Long term readers will know my position on the UK Conservative Government’s Online Safety Bill – I like the idea, I like some part and hate other. But I object to “to catch the paedophiles” or “to catch the terrorists” lines that are often used to get us all onboard. …
What would tech writers write about if ChatGPT did not exist?
ChatGPT has been used for homework, writing radio programmes, academic papers, articles, coding, hacking etc. etc. etc.. Here are some of the most recent articles examining privacy and cyber crime using artificial intelligence, of which the adapting, convincing email scams is probably the issue that organisations need to think about …
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More Twitter issues – and why text messages are a poor authentication option
Now the SMS text authentication is only working for some people: Twitter’s SMS Two-Factor Authentication Is Melting Down | WIRED Do you want to know why SMS text message authentication is a very poor third behind app based multi-factor authentication and just about anything else? Read on: Twitter ‘closes offices’ …
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Malware attacking routers
A large number of popular routers are the target of some sophisticated malware, that can take control of connected Windows, macOS, and Linux devices. A New, Remarkably Sophisticated Malware Is Attacking Routers | WIRED The malware is called ZuoRAT and is impacting routers by Draytek, Cisco and Netgear among many …
Apple and FIDO
Apple will be releasing iOS 16 to the public this autumn, however the developer release was made at Apple’s World Wide Developers Conference 2022. Also announced were an array of forthcoming Apple hardware and software about to be released – what interests me here is that Apple, true to it’s …
