Donald Trump was a frequent visitor to the in-boxes of America Online Inc. subscribers this year, as were pitches for free iPods, discount Rolex watches and pleasure-enhancing “patches” for delicate anatomical bits, according to AOL’s annual spam report. (more…)
China is winning the war on Internet pornography but it will be hard to eradicate entirely as many Web sites are based outside of the country, a senior police official said Thursday.
China routinely blocks access to Internet sites on sensitive subjects such as self-ruled Taiwan, which China regards as its own, and the 1989 Tiananmen Square pro-democracy demonstrations, which were crushed by the military with heavy loss of life. (more…)
World of Warcraft is a Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game and, as that lengthy title implies, gives gamers the chance to control characters in a large net-based fantasy world. (more…)
An Oregon man has pleaded guilty to using a computer worm to launch attacks against Internet auction site eBay Inc., the U.S. attorney’s office handling the case said yesterday. (more…)
“One of the remarkable things about ideas is that once you surface an idea, and it is a good idea, in the long term there is very little that can be done to stop it,” Poindexter says of his proposals for aggressive data mining. “So I am convinced that research and development will continue, one way or another.” Poindexter even hints that money for similar efforts remains buried deep within the Pentagon’s budget. (more…)
The war in Vietnam is often referred to as the first war on television, and the wars in Afghanistan and now in Iraq will be known as the first wars to be blogged.
A new generation of soldier bloggers in the US, known as milbloggers, are both fighting in the field and writing about their experiences. (more…)
Fully patched systems running Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 can be successfully attacked by malicious hackers, various security companies warned this week. (more…)
Google is promising to keep its home page uncluttered and banner-free and its search results and keyword ad auction unbiased, despite paying $1 billion for a 5 percent stake in Time Warner’s Internet unit last week.
Instead, people may see small graphical ads on Google’s home and search results pages and banner ads on video and image pages, more exposure to Google’s Web crawler for America Online sites, prominent links on Google Video to AOL video content and lots of chat between the popular AOL Instant Messenger program and the nascent Google Talk. (more…)
At first glance 2005 looks like it was a quiet year for computer security because there were far fewer serious Windows virus outbreaks than in 2004.
According to figures gathered by security firm Symantec, there were 33 serious outbreaks in 2004. These are incidents measured by the number of people a virus infects or the severity of the damage they inflict. (more…)
South Koreans may look at their mobile phones with some trepidation in the new year because prosecutors will start telling people they have been indicted via text messages, an official said yesterday. (more…)
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