When IT Meets Politics
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Help secure the top UK entry point for cyberfraud
- Winsafe Ltd 17 Jun 2020 -
Tackling the Covid Cyberfraud Pandemic
- Winsafe Ltd 07 Jun 2020 -
Reskilling those whose futures have been destroyed by the Covid lockdown
- Winsafe Ltd 01 Jun 2020
“NHS” is the UK’s most trusted brand. Until recently it was one of the least protected/secure. There have been significant improvements but, as a result of Covid, impersonating the NHS now comes ...
The Covid-19 lockdown has led to an explosion of fraud and abuse, both on-line and in the "real" world. Before Test and Trace is fully operational it is already being spoofed . The problems are ...
The Covid lockdown has demonstrated the potential of Educational Technology to support remote learning and workplace training but the focus on “free” access threatens to destroy the revenue streams ...
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Blue tooth, not privacy, is the problem with NHSX
- Winsafe Ltd 19 May 2020 -
Protecting Data or “Saving Lives; Saving Livelihoods”: Which comes first in a post Covid World?
- Winsafe Ltd 17 May 2020 -
Who will fund Full-fibre roll out after Covid?
- Winsafe Ltd 07 May 2020 -
When IT met Covid: The World Changed
- Winsafe Ltd 27 Apr 2020 -
Combatting Covid Fraud: both doorstep and on-line: clarifying the sources of guidance
- Winsafe Ltd 07 Apr 2020 -
100,000 Community and Cyber Police volunteers to help handle the Covid aftermath
- Winsafe Ltd 03 Apr 2020 -
Tomorrow began last week: Preparing for a Post Covid Lockdown World
- Winsafe Ltd 28 Mar 2020
He would never enable Bluetooth on a mobile phone because of its inherent security problems. It is unclear how many of these have been fixed with the latest releases. But some are unlikely to be ...
Almost every nation except for those which already had them as a legacy of SARS (e.g. Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan) has had to move fast to produce computer systems that will help support a ...
The time has come for Ofcom to regulate on price, quality of service (including the resilience required of a critical infrastructure utility) and behaviour and stop trying to predict costs and ...
This the first plague where predictions of its likely local impact reached rulers/politicians/journalists before their subjects/voters/readers starting falling ill and/or dying in large numbers ... ...
The UK is apparently the number one target for covid-related on-line fraud but doorstep fraudsters are targeting those who do not go on-line with “testing” and “decontamination” services.
The proportion of special constables to full time police has fallen over the past 20 years from 16% in 1996 to 9% in 2019. The trend is distorted by the Metropolitan Police where the proportion ...
There is much to think about while we are in lockdown if we want to live in a relatively free, safe and democratically accountable society afterwards, for however long it takes us to rebuild ...
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Is personal privacy more important than combatting Covid-19?
- Winsafe Ltd 26 Mar 2020 -
When On-line Education and Training meet the Covid-19 Lockdown
- Winsafe Ltd 22 Mar 2020 -
An effective UK response to Covid 19 will require over-ruling current Ofcom policy
- Winsafe Ltd 03 Mar 2020 -
Broadband/5G Security, Resilience, Competition, Huawei, Ofcom and Brexit
- Winsafe Ltd 01 Feb 2020 -
2020 The year of VOIP assisted on-line fraud
- Winsafe Ltd 10 Jan 2020
Concerns over personal privacy, of serious concern to the political activists who might be "picked off" by their opponents but not to the majority of the population, have come ahead of enthusiasm ...
The most comprehensive and authoritative source of information on changes to the availability of educational materials for those of school age is the corona virus page of the London Grid for Learning
The effect of corporate and individual responses to the Covid-19 problem is to expedite changes in demand that make a nonsense of Ofcom's recent market reviews. They also overtake most of the ...
Fast, reliable Internet access is essential for business competitiveness in a post Brexit world. It is also critical to the rest of modern society. If the fixed and mobile networks of BT/EE, ...
The Internet as we know began with a DARPA three way trial of Voice over IP using a Packet Radio Van to simulate the needs of the military for secure mobile communications. The wheel has come full ...