Cupid’s Scammer Payday
Roses are red, violets are blue, declare me your password, and I will tell you I love you. Valentine’s day has come and gone and with the twang of Cupid’s bow, another Internet scammer snags a victim.
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Ciao WhatsApp Data Privacy
The Facebook-owned messenger WhatsApp dropped the ball with Italian data chiefs when they recently changed the app’s privacy policy.
Time for some (Virtual) Reality?
The hybrid style of working – half at home, half in office – is likely to become the norm for many companies after the world emerges from the Covid pandemic. Can Virtual Reality help with that?
Valuation Hype?
Will cloud computing rain on the investor’s parade like it’s 1999? Surging valuations of Cloud software companies – and investor fears at missing out on the next Zoom – mean companies are being valued at billions based on meagre revenue streams.
Data Sovereignty and You
When you’re on Facebook or Google and you’re next hit by one of those tedious terms and conditions pop-up forms that most of us never read and mindlessly accept, do have in mind you may be clicking away the your right to sue these companies in British courts.
Working from Home and Operational Efficiency
Operational efficiency. What is it? Has it been maintained during remote working? Will this impact where you will work in the future?
Don’t be hooked by data trawlers
How to make sure your IoT devices don’t become tasty bait for data trawlers. Our previous blog where we examined how the net is full of security holes, in this blog we look at possible precautions against data trawlers.
AI and warfare. Will AI save us from ourselves?
The lure of AI helping automate the battlefield has long been a dream of battlefield commanders. Robots are expendable and don’t demand coffee breaks. The dream came to fruition in the jungles of Vietnam.
How data poachers went phishing in a fish tank
As ways of breaking into casinos go, a fish tank is an unusual route. Yet that is what was used in an unnamed American gambling house in 2017. It had invested in a internet-connected tank in which the temperature and salinity of the water were remotely controlled.
Riding a cloud without falling to earth
Riding a particular cloud vendor may be computing heaven – yet is there a case for being supplier agnostic? What’s your Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS) strategy?