by alex | Jan 5, 2017 | newsletter
The growing optimism for the future of the web-based crypto-currency ‘Bitcoin’ received another boost this week as the value of 1 Bitcoin jumped above $1,000 (£815) for the first time in three years. Performed Better Than Central-Bank-Issued Currencies. On Sunday, the...
by alex | Dec 23, 2016 | newsletter
With the massive amounts of household, leisure items and toys that have a ‘smart’ element to them, could any of the IoT presents that you receive or give this Christmas be taken over and used by hackers in 2017? A Big DDoS With IoT. Back in October this year, cyber...
by alex | Dec 23, 2016 | newsletter
As if the data breach of 500 million users’ accounts in 2014 wasn’t bad enough, Yahoo has just discovered that it was the subject of the biggest data breach in history when, back in 2013, more than one billion user accounts were compromised. What Happened?...
by alex | Dec 23, 2016 | newsletter
BT Broadband has the dubious honour of making it to the Christmas no.1 spot…for customer complaints. Figures from Ofcom the 3rd quarter of 2016 make grim reading for BT and for other Broadband companies that it owns. How Many Complaints? BT unfortunately tops Ofcom’s...
by alex | Dec 23, 2016 | newsletter
Dubai’s commitment to putting all its documents on Blockchain’s shared open database system by 2020 could help to cut through Middle Eastern bureaucracy, speed up civic transactions and processes, and could help bring a positive transformation to the whole region....
by alex | Dec 16, 2016 | newsletter
A recent report by Gartner warns that although businesses are spending on average just over 5% of their overall IT budgets on IT security, comparing your security spending to other firms in the same sector is no substitute for accurately assessing your own security...
