Archive for 2010/07/02
Video-Based Captchas Now Available for Sites and Blogs
Posted: 2010/07/02 in Education / Awareness, Network Security, Privacy / Data Protection, Tech EvolutionBetter user engagement and increased site security are key features in this free, fun new Captcha technology
Hacker fesses up to using 80GB
Posted: 2010/07/02 in Education / Awareness, File Sharing, Illegal File SharingFirefox: 1 Billion Add-on Downloads
Posted: 2010/07/02 in Education / Awareness, New Business ModelsBill: China Net censorship could start trade war
Posted: 2010/07/02 in Education / Awareness, Public PolicyGroups push feds for video game age restrictions
Posted: 2010/07/02 in Education / Awareness, Public PolicyChase Bank Customers Can Deposit Checks Using an iPhone App
Posted: 2010/07/02 in New Business ModelsExtreme porn now illegal north of the border
Posted: 2010/07/02 in Education / Awareness, Public PolicyScotland falls into line
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/07/02/scotland_extreme_smut/
Scroogle’s future in doubt
Posted: 2010/07/02 in Education / Awareness, Google, Privacy / Data ProtectionGoogle shimmies again to avoid privacy proxy
HostExploit’s Top 50 Bad Internet Hosts & Networks Cybercrime Report Q1 2010
Posted: 2010/07/02 in Cybercrime, Education / Awareness, Network Security, Stats / reports• Rank #1 in the HE Index is AS29073 Ecatel (NL) seen to be providing bullet proof hosting, spam, exploit servers and infected web sites
• Rank #2 in the HE Index is AS21740 Demand Media / eNom (USA) serving a whole raft of assorted badness, including Malware, spyware, and spam
Judge “rejected all of the EFF’s arguments” on P2P cases
Posted: 2010/07/02 in Illegal File Sharing, Jurisprudence, Litigation‘Twilight: Eclipse’ Mania Triggers Wave of Cyber Crimes
Posted: 2010/07/02 in Cybercrime, Education / Awareness, Illegal File Sharing, Organized Crime, Privacy / Data Protection, Public PolicyInternet security leaders Norton noted a prominent spike this week in contaminated search results for “Twilight: Eclipse” – with some common searches returning more than 50 percent malicious results. This means that web surfers have more than a one-in-two chance of clicking on a link that can unleash viruses, key logging programs (where criminals can monitor everything you type), and an array of other nasty computer bugs causing trouble for users
Finnish BitTorrent Admins Receive 680,000 Euro Fine
Posted: 2010/07/02 in Illegal File Sharing, Jurisprudence, Litigation50 arrested in smartphone spyware dragnet
Posted: 2010/07/02 in Education / Awareness, Enforcement, Mobile techComputer hackers and how they work
Posted: 2010/07/02 in Cybercrime, Education / Awareness, Enforcement, Illegal File Sharing, Privacy / Data ProtectionMexican national Luis Mijangos was arrested by the FBI for hacking into over 100 computers by disguising malicious codes or malware as downloadable songs and sending these to victims he met online
http://www.helium.com/items/1877107-computer-hacker-revealed
New rules bring online piracy fight to US campuses
Posted: 2010/07/02 in Education / Awareness, Enforcement, Public PolicyISP condemns new BT backbone
Posted: 2010/07/02 in Bandwidth Management, Education / Awareness, Future Developments?Business ISP Andrews and Arnold has strongly criticised BT’s new 21CN network backbone as unable to cope with current bandwidth demands
