Cybercriminals taking advantage of a ‘malvertising’ attack on big name sites including Yahoo, Match.com and AOL were making in the region of $25,000 per day through ransomware, according to Forbes.

ComputerWorld reckons at least three million people will have been exposed to the campaign that was first spotted on 18 September. IBTimes reports that the fake ads used images and copy lifted from brands including Bing, Fancy and Case Logic to hide in plain sight.

To read more, click this link: http://www.welivesecurity.com/2014/10/23/yahoo-match-aol-hit-ransomware/

Microsoft is ditching the Nokia brand name from new devices, less than a year after acquiring the Finnish mobile firm.
New Nokia Lumia smartphones will instead by known as Microsoft Lumia, the company said.
Nokia’s non-mobile division, which is not owned by Microsoft, will continue to use the name.
The announcement comes despite Microsoft agreeing to a 10-year deal to use the Nokia name on mobile products.
Microsoft is currently having a big shake-up. In July, chief executive Satya Nadella announced the cutting of 18,000 jobs. The bulk of the cuts, around 12,500, will be from staff taken on after the Nokia acquisition.

Please be very careful, a Peter Pan pantomime in Bournemouth is being used as a front for a dangerous cyber attack from Eastern Europe which is ‘undetectable’ by anti-virus software.

When the attachment is opened, a virus is installed onto the recipient’s computer capable of stealing information such as passwords and sensitive personal information.

To read more about this virus please see this link: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2749108/Undetectable-Peter-Pan-virus-hits-thousands-Malware-disguised-pantomine-tickets-steal-passwords.html#ixzz3CpwuxADE

Here are 10 very interesting facts regarding social media which you may not have known!

1. The fastest growing demographic on Twitter is between 55-64 years old.
2. YouTube reaches more u.s. adults aged 18-35 than any cable network.
3. 189 million Facebook’s users are on mobile only.
4. Social Media has overtaken porn as the number 1 activity on the web.
5. Every second two new members join LinkedIn
6. 25% of smartphone owners ages 18-44 say they can’t recall the last time their smartphone was not next to them.
7. 93% of marketers use social media for business
8. Even though 62% of marketers blog or planned to blog in 2013, only 9% of U.S. marketing companies employ a full-time blogger.
9. LinkedIn has a lower percentage of active users than Pinterest, Google+, Twitter and Facebook.
10. 25% of Facebook users don’t use privacy settings.

Our dedicated disk cloning machine at work, deploying disk images for the Centre upgrade for The Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust.

We used a LiveCD Debian environment via CloneZilla.

We are pleased to announce the fully integrated small office setup at Metrostarmedia, including discreetly hidden cabling via trunking and ports/sockets. We successfully installed secure branded Wi-Fi along with everything needed for the desktop.

We hope they will be very happy with their new fibre optic internet connection and networked multi-function printer scanner too.

See our Newsletter here for advice on which passwords to change following this week’s announcement of the Heartbleed bug.

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The Advertising Creative Circle Awards and Ball 2014 took place on 13th March, at the Roundhouse. Steve and Mal were in attendance for the wonderful night.

DirectionForward help the Circle with their website, online presence, e-newsletters and marketing throughout the year. We also curate the database on the HTML5 website which presents all shortlisted entries to the Awards, showcasing searchable images, radio clips and videos.

The results for the 2014 Awards will be live at creativecircle.co.uk on Monday.

We are enjoying working hard at the Stephen Lawrence Centre to continue upgrading their existing hardware with the latest software.

Successfully we have upgraded 41 PCs from 1GB to 8GB of RAM for only circa £100 per machine, and are now ready to upgrade all their systems to the 64bit Windows Operating Systems.