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Barton Technology July Media Round-Up

Here is a quick round up of where Barton Technology have been mentioned in the media during July.

A brief outline of the topic and the link to the location is below:

Article written on IT Industry Today and TMC.net regarding our free jargon buster guide:

http://www.industrytoday.co.uk/it/it-support-firm-releases-jargon-busting-guide/6161

http://next-generation-communications.tmcnet.com/news/2011/07/25/5659157.htm


If you would like to download your own copy of our jargon buster please click here.

If you would like any further information on Barton Technology in the media, please contact us here.

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New ADSL2+ System Status Notice

The following new System Status notice has been posted regarding a new event on the SureDSL ADSL2+ Network.

Outage Type

Affected Exchanges

Start

Expected End

Planned Outage-Normal

COBHAM, MALDEN, MOLESEY, RICHMOND KEW, SUNBURY, TEDDINGTON, THAMES DITTON, WALTON ON THAMES, ACTON, COLINDALE, EDGWARE, FELTHAM, GREENFORD, HARLESDEN, HARROW, HATCH END, HAYES NORTH, HOUNSLOW, ISLEWORTH, KINGSBURY, KNELLER HALL, KENTON ROAD, MILL HILL, NORTH EDGWARE, NORTHOLT, NORTH WEMBLEY, PINNER, SOUTH HARROW, SOUTHALL, STANMORE, TWICKENHAM, WEMBLEY, MERTON PARK, MORTLAKE, WANDSWORTH, CHISWICK, CRICKLEWOOD, KENSAL GREEN, WILLESDEN, WEST KENSINGTON, FULHAM, SHEPHERDS BUSH, HAMMERSMITH, PUTNEY, PARSONS GREEN, PERIVALE, CLNORW1, WIMBLEDON, EALING

13/08/2011 08:00

13/08/2011 20:00

Please note: Due to essential maintenance works planned for 13.08.2011 between 08:00 AM and 08:00 PM the customers connected to these exchanges may experience slow speed, increased latency and general connectivity issues. We are sorry for the inconvenience and will do our best to reduce the impact of the maintenance on the quality of the service.

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FREE Sophos Mobile Security Toolkit – iPhone, Blackberry, Android, iPad etc

Sophos

Mobile security toolkit

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Mobile device security toolkitTablets, iPhones, Android, BlackBerry . . .

Your uses want them; your company needs them. But you need to keep your data and network secure.

And as uses are one of your biggest security weak spots, it vital they understand the risks.

Download your free Mobile Security Toolkit today. It’s packed with great tools to help you explain the security risks with mobile devices and give practical advice on how to secure them.

Download toolkit

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Is your small business firewall secure enough to protect you!?

This article from the Wall Street Journal validates what we’ve been noticing and socializing for years – that much of the small business community out there could really use an improvement on their networks defenses.

Many small businesses think that a simple firewall and Anti-Virus on the desktop is good enough — but that doesn’t always adequately defend against the latest scareware, malware, and other virus type programs you can pick up on the Internet!

One unfortunate newstand owner detailed in the article lost $22K from cyber hackers!

See here on why hackers have realized its easier to go after lots of little fishes worth a couple of dollars rather than going after a Moby Dick with a big wallet –

Wall Street Journal – Hackers Shift Attacks to Small Firms

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Sophos Technical Alert Sophos Alert! – Installation of SafeGuard Disk Encryption for Mac 5.50.1 on Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion)

Latest News:

The following applies only to the installation of SafeGuard Disk Encryption for Mac 5.50.1 on Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion).

Advisory:
If you install SafeGuard Disk Encryption for Mac 5.50.1 on Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion), Mac OS X 10.7 will no longer start. Instead the computer boots up into the Mac OS X Recovery partition.

Although it is possible to run the installer for SafeGuard Disk Encryption for Mac 5.50.1 on Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion), SafeGuard Disk Encryption for Mac 5.50.1 has been released and tested only for Mac OS X 10.5.x (Leopard) and 10.6.x (Snow Leopard).

For further information and detailed links refer to the Sophos knowledgebase advisory:
http://www.sophos.com/support/knowledgebase/article/113901.html


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Mac OSX Lion Released – Our Advice

You may be aware that Apple released their new operating system for Intel based Mac’s yesterday called Lion. The new software boasts some really good new features such as autosave, versions, airdrop and full screen apps to name but a few. It is also reasonably priced at £21.00 and is available via the Mac App Store (USB Key delivery coming later in the year).

As with all new software we urge our customers to not race to upgrade immediately as not all of your software may be compatible with Lion. Some hardware such as printers and scanners will certainly not yet have the software drivers ready for a brand new operating system. We have also heard that some issues are being found in popular software suites such as MS Office 2011 and Filemaker Pro 11.

We will be testing Lion for the next few weeks and speaking to software manufacturers to get an idea of when they will be making their products Lion compatible. As soon as we have further information and feel it is prudent to upgrade we will let you know via the blog.


