tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52891740463599614542012-02-16T22:13:44.415+08:00A collection of interesting internet news and computer tips sourced from the web. Some blogger hacks learnt from elsewhere and applied here.Misbenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15077934812469605320noreply@blogger.comBlogger341100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5289174046359961454.post-17618355793444490772007-10-31T10:59:00.000+08:002007-10-31T11:08:40.794+08:00

30 October 2007Internet Service Providers urgently need to roll out the next generation of net addresses for online devices, internet pioneer Vint Cerf has said.Every device that goes online is allocated a unique IP address but the pool of numbers is finite and due to run out around 2010.A new system, called IPv6, has been awaiting roll out for 10 years.Unless IPv6 is switched on in the coming

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21 September 2007Broadband speeds in the UK are much slower than advertised by internet service providers, a study by Computeractive magazine has found.Some 3,000 readers took part in speed tests and 62% found they routinely got less than half of the top speed advertised by their provider.It is the latest in a series of questions over the way net firms advertise broadband services.Regulator Ofcom

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Weapons without barrels or bullets By Tim WeberMake no mistake: Defence Systems & Equipment International (DSEI), held in the huge Excel Centre in London's docklands, is an arms fair.Armoured fighting vehicles tower over visitors; most gleaming, some proudly muddy as if straight from the training range.Stands are bristling with weapons - from lightweight submachine guns to long-barrelled sniper

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Cyber crime tool kits go on sale Malicious hackers are producing easy to use tools that automate attacks to cash in on a boom in hi-tech crime.On sale, say security experts, are everything from individual viruses to comprehensive kits that let budding cyber thieves craft their own attacks.The top hacking tools are being offered for prices ranging up to £500.Some of the most expensive tools are

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Hackers target 'legitimate' sites 20 June 2007More than 10,000 websites have become unwitting hosts of malicious software, say security experts.Those visiting the hijacked pages risk having keylogging software installed on their PC if it is not protected with the latest patches.The webpages compromised are all legitimate sites devoted to subjects such as tax, jobs, tourism and cars.The sites are

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Phishing growthPhishing e-mails that try to make you hand over confidential details are becoming more common.In July 2006, the Anti-Phishing Working Group got reports about 23,670 unique phishing scams.The trick seems to be catching a lot of people out too. In 2005 UK losses from phishing scams stood at £23.2m.In this gallery we give you some handy hints on how to spot the signatures of the

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Bloggers battered by viral storm Google's Blogger site is being used by malicious hackers who are posting fake entries to some blogs.The fake entries contain weblinks that lead to booby-trapped downloads that could infect a Windows PC.Infected computers are being hijacked by the gang behind the attacks and either mined for saleable data or used for other attacks.The Blogger attack is the latest

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Virus writers target web videos The growing popularity of online video has caught the attention of malicious hackers and hi-tech criminals.Security firms are reporting more and more instances of booby-trapped Windows codecs - file compressors - required to play some video formats.Some of the codecs let users play types of net-based video, but also have spyware and adware wrapped inside.Others,

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The internet should not be used as a scapegoat for society's ills, said Vint Cerf, Google's net evangelist and a founding father of the network.Speaking on the BBC Radio 4's Today programme he rejected calls for strict control of what is put online.He said the net was just a reflection of the society in which we live.Anyone regulating beyond what was clearly illegal put themselves on a "slippery

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Anatomy of a spam e-mail 11 October 2006A daily chore of modern life for many is the morning trawl through a full inbox deleting spam email. But just where does it all come from and why do spammers use bizarre text, names and images in their emails?To the expert eye a typical spam is laden with clues to its origin. Click on the links below to find out more. SENDER"Iverson Vernie": An implausible

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By Mark WardTechnology Correspondent, BBC News website7 October 2006Windows needs help to keep you safe onlineThere are now thought to be more than 200,000 malicious programs in existence - the vast majority of which are aimed at subverting Windows PCs.These problem programs can arrive via e-mail, instant messenger, through your internet connection or even your web browser if you visit the wrong

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Criminals 'may overwhelm the web' By Tim WeberBusiness editor, BBC News website, Davos25 January 2007Criminals controlling millions of personal computers are threatening the internet's future, experts have warned.Up to a quarter of computers on the net may be used by cyber criminals in so-called botnets, said Vint Cerf, one of the fathers of the internet.Technology writer John Markoff said: "It's

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Bill Thompson tries not to worry whether the NSA is reading his e-mail In the late 1970s the US was still recovering from Watergate, the scandal that forced President Richard Nixon to resign after revelations of a dirty-tricks campaign against political rivals which involved illegal surveillance.Partly in response to the crisis, Congress passed the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) in

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China arrests or warns 60 for spreading rumorsBEIJING (Reuters) - Police in east China have arrested or warned 60 people for spreading rumors by SMS or on the Internet so far this year and specified the threat of modern communications to society, state media said on Tuesday.China has an army of cyber-police who patrol the Internet for unfavorable content, but their targets are more often

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Wireless "piggybackers" beware -- you'll be arrestedBy Peter GriffithsLONDON (Reuters Life!) - If you think it's a clever moneysaver to sneak on to someone else's wireless network for free Internet access in Britain, then be prepared to see a policeman appear on your doorstep.British police said on Wednesday they had arrested two people and given them legal cautions for "piggybacking", the term

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Briton held over wireless broadband "theft"LONDON, Aug 22 (Reuters Life!) - A 39-year-old Briton has been arrested on suspicion of using someone else's wireless Internet connection without permission, police said on Wednesday.Officers spotted the man using a laptop as he sat on a wall outside a house in Chiswick, west London, on Tuesday.He told officers he had browsed the Internet via an

