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12/14/2016

http://www.securityweek.com/microsoft-patches-several-publicly-disclosed-flaws

Microsoft’s December 2016 Patch Tuesday security bulletins address several publicly disclosed vulnerabilities in IE, Edge and .NET

09/22/2016

https://wp.me/p120rT-1s64

A woman in the UK used Cortana to find the local police number after a road accident but it didn’t quite go to plan.

01/14/2016

http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/01/et-tu-fortinet-hard-coded-password-raises-new-backdoor-eavesdropping-fears/?

Discovery comes a month after competitor Juniper disclosed unauthorized code.

01/05/2016

And you thought its cable service was bad …

11/25/2015

Yahoo is preventing some of its web email users from accessing their messages if they have an ad blocker installed.

11/25/2015

Expect to hear a whole lot more about Li-Fi - a wireless technology that transmits high-speed data using visible light communication (VLC) - in the coming months. With scientists achieving speeds of 224 gigabits per second in the lab using Li-Fi...

11/09/2015

Firstly let me apologise for not posting much recently, my work has been quite hectic and therefore my blog has had to miss out.  I have a number of items to post up and hopefully over the next few…

11/04/2015

Poor decision to say the least

As of early Wednesday, an online petition had collected nearly 2,000 virtual signatures.

10/30/2015

There's another data breach to report - and it's a big one, affecting approximately 13 million customers of the web hosting company 000Webhost.

10/28/2015

Make sure that you have good timely backups that are tested, and you will be able to recover with minimal downtime.

All of a sudden a wayward comment by an FBI agent is making big headlines suggesting that the FBI is telling victims of ransomware to "just pay" the ransom. That's not exactly true ...

10/26/2015

There are plenty of people who believe in RFID-blocking sleeves, pouches, and wallets, including Altoid tins, metal cigarette cases, Aluma Wallets, Tyvek credit card sleeves, or a leaf of heavy-duty aluminum foil slipped into your wallet.

While they can help somewhat, don’t put too much faith in any of them. Some supposedly RFID-shielding wallets simply don’t work at all, regardless of marketing claims.

It all seemed a bit deliberate: the guy slowly bumped into him - and his pocket - for a bit too long.

09/14/2015

Microsoft really wants people to upgrade to Windows 10. So it's downloaded the new operating system - secretly? - on Windows 7 and 8 PCs that have automatic updates turned on.