EU gives personal data to the US
Under an agreement the European Union are about to give US law enforcement and security agencies information about all of the citizens of the EU community and that includes all UK citizens too!
This agreement will allow the US agencies to access information regarding what we spend out money on, where we have travelled before and [...]
What’s in a name?
The future of domain names is going to be very different following a meeting in Paris by the people who oversee the domain name industry, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICCAN) have met and decided to relax the rules regarding domain names.
It all started with .com, the web addresses ending in a [...]
RIAA under attack from the EEF
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and The Electronic Frontier Foundation are locking horns on the subject of P2P.
The problems lies with the way that the RIAA are going about their legal cases, this is what EEF are looking to upset and it is all going to boil down to exactly what is copyright.
All [...]
Half of Americans believe the internet should controlled
The government regulating the internet, is this cool thing? Well for many Americans it is, in fact there are around half of those who tool part in a national survey by Rasmussen Reports believed that the internet should be regulated in the same way that the TV and radio are.
However you would have thought that [...]
France gets tough on down loaders
Anyone residing in France and likes to download the odd bit of illegal music or maybe a new film that had yet to be released, then you could be heading for trouble as from January 2009. As there has been a new law past which endorses the three strikes and you are out policy.
The French [...]
Cyber crime is on the rise
It started off as a way of getting back at Microsoft by a disgruntled user, but now the use of malicious software has grown into something more sinister. No longer are there jokers messing around with the minds of people behind certain businesses.
Cyber crime is fast becoming the route that many gangs are looking to [...]
Police in trouble with the PRS
The Performing Rights Society (PRS) have gone after the police in Lancashire over an alleged copyright infringement which has supposed to have been taking when place in Police Stations and on the phone when callers are being put in hold.
The PRS have issued a writ against in the High Court in which they are calling [...]
DVR’s may be able to record all programmes soon
The days of being able to record films on DVR’s, if The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) gets their way and introduces some security measures. This can easily be done by remotely blocking the film so that it cannot be recorded at all by using Selectable Output Control (SOC).
This it not just the matter [...]
XP lasts beyond sell by date
With the 30th June approaching very fast what is going to happen to all of the users of Windows XP? Well before you rush out and buy an expensive replacement, it is worth noting that the end of June is not going to necessarily be the end of the world.
In theory the operating system will [...]
What do webmasters know about their visitors?
If you have ever wonder what sort of information a website holds on you, then you may be interested to know that every time you visit a website your IP address is logged, from this all sorts of data can be discovered.
But this sort of information may not be available to all, this will be [...]
The Malware menace grows
Despite all of the improvements to the security to software, there are many incidents where internet users have been surfing around or clicked on a certain link and have been directed onto a website which has been infected with a malware infection.
The problem is with this type of threat is that hardly anyone know that [...]
Canada edits Wiki
Altering a Wikipedia entry that describes your own life has become very common, but just because it is about you, does this mean to say that this sort of practice is ok?
It seems that it probably depends on who you are, take one Jim Prentice, he is the Industry Minister of Canada and as part [...]
Hotmail no longer available for Outlook
Users of Hotmail and Outlook Express will be experiencing problems towards the end of the month when Microsoft will be turning off a technical protocol. This is known as DAV, and it is this protocol that allows Outlook Express to synchronise with the Hotmail email account and then download the messages.
Users of Hotmail and Outlook [...]
UK OiNK users arrested
The police in Cleveland have confirmed that they have arrested six people over the weekend with regards to being registered users of the OiNK file sharing site, where they are accused of uploading pre release music.
The five men and one woman who are aged between nineteen and thirty three were taken to their local police [...]