Posts by Mike Knight
Bogus Bitcoin Boffin
A High Court judge has ruled that Australian computer scientist Dr Craig Wright is not the inventor of the Bitcoin cryptocurrency, despite him claiming to be so since 2016. Real Bitcoin Inventor A Secret The challenge with trying to conclusively identify Bitcoin’s inventor is that, from the outset, Bitcoin’s creator has only been known by…
Read MoreApple Pays Norfolk Council £385 Million
Following a class action lawsuit led by Norfolk County Council over the effect of an alleged cover-up by Apple’s boss about iPhone demand in China, Apple has agreed to pay £385m to settle the lawsuit. The lawsuit related to comments by Apple’s CEO, Tim Cook, to investors back in 2018 where he told them there was…
Read MoreRampant Referrals for MSPs – Part 2
Okay, so as a quick recap from last time, we looked at some statistics which showed why getting new business from referrals rather than other forms or marketing is so important for B2B owners and especially MSP owners. We briefly looked at how coincidences are not really coincidences at all and how the vast majority…
Read MoreTikTok Termination?
A recent US congressional vote means that TikTok and its parent company’s alleged ties with the Chinese Communist Party must be severed within six months or the popular TikTok app must be sold, thereby banning it in the US. The Vote The unanimous Energy and Commerce Committee vote (50-0) in favour of forcing TikTok’s…
Read MoreApple Fine and Sideloading
In two recent blows to Apple, it’s just been fined £1.5bn for breaking EU competition laws over music streaming, while its latest iPhone update means allowing developers to offer their own ‘app stores’. The Fine Following a complaint by Swedish music streaming service Spotify, Apple has been fined £1.5bn by the European Commission for abusing…
Read MoreDMARC Diligence: Step 2 – The Forgotten Domains : A Hidden Vulnerability
In this second article of the “DMARC Diligence” series, we shift our focus towards securing non-sending or “forgotten” domains and outline a strategy for their protection through DMARC implementation. Recap Of Part 1 You may remember that in part one of this DMARC Due Diligence series of articles we laid the groundwork by exploring the…
Read MoreBitcoin Value Hits New High
With the famously volatile Bitcoin cryptocurrency briefly hitting a new all-time high value of $69,000 recently, we look at the reasons why this happened and what could happen next. Why? This latest surge in the value of Bitcoin has been attributed to US finance giants like Grayscale, BlackRock, and Fidelity investing billions of dollars into…
Read MoreNew Quantum Attack-Proof PCs
At its Annual Partner Conference 2024, HP announced the world’s first business PCs to protect firmware against quantum computer attacks. This Issue As highlighted by Global Risk Institute research, 27 per cent of experts think there is a 50 per cent likelihood of a cryptographically relevant quantum computer (CRQC) by 2033. HP says that “when that…
Read MoreRampant Referrals for MSPs – Part 1
Referrals for MSPs – Part 1 : Why Referrals? In this short series about getting more business referrals, we’ll be uncovering what B2B business owners (and in particular, Managed Service Providers) can do to gain more referrals than they ever thought possible for low-cost or no-cost, except for a bit of thought, time and effort.…
Read MoreEnd Of The Road For Apple Car
It’s been reported that Apple has ceased work on its Autonomous Electric Vehicle known as “Project Titan”. The 2,000 employees who were working on the decade-long project (and who reportedly had a say in the decision to stop work on it) are reported to have been moved to Apple’s generative AI team, other divisions in…
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