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 | This has been a memorable week for The National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park. Last Tuesday we ''rebooted'' the Harwell Dekatron AKA the WITCH. It is the world’s oldest surviving original and working computer ... |
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 | A year ago, I talked about why The National Museum of Computing (TNMOC ) is a great place to visit, so I thought it was time to update that post. Back then I gave twelve great reasons to visit and here are ten more ... |
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 | Just when I thought the whole privacy situation was improving with news that Parliament is about to bury the Snoopers Charter, The Sunday Times reported that a new hitherto overlooked database of personal details is being created ... |
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 | It is a while since I talked about passwords; this post is prompted by reading about the 25 weakest passwords of 2012 and also some information that came out of two security breaches, at LinkedIn and Gawker ... |
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 | There are times I wonder if the Internet is the Wild West? Dangerous, populated by rogues and the good guys struggling to stem the lawlessness. Anyway I was reminded of yet another threat to our online existence: phishing ... |
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 | I came across some very useful information the other day in PC Pro magazine and I thought it would be helpful to pass it on. The article gave some very clear advice as to how to protect and secure your smartphone ... |
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 | The Government's Communications Bill that will mean we will all be subject to real time monitoring of our Internet and mobile phone interactions, including all phone calls, email, web site usage and social media activity ... |
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 | I was made aware of a map developed at Facebook that charts the friendships of over 500 million users. It looks at the locality of friendships on Facebook and graphically illustrates which cities had friendships between them ...
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 | I thought I would revisit my very first post here - one year to the day! I have learnt a lot and have written many posts since that date in October last year. I have also become much more aggressive about promoting my posts ... |
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 | Putting your data in the cloud is becoming an increasingly common state for large enterprises, medium sized businesses and small businesses like mine. There are good reasons to do it ... |
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 | Not long ago GCHQ together with the Department for Business Innovation & Skills, the Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure and the Cabinet Office published a whole host of information giving 10 steps to cyber security ... |
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 | If I was responsible for the IT of a business today I would be worrying about the implications of Bring Your Own Device - and it is certainly one of the first things I turn my attention to when reviewing a businesss infrastructure ... |
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