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Facebook Users Gripe After Breastfeeding Pics Removed
According to a San Jose Mercury News report, a small group of protestors congregated in front of Facebook's Palo Alto headquarters last Saturday, singing songs, nursing babie... More »
America Finally Ejects VHS
The videotape era is over at last, after the last major distributor of VHS announced its final shipment. The Los Angeles Times reports that Distribution Video Audio Inc. of... More »
Bash Bush Site Sells On eBay In Four Days
Briton Alex Tew, who made Internet history in 2006 when he made a million dollars selling pixels at a dollar each onmilliondollarhomepage.com, set up so... More »
India To Cut Off 25 Million Mobile Phones
Imagine if 25 million mobile phones were suddenly cut off for good here in the UK, the US or any other part of the Western world – there would be uproar. Still, that's ... More »
Recession Hits Chinese Ad Market, Baidu.com
Baidu.com Inc slashed its fourth-quarter revenue forecast to far below Wall Street expectations, saying the economic slowdown in China was hurting online marketing by more than it ... More »
Symantec Offers Disaster Recovery For Virtual Machines
Symantec is collaborating with VMware to deliver enhanced high availability and disaster recovery (HA/DR) systems for virtualisation environments. The two companies are co-opera... More »
Adobe Cuts Jobs, Lowers Revenue Outlook
Adobe Systems Inc will eliminate 600 jobs, or around 8 percent of its workforce, due to the weak economy, sending its stock down 7 percent in extended trading. "The global ec... More »
U.S. Army Goes Bot Hunting
Most people whose computers have been turned into bots and linked to a botnet have no idea that their machines have been commandeered by cybercriminals. Their PCs send spam, stea... More »
Lycos Europe Outlines Liquidation Plans
Lycos Europe has outlined its future business plans to shareholders in the face of disappointing interest from prospective buyers. The firm has carried out extensive research int... More »
Woman Cleared Of MySpace Bullying
An American woman, accused of driving a teenage girl to suicide by bullying her on MySpace, has been cleared of one of the most serious charges against her. Lori Drew, 49, was fou... More »
UK Media Set For Thousands More Job Cuts-Analysts
British media companies could cut tens of thousands more jobs in the coming years as the economic downturn hits an industry already ravaged by the Internet revolution. British new... More »
Facebook, Twitter In Talks But No Deal
Facebook, the fast-growing social network, offered to purchase micro-blogging service Twitter for 500 million dollars in stock but the talks broke down over price, AllThingsD.com r... More »
Analysts Alert Customers of Phishing Scams Subsequent to Bank Breakdown
Some security analysts warn customers trying to claim deposits from Icesave of possible phishing attacks. Icesave is an online savings bank owned by Landsbanki, an internationa... More »
Defra Squandered Millions on IT Projects
UK's Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs or Defra is reported to have splurged over £26 million over the last five years on IT projects that never were comple... More »
Companies Need Help on Battling Cybercrimes
UK firms are not confident that the government is religiously doing all efforts to fight internet crimes. A new survey participated by 3,500 members of the Corporate IT Forum r... More »
Tech Group Combats Botnets
A group of different ISPs and internet firms will convene early next year in San Francisco to discuss and establish schemes to battle botnets. The group, also known as M... More »
Data Centers Need to Promote Green IT, Gartner Says
According to analyst firm Gartner, there is a rising need for data center managers to streamline their operations to save energy costs. Traditional data centers are significant... More »
Next US President Urged to Center on Cybersecurity
According to some tech industry representatives, the next administration should put cybersecurity on high priority. America has seen a fast proliferation of cyberattacks on financ... More »
Job Seekers Alerted for Possible ID Fraud
The Metropolitan Police and the Information Assurance Advisory Council (IAAC) has conducted a study proving how personal data of job seekers can be easily breached by cybercrooks.... More »
Attackers May Use Keystrokes to Pilfer Data
Doctoral students Martin Vuagnoux and Sylvain Pasini from the Security and Cryptography Laboratory at the Swiss Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) are now devisng a m... More »
