We’re going to be taking a look at apps what we now commonly known as apps.
I’ve got some equally weird useless and funny websites as well so there’s some of them are apps just on your phone and some of them are websites.
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Why Do Hackers Attack My Website?
One of the biggest questions I get from a small business with a small website is – “I don’t really need security for my website because there’s nothing worth, you know, sort of pinching if you like or taking from my website” – that’s really a bit of flawed thinking.
So why do hackers attack websites in the first place?
Automate Your Life
There are a lot of automation tools out now. And these are just two of the more popular so the IFTTT, which stands for. If This Then That, that’s more for home automating stuff in your home, whereas the second one I’m going to talk about is called Zapier. That’s more for automating businesses.
COVID-19 Small Business Adaptation Grant
Talking today about the Small Business COVID-19 Adaption Grant – still 25 million dollars available for eligible businesses
Spear-phishing, Phishing, Pharming, Vishing, and Smishing
We’re going to be talking about phishing pharming vishing smishing and spear-phishing with a ph. So, we’re not talking about spear-fishing in the ocean.
Zoom storage and transcription
Zoom has really increased the number of settings that are available to you.
And they’ve also put a lot of these settings on sort of a higher security default.
So it’s worth going into your zoom, when you enter your web zoom page, where you first sign in and just going through all the settings.
Zoom Settings
Zoom has really increased the number of settings that are available to you.
And they’ve also put a lot of these settings on sort of a higher security default.
So it’s worth going into your zoom, when you enter your web zoom page, where you first sign in and just going through all the settings.
Zoom – what the others are doing to catch up
Last week we spoke about, zoom and the popularity of video conferencing that seemed to take off with the enforced hibernation that we’ve got from COVID-19. But that’s not the only one on the market, I think Zoom’s got a head start on everyone else, everyone else playing catch up, are they.
But, Microsoft and Google are busy playing catch up because they realised there’s a huge market for this now it’s probably not going to diminish greatly. When we all get back to what we call normal life.
Zoom Extras
Today we’re going to be talking about Zoom extras. SeamusWhat I am going to talk about today is the other programmes and software and apps that work with Zoom to make things just more efficient and I think one of the things that’s happened is, we’re probably not going to go back totally to the […]
Zoom Security Issues
Today we’re going to be talking about Zoom and security issues.
“I think a lot of the time thing it’s the security issues that people are worried about, whether it’s rumour or fact, what are the facts?”
COVID-19 Community Groups
Mark
We touched very briefly the other week – about these community groups. Facebook hubs and everything else like that to assist – do you want to talk a bit more about that.
Speedify and COVID-19 Facebook Groups
How to increase your internet speed if you’ve got a slow line.
There’s a little product called Speedify which combines two internet connections and uses them both at the same time.
Coronavirus Google and Microsoft
I’m going to talk about what’s happening with the Coronavirus, one of the many things that have happened is that, for instance, the World Health Organisation has recommended that people travel less for the next few months just to try and slow down the spread of the Coronavirus. And the big companies are cancelling their physical conferences and things like that. But how it affects local businesses and councils and organisations here is that the two major companies, Google and Microsoft are offering free versions of their enterprise-level, video conferencing software, which is an amazing offer.
Voice Recognition Software
Transcription of Black Star Radio talk Friday 21st Feb 2020 Seamus Morning Mark, morning listeners. Mark We’re going to talk about voice transcription software and voice typing. So this is where you don’t have to touch your keyboard – it does it for you and you just talk to it Seamus Yes, that’s right. And […]
Data breaches – protect your digital self
Data breaches happen eg Microsoft accidentally exposed 250 million customer support records a week or so ago, and early last year Facebook’s data breach exposed more than 540 million records Sometimes this happens because of the big companies carelessness. Other times it’s really complicated – hackers that constantly trying to find new ways to get […]
Spear Phishing and Phishing
Hi. Today we’re going to talk about spear phishing. Now I’m not talking about diving underwater and trying to catch fish with a spear. I’m talking about spear phishing spelt with a P-H, so P-H-I-S-H-I-N-G. Spear-phishing spelt that way is an email-based scam targeted towards a specific individual or organization. Microsoft report that spear-phishing attacks […]
VPN – what it is and why you should have one
I think most of us have heard of the term VPN and often we don’t really know what it is, or we’ve got a bit of a wrong idea about what it can do. What it actually stands for is, Virtual Private Network and what it does is, it encrypts your data going from your computer to a website.
Your Data: Where should you keep it?
You should keep ALL your data in the cloud! I repeat, put your data in cloud storage – very important. Why? One very good reason is that’s it’s safe there. If you lose laptops and external hard drives, or they get stolen or break down, they can be replaced (bloody annoying but not catastrophic); if […]
Google Drive or Dropbox
Where to store your files in the cloud? The 2 big boys are Google Drive and Dropbox; there are others, of course, but we’ll just look at these two today. The best solution is to use both, but you need to know the strengths of each, so you can decide what to store where. They […]
Video and screen-sharing software
Making video calls and sharing screens is extremely handy. Luckily there are plenty of apps that can do that for you. The original software was Skype, but that has been overtaken by other better software. The best known is Zoom: Free version available 40 mins group calls with free version unlimited calls with free version can […]
