Category: Technology

Kevin Drum had this excellent story from the BBC on how some people are fighting back against those Nigerian 419 email scams. Some hilarious stuff in the BBC report. Read it. John Kushiner has also been emailing them back.

Microsoft have finally released a patch for IE, after a very long wait. Too late, I have long since moved to Mozilla Firefox. It seems I am not the only one, with Mozilla reporting a significant spike in downloads of Firefox. This comes after the Department of Homeland Security’s U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team recommended…

The Russian web server at the centre of a serious net security problem has been shut down. When visited by unwitting web users the server exploited loopholes in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer and opened a backdoor into compromised PCs. When first discovered, the security problem prompted experts to tell people to avoid using Internet Explorer. The…

I was writing about the future implementation of 802.11i back in 2001, and this week it was finally approved by the IEEE. Here’s hoping for more secure wireless.

Here is an interesting way of making money. A software engineer at America Online was arrested Wednesday and charged with stealing AOL’s subscriber list and selling it to someone sending spam e-mail, federal prosecutors in New York said. According to the criminal complaint, Jason Smathers of Harpers Ferry, W. Va., used his inside knowledge of…

Well Ireland stops being the President of Europe soon, so I presume the free wireless access I’m using in Cork airport will also stop. It is a great facility and not something that EsatBT should be charging such high rates for.

The BBC with the story on a cloak that makes people invisible, well kind of. Exciting technology though.

Now its ‘UDSL’. When will there be enough of this high-bandwidth content to take advantage of all this speed? The Uni-DSL technology, which is backward-compatible with standardized variations of DSL, including asynchronous DSL (ADSL) and very high-speed DSL (VDSL), will allow carriers to boost their bandwidth to 200mbps (megabits per second), said Pete Chow, Texas…

Here’s a new one on me: A Canadian man accused of being one of the biggest spammers in the world by Yahoo Inc. has agreed to stop sending unwanted e-mails and plans to help educate children about the dangers of the Internet. In March, Yahoo sued Eric Head and his father and brother as part…

An electric “force field” for armoured vehicles that vaporises anti-tank grenades and shells on impact has been developed by scientists at the Ministry of Defence.