TooMuchGreen

So, another government organisation was brought to it’s knees on New Years Day by the W32 Conficker worm virus (professional etiquette prevents me from revealing my source and the institution in question), nice timing, and a happy new year.

The result of the attack was a 100% national lockout of all computer user accounts & till systems, quite something and a nice introduction to 2010 for the poor I.T staff who had to drop their games consoles to tackle a major security breach whilst the rest of the UK were sat finishing off the Christmas chocolates and watching TV with their feet up.  Read more... (estimated reading time 2:22 mins)

No matter what Google Wave or Tweetdeck may present to us in the way of cutting edge instant comms the bulky back end business world of I.T is invariably slow to adopt such technological freshness. Email is still the preferred method of communication and will probably be so for some time, as such it’s obviously somewhat prudent to have a robust and comprehensive cost effective solution in place.  Read more... (estimated reading time 3:05 mins)