{"content":[{"text":"It' no secret that during 2020 small and medium size business' have \n bought more IT equipment for homeworking. But with the number of \n cyber-attacks having increased 40% since 2019, many are asking how \n best to secure this new equipment. This article looks at 5 simple things \n you can do when you buy new IT equipment to make sure you're more \n secure.","bbox":{"left":0.080629,"top":0.323885,"width":0.8014030000000001,"height":0.136554}},{"text":"1. UNINSTALL THINGS YOU \n DON'T NEED \n On both Windows and Apple computers, \n there's a lot of free stuff that usually \n comes with the machine. When you first \n load up, have a quick look at what comes \n with it and ask 'What do you actually \n need?' Every programme you add, slightly \n increases the risk of an entry point ofan \n attacker on your machines. Mostly, you \n have to accept that risk to use the \n programme you want, however if you \n don't use or gain no benefit from the \n programme the safest thing is to remove \n it.","bbox":{"left":0.080645,"top":0.507027,"width":0.35736100000000004,"height":0.27388199999999996}},{"text":"Although it's annoying, one of the purpose \n of updates are for the owners of the \n programme or software you're using to fix \n patches or exploits that have been \n revealed to them. If you miss these, you're \n opening a window of opportunity for \n hackers to exploit the uncorrected flaws in \n the code.","bbox":{"left":0.521791,"top":0.507991,"width":0.363167,"height":0.13721899999999998}},{"text":"3. INSTALL AND USE MOZILLA \n FIREFOXOR GOOGLE CHROME \n These two browsers sit in a sweet spot of \n being popular enough they're well \n supported with a range of useful plug ins, \n whilst be very secure. Although not the \n most secure out there, these do offer the \n best usability across the internet whilst \n being 'secure enough'.","bbox":{"left":0.520968,"top":0.661547,"width":0.366502,"height":0.170091}},{"text":"2. TURN AUTOMATIC UPDATES \n ON","bbox":{"left":0.079032,"top":0.79608,"width":0.373661,"height":0.04602800000000007}},{"text":"European Union \n European Regional \n Development Fund","bbox":{"left":0.187097,"top":0.889535,"width":0.17188499999999995,"height":0.050524000000000124}},{"text":"Lancaster___.. \n University","bbox":{"left":0.701613,"top":0.884921,"width":0.20671799999999996,"height":0.05025500000000005}},{"text":"-","bbox":{"left":0.084677,"top":0.939136,"width":0.007217000000000001,"height":0.02109899999999998}}],"images_bbox":[{"left":0.0,"top":-0.000012,"width":0.998387,"height":0.303307},{"left":0.407258,"top":0.887103,"width":0.225806,"height":0.054732}],"images_bbox_not_text_overlap":[{"left":0.0,"top":-0.000012,"width":0.998387,"height":0.303307},{"left":0.407258,"top":0.887103,"width":0.225806,"height":0.054732}]}