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Network Outage 27/04/2012 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM

Tuesday, April 24th, 2012

There is a planned network outage effecting The First Villa on Friday the 27th of April 2012 between 10:00 AM and 11:00 AM, due to essential work being undertaken. If you experience connection problems after this time could you please register an issue on the Hornet portal.

Rude awakening’ for Mac users as cyber attack infects 550,000 of Apple’s ‘virus free’ machines – with UK and U.S. worst hit

Tuesday, April 10th, 2012

A new computer trojan has infected 550,000 machines running Apple’s Mac OS X – and many could still be vulnerable. The infected machines are now part of a ‘botnet’ of zombie machines which can be controlled by cyber criminals and ‘told’ to download new malicious software. The attack has been described as a ‘rude awakening’ for Mac users. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2125496/Apple-computers-infected-Flashback-Trojan-virus-rude-awakening-ac-sers.html#ixzz1rcfhCLLM How to REMOVE: http://www.f-secure.com/v-descs/trojan-downloader_osx_flashback_i.shtml

Network Outage 10/04/2012 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM

Thursday, April 5th, 2012

There is a planned network outage effecting the whole network on Tuesday the 10th of April 2012 between 1:00 PM and 5:00 PM, due to maintenance of the servers. If you experience connection problems after this time could you please register an issue on the Hornet portal.