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 [...]
The robot with a brain
Science fiction has become a reality with a research team who have built a robot with a difference; this one does not need a computer for commands because this machine has an organic brain, which has been built by using cultured neurons.
There have been other robots with a similar process but they have always required [...]
Online ID mistakes
For some people going online is a new experience, which means that all of the security scares that have affected many internet users over the years have gone unnoticed by them. This is why there are so many people being caught out by the scammers.
The surprising thing is that many of these people are being [...]
The problem with MobileMe
Apple boss Steve Jobs has admitted in a company email that releasing the application MobileMe at the same time as the iPhone could have been a mistake. The company really had their hands full with the launch of these products, which if they went off ok, then everything would have been fine, but they didn’t.
Now [...]
Students taught how to hack
It is probably one of the least expected subjects to be taught to students at university but in a computer lab in California, which could be mistaken for a secret underground bunker, the students are being taught how to spam, create viruses and hacking.
However, before anyone starts to panic, this work is being done [...]