Employees skipping security measures
If we have ever wondered why there appears to be so many lapses of security within large organisations, the answer according to a report by Cisco Systems, would appear to be down to the employees who fail to comply with the organisations security policies.
The main excuse is the simple fact that the security policies happen [...]
It is impossible to prevent piracy
The battle between copyright organisations and the pirates is turning into a cat and mouse game, as one internet service provider in Belgium found out. Scarlet found themselves under a court order to stop all piracy on their network. Nevertheless, after many attempts found that it is impossible to do so.
The people behind Scarlet went [...]
Legal P2P grows by 400%
Could the answer to stop illegal downloading and file sharing be legal file sharing, some experts within the industry believe so and if the figures are anything to go on maybe they could be right in this assumption.
According to research from Multimedia Intelligence, they have been looking into the world of P2P and have noticed [...]
Fake peers from the Pirate Bay
The Pirate Bay are sometimes a law unto themselves, for some people this may be ok; sometimes it can be even funny to hear of the antics that go on. But instead of going after the Pirate Bay and other P2P sites, the copyright owners have decided to go after the users of these sites.
This [...]
Record label caught out by own copyright
Any site that offer free downloads of music is going to attract the attention of the copyright police, they will check to see if they have a case to get some cash for their clients.
This is what happened to Unquote Records, they call their label, the first ever donation based record label. This is fair [...]
UK database postponed
It seems that the UK government has decided to postpone, not cancel! The introduction of the database, which will store all of the phone calls, internet searches, emails and text messages, made from with the UK.
This was announced by the Home Secretary, Jacqui Smith in parliament, it was widely expected that this law was to [...]
Identity thieves stung
There has been much spoken of websites where peoples personal and financial details are being traded, one of these sites appeared to be darkmarket.ws where details of credit cards, and other details, which could be used to commit fraud, were bought and sold.
However, this website has a hidden agenda as the FBI cybercrime unit had [...]
Employees cause more data loss
We are always hearing about how hackers manage to break into company databases and steal or lose information, but in a recent study from Compuware, it has been found that the majority of corporate data losses actually comes from within the company itself.
These data losses therefore are not coming from the outside, so the security [...]
Top pirated TV shows
It could be a nightmare for some TV production companies, but then again on the other hand, you can never get enough publicity, which is another way at looking at the recent top ten of pirated TV shows.
In the table below the top two shows, Heroes and Prison Break have both been downloaded well over [...]
Sending emails when drunk
It is one of those things when you are either working ever so late or you have been out for a drink with the lads and you send “that” email. It may not be rude or anything like it, but it could cost you your job or put an end to your long term relationship.
But [...]
PayPal make refunds
With over twenty million users from the UK alone, the PayPal online payment system has been under pressure to scrap the limits on how much users are protected for when they by something off of the online auction site eBay.
The years the limit was set at just £150, which is no use for higher end [...]
EA games, pirates don’t cost sales
It seems that Electronic Arts (EA) have come to the conclusion that pirated games do not really affect their sales of computer games. This is not because of the quality or simply because of the general attitude to pirated games.
When they recently released their top seller Spore, the game was limited to one account and [...]