How much for an identity
It is not much as an identity that is at stake, the main problem is credit card security. This sort of information is regularly and often openly sold on the internet, providing that you know where to look.
The card details are gathered in a variety of ways, stolen cards or stolen details. A stolen or [...]
Hackers wanted by the US government
The US government are looking for hackers, but this time they are not looking to prosecute them, they want them to work with the government to help combat illegal hacking of government and commercial sites.
The IT firm General Dynamics have been advertising on behalf of the Department of Homeland Security for somebody who is able [...]
Is conficker sleeping still?
Its seems that although the conficker or downadup worm has not made the surprise attack as suspected by security experts.
Although those who have been monitoring the network have seen some activity from it.
So far, the activity has been that infected computers have been instructed to visit web addresses were it would get new instructions.
It [...]
Fake iPhone out there now
Consumers are being warned about fake iPhone Nanos being flooded onto the market place. This comes as the real iPhone nano has not even been seen yet, let alone become available on the market.
This device is supposed to be announced at the Mac World conference, although we are still waiting for confirmation of that the [...]
Being safe with your data
As we have seen in the past year, keeping data is not a very easy thing to do, after all if the government can lose data left right and centre what hope is there for the rest of us.
Well unlike governments and those people who work for them, most individuals are very particular in the [...]
IE has a new bug
A bug, which is yet to be patched in IE7, is also found in IE6, IE5 and even the beta IE8, this bug is being exploited by hackers on computers that are running Microsoft Windows 2000, XP, Vista, Server 2003 and Server 2008.
Microsoft have issued some stop gap solutions is to disable some of the [...]
How to know that someone is on your network
Having your own home wireless network is a great thing, it means that you can use the internet almost anywhere within your home or business and in some cases even outside. However, because you can access your wireless network outside of the premises, then so can other people.
So how could you tell if your next-door [...]
World Bank computers hacked
It would appear that not even the World Bank has escaped the turmoil within the banking sector; it turns out that a while back around eighteen of the organisations servers, a serious breach of security indeed by anyone’s standards.
But as normal the with things like this the World Bank are praising themselves on the fact [...]
If only planes used GPS
Most of the air traffic network is still using the same principles laid down during the Second World War; this means that many flights are often criss crossing around the world using up valuable fuel, which is costing millions if not billions of pounds.
However, there is a technology already available that millions of people use [...]
UK to read all texts and emails
The UK intelligence service must be finding things hard these days as they are turning their attentions to the general public, the governments listening post at GCHQ in Cheltenham want to monitor every single email, text message and web page viewed by everyone in the UK.
Not only that they want to keep these records on [...]