Category: Technology
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Paid to find security bugs?
Security for most companies these days is paramount. There are many steps one can take to ensure that a system is secure, from switching it of at one extreme to hiring consultants to analyse every minute line of code to look for problems. Balancing money with time however leads to most companies taking somewhere in…
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Yet Another BT Price Rise [YABTPR]…
Just when you thought that value for money was poor in the telecoms industry, especially in reference to the hated British Telecom, BT go and put the price up. That’s right, another hike in the cost of service from one of the worst telecoms companies in the world. Last year we transferred our phone line…
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Rootkit breaches network security in India, Are you effected?
In my role at work I recently had the opportunity to discuss with a expert in security aspects of the PCI-Data Security Standard in the context of storing credit card information. This covers amongst many other things, whom has access to the data. Our client has a team in India doing work for his site…
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The Times looses 66% of readers over fees.
According to an article published on rival news paper website The Gaurdian, the Times has managed to loose its self the majority of its readers. For a news paper, this cant be a good sign and is probably likely to extend to physical newspaper sales too. Impacting on an industry which already faces problems with…
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Supercomputer says Chicken first!
The UK National Supercomputing service, HECToR is perhaps more well known as being a top of the line supercomputer based in Edinburgh for advanced research. Working away on such projects as Quantum chemistry Cancer Research and other Modeling tasks. In a joint project between Shefeild University and Warwick University aimed at study into the structure…
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One pad to rule them all…
Well the iPad has been released, and it seems to be quite popular albeit no one really knows what its really for. I can see some convinence uses out of it like reading an ebook whilst sitting on the loo. Or having a manual to reffer to when installing an computer system that has no…