Security news January 31, 2006

Sprint Nextel Corp., the No. 3 U.S. mobile service, said on Monday it sued Florida company All Star Investigations Inc. to protect the privacy of Sprint’s wireless customers, alleging that the company’s Web sites fraudulently access and sell phone call records. (more…)

Multimedia

Longtime virtual gamer Sara Andrews didn’t know she would cause much of a ruckus when she began recruiting new members of her “World of Warcraft” virtual gaming guild, which mostly caters to gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender players. (more…)

Internet news

The body which oversees the internet has put forward a revised deal to settle a long-running dispute over the crucial .com domain name. (more…)

Security news January 30, 2006

Users of Advanced Micro Devices Inc.’s (AMD’s) microprocessors may want to think twice before looking for technical support on the company’s Web site. Customer support discussion forums on the forums.amd.com site have been compromised and are being used in an attempt to infect visitors with malicious software, an AMD spokesman confirmed Monday. (more…)

Internet news

Fans of the University of Texas football team, recently crowned national champions of college football, are known for their boisterous support for their home team and state. (more…)

Virus news

PC users have been urged to scan their computers before 3 February to avoid falling victim to a destructive virus.
On that date the Nyxem virus is set to delete Word, Powerpoint, Excel and Acrobat files on infected machines. (more…)

Security news

A Sunnyvale, Calif., start-up backed by $4 million in venture funding and a team of former Juniper Networks Inc. executives said that it has developed a way to make networking products and applications more secure. Mu Security Inc. says it will soon begin selling a new vulnerability assessment product that lets technology vendors and enterprise developers test their products with known hacker techniques, allowing them to fix bugs before products are put into use. (more…)

Internet news

A year ago, Jacqui Rogers, a retiree in southern Oregon who dabbles in vintage costume jewelry, went on eBay and bought 10 butterfly brooches made by Weiss, a well-known maker of high-quality costume jewelry in the 1950s and 1960s. (more…)

Multimedia

With all the talk of mp3 and digital formats, it is easy to forget that music started off as analogue, on records. Chris Long shows how you can drag those magic vinyl masterpieces into the digital age. (more…)

Security news January 28, 2006

An Azusa, Calif., man was arrested on federal charges yesterday after allegedly using fake e-mail accounts to trick America Online Inc. users into sending him their personal and credit card information so he could make illegal purchases with their information. (more…)