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Sites like Facebook give rise to new forms of phishing. For example, scammers might hijack a Facebook account, then use it to lure that person’s friends into clicking a friendly link but is not and going to spam sites, or even giving up their Facebook login information.

British Telecom are pressing ahead with their high-speed fibre rollout and the latest country to benefit is Cornwall and the [...]

India has launched a scheme to compile the world’s largest national identity database aimed at cutting fraud, and improving access [...]

Making calls can alert others about where you are. Because many mobile phones now carry Apps, they can be subjects of malware, or spyware, getting information about you. Watch what you say, and what you download.

I love these stories, the ones that lift your mood ever so slightly even though they’re probably, well maybe, a [...]

An attacker can decrypt cookies, view states, form authentication tickets, identify membership passwords, see user data, and anything else encrypted using the ASP.NET framework’s API. These issues are significant because the vulnerabilities exploited affect the .NET framework, which is used by 25 percent of Web sites on the Internet.

In an announcement that will come as no surprise to anyone, Microsoft Games Studios’ General manager Dave Luehmann has said that [...]

The code snippet above appears to affect only certain Windows-based browsers. Apparently if you have Chrome on Linux you may not be affected.

A while back I wrote a post expressing my view on the iPod Touch. It was becoming so very like [...]

Big corporations are always in legal battles with one another, it’s just something that they do.  Sometimes these legal battles [...]

Smartphones have proven incredibly popular, so much so that tablet computing has finally been given the consumer confidence kick it [...]

What made PARC such a success was the non-bottom line oriented approach that it took to research. Researchers were there to solve problems, not to produce products that would be profitable. When you think of it, how odd, that theoretical research was the golden goose and it laid many golden eggs.

If you were trying to get into social networking site Facebook last night, you may have found yourself unable to [...]

Gigabit Wi-Fi With all the mobile technology innovations that are taking place, one more needs discussion, that is WiFi technology. New [...]