Category: IT Support

Providing IT support and solution to small and medium businesses. Servicing Edinburgh, Livingston, Fife and surrounding areas. Responsive, Flexible, Professional and friendly local support.

How Hackers Used Smart Household Devices To Launch A Massive Online Attack

In a worrying change of tactics, hackers have used the ‘Internet of Things’ (IoT) to launch an online distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on the DNS service ‘Dyn’ with global consequences. Domestic ‘Smart’ Household Devices Used. Although DDoS attacks using botnets are certainly not uncommon, the fact that this latest attack used smart household…
Read more

TechTip: Windows 10 How-To Start Menu Tips and Tricks

A short video tutorial from Microsoft explaining how you can can get more from the start menu.

Tech Tip – Make Web Reading Easier

If you’re tired, using a small monitor to read content (e.g. a laptop) or trying to see the small print displayed in a tiny font that makes your eyes water, then you can make the display larger and smaller in most browsers very easily. Let’s borrow some advice from our friends in the world of…
Read more

Tech Tip – Find Files That Take Up Too Much Space.

If you have files on your computer that are taking up too much space it can have a negative impact on the speed and performance of your computer. Some measures you can take include: • Storing space gobbling things like music files on an external drive. • Carefully deleting old programs that you never use…
Read more