As part of an ongoing IT and Cyber Security Audit, I had several meetings this week to advise a client on how to migrate their current bespoke website to WordPress. These meetings included how to find a good WordPress developer and the standard of cyber security they should demand for …
If you use WordPress then read on…
Automattic likes to tell us that it’s product WordPress is the world’s most popular website platform so it is dissapoibnting that a vulnerability has existed in it’s own popular plugin Jetpack since 2016. Jetpack fixes critical information disclosure flaw existing since 2016 (bleepingcomputer.com) How popular is Jetpack? As it offers …
AI and Malware
In August the support team at Octagon Technology edited the company’s newsletter – whilst Diana and I were away. They chose a theme of artificial intelligence (AI) – here are the articles they wrote: Careful with that A.I. Eugene ! / How NOT to A.I. / Stop feeding the machine. …
Because It’s Friday – Old Space and Ada Lovelace
Following on from last week’s “Because It’s Friday” time travel article, this week I have a story looking at the past, way back in the past. Nearly as far back as we can look… The earliest galaxies formed amazingly fast after the Big Bang. Do they break the universe or …
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Because It’s Friday – What the future will think of us.
This week the “Because It’s Friday” bit is a time travel story from Randall Munroe that may take a moment or two to sink in. xkcd: Late Cenozoic The hover over comment is also excellent. Time to mess with future history. Dinosaurs featured in one of my earliest “Because It’s …
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