Welcome to the April 2023 edition of our Technology Insider newsletter. Smartphones have taken over from laptops as most people’s preferred portable work tool. But that creates a new set of security risks to be aware of. We have the latest advice. What’s all the fuss...
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A third of employees want an Apple product from you
Hello and welcome to the April 2022 edition of our Technology Insider newsletter.
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Alert: A clever new type of ransomware attack
Subject line: A web form was submitted
Hi Name,
If you have a contact form on your business’s website, you’ll be used to getting emails with a subject line like that.
And while some of them might be a waste of your time, have you ever considered that not all requests for your product or service are genuine?
There’s a new technique that cyber criminals are employing to launch ransomware attacks. And you need to be aware of it.
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