Month: August 2011
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SARS email blunder
It’s interesting to see that SARS is not immune to the occasional blunder ( in this case very serious one ). An email was sent out on Monday evening to apparent tax employers ( around 15000 recipients ), that were also included in an attachment containing the email addresses. It’s been noted that a 2nd…
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Mobile Security in a nutshell
Mobile security has morphed in the last few years to become a major area of security concern. It’s no longer just laptops that provide on-the-go networked computing – smartphones, tablets, ultra-portables, e-readers and other networked devices now all vie for a space in your electronic arsenal, and they all come with their unique set of…
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Windows 8 a KDE clone?
Microsoft has always been accused of following the pack rather than innovating. So it’s no surprise that early screenshots of the Windows 8 copy dialogue seem to be a direct rip-off of the KDE 4 copy dialogue, from the ‘multiple copy operations in single dialogue’ visual aspect: to the bandwidth usage graphs: The…
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Symantec Endpoint Security issues
Regular readers of this blog will know that I’m not a fan of Anti-Virus companies, especially when they use FUD to sell their products. What’s even worse is when a security application, which is supposed to protect you from security issues, has security issues itself. Symantec’s workstation anti-virus application, SEP, is apparently riddled with them…
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Microsoft: Cloud Services fail
Well if there’s ever been an advertisement against cloud services, Microsoft is it. The recent spate of outages on Microsoft’s BPOS system continued this weekend past with a 7 hour outage at their Dublin data centre after an ‘act of God’ took out their power grid and backup generators. Microsoft said it would “proactively provide…
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Social media good and bad
Social media has played a huge part in the political and social world over the last year. Consider its links to uprisings in the Middle East and now riots in the UK. On the one hand we have idiots like Tottenham MP David Lammy calling for the suspension of RIM’s BBM service ( thanks David,…
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Apple’s security issues draw apologists
One of the reasons I was drawn to the Android stable as a mobile platform was it’s open nature. The fact that I can control the use of my own phone is important to me. Having someone else say what I can and can’t do with it, is not on. So it is that I’ve…
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UK Violence
Any kind of violence is a sad thing to see. We’ve seen our own share here in the south of Africa however, things have been tailing off for a number of years now while people get on with the business of living. Yes we have our issues, but for the most part things just go…
