What fax machine? Nobody uses Fax machine anymore – do they? Well, outside of the medical, banking, legal, insurance, and real estate industries, few people have little need of faxing things ...
A new side-channel attack has been discovered that affects Android devices and could allow a threat actor to steal sensitive data from victim devices without them knowing. Called pixnapping, the attac...
Unless you’ve been living under a rock this last couple of months, you can’t fail to have heard about the cyber-attack that hit Jaguar-Landrover (JLR) in the last week of August. In this p...
I’ve written about this sort of thing before, but I keep seeing many “closing down” sob-stories on Facebook, so though it time to write another post showing how to tell if a site rea...
Users of the Futurehome smart ecosystem of lighting, thermostats, smoke detectors, etc. are facing scrapping their entire setup of being forced to pay an annual subscription of approx. £88 for a servi...
Windows Administrator accounts have the highest level of access and control over the computer system, and are used to manage user accounts, install software, change system settings, and access all fil...
Over the weekend, I was chatting to a friend who was telling me about a portable drive he had bought that had died within 24hrs of him receiving it. The drive in question was what looked to be a 1Tb S...
Almost a year to the day (30 & 31st June 2024) I posted about Operation Endgame – the operation, spearheaded by the National Crime Agency (NCA) to takedown several high-profile botnets, incl...
We are being targeted by disinformation networks that are vastly more effective most people realise, the product of which is making people hateful, depressed, angry, polarised and much more. Nation st...
As its International Women’s day, I thought I’d share a post about the Women who have shaped the modern world of IT that I wouldn’t be in a career without. First up, we have Augusta ...