Keeping Your Passwords Private
Posted by Mike Slocombe on 21 May 2008 | Tagged as: Security, Web, Software
Keep dastardly hackers at bay by ensuring that your passwords are up to scratch.
Archive for the 'Security' Category
Your Laptop Is Open Season When Flying To SF, USA
Posted by Simon Perry on 30 April 2008 | Tagged as: Privacy, Government, Security, USA, Legal
We’re still reeling after reading this story last week that a federal appeals court in the US ruled that it was fine for US customs agents to go through the content of an airline passengers laptop with no evidence of wrong doing - just because they felt like it.
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BT Statement on Home Hub Wireless Security
Posted by Simon Perry on 23 April 2008 | Tagged as: Security, UK, BT, Wireless
Following our story on the vulnerabilities of the BT Home Hub, the most widely used DSL wireless router in the UK, BT sent us this statement last week after we requested it.
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BT Home Hub: Wireless Security Vulnerabilities Discovered
Posted by Simon Perry on 16 April 2008 | Tagged as: Security, UK, BT, Wireless
Those with a BT Home Hub — and there’s a lot of them, as it’s currently the most popular DSL router in the UK — might be sleeping a little less soundly tonight following the claims of an ethical hacking group, GNUCitizen, to have found a way to past its Wireless security.
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Adobe Media Player Launched
Posted by Simon Perry on 10 April 2008 | Tagged as: Distribution, Copy Protection, Video on Demand (VoD)
Adobe have launched a stand-alone Media Player (AMP).
Using Adobe Air, the AMP plays back high quality video both on PCs and Apple computers at standard def and 1080p.
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PWN To OWN: MacBook Air Hacked In 2 Minutes
Posted by Simon Perry on 28 March 2008 | Tagged as: Security
There was a competition at the CanSecWest security conference to see who could hack/control/Pwn any of the three laptops (VAIO VGN-TZ37CN running Ubuntu 7.10; Fujitsu U810 running Vista Ultimate SP1; MacBook Air running OSX 10.5.2) available. The prize for the first successful hack was the laptop and a cash prize that reduced the more access […]
fipr: Phorm Web Monitoring Illegal?
Posted by Simon Perry on 19 March 2008 | Tagged as: Privacy, UK, Advertising, BT, Legal
Ask most people about their views on Phorm and you’ll either get a blank look or people turning purple with rage.
In brief: It’s a ’service’ that monitors all of your normal Web browsing, with the stated aim of providing personalised advertising to you. All of this monitoring is made possible under agreements with ISPs, including […]
Web Creator Speaks Out Against Phorm Net Tracking
Posted by Mike Slocombe on 17 March 2008 | Tagged as: Privacy, UK, Advertising, Legal
Sir Tim Berners-Lee voices opposition to net tracking technology
iPlayer iPhone Hacked AGAIN
Posted by Simon Perry on 14 March 2008 | Tagged as: BBC iPlayer, Apple, Copy Protection, UK, BBC
Just when the BBC were pleased to tell everyone that they’d fixed the hole in their iPhone iPlayer service that let people download TV programmes without DRM - the very next day, the originator of the hack, Paul Battley, produced an update to get around the BBC’s fix, re-opening the whole.
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Workbook Controls Company Facebook Use
Posted by Simon Perry on 22 February 2008 | Tagged as: Security, UK
We’ve heard of many companies cutting off people’s access to Facebook and other social networks - primary reason? Just too much time spent on them - frittered in the eyes of the company
Companies, being companies, also have other concerns, like their confidential data flying out of the company via postings to Facebook.
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