Scientology Web Attacker Charged
Dmitriy Guzner, an 18-year old man from New Jersey, will plead guilty over the attacks made on the Church of Scientology's Web site, according to federal prosecutors. If convicted... More »
IBM Teams Up with Secret Service to Deter Cybercrime
IBM, together with the Secret Service, has joined a group of corporations, government agencies and academic institutions created to examine the possible solutions to cybercrime is... More »
Trend Micro Dissuades Purchase of Antivirus Software
Security firm Trend Micros has suggested that computer users should stop buying antivirus products. This may sound odd, but the company has a rational explanational for such... More »
Orange Scales Ecological Impact of Mobile Phones
Orange will be assessing the impact of mobile phones on the environment. The company will be using eco-ratings on 30 products to be displayed on their web site some time in Octobe... More »
Microsoft's Petition on Bailout Bill Flopped
Microsoft's aim to pass a Wall Street bailout bill failed to garner votes as a modified bill was pushed through House of Representatives. Despite the botch, Microsoft expressed... More »
Apple Alleged of Releasing Toxic PCs
An unknown researcher at France's CNRS research center is claiming he has found hazardouz materials in the emissions of some Apple Macintosh units. Benzene is believed to be emitt... More »
Government Vows to Finance E-crime Unit
The UK government has announced financing a police cybercrime unit which aims to deter internet fraud. E-crime has been continuously proliferating over the years, and the gov... More »
Computer Misuse Act Revised
Updates to the Computer Misuse Act will be rolled out tomorrow in England and Wales, aiming to boost penalties for cybercriminals employing denial of service attack. Some critics,... More »
Microsoft Eyes Spammers in Legal Salvo
Microsoft is anticipated to file legal charges against spammers who continually use the company's products in their advertising. Reports say Microsoft has employed a group, kno... More »
The Truth About Green IT
Green IT has made a big fuss over the internet world, and it seems more of just a puff rather than a reality. Most companies are dropping back when it comes to ecological ways of ... More »
Microsoft, Washington Pursues "Scareware" Pushers
Microsoft is teaming up with Washington state to clamp down on scammers who attack users with bogus warning messages aiming to sell inoperable software. Bot parties will be filing... More »
Mozilla Releases New Firefox Patch
Mozilla has been intensely working on a patch hoping to Firefox' password vuln. The bug rests in the Firefox 3.0.2 software restricting users to use their existing saved ... More »
Hackers Revive Infamous Attack Toolkit
Hackers have revived the use of Neosploit, an exploit toolkit that is believed to have been eliminated months ago. The Neosploit toolkit is an advanced exploit framework design... More »
Cyber-security Bill Favored by US Senate
There were doubts cast on the United States' ability to protect its network as well as muddle through investments made in IT infrastructure. On September 23, the U.S. Senate Homel... More »
FBI Tightens Up Security on .gov Files
The FBI has launched a massive unrolling of the internet's DNS authentication mechanism. The agency has deployed DNSSEC or DNS Security Extensions on all .gov files. DNSSEC is ... More »
Bills Imposed on Online Sale of Snipped Goods
Three bills centering on the auction of stolen goods on the web would be levied on sites offering such services. The organizations behind the bill think that the internet eggs ... More »
LCH Glitch Causes Two-Month Blackout
According to the European Organization for Nuclear Research, the biggest machine aimed to simulate "Big Bang" theory may shut down for at least two months. The Large ... More »
Campaign Opposing Software Patents Launches
A global petition intended to elevate awarenes of software patents will kick off on September 24 as part of the World Day against Software Patents. The petition was initiated by S... More »
Digital Bill of Right Proposed in the US
A Digital Bill of Right has been submitted for approval in the US to battle the soaring number of internet crimes. One of the primary player in cybercrimes is identity theft, and ... More »
Youngest Computer Terrrorist Faces Two Years in Jail
Hammaad Munshi, the youngest person in the UK ever to be convicted for violating the Terrrorism Act, has been sentenced to two years in a young offender's institution. Mu... More »
Identity Theft Bill Ready for Approval
