British law firms revs up for file-sharing prosecutions

Although most of the newswires seem to have overlooked it, it seems that a group of gaming software firms, including Atari, Codemasters and Topware Interactive, have hired Davenport Lyons, a UK law firm, to start proceedings against 7,000 peeps for illegal file-sharing.

FRI 22 AUG. 2008 |Featured in: News

Gold'en Rant : Don't Let The Cashback Monster Eat Your Cookies

Cashback sites. Easy money. These are sites like Cashback Kings and Quidco which `introduce' you to third-party Web sites for mundane items such as car and home insurance - just about anything you buy on the Web, in fact

FRI 22 AUG. 2008 |Featured in: News

FEMA phones hacked - loads of international calls made

Now here's an irony. It seems that hackers have broken into the Homeland Security Department's telephone system in the US last weekend and chunked up about $12,000 in calls to the Middle East and Asia.

THU 21 AUG. 2008 |Featured in: News

More cheating at the Beijing Olympics

Interesting to see that a hacker has apparently uncovered some skulduggery and cheating at the Olympics.

THU 21 AUG. 2008 |Featured in: News

Crims steal card info at 15 Louisiana restaurants

According to the Associated Press, no less than 15 restaurants in the Baton Rouge area of Louisiana have been hit by crims stealing tens of thousands of card details.

WED 20 AUG. 2008 |Featured in: News

A careless phone call traps Radovan

Watching a documentary on Serbian war criminal Radovan Karadzic last night, I was intrigued to hear that it was his careless use of mobile phones that got him nicked last month.

WED 20 AUG. 2008 |Featured in: News

Olympics Committee wants help from Piratebay.org

I was mildly amused this afternoon to hear that the IOC (International Olympics Committee) is looking to the Pirate Bay to help it eradicate BitTorrent indexes that show clips from the Beijing Olympics.

TUE 19 AUG. 2008 |Featured in: News

Visa starts real-time mobile transaction alerts in US

Visa has bitten the security bullet and announced agreements with eight North American financial institutions to launch a pilot program testing delivery of real-time transaction notification alerts via text
messaging and email.

TUE 19 AUG. 2008 |Featured in: News

Drink-driver caught out by Facebook

I was mildly amused at the tale of a 20-year-old college student who, after being busted by the Plod and accused of causing an accident whilst drunk-in-charge, apparently got bored waiting for the case to come up in court.

MON 18 AUG. 2008 |Featured in: News

Wave goodbye to anonymous Web surfing

Whilst a lot of peeps use anonymous Web surfing services for accessing the Web whilst hiding their identity, it looks like the days when you can do this really anonymously are numbered, largely thanks to the kind folks in Brussels.

MON 18 AUG. 2008 |Featured in: News