20th April 2008 Archive

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• ISP typo pimping exposes users to fraudulent web pages

  ToorCon Provider in the middle attacks

  Comcast, Verizon and at least 70 other internet service providers are putting their customers at serious risk in their quest to make money from mistyped web addresses, security researcher Dan Kaminsky says. Speaking at the ToorCon security conference in Seattle, Kaminsky demonstrated an exploit class he dubbed PiTMA, short for …

  Security 20 Apr 03:55

• Bond - Fleming expo opens at Imperial War Museum

  Worth a look if you like drink, cigs or gadgets

  In just over a week it will be exactly a hundred years since the birth of Ian Fleming, wartime intelligence officer and creator of cultural icon James Bond 007. To mark the occasion, the Imperial War Museum in London has opened a special Fleming'n'Bond themed exhibit, For Your Eyes Only, which will run until May '09. Aware of …

  Government 20 Apr 07:02

• Will Tesco turn us into heterotards?

  Andrew's Mailbag Supermarket sweep

  Britain's biggest shopkeeper is diving into digital music. And it's a much much bigger deal than we make out, many of you reckon. Although it's five years late, this may be good timing. But what about the idea that we should pay twice for our TV? Only one reader dared tackle the taboo. And there's a nice observation about how …

  Letters 20 Apr 08:02