A new bill is anticipated to become a US federal law which seeks to protect computer users from identity theft. The bill, dubbed as the Identity Theft Enforcement and Restitution ... More »
Apple Withdraws iPhone 3G Power Adapters from the Market
Apple has decided to pull out iPhone 3G power adapters from the North American and Japanese markets. The move is due to a possible breaking of prongs on the power block which is f... More »
NSA, Bush, Cheney Faces Charges for Warrantless Wiretaps
The National Security Agency, American President George Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, and a number of other administration officials were sued by the Electronic Frontier Found... More »
Web Proxy Firm Teams Up with FBI in Palin Email Breach Probe
Ctunnel.com, a web proxy firm, is currently teaming up with the FBI to pin down the person responsible for Governor Palin's email fissure. Gabriel Ramuglia, the Athens-ba... More »
Republican Vice-Presidential Candidate's Email Breached
American vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin's Yahoo account has been breached by hackers who published the email contents on the web. One of the messages posted online was... More »
Companies Dread Data Loss as Fraud Upswings
Researchers have found that worlwide fraud losses soared to 22 percent this year. Kroll, a risk consultancy, was appointed by Economist Intelligence Unit to accomplish The G... More »
Court Protects Anonymous Web Commenters
A court in Montana has ordered newspapers to conceal the identity of the writers who post comments on their web site. Writers' sources are also required to be kept in anonymity as... More »
TJX Hacker Pleads Guilty on Data Breach Charges
Damon Patrick Toey, one of the 11 people arrested last month for data theft at TJX Companies, pleaded guilty and became the first person brought to justice for the heist.&nbs... More »
Encryption Protection Program Introduced
A new program, dubbed as Turbocrypt, was launched by PMC Ciphers to provide protection against keyloggers. Turbocrypt has the ability to encrypt keyboard characters when nee... More »
Apple Widens Anti-Hack Campaign
Apple is recently working on a patent that uses the authorized garment system to prevent potential breach on its NIke iPod Sport Kit. The company will most probably use the RFID c... More »
Terrorists Sent Email Warning Before Delhi Attack
An email professing to be from Indian Mujahideen was sent five minutes prior to explosions in various parts of New Delhi. The email contained information regarding the series o... More »
Virginia Court Acquits Spammer, Rules Out Anti-Spam Law
The Virginia Supreme Court sided with Jeremy Jaynes, a prolific email spammer, and had him acquitted based on his argument that the law violates the free-speech protections of the... More »
Former Intel Employee Accused of Pilfering Trade Secrets
An ex-Intel engineer was charged of stealing trade secrets from his previous employer after jumping ship to AMD, Intel's closest opponent in the chip market today. A crim... More »
EliteRorrents Admin Faces 18 Months in Jail
Daniel Dove, administrator of the EliteTorrents BitTorrent tracker site, was formally sentenced by the U.S District Court Judge Judge James P. Jones to 18 months in prison and fin... More »
Ultra Modern Pirate Arrested
A businessman, alleged of selling hundreds-of-thousands of rands worth of bogus Microsoft software, was apprehended after a raid by he South African Police Service's Commercial Cr... More »
Apple Shells Out $14 million for Settlement
Apple has paid $14 million as a settlement on a shareholder suit filed in 2006, alleging Apple executives and directors of breaches of fiduciary duty, corporate waste, unjust enri... More »
Security Merchants Turns to Web Services
McAfee and Trend Micro are promoting "cloud" networks in an effort to scuffle against cyber-crime and security threats. Both firms have built huge web-based systems t... More »
Utramodern Hacking System Divulged
Jack Dann, a Science fiction author, will divulge several futuristic hacking techniques to battle potential computer breach. Gartner will be holding a security conference in Sy... More »
PA Consulting Contract Ceased Following Data Loss
The Home Office fired the contractor who lost the personal information of 84.000 prisoners on an unprotected memory stick. PA Consulting has agreed to process data from the ... More »
Hacker Sentenced for Stock Manipulation
Thirugnanam Ramanathan, a Malaysian hacker, has been sentenced to two years in jail by US authorities for breaching into online brokerage accounts and employing those account... More »
