The Pirate Bay is five
It was this time five years ago when a group of friends decided that creating a BitTorrent tracker sounded like a good idea, five years later the founders of the Pirate Bay are looked upon as superstar celebrities in Sweden.
There plan was to provided a file sharing service for Sweden, as there was at the [...]
Flaw in Vista, but no patch yet!
Some computer users may be surprised to find that there is a flaw in the Microsoft operating system Vista that can crash the system and even allow root kits to be placed or worse of all denial of service attacks to take place on all computers within the network.
Yet even though Microsoft was informed about [...]
Another email scam to watch out for
It is a wonder that some people still fall for scams and other types of fraud like this, when then is so much publicity around about what you should be looking for.
Take this woman in the US she received and email saying that she could get her hands on $20.5 million if she helped out [...]
Blu-Ray broken by pirates
The Chinese pirates are becoming a thorn in the side of many industries and now it seems that their resourcefulness has paid off in the Blu-Ray market. There are reports that they are now able to copy a Blu-Ray recording and transfer it to a normal DVD.
This is all down to the AVC HD video [...]
Hackers get into the IMF
To say that the world of finance has been turned upside down recently is an understatement, which would make you think that surely with all that has happened the banks and financial institutions would be doing all they can to prevent anything else from upsetting the fine balance between survival and oblivion.
However, no, as it [...]
Security updates for Firefox
The Mozilla Corp have released some security and stability updates for the FireFox browser versions 2.x and 3.x, this is nothing to be alarmed about as the firm say that this is just part of their ongoing process.
For those users who do not have an automatic update in place, the updates can be found here:
Firefox [...]
Is P2P really over
It would appear that P2P could on the way out and it has nothing to do with the work being done by the copyright holders and their representatives working against those sites where illegal content can be found.
The people who use paid P2P services have always hoped that the media organisations would come around to [...]
China takes over BitTorrent sites
There is nothing new in the authorities within China censoring what they feel as being sensitive material and media, but the internet is very different media that the people of China have begun to embrace.
Yet as we saw in the early days of the Olympics, the authorities within China are not afraid to block out [...]
Malicious video crashes iPhone
There are always some ideas how to crack devices and in this case, it is the Apple iPhone, which can be brought down through a simple malicious video. This has been found by the author of the ZiPhone unlocking tool, Piergiogio Zambrini he has found a way to crash iPhones through this method.
There is a [...]
ISP disconnects user with Wi-Fi
Because open networks, such as wireless routers can be used as a defence from being accused of file sharing, some internet service providers are thinking about disconnecting customers who use these devices, one such ISP is Karoo.
Having an open wireless network is not really the best thing to have anyway, but there are thousands of [...]
High costs for heavy internet users
Are the days numbered for unlimited usage for internet users, or indeed does unlimited usage actually exist? It would seem that despite most internet users signing up for a new broadband service would assume that they can surf the internet for as long as their heart desires, but that is not necessarily so.
The idea of [...]