Skill Zone News issue 133
Back in 2012, Microsoft abandoned the mature, stable, and well-designed Windows 7, and rolled out the little-loved Windows 8, an attempt to create a unified Windows operating system for everything from small mobiles to large-screen desktop PCs. This month Microsoft has announced it is ending support for the rarely used mobile phone version of Windows at the end of this year, and withdrawing from the mobile market. Sadly, we are still going to be stuck with a clunky Windows interface that was designed around a cellphone.
31st January 2019
Beware of push payment fraudsters
Yet again this month there are numerous reports in the press of people being duped out of thousands of pounds by fraudsters operating the authorised push payment scam, and yet again we have banks denying any liability for the losses.
The true cost of white collar crime
Earlier this month, British hacker Daniel Kaye was sentenced to two years and eight months after pleading guilty to computer misuse. The National Crime Agency described Kaye as "perhaps the most significant cyber criminal yet caught in the UK" and described his botnet as "one of the world's largest networks of compromised computers".
Won't someone think of the children
Age verification for accessing "adult" internet sites will become a legal requirement by Easter of this year. The change in law, originally intended for twelve months ago, was pushed back to this year, but once again, good intentions result in poor plans by law makers, and we seem no further forward than we were twenty years ago or more.