BullGuard Blog

Summer Holiday. Yes, it’s that time of year again when our thoughts turn to sun-kissed beaches, cool mountain tops or the sites of a foreign city. If we haven’t already booked many of us cruise the Internet looking for good deals, last minute offers and flash sales.

Dixons Carphone sounds familiar but I can’t place it It is in fact Currys, PC World, Dixons Travel stores and Carphone Warehouse but they all came under one corporate Dixons Carphone umbrella a few years ago.

Ask a lot of people are they concerned that smart devices are transmitting data back to the manufacturer and many will shrug their shoulders and mutter, ‘Who cares?’

In a previous blog we showed how easy it is for cyber miscreants to hack home routers. While this is an approach some hackers use, many router attacks are actually based on automated scans, probes and exploits that you probably wouldn’t even detect.