IT Struggles to Fight Mounting Energy Costs
The tech's move to go green apparently isn't enough to ease off todays growing energy costs. According to the U.S. Department of Energy, energy price will remain soaring ove... More »
Justice Department to File Antitrust Claim Against Google
The US Justice Department has employed the services of former Disney vice chairman Sanford Litvack to prepare charges on antitrust against Google. US lawyers have been deposing... More »
London Stock Exchange Computer Crash Causes Outrage
Trading on the London Stock Exchange was ceased for seven hours sending customers in an outrage. Another big blow followed when technical malfunctins hit the London pl... More »
Samsung Considers SanDisk Acquisition
Samsung Electronics, the world's top maker of memory chips, is eyeing to acquire flash memory maker SanDisk at $3.2 billion. Samsung is paying SanDisk $353.8 million annually for ... More »
Unprotected Memory Sticks Still Broadly Used by Hospital Doctors
Regardless of several warnings, hospital doctors are still widely using unprotected memory sticks which in effect, puts confidential patient information at risk. In a survey... More »
Rock Phish Gang and Asprox Team Up to Spread Crimeware
The Rock Phish gang, a notorious online mob known for its copious phishing operations, has fused with another criminal heavyweight, Asprox to refurbish its network with leading-ed... More »
Sony Pulls Out 73,000 Hazardous Vaio Laptops
Sony Electronics Inc. is withdrawing 73,000 Vaio laptops from U.S markets due to burn hazard. The announcement was made by Sony as well as the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commiss... More »
McAfee Faces Lawsuit
7search.com has filed charges against McAfee for continually tagging the site as a source of spyware or malware. On August 25, McAfee was alleged of "incorrectly and falsely ... More »
ITCC Combats Certification Fraud
Industry leaders have formed the IT Certification Council (ITCC) to battle fraud which is sapping the value of IT certification. Cheating problems have been prevalent in certifcat... More »
Thailand Blocks 400 Web Sites
Thailand government tries to shut down some 400 web sites considered as threats to national security and social order. ISP's were also advised to block access to another 800... More »
Napster Hunts for Potential Buyer
Digital music server Napster is in the hunt for a buyer in light of its struggling market status. According to a report from the LA Business Journal, Napster executives are ... More »
Russian Web Site Owner Shot Dead
Ingushetiya.ru Internet site owner, Magomed Yevloyev, was killed following his arrest last August 31. Magomed was a known critic of the region's Kremlin backed administration and ... More »
Spam Load May Be Based on Usernames
A study reveals that the amount of spam a user is receiving is based on his or her email address. It was found that email addresses starting with "A", "M" or &... More »
Online Scammers Take Advantage of Gustav
Buddy Caldwell, the office of Louisiana's Attorney General, warned internet users of Gustav phishing attacks. About 100 domains related to Hurricane Gustav are reported to have be... More »
British Hacker Files Final Appeal to British Government
British hacker, Gary McKinnon, made his final appeal to home secretary Jacqui Smith to stop being extradited to the United States after his previous appeal was rejected by th... More »
Supermarkets Go High-Tech to Catch Shoplifters
Supermarkets have developed a new electronic tag on items most often targeted by shoplifters. The Source Tagging Alliance is urging suppliers to use radio frequency identification... More »
Cellular Networks Prepare for Gustav
Major cellular companies are preparing for Tropical Storm Gustav as it is expected to hit the U.S. Gulf Coast. They all have learned their lessons wth Katrina which cost them mill... More »
Hyundai Raided by German Police
German customs police raided Hyundai IT Corp.s booth at IFA and took away some flat-screen TVs. Norbert Scheithauer, a spokesman for Berlin-area customs investigators, said ... More »
Malaysia Blocks Access to Anti-Government Website
Malaysia has blocked access to a popular news website that often criticizes the government, inciting protests against cyberspace black out. The Malaysian Communications and Mul... More »
UK Taxpayer Data Compromised on eBay Auction
The Leicestershire police in the U.K made an arrest over a sale on eBay that featured a computer full of personal information of thousands of council taxpayers. There is an ongoin... More »
