Internet attacks on the rise – make sure you’re protected

The number of internet security breaches just keeps rising, as criminals seem more determined than ever to break into computers and websites and steal as much information and data – often financial – as they can. This makes it all the more important to ensure you’re fully protected, at all times. In fact, according to …

The importance of imagery on a site

When you’re designing or updating a website, one of the most important considerations is images. There are a large number of reasons why having images on your website could prove to be the key to success. Images matter to your customers. Photograph-based social media sites such as Pinterest and Tumblr all but taken over, and …

Improving your online security

We’ve all heard the various horror stories about hacking, phishing and online security gone horribly wrong. Because they are told as “horror stories” we often tend to think of them as being an empty threat rather than something that could really happen. However, consider that recent statistics show that 80% of small businesses have encountered …

GHOST Vulnerability

Over the last few hours there have been reports about the GHOST Vulnerability. This is a vulnerability effecting a core part of the Linux operating system. Patches are being released at the moment and we are currently monitoring the situation and will be applying updates to all servers as soon as they become available. If …

Is your password too weak?

Splashdata have recently come out with the top 25 weakest passwords, it goes without saying that if you password is in this list, it really does need to be updated. If you are not sure how to update your passwords, just drop us an email to support@catalyst2.com and we will be very happy to help.

SEO – the basics for your new website

SEO, or search engine optimisation, is the process of improving and enhancing a website to make it more visible to search engines such as Google, Yahoo and Bing. In being visible to these engines, a business is able to climb to the front or top of listings making it more likely they will be seen …

How to improve your ecommerce site (and build your business at the same time)

It’s fair to say that the internet has revolutionised the way that customers shop and businesses sell their products. Although the High Street is still a fixture, more and more people are choosing online shopping, and as such many more businesses have the opportunity of selling than ever before. Not only has this created an …

Deloitte Technology Fast 50 – 2014

  We are thrilled to appear in the Irish Deloitte Technology Top Fast 50 for the second year running. We will find out our exact position on 7th November, fingers crossed we can beat last years position! The Deloitte Technology Fast 50 is one of Ireland’s foremost technology award programmes. Now in its seventeenth successful year, it …

ShellShock Vulnerability

Over the last 24 hours a significant security vulnerability has come to light as part of the Linux Operating System. This vulnerability has been dubbed Shellshock and potentially allows an attacker to gain remote access to systems and execute malicious code. You can see more at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-29361794 We wanted to make you aware that we …

.LONDON, .WEBSITE, .COMPANY and many more

So you may well have heard about the fact the you can not get much more than than just .com, .co.uk domain names but now it is actually here and you can register them through catalyst2. We are now registering a whole range of new domain names, these include: .London .Website .Company Want one? No …