This month's jargon busting blog looks into another topic that has been in the news this month. You may have heard about Apple refusing to provide the FBI with access to an encrypted iPhone. But what is encryption?

VPNs (Virtual Private Networks) have been in the news recently thanks to Netflix's tougher stance on their use to access content supposedly locked down to other countries. This month we answer the question "What is a VPN?"

Oracle (current owners of the previously ubiquitous Java browser plugin) have announced that they will shortly be discontinuing all support for this now, mostly redundant, plugin.

As of the 12th January, Microsoft have ended support for all but the most recent version of Internet Explorer. This means that the older versions will cease to be updated, and will therefore quickly become susceptible to attack.

You may have heard the acronym "VoIP" used in relation to phone systems, but what does it mean?

As a new year begins, so does a new threat to your data. A new strain of ransomware (malicious code that demands money to allow you to access your files again) has been spotted in the wild.

It has recently been announced that PHP 7 has been completed, and is now available for developers to use in their projects. This is important for all of our clients, for reasons we'll go into.

You have probably heard news reports and IT people mentioning cookies in relation to websites, but what exactly are cookies?