Maintenance contractor inadvertently caused the mess at British Airways last Saturday

It was a human element and not an equipment failure, as earlier thought. On Friday, the Times has reported that last week’s chaotic scene at British Airways was caused by a contractor who inadvertently switched-off the power supply at one of its data centre. The innocent mistake knocked out its computer systems and left 75,000…

Microsoft reports receiving a type of warrantless surveillance order from FBI

While downward revising the number of government surveillance requests it received, Microsoft’s transparency report makes for an interesting read. Microsoft Corp stated it had wrongly reported a sharp increase in U.S. government surveillance requests during the first half of 2016, and has revised its figures to show that the level of requests have remained at…