Obsolete software

The situation was that the IT company employed to maintain the client’s web sites was unable to resolve a problem that had emerged. Our initial diagnostic identified the problem as being caused by a server software version update, the client’s web site was...

Artificial intelligence

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. Introduction You may think AI (Artificial Intelligence) is just for the technical experts. Wrong. Give it a try free at chat.openai.com First a warning: the...

Email scams

Scam emails used to be pretty obviously dodgy. The scammers have got smarter.  Nigerian princes no longer wish to share their inheritance, nobody wants to sell us viagra, fake watches or sign us up to an online casino. We can no longer discard emails simply because an...

Why should I care about Email security

Many people believe that it wouldn’t matter if their email account was hacked – it’s only full of trivia, what use is it to anyone that my aunt has sent me birthday greetings? Well now the hacker knows your birthday, and if she’s said something like “Happy 40th”...

Two factor authentication and passkeys

What is it and why should you care? Two factor authentication is just one of a few phrases that mean essentially the same thing, commonly abbreviated to 2FA or similar.  MFA, multi factor authentication, is closely similar but allows for the possibility of more than 2...