Computer users still do not update security
In these days there are so many threats to computer security, that it is a wonder that so many computer users are going about their business on the internet without making sure that they are completely safe from the remote threats that are lurking around every corner.
A study produced by Google, IBM and the Swiss [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Religion to take on Wikileaks
Wikileaks may have survived a legal challenge from a Swiss bank over legal documents that were published on the super grass site, but will they be able to survive the combined might of the Church of Later Day Saints and the Scientologists.
Documents from both organisations have appeared on the Wikileaks site, and the both groups [...]
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 [...]