Caller ID spoofing moves phishing to the phone

It seems that criminals in the US have discovered that the latest generation of spoof caller ID services can be used to fool punters into thinking that an incoming call originates from their bank.

THU 07 AUG. 2008 |Featured in: News

Asda apologises for debit card payment glitch

Now here's an interesting case involved Asda in Peterhead - apparently, due to a glitch in the store's computer system, large numbers of debit card transactions took several weeks to clear.

THU 07 AUG. 2008 |Featured in: News

Spam Attacks Increase By 400 percent in Q2 2008, UK Spammers to blame

Research unveiled by anti-spam software company Clearmymail shows a significant increase in the number of spam blocked per customer, quadrupling to nearly 31,000 compared to just over 8100 in Q1 2008

THU 07 AUG. 2008 |Featured in: News

US Officials Can Seize Laptops And Mobile Phones Across Borders

Travelling across US borders may further get beleaguered, as US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) have instructed the border regulating authorities, to confiscate laptops of travellers

THU 07 AUG. 2008 |Featured in: News

Asus Releases Wii-like Gaming Controllers For the EEE PC

Asus has released a couple of stick controllers for its popular EEE PC range which will be bundled with some EEE PC and EEE Box alongside with a collection of games developed or adapted specifically to be used with it

THU 07 AUG. 2008 |Featured in: News

Microsoft To Provide Additional Technical Details With Its Monthly Security Patch Process

Citing the proliferation of online attacks and hacking evidences, the software giant, Microsoft has announced to release supplementary details of the vulnerabilities it fixes in its monthly security packs

THU 07 AUG. 2008 |Featured in: News

EU Grants 30 Days To UK Government To Decide Over Phorm

The European Union (EU) has sent a letter to UK government, asking it to decide about the validity of web browsing tracking service from Phorm, within a span of 30 days

THU 07 AUG. 2008 |Featured in: News

Spanish Hacker Imprisoned For Illegally Accessing Colleague’s Mail

A Spanish hacker has been put behind the bars for two years, for illicitly hacking his colleague’s emails, containing details about his sex life, and then forwarding them to other individuals

THU 07 AUG. 2008 |Featured in: News

11 people charged with largest ID Theft fraud in US history

US authorities have unravelled, what is said to be the largest hacking and identity fraud in the history of the United States

THU 07 AUG. 2008 |Featured in: News

Comment : Are UK IT departments double-counting their carbon footprints?

Research commissioned by Fujitsu Services indicates that 76% of IT managers believe they should still account for the carbon impact of the IT operations they have outsourced

THU 07 AUG. 2008 |Featured in: News

Secure Electronic Passports Can Be Cloned Easily Warns Dutch Researcher

A Security Researcher from the University of Amsterdam has managed to develop a fail-safe method of reading, duplicating and altering chips on the so called safe biometric passports

THU 07 AUG. 2008 |Featured in: News

Information Paradigm - When too much of of something makes your business sick

Over the last decade, the amount of information that people manage on a daily basis has become overwhelming. We have reached the state of “Information Overload,” a term coined in 1970 by Alvin Toffler in his book Future Shock

THU 07 AUG. 2008 |Featured in: News

Future Evolution of Data Protection is Data Retention and Preservation Cloud, Says Sepaton CEO

An interview with Mike Worhach, CEO of Data Specialist Sepaton, helps us delve deeper in the complex world of data integrity and casts some light on what awaits the storage industry in a near future

THU 07 AUG. 2008 |Featured in: News

NZ Plod gets jiggy after teenager hacks email and Bebo accounts

Reports are coming in from New Zealand that a 19-year-old Hastings girl could be looking at seven years in the chokey for hacking a schoolgirl's Bebo and Hotmail email accounts.

WED 06 AUG. 2008 |Featured in: News

One in the eye for Apple as surfers urged to ditch Safari

It looks like Apple's failure to keep the security of its Safari Web browser up to date is coming home to roost, as Consumer Reports, the US equivalent of Which? magazine here in Britland, is advising punters to can the browser.

WED 06 AUG. 2008 |Featured in: News

Motorola's Last Chance Mobile Phone is Blackberry Lookalike

Fate can sometimes be cruel. Motorola was a long while ago the darling of the mobile segment, a place it has now lost to Apple, one of its once-closest allies, and its iPhone

WED 06 AUG. 2008 |Featured in: News

Accountants Love Facebook, Becoming More Tech Savvy Says Survey

A survey commissioned by Accounting Software Specialist Sage (UK) Limited revealed a truly connected Accounting workforce which has fully embraced digital working practices

WED 06 AUG. 2008 |Featured in: News

Google Squeezes UK Search Market Even More With 75 percent Share

A report by Comscore underlined Google's dominance of the UK Search market as the Internet giant surpasses the 75 percent barrier in June

WED 06 AUG. 2008 |Featured in: News

Google Unveils Free Legal Music Service In China

Chinese don't like to pay for content that they can seamlessly copy and that's a ruthless factoid that Google has sneakily adopted to launch its brand new music search engine, exclusively in China

WED 06 AUG. 2008 |Featured in: News

7Digital Comes Up With Free Music For UK ISPs In Anti-Piracy Scheme

iTunes competitor 7Digital has a rather cunning proposal for UK ISPs which could not only allow millions to listen to unlimited music without incurring litigation costs, but would also see it become a major online music outfit overnight

WED 06 AUG. 2008 |Featured in: News

Virgin Media Eyes Mobile Business Model For Its Broadband Services

Virgin Media is planning to offer its broadband services with subsidised hardware devices, through third party dealers

WED 06 AUG. 2008 |Featured in: News

Sony Ericsson Launches Bluetooth Gamepad For Its Handsets

Consolidating its position in the mobile gaming world, Sony has come up with yet another technological addition in form of a Bluetooth enabled remote for mobile gaming

WED 06 AUG. 2008 |Featured in: News

Samsung Unveils Chelsea Edition Digital Cameras For New Football Season

Samsung has kicked off its official sponsorship of Chelsea Football Club by launching- NV4 titanium and L100 compact eight megapixel Limited Edition cameras

WED 06 AUG. 2008 |Featured in: News

Met Office Inks GBP33 Million Deal For IBM Petaflop Supercomputer

UK’s weather forecasting department, Met Office, has penned a GBP33 million contract with IBM, for a new supercomputer that would help the weather forecaster in providing the comprehensive details of the weather conditions to its users.

WED 06 AUG. 2008 |Featured in: News

Sony Ericsson Unveils Bond's 007 Inspired Cyber-Shot

Sony Ericsson has introduced a sleek titanium silver phone similar to the one Daniel Craig will sport in his latest outing as James Bond in "Quantum of Solace" (Ed : I wonder how much they paid for that product placement)

WED 06 AUG. 2008 |Featured in: News