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Experts uncover weakness in Internet security

Technology / Internet

created Dec 30, 2008 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (16) | comments 1

Independent security researchers in California and researchers at the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in the Netherlands, EPFL in Switzerland, and Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) in the Netherlands have found ...


'Guide to Secure Web Services' provides blueprint to safer Web 2.0

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Sep 14, 2007 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Many Web-based services, from shopping to online word processing, allow computer programs to talk to each other and exchange user data across several Web sites without human intervention. Many of the attractive features of ...


Conficker worm plays no tricks on April Fools' Day

Technology / Software

created Apr 02, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 1

The Conficker worm's April 1st trigger date came and went without the bedeviling computer virus causing any mischief but security specialists warn that the threat is far from over.


Windows bulletin MS08-067

Downadup Worm Hits Over 3.5 Million Computers

Technology / Internet

created Jan 16, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Security firm F-Secure has advised that the Downadup worm has spread to more than 3.5 million computers by exploiting a vulnerability Microsoft patched last October. This is achieved by trying ...


Internet giant Google is testing a new service that would expand its television-ad brokering business to YouTube

Google to expand TV ad service to online video

Technology / Internet

created Mar 27, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Internet giant Google is testing a new service that would expand its television-ad brokering business to YouTube and video on other websites, The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.


Downadup Worm

The Raging Windows Worm has attacked over 8.9 Million Computers

Technology / Internet

created Jan 19, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (11) | comments 10

(PhysOrg.com) -- Last week the global internet community was hit by the Downadup worm also know as Conficker, or Kido. This worm is now using multiple ways of infecting computers, including USB sticks. If s ...


So many passwords, so little memory

Technology / Software

created Apr 15, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (6) | comments 1

How many keys are on your keychain? I just looked at mine and counted nine keys. And that's not counting the bulky little remote control key fob that locks and unlocks my car. I've tried to consolidate my keys by making one ...


NTT DoCoMo to Start Marketing Japanese Support for BlackBerry

Technology / Telecom

created Jul 17, 2007 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

NTT DoCoMo announced today that it will begin marketing Research In Motion's BlackBerry 8707h with Japanese-language support on July 23.


Locals will be able to access the Internet without paying line rental or a connection charge

British town to offer free wi-fi to all residents

Technology / Telecom

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Swindon has become the first place in Britain to offer free wireless Internet access to all its 186,000 residents, in what is thought to be the first such scheme, officials said on Tuesday.


The next world war could take place in cyberspace, the UN telecommunications agency chief warned

Threat of next world war may be in cyberspace: UN

Technology / Internet

created Oct 06, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (4) | comments 2

The next world war could take place in cyberspace, the UN telecommunications agency chief warned Tuesday as experts called for action to stamp out cyber attacks.


Protecting your virtual privacy

Technology / Internet

created Nov 03, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1

The details of your personal life, such as grocery purchases and pizza topping preferences, are collected every day ― online and by club and discount cards from the gym, department store and supermarket. Though this ...


Software Circumvents Internet Censorship

Technology / Software

created Nov 28, 2006 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (36) | comments 0

With the Dec. 1 release of psiphon software, developed by University of Toronto's Citizen Lab, people around the world will have access to a free tool enabling them to circumvent Internet censorship.


Researchers unite to distribute quantum keys

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Jul 02, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 2

Researchers from across Europe have united to build the largest quantum key distribution network ever built. The efforts of 41 research and industrial organisations were realised as secure, quantum encrypted information ...


On the road to secure car-to-car communications

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Sep 14, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A European research project works out how to keep car-to-car data transmissions private and secure from malicious hackers.


Expert: Obama's cybersecurity response disappointing in scope

Expert: Obama's cybersecurity response disappointing in scope

Technology / Internet

created May 29, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

President Barack Obama's announcement today (May 29) that he will create a cybersecurity coordinator in the White House with responsibility for information security is a step in the right direction, but more has ...