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CATEGORY: In The Press, Safeguarding, Security, Software Development

A FOOL-PROOF GUIDE TO AVOIDING IT SPECIFIC SCAMS

Avoiding IT Specific Scams in the UK: A Guide for Professionals Credential Harvesting & Phishing HOW IT WORKS: Attackers send fake login pages for systems like Office 365, AWS, GitHub, etc. TACTICS: – Lookalike domains (micr0soft.com, aws-support.co.uk) – MFA fatigue attacks: constant login prompts to trick you into approving DEFENCE: – Use hardware-based 2FA (e.g., […]

CATEGORY: AI, In The Press, Innovation, Mobile Apps

DEEPSEEK – WHAT’S ALL THE FUSS ABOUT?

DeepSeek – What’s All The Fuss About? By Ian Barker BA, FIAP, MBCS At the end of January millions of dollars were wiped off the value of US tech company stocks following the launch of a Chinese generative AI app called DeepSeek. Silicon Valley venture capitalist Marc Andreessen described the latest DeepSeek model as ‘AI’s […]

CATEGORY: In The Press, Post Office, Post Office Scandal

NEW YEARS HONOURS FOR POST OFFICE CAMPAIGNERS

New Year Honours Recognise Campaigners of the Post Office Horizon Scandal The 2025 New Year Honours list has acknowledged individuals who played pivotal roles in uncovering and addressing the Post Office Horizon scandal, one of the most significant miscarriages of justice in recent British history. Among the honourees are former sub-postmasters and campaigners who tirelessly […]

CATEGORY: In The Press, Post Office, Post Office Scandal, Security, Software Development

POST OFFICE SCANDAL – 25 YEARS ON

Spare a thought when you post your Christmas cards. The Post Office Horizon Scandal. Where are we now? It took until 2019 for the Horizon system to be found error-prone in a High Court judgement after first being exposed by Computer Weekly in 2009. More than 900 sub-postmasters were wrongly prosecuted. Up until now, 93 […]

CATEGORY: Automation, In The Press, Innovation

THE VULNERABILITIES OF DEMOCRACY

A Look into the film ‘Kill Chain: The Cyber War on America’s Elections’. A few days before the American Presidential Election, I watched the HBO documentary ‘Kill Chain: The Cyber War on America’s Elections’ on Sky Arts TV. It offers a chilling deep dive into the vulnerability of American democracy in the digital age. Directed […]

CATEGORY: IAP People, In The Press, Software Development

OBFUSCATIONS & RUMINATIONS

In July 2024 the IAP ran a webinar called ‘Programming Provoking Poetry’. Yes, poetry. If you’re thinking, how does poetry relate to the activities and concerns of the IAP and its members, you need to read the works and poems by Paul Lynham, BSc (Hons) MSc PGCE FIAP. Paul’s prose are about science, technology, biology, […]

CATEGORY: AI, EVENTS & EXPOS, In The Press, Innovation

AI. WHAT DO YOU KNOW?

The significance and presence of AI in our lives continues to grow. In February 2024 the UK’s Office for Artificial Intelligence became part of the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology:

CATEGORY: EVENTS & EXPOS, In The Press, IT History

D-DAY 80 YEAR ANNIVERSARY

On 6th June 2024, on the 80 year anniversary of D-Day, events were held across the UK to commemorate the largest seaborne invasion in history; a mission that marked the beginning of Western Europe’s liberation in the second world war. Here’s an overview of how computing helped at this critical time. COMPUTING IN THE 1940s […]