobiles. The attack sends an SMS message to all the contacts in a mobile phone offering a free Amazon voucher. If the recipient opens the message on an Android…
Should you be thinking of upgrading your Server?
In less than 6 months time Microsoft will officially end support for Microsoft Server 2003. This includes Server 2003, 2003R2 and SBS2003, thats more than 22 million installations according to Microsoft’s figures for last year! Businesses still running Server 2003…
Ransomware – Cryptowall 2.0 Help!
We’ve seen a few more cases of the Cryptowall 2.0 ransomware this week and thought it best to advise people on how to prevent and deal with ransomware if infected. Ransomware is a type of malware which restricts access to…
Nvidia Tegra X1 – Superchip-in-a-car!
Nvidia has developed a new Tegra X1 chip which they say will help achieve truly self-driving cars! The new chip which is designed to be used in cars (but will probably feature in mobile devices as well) has 256 graphics…