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  • Scams – Phishing E-mail

    Phishing is when a scammer uses fraudulent emails or texts, or copycat websites to get you to share valuable personal information – such as account numbers, Social Security numbers, or your login IDs and passwords. Scammers use your information to steal your money or your identity or both. Scammers also use phishing emails to get…

  • GDPR – 1 Week to go

    Following on from a couple of recent internal briefings on GDPR I jointly presented at Chiltern Business Connections, its good to see the ICO (https://ico.org.uk) are putting more focus on small and micro business and sole traders.  they have released an advisory document entitled “Getting ready for the new UK data protection law – Eight practical steps for…

  • GDPR – 1 Month to go !!

    General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) comes into force in just about one month… Are you Ready ?? Have you even started ?  Do you want some help ? Come and join my colleagues and myself at Chiltern Business Connections on Tuesday for a frank and open discussion about what you need to do with only…

  • Watch out ! Watch out ! Phishermen are about….still !

    Hi all, for those of you that don’t know, Phishing is a practice that potential scammers/fraudsters carry out to dupe you into giving out your bank/card details.  It’s been widely published and still it happens. Officially – “Phishing is the fraudulent practice of sending emails purporting to be from reputable companies in order to induce…

  • Security in 2017: Ransomware king | Malwarebytes Labs

    Source: Security in 2017: Ransomware king | Malwarebytes Labs 2016 was the year of ransomware, with hackers focusing their attention on exploiting Internet users and businesses around the world for profit. According to the FBI, cyberextortion losses have skyrocketed and ransomware was on track to become a $1 billion a year crime in 2016. Our…

  • 4 Simple Steps for Distribution Merchants to Kickstart their Online Adventure

    What is Lorem Ipsum? Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry’s standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but…

  • 3 Ways Your Fear of using Software is Crippling Your Business

    What is Lorem Ipsum? Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry’s standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but…

  • Inventory Headaches? 3 Ways to Relieve Your Pain

    What is Lorem Ipsum? Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry’s standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but…

  • Product First, Marketing Second

    What is Lorem Ipsum? Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry’s standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but…

  • 3 Ways to Juggle Both Online and Offline Sale in your Business

    What is Lorem Ipsum? Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry’s standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but…

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