• Identity fraud via VoIP - May 15, 2008
  Is someone listening in to your internet phone conversations or, worse still, using your credit to call their friends in faraway places?
• Violent video reduce violence - May 15, 2008
  That’s the claim of British researchers who have studied a series of research papers, found evidence of bias and suggest that there has been a decline in violent crime in the USA despite an increase in the number of people playing violent games.
• A great blah job - May 12, 2008
  Wayne Smallman grabs the long tail of technology sites with both hands.
• Commercial apoptosis - may 8, 2008
  Business and other organizations that take a cue from biology and use programmed cell death (apoptosis) to cut out dying wood from their systems and divisions should survive credit-crunching recessions more effectively than those that don’t.
• mp3 files are Trojans too - May 8, 2008
  Next time you’re downloading music files, you might want to virus scan them before you play them. A moderate risk Trojan that serves ads has been spreading itself wildly on the P2P systems since May 2. Wonder if it’s an RIAA money-making scam. If it’s not then surely it’s an idea for how they might monetize illegal downloads. Regardless, the rogue file isn’t even an mp3 it’s an exe according to sources, so who’d try and play that in their media player anyway?
• Alerts for non-geeks - May 7, 2008
  The team at CyTrap makes a case for sending out useful alerts and howtos rather than techie warnings about security failures and patch downloads.
• Stay safe with Searchscan - May 7, 2008
  Yahoo! Search has teamed up with McAfee to bring a safer way of doing search at Yahoo with a new security feature called, SearchScan. SearcScan uses McAfee’s SiteAdvisor technology to warn users if a particular website that appears on Yahoo SERP pose any form of risk to the users. Hasn’t Google’s malware detection been doing this for years, though?
• Microsoft! gives up on Yahoo quest - May 4, 2008
  Microsoft has abandoned its pursuit of multibillion dollar search company Yahoo!
• Cleaning up security - May 2, 2008
  An international campaign on security hygiene to raise awareness of issues such as computer viruses, phishing attacks, trojan horses, and other aspects of cyber crimes should be launched says Urs E. Gattiker of CyTRAP.eu
• Future blogging - May 2, 2008
  Blogspot bloggers can now future date their posts, just as those of us on other blogging platforms have been doing for years.
• Pergamum storage - Apr 23, 2008
  There is a risk that an entire generation’s cultural history could be lost if people aren’t able to retrieve that data. Everyone is going digital but will this data last 50, 100, 1000 years? A new power-efficient initiative at UCSC could see us making the same kind of storage leap from tape to disk as occurred with VCR to TiVo.
• Facing up to Yahoo! - Apr 21, 2008
  Yahoo is now integrating images from your Facebook page right in its search results. A good or a bad thing? Depends on what image you’re projecting on Facebook when that prospective employer decides to search on Yahoo to check your references.

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