DigiNotar, the Dutch certificate authority was recently the center of a significant hacking case. On the 19th July, the CA discovered that at least 531 rogue certificates has been issued. However, it was only in August that the attacked became public knowledge. Security firm, Fox-IT were hired to investigate the breach, and the compromise has … Read more
As an aside from the usual discussions, there is an interesting article on The Register discussing the trial of teaching programming to GCSE students. Having worked in a number of schools, I’ve seen a drift away from the early days of teaching computing. When I was at primary school, there were a handful of BBC … Read more
With the introduction of Google+, it has brought along numerous conjectures that the use of +1’s may be a replacement for their Pagerank algorithm. i.e. clicking the +1 button on many sites, similar to the Facebook ‘like’ button, would increase a websites’ SERPs. While of course, it’s almost undoubtedly that Google will be using the … Read more