London 2012 Olympics relying on the Microsoft Office Suite

The London 2012 Olympics is set be a humanoid spectacle of the like never witnessed by the world’s population before. Or something. But disturbing information has reached us at Vulture Central that reveals the organisation’s entire cultural events database is stored in *gasp* Excel. A job vacancy currently advertised on the London Organising Committee of […]

Higher education cuts could make or break the ITSec industry

As with all sectors and industries, education sector employees are not immune to cost cutting and the threat of redundancy. We’re not talking about the nurseries or even GCSE level educators, but the higher education and university sector. The university and higher education fee charging sector is the sector which you would expect to be […]

Re-Identification

Identity theft isn’t the biggest threat to your privacy online. According to one leading US lawyer, it’s the details you give away without realising – and even seemingly anonymous data can be used to piece together your identity. ‘Re-identification’ – the process of piecing together someone’s ID from fragments of anonymous data – could see […]

Erasing David

“A documentary about privacy, surveillance and the database state. David Bond lives in one of the most intrusive surveillance states in the world.  He decides to find out how much private companies and the government know about him by putting himself under surveillance and attempting to disappear, a decision that changes his life forever.  Leaving […]

How badly do you want to know who is viewing your Facebook profile?

I’m increasingly being asked by folks on Facebook if it’s possible to tell who has been viewing their Facebook profile. A number have been attracted to webpages and Facebook applications that claim to be able to give you a secret insight into who is spying on your profile. Well, if you’re one of those people […]

User’s and their Wireless Security…

Two out of five UK home users don’t have a clue about how to change the security settings of their home wireless network. The 21st century equivalent of a failure in understanding how to program home video recorders was exposed in a survey commissioned by privacy watchdogs at the Information Commissioners Office (ICO). The online […]