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6th May 2012 Archive

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  • Cybercrims dump email for irresistible Twitter, Facebook spam

    Thanks for the fake Viagra link, mum

    Cybercrooks have quit pouring barrels of spam into email inboxes in favour of hassling marks on social networks as an easier way to make money. The dismantling of remote-controllable armies of compromised PCs, the collapse of some shady affiliate advertising networks, and better spam-filtering technology have all resulted in a …

    Crime 6 May 09:00

  • .eu is a Euro domain, for Euro people - top legal bod

    Only businesses within boundary can claim to be part of European market

    Only businesses established in the EU can register trademarks as web addresses in the '.eu' domain, a legal advisor to the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has said. Businesses based outside of the EU cannot contract with other companies based within the trading bloc to register trade mark domain names at the .eu domain on …

    Hosting 6 May 10:08

  • iPad chargers can open beer bottles

    Student sparks craze with Tweet

    That clever Jony Ive. Not content with giving the planet all manner of lovely iThings, the Apple designer may also have given the world the first combined AC adapter/beer bottle opener. US Student Eva Giselle, aka @EvaZebra, made the discovery when she posted the pic below depicting the alleged removal of a beer bottle cap …

    Odds and Sods 6 May 11:04

  • Loose screw caused airplane iPhone ‘fire’

    Ham-fisted screen replacement fingered

    When an iPhone started smoking on a regional flight last November, it was easily enough dealt with: the phone was put in the aisle and extinguished. Now, an incident report completed on Friday, May 4, by the Australian Transport Safety Bureau has identified a dodgy screen replacement as the cause of the flare-up. According to …

    Hardware 6 May 23:15

  • Pirate island attracts more than 100 startup tenants

    Green-card-free startup ship closer to international waters

    Over 100 international tech companies have registered their interest in the floating geek city, Blueseed, which will be launched next year in international waters outside of Silicon Valley. The visa-free, start-up friendly concept launched late last year aims to create a fully commercial technology incubator where global …

    Business 6 May 23:30

  • Apple logging passwords in plain text

    Lion debug ‘feature’ breaks security

    A post to Cryptome is pointing the finger at Apple for logging plain-text passwords of users of “legacy” Filevault under Lion 10.7.3. According to David Emery, the February update of Lion turned on a debug switch which, as a result, logs in plain text the password of a user of an encrypted directory tree. “Thus anyone who can …

    Security 6 May 23:35

  • Evil plot to control souls via Wi-Fi thwarted

    Ruckus 'apologises' for faith-based video

    US Wi-Fi vendor Ruckus Wireless has "apologised" for an evangelical ad campaign, branded ‘Believe’, in which a God-fearing preacher promises "WiFi you can put your faith in" and "the chance to connect to a greater power." Objectors have taken to YouTube with responses to the ad campaign which suggest “it is absolutely clear …

    Networks 6 May 23:46