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 [...]
What are the top security threats today?
Today more than ever computer users are in need of making sure that their computer systems are secure and safe, otherwise the consequences can be a nightmare for the users who fall under the spell of the latest security threat.
At the moment the top ten computer security threats are:
Trusted websites
Web browser and browser plug-in [...]
Don’t Panic when Windows won’t boot
When the computer comes in alright, but the operating system is messing around, there are couple of things that you can do:
One is putting your fist through the screen, this is not recommended as it has been proved to be expensive and it just will not fix the problem.
The other thing is to do [...]
Anti Scientology sites adsense account suspended
This could be a totally innocent business decision or something else, but what the reasons behind the decision to cut the Google Adsense account of a web site which is dedicated to being one of the most influential sites against the Church of Scientology.
It has to be hard for all parties involved, on all [...]
Spam still on the increase
Over the years Spam has evolved from someone trying to sell you something or to get you to visit their website, to something much more sinister, where the opening of a suspect email can be the beginning of no end of trouble.
Now much of the spam that ends up in users inboxes are for drugs [...]
FaceBook can get you into debt
The social networking site, FaceBook has come under fire not for its lapse in security where all your friend’s details can be harvested, but this time it is because they are allowing their advertisers to get their adverts in front of people.
Nothing wrong with that, but when these adverts are targeting impressionable young people who [...]
What are the top threats?
The best thing about the internet is that it is just there, the very fact the a whole world of anything that you could want is there right in front of you at the click of the mouse is just simply brilliant. But the worst thing about the internet is the fact there are other [...]
May 7, 2008CCTV and databases do not cut crime
The UK have spent billions of pounds on the network of CCTV systems that appear on every street corner, in fact there are around 4.2 million CCTV systems that are active around the country at the moment and still this figure is set to rise.
But despite all of the money and a new database called [...]
People in Cuba buying computers
Finally for the ordinary Cuban person, they can get a computer and go online, or so we are led to think. For the very first time in Cuban history the government are allowing the sale of computers. However they are priced at around £400 for a basic older style computer, which may not seem too [...]
May 2, 2008BBC finds facebook flaw
The BBC technology programme Click has uncovered a flaw within the social networking site facebook. They show how by writing a simple a piece of code they could collect data from facebook users and their friends.
The software will hide itself within a file that could be music or a video, then once viewed it will [...]
Bank loses customers details
With all of the trouble that has been going on with government databases being sent through the post and being lost, you would have thought everyone would had learnt the lesson, but no! This practice is still going on and this time it is a bank who is involved.
The HSBC is the largest bank in [...]
Terrorists use same tactics as US Military
The rise of social networking has taken many people by surprise; this would include the security services and military that have realised that these tools could be used by terrorists and their supporters in order to exploit weaknesses in some personnel who work for the government departments.
But it has also been noticed that if these [...]
$1 Billion to monitor P2P
In the states some people are taking the threat of file sharing and its links to crime very seriously indeed in fact on senator has mentioned that the police and FBI should be given more resources to purchase and use specialised software which can monitor the peer to peer networks for any illegal activity.
In order [...]
Zombies a treat to security
It is estimated that there are thousands of zombie computers out there all churning out spam and other nice stuff in an attempt to either gain the personal details of unwitting computer users, or in some cases they try to hijack traffic from websites and more worrying for the authorities is the attacking of government [...]
April 10, 2008Mobile phone accounts hacked
Although this has happened in the States, it could quite easily happen here too! But hacking into someone’s mobile phone account can have devastating effects on the holder’s finances and it is all too easy to do, as the following will explain.
Apparently the main requirement is simply knowing the holders phone number, with this virtually [...]
Internet privacy in danger
In the states they have the same problem as we are about to get here in the UK when it comes to internet privacy. Like here internet service providers in the states have been monitoring their customer’s internet surfing activities, which for most users is not really acceptable.
The idea behind this is for the ISP’s [...]
Will the UK be able to regulate social networks?
With the new ideas coming from the UK government regarding children and their use of social networking sites like MySpace, Bebo and FaceBook, with around a quarter of eight to eleven years being a member of one of these sites. There is a need for some sort of advice or possibly regulation, but how is [...]
April 2, 2008Having fun with some ones computer
As this is the season of silly pranks, we thought it a right that we should publish a list pranks that would initially feel the security of the users internet or computer has been compromised, but in reality this is just a prank, which is funny but probably not at the time.
This is a list [...]
Spam king faces lengthy jail term
The spam king is back in court again, this time it could be more serious than ever. For Robert Solway aged 28, who is known as the king of spam, could be looking at a prison sentence of anything up to twenty six years.
However this time the reason for him being in court is surprisingly [...]
Computer security risk to high for insurers
Insuring your computer against a security threat is virtually impossible, in fact the whole area of computing whether it be in business of personal computing, the risk is the same and there is in fact not much data available on what sort threats there are that can attack a users personal items. The problem is [...]