Who remembers acoustic tape computer storage? A few weeks ago I wrote about the influence Sir Clive Sinclair had on my tech career: As part of that article I spoke about my first computer, a ZX81 kit. Now for the younger readers we did have floppy disks back then, floppy disks that bent, as opposed […]
This week’s theme is definitely privacy, with articles to make my readers think about privacy in their businesses to the issue of using biometrics in schools for students to pay for school meals. If you think privacy is something that is easy to define, have a look at this article before scrolling down: I have
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Diana has a project running to have a blog every day in October supporting Cyber Security Awareness Month – #BeCyberAware.
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This month Diana has a project to have a blog every day in supporting Cyber Security Awareness Month – #BeCyberAware.
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As the launch of Apple’s iOS 15 gets closer there is an issue with what originally looked like a very good idea. I have an article on Smart Thinking Solutions that any user of an iOS device or Apple’s iCloud should look at and think about. Apple will scan your images – but don’t worry!
iOS 15 is very close but… Read More »
A Zero-Day cyber attack is one that happens in the gap between the hackers discovering a vulnerability and putting an exploit out in the wild and the software vendors developing a fix and getting it out to you. I have an article on Smart Thinking Solutions looking at this gap in all our security strategies.
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It was announced yesterday that the inventor and computer pioneer Sir Clive Sinclair died at his home in London after a long illness. Although according to his daughter he was still inventing last week. Sir Clive Sinclair: Computing pioneer dies aged 81 – BBC News If you follow the link to the article above you
Here is the man who wanted a flying car… Read More »
Recently our blogs have been focusing on showcasing the great services we supply at Octagon and have bundled into our 365R services – see this web site Octagon’s 365R if you want to read more about that. I have a memo here that says I should be writing about anti-virus software, but sometimes being the boss has
Back in December 2020 I wrote a blog where I asked “Where is my flying car” and then a few days later I wrote a sequel as there was an announcement of a flying car for sale. Here are the links to those articles: Where’s my flying car? – Octagon Technology Where’s my flying car? The Sequel – Octagon
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