A very substantial proportion of websites are based on PHP (Pre-processed Hypertext Protocol), so it's always important to stand-up and take notice when a critical PHP issue is patched.

Today is one of those days, with a second update issued to fix a criticial remote execution vulnerability. The vulnerability means that an attacker could potentially run unauthorised code on your server, something nobody wants! Attacks have already been detected in the wild by various honeypot services, so it's absolutely critical that everyone updates as soon as possible.

All Virya Technologies customers are advised to check which version of PHP they are currently running and to update where necessary, the latest versions  are 5.4.36 or 5.3.13. All earlier versions must be considered vulnerable.

The mobile world now plays a far greater part in our lives than ever before. Businesses are becoming reliant on the ability to access and process data wherever they are, and smartphones are one massive driving force behind this evolution of business practices.

However, with portability comes risk. If you can access your data from anywhere, it raises the potential that someone else can. We all take steps to mitigate this risk, such as using strong passwords and limiting access to specific devices. Unfortunately, the result of using strong passwords is that users begin to rely on the 'remember password' functionality of their device. All well and good until the device goes missing.

In this post, we'll be looking at a free piece of software that you can install on Android Devices (Such as the Samsung Galaxy range, the HTC One range and many other phones and tablets) in order to regain control should a device with access to business data be lost/stolen.

Similar solutions are also available for users of iPhones and iPads, but we've not tested those!

Google's search engine is a fantastic tool, and there still seem to be no effective competitors. Unfortunately, however, Google have been making quite a few changes which have hugely affected the relevance of results, and often leads to needing to enter a second search.

This post details some of the tips users can use to try and reduce this, including minor changes you can make to Chrome/Chromium and Firefox to allow searching through the inbuilt search bars to be less irritating!

A computer worm is a computer program which self-replicates using a network or internet connection to send copies of itself to other computers, without any user intevention.  It does not need to attach itself to an existing program - as a virus does - and hence can, and does, cause havok on networks by using massive amounts of bandwidth rather than actually damaging files.

Most macro viruses are written in languages used by Microsoft Office applications, such as Word and Excel.  These viruses are spread inside infected documents, and could also spread onto Macintosh computers as there are some versions of Microsoft Office for Mac OS.  These viruses don't tend to spread by sending out infected emails, however a small number do.