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WinRAR for U3
2008-01-12 11:41:00
Continuing with my U3 Theme: Another piece of software recently installed from U3 Software Central - WinRAR for U3: WinRAR for U3 is the best compression tool on the market adapted to U3 smart drives. With WinRAR for U3 it is possible to take WinRAR with you wherever you go. WinRAR is the powerful archiver and archive ...

Leeway Seen in China Internet Rules
2008-01-11 14:56:00
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Leeway Seen in China Internet Rules
2008-01-11 14:56:00
By MIN LEE, AP Entertainment Writer (AP) — China is so keen to keep foreign investment flowing that it probably will let private Web sites work around strict new rules limiting video-sharing to state-controlled companies, analysts say. China-based Web sites already need a government license that only companies majority-owned by Chinese nationals can get, and managers of ...
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Phone companies cut FBI wiretaps due to unpaid bills
2008-01-11 14:51:00
WASHINGTON (AP) — Telephone companies have cut off FBI wiretaps used to eavesdrop on suspected criminals because of the bureau’s repeated failures to pay phone bills on time. A Justice Department audit released Thursday blamed the lost connections on the FBI’s lax oversight of money used in undercover investigations. Poor supervision of the program ...
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Phone companies cut FBI wiretaps due to unpaid bills
2008-01-11 14:51:00
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AT&T to crush copyrighted network packets
2008-01-11 14:41:00
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AT&T to crush copyrighted network packets
2008-01-11 14:41:00
‘Eat our dust, Comcast’ By Cade Metz in San Francisco → More by this author Published Friday 11th January 2008 01:00 GMT AT&T says it’s time to start filtering copyrighted content at the network level. During a panel discussion at the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES), The New York Times reports, the communications giant joined Microsoft and NBC Universal ...
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Zombie Computer Army Targets Bank Account Passwords
2008-01-10 17:12:00
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Zombie Computer Army Targets Bank Account Passwords
2008-01-10 17:12:00
By Ryan Singel January 09, 2008 | 6:41:15 PMCategories: Hacks and Cracks Every security geek’s favorite zombie computer army from 2007 — the Storm Worm botnet — has a new trick for 2008, using its huge collection of infected computers to send out phishing emails directing people to fake banking sites that it cleverly also hosts on the computers it remotely controls. The phishing campaign caught the attention of both F-Secure and Trend Micro, who say Storm has never been involved in phishing up to this point. The new campaign may indicate, according to F-Secure, that Storm’s controllers have figured out how to divide the massive army into clusters which it is now renting out to others. The Storm Worm botnet got its start last January with a spam email purporting to have information about the storms that were battering Europe at the time. Users with unpatched Windows machines who clicked on the link in the email were infected with a Trojan that joined the ma...
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AT&T and Other ISPs May Be Getting Ready to Filter
2008-01-10 17:09:00
By Brad Stone For the past fifteen years, Internet service providers have acted - to use an old cliche - as wide-open information super-highways, letting data flow uninterrupted and unimpeded between users and the Internet. But ISPs may be about to embrace a new metaphor: traffic cop. At a small panel discussion about digital piracy here at NBC’s booth on the Consumer Electronics Show floor, representatives from NBC, Microsoft, several digital filtering companies and telecom giant AT&T said the time was right to start filtering for copyrighted content at the network level. Such filtering for pirated material already occurs on sites like YouTube and Microsoft’s Soapbox, and on some university networks. Network-level filtering means your Internet service provider – Comcast, AT&T, EarthLink, or whoever you send that monthly check to – could soon start sniffing your digital packets, looking for material that infringes on someone’s copyright. “What we are already doin...
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AT&T and Other ISPs May Be Getting Ready to Filter
2008-01-10 17:09:00
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eBook: Search Engine Myths Exposed
2008-01-10 17:01:00
Just finished reading my personal download of ‘Search Engine Myths Exposed’ by Jonathan Leger, whose Blog is also worth reading. At42 pages long, it’s covers alot of ground, too.   Extract: New FREE report from Jonathan Leger exposes the most destructive myths and lies being spread about how to rank in Google, and then reveals the TRUTH of what you should really be doing. To get your copy, please go here. A final word: This posting has been made out of personal interest and for no other reason! Jonathan Leger also runs an interactive forum/help site called AskJonLedger
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eBook: Search Engine Myths Exposed
2008-01-10 17:01:00
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IT contractors cry foul over HMRC income splitting law
2008-01-09 16:36:00
‘Stop crippling us, we’re not tax dodgers’ By Kelly Fiveash ? More by this author Published Wednesday 9th January 2008 15:15 GMT IT contractors are up in arms about government legalisation that will overhaul income splitting arrangements among individuals following a landmark case that Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) lost. In July last year, Arctic Systems beat the ...
