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Cybercriminals are exploiting the spread of COVID-19 and fraud and cybercrime have both seen a significant increase, particularly bank attacks which have spiked by 38% since the pandemic hit us. On Tuesday 5th of May Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab warned the nation of the criminal gangs that are exploiting the coronavirus crisis for fraud. Stating…

What is a Phishing Scam? Phishing scams are what hackers use to attempt to steal network credentials to ultimately gain access to your company’s data & network. These types of hackers usually make contact via email and will mimic reputable entities such as banks, e-mail and cloud data storage companies, etc – and lead the…

Microsoft have announced that they are changing their product names for Office 365 Business plans later in the month, mostly assuming the “Microsoft 365” brand. This does not affect the pricing or what is included, this will not change. The new product names will go into effect on April 21, 2020. Office 365 Business Essentials…

razorblue are delighted to announce we have been awarded official Microsoft Gold Partner status through our work with both Cloud Productivity and Small & Midmarket Cloud Solutions. Gold status is only awarded to those partners that Microsoft recognises as having ongoing excellence in specific areas. As a best-in-class managed IT service provider, our proactive approach…

Support for a number of Microsoft Products including Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 officially ends next week, on January 14th, 2020 and Office 2010 will reach its end of support on October 13th, 2020.  After these dates Microsoft will stop delivering software and security updates as well as all technical support for any issues, and consequently many…

August 2019 marks a very special month at razorblue. We are working hard to support causes that are close to our hearts to reach the next milestone in the donations raised. The five charities we support are Butterwick Hospice, My Sister’s Place, Teenage Cancer Trust, Macmillan Cancer Support and Great North Air Ambulance Service.  …