How to spot spam, phishing & malicious emails
Recently we have seen a large amount of malicious emails, in which the sender claims…
Spam/Spoofed Emails
Recently we have seen a large amount of malicious emails, in which the sender claims to have hacked your email account and placed malicious software on your PC to steal your personal information. These emails can be fairly convincing, often containing an old password of yours that has been compromised in a data-breach and will…
Phishing
Online Security – Take Action Now! We would like to reiterate that all users must be very careful when clicking any form of link be it a link to an unknown website or an attachment embedded within an email. If the sender is unknown or you feel that the email is not actually from the…
How to spot spam, phishing & malicious emails
Recently we have seen a large amount of malicious emails, in which the sender claims to have hacked your email account and placed malicious software on your PC to steal…
Isn’t it time you made a change?
Does the thought of contacting your IT support provider fill you with dread? • Can you count on your IT support company as a professional member of your staff? •…
Are you ready for GDPR?
What is GDPR? General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR, will overhaul how businesses process and handle data. This regulation is the biggest change in two decades and will come into…
SECURITY
Windows 7 End of Life
Windows 7 End of Life is rapidly approaching! Microsoft have announced the official end of life date for Windows 7: January 14th 2020. This means Microsoft will no longer provide…
Ransomware and Encryption Viruses
We would like to reiterate that all users must be very careful when clicking any form of link be it a link to an unknown website or an attachment embedded…
Director Fraud and Online Security
Online Security – Take Action Now! We would like to reiterate that all users must be very careful when clicking any form of link be it a link to an…
How to spot spam, phishing & malicious emails
Recently we have seen a large amount of malicious emails, in which the sender claims to have hacked your email account and placed malicious software on your PC to steal…
Spam/Spoofed Emails
Recently we have seen a large amount of malicious emails, in which the sender claims to have hacked your email account and placed malicious software on your PC to steal…
Phishing
Online Security – Take Action Now! We would like to reiterate that all users must be very careful when clicking any form of link be it a link to an…
Isn’t it time you made a change?
Does the thought of contacting your IT support provider fill you with dread? • Can you count on your IT support company as a professional member of your staff? •…
Windows 7 End of Life
Windows 7 End of Life is rapidly approaching! Microsoft have announced the official end of life date for Windows 7: January 14th 2020. This means Microsoft will no longer provide…
Ransomware and Encryption Viruses
We would like to reiterate that all users must be very careful when clicking any form of link be it a link to an unknown website or an attachment embedded…
Director Fraud and Online Security
Online Security – Take Action Now! We would like to reiterate that all users must be very careful when clicking any form of link be it a link to an…
Password Security
Password Security – Take action now! You may have noticed some discussion in the news recently that several MPs have been sharing their login details with their staff as a…
Are you ready for GDPR?
What is GDPR? General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR, will overhaul how businesses process and handle data. This regulation is the biggest change in two decades and will come into…
An Increase In Cyber Threats
With cyber-attacks and computer security being heavily publicised throughout the media as of late, we would take this opportunity to drive home the importance of making sure your systems are…
Outsourced IT Support
Outsourced IT Support IT is now an integral part of any business and a partnership with Cortec provides many advantages for any business. A large proportion of our IT Support…
What Cortec understands about customer satisfaction
Customer satisfaction is a key differentiator in a sea of other IT companies. There is a lot of technical ability out there, not all of it very good at understanding…
The four signs that it’s time to change your IT support company
1. You only talk when something’s wrong A good IT support firm will perform preventative maintenance to reduce the chance of things breaking in the first place. In short, your…
Replace text in PDF files
Want to find and replace text in a PDF file? here is a handy website to allow you to do just that. Edit your PDF files here: http://pdffindandreplace.com/
Bluescreen and Minidump Code Analysis
Driver errors can cause Windows to crash or hang. Fortunately, there are multiple ways OSR can help you determine what’s wrong! Perhaps you have a crash or hang that you’ve tried to…
Surface Pro 3 update has so much new stuff for sysadmins, we can't fit it all in one headline
Microsoft has released a significant new firmware update for Surface Pro 3 fondleslabs, the second to arrive this month. As explained in a blog post by Redmond’s JC Hornbeck, the latest update…
10 Things You Can Do in Android 5.1 That You Couldn't Before
Android 5.1 isn’t one of those massive life-changing releases that’ll have you tapping the ‘look for updates’ button frenetically for days on end; but nor is it one of those…
Hawk like an Egyptian: Google is HOPPING MAD over fake SSL certs
Updated Google says security biz MCS Holdings has created unauthorized SSL certificates for some Google-owned websites. Anyone with these dodgy certificates could, in theory, set up a web server that masquerades…
Google will finally improve Chrome scrolling using a Microsoft invention
Google is finally adopting a standard that supports both mouse and touch navigation for its Chrome browser. If you’ve used a copy of Chrome on a Windows tablet recently then you’ll probably…
DFS Shares
If you have permission problems with DFS shares: Read only is the default configuration of a DFS share namespace. So, when setting up a namespace you have to MANUALLY configure…
Transferring FSMO Roles
To check which server currently holds the FSMO, from the command prompt run Netdom Query FSMO To transfer the FSMO roles: Transferring the Domain-Specific Roles: RID, PDC, and Infrastructure Master…