Recent content by Simon Mackay

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    Windows Store Infested with Fake Apps

    An issue that I see that is surfacing with app stores is the tendency for them to end up with a lot of junk just like with the bulletin boards, CD-ROMs and Internet download sites of the 1990s being full of crap shareware-driven software, sometimes known as "shovel-ware". What we have to do is...
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    Airport X-Ray Scanners Are Vulnerable to Hackers

    A problem we are seeing a lot of is less interest in keeping the software up-to-date on "dedicated-purpose" machines like the Rapiscan or the Kronos devices. This is although the organisations like the TSA buy or lease them for a princely sum per unit, run them for years on end and rely on them...