The Floridian law that came into place on January 1st 2013 in regards to having to have an international driving licence in order to hire a car in Florida this shocked many people and left them unable to acquire a car during their holiday. Coming from the UK the law was an unusual one as like most other countries they usually accept driving licences which are within their own language and travelling from the UK to the USA licences where of course in English. Now a Florida international driving licence law u-turn has taken place. (more…)
Debit card car hire Italy
We now offer debit card car hire Italy in several locations throughout the country. We answered the distressed call for help from our suffering customers whether they are Italian locals or holiday makers then car hire is still available there through us with the use of a debit card. We realised the plight the credit card can bring and the stigma of people not wanting to pass it over in order to hire there car and we watched as many reluctantly handed over the credit card through prised fingers so we decided something needed to be done! (more…)
Road Tolls Destined for Britain?
The government have been said to be planning to build a tolling booth on the M4 motorway and it’s not a popular choice with the Britons. A staggering 70% of people are actually opposed to tolling the motorways, what makes us so different from our American counter parts they tax almost every road going! Possibly the underlining reason why we are so against it is the fact that the country on a whole are already paying £48 billion pounds worth of other motoring taxes that you are already required to pay. (more…)
Manchester airport Evacuated
On the 2nd April the busy Easter weekend, Manchester airport evacuated all its passengers and staff a like as it laid baron for 4 hours despite the bomb disposal unit and police of course being within, the closure caused about 10 flight delays to and from the airport in the time. Terminal 1 of Manchester airport was completely evacuated after there was a bomb scare from a baggage scanner after it flagged up a suspicious looking image. (more…)
Police Crackdown On Car Hire Licence Acceptance Terms
On the 1st April Police crackdown on car hire licence acceptance terms and conditions in the means of which licence parts they accept. This is no laughing matter (pardon the April fools pun) but in all seriousness the car hire companies have been told to stay to strict guidelines as to what licences they can and can’t accept in terms of when people come to hire a car with their licence, so what are these changes you might ask and how might it affect me? (more…)
The Biggest Ever Internet Attack
In the past few weeks the internet has been subject to the biggest cyber-attack in history. A row surfaced some time back between a spam blocking company known as Spamhaus and a hosting firm named Cyberbunker. The row was caused when Spamhaus blocked several of the Cyberbunkers online servers considering them “spam” and almost as if a declaration of war Sven Olaf Khampuis spokesman for Cyberbunker has made a statement saying Spamhaus shouldn’t decide “what does and does not go on the internet”. This has caused massive revolt resulting in the biggest ever internet attack in history.
Five national cyber police forces are investigating the attacks in fear that the row could escalate through to the banking and email systems. The target of the attacks was Spamhaus’s Domain Names Systems (DNS) which is the server that joins domain names; the attack type is something called a DDoS or rather Distributed Denial of Service most likely one of the most common types of attacks across the internet.
What makes this attack so much different then?
Most websites have protection against DDoS attacks or at least most major ones do, the protection is able to withstand a certain amount of Gigabites per second (Gbps) and for an example usually email and internet servers have a DDoS protection of around 50Gbps which is usually more than any attack and is at the higher end of the protection scale.
The attack recently launched is peaking at 300Gbps almost 6x the usual high amount of defence, claimed to be able to take down government internet infrastructure. Yet surprisingly somehow Spamhaus are coping with the scale of the attack however it is coming at a cost with massively slowing down the internet on a worldwide scale as the DDoS attacks are clogging up most of the capable amount of traffic.
Spamhaus are the biggest DNS server around, if there defences are breached it could spell tragedy across the internet with billions of sites being affected and potentially brought down, if the attack continues the question is how long can Spamhaus’s defences last?
Excess Reimbursement Insurance Policy
Often when you hire a vehicle you are left stumped with a huge excess amount which is what your liability in the event that the vehicle is damaged. Nobody wants to be left with a huge bill for repair of a vehicle when they have already returned the car. This can sometimes be very unexpected and very troublesome as it may get you into financial trouble if you had not budgeted for this. (more…)
Car Hire Murcia Airport without a credit card
In the sunny country of Spain there is an airport called Murcia airport which is one of the busiest airports for flights in and out of the UK. Flights arriving from places such as Gatwick, Stansted and Bristol amongst several other UK locations and the recent airport investment of €60 million for a new run way makes it a popular destination for travellers to flock to in hope to catch some of the sun. It’s also a popular request for people to want car hire Murcia airport without a credit card. (more…)
Is the black box listening in on my conversations?
Is the black box listening in on my conversations? The black box is considering being made a mandatory requirement in cars for new drivers but people are worried that it will record everything and limit their privacy within the comfort of their car. The black box in an airplane records all the movements, conversations between pilots and anything else that happens. So is the black box in cars a similar mistress as its airplane brother? (more…)
Car Hire with a Maestro Card
Majority of all companies across the world only accept the use of credit cards as it’s seen as the easiest way to reliably hire out their fleet. This however can cause people several issues as they are stuck in a steady demise unable to hire as they either don’t have a credit card, have a low credit score or just don’t want to use their credit card due to it being quite risky. It’s well-known that Indigo often accept the use of debit cards however many of our suppliers don’t allow car hire with a Maestro card particularly. (more…)