Hitman Scammer Strikes Again
FBI has warned internet users to disregard any email which threatens to kill recipients if they do not pay thousands of dollars to the sender. The emails are said to be from the i... More »
MIT Develops Hacking Route Tracker
MIT's Lincoln Laboratory produced NetSPA (Network Security Planning Architecture), a tool that traces possible hacking routes. NetSPA is designed to make it possible for system ad... More »
Blogger Apprehended by FBI for Online Music Sharing
The FBI has arrested Kevin Cogill, a Los Angeles blogger, for violating federal copyright laws. Cogill is alleged to have released nine songs of Guns N'Roses online whic... More »
Veoh's Win Over Infringement Case Aids Google
Judge Howard Lloyd dismissed the copyright infringement case filed by Lo Group against Veoh Networks Inc involving material uploaded to its web site. Lo Group claimed that V... More »
UK Court Won't Meddle in McKinnon's Extradition
The European Court of Human Rights has rejected Gary McKinnon's appeal against his impending extradition to the United States. McKinnon faces charges of breaking into computers be... More »
Steve Job's Obit Accidentally Posted
The Bloomberg financial news service has mistakenly posted obituary of Apple CEO Steve Jobs. The news service , however, recalled it immediately. The 17-page obituary was su... More »
Linux Undergoes SSH Key-Based Attacks
US-CERT has alerted Linux users of a foray against linux-based computing infrastructures using compromised SSH keys. The breach uses stolen SSH keys to obtain access to a system, ... More »
Linux End-User Summit Arranged
The Linux Foundation is planning to launch a summit that will allow Linux users to mesh with Linux kernel community. The event, which is slated this October 13 and 14, ... More »
Immersion Pays $20.75M to Microsoft
Immersion and Microsoft has finally closed its legal dispute that started way back in 2003. Immersion, a vibrating controller patent holder, shelled out $20.75 mil... More »
FBI Probes Hacked FEMA Phones
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is probing more than $12,000 in calls ot the Middle East and Asia. A few days back, a hacker broke into a Homeland Security Department te... More »
Tripp Lite Releases PowerAlert
Tripp Lite, a world-leading manufacturer of power protection equipment, has developed a completely open-source UPS software called PowerAlert. The software is designed to help ind... More »
Psystar Plans to Countersue Apple
Psystar, a popular Mac clone maker, plans to fight back and countersue Apple Inc. using Antitrust Acts. The company accuses Apple of anticompetitive business practices by restrict... More »
SafeNet Provides Encryption Solution for Mainframes
SafeNet has released a mainframe solution which gives Ingrian Network, a data privacy solutions provider, capabilities to enable customers to protect sensitive information in z/OS... More »
Netflix Glitch Blamed on Hardware
Netflix had shipping delays earlier this month which disgruntled many users. According to a blog post by the company, the outage was triggered by faulty hardware. Netf... More »
AMD Sells Digital TV Group to Broadcom
Advance Micro Devices has decided to sell out its TV-chip unit to Broadcom for $192.8 million. Broadcom is getting 530 AMD employees out of the deal and AMD's considerable e... More »
Hackers Steal Best Western Data
Best Western, popularly known as the world's largest hotel chain, has been attacked by Indian hackers who stole names, addresses and credit card information of every customer sinc... More »
Tesco's Chip-and-PIN Delay Invites Fraudsters
Britain's biggest supermarket retailer, Tesco, has not yet adopted the chip-and-PIN technology which may possibly attract drive-in frauds at many petrol outlets. The company has f... More »
Microsoft Affirms Releasing Flawed Update
MIcrosoft admitted releasing an incomplete version of MS08-051 update to its download center. This the third time in the last two months that the company had to re-issue a s... More »
Acer Retrenches After Merger
Taiwan-based PC maker, Acer, has retrenched 30 and 40 jobs after the merger of its enterprise and client computing groups into one product division. Acer head of business pr... More »
Beware of "Verizon Scam"
Verizon, American broadband and telecommunications company, has announced that it is being used in a scam that offers $750,000 to consumers. The nature of the scam is q... More »
Three Men Charged for Selling Pirated Software Online
Thomas C. Rushing III, Brian C. Rue, and William Lance Partridge pleaded guilty for violating criminal copyright infringement laws in the U.S. The three operated several web sites... More »
