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Articles Posted on 01 April 2008

Applied Security Visualization - I Have a Book Cover!

Applied Security Visualization - I Have a Book Cover!

News Security

Thanks to the design department at Addison Wesley, I have a proposal for a cover page of my upcoming book: This is really exciting. I have been working on the book for over a year now and finally it seems that the end is in...


Web filtering must be necessary and transparent, says Council of Europe

Web filtering must be necessary and transparent, says Council of Europe

News Security

The Council of Europe said that users must be informed when filtering is taking place and must be able to control the filtering, switching it off or correcting inaccuracies when they want to.Filtering content without such...


Top 7 Microsoft Exchange Disaster Recovery Tips

Top 7 Microsoft Exchange Disaster Recovery Tips

News Hardware

Regardless of whether your Exchange organisation is large or small, losing email services has a big impact on your business.  These 7 tips will help you in designing, planning, testing, and implementing an Exchange-specific...


NZ teenage cyberhacker pleads guilty

NZ teenage cyberhacker pleads guilty

News Security

Reports from New Zealand suggest that the teenager at the centre of a cybercrime ring has pleaded guilty to six charges.The 18-year-old, who has Asperger's syndrome, was accused by the FBI of being Akill and leading a group of...


Chinese man's life sentence reduced for ATM theft

Chinese man's life sentence reduced for ATM theft

News Security

After a massive outcry on t'Internet, a Chinese man has seen his life sentence for ATM theft reduced to just five years.The man - a security guard who was found guilty of drawing more than £12,000 from a faulty ATM - was...


Hannaford card data breach might be the result of vulnerable code says Fortify

Hannaford card data breach might be the result of vulnerable code says Fortify

News Security

"Hannaford supermarket data breach in the US, in which as many as 4.2 million customers card details appear to have been downloaded, was almost certainly the result of malware that exploited a code flaw." reports...


Google whacks out double April fool

Google whacks out double April fool

News Hardware

As it is the case every year, Google has made two April fool announcements with one of them actually involving a company outside Google for the first time ever.At 12:01 this morning, Sir Richard Branson, President and Founder of...


Apple will top sales of 45 million iPhones in 2009 says analyst

Apple will top sales of 45 million iPhones in 2009 says analyst

News Consumer

Piper Jaffray analyst, Gene Munster, is being quoted by News.com as saying that Apple will sell 45 million of its fruit flavoured iPhone mobile devices, that's a four times the sales volume it expects in 2008. Although that is...


Another gloomy Prediction : IT Departments to die out by 2013

Another gloomy Prediction : IT Departments to die out by 2013

News Mobile & Telco

The days of the traditional IT department are numbered. That is the stark prediction of Charles Black, CEO of Nasstar.   And he's not alone; back in March, Fujitsu Siemens Computers released a report pointing in that...


Gaming Console Concept to be canned within next decade says Ex XBox boss

Gaming Console Concept to be canned within next decade says Ex XBox boss

News Consumer

Sandy Duncan knows his stuff as he used to run Microsoft European Xbox business; so when he says that the dedicated gaming device market is going to whither in the next 5 to 10 years, one might better pay heed. He said that...


McAfee tries Test-a-Spam experiment for a month

McAfee tries Test-a-Spam experiment for a month

News Security

Mc Afee has announced that it will conduct an experiment with 50 volunteers to find out the extent of spam has invaded and influenced daily internet users' life, 30 years after the first spam email was sent.The experiment, called...


Microsoft Patch Tuesday comes early; adds unexpected twist

Microsoft Patch Tuesday comes early; adds unexpected twist

News Security

Microsoft's monthly patching exercise took place one week earlier this month as the software giant is preparing for the simultaneous launch of Windows XP Service Pack 3 and its Internet Explorer 8 web browser.Amongst the thirteen...


Play.com 4GB SD HC Memory Card, £8.99 delivered

Play.com 4GB SD HC Memory Card, £8.99 delivered

News Hardware

Please check the device you are buying this card for is SDHC compatible; Play.com has those in stock for only £8.99 deliveredSDHC cards are not backwards compatible with standard SD Host devices, however standard SD...


ADVENT 9117 Refurbished Laptop with 17-inch monitor, £269.99 delivered

ADVENT 9117 Refurbished Laptop with 17-inch monitor, £269.99 delivered

News Hardware

You will not find a 17-inch laptop at this price anywhere in the UK. Not even at Dell. Get Internet access from any location and take full advantage of your digital applications with the 9117 laptop computer from Advent.Dixons is...


ESF Database Convert 5.7.24

ESF Database Convert 5.7.24

News Security

It can directly connect to MySQL, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Oracle, InterBase, Access, Excel, Visual Foxpro, Paradox, Lotus, dBase, Text, and other formats, and convert between these formats (SQL Server to MySQL, MySQL to...


ASUS M3A78-EMH HDMI AMD 780G Motherboard

ASUS M3A78-EMH HDMI AMD 780G Motherboard

News Software

Not only did the company introduce a complementary hardware ecosystem, complete with processor, chipset, and graphics solution, but it succeeded in trumping the best effort of its principal rival. Intel’s G35 simply...


Offensive Computing... yeah, it's a joke

Offensive Computing... yeah, it's a joke

News Security

In case you don’t recognize the image, that is the exact image you get right now when going to a storm worm site. In fact, the source on the site is identical to the source used in the storm sites.But, of course, it’s...


Earn Money As U Spam schemes cropping up on Ebay

Earn Money As U Spam schemes cropping up on Ebay

News Security

Eagle-eyed readers have directed our radars to a fresh new threat to inboxes in the form of "Earn Money As You spam schemes" or EMAUS (Nothing to do with Charity organisation EMMAUS International); these look to...


Exim

Exim

News Security

The first version of Exim was written in 1995 by Philip Hazel for use in the University of Cambridge Computing Service’s e-mail systems. The name initially stood for EXperimental Internet Mailer. It was originally based on...


Apple to bundle Windows Vista with Mac laptops and desktops

Apple to bundle Windows Vista with Mac laptops and desktops

News Consumer

Apple's Steve Jobs has struck a deal with Microsoft to sell Windows Vista operating system with its popular range of Mac notebooks, desktops and workstations. Speaking from Apple's Headquarters in Cupertino, CA, Apple's CEO,...


OFT forces web billing company to limit pop-ups

OFT forces web billing company to limit pop-ups

News Security

A company has been forced to change its use of pop-up advertisements by the Office of Fair Trading (OFT), which investigated the company's practices under legislation protecting consumers against unfair contracts.Micro Bill...

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