Monthly Archives: March 2020

Scams In The Time of Coronavirus

Posted on 2020-03-26 by mike

(with apologies to Gabriel García Márquez) As expected, scammers are trying to take advantage of fears over Covid-19 (the Coronavirus) to push their victims into unwise actions – often for profit. I have already seen two scams announcing UK government … Continue reading →

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Working From Home

Posted on 2020-03-13 by mike

For some reason there seems to be a bit of an increase in interest in working from home and so it seems rather timely to produce some advice. Not so much the technical side of things, but general advice from … Continue reading →

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Let’s Encrypt Certificates – Are They Broken?

Posted on 2020-03-04 by mike

Short answer: No. There is a news story going around about an issue with certificates issued by Let’s Encrypt. The certificates themselves are in fact perfectly fine, but they were issued when they should not have been. If the owners … Continue reading →

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