Topic: WEB - on August 14, 2007 at 12:23:00 PM CEST
ISPs hijack BBC in tiered services push
Cash-strapped ISPs have begun a campaign to use the launch of the BBC's iPlayer on demand service to squeeze more cash from web TV viewers.
The iPlayer is still in beta and due to be fully launched in autumn. It expects to have 500,000 users before the big marketing push.
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Topic: WEB - on August 14, 2007 at 12:17:00 PM CEST
See Who's Editing Wikipedia - Diebold, the CIA, a Campaign
On November 17th, 2005, an anonymous Wikipedia user deleted 15 paragraphs from an article on e-voting machine-vendor Diebold, excising an entire section critical of the company's machines. While anonymous, such changes typically leave behind digital fingerprints offering hints about the contributor, such as the location of the computer used to make the edits.
In this case, the changes came from an IP address reserved for the corporate offices of Diebold itself. And it is far from an isolated case. A new data-mining service launched Monday traces millions of Wikipedia entries to their corporate sources, and for the first time puts comprehensive data behind longstanding suspicions of manipulation, which until now have surfaced only piecemeal in investigations of specific allegations.
wired.com List anonymous wikipedia edits from interesting organizations
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Topic: WEB - on August 11, 2007 at 9:36:00 AM CEST
Australia declares war on net porn
Australian politicians seem to be a bit confused over the fact that any attempt to block all porn online will fail miserably. Proposals to force ISPs to block porn have been put forth by Australian politicians over and over and over again. Now, the Prime Minister John Howard has announced that the government will spend $189 million to "clean up the internet."
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Topic: WEB - on August 10, 2007 at 9:31:00 AM CEST
The Insecurity of Widgets
I caught up with Iftach Ian Amit from Finjan right after his talk at Defcon. He explained why widgets and gadgets on various websites and platforms are inherently insecure, despite the fact that standards exist to create secure gadgets. No platform is safe from these insecurities, as evidenced by a currently unpatched Microsoft vulnerability that Ian wasn't willing to discuss in detail.
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Topic: WEB - on August 6, 2007 at 10:10:00 AM CEST
The Pirate Bay To Relaunch Suprnova.org
Legendary BitTorrent site Suprnova.org is about to make it's return. The owner of the domain has transferred the domain to The Pirate Bay who will launch the site this week and maintain the original sites design.
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Topic: WEB - on July 23, 2007 at 10:34:00 AM CEST
Is anyone still using RealPlayer?
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Topic: WEB - on July 17, 2007 at 11:37:00 AM CEST
Crazy cyber-jihadi emails planned death for Mayport, FL
Younis Tsouli - irhabi007 - was earlier this month jailed for ten years. It's a good sentence for the cyber-jihad twit, someone who became fodder for television news shows like 60 Minutes. Wishing to show how al Qaeda was beating the pants off the good guys on the Internet, Tsouli was the perfect example for them, one of fearmongering at its finest.
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Topic: WEB - on July 17, 2007 at 11:36:00 AM CEST
Italian police net 26 in phishing takedown
Italian police have arrested 26 people allegedly involved in an international phishing operation.
The Guardia di Finanza (Military Financial Police) cuffed 18 Italian citizens and eight Eastern Europeans as part of "Phish and Chip", an operation aimed at dismantling a gang targeting users of Poste Italiane's home banking services.
The gang allegedly mounted a spamming campaign directing prospective marks towards overseas websites that mimicked the real Italian Post Office website. Victims were duped into handing over login credentials by bogus emails posing as security alerts.
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Topic: WEB - on July 17, 2007 at 11:32:00 AM CEST
Global broadband prices revealed
Broadband users in 30 of the world's most developed countries are getting greatly differing speeds and prices, according to a report.
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) report says 60% of its member countries net users are now on broadband.
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Topic: WEB - on July 16, 2007 at 10:30:00 AM CEST
Firefox now a serious threat to IE in Europe
A study of nearly 96,000 websites carried out during the week of July 2 to July 8 found that FF had 27.8% market share across Eastern and Western Europe, IE had 66.5%, with other browsers including Safari and Opera making up the remaining 5.7%. The July market share represents a massive 3.7% rise since a similar survey in March.
A particularly worrying sign for Microsoft is that in some key European markets FF is threatening to overtake IE as the market leading browser. In Slovenia (47.9%) and Finland (45.4%) FF usage has reached parity with IE, while in Germany, Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Croatia and Ireland, FF has either reached or is nearly at 40% market share.
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Topic: WEB - on July 14, 2007 at 11:38:00 AM CEST
75-Year-Old Woman Has Fastest Net Access
A 75 year old woman from Karlstad in central Sweden has been thrust into the IT history books - with the world's fastest internet connection.
Sigbritt Löthberg's home has been supplied with a blistering 40 Gigabits per second connection, many thousands of times faster than the average residential link and the first time ever that a home user has experienced such a high speed.
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Topic: WEB - on July 7, 2007 at 1:52:00 PM CEST
Ebuyer.com runs on a Commodore 64
For starters, there's a Toshiba HX-10, built in 1983. The HX-10 features 64KB of RAM, a 3.6MHz CPU, and a stunning 256x192, 16-color hi-res mode.
Next, you'll find not one but two Commodore 64s. The Commodore debuted in 1982 with 64KB RAM, a 1.02MHz MOS Technology 6510 processor, and a 16-color, 320x200 resolution monitor. Not to mention a creamy BASIC 2.0 operating system.
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