Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
Update: The mission was scrubbed for today. …however today is a Bank Holiday weekend here in England, so for those of us on leave here is something extra. It is either a “Because It’s Friday” or a “Weekend Read” feature, you can choose! For the regular reader, you know that …
This is an interesting article, by Namrata Primlani a Doctoral Researcher at Northumbria University, Newcastle, looking at the technical and ethical issues of using facial recognition for tracking offenders: Facial recognition: UK plans to monitor migrant offenders are unethical – and they won’t work (theconversation.com) And the view from India: …
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This was going to be a “weekend read” but I thought it was important enough to be part of the main news feed. For an email phishing scam to work it has to, in some way, make you trust it. This exploitation of your trust is called social engineering and …
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I just missed these announcements for last week’s “Because It’s Friday”. NASA has released the first scientific infrared images produced by the James Webb Space Telescope: First Images from the James Webb Space Telescope | NASA Senior Project Scientist John Mather Reflects on Journey to Webb’s First Images – James …
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The link is tenuous but this article by Claudia Wascher and Thomas Ings from Anglia Ruskin University is worth a read: How the birds and the bees help coffee plants (theconversation.com) Let’s go back to last week’s Because It’s Friday So you want the answer? We only had one winner …
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