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Having recently suffered the annoyance of having my bank card details cloned, no doubt at a cash machine on one of my various foreign excursions, security is at the front of my mind - especially given the massive inconveniences it has caused me in the meantime; I have virtually had to put my life on hold.
This all brings to mind the many and various ways that we can have our lives invaded by those that wish to do us harm. Whether it be at work with confidential and proprietary business information or at home with personal banking information. This can cause everyone concerned massive inconvenience, like having to wait 10 days for a new bank card, or the implications that the loss of company data can have for an organisation.
Prevention is better than cure in all cases and being vigilant and putting in place appropriate safeguards is the best defence. This defence is best implemented in a multi-layered fashion, the first line of defence is ensuring that all users have a 'strong' password that is known only to them (strong meaning more than 8 characters containing a mixture of numbers, lower and upper case letters, and punctuation marks).
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This week has been a mixed bag on the technology front with a variety of interesting (and less interesting) stories hitting the news.
Google has managed to maintain a presence in China today avoiding the shutdown of its services in that part of the world due to a long running dispute over censorship.
More locally, the anticipated roll out of high speed fibre has run into some resistance from local residents claiming the boxes are too ugly for the street - an issue BT has successfully negotiated before and only a minor stumbling block in this latest round of broadband updates. On the flip side, a parish council in Kent has just financed £13,000 of a total £75,000 bill for providing the community with fibre broadband - which may prove a precedent for other local communities.
The iPhone issues surrounding the reception are still ongoing with claim and counterclaim being thrown back and forth between various interested parties. Apple claims that the issue can be fixed by a software update that would make the reception indication bars more accurate, while others claim that it is effectively a short circuit of the antenna, caused by users gripping the phone in the wrong way. When all is said and done, I am sure it will not affect the sales figures.
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