Naughty Boris

A minute doesn’t seem to go by these days without the Prime Minister getting his wrists slapped, or in the case of this week’s Supreme Court decision being given the full treatment from the spider brooch wearing Lady Hale. As you know we avoid political ranting in this blog, pretty much the only place we […]

INTERNET EXPLORER CRITICAL VULNERABILITY

Priority: High Executive Summary: Microsoft have released an emergency security update for Internet Explorer following the discovery of a remote code execution vulnerability in the product [1]. The vulnerability, which is known to affect at least versions 9-11 of Internet Explorer, is caused by an issue in how the web browser’s scripting engine handles objects […]

Satellite’s Gone

Some of you will be old enough and have enough working synapses to remember the early days of the DEF CON hacking conference. If you think you remember the first one, which was in 1992, you would have to be one of the hundred or so hackers who attended what was essentially a private party […]

DNSSL

We know, it’s just that DNSTLS didn’t sound as nice. This week, the mighty Google announced that it would be experimenting with the use of DNS-Over-HTTPS (aka DoH) in the next version of the Chrome browser (release 78). Now all of our readers will no doubt be aware of many of the functions of DNS, […]

Tech industry reacts to Brexit latest: ‘Give us certainty’

Article by Robert Scammell – Verdict  Parliament is prorogued, the House of Commons speaker is stepping down and prime minister Boris Johnson has lost six votes in as many days. But for all the fanfare in Westminster, the country remains in stasis, none the wiser as to whether the UK will still be in the European […]

Are You OK UK?

Now it would be very easy to fall into the trap of thinking that we were going to start spouting on about politics, or even worse religion, but oh no we have decided to give the editing team a well-deserved break, and despite the absolute richness of the material available, we are talking about something […]