Most people do not read the terms of service associated with the numerous services they sign up to. I know I don’t! But obviously some people have, or maybe Amazon’s legal team either have a sense of humour or way too much time on their hands .. Who knows? In any case the terms of […]
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INTERPOL’s Mick Moran On Safer Internet Day 2016
We’ve spoken to Mick Moran, head of INTERPOL’s Human Trafficking and Child Exploitation unit, a couple of times in the past about his work in law enforcement. Today being Safer Internet Day 2016 here’s a video of Mick talking about what law enforcement and INTERPOL in particular are doing around making the internet a safer […]
What Do Businesses Care About?
We are currently in the midst of a general election campaign here in Ireland. The political parties and independent candidates and a variety of pressure groups and lobbyists are going to dominate the media (all of them) from now until the election day. But what do Irish businesses care about? What is their experience? As […]
Instagram Now Supports Switching Between Multiple Accounts
If you manage social media for a business or organisation being able to switch between the “official” account you’re working on and your own, private account is a key feature. Twitter’s native iOS app has supported multiple accounts for some time and Facebook’s allows page managers to switch around quite easily in both their desktop […]
Saoirse Ronan Teaching Americans How To Make Tea
Saoirse Ronan seems to be proving very popular with the US media. She’s been making appearances on a wide variety of high profile shows over the last few months. Her most recent piece, however, involves her trying to teach Americans how to make a cup of tea: Personally I prefer coffee, but I’d be happy […]
DeLorean Is Coming Back (Sort Of)
Remember the DeLorean? If you’re over a certain age you may recall when the DeLorean was being made in Northern Ireland. If not you’ve probably seen them in the Back to the Future movies. Either way DeLorean cars have a certain mystique about them and while there are still some “out there” that are roadworthy […]
Donald Trump As A Cockney
Sure we don’t get to vote in the US presidential elections, but we do get to watch the entire drama unfold. Some people have been having a bit of fun playing with Donald Trump videos So how about Donald Trump as a rather tough Cockney? https://youtu.be/-cA0NM5RAY0 If you prefer a more sophisticated Trump there’s also […]
Just Eat Today’s Phishing Target
Todays’ target for a phishing attack is Just Eat Irish users will be enticed to follow the links in emails purportedly from the site which is offering a €50 bounty for completing a survey: Of course for this to work for the phisher they need to get their pay day. As with other attacks we’ve […]
Another Day, Another Phish. Electric Ireland Customers Today’s Victims
Electric Ireland customers are being targetted in a phishing attack The attack uses the ploy of a refund being granted to them to entice them to login to the fake website. Of course nobody’s really interested in your electricity bill. What they’re really after is your credit card details, so once you’ve been duped into […]
The 1916 Rising In Lego
2016 marks the centenary of the 1916 Rising so there’s been and will be a lot of activity throughout the year. The 3rd class in Sunday’s Well Boys School in Cork created this stop frame lego movie that covers the events of the rising, including the execution of the leaders. Enjoy!