A couple of years back when I was studying for my cyber security MSc, China and Iceland were two of the countries where the highest amount bitcoin crypto-currency mining was being carried out. As discussed elsewhere this level of activity has serious implications for energy consumption and the production of …
This would be nice if it happened here!
EU rules to force USB-C chargers for all phones – BBC News Just take a minute and see how many cables you need when you travel or just leave the office. I have a couple of multi-connector leads but the reliability of those can be poor. One of the things …
Commercial Spyware – of course its use is being abused
This spyware is not available Dark Web it can be purchased legitimately. The Guardian calls it: “…perhaps the most powerful piece of spyware ever developed – certainly by a private company.” Both The Conversation and The Guardian have articles looking at how the powerful Pegasus surveillance software has been used …
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Some Christmas Fun
Over the past few weeks I have written two articles around the technology theme of “Where is my flying car?”. These really fall outside of the more focused articles on this site – but hey it is Christmas. Here are the links for the articles on the Octagon Technology website: …
Google unavailable!
On Monday the 14th December the online world stopped for over 40 minutes – most of Googles services went down. This is a dramatic start to an article but it looks at come of the issues and impact of the event and offers some ideas to mitigate such an occurrence …
