Many people simply assume that bullying is an unpleasant experience reserved for the playground. Unfortunately though, this is not the case. Recent reports have found that there are no age-limits or physical confines that exempt you from becoming a victim. The problem is that the older you get the more resilient your expected to be, so often a message that someone finds hilarious can be highly offensive to someone else depending on a number of facets such as gender, race, religion, class and so on. The fact is that it stands with the employer to ensure that there is an acceptable usage policy drawn out and understood by all employees. More importantly though, to avoid any legal and potentially costly ramifications… such a policy must be adhered to and this requires monitoring!

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In latest BBC news Defence Minister Nick Harvey is to set out cyber battle

According to the report by the BBC released minutes ago on November 9^th,

“In his address to Chatham House, he is expected to warn that, in the wrong hands, a laptop could be as effective a weapon as a cruise missile.”

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It’s ONLY 49days, 15hours and 34mins to Christmas!!! Well at least it was when I started this blog, but you get the gist, it’s that time of year again. The pandemonium is descending upon us as quickly as the associated bills will flood many hall floors in January.

Love it or hate it, the festive season is very hard to avoid particularly if you intend doing any sort of shopping. It’s a retailers dream Christmas, a huge percentage of the population all buying mindlessly at once, so I suppose you can’t really blame them for shoving it in our faces before the last apple has been bobbed for… however if you’ve opted to avoid the total madness of the shops and opted for the peace of shopping online, then take note of the following and don’t run the risk of online security forcing you to adopt a wholly bah humbug opinion of the festive season!

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