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 [...]
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 [...]
Internet freedom under threat
Google are calling it the end of internet freedom, while the media giant Viacom are calling it just good business.
But whatever they call it, the outcome for ordinary users if the internet could mean that they lose out on what have become normal everyday practices, like surfing and looking at interesting stuff!
What this all boils [...]
Internet user’s privacy to be limited
Could this be the end of the internet as we know it? Or are we just worrying about the Anti Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) which has been designed to put an end to the problem with file sharing once and for all.
But there are fears that if this is adopted, and there is no reason [...]
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 [...]
Pirate Bay and Police bribery
This case is going to cause so many problems for the Pirate Bay, the companies who are trying to shut them down and now it would seem the police investing the case, all of this is coming before there has even been a court hearing.
It turns out that one of the top police investigators looking [...]
The Pirate Bay in top 100
There has always been a feeling that any publicity is good publicity, and despite the actions of many organisations this would seem to be right when it comes to the Pirate Bay.
They have had so much adverse publicity coming from many organisations which should in truth know better, that the Pirate Bay have actually managed [...]
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 8, 2008$110 million fine for Torrent Spy
Being found guilty of copyright infringement in the US is not a great thing, you know that it is going to cost you an arm and a leg. In this case the file sharing site Torrent Spy has been fined a massive $110 million by a Federal Judge in Los Angeles.
Clearly this aimed at anyone [...]
CCTV 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 [...]
BBC 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 [...]
Microsoft finally releases S3 for XP
At last Microsoft have released the Windows XP Service Pack Three (SP 3) and by now it should have been loaded onto the Microsoft servers and eventually be ready to download very soon. The SP 3 will not be available for the automatic download yet, but can be downloaded from the download centre.
The service pack [...]
Massive web attack begins
It began earlier this week, and now hundreds of thousands of web pages have been infected with malware, the worst thing that you can get on the internet as it takes many users by surprise and causes so many problems on global scale.
It is thought that the virus has exploited a so called security issue [...]
You need a longer password
Sometimes when you sign up for some accounts when you complete the application process it comes back saying that your password is too short or should contain letters and numbers etc. But imagine receiving the message that says:
“Your password must be at least 18770 characters and cannot repeat any of your previous 30689 passwords. Please [...]
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 [...]
$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 [...]
The Pirate Bay seek compensation for lost traffic
It was back in February when a court in Denmark ordered the internet service provider Tele 2 to block all traffic from their customers to the Pirate Bay; this meant a huge drop in traffic and subsequently a drop in income too.
But in true fashion the Pirate Bay appealed against the decision and as such [...]
One million viruses on the loose
It’s a frightening prospect but it has been estimated that by the end of the year there will an estimated one million viruses circulating around the internet, but while large companies can afford to employ the latest security measures against this threat. It is the smaller business and the private individual who are getting hit.
However [...]
Having 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 [...]