Local police advocate breaking the law to thwart criminals?
Local police are advising South Holland car owners to be more careful when leaving cars parked. Don’t leave any valuables in the car. Remove handbags,briefcases,wallets and sat navs.
They then go on to advise removing the tax disc as well.
“Crime reduction officer Pete Tyrrel, of Spalding Police, is warning people not to leave their keys in [...]
You want to hire a Botnet? There’s a price for that.
Botnets are networks of compromised PC’s or “Zombies”.
The past 10 years have seen botnets evolve from small networks of a dozen PCs controlled from a single C&C (command and control centre) into sophisticated distributed systems comprising millions of computers with decentralised control.
They are used by cyber criminals to launch attacks on corporate networks, for phishing [...]
The US is the world’s biggest spam-producing country.
According to security firm Sophos, the US was responsible for 15.6 percent of all spam received between April and June this year. That’s one in every six junk emails.
A close second is Brazil with 11.1 percent followed by Turkey with 5.2 percent.
Surprisingly Russia, which was second on Sophos’ Dirty Dozen list a year ago, has [...]
Charging for Access to News Sites. Doomed to failure?
Daring Fireball: Charging for Access to News Sites
John Gruber at Daring Fireball re-iterates the “Glaringly obvious” faults in the proposed model for charging to access online news content.
Citing the Financial Times editors comments that “almost all” news organisations will be charging for online content within a year he goes on to describe why that is [...]
Cybercriminals adopt business strategies
Online criminals are using state of the art business strategies to commit cybercrimes.
A security report by Cisco outlines some of the technical and business strategies that criminals have adopted in order to breach corporate networks and steal information and money.
The Conficker Worm is still active and it’s estimated that several million computer systems are under [...]
How business should use Twitter as a marketing tool.
Most business people are still a bit suspicious of Twitter and don’t consider it as a marketing tool. They are wrong.
Despite some recent spectacular mistakes by otherwise reputable companies, Twitter is an important marketing tool if used creatively. And Moonfruit got it right earlier this month.
Moonfruit is a company that makes creating simple websites easy [...]
Do we need regulation of SEO and Search Engine Marketing?
The web is a crowded market and your website is a very small part of that market. Getting your website, and therefore your business, noticed in that market can be a difficult and lengthy process.
You or your web developer can put all the right words on the pages, make your content compelling, use all the [...]
Mobile Internet usage exploding thanks to obsession with Facebook and Twitter
A recent report by CCS Insight suggests Social Networks are what is driving the use of mobile internet by young adults. And Facebook is king of the hill.
Based on a survey of more than 1000 adults between the ages of 16 and 35, the key themes to emerge are:
* Mobile Internet use is growing at [...]
Bletchley Park codebreakers finally get the recognition they deserve.
The critical contribution to winning World War 2 by the Bletchley Park codebreakers has finally been recognized by the British government.
“These people made an enormous contribution to the outcome of World War Two, the 20th century and freedom in the West,” said Simon Greenish, director of the Bletchley Park Trust.
“After many years of having to [...]
Scam Alert: The Gadget Warehouse
Police have issued a warning regarding an advert appearing in magazines and national newspapers offering a range of electronic goods at discounted prices.
The adverts have appeared in several newspaper and magazine publications, including Stuff, The Independent, The Metro, and The Belfast Telegraph. The adverts appear under different names including “Arash Ltd, The Gadget Company, Gadget [...]