IT Support and Cyber Security in Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire
Two food-creating 3D printers that will launch later this year have been unveiled in Las Vegas. The machines make chocolate and sugar-based confectionery shaped in ways that would be difficult to produce using traditional methods. The smaller one, Chefjet, is limited to monochrome creations, but the larger Chefjet Pro can create multicoloured objects. However, experts […]
Facebook is facing a class action lawsuit over allegations that it monitors users’ private messages. The lawsuit claims that when users share a link to another website via a private message, Facebook scans it to profile the sender’s web activity. It alleges that Facebook systematically intercepts messages to mine user data and profits by sharing […]
If you are visiting this page the chances are that you are not a human, at least according to research. A study by Incapsula suggests 61.5% of all website traffic is now generated by bots. The security firm said that was a 21% rise on last year’s figure of 51%. Some of these automated software […]
Leading global technology firms have called for “wide-scale changes” to US government surveillance. Eight firms, Google, Apple, Facebook, Twitter, AOL, Microsoft, LinkedIn, and Yahoo, have formed an alliance called Reform Government Surveillance group. The group has written a letter to the US President and Congress arguing that current surveillance practice “undermines the freedom” of people. […]
ZeroAccess, one of the world’s largest botnets – a network of computers infected with malware to trigger online fraud – has been disrupted by Microsoft and law enforcement agencies. ZeroAccess hijacks web search results and redirects users to potentially dangerous sites to steal their details. It also generates fraudulent ad clicks on infected computers then […]
CHILDREN are struggling to learn simple tasks such as using a pen or pencil after being exposed to an “overwhelming” amount of technology before they start school, researchers have warned. The study has found that pre-schoolers need to be protected from a “technological creep” which has seen items such as tablets increasingly used in nursery […]
A computer program is trying to learn common sense by analysing images 24 hours a day. The aim is to see if computers can learn, in the same way a human would, what links images, to help them better understand the visual world. The Never Ending Image Learner (NEIL) program is being run at Carnegie […]
Massachusetts police have admitted to paying a bitcoin ransom after being infected by the Cryptolocker ransomware. The Cryptolocker malware infects a computer, normally via a legitimate-looking email that urges the reader to open an attachment often posing as a voicemail, fax, invoice or details of a suspicious transaction that is being queried. Once the Windows […]
Google, the Internet search giant, has promised a worldwide block on search results linked to child abuse. In an about turn the media firm has agreed to make changes which will prevent illegal child pornography appearing for more than 100,000 different searches. The news comes ahead of Downing Street summit on online pornography later today, […]
A recent wave of malware has recently come to our attention. The malware, known as CryptoLocker, can have potentially devastating consequences if a user becomes infected. CryptoLocker is spread as an attachment in the form of spam emails, which disguise themselves as what appear to be credible sources, such as banks, building societies, Sage, FedEx, […]