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IT contractors cry foul over HMRC income splitting law
2008-01-09 16:36:00
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Government piles filesharing pressure on UK ISPs
2008-01-08 18:06:00
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Government piles filesharing pressure on UK ISPs
2008-01-08 18:06:00
Minister threatens legislation deadline By Chris Williams → More by this author Published Tuesday 8th January 2008 15:50 GMT The government turned up the heat on internet providers today, warning that laws to force disconnection of illegal filesharers are already being drafted for a parliamentary debut in November. Lord Triesman, the minister for intellectual property, said that if ISPs can’t agree a voluntary scheme with the music and film industries by the end of summer, he will press Gordon Brown to introduce legislation in the next Queen’s speech. It’s the first time Triesman has put a public timescale on the threat he made last autumn to bypass self-regulation. The minister was speaking at the launch of the government consultation on new copyright exceptions following 2006’s wide-ranging Gowers Review of intellectual property in the UK. Triesman emphasised that the government speaks with one voice on illegal filesharing. “We’re not prepared...
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2007 worst ever year for data protection
2008-01-07 13:43:00
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2007 worst ever year for data protection
2008-01-07 13:43:00
Data on 37 million Brits mislaid By John Oates → More by this author Published Monday 7th January 2008 12:04 GMT Last year was the worst ever for data losses in the UK, with almost 37 million people having their private data compromised. The government’s loss of 25 million child benefit records was the largest single screw-up, but other government departments and private companies played their part too. The figures were compiled by the Lib Dems, and party leader leader Nick Clegg said the problems showed the need for a rethink on data protection legislation, as well as calling for the immediate end to the ID card project. Clegg said: “The ID card project is now in freefall, because faith in the Government’s ability to handle personal data has hit crisis point. “There is simply no way that any democratic government can expect an unwilling public to accept having their precious personal data cropped and stored in the world’s largest database when they a...
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Your U3 Device: Recommend ?Advanced? Software
2008-01-05 22:39:00
Continuing with my U3 Theme: These are the ‘advanced’ tools I’ve installed on my U3 device: Putty for U3 - PuTTY for U3 remote access tool is a rock solid, stable, smooth running implementation of Telnet, SSH(SSH-1 and SSH-2), Rlogin, and RAW connections (this is useful if you wanted to connect to a server and send/receive raw ...
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Your U3 Device: Recommend ?Advanced? Software
2008-01-05 22:39:00
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A Mom?s Overture
2008-01-05 20:52:00
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A Mom?s Overture
2008-01-05 20:52:00
[See post to watch Flash video] With thanks to Anita Renfroe.
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Schools minister touts ?one interweb per child? pork barrel
2008-01-04 18:09:00
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Schools minister touts ‘one interweb per child’ pork barrel
2008-01-04 18:09:00
BT ‘keenly welcomes’ more money shocker By Chris Williams → More by this author Published Friday 4th January 2008 16:45 GMT The schools minister, Jim Knight, has decided that every child in the country absolutely must have broadband at home, and has called on technology vendors to help him make it happen. More than one million UK children don’t have access to a computer at home, according to government figures. Now it seems that the ministers intend to compel industry and parents to share the burden with taxpayers to bridge the divide. In his interview in today’s Guardian, Knight said: “We need to get to a point where in the same way when they start school the expectation is you’ve [the parent] got to find a school uniform, provide them with something to write with and probably these days a calculator, and in secondary school some sports gear - well, you add to that some IT.Knight says he has tapped BT, Virgin Media, Sky, Microsoft and educatio...
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Firefox spoofing bug raises phishing fears
2008-01-04 18:03:00
Basic authentication sucks By John Leyden → More by this author Published Friday 4th January 2008 15:17 GMT Flaws in the way the latest version of Mozilla Firefox presents authentication dialog boxes leave the door open for cybercrooks to trick users into handing over login credentials, a leading security researcher warns. The spoofing weakness - discovered by Israeli security researcher Aviv Raff - involves a failure by the open source browser to sanitise single quotation marks and spaces in the “realm” value of an authentication header. “This makes it possible for an attacker to create a specially crafted Realm value which will look as if the authentication dialog came from a trusted site,” Raff explained. Exploitation of the bug might involve embedding a rigged image on a MySpace page that would pose as a log-on dialog to Amazon.com, for example, while actually sending data to systems controlled by hackers. Alternatively, a hacker might attempt to trick ...
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Firefox spoofing bug raises phishing fears
2008-01-04 18:03:00
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China Limits Providers of Internet Video
2008-01-03 15:08:00
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China Limits Providers of Internet Video
2008-01-03 15:08:00
Thursday January 3, 2008 10:31 AMBy MIN LEE AP Entertainment Writer HONG KONG (AP) - China has decided to restrict the broadcasting of Internet videos - including those posted on video-sharing Web sites - to sites run by state-controlled companies and require providers to report questionable content to the government. It wasn’t immediately clear how the new rules would affect YouTube and other providers of Internet video that host Web sites available in China but are based in other countries. The new regulations, which take effect Jan. 31, were approved by both the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television and the Ministry of Information Industry and were described on their Web sites Tuesday. Under the new policy, Web sites that provide video programming or allow users to upload video must obtain government permits and applicants must be either state-owned or state-controlled companies. The majority of Internet video providers in China are private, according to ...
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UK gov sets rules for hacker tool ban
2008-01-03 14:59:00
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