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The Right Analogy for Wireless Signal Spill By John C. Dvorak (08/01/2005)We're starting to see more and more articles in local newspapers with various slants on the fact that people are routinely poaching the spillover signals coming from unprotected Wi-Fi networks. Some researchers indicate that as many as two-thirds of Wi-Fi signals in the U.S. are not secured by WEP or any sort of encryption

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Two cautioned over wireless "piggy-backing"By Peter GriffithsLONDON (Reuters) - Two people have been arrested and cautioned for using someone else's wireless Internet connection without permission, known as "piggy-backing", British police said on Wednesday.The practice, which sharply divides Internet users, has been fuelled by the rapid growth of fast wireless broadband in homes and people's

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New "Last Supper" theory crashes Leonardo Web sitesMILAN (Reuters) 28/07/2007 - A new theory that Leonardo's "Last Supper" might hide within it a depiction of Christ blessing the bread and wine has triggered so much interest that Web sites connected to the picture have crashed.The famous fresco is already the focus of mythical speculation after author Dan Brown based his "The Da Vinci Code" book

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Pull down the walled gardens Internet law professor Michael Geist says the walled gardens of social networks should be pulled down.Social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace have become part of the daily routine for millions of internet users. The popularity of these networks, however, has resulted in an unfortunate by-product - the mushrooming number of requests that come from dozens

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Wikia details plans for search rival to GoogleBy Eric Auchard (31/07/2007)SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales said on Friday he is putting the building blocks in place for a community-developed Web search service that would compete with search engines such as Google or Yahoo.Wales told a conference of software developers in Portland, Oregon, that his commercial start-up, Wikia

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Couple tried to name baby "@"BEIJING (Reuters) - A Chinese couple tried to name their baby "@," claiming the character used in e-mail addresses echoed their love for the child, an official trying to whip the national language into line said Thursday.The unusual name stands out especially in Chinese, which has no alphabet and instead uses tens of thousands of multi-stroke characters to represent

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China jails Internet writer for subversion, disbars lawyerBEIJING (Reuters) - A Chinese court jailed a dissident Internet writer for four years on subversion charges on Thursday for posting anti-government articles online, his disbarred lawyer said, the latest case in a government crackdown on dissent.The Intermediate People's Court in Hangzhou, capital of the eastern coastal province of Zhejiang

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CIA, FBI computers used for Wikipedia editsBy Randall MikkelsenWASHINGTON (Reuters) - People using CIA and FBI computers have edited entries in the online encyclopedia Wikipedia on topics including the Iraq war and the Guantanamo prison, according to a new tracing program.The changes may violate Wikipedia's conflict-of-interest guidelines, a spokeswoman for the site said on Thursday.The program,

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Catholic dean on leave after YouTube outburstCANBERRA (Reuters) 01/08/2007 - A Roman Catholic priest who unleashed a torrent of expletives and racist abuse against skateboarders outside his Australian cathedral, only to have the outburst filmed and placed on YouTube, has been put on leave.The Reverend Monsignor Geoff Baron, the dean of St Patrick's Cathedral in Australia's second biggest city,

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Zimbabwe passes law to monitor communicationsBy Nelson Banya (03/08/2007)HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe has signed into law an act enabling state security agents to monitor phone lines, mail and the Internet, a government notice published on Friday said.Officials have said the new law is designed to protect national security and prevent crime, but human rights groups fear

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Australian fetus a Facebook Internet starCANBERRA (Reuters) - Bubba Waring has not even been born yet and he, or she, has its own Web space with cyber "friends" clamoring to get acquainted.Australian couple Claire Gillis and Luke Waring, who are expecting their first child in three months, decided to set up a page on Internet social meeting site Facebook to keep friends up to date on the

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Dutch bloggers due in court over filming under skirts AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Two Dutch news bloggers caught filming under women's skirts in a car park in order to warn the public of the intimate views afforded by see-through stairs must appear in court, according to their blog.A court spokesman in Alkmaar, where the pair have been called to appear in October, said they had been charged with

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Halt "high risk" e-voting-British watchdogBy Peter Griffiths (2 August 2007)LONDON (Reuters) - Trials of Internet voting at elections should be halted until officials address serious concerns over costs and the risk of fraud, Britain's election watchdog said on Thursday.Britain's Electoral Commission, said in a report that e-voting pilot schemes at the local elections in May were expensive,

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Regular columnist Bill Thompson says our trust should only be given to technology when it is merited and proven.When I started work as a professional programmer, writing in the C programming language, I sometimes wrote very bad code. It worked, but it wasn't what you'd call industrial strength, largely because it didn't do nearly enough checking.As a result my programs would crash if you gave

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Saudis block liberal Internet forum, says activistRIYADH (Reuters) - A Saudi political reform activist said on Thursday the authorities had blocked his Internet forum as part of a wider crackdown on freedom of expression in Saudi Arabia."I want to put government bodies and public opinion in our country before the facts of how certain elements are infringing human rights," Ali al-Dumaini said in a

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Christians held in Egypt for work on Web siteCAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian police have detained two Egyptian Christians for their work on the Web site of a Christian Arab group based in Canada, police sources said on Thursday.Named as Adel Fawzi and Peter Ezzat, the two worked for the Middle East Christian Association, which has its headquarters in Ontario and has a Web site with the address

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Free speech, libel and the internet age Internet law professor Michael Geist says the issue of free speech and the power of the net to disseminate comment is far from being resolved in law.The Rivoli, a popular Canadian music club in Toronto, Canada may seem like an unusual venue to consider internet free speech.Yet later this week, it will play host to a fundraiser in support of P2Pnet.net, a

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