Many users of twitter were tricked to divulge their login and password information to a site called TwitterCut, which in turn spammed all the received contacts. Once the social platform users provided their information, they received messages that seemed to have been sent by a friend, with a link to TwitterCut website. This message stated that it was possible to get more Twitter contacts just...
Games consoles have literally been around for years. Thinking back to when I was younger, which was not that long ago, I remember getting the first Sega master system console with the game Alex the kid built in. Now a game like that blew me away simply because of the sheer amount of enjoyment I could get from it and in that year they were absolutely amazing graphics.
As the years passed by,...
MasterCard has made a recent change to their security arrangements that may have dire consequences for its merchants. They have changed an important security requirement for the company for merchants who handle about one to six million card transactions a year.
This rule will be implemented from December 31, 2010 where companies falling in this category will be called Level 2 companies....
The great social networking site, FaceBook has recently launched a beta version of its latest FaceBook publisher tool. With this tool, FaceBook users can now decide who can see their different posts.
According a FaceBook engineer, this idea was thought about as some people had posts that can be seen by everyone visiting their account. However, there are also some posts that FaceBook users...
It was recently reported that the web based email services of the FBI had been disrupted by a virus. These reports were confirmed by the FBI, who said that they had to shut down their intranet because of a disruption in their unclassified network.
However, they did dispute rumors stating that this attack had left FBI crippled and unable to contact their counterparts and other law...
The security industry was cautious in praising President Obama's latest idea of providing security in cyber space and for electing a new cyber security coordinator for the White House. This is because many people consider this move to be proof of the administration recognizing cyber threat as an issue of national security.
They say that nothing can be positively spoken about how efficient...
The U.S. government has been asked to have the rules of the Privacy Act of 1974 rewritten. This is because this rule has been used for 34 years by the government to control its secret data. It has therefore been deemed time for Congress to change the policy and revamp the privacy notices it's been using, called systems of records notices (SORN).
It was suggested to designate the main privacy...
Space travel is a tricky subject, although technology on Earth is developing at tremendous speeds the same cannot really be said for space travel. If we cast our minds back over five decades ago you will remember that the mission to the moon captured every persons imagination. But not much has really been done since then.
NASA have for the last few years been developing a shuttle called Ares...
Everyone in the world must have watched the terminator film. When the movie was first released it actually seemed somewhat of a dream, something that could never possibly come true. I mean how could robots become more intelligent then actual human beings and start having a mind of there own? Well with the current technology levels, it may only be something that is around the corner....
The internet is a very dynamic sector, one moment something is popular then the next moment its not. Currently there are three major search engines in the mix, they are Google, Yahoo and Bing and Twitter is also very much on the rise. So where will these major players be in a decade from now? Let us take a quick look and prediction.
Google
Currently the big daddy of them all Google has more...
