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MegaUpload Taken Down, Anonymous Riled Up
20, Jan 2012With Wednesday’s huge backlash over SOPA and PIPA, you’d have thought that the US authorities might not have made any sweeping anti-piracy moves this week. And you’d be wrong.
Google Advertising Fake Olympic Tickets & Drugs
10, Jan 2012The BBC are reporting that the world’s favourite search engine has a lucrative sideline in selling knock-off Olympics tickets and mail order cannabis.
the strange clicking noise was yesterday, you’ll be happy to find out that it wasn’t a swarm of crickets outside your house. No, it was every SEO in the world tutting loudly after Google was found to have breached Google’s own rules on buying links.
Judge Orders Mass De-listings
1, Dec 2011Apparently Chanel don’t really like the thousands of websites that turn a profit by hawking knock-off Chanel products. And neither does a federal judge in Nevada, USA.
2011′s 25 Worst Passwords Revealed
21, Nov 2011If you’re worried that your password is painfully obvious to all but the most lackadaisical hacker, then you’ll do well to read the following list without flinching.
Cyber Espionage Reaches Europe
20, Oct 2011The Stuxnet computer worm that attacked and crippled an Iranian nuclear facility could be in place on European computers, claims an anonymous research lab. Stuxnet, supposedly created by an intelligence agency, is a virus which managed to cause damage to an Iranian nuclear fuel enrichment plant by reprogramming computer-controlled machinery. And now it appears to [...]
Google have announced yet another partnership – and this time it’s with the UK Citizen’s Advice Bureau to produce a campaign promoting safe online behaviour. A series of cartoon adverts will feature in newspapers, on buses and trains, and across the internet to explain to people just how important it is to use secure passwords, [...]
Google and Bing Accused of Aiding Piracy
30, Jan 2012Buoyed by the recent takedown of MegaUpload, the entertainment industry in the UK have set their sights on the biggest suppliers of pirated material in the world. The search engines Google and Bing.