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Introduction In this edition of GTL, the first link was inspired by the recent hiccups from AWS and Azure. The other two dive into the wild world of image manipulation and authenticity. You might even want to team up with colleagues and start your own Friday Photo Forensics Club —a playful nod to Richard Osman’s The Thursday Murder Club . Who knew pixels could be so mysterious?  

BNF Bank spent more than €1 million stabilising services after a troubled core-system upgrade in late March that left customers locked out of accounts, unable to make payments and scrambling for answers. That is the picture painted by CEO David Power in an exclusive Times of Malta interview, six months after the migration went badly wrong. I have covered this story before — examining the technical failures and the bank’s security posture — and this will likely be my final instalment on the affair. My earlier pieces set out the timeline and the phishing fallout; they remain available for readers who want a deeper chronology and the earlier reporting. What the CEO told the paper David Power described the project as “massive”: BNF replaced “every single system in the bank” and switched card providers from Visa to Mastercard on the same weekend. He says the bank tested the new platform for 18 months and ran more than 3,500 tests before go-live, but that on the day of the launch “one of ...

In this HowTo we’re going to demonstrate how to batch-convert Blue Iris BVR files into MP4 . The situation we’ll look at today is one in which you have old BVR files that cannot be placed into your existing production, because Blue Iris has settings that control how old clip files are managed. You can download Blue Iris without activating it. The trial will operate for 15 days, which should provide enough time to do your conversions. A virtual machine is an ideal environment for this task. Go to https://blueirissoftware.com/#download Your BVR files Take note of the number of BVR files and the amount of disk space they require. Configure Blue Iris Launch Blue Iris, go into Settings , and select the Storage tab. Blue Iris has a number of default folders. This how-to will use the Stored folder. Take note of the location associated with this folder (default: C: ). Adjust the size of the storage location so it is larger than the total size of your BVR clips. Uncheck the Limi...