Hackers may release user info
Some may feel that the Norwegian bit torrent tracker site Norbits, being hacked is well deserved and in fact, the site has actually been offline for some days now after being hacked by a group known as MORRADi.
Norbits have around ten thousand Norwegian users who now have the excuse to feel concerned as MORRADi are [...]
XP has new pirate protection
Anyone who has bought a pirated copy of Windows XP Professional can expect a bit of a surprise after the people at Microsoft come up with a neat little way of telling users that they may be running pirated software.
When the computer is restarted, the user is greeted with a black desktop with the words [...]
Google using tracking techniques
The world’s favourite search engine Google has admitted that they use internet tracking technology to study internet user’s behaviour.
This is not going to go down well with a lot people as some internet users feel that this sort of thing infringes on their privacy. However, as we have seen with the Google cars taking images [...]
Google’s Knol validation not working
Knol has been released from beta testing by search engine Google, the idea is that Knol will become a sort of wiki type service, but the contributors who have to be registered users of Google services will actually earn a percentage of the revenues generated by Google’s own advertising system.
However, some people have found that [...]
TinyURL banned by Microsoft
The battle against spam and malicious emails is an ongoing thing which needs virtually 24/7 attention, which is why businesses like Microsoft have to constantly work at fighting this problem. But, in doing so they can sometimes by accident cause problems for other users of the internet, which is what has happened to TinyURL.
On Windows [...]
Wi-Fi theft clears users
A court in Germany has ruled that any internet user who has a wireless router can not be held responsible should somebody manage to get into the network and do their stuff on the P2P sites which are being monitored.
This ruling will eventually be taken up across Europe including the UK which is going to [...]
What’s in a name?
The future of domain names is going to be very different following a meeting in Paris by the people who oversee the domain name industry, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICCAN) have met and decided to relax the rules regarding domain names.
It all started with .com, the web addresses ending in a [...]
Microsoft finally releases S3 for XP
At last Microsoft have released the Windows XP Service Pack Three (SP 3) and by now it should have been loaded onto the Microsoft servers and eventually be ready to download very soon. The SP 3 will not be available for the automatic download yet, but can be downloaded from the download centre.
The service pack [...]
Wikileaks back online
Despite all of the recent problems that hit the whistle blower website Wikileaks which ended up with a Judge from San Francisco ordering the websites hosting company to have all of their completely removed from the internet forever, the website is now back up an running again as if nothing had happened in the first [...]
February 28, 2008Cyberwar in the High Street
One of the countries largest unions Unite, is set to commence cyber war against one of the countries oldest and most respected high street stores Marks and Spencer over workers rights.
The union has over two million members and the plan is to try and manipulate the search queries through Google that are for M & [...]
Torrents just keep growing
The Pirate Bay may be sinking, but Torrents are booming around the world, which just goes to prove that this type of file sharing is not just a simple money making machine, ever since they raided The Pirate Bay there are some who feel that it could be the end of torrents. But this is [...]
February 8, 2008The Free Pirate Bay group
It is not a surprise that this has started but never the less its here, Free The Pirate Bay group has been started on FaceBook and in order to celebrate this they have designated that Friday 8th February as the “Wear Yellow for Sharing Day” this is a way that everyone can show their support [...]
January 16, 2008Times up for Pirate Bay
The problems that saw the raid on Pirate Bay HQ by the Swedish authorities should be drawing to a close very soon, but for the people behind the Bay, this will not mean that they are going to get away with anything, in fact far from it.
It is believed that the Swedish prosecuting team will [...]
The top ten torrent sites
With 2007 in the past now it’s that time of year when we start to see lists of what has done well, and torrents are no different, they have their own little place on the net and there is a top ten of these sites that have got some serious traffic.
Here is the list, as [...]
Super Torrents PayPal Account hacked
The Bit Torrent tracker site Super Torrents have been hacked but not the site itself, as would have expected, the hacker found that the admin password was at a default setting or rather the same as other sites.
The hackers continued to have a look a around and instead of taking the site down or changing [...]
More users join the Pirate Bay
To the film and music owners the best news for them would be to see the likes of The Pirate Bay going under and yet the opposite has happened The Pirate Bay has seen an unprecedented growth in the amount users and the number of torrents being made available.
It would this is a classic case [...]
PayPal use Linux
PayPal have built up a network of servers to house its electronic payment processing system, its small than that used by the larger financial organisations but it is responsible for processing $1,571 worth of transactions per second, which cover seventeen different currencies and totals around $50 billion per year.
The company use Red Hat Linux and [...]