This is a warning to all those who read my website. Ransomware is on the prowl again. Make sure your backups are in good working order. I have personally encountered ransomware and, thankfully, my client, a sizable company, who was…
I have used Google for quite a few years now and I know of some simple tricks to search for items, e.g. adding the name of a country, say, .au to the end of google.com to look for items which…
I have never ever really understood why people use Microsoft Office. I mean, I do know that large companies and government departments like the comfort of dealing with a big company like Microsoft but even the average man-on-the-street seems enamored…
Unfortunately it is not the stagefright you are probably thinking about 🙁 Stagefright is the name given to a malicious program which can affect over 1 billion Android phones. Yes, you heard that right – ONE BILLION ANDROID PHONES. That…
I have spent most of today trying to determine the veracity of the claims about this Windows 7 update debacle. OK, these are the facts I have managed to find out. Firstly, the dodgy update does exist. It was first…
Microsoft accidentally delivered a test update for Windows 7 yesterday. As yet, there is very little news about the update anywhere but there are reports that the update renders computers inoperable. At the time of writing this, there is no…
It appears that SYNful Knock is still a matter of interest to serious computing professionals as I am getting hits referred from Google on my website searching for information on it. Cisco, via their Talos Intel group, have released a…
Most of us have dealt with IT support and it is not always a pleasant experience. Having being at both ends, i.e. asking for IT support and giving IT support, I can understand why users don’t always get what they…
Named Data Networking is a network protocol proposal for the replacement of TCP/IP. First described in an IEEE paper in 1974, TCP/IP has grown to become the default network protocol for most networks and indeed the Internet. Although work by…
That’s all folks – no more IPv4 address for the US. Most of people who use the Internet have heard of the term “IP address”. For those who have never heard of it or do not know of it, think…