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Category Archives: TechNews
Well, it’s news to me
OK, almost a month late and I read for the first time that Sun is to acquire MySQL. I must have been living under a rock (as they say).
100 Megabits available at Ebbsfleet Valley from August 2008
Let’s hope this works, gets rolled out across the UK and doesn’t cost the consumer too much. Info on Ebbsfleet Valley.
FBI roasts more botherders
In a previous post I blogged about an FBI bot-roast. Well, now they’ve conducted the second phase, bot roast II, which has revealed more than $20 million in economic loss and more than one million victim computers. As a result, … Continue reading
Posted in Security, TechNews
Tagged botnets, botroast, bots, fbi, robotnetworks, Security
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Trojan infects Mac OS X, with users consent
A trojan horse has been identified that can affect (and infect) Mac OS X. Intego has named this malware the OSX.RSPlug.A Trojan Horse (Intego’s press release). It has been found on several pornography web sites, claiming to install a video … Continue reading
FBI director cites YouTube video in Executive Speech
On Wed, November 6, FBI Director Robert Mueller gave a speech at Pennsylvania State University about cyber threats to US national security and what the FBI is doing to meet these diverse dangers. In the speech, Mueller states that the … Continue reading
Posted in TechNews, video
Tagged fbi, howie diblasi, karl fisch, robert mueller, shift happens, thefischbowl, youtube
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Confidential data lost by the Revenue
Confidential data lost by the Revenue – Daily Telegraph, November 9, 2007. HM Revenue & Customs has lost thousands of people’s confidential data on a computer disc that went missing on its way to Standard Life’s pensions department. Names, National … Continue reading
Worm targets Skype on Windows
Skype has learned that a computer virus called “w32/Ramex.A” is affecting users of Skype for Windows. Users whose computers are infected with this virus will send a chat message to other Skype users asking them to click on a web … Continue reading
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Data potty
How’s this for an outdoor connectivity solution! At Chaos Communication Camp 2007 hackers get their bandwidth fix via 16 “data potties” and two and a half miles of fibre cable. Full story at Wired.
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PayPal introduces OTP dongle in US, Germany and Australia
If you have a US, German or Australian PayPal account you can sign up for a PayPal Security Key. This additional layer of security means that you have to ‘know’ something (your password) and ‘have’ something (the dongle). The dongle … Continue reading
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Macs better, ASA rules
I picked this up from issue 185 of MacFormat. In a response to complaints about Apple’s ‘Get A Mac’ campaign, the Advertising Standards Agency stated … We understood that Macs that did not run Microsoft Windows contracted fewer viruses than … Continue reading
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