Entries by digitalpathway

The Impact of Hacking on TalkTalk

When a cyber-attack hits a major, national company, the affect it has is obviously widespread. TalkTalk are one of the more recent cases were a data leak has created scandal in the media and, more importantly, severely impacted on people’s lives. The attack is likely to cost the company up to £35million, with 157,000 customer’s […]

The Professional Risks of Webcams

Whether it is the risk of using a webcam in a personal capacity, or the potential business repercussions, it is vital that people begin to realise the dangers involved with built-in camera devices. We looked at certain aspects of this in our previous post, Protection from Webcam Hackers, where stories of couples getting caught out […]

Protecting your bank accounts from cyber-attack

The way in which criminals steal money from banks has evolved. Whereas once upon a time you were required to wear tights on your head and have a sawn-off shotgun in hand, in the digital age it takes nothing more than a virus to access and ‘lift’ nearly £20 million. Earlier this month that was […]

Securing a Corporate Laptop for a Home Network

The business world is embracing and adapting to the possibilities of mobile working at an alarming rate. Thanks in equal parts to the ingenuity of cloud storage and the growing power of laptops and tablets, the ability to take a corporate device home is opening up a world of opportunity to employees, especially when you […]

Voice Over IP Insecurity

The use of Voice Over IP (also known as IP telephony, or VoIP) has brought huge benefits to businesses, as well as potentially harmful implications. The financial and productivity benefits of VoIP technology have been drawing companies in for many years. It is a cost-effective method of communication, as well as efficient, with forwarding, remote […]

Cybercrime Affects The Whole Business

Growing levels of cybercrime are not only the IT department’s responsibility says Colin Tankard. It may be that your organisation has not yet suffered a cyber attack. This may be down to good luck or simply that no-one has noticed yet that confidential data is being sucked out of the company.

The Value of a Managed Encryption Service

People often talk about the efficiency of the cloud. It is the way it enables users to access their documents across continents on portable devices and share seamlessly with friends and work colleagues. The use of cloud storage is growing in popularity day by day, as businesses begin to realise this value. Other managed security […]

Winner of the Innovation Award 2015

Digital Pathways are proud to announce that we have won the Business Innovation Award at the recent Heart 4 Harlow Business & Community Awards in partnership with the Harlow & District Chamber of Commerce on Thursday 8th October at the Manor Groves Hotel. Our presentation in September to the judges showed how we had identified […]

The security dangers of home networks

Computer Weekly Most companies take reasonable steps to protect their networks from virus attacks, but one area of vulnerability that is often overlooked is infection from employees’ home networks The risk of malware infection from employees’ home networks is real and should not be overlooked. This is illustrated by the example of a small company […]