US will be a victim of cyber attacks
It is being thought that the next major terrorist attack, will not be seen live on TV with bombs and aircraft, but a rather more subtle form of attack will be carried with the help of the internet.
Over the past week or so, we have all seen the Russian army in Georgia, but these military [...]
Banking websites insecure
Research into online banking by the University of Michigan has found some fairly serious security issues that could at some point threaten the security of many users of this online service.
This is a wide-ranging issue and not just limited to a small number of banks, in fact the study is saying that around seventy-five per [...]
Oyster card system hacked
It may have seemed to have been a stunt or a bit of joke when a team of security researchers armed only with a laptop, were able to ride the London underground for free all day long with no interference from staff or anyone.
However the joke becomes a very serious matter when you [...]
June 23, 200850% of IT workers look at confidential files
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June 9, 2008Virgin Media writes to down loaders
Subscribers with Virgin Media who like to download the odd bit of illegal music, film or software better be watching out for a letter to drop on their door mats, for their ISP have teamed up with the BPI to close down on the illegal file sharers.
This comes from the government’s plans to make [...]
June 3, 2008Did hackers get into Commerce Secretary’s laptop?
There are rumours around that while on a recent visit to China, by the US Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrz, a US Government laptop was hacked into by persons unknown, while the computer was left unattended.
The US Department of Homeland Security say that they are not investigating the allegations and it actual fact the FBI [...]
June 2, 2008Mission to Mars website hacked
The recent Mars Lander programme has been hailed a success, as no doubt it was the landing craft is on the red planet and searching for signs of life, which is what the mission is all about. This is undoubtedly a great success for the people behind the Phoenix Mars Lander Mission.
But while everyone [...]
April 16, 2008CAPTCHA cracked in sixty seconds
By now we have all got used to the sign up feature that is supposed determine between a human and a machine, the Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart (CAPTCHA) where there is a series of letters and numbers which are sometimes distorted.
Most of time this has proved a [...]
April 7, 2008The internet is under attack
Most of us feel that the internet will last for ever, but could there ever be a time when the internet actually breaks and suddenly we find ourselves with nothing to look at and no way of carry on the work, it sounds like a nightmare. But this could happen one and here are the [...]
April 4, 2008Film makers to use Bit Torrent sites
Now film makers attempt to use Bit Torrents as a way to get their films out there and in the process get some much needed publicity which can in effect make an average film into a cult film that has been seen by millions.
In fact a film producer from Norway found that one of [...]
March 31, 2008911 added by Bit Torrents
Of course this is not directly correct, but the principle is. In a warning from the US Attorney General Michael Mukasey he is claiming that the massive amount of cash being raised through piracy and counterfeiting is in some cases going towards the financing of terrorism.
It is believed that terrorism groups now are following [...]
March 10, 2008Data stolen from Pentagon
It will be a year in June when it was announced that there had been an attack on the Pentagon, which is effectively the US forces head office. At the time the Defence Secretary Robert Gates admitted that there had been an attack and that it had been successful causing chaos to the email service [...]
March 7, 2008FBI gets access to phone network
It is everyone’s worst nightmare the thought of some faceless person listening in on their conversations, checking their emails or websites that have been visited, reading their text messages and yet it would appear that this can and has been done and there is no need for wire tapping or anything as they will be [...]
February 28, 2008Canadian soldiers not to post on FaceBook
The heads of the Canadian military have been telling their troops not to place any personal information on social networking sites such as FaceBook and MySpace. This has come as they believe that this information could be used against them by terrorist groups who could in turn use this information to get at the families, [...]
February 21, 2008The web under attack!
Its been a couple of weeks since the underwater cable problems that has effected the middle and far eastern regions of the world, the loss of these cables initially caused severe problems for the regions but since the traffic has been redirected the network is slow and in some cases on and off occasionally.
These cables [...]
World economies at the mercy of the sea
There seems to be news about the damaged undersea cables coming out almost every day, the unofficial count is now set at five cables that have been cut or damaged, but it would also that it is only affecting one particular region, Asia, the Middle East and North Africa, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the United [...]
January 16, 2008US to have instant data on the British
It called the server in the sky and symbolises Americas aim to secure its borders from anyone it deems to be a threat. This means that the FBI would be able to instantly gain access to all the data held by a government, including the UK, on anyone planning on entering the States.
The information [...]