Information technology, computing and related
A friend received the following, below, so I deconstructed it for her, advising that it was “dodgy as heck, do not follow the link”. This is a mass spam to get unwary people to click on the link, which will almost certainly install malware or the like on your computer. From: … Sent: Saturday, February […]
As a long-time Internet user, the first question in my mind when considering moving house isn’t access to public transport, shops, crime rates, parks, it’s: “What’s the broadband access like there?” For our new address, BT quoted June the following year for fibre. By the time we moved this was put back to ‘July to
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WORM, the first digital world war, by Mark Bowden, author of Black Hawk Down. Blurb The Conficker worm infected its first computer in November 2008 and within a month had infiltrated 1.5 million machines in 195 countries. Banks, telecommunications companies and critical government networks – including the British Parliament and the French and German military
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. High on the news trends today is the subject of the royal pardon for codebreaker Dr Alan Turing. You know what – I don’t think he cares given it’s some 60 years after his death (or murder!) And what a death, eh… He helped save countless lives and sped up the end of WWII
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Making news across Twitter and the world at the moment is the latest government secret revealed by ex-NSA contractor and whistle-blower Edward Snowden, though the altogether sinister #RSA trend, is actually two news items running in parallel. The first is the unbelievable (therefore true) and explosive leak that the NSA paid RSA $10 million to
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I was following this trend on Twitter – #FiveWordTechHorrors – and realised it seemed familiar. Then I remembered that one job. You know the one, a new client is having problems and pulls you in as a consultant to help them make the deadline. This is your first day… Perhaps you remember a similar conversation
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Reviewing the HP Laserjet Pro 200: Intro First a word on my old Epson. My previous printer, an Epson R220, whilst capable of producing great printouts, was notoriously work-shy. Fickle actually. Prima Dona comes to mind. Give it a gourmet diet (of Epson’s own) and it purrs, but dare you to offer it ink that
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Adobe’s Creative UK Rip-off And here were are again! First wrote this back on May 15th, 2011 – and some things never change. Adobe, disgracefully, still use the horribly misguided $1 = £1 regime to gouge, to steal almost, an extra 40 to 60% margin out of the UK – for an identical product. You
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