Bank details found on eBay
Anyone looking on eBay will know that there are hundreds of computers for sale and that when buying second-hand computer you never really know what you are going to get.
In this case a laptop sold for a mere £35 actually contained the personal details of over a million bank customers, this is included name, address, [...]
No site is safe, is bad for business
Chinese hackers are claiming that no site is safe, which is not very good for businesses that use the internet for a good part of the revenues. These hackers are very quiet and shy people who are organised in groups with the sole purpose of the getting into secure websites.
The fact that these groups are [...]
EU puts $22 million into filesharing
Peer to peer filesharing has been given the thumbs up by the European Union as a new project named P2P-Next has been given $22 million from the EU and another $6 million from other European partners to develop the new system.
Surprisingly one of the more famous names who will be taking part in the project [...]
Businesses sending passwords over net
Can there be anything worse than signing up to service which requires you to create a username and password, only to get a welcome email back saying “Thanks for signing up etc” and there for all to see is your username and password?
Well a lot businesses and organisations do this and it is only when [...]
Do Google and FaceBook have too much data?
It is a frustrating fact that whenever a person wants to sign up for an account with almost any social networking site or even an email account these days, that the information required by the service varies from the simple username and password to your entire life story. But should you decide to leave the [...]
December 5, 2007Man who likes Guinness
They say that the most famous Irish export Guinness is good for you, but one man has taken this to the extreme, when he helped himself to a container sitting outside of the Guinness brewery on Victoria Quay in Dublin.
However there is a moral to this story and that is if you intend to steal [...]
Business security issues by Microsoft
Concerned business owners can get the heads up on what is going on the field of computer security by hooking up with the Microsoft executives while they discuss latest Security Intelligence Report (SIR).
There are additional subjects that may interest business too, including the latest trends in software vulnerabilities, malicious software (malware), spyware, and how these [...]