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Malware attack infects PC's globally You have probably heard on the news that millions of computers around the world have been infected with a piece of ransomware, have you checked if your home and business PC's are protected?

"Man accidentally 'deletes his entire company' with one line of bad code" OK, It's going to turn into one of those urban myths that unsuspecting journalists or well-meaning facebook friends post from time to time, but behind the PR there is a serious note or warning. [ The Story , The Truth ]

UK Cybercrime is increasing  A recent report on Internet Security and cybercrime has shown that UK users are among the most targeted in the world, with both home users and businesses being attacked daily, and over half a billion personal records stolen in 2015.

Cybercrime is becoming big business  The total number of individuals in the UK who have been the target of cybercrime leapt in 2015, with nearly 44% of consumers in the UK who have now reported cybercrime. 2015 was responsible for 22% of those, with the average cost to the user at £1300. Of those who reported cybercrime, shockingly nearly half said they had not taken additional precautions while on the internet, such as changing passwords.

The telephone provider Talk Talk has become the victim of a criminal cyber-attack. While Talk Talk are still assessing what data was accessed during the attack, there are a number of steps you can take if you are a Talk Talk customer.

Several new exploits have been identified recently that are designed to attach your home or business router from inside, and install code to allow hackers a backdoor to your network and your data. The exploits are designed to get into a network either by infecting devices that go outside of your firewall, such as mobiles, tablets and laptops, or by tricking the user into downloading a malicious file. Once inside the network, the malware gets to work on your firewall, attempting to inject code into the firewall that will allow external code to be added to innocent web pages. So you might be viewing the BBC site for example, and the code adds advertising and other unwanted scripts to the page as it passes through your firewall, meaning the page you see if very different from the one served up by the BBC servers.