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WHY STANDARDS ARE SO IMPORTANT

10.06.2025 Chinese solar inverters are cause for growing concerns regarding cybersecurity risks. Europe and the USA have growing concerns over the cybersecurity risks posed by Chinese-made photovoltaic inverters. Undisclosed communication devices, so called ‘kill-switch’ components, have been found on Chinese-made solar power inverters. A report warns that a cyberattack could potential destabilize the power grids […]

CATEGORY: Cyber Attack, In The Press, Security, Software Development

DESIGNING RESILIENT SOFTWARE

12.05.2025 Cyber Attack Awareness. M&S, the Co-op and Harrods have all been recent victims of cyber attack. Software Developers Beware In the spirit of ‘improving software for society’, the IAP urge software developers to raise their awareness around cyber security in order to create and design more resilient software to combat cyber attack. Avoid using […]

CATEGORY: In The Press, Software Development

READ ALL ABOUT IT

28.04.2025 Keep informed with the best online computer magazines. We’ve chosen and given you links to, what we think, are the top four reads. You can have a quick catch up or read in-depth about everything from influential people, cyber attacks, the best tech gear, gaming and what’s coming next. We’ve given you some headlines […]

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

A FOOL-PROOF GUIDE TO AVOIDING IT SPECIFIC SCAMS

01.04.2025 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 […]

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

DEEPSEEK – WHAT’S ALL THE FUSS ABOUT?

04.02.2025 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 […]

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

NEW YEARS HONOURS FOR POST OFFICE CAMPAIGNERS

20.01.2025 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 […]

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 […]