Olympics Committee wants help from Piratebay.org

I was mildly amused this afternoon to hear that the IOC (International Olympics Committee) is looking to the Pirate Bay to help it eradicate BitTorrent indexes that show clips from the Beijing Olympics.

TUE 19 AUG. 2008 |Featured in: News

Visa starts real-time mobile transaction alerts in US

Visa has bitten the security bullet and announced agreements with eight North American financial institutions to launch a pilot program testing delivery of real-time transaction notification alerts via text
messaging and email.

TUE 19 AUG. 2008 |Featured in: News

Drink-driver caught out by Facebook

I was mildly amused at the tale of a 20-year-old college student who, after being busted by the Plod and accused of causing an accident whilst drunk-in-charge, apparently got bored waiting for the case to come up in court.

MON 18 AUG. 2008 |Featured in: News

Wave goodbye to anonymous Web surfing

Whilst a lot of peeps use anonymous Web surfing services for accessing the Web whilst hiding their identity, it looks like the days when you can do this really anonymously are numbered, largely thanks to the kind folks in Brussels.

MON 18 AUG. 2008 |Featured in: News

Antivirus XP 2008 causes more than a few problems

I was interested to read over on The Register that Globalsign has revoked the digital certificate of the Web site selling Antivirus XP 2008, as reports are coming in that the IT security software is allegedly being sold using underhand methods.

SUN 17 AUG. 2008 |Featured in: News

124,000 Aussies hit by identity theft in the last 12 months

Precise figures on identity theft are almost impossible to discover in the UK, owing to the not insignificant fact that the financial institutions seem reticent to reveal such stats.

SUN 17 AUG. 2008 |Featured in: News

Gold'en Rant : Beware the software firms without telephone support

Over the last few years there's a raft of low-cost Windows utilities that have appeared on the market, typically costing around $30.00 or so - about GBP18.00 in UK beer tokens

FRI 15 AUG. 2008 |Featured in: News

Fraudsters have hijacked Chip and PIN

It seems that crims have finally broken the algorithm system for Chip and PIN, as, when police raided an alleged card factory in Birmingham the other day, they found a ton of kit needed to make forged cards on a massive scale.

THU 14 AUG. 2008 |Featured in: News

SlyDial service launches in the US

Now here's an interesting service in the US that involves a company looking up a mobile users' voicemail number automatically and piping calls straight to voicemail, and not to the mobile, even if it's switched on.

THU 14 AUG. 2008 |Featured in: News

Court injunction to silence MIT students misfires

I nearly laughed my socks off after reading that a group of MIT students - who were due to reveal all about the Massachusetts Bay Transport Authority's smart card system inadequacies at last weekend's Defcon event - have seen their Powerpoint presentation posted to the Web as a matter of public record.

WED 13 AUG. 2008 |Featured in: News