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PR Firm Makes Duke Nukem Review Threats, Dropped by 2K Games

Video game publisher 2K Games has officially announced that it was no longer using the services of The Redner Group for public relations after the firm threatened to reduce or eliminate access to games for a number of the journalists that have written negative reviews for the recently launched Duke Nukem Forever.Jim ...

16 June 2011
07:21 GMT

Mozilla Blacklists Skype Toolbar for Firefox

Mozilla has had enough. The Skype Toolbar for Firefox, which is added automatically when you install Skype has been the cause of crashes, slowdowns and general instability in Firefox. Mozilla says it accounted for 40,000 crashes in the last week alone so the team is now adding all versions of the Skype toolbar to the...

21 January 2011
05:50 GMT

Interpol to Create Child Abuse Website Blacklist

The Interpol has announced plans to create and maintain a list of Internet domains containing severe child sexual abuse material, that Internet service providers from around the world can voluntarily block.The list will be updated by an Interpol unit specialized in combating human trafficking, which is already involv...

12 October 2010
10:52 GMT

Increase in VoIP Attacks Prompts Expert to Build Specialized Blacklist

Overwhelmed by the number of attacks against PBX systems at the managed service provider where he works, a security engineer has launched a project to gather and and list offending IP addresses involved in VoIP abuse."Throughout the course of the day, I got tired of seeing VoIP based brute force attempts that I decid...

30 September 2010
11:47 GMT

Google Blacklists the Entire Internet

Every Google search result was accompanied by a "This site may harm your computer" warning on Saturday. The incident was the result of a human error that caused '/' to be processed in the list of malicious URLs maintained by the search giant. For a long time now Google has been maintaining a list of Web sit...

2 February 2009
04:02 GMT

China Compiles List of Harmful Food Additives

Following the tainted milk scandal, which led to the death of at least 6 babies, and to some 300,000 others falling ill, Beijing authorities decided to compile and official list of all food additives that give flavor to various products, while at the same time posing a significant health risk for those consuming them...

5 December 2008
06:35 GMT

Google Shall Destroy You!

By the here present I renew my warning to not trifle with Google, as it alone has the power to kill your business dead. If you're counting on advertising on the Internet, or if you are mostly using the web as a means of promoting your website, people not being able to find it unless they stumble upon it spells a...

15 February 2008
15:06 GMT

Be Careful with Google or You Might Get Blacklisted

I covered this a while ago when it happened to some Gmail users that were blocked out of their accounts because of their using the IMAP feature a little aggressively. The matter settled back then with an apologetic mail and return of control to the people left without their addresses. It's often that one or the ...

10 January 2008
03:59 GMT

Aussie Government to Curb Internet Access

It has been recently reported by Deloitte studies that some countries and even whole areas from the globe suffer from low cyber-security. Australia is amongst them as well. But I guess that you already knew that - the news here is the fact that they are doing something to fight Internet crime.After their banks and im...

24 September 2007
05:13 GMT

Do You Have a Good Blacklist?

Blacklisting is one good security measure that many IT managers decide to employ. Basically it's a list of e-mail addresses of known spammers and this acts almost like a filter. It may also contain websites that are considered off limits or dangerous because they may be part of frauds or because they are malware...

31 August 2007
03:23 GMT

FBI Pounding On Cyber-Crime

The Federal Bureau of Information has a growing interest in cyber-crime, and this does not surprise me at all, since the US has been the first to show a greater concern with cyber-security. What can I say? This is great, because knowing the Feds could be on their tracks, I guess that hackers will be somewhat discoura...

28 August 2007
05:35 GMT


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