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Google Users Played for Fools by Cyber Criminals

In case you were thinking about searching for TorrentReactor and ZDNet Asia via Google, think again or plain don't do it, as anti-virus firm F-Secure noticed something mighty weird and mighty wrong going on with the results. Taking advantage that the previously mentioned sites cache the queries typed into their ...

6 March 2008
12:11 GMT

China Cracks Down on Internet and Games

All the news coming from the Western world could make somebody completely oblivious about what's going on in the Far East, where communism hasn't burst its bubble yet. Censoring video sites, sweeping Internet cafes and hunting down web sites and computer markets for possible dangerously violent games just w...

12 February 2008
06:16 GMT

The Future of Porn: Going Back to Its Roots

Porn is the dominant industry that has ever prospered and which received an unexpected boom when the Internet came to be the interconnecting web it is. Pornography represents, according to some analysts, up to 80 or 85 of the content on the Internet and such a heritage bar is pretty high to reach for new sites or pro...

4 February 2008
15:06 GMT

Love the Web or Love on the Web?

Being single for the Holidays ultimately sucks as many know. It brings that emptiness feeling of turning your head when you're passing under a bouquet of mistletoe, and there's nobody there to kiss, that just wears you down and leaves you with a bitter memory of what should have been the most joyous time of...

21 December 2007
17:06 GMT

Yahoo! Comes up with Its Big 40

It's the end of the year and, naturally, a time for prizes and presents. Christmas cheer is all around us and many try to spread it out as well. Yahoo!, on the other hand, has decided to tell the world what it thinks about the impact that some sites have had on the Internet as a whole, on its users and rank the...

18 December 2007
11:56 GMT

Hackers Could Meddle With the Voting Campaign

Hackers are known to have a taste for sites that attract a lot of visitors, and next year is election year in the United States. Malicious users could take advantage of the traffic electoral sites are going to get, for their own inscrutable purposes, as pointed out by security experts on Symantec's website. Now...

11 October 2007
14:41 GMT

Web-Jihad: Caricature Got Hackers All Steamed Up!

These guys had it coming! You can't just have a caricature with Prophet Muhammad's head on a dog's body posted in a newspaper and expect the Muslims to stand around doing nothing. Though illegal, considering previous happenings, what I'm going to relate will seem natural to you.Hackers in Turkey h...

8 October 2007
07:01 GMT

Porn Has One Up On Arnold

What do you normally expect to find when you surf to a government website? Well, I for one, hope to find official statements, news about initiatives, things that concern a certain country and a lot of info on politics. I guess that everyone would expect to find the same things. Well, things are a bit different when t...

5 October 2007
14:41 GMT

Spammers: It's That Blasted Norton AntiVirus!

It seems that spammers are dropping infected files like hot coals. People that are guilty for internet crime will always use tactics that are efficient, if one strategy is not effective, they will drop it. And here are two examples for you - the lottery spam-scam is as old as the web, yet they still use it. Why? Beca...

3 October 2007
08:09 GMT

Sites Give Tips on How to Avoid Military Service

Not everyone likes military service, especially if it's compulsory. Sure, some people will join the army willingly, but others will firmly reject it, because they despise violence, or a drill sergeant always yelling at them or for whatever other reason you may think of. Draft-dodging is as old as the army. Thing...

1 October 2007
04:45 GMT

Everybody Likes Social Websites. Hackers Are No Exception

When I said hackers like social websites, I didn't mean that they surf MySpace all day long searching for bands or who knows what. These guys are interested in the potential of these sites, in the resources they have and that the hackers could use in their criminal activity. In case you have not figured this out...

20 September 2007
09:59 GMT

It's Not Hacker Skills, It's Site Flaws

Hackers are always probing the net to see which users are vulnerable and which sites have flaws that they can exploit. Of course, it's a good thing to deploy security measures on your website, but it's imperative to use them if you are the army. You can't just play around like that, I mean, represent t...

10 September 2007
03:59 GMT


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