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CATEGORY: AI, CAREERS IN IT, Innovation, Software Development

IS THIS A NEW ERA FOR SOFTWARE DEVELOPERS?

20.01.2026 Claude Code: The Next Phase in AI Coding Accelerate Development. Automate Tasks. Understand Complex Projects. Claude Code is an advanced AI-powered command-line tool from Anthropic (www.anthropic.com) that functions as an intelligent coding agent. It enables developers to automate development tasks, debug and understand codebases, and build features directly from the terminal using natural language. […]

CATEGORY: Safeguarding, Security, Software Development, WEBINARS

INFORMATION SECURITY WEBINAR

22.07.2025 Information Security – the issues and challenges. Chris Myers gives a thought-provoking presentation about Artificial Intelligence and ethical developments. He begins by asking: “How do we know that the information provided by AI is true, accurate, and non-biased?”. Chris looks into the warning from the ‘Godfather of AI’ Yoshua Bengio, who sounds the alarm […]

CATEGORY: IAP People, In The Press, Software Development

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: Innovation, IT History, Mobile Apps, Software Development

DEVELOPMENT & REDUNDANCY

18.03.2025 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 […]

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 […]