Computers missing from nuclear weapons lab
Over eighty computers belonging to the US nuclear weapons lab at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in the state of New Mexico have mysteriously gone missing, according to the watchdog the Project on Government Oversight (POGO).
The concerns are serious enough to worry people, but what is more concerning is the way that these computers have [...]
ISP’s filter Wiki
Customers of some UK based internet service providers have been finding it hard to access the online encyclopaedia Wikipedia. This is because a certain article has sparked off a blacklisting by the Internet Watch Foundation.
This blacklisting has been caused because of images that have been linked to child pornography, but because of this, all surfers [...]
Worm attack warning
Researchers at Microsoft are warning Windows users to install an emergency patch that they released last month, but it would seem that not users have done so yet, which is a cause for concern.
The company noticed more attacks last weekend, spiking during the mid week period, yet this worm which was spotted by software firm [...]
Orange block the Pirate Bay
The Pirate Bay must be getting used to being blocked by countries and internet service providers by now it seems that customers of the ISP Orange are being blocked from visiting the Pirate Bay.
With Orange covering many European countries including the UK, France and Spain but in a recent survey by the consumer magazine Which? [...]
White House emails hacked
Despite all of the problems that surround the security of information, it would appear that the White House still has problems with their computer security as the email archives have been hacked several times over the past few months.
As this has been a problem in the past, the US set up the National Cyber [...]
Internet black boxes still on the cards
It seems that the government’s plans to store all of the websites visited and emails received and sent is still on the cards, and how they plan to do this was revealed at a meeting between government officials and several internet service providers such as BT, Sky Broadband, O2 and AOL Europe.
The plan is to [...]
The top ten computer viruses
Computer viruses were conceived in the late 1940’s but it was not until some forty years later that they started to come into their own. The early editions had to be distributed by hand, a hacker would put it on a disk and simply hand it out, then they were placed on flash drives, which [...]
October 28, 2008Inside the mind of a hacker
Hackers are often looked at as either a seriously bad guy or some young kid who is out to have laugh, but according to some psychiatrists hackers are rattlesnakes but with the rattles. Whatever your take on a hacker is, one thing is for sure they cause no end problems.
The two most noticeable hackers at [...]
Gmail’s security measures
With millions of users you would have thought that Gmail would have got their act together by now, well in some circumstances they already have, by adding improved security features this makes account hijacking much more difficult.
But many thousands of users are being locked out their own email accounts with no easy way of getting [...]
Hadron Hacked
Last week when the CERN particle accelerator based in Geneva, Switzerland was switched on, many people believed that it could herald the end of the world, yet the whole process came and went with not so much as flashing red light.
However, something more serious and potentially dangerous has happened in the mean time. Hackers known [...]
US will be a victim of cyber attacks
It is being thought that the next major terrorist attack, will not be seen live on TV with bombs and aircraft, but a rather more subtle form of attack will be carried with the help of the internet.
Over the past week or so, we have all seen the Russian army in Georgia, but these military [...]
Banking websites insecure
Research into online banking by the University of Michigan has found some fairly serious security issues that could at some point threaten the security of many users of this online service.
This is a wide-ranging issue and not just limited to a small number of banks, in fact the study is saying that around seventy-five per [...]
Oyster card system hacked
It may have seemed to have been a stunt or a bit of joke when a team of security researchers armed only with a laptop, were able to ride the London underground for free all day long with no interference from staff or anyone.
However the joke becomes a very serious matter when you [...]
June 23, 200850% of IT workers look at confidential files
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June 9, 2008Virgin Media writes to down loaders
Subscribers with Virgin Media who like to download the odd bit of illegal music, film or software better be watching out for a letter to drop on their door mats, for their ISP have teamed up with the BPI to close down on the illegal file sharers.
This comes from the government’s plans to make [...]
June 3, 2008Did hackers get into Commerce Secretary’s laptop?
There are rumours around that while on a recent visit to China, by the US Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrz, a US Government laptop was hacked into by persons unknown, while the computer was left unattended.
The US Department of Homeland Security say that they are not investigating the allegations and it actual fact the FBI [...]
June 2, 2008Mission to Mars website hacked
The recent Mars Lander programme has been hailed a success, as no doubt it was the landing craft is on the red planet and searching for signs of life, which is what the mission is all about. This is undoubtedly a great success for the people behind the Phoenix Mars Lander Mission.
But while everyone [...]
April 16, 2008CAPTCHA cracked in sixty seconds
By now we have all got used to the sign up feature that is supposed determine between a human and a machine, the Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart (CAPTCHA) where there is a series of letters and numbers which are sometimes distorted.
Most of time this has proved a [...]
April 7, 2008The internet is under attack
Most of us feel that the internet will last for ever, but could there ever be a time when the internet actually breaks and suddenly we find ourselves with nothing to look at and no way of carry on the work, it sounds like a nightmare. But this could happen one and here are the [...]
April 4, 2008Film makers to use Bit Torrent sites
Now film makers attempt to use Bit Torrents as a way to get their films out there and in the process get some much needed publicity which can in effect make an average film into a cult film that has been seen by millions.
In fact a film producer from Norway found that one of [...]