Over the previous 18 months since discovering the Google Android Platform I have played with many an app from the Google Android Market, all of which were free, out of the many hundreds which I download apart from one which I did delve deep in to my pocket and paid the couple of pound to […]
Four days after the PlayStation Network reopened, Sony has taken down login and password recovery pages for the service following reports they contained a serious flaw that was actively exploited to hijack user accounts. The vulnerability, which was first reported by UK-based gaming news site Nyleveia.com, required only that an attacker know the date of […]
Sunderland University recently hosted an event for the ‘British Chartered Institute for IT’ Newcastle upon Tyne branch with guest speaker Sam Raincock (from Sam Raincock Consultancy) introducing the topic of Computer Forensics. “Samantha Raincock BSc (Hons), MSc, CISSP, CCE, MBCS, CEng MIET is a digital forensics consultant/expert witness, trainer and IT Security specialist. She has produced over […]
Cyber Wars: ITV1 Thursday 24th February at 7.30pm The internet and the virtual world has come to play a bigger and bigger part in our day to day lives. Increasing amounts of our business and daily routine is carried out online. Tonight we show that whilst this has brought huge benefits, there are also risks. […]