Another day, another Mac OS X pest? Just a day after experts warned of what is believed to be the first Trojan in the wild to target Apple Computer’s Mac OS X, alerts are being published on a new worm that exploits an 8-month-old vulnerability in the operating system.The new Inqtana worm spreads through a [...]

Password-stealing Trojan horses used to be all the rage. The software would nestle itself on a PC after opening a bad e-mail attachment or visiting a malicious Web site.   But in response to the increased adoption of stronger authentication, cybercriminals are changing their tactics, according to Alex Shipp, a senior antivirus technologist at MessageLabs. [...]

source: PC World Microsoft tunes up, renames next version of its suite of office software. Elizabeth Montalbano, IDG News ServiceWednesday, February 15, 2006 Microsoft is set to unveil its long-awaited branding, packaging, and pricing for the next version of Office, which is expected to be available later this year. As widely expected, the product, code-named [...]

Guide to opening up your router to allow P2P and file-sharing programs like BitTorrent to function properly. For those just getting started with downloading and uploading files via a router, there’s nothing more annoying that staring at poor speeds on your BitTorrent client. To many, it’s a trial in humility to both ask for and [...]

The move comes in the shape of a new