Last week, I told you that the best defence against “ransomware” (a nasty type of computer virus or malware that stops you getting to your files) is to keep everything safely backed up. That way, if the files on your computer are blocked by ransomware, you haven’t lost them and you don’t need to pay… Read More »
It’s been a funny old summer, one way and another. But now the kids are off back to school (finally), the weather’s on the turn and the nights are getting cooler. So as we all start to settle down and try to get back to normal (whatever that means these days!), I thought this was… Read More »
I’ve just been catching up with the tech news, and came across something on the BBC that really made me chuckle. An internet security researcher from France has managed to give a cyber-crook a taste of his own medicine by emailing him a ransomware file. The trick went like this. This researcher’s parents were browsing… Read More »
If you’ve been reading emails from The Helpful Book Company for a while, now, you might have already heard of this website. I’m pretty sure Tim’s mentioned it before – but it was probably getting on for 10 years ago now! It’s called francisfrith.com I’m a bit of a sucker for old-fashioned things, and this… Read More »
After last week’s email, we’ve had lots of people get in touch asking to see a picture of little Doodle. Here he is (it’s quite tricky to get decent photos of him because he never stands still! But I’ll share a few more at the end of the email for the dog-lovers amongst you): I’ll… Read More »