Posts by taxman

Perhaps

if she had hosted it on TVAlways it might have had more success

World gangs up on....

http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/press/excom.htm

Look who works for the UK tax office now. Any views from the grassy knoll on similarities in approaches by UK and now Australia on Corp tax affairs?

Smell the sh

innanigans that goes on in Board Rooms when they ask why should they spend money on IT Security - it doesn't provide any income.

Yeah, but it stops losses - as long as you have defence in depth. And for that these days should be starting outside your front door.

Oh and how about some regular deep dive helath checks?

When will VPs, CEO etc realise that Security costs - a bit like insurance. You hope you will never need it, resent the cost because you don't use it..... but round that corner

A number 17 and 39 please

*infiltrating US university computers first and then routing their attacks through them*

Thought the US institutions would have had their networks locked down - what do they pay their IT Dept to do?

* Malware was installed on The Times' computers to open a backdoor for the attackers to remotely control the compromised machines,*

What and how?

A bit light on information and much on sensationalism. Daily Fail material

Found you

on FB (or as my daughter calls it - F**kbook, rather apt now). Do you take payment in Coins?

Oooooh Ahhhhhhh

Light up the sky with.......

A nice challenge to try to mimic using Estes kit bits and pieces!

Tut tut

This story was published by SC Magazine on the 29th!

Come on El Reg, keep up!

SkyDrive?

'There is also a bit more cloud in Office 2013, which hooks into SkyDrive so users are steered towards cloud storage. The advantage is that documents will be available across all devices.'

Steered......as in default and has to be changed by the user (and how many PICNICs have you come across!)

Yeah, great, wonderful........until something (insert disaster of your choice) happens to your Interweb connection or you want to retrieve a doc on the move and there's no signal for for dongle (and there are places in the UK where that happens) or you don't have enough credit left on your download.

Limited capacity

causes limited uses - particularly in the Corporate arena.

HDDs can be encrypted and locked down. Great, so there is potential for use in Public Sector.

Tablets? Well to some extent yes. But you cannot lock down SD cards securely - and they are more likely to be lost than USB flash drives. And use of WiFi.....unless fed through a VPN I'd rather have it disabled.....which is damn near impossible on the iPad (yup 3G is ok if using the fruity provider).

So although there are clammerings from the masses for new shiney toys, for anything that is being used out of an office I'll stick to a laptop thanks.

Until matters improve.

Oh I so hope so!

This may be the means of finally eliminating, or at least reducing, costly bills incurred by parents when their offspring go over their web download limits by watching drivel on YouTube over and over (et al) again.

I say this as one whose offspring are no longer my responsibility financially (at last!!!!) but i have to listen to others at work who go through this.

Yay! No WiFi

Could this be why iOS6 is considered more secure than Android?

Less of a Tangerine Dream

more of a nightmare.

Then again I surcame to the misfortunes of the Camputers and the Lynx.

Twits Twocked

Yet another loses control?!

Perhaps the UK Gov should follow the French and contemplate taxing use of this 'social networking' illness.

Please!!!

Expensive train crash to come?

How on earth are these guys going to ensure that the person connected to the data is the correct person basing it on name, DoB and address? Son/daughter named after father/mother at same address? Young children already getting voting papers? What about people already signed up for services - are they expected to re-register or will they be migrated over (heaven help us there too!).

Oh and not to forget coporate users - will these be linked to a company name or an entity within the company. Oh and agents. mustn't forget about them. See they haven't even been brought into the equation yet.

And notice the lack of any Bank names who typically deal with customers electronically except.....PayPal?! Remember this is intended as an assured identity sufficient to securely link an online identity with a Government service?!

And who will foot the bill if there is a case of an 'unauthorised' person/company gaininig access to a users account and getting benefits etc fruadulently - let alone get access to a load of personal data!

Whoever is guiding the Cabinet Office on this is really out on a limb!

We trust computers to fly jets

What?!

Do we?

Fallen star

Really , really suprised that if this guy was *a star programmer* that he didn't realise that security audits of logins would take place after making VPN/work at home available! Standard security practice - check up where your workers are logging in from - home network or offsite. Tsh!

Branch Line

Perhaps, with a slight name change for a subsidary, they could also consider putting in bids to save our pottery industry?

I wonder

how long it takes to think 'why wasn't he holding the other one?'.

But the comment on the comment about mounting them.....sheer joy!

S'il vous plaît excusez-moi, mais

App Le Store?

Password required

Why do I have a password/swipescreen on my phone Dear? Well, it's to stop anyone using it if I happen to lose it.

Why don't I tell you what it is Dear? Well why on earth would you need to know when you have a phone of your own? I mean, who would phone/text you on my phone?

Gym slips & hockey sticks

Plusgymnasiet high school - the Swedish equivalent of our St Trinians?

(Where's my wallet?)

It's not a remake

of Ice Station Zebra is it? (yes ok North South issue.....)

Australian State launches IBM probe

Is that to prove that it's not just the North Koreans who can.....