This week’s main blog discussions include …
The rise and rise of ransomware
There’s a very interesting analysis of the cyber attacks on Marks & Spencer, the Co-op and Harrods on the BBC this week. If you have access to their iPlayer, then it’s well worth a watch. If you don’t, then here’s the summary as it illustrates our fragile digital world today.
Don’t trust until you see the whites of their eyes … the rise of deepfake fraud
Some years ago an elderly gentleman entered the lobby of one of Britain’s biggest banks demanding to talk to someone about the £5 million he had been given by David Cameron. A senior manager at the bank took the gentleman to a consultation room, and it turned out that the man had been notified of…
No-one cares about payments in 2040 except us
I hate criticising other people’s work, but I do read some complete claptrap about the future. For example, I just got a report about the future of payments in 2040, that starts with a term Order-to-Cash cycle and then paints a scenario of someone buying an automated car. That was the first few paragraphs and,…
Some people knew the internet would NOT liberate us …
I just ran across an item from 1994 written by Carmen Hermosillo talking about cyberspace, the internet and the future. It is quite something but TL:DR, so here are a few highlights: Introducing Humdog: Pandora’s Vox Redux (1994) “When I went into cyberspace I went into it thinking that it was a place like any…
I just learned how to trade thanks to Fibonacci
I don’t have a trading background and am not a mathematician, but just went down a rabbit hole. Somehow, someway, someone sent me a Fibonacci T-shirt and I went WTF? Thanks to the t-shirt I stumbled across the Fibonacci principles, and my world changed. What’s that all about? Well, let’s start with asking: Who was…