Google outage, Lloyds outage, who’s next?
Last Friday night Google's Gmail service suffered an outage. On Sunday Lloyds Bank's system crashed and people were left unable to use…
Sophos vulnerability? Not for Riverbank clients.
Yesterday Sophos sent out a warning that, in certain configurations, its anti-virus software could be vulnerable to an attack. We have checked our installations…
You need to know about Cryptolocker spam
You need to be aware of an unpleasant piece of spam ransomware called Cryptolocker. It has been around for the last few…
BlackBerry still has life in it
It's clearly too soon to write off BlackBerry. Today it announced that its major shareholder is investing more cash in the business and there…
Beware the 8 April
On 8 April next year Microsoft ends support of Windows XP and Office 2003. If you have any PCs running XP or…
IT engineer steals £1.3m from Barclays – a lesson for us all?
The news last week of a £1.3m theft from Barclays via a bogus computer engineer really is a lesson for all of us.…
E-mail attachments open in Protected View
Do you find it tedious that Word documents sent as e-mail attachments always open in Protected View in Word? Every time you open…
Microsoft Office Mobile for Office 365 now available
Microsoft has at last released a UK version of Office Mobile for Windows phone, iPhone and iPad, and for Android. But it might…
Windows 7 or Windows 8?
At Riverbank we aren't really selling Windows 8. By and large, our clients are sticking with Windows 7 because it's a proven operating…
BioTrinity 2013
Riverbank is exhibiting at BioTrinity 2013, meeting clients and prospective clients working in bioscience. If you are at BioTrinity this year, do call…
Apple in trouble? Hardly…
Yesterday Apple announced its results for the last quarter, amid speculation that sales were falling because of increased competition from Android phones…
Microsoft rolls out new version of Office 365
March saw the start of the roll-out of a new, and quite different, verison of Office 365. Major changes include an upgrade…