Security Researcher to Release Gmail Hacking Tool
Mike Perry, the security researcher who presented information at the DEFCON security conference about a vulnerability that affects many SSL-secured Web sites, plans to release a t... More »
UK Law Firm Targets File Sharers
Davenports Lyons have been working with the music industry to prosecute file sharers. Now, it will ask the UK courts to compel ISPs to reveal information to pinpoint those who are... More »
Nintendo Facing Another Lawsuit
The Japanese video game maker, Nintendo, is facing yet another legal battle for infringement. A Maryland company has sued Nintendo claiming that the Wii's controller breache... More »
Germany Alarmed by Sale of Bank Data
Data protection officials in Germany have called for much tighter privacy restrictions following the scandal over illegal sales of personal data. The officials say they were able ... More »
China Bans iTunes
China's internet police banned the Apple iTunes Store because of offering an album that supports those who are fighting for Tibet's freedom.The album, The Songs for Tibet, is clim... More »
Apple Admits Poor iPhone Reception
After several complaints regarding iPhone 3G reception, Apple finally admitted that the phone indeed has reception problems. Customers around the world have been whining over iPho... More »
Intel Awards $100 Worth of Prizes for Innovative Ideas
Intel offered developers $100,000 Prizes for contributing the most creative and winning ideas for using technology in refining education, health care, economic development, or the ... More »
IBM Develops IT-Enabled Green Sigma
IBM has introduced a new consulting practice called Green Sigma which promotes preserving energy by virtualizing and consolidating data centers. Green Sigma contains a number of st... More »
Google Spends $10 Million for Geothermal Technology
Google is spending $10 million for geothermal technology in an effort to further promote a clean environment. The company is investing millions of dollars for green energy sources... More »
Game Sharer Fined for P2P
A British woman was demanded to pay over 16,000 British pounds for putting a game file, Dream Pinball 3D, on an online sharing network. The case was filed by Topware Interactive an... More »
Web Extremists Found Guilty
Blackfriars Crown Court in London sentenced three British Muslims for plotting jihadism online. Hammaad Munshi, Aabid Khanm and Sultan Muhammed, were all alleged of violating the T... More »
Google Faces Patent Infringement Lawsuit
Google is now facing a lawsuit filed by Graphon alleging the company of infringement on four of their patents that protect Graphon’s method of maintaining an automated and n... More »
Microsoft Under Taiwan Antitrust Investigation
Microsoft faces another challenge as it battles an investigation conducted by Taiwan’s Fair Trade Commission. The company is said to hold a monopoly position over Taiwan&rsq... More »
Negotiations Continue Despite Qwest's Union Contract Expiration
With the cost of royalties the radio webcasters are paying, it’s possible that companies like Pandora will soon be out of business. Nearly 70% of their revenue is paid for r... More »
New Laptop Search Policies Confirmed by TSA
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has set new rules or laptop search. Air travelers need not take their laptops out at security checkpoints if they are in a “... More »
Netflix Resumes Shipment After Three-Day Hiatus
Leading online DVD rental leader Netflix Inc. is back to normal shipment recovering from a three-day outage. The outage was caused by technical problems which held up shipments aff... More »
Wikipedia Wins Defamation Case
Wikimedia, owner of Wikipedia, won the defamation case filed by literary agent Barbara Bauer. Libel charges were filed against the company because Bauer did not appreciate how Wiki... More »
AOL Phisher Sentenced to Seven Years
Michael Dolan, a resident of Connecticut, has been sentenced to seven years in prison for perpetrating a phishing scheme that targeted AOL users in four years. Last Wednesday, Dola... More »
Lawsuit Filed on Microsoft, Google, and Yahoo in India
India’s Supreme Court issued notices to Microsoft, Google, and Yahoo subsequent to a complaint on promoting techniques and products for sex selection of unborn children. Sabu... More »
When Sat Nav Goes Wrong
Satellite navigation is often taken for granted as the ideal solution for planning your route from A to B. However, as one Syrian lorry driver found out this week, it ca... More »