Computer hacker Gary McKinnon wins more time to fight US extradition

May 21st, 2010 Comments off

The case against a computer hacker who faced extradition to the US on charges of breaking in to sensitive military computers has been adjourned.

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Nasa hacker McKinnon’s extradition halted for review

May 21st, 2010 Comments off

New home secretary Theresa May has paused Gary McKinnon’s extradition proceedings so she can fully consider the issues in his case.

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The best free antivirus programs

May 21st, 2010 Comments off

Free antivirus started life nearly two decades ago as security’s poor relation, little more than a way of ensnaring users with limited features that would give them an excuse to upgrade to paid-for software later on. A number of software vendors built their marketing on such products, even if the bigger brands were sometimes too sniffy to dare offering something as lowly as a ‘free’ product.

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Internet mailbox for ‘China’s Got Talent’ compromised with valuable production manual stolen

May 21st, 2010 Comments off

The internet mailbox for the Chinese version of the ‘got talent’ TV talent show has been compromised with sensitive information exposed.

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Hackers penetrate Carder forum

May 21st, 2010 Comments off

Hackers have penetrated German underground forum carders.cc, copied login details, e-mail addresses and private e-mails from several thousand members and published them on RapidShare. According to a list seen by The H’s associates at heise Security, the forum software had also logged the IP addresses of nearly one thousand members over a specific period. These have also been published.

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Symantec study misses the point over Linux spam

May 21st, 2010 Comments off

The latest MessageLabs Intelligence Report from Symantec Hosted Services is filled with interesting and useful information regarding the current state of malware and e-mail borne threats as well as the trends over time. Of particular interest to me is the assertion in the report that “any given Linux machine is five times more likely to be sending spam than any given Windows machine.”

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Microsoft introduces online web applications in new version of Office

May 19th, 2010 Comments off

Microsoft has announced the release of the latest versions of the business editions of Office and SharePoint.

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German WiFi owners are now liable for what third party users download while connected to their network

May 19th, 2010 Comments off

Internet users in Germany can now be fined up to €100 if a third party takes advantage of their unprotected WLAN connection to illegally download music or other files.

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Linux systems rank high on spam sender list

May 19th, 2010 Comments off

Linux systems are five times more likely than Windows machines to be used to send spam, according to a Symantec report that highlights the part that Linux plays in the growing spam problem.

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Facebook privacy tweaks are ‘unacceptable’, says EU

May 19th, 2010 Comments off

European data protection advisers have said it was ‘unacceptable’ for Facebook to make some of its users’ data public without their permission at the end of last year.

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