Google researchers are reporting on spyware that is active on both Apple and Android smartphones – the spyware is called Hermit and Google has taken steps to protect Android users. The software developed and marketed by RCS Lab, based in Milan, will exfiltrate messages ,contacts and password information from targeted …
Because It’s Friday – last minute shopping for Father’s Day… and of course the sentient Google AI story
It is Father’s Day this Sunday, and just in case you still have to buy your Dad a present, I have some ideas over on Octagon Technology that might help you out: Of course if you are well organised, you bought a gift, card and booked the restaurant or food …
Today Internet Explorer 11 is no more…
End of support for Internet Explorer 11 web browser Today 15 June 2022, Microsoft will retire the Internet Explorer (IE) 11 after 27 years of Internet Explorer being included with Windows. There will no longer be security updates for the application, which means when the threat actors find flaws in …
Facebook phishing campaign
I think the number is more than a quarter of the world’s population has a Facebook account, couple that with Meta’s international reputation for information security and ethics and so it is no surprise that it is a target for scammers and threat actors Facebook phishing campaign nets millions in …
Clearview facial recognition company fined
The ICO has taken action against Clearview AI Inc for using the images of UK residents to create a global face recognition database and has prohibited them from collecting images of UK residents from the internet. This was a joint investigation between the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) …
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Morals in the Metaverse
This is an article worth reading by Laurie Clarke. It starts with a disturbing account of one woman’s experience of the fledgling Metaverse and goes on to look at the technology, issues and solutions that may shape the next step in immersive technology. Can we create a moral metaverse? | …
Because It’s Friday – A Trip to Mars
There was an interesting article that attracted my attention in The Guardian, by John Naughton about Wernher von Braun, often called the “Father of the American Space Program”. For those of you that do not know it, von Braun and some other technicians who had worked with him on the …