So if you've been experiencing problems with access to some web sites and platforms on Tuesday 28th February 2017 between 09:37 and 13:54PST, you may have been a victim of…
5 years of Raspberry Pi – Happy Birthday to the makers board of choice
Five years ago, my son obtained a Raspberry Pi. I'd heard a lot about the $35 board that had been in the news, and how it was supposed to bring…
Mr Robot’s Christian Slater warns about the dangers of hackers breaking into your printer in an ad for HP
I've been watching Mr. Robot over the last few weeks, and whilst it's a little dramatic on the info-sec elements of the hacking involved, the series has been quite good,…
#SaferInternetDay – so let’s sign some things, like that new repository
It's Safer Internet Day today. #giveasmile Part of being safe on the Internet is making sure you know what you are downloading.. so let's make sure that you're downloading those…
Building a Wireshark for CentOS 7
Update: If you're just keen on grabbing the latest Wireshark, check out the Wireshark on Centos TL;DR version. Or the new version 2.4.0 build documentation. So as part of some…
Multi-Gigabit Ethernet is here – IEEE 802.11bz
In June 2015, the IEEE created a working group to bring two industry alliances together to deliver Multi-Gigabit Ethernet. Work done by the NBASE-T and MGBASE-T industry groups is brought…
RESTful Server Management with some Redfish
Managing servers is hard enough. Doing it with a rack of servers is more difficult. Maintaining a data centre full of servers can provide a significant challenge. There are lots…
What is the Blockchain, and how does it work?
In a digital world, managing individual items is a challenge, as it is far to easy to copy them creating copies (and reducing the value of each). The blockchain provides…