We hope everyone had a good break and end to 2013. We're excited to announce that 2014 is going to bring some rather radical changes to DigiPest. (more…)

We have recently (within the last couple of hours) been alerted to a set of instructions that appear to be circulating on parts of the Internet telling people how to supposedly enable 'Developer Mode' OS X. (more…)

On October 3rd 2013 Adobe (the world's largest supplier of software and services for the design and media industries) discovered unauthorised access had been made to their systems, leading to the compromise of some 2.9 million user accounts (including encrypted credit/debit card details) and the source code for their web application server - Cold Fusion.

Update 04/10/2013 19:54: Adobe also believes that the source code to Acrobat (the tool used to produce and read PDF files) may have been compromised - this could have serious repercussions should anyone use it to distribute malicious, but official-looking updates to the millions of computers that run Acrobat world-wide.
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On Wednesday 6th March, Royal Bank of Scotland customers found themselves unable to use their debit/credit cards, access their accounts through online banking, or make withdrawals from cash machines. RBS has stated that they will compensate customers who were affected by the issue, but it really shouldn't have happened in the first place. (more…)

On 14th January, the Information Commissioner's Office, the government agency responsible for enforcing the Data Protection Act, issued a Monetary Penalty Notice to Sony Computer Entertainment Europe (SCEE) for £250,000 in relation to the security breach of the PlayStation Network in 2011 that resulted in the compromise of the records of millions of UK PlayStation owners, who used the PSN to purchase digital content.

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