Steve Gold
From his base in Sheffield, England, Steve has been a business journalist/techical writer for 25 years, 23 of them full-time. He has specialised in IT security, healthcare technology (he worked in the NHS for 11 years), business matters, the Internet and communications for most of that time.
Articles by Steve Gold
Antivirus XP 2008 causes more than a few problems
I was interested to read over on The Register that Globalsign has revoked the digital certificate of the Web site selling Antivirus XP 2008, as reports are...
124,000 Aussies hit by identity theft in the last 12 months
Precise figures on identity theft are almost impossible to discover in the UK, owing to the not insignificant fact that the financial institutions seem...
Gold'en Rant : Beware the software firms without telephone support
Over the last few years there's a raft of low-cost Windows utilities that have appeared on the market, typically costing around $30.00 or so - about GBP18.00...
Fraudsters have hijacked Chip and PIN
It seems that crims have finally broken the algorithm system for Chip and PIN, as, when police raided an alleged card factory in Birmingham the other day, they...
SlyDial service launches in the US
Now here's an interesting service in the US that involves a company looking up a mobile users' voicemail number automatically and piping calls straight to...
Court injunction to silence MIT students misfires
I nearly laughed my socks off after reading that a group of MIT students - who were due to reveal all about the Massachusetts Bay Transport Authority's smart...
Visa changes the shadow authorisation system at US gas stations
Bowing to pressure from debit card punters in the US, Visa seems to have pulled a rabbit out of the hat and has changed its shadow authorisation procedures at...
Russian hackers can't get Georgia off their mind
As the war in Georgia draws to a temporary cease-fire today, it seems that no-one has bothered to tell the Russkie hacking community, as the Georgian Foreign...
US ISPs admit to watching punters Big Brother-style
Interesting to read over on the Washington Post Web site that the furore over NebuAd, Phorm and other types of targeted advertising is just the tip of the...
Hot property in Russia - the iPhone
It seems that people in Russia are no longer asking their Western colleagues to bring branded jeans, rock CDs and other items of decadence with them on their...
EFF to appeal over Defcon subway presentation legal block
Quite interested to read over the weekend that the EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) is to appeal an injunction against its planned Defcon convention...
The Olympics has started - and so have the hackers
On the day that the Olympics has started - with a seriously entertaining opening ceremony - the hackers have moved in to take advantage.Newswire reports...
Oops - TechWatch hacked by Russian spammers
A spot of red faces all round this week after the Techwatch portal was hacked by the Russkies.Brian Turner of the site posted an apology on the portal...
Gold'en Rant : IPTV, video streaming and the Olympics = disappointment
Well, it's the eighth day of the eighth month of the eighth year of the new century and it's time for the big opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics.Over a...
Caller ID spoofing moves phishing to the phone
It seems that criminals in the US have discovered that the latest generation of spoof caller ID services can be used to fool punters into thinking that an...
