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If you work with the public sector, bid for government contracts, or simply want to show clients that you take cyber security seriously, Cyber Essentials is probably something you have heard mentioned, but may not have looked at properly.
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PHP2SHELL: Urgent PHP Vulnerabilities Put Millions of Websites at Risk
The PHP community has issued an emergency security update after details emerged of two critical vulnerabilities that could allowattackers to execute malicious code on vulnerable
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The UK’s phone network changed in December 2025
In December 2025, BT and the major UK telecoms providers completed the PSTN switch-off.
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The UK’s copper telephone network will permanently shut down on 31 January 2027. Openreach – the company that owns and operates most of Britain’s telephone infrastructure – has confirmed that there will be no further extension to the deadline.
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In May 2026, the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) – the UK government’s official cyber security agency – issued guidance warning organisations across the UK to prepare for what it called a “vulnerability patch wave.”
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If your office uses PaperCut NG or PaperCut MF to manage printing, you need to know about two critical security flaws that are currently being used in real attacks.
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A vulnerability in Microsoft SharePoint Server that was patched in July has come under active attack following the public release of working exploit code.
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Most IT support providers are set up to handle business IT: laptops, Microsoft 365, email, and office networks. That is a perfectly good foundation – but for a manufacturing business, it rarely tells the whole story.
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Most small and mid-sized businesses in the UK do not have a formal IT budget. Technology spending tends to happen reactively – a laptop breaks, a subscription renews, something stops working and needs replacing urgently.
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You have probably seen “ISO 27001 certified” on an IT company’s website or in a supplier questionnaire. But what does it actually mean, and why does it matter who has it and who does not?
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Here is something that catches a lot of businesses off guard: Microsoft does not automatically back up your Microsoft 365 data. Not your emails. Not your files on SharePoint or OneDrive. Not your Teams messages or channels.
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The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has published fresh guidance urging organisations to configure BitLocker with a pre-boot PIN on all Windows devices.
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ASOS Cyberattack: A Warning for Every Business
What the incident tells us about modern cyber risk, and how System Force IT helps businesses stay protected.
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Yesterday I had the privilege of joining fellow judges at Hotel Indigo Gloucester’s Crimson Spire rooftop event space for the official Judges Panel Meeting, the moment where we came together to decidethe finalists for the Gloucestershire Business
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It has been a busy week on the System Force blog – from a record-breaking Microsoft security update to AI-powered scams that are getting alarmingly convincing. Here is a quick catch-up on everything we published this week.
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There is a version of IT support that most small businesses start with: someone in the team who “knows about computers,” a friend who fixes things when they break, or a pay-per-visit technician on speed dial. It works – until it does not.
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