The former chief executive of a company used his super-admin privileges to create an e-mail account that he told no one about. And then autoforwarded incoming e-mail to that account to which he had access from home. So what's so wrong about that...
InfoTech: WIPO gives clear decision on "typosquatting"
In an action brought by the owners of the trademark "Naughty America," WIPO has ordered the transfer to the company of nine domains which bear minor alterations in spellings. And WIPO says that simply using a page as an ad-farm is not...
IT Industry: sometimes spam can amuse - but not often
There's a chap who calls himself Dr Martin Vermont. The Dr bit is, he says, due to a Ph.D. It might be true - but he's a serial spammer. The amusing thing is that his latest spam says that some of us might not have got his previous spam - since...
IT Security: Lo-Jack software helps laptop recovery
When Calvin Otta left his laptop in the seat-back pocket on an airliner, it was stolen before he could go back and look for it. But software embedded in the firmware led police to the home of the thief.
IT Security: unpatched Joomla sites allow phishing scams to hide
The Anti Money Laundering Network has identified a security hole in installations of Joomla!, the popular CMS platform, that allows fraudsters to place files to act as landing pages for spam-scams including a phishing expedition targeting custom...
A quick survey around the office, including some machines bought in the past month, shows us that there are no, zero, nil USB 3.0 ports in any of...
InfoTech: Lycos sold for USD36 million
In the beginning, there were Yahoo! and Lycos which dominated the search engine market. Yahoo! went from strength to strength, Lycos got left beh...
Internet: on-line gambling enters HK as charges brought against gamblers
As successful Facebook gambling game Texas Holden by Zygna is launched in Chinese to target players in Hong Kong and Taiwan, Hong Kong is prosecu...
Comms: T-Mobile. Stupid, Stupid, Stupid
Dear T Mobile. Your customer service is rubbish, your people are idiots and your systems are stupid. And this open letter says why.
InfoTech: why I'm not buying an iPad
My Acer laptop being out of commission due to rubbish service from the appointed service engineers, I'm racing around looking for a new machine t...
