Fake Facebook Profile Case Highlights Privacy Dangers Of Social Networking Sites

Creating a fake profile on a social networking website could possibly land you in trouble; A businessman whose life turned into a nightmare after an old school friend created a virtual Facebook alter-ego of him won his case and £22,000 in damages

THU 24 JULY 2008 |Featured in: News

SQL Injection Technique is Hacker's Best Friend, Says Security Firm

While some are still evaluating the threat caused by SQL injection technique, security firm Sophos released a security threat report that underlines the fact that this technique is currently the favourite method used by hackers to infect computers

THU 24 JULY 2008 |Featured in: News

Super Malware Asprox Takes UK By Storm, Targets Government Websites

The last few weeks have seen a resurgence in the number of attacks based on the Asprox malware and coming from East European countries, something that was highlighted by GSS back in May 2008

THU 24 JULY 2008 |Featured in: News

Comcast May Face Legal Action From New York State For Not Monitoring Child Pornography

New York State’s Attorney General, Andrew Cuomo, has sent a letter to Comcast, containing rules and guidelines for monitoring child pornography, which must be incorporated within five days, failure to which may translate into legal action against the company

THU 24 JULY 2008 |Featured in: News

Sony Ericsson K660i Review : Skype Gets Gorgeous

The Sony Ericsson K660i is the second Skype compatible phone ITProportal.com is reviewing this year and unlike the Skypephone, this one is available on other non 3 (three or 3G) networks, more about that in a bit

THU 24 JULY 2008 |Featured in: Hardware

UK's Top ISPs Agree To Implement Music Industry Anti Piracy Plans

Tens of thousands of UK households could soon receive letters from their ISPs asking them to stop sharing music illegally in an anti-piracy deal brought forward by the government under the pressure of the music industry

THU 24 JULY 2008 |Featured in: News

Tiscali Sues BT Over Customer Poaching Attempts

Italian ISP Tiscali has taken legal action against BT for sending defamatory letter to Tiscali’s customers in the UK

THU 24 JULY 2008 |Featured in: News

Dreaded Internet DNS Flaw Revealed Ahead Of Its Time

The much debated DNS flaw that had IT giants working overtime to create its patch, has been accidentally revealed online, creating an issue for those whose servers are yet to utilise the patch

THU 24 JULY 2008 |Featured in: News

Seattle based “Spam King” Goes Behind The Bars For Almost 4 Years

Robert Soloway, popularly known as “Spam King”, is sentenced to 47 months of prison, for distributing millions of junk mails to users, after an extraordinarily long sentence hearing of almost thirty six hours in the US District Court for the Western District of Washington in Seattle

THU 24 JULY 2008 |Featured in: News

Myspace Links Up With OpenID Alliance For Seamless Social Networking Integration

Social networking website MySpace has joined the OpenID alliance, which would allow its users to seamlessly access other websites without changing the usernames and passwords

THU 24 JULY 2008 |Featured in: News

Superdrug rapped over price comparison ads

Superdrug's claim that it sold 960 everyday health and beauty products more cheaply than rival chemist Boots was misleading, the advertising watchdog has ruled

THU 24 JULY 2008 |Featured in: Legal IT

Auto Folder Synchronization 9.8.4

Compare, back up, synchronize, and replicate data

THU 24 JULY 2008 |Featured in: Software

Comment: The Truth about Virtualisation or Why Green is Not (necessarily) Good

The focus on virtualisation’s green credentials is detracting from the real benefits of the technology du jour

THU 24 JULY 2008 |Featured in: News

Shouldn't data security actually secure the data?

There have a been a bunch of posts and gobs of marketing blurring the lines of distinction between data security products like database activity monitoring solutions and network security products like web application firewalls

THU 24 JULY 2008 |Featured in: News

Edimax EW-7728I, PCI Wireless N WiFi Card, 300mbps, £17.99 delivered

EW-7728In complies with 802.11n draft 2.0, the next generation wireless standard

THU 24 JULY 2008 |Featured in: Tech Deals

Redfly Mobile Companion Laptop, £308.14

Smartphones have laptop power in a pocket-size design. But the pocket-size design has a natural limitation in the size of the keyboard and screen

THU 24 JULY 2008 |Featured in: Tech Deals

ECS P43T Socket 775 Motherboard

Many of us may not have the funds to fork out in order to get that new P45 motherboard that was released last week

THU 24 JULY 2008 |Featured in: Hardware

Sapphire PI-AM2RS780G

As we have seen lately, AMD has been releasing "Platforms" geared towards different types of users in the market

THU 24 JULY 2008 |Featured in: Hardware

E-roamer Mail Server 1.01

Access all of your e-mail from a single server

THU 24 JULY 2008 |Featured in: Software

Internet posses round on eBay sellers

Good to see a group of concerned online citizens going to town in revealing eBay sellers are out and out fraudsters themselves, in the wake of apparent apathy from eBay.

WED 23 JULY 2008 |Featured in: News

Romanian crim confesses his part in $400,000 Internet scam

Interesting to read over on the AP newswire that one of the 38 people charged in a global Internet phishing and fraud ring the other week has copped for a plea.

WED 23 JULY 2008 |Featured in: News

Vodafone revenues up – market trips up shares!

The markets were tough on Vodafone yesterday with its shares falling by almost 14%. Whilst group revenue is up by 19.1%, this is mostly by acquisition, exchange rate fluctuations and increasing data sales rather than organic growth

WED 23 JULY 2008 |Featured in: News

Redten Unlimited Grilled By ASA Over Erroneous Ad Claims

Free PC Pioneer Redten Internet has been given a dress-down by the Advertising Standards Authority over the use of the word "unlimited" in its advertising to describe the type of internet connection offered by Redten

WED 23 JULY 2008 |Featured in: News

Vista-only DirectX 11 API ready to go says Microsoft

That's something that many Game Developers have been waiting for. Microsoft has announced more details of the DirectX 11 at the company's annual GameFest in Seattle

WED 23 JULY 2008 |Featured in: News

"Less Than 3 Percent" Of Youtube Videos Carry Adverts Says Google Exec

YouTube sales manager Brian Cusack told an audience of online marketing professionals at a ClickZ that only around one in every 34 Youtube videos carry an advert, worse than previously thought

WED 23 JULY 2008 |Featured in: News