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My post on 'should we have chip only payment cards?' gave rise to some discussion and debate, and many thanks to all those concerned for their views and comments. The related website poll conducted ...
Well, today is, officially, the most miserable day of the year - the third Monday in January. However, it is Martin Luther King Jr. Day for those in the US. And for those of us working in London, toda...
My past posts on the widening gulf between "modern" browsers and Internet Explorer have generated so much interest that I thought I'd forward this link. At the same time as Microsoft is gra...
"HM Revenue and Customs: Handling telephone enquiries", published by the National Audit Office on 15 January, says that HMRC's customer contact directorate answered only 57% of the 103 milli...
I have pretty tight controls over my network and access to my 510 usernames and passworded accounts. Yes he just said “510”…and counting. I have full administrative rights over every PC and nobody els...
When we started e-banking back in -82 we saw it as a pyramid. A very broad base where customers do their everyday banking on PCs - checking balances, paying bills, getting notifications on direct debi...
In case you've not seen this yet - here's a slightly disturbing insight into the state of awareness of information technology issues in the UK. According to a recent survey, one in 10 Britons think Ap...
We have completed another minor revision to the Community Portal, that's aimed at keeping Community members more up-to-date with one-other: First, previously, when a Community Member sent a message t...
In my first of three entries summarizing 2009 online fraud trends, I suggested that there had never been a better time to be a cybercriminal, and talked about the high grade Trojans currently availab...
Talking to friends in a party I had to hold myself from becoming too smuggy-smug-smug. Yep, the lot of "I'm too good for Mafia Wars" geeks fell prey to the eggplant-growing rhythm of Farmvi...
The Identity Theft Resource Center Breach Report also monitors how breaches occur. This task is made more difficult by the scarcity of information provided (publicly) for approximately 1/3 of the re...
The A5/1 encryption cypher fell last week and now the A5/3 has been cracked. Not a good week for mobile phone carriers and alarm bells should be ringing if you are planning involving the GSM associati...