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Ben Tasker
Ben is a Network Security and Linux specialist with experience on a wide range of Unix based Operating Systems, as well as a serious amount of experience with the Microsoft Windows Operating Systems. Ben is also an amateur photographer and enjoys writing articles on technical subjects.
Recent Posts
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It's Update Time Again
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 potential ...09 May -
Protecting against data loss with Android devices
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 rais ...02 May -
Suffolk Business Exhibition 2012
Early yesterday morning, the Virya Technologies team left our office at Basepoint to go and setup Stands 8 & 9 ready for ISSBA's Suffolk Business Exhibition 2012. By the time Chris and Ruth arrived at the Office, I had already set the coffee machine brewing in order to provide the caffeine dependant amongst us with a much needed early-morning kicks ...26 Apr -
Updating from PHP 5.1/5.2 to PHP 5.3 on CentOS Servers
Joomla! 1.6 requires PHP 5.3 or later to be installed. When requesting a new server, this is far less of a problem as many will be provisioned with PHP 5.3 already installed. What should you do, however, if you are running a version of CentOS prior to 5.6 you will need to manually update PHP before Joomla 1.6 will install. In fact, even with Jooml ...06 Feb -
Making Google Search Results a little less annoying
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, inclu ...28 Oct -
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Ruth Cheesley
I am the owner and Director of Virya Technologies, with the responsibility for leading the website design team.
I am primarily involved with the day to day management of our website projects, ongoing support contracts and liaising with our clients from across the world.
I am primarily involved with the day to day management of our website projects, ongoing support contracts and liaising with our clients from across the world.
Recent Posts
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Parallels Plesk vulnerability in the wild - affects versions 7.6.1 – 10.3.1
We were contacted by a company who have several dedicated servers using the Plesk interface provided by Parallels to manage the user interface (a common alternative to CPanel). Their server had been taken down as it had been compromised via a recently released, critical vulnerability with Parallels Plesk affecting versions 7.6.1 – 10.3.1. ...05 Mar -
K2 attachments give 404 error on downloading with 2.5.x
We had a client report that their attachments on K2 articles would not download - giving an error message in the source code initially, and then subsequently a 404 error. On investigating we identified that the latest version of K2 handles attachments slightly differently. ...09 Jan -
Are you offering your customers special offers through Google Places pages?
You may be excused for not noticing the latest additions to Google Places - I don't often visit my Places page but each time I do recently I've noticed additional features popping in without much song and dance! ...29 Nov -
How do I get a Google+ Page for Business?
So just a few moments ago, Google announced that they were opening up Google+ pages for businesses - one might say a direct competitor for Facebook Pages. ...07 Nov -
Are you making the most of Google Places and location-based adwords since Google Adwords Express launched?
Today I came across something interesting when I was checking out how our Google Places entry was performing (Google Places, for those who aren't aware, is how companies appear in Google Maps and can be accessed at google.co.uk/places) and noticed a new feature - Adwords Express - had appeared on my toolbar. ...18 Oct -
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Chris Smith
Vending machine raider at Virya Technologies, and occasional web designer.
Office Polo eating champion 2011-2012.
Winner of the January 2012 Pedometer challenge at Virya Technologies, but only because I strapped it to my cat! >=]
Office Polo eating champion 2011-2012.
Winner of the January 2012 Pedometer challenge at Virya Technologies, but only because I strapped it to my cat! >=]
Recent Posts
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Joomla! 1.5.26 Security Release!
If you're still running Joomla! 1.5.x then it is advised that you upgrade your site as soon as any security releases are made available to the public. The latest in the line of security releases is 1.5.26, which fixes vulnerabilities in the core, allowing naughty people access to your files, and your databases! Upgrade as soon as possible to apply ...27 Mar -
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