Gold'en Rant : Do you really want an iPhone 3G?

I used to find it one of the most desirable mobile phones going, but now I'm beginning to hate it. Yes, I'm talking about the iPhone. Or rather, the 3G edition, which is due into O2 and Apple stores next week

FRI 04 JULY 2008 |Featured in: News

A million cards hacked - and counting

Fascinating to read some of the local news reports in the US about how some of the smaller banks are handling the fallout from the recent rash of card database hacks.

THU 03 JULY 2008 |Featured in: News

EU cybercrime initiative is going to be expensive for ISPs

I was interested to see a report over on Betanews that European ISPs are more than a bit concerned about the cost of complying with EU cybercrime proposals, but how one expert says it could cost them more if they don't comply.

THU 03 JULY 2008 |Featured in: News

Symantec: 80 per cent of all email is spam

I was listening to the podcast version of The Bottom Line - Evan Davies' excellent radio program which is broadcast on BBC R4 each Saturday - last night and was intrigued to hear John Brigden, the executive vice president of Symantec talking about email.

WED 02 JULY 2008 |Featured in: News

Citibank ATMs hit by advanced hackers

Interesting - from a technical perspective - to hear that Citibank's ATMs in the States has been hit by a sophisticated hack.

WED 02 JULY 2008 |Featured in: News

Netherlands man arrested for hacking 50,000 credit cards

Scanning the weekend wires, I was amazed to read on the Dutch newswires about a 20-year-old Maastricht man who has been arrested and accused of hacking and stealing the details of 50,000 payment cards on t'Internet.

TUE 01 JULY 2008 |Featured in: News

MasterCard Canada details plans for on-board security chip

It seems that plans I reported on last month to add an onboard chip and basic keypad to credit/debit cards are marching onwards, as MasterCard Canada has started talking about the technology.

TUE 01 JULY 2008 |Featured in: News

How to hack without fear - a US congressman writes

Now here's an interesting story. It seems that, if you are a US congressman, you can't be prosecuted for hacking!

MON 30 JUNE 2008 |Featured in: News

Easyjet gets shirty with screen scrapers

I was interested to read that Easyjet, aka Agent Orange in airline circles, is getting more than a bit shirty with third-party Web sites which it claims are screen scraping its pages.

MON 30 JUNE 2008 |Featured in: News

The Marshall Islands - where are they?

Newswire reports that the sole ISP in the Marshall Islands was seriously zonked (that's a technical term -Ed) earlier this week had me reaching for the atlas, if only to find where in the Pacific the islands are located.

FRI 27 JUNE 2008 |Featured in: News