IT N EWS ▪As of today, 1 st April: ▪Support (i.e. updates & security fixes) has terminated for Google Chrome browser on: ▪Windows XP, Windows Vista, & Mac OS X 10.6, 10.7, and 10.8 ​, but it "will continue to function ​ ". See ▪Internet Explorer v.9 (IE9) & Firefox continue to be supported on Windows Vista

IT N EWS Don't run un-patched Internet Explorer if you want to stay virus-free ▪Security education outfit EC-Council dishes out ransomware online ▪“… the website of the EC-Council, the organisation responsible for the Ethical Hacker certification, … was serving the world's most highly-capable and dangerous exploit kit … to users of Internet Explorer. ▪“Checks by this writer appear to show it is still serving the exploit at the time of publication. ▪“[The expert who discovered this] says he informed the EC-Council and claims it "didn't seem to care".

People are being urged to "Protect Your Privates" as part of campaign to crackdown on cybercrime.

IT N EWS Do you check your spam? “Several times lately I and others have found (belatedly) s in our spam folders that shouldn’t have been there. “That doesn’t sound so bad does it? I mean the spam folder does also contain all of the spam that we do not want to see and surely all we need to do is check it? Right? “Well not quite. The problem does appear to be getting worse … Can we rely on anymore? “If you … download your … it only downloads the messages in your inbox and nothing else. You may find there is a junk folder on the server which you will never see unless you log in using a browser. … Some mail servers may even delete an without sending it, if it scores highly enough and is deemed to be spam. “The answer of course is to check your spam folder as often as you think sensible, which may be multiple times per day if you receive a lot of .” *** Remain vigilant ***