Something rather animated my eldest daughter as I walked through the front door. “Dad, you’ll never guess what Siobhan has done.” The crime my ten-year-old’s school chum had committed? Sharing a username and password online. Admittedly, it was only the credentials to a chat app, but even my youngest, aged eight, murmured, “it’s a really silly thing to do”. Alison and I are sure that one day our kids will be thankful we indoctrinated them into the vagaries of multi-factor authentication instead of wasting their time in Disneyland, like Siobhan and her family.
Speaking of silly things to do online, we need to talk about Brian.
He works in a heavily regulated area, which we’ll describe as financial services. Although Brian is a freelancer, he’s under the umbrella of an organisation with a global marquee name, which you’ll absolutely know. Let me be clear, we’re not naming the company as one sniff from its formidable legal army will cause PC Pro’s cover price to quadruple overnight. Although I’m trying to make merry, the reason Brian comes to us is because of the strained relationship he has with his corporate overlord, and we do the jobs that he doesn’t want to tell head office about.
“He followed the instructions to the letter and subsequently lost over £11,000”
One recent evening,
