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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: Innovation, IT History, Mobile Apps, Software Development

DEVELOPMENT & REDUNDANCY

The Child Trust Fund: A Legacy of Development and Redundancy. The Child Trust Fund (CTF) aspired to be a vision for financial security. It was a UK government initiative introduced by the then-Chancellor Gordon Brown in 2002. Designed to provide every child born between 1 September 2002 and 2 January 2011 with a financial start […]

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: Data Retention, Software Development

DATA RETENTION: WHAT TO KEEP & HOW LONG FOR

By Dr Paul S. Ganney FIAP The question of Data Retention has been around almost as long as storage has existed, but over the last couple of decades, the driver has changed. Originally it was the cost of the media: it was standard practice for organisations such as the BBC to re-use the tapes that […]

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, Software Development

PRACTICAL USES OF AI SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT

Reviewing and Refactoring Article by John Ellis FIAP Cmpn, FRSA, MBCS While AI has been around for over half a century and probably before that, the last 2 years have seen some of the greatest leaps in the technology. This is in the main, down to the implementation of Large Language Models (LLM’s) which […]

CATEGORY: EVENTS & EXPOS, Innovation, IT History, Security, Software Development, Uncategorised

THE FINTECH EVOLUTION

Our Next Webinar: Friday 13th September 2024 at 2pm. FROM BARTER TO BLOCKCHAIN: THE EVOLUTION & SECURITY OF FINTECH. We delve into the historical evolution of financial trade, tracing its roots from ancient barter systems and the advent of commodities-based currency around 3000 BC to the sophisticated banking operations of Ancient Mesopotamia and the medieval […]

CATEGORY: Software Development

CANARY DEPLOYMENT: WHAT IS IT & WHY IT MATTERS

Advanced technology is not always immediately effective and well received. There’s a risk that users will not adapt to or ultimately accept every new software release due to functionality complications or bugs that affect system software.