By Heather Sheppard. It’s 3 AM. The server logs flicker. Your firewall hisses. All is not well. Somewhere in the digital shadows, a hacker is creeping, sniffing around, preparing to strike. Welcome to cybersecurity’s cybersecurity horror stories – a haunted house, where the monsters gouge out your data with vicious keystrokes. This Halloween, to chill … Read more
Ah, April Fools’ Day – the one day a year when it’s socially acceptable to question everything and trust no one. The exact origins of this mischievous day are shrouded in mystery, but it’s been keeping us on our toes for a good few centuries now. This year, some brands truly outdid themselves with their … Read more
For our Halloween blog this year we’re taking the focus off the spooks themselves and spinning the camera round to look at the people who seek them. For as long as there have been humans, there have been spook-seekers. People have always had a fascination with all things spiritual. Some of the very earliest human … Read more
We’re betting you noticed that it felt like half the internet went offline the other week. Microsoft instances were bricked, airlines fell apart, public transport was impacted, and everything all went a bit nuts because of something called “Crowdstrike.” So what’s the deal with this Crowdstrike thing anyway? We waffle on about all kinds of … Read more
Have you ever found yourself daydreaming about having superhuman abilities (we certainly have)? Flying like Superman, moving objects with your mind like a Jedi, or even just having a photographic memory? Well, hold onto your Sox (ha ha ha, did you see what we did there?), because Elon Musk is in the news again, and … Read more
Our last ‘spooky tech’ blog was silly. A delightful haunted MacBook from the USA which ultimately ended up helping the family with rap battles and the hoovering. Honestly, we thought it was a bit too silly. So we asked our writer to find something creepier. Evidently peeved by our request, Heather (another Heather. We know, … Read more
It’s that time of year when we ask our writer to dig out spooky stuff with a techie twist. Last year, she found some properly creepy stuff lurking in the dusty corners of the internet. This year, she’s gone a bit…dare we say it?…sillier? Maybe we’re wrong. Maybe we should issue a warning here. If … Read more
It’s spooky season. And what could be spookier than the internet? Don’t believe us? You should. There are plenty of creepy things lurking in the internet’s dusty corners. And we don’t just mean your ex’s OnlyFans account. We bet you think you’re nice and safe, sat behind your screen in your own home. But these … Read more
If you have been following Sox Digital at all over the past couple of years, then you will have no doubt heard that we help with cloud software. Well, for the foreseeable future, we’re going to stop offering it as a primary service. That’s not to say we aren’t prepared to help if a project … Read more
We’re making changes to the way we offer our free advice. Anyone who knows Sox Digital, knows we offer free advice. It’s one of our most popular services and everyone loves it. Not too long ago we introduced some terms and conditions around using our free advice service. This was due to an increasing number … Read more