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Excel percentage formulas: Percentage of total, percent increase or decrease, VAT and more
If your a Small Business owner your most have experienced a problem with what should be simple Excel formulas and struggled for ages trying to get them correct. PC World have put together a great article that can help you. Click here to view the article.
Four of Chrome’s most popular extensions found to be malicious
Four of Google Chrome's most popular extensions, which have amassed more than 500,000 downloads in total, are thought to be malicious. According to ArsTechnica, Google has since banned the extensions from the Chrome Web Store, but they reveal weaknesses in what many...
Apple Mac Operating System DNS Hijack Malware
Apple’s macOS is reportedly the target of a new DNS hijacking exploit. The malware is being likened to the DNSChange trojan that affected over four million computers in 2011… This sort of malware works by changing DNS server settings on affected computers, thus...
BT introduces Ultrafast Fibre 2 offering home broadband speeds of up to 314Mbps
BT's consumer division has today announced new fibre-to-the-cabinet broadband packages that will boost the bandwidth available to customers from a current maximum - from the BT network - of 78 megabits per second (Mbps) to 314Mbps. The packages, dubbed Ultrafast Fibre...
Ransomware Tactics
Ransomware has been getting a lot of press lately, and understandably so. In recent months, there has been a tidal wave of ransomware attacks targeting numerous well-known businesses, and the threat is expected to continue to wreak havoc across the world in the...
WhatsApp attackers can secretly add new members to group chats
A flaw in WhatsApp's group messaging protocol means that, despite its vaunted end-to-end (E2E) encryption, messages can still be read by unwanted eyes, researchers from Germany's Ruhr University Bochum have found. Encryption has always been one of the more difficult...
Dropbox are going public
The file-storage company filed papers confidentially to go public, a source close to the company said, for a much-delayed and much-anticipated IPO later this year. The listing, first reported by Bloomberg, will test Dropbox’s most recent valuation, $10 billion, which...
Another password flaw has been discovered in Apple’s MacOS
Cementing January as the worst month of the year, at least for Apple, another bug has been uncovered in MacOS High Sierra. Although not particularly serious, it does reflect badly on the world's most successful company. Eric Holtam, a Mac developer, posted the bug to...
Microsoft To Bring Encrypted Conversations to Skype
Security is a big concern for many users and while most typically think of that as meaning you protect your PC from malware, there are also easy ways to protect your conversations as well. Skype is now testing out a new feature called Private Conversations that...
WiFi Alliance says new WPA3 wireless standard will focus on security
The WiFi Alliance has announced the new wireless standard, WPA3, at CES in Las Vegas. The new family of WiFi security technologies comes shortly after WPA2, which every wireless device in the world today uses, was found to be vulnerable to the KRACK exploit. WPA3 will...