Nigel Stanley

A recent innovation is the use of a USB key drive that can be worn securely around the neck or wrist containing your medical data. Is this a good idea?

I sometimes wonder if I am turning into a sad cynical so-and-so that believes nothing I am told and is paranoid that "they" are all out to get me.

With high staff turnover and sometimes questionable working practices it would seem that criminals have decided call centre operators are easy targets

IE 7.0 - Flawed or Fine? I decided to take the plunge and upgrade one of the PCs chez Stanley to use IE 7.0 the other day.

Are you aware that some of your techies may be giving away vital information of great interest to hackers on forums?

I wonder how many regular visitors to this site caught the Channel 4 documentary the other night on data theft?

You run IE in your business and another flaw is found in the software. Do you install a third party fix to address the problem or wait until Microsoft release an "official" patch?

Apparently research recently undertaken by Ipsos MORI on behalf of security vendor McAfee across 600 European countries has revealed that many are struggling with complicated IT security arrangements.

There seems to be two camps - those that are cool about internet banking and those that won't be seen within a mile of a PC linked up to a bank. The latest threats should make you think again.

Good news - Firefox 2 nearly ready. Release Candidate 1 for version 2 is aimed at those that want to get their head around "almost ready" software.