December 2020 was always going to feel strange compared to previous years. In the run up to Christmas I enjoy a trip to the Capital with my camera, to wander round the streets with their Christmas decorations all up, and to sample the various Christmas Markets.
2020 was not going to be like other years. The Christmas Markets were all cancelled, London was still just out of one lockdown, in a high risk tier and everyone knew that after Christmas we’d be back in lockdown again.
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2020 has been a very strange year so far. It started ok and I had a number of holidays booked where I would be able to explore new cities and photograph some great scenery.
Then came Covid-19. From early in the New Year Italy started to have issues and I kept watching the news each day to see if I would still be able to go to Florence and Pisa in March. At the end of February Italy was put in a nationwide lockdown and my trip was cancelled.
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Year after year, analyses show that millions of people make, to put it mildly, questionable choices when it comes to the passwords they use to protect their accounts. Data for 2019 showed that bad habits do die hard and many people willingly put themselves in the firing line of account-takeover attacks.
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If you thought 2018 was a bad year for Cyber Security, 2019 was equally as bad, if not worse !
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Each year I travel to watch and photograph the Great Britain Men’s Ice Hockey Team at the IIHF World Championship tournaments. I’ve been travelling to the tournaments since 2006, and have photographed the tournaments from 2010.
In 2019 the team took part at the top tier Pool A Tournament – the first time in 25 years that the team had made it to face the worlds Elite teams.
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2018 was definitely an eventful year for Security and Data Breaches.
Here we look back at some of the more notable stories from the past 12 months.
Password security company SplashData has released its annual list of the most commonly used passwords on the web.
The number one spot belongs to ‘123456’, which is followed by another maddeningly obvious choice, ‘password’. In fact, these two are stalwarts of the most common passwords, having claimed the first two spots for the fifth year in a row.
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Sometimes, I manage to escape the office in Peterborough, jump on a train and attend Cyber Security conferences in London. This week was one of those weeks, with me spending all day on Thursday in Borough, just down from London Bridge.
London is by far one of my favourite cities to visit. As a child we would have family trips to London, especially at Christmas, so from an early age I got to know different parts of the city, and how to get across London on foot.
Today, i’m under an hour away on the train, and will quite often go down at a weekend just to be a tourist and wander around. It’s rare that i’ll know where I want to go, I just get off the train at Kings Cross and go exploring.
It’s rare to get good cloud formations over the Fens in the Winter unless there is a rainstorm or snowstorm on it’s way in.
Driving home tonight I noticed it was a great Winter sunset, with few clouds and the sky a wonderful orange colour. I drove out towards the Fens with a view of pulling over to get a photo of the sunset.