Super Torrents PayPal Account hacked
The Bit Torrent tracker site Super Torrents have been hacked but not the site itself, as would have expected, the hacker found that the admin password was at a default setting or rather the same as other sites.
The hackers continued to have a look a around and instead of taking the site down or changing [...]
More users join the Pirate Bay
To the film and music owners the best news for them would be to see the likes of The Pirate Bay going under and yet the opposite has happened The Pirate Bay has seen an unprecedented growth in the amount users and the number of torrents being made available.
It would this is a classic case [...]
Is it time for change on piracy
Morals and regulations are not really the sort of the words that you would first think of when you are talking about piracy and software fraud. But there are people who are thinking just that at the moment, but before we get started on what is right and what is wrong, we have to try [...]
December 21, 2007PDF software does not have to be expensive
Creating a document in PDF is great, you can make the presentation look professional, send easily via email and know that it is pretty safe and secure; however there is one slight problem the software from Adobe is expensive.
However there are alternatives which are very reasonable in price but the quality of the software is [...]
Facebook used in study
In a study being made by researchers at Harvard and UCLA, Facebook is being used as a testing ground for their studies in relationships, tastes and habits and this relates to the way social relationships, the study is using certain classes at one college for this research.
Facebook is a network of over 58 million users [...]
Big brother is the real deal
It would seem that everything that we have feared about the government listening in on our conversations and having a little look at our emails is not just confined to films and TV programmes.
In the US the National Security Agency have the technology to do exactly that by listening in on phone calls, looking at [...]
Google release 2007 Zeitgeist
With the year coming to the end it good to look back on things and see where something could have been done differently, hopefully then we could all make use of this information and make the next year even better.
So to this end Google have come up with the top ten searches, and they do [...]
DNS Threat via malware
Researchers at Google and the Georgia Institute of Technology have found some serious problems with open recursive DNS servers who are behaving badly, these are DNS servers which will take a request from anywhere.
By poisoning these servers this enables a piece a malware which will send a request anywhere, and as these sites are false [...]
Safe searching available
The search engine ask.com have come up with a great little feature that will enable users to hide their history, as we know search engines keep a record of searches and this can be both an invasion of privacy and could lead to problems with partners etc.
This is a good idea and it is available [...]
Unlock any phone
Following the problems that were around when Apple launched the iPhone with the phone being tied to just one service provider, there has been a wave of people working on this can be overcome. In several cases there has been success with the iPhone being unlocked and therefore ready to be used on any network.
This [...]
PayPal use Linux
PayPal have built up a network of servers to house its electronic payment processing system, its small than that used by the larger financial organisations but it is responsible for processing $1,571 worth of transactions per second, which cover seventeen different currencies and totals around $50 billion per year.
The company use Red Hat Linux and [...]
Conspiracy in HD DVD market
Formats have always been a problem for the consumer, this first came to light with games, when some were only available on certain formats and so some people lost out. Now this is beginning to become true in the film distribution market, with HD and Blue ray, while some films will be on both, there [...]
December 4, 2007No more privacy
In the wake of the data loss from the government where twenty five million names, addresses and bank details were lost in the post, there are calls for an improved Data protection act, however according to Dr David Murakami Wood from Newcastle University believes that it was out of date even before it came into [...]
December 3, 2007BBC interviews Pirate Bay
The largest file sharing website and now a political party The Pirate Bay are to be interviewed by the BBC News show “Click” they will discuss what motivates them to run a website that encourages file sharing and why the authorities have no chance of closing them down.
The Pirate Bay offices in Sweden were famously [...]