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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
March 21, 2008German win for file sharers
It would seem that the file sharers have gained yet another victory in the battle between the media companies and the end users who like to listen to music, but would rather not pay the prices that the media companies like to charge.
It looks like a serious blow to all the various European governments, who [...]
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 [...]
March 14, 2008By passing the sign up process
It seems that no matter what sort of problem you may have, the first process in finding a solution would be enter the terms into your favourite search engine. Within seconds there are a whole load of answers for you, and more or less every time you find the right answer it is on a [...]
March 11, 2008NSA monitors emails and online transactions
The National Security Agency (NSA) has been involved in something that could go beyond the big brother label in fact this goes well beyond it. So what are they doing that is so bad, after all the US and UK are fully at war with terrorist threat and so we should expect them to be [...]
March 5, 2008Passwords by passed by Firewire
There seems to be a worrying trend with regards to how someone can access a computers RAM with another computer via the firewire connection, this can be done quite easily and within a few seconds which makes the whole thing very scary indeed.
Apparently all that is needed to attack a computer is another laptop with [...]
Wikileaks back online
Despite all of the recent problems that hit the whistle blower website Wikileaks which ended up with a Judge from San Francisco ordering the websites hosting company to have all of their completely removed from the internet forever, the website is now back up an running again as if nothing had happened in the first [...]