Many countries have a national emergency alert system, delivered to their citizens via suitable mobile phones – now there is a UK Emergency Alert System. These systems can be operated by region and issue emergency alerts for serious weather events, earthquakes etc.. Although false alarms happen the rapid warning of …
What Musk had to say to the BBC.
There has been a lot of negative press about Twitter lately – I have covered it on Smart Thinking – this interview by James Clayton, the BBC North America tech reporter, is worth listening to as it is Elon Musk’s own words about Twitter and the state the company is …
Outsourcing company for the MoD suffers a “cyber incident”
Capita is the largest outsourcing company in the UK and counts among it’s contracts the Ministry of Defence’s nuclear submarine training simulators, has reported it has suffered a “cyber incident”. Capita, company providing UK’s nuclear submarine training, confirms ‘cyber incident’ (therecord.media) The nature of the incident has not been disclosed …
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VPN are important for everyone’s privacy and security
Some governments do not like private citizen using VPNs to hide their online activities and protect their privacy. Here is an opinion piece from Ashley Belanger on Ars Technica discussing this: Fighting VPN criminalization should be Big Tech’s top priority, activists say | Ars Technica
Another new UK agency for cyber security
We have the National Cyber Security Centre – why is this new agency not a department of that? UK creates new National Protective Security Agency • The Register It is a good idea to have a department with these specific responsibilities but a completely new agency – it is our …