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Gokul Vasudev has over 18 years of experience in providing key IT security and assurance functions. In this article he explains what zero trust is (it isn't the same as "trustless" in crypto) and why is an effective approach to addressing risks in today's digital landscape.

Less than month after LastPass admitted a large scale breach of its much vaunted password manager, the old man of computer security, Norton, has said that its LifeLock password manager has also been breached. Is there an industry-wide problem?

When Americans discovered "day trading" they thought they were onto something new.

They weren't.

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An iconic land - scratch that - watermark is in trouble. The 145 years old Star Ferry has suffered a perfect storm and for any water craft, that's always a bad thing. But there's a solution, albeit one that goes against the tide in modern commercial thinking.

Alfonso Peccatiello of TheMacroCompass.com explains that if central bankers and their economists applied a little common sense, they would realise that their decisions are based on mistakes.

It takes only moments with a search engine to discover many complaints about LinkedIn and its policy of suspending accounts seemingly whenever it feels like it.

Here, Nigel Morris-Cotterill sets out his problems with the unsociable social media platform.

Max Verstappen is a polarising character. He arrived in Formula One with more talent than his emotional state could handle. He is the poster-boy for why there should be a minimum age limit for putting a weapon like an F1 car into someone's hands. The driver that he has become is unrecognisable as that moody and sometimes dangerous brat. He deserved his 2021 title and now, far from the end of the season, bar a major incident, he's this year's champion, too. And no matter what his detractors say, it's entirely on merit.

The world, or universe, has a funny way of shaking things out in the style of "How I met your mother." Today, there is a perfect example of how it happens.

David Singh (profile here) and Dr Shffi Mohamad (here) say that the role of the board of directors in corporations is related to supervision and planning, in particular, governance, strategic direction, and accountability. But it's more complicated than it seems.

All the signs are here but central bankers are either in denial or doing exactly the wrong thing.

Watching American motor racing always smacks of a trick when, not long before the end, a safety car comes out and everyone bunches up. Why not just to five lap sprint races because at the end of the day, that's all the racing that counts. So when one hears a TV commentator at the inaugural Miami Grand Prix say that we need a safety car to spice things up, there's a horrible sinking feeling, and a sour taste after the safety-car led debacle in the Abu Dhabi GP 2021.

To say that the the 2021 season of Formula One ended on a sour note would be the understatement of all time.

The series faced an existential crisis. When the teams assembled for testing, nothing would be the same.

When the lights went out for the first race, in Bahrain, only one question mattered: had Formula One survived?

Australia's Consumer and Competition Commission has sued two companies within Meta, the parent group of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp over crypto-ads by celebrities. The companies are Meta Platforms, Inc. and Meta Platforms Ireland Limited

The action is intended to establish that social media and other platforms are responsible for what appears there, something that all social media - and even online versions of established media have long fought against.

Buried in a long and complicated judgment there is a short and simple answer to the question "can a company sue for defamation?"

Here it is.