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The Woolworths Outage Is A Lesson In Business Continuity Planning
3Yesterday, Woolworths supermarkets around the country had to close their doors as the result of a massive IT outage. An IT issue resulted in point of sale systems going offline which meant products couldn’t scanned and the all important collection of money couldn’t be done. So, what can we learn from this?
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James Comey’s Book Highlights Why Governments And Techies Can’t Agree On Encryption
Over the weekend more excerpts and analysis from James Comey’s book, “A Hughes Loyalty” hit the media. And while much of the coverage focusses on his descriptions of the US President and his government, there were some other tidbits in there. In particular, there are some comments Comey made comments regarding the disconnect been the…
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Relevancy Of W3C In Question: Microsoft, Google, Apple And Mozilla Stop DOM 4.1 In Its Tracks
If one of the big tech companies says you’re wrong, you might shrug it off. But when four of them — Apple, Google, Microsoft and Mozilla — call you out, that’s when you’re in real trouble. This is the situation the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) found itself in after pulling some shenanigans with the…
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What Have We Learned From Facebook This Week
A lot has been written about Facebook over recent weeks, with the coverage reaching a crescendo early this week following Mark Zuckerberg’s ten hours of congressional testimony. But something has emerged that has given me pause. How do we consent to our data being shared?