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Barton Technology June Media Round-Up

June has been an even busier month for Barton Technology in the media. So just in case you missed us here is a quick round up of what we have been up to during June.

A brief outline of the topic and the link to the location is below:

Article written on BackupReview.info regarding our unique SureHost Backup (online backup) Service:

http://www.backupreview.info/2011/06/13/surrey-uk-based-it-firm-barton-technology-launches-online-data-backup-service/

Article written on Surrey Director magazine (Page 10) regarding our unique SureHost Backup (online backup) Service:

http://www.barttech.co.uk/pdf/Surrey_Director-July2011.pdf


Article written on Inside Networks magazine (Page 18-19) regarding Cloud Computing:

http://www.barttech.co.uk/pdf/IN_Jul11.pdf


Article mentioned on Financial Tech Spotlight regarding our unique SureHost Backup (online backup) Service:

http://financial.tmcnet.com/mergers-acquisitions/news/2011/06/13/5569249.htm

Article by Dominic Jones on New Media Knowledge regarding Cloud Computing Requirements (2nd of four):

http://www.nmk.co.uk/article/2011/5/29/stuck-inside-a-cloud-the-financial-and-system-requirements-of-cloud-computing

Article by Dominic Jones on New Media Knowledge regarding Cloud Computing Security (3rd of four):

http://www.nmk.co.uk/article/2011/5/30/hey-you-get-off-of-my-cloud-time-to-think-the-security-in-cloud-computing

Article by Dominic Jones on New Media Knowledge regarding Cloud Computing Considerations before Decision (4th of four):

http://www.nmk.co.uk/articles/1676

Article written on StorageNewsletter.com regarding our unique SureHost Backup (online backup) Service:

http://www.storagenewsletter.com/news/cloud/barton-technology-online-backup

If you would like any further information on Barton Technology in the media, please contact us here.

 

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Sophos Technical Alert

On 23rd June, Sophos released a technical alert in regards to Endpoint and Small Business Products.

The advisory email was as follows;

Sophos Technical Alert

Important Advisory about Sophos Endpoint & Small Business products

We have discovered a problem that may be affecting security on a small number of computers running Sophos Anti-Virus or Sophos Endpoint Security and Control.  Although we have only had a small number of reports of this issue, we are advising all of our customers to perform certain checks as unfortunately the nature of this issue means that it is not reported in Sophos Enterprise Console or Sophos Control Centre.

Computers that might be affected:

  • Running 32bit versions of Windows 2000, Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 only
  • Have had a malware or PUA detection (even if previously authorised) and a subsequent cleanup action between the 2nd and 10th of June 2011
  • Have not been restarted since June 10th.

If you have computers that meet ALL of the above criteria then the security may be compromised. Computers affected will show on access scanning is disabled in the Sophos Anti-Virus or Sophos Endpoint Security and Control client interface.

To recover the system you should read this endpoint advisory which includes a tool that can be used to identify potentially affected systems in the Sophos Enterprise Console and Sophos Control Centre along with a tool to detect and resolve the issue on a potentially affected computer without restarting it. If practical, simply restarting the computer will resolve the issue.

 

Since this alert, we at Barton have been checking through our records to ensure that none of our clients are affected by this vulnerability. As stated above, in order to be affected, all 3 of the criteria must be true. To date, we have no records of any customers that have had a PUA detection (potentially unwanted application) that has had a cleanup action run on it between the 2nd and 10th of June.

Any clients who may have run a cleanup action on any Sophos detection between the dates of the 2nd and 10th June 2011 WITHOUT notifying Barton (i.e not included in our records above), and HAVE NOT REBOOTED the machine since June 10th (normally only server systems) should immediately contact Barton to have thier machine checked at thier earliest convinience. You may also do this yourself, by following the below link:

http://email.sophos.com/r/?id=h34b6860,35d9c8b8,35d9c8be 

 

If you would like any further information in regards to this, please contact me directly on richardh@barttech.co.uk

 

Many Thanks,

Richard Ham

Engineering Manager

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Testimonial from Tudors Professional Services Ltd

Another welcome positive comment from one of our clients received today:

“Off the top of my head I would describe Barton as courteous, helpful, prompt in their response and very patient with non-techy clients in analysing and solving problems. I would also add ‘good value’ to that list!”

Tudors Professional Services Ltd


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Testimonial from Royal Jewellers

Wartski, royal jewellers and designer of the recent Royal Wedding jewellery, have kindly sent us a personal thank you for assistance with their Managing Director’s computer system. Mr Munn’s note reads:


Wartski produced the wedding ring for Catherine Middleton and the ring was fashioned from a piece of Welsh gold. It was given to Prince William by The Queen shortly after the engagement was announced.

Wartski also supplied the engagement and wedding rings to Queen Elizabeth’s grandson Viscount Linley when he married The Hon. Serena Stanhope in 1993. They also made the wedding rings (also of Welsh gold) for The Prince of Wales and Mrs. Camilla Parker-Bowles for their wedding in 2005.

More information on Wartski can be found on their website www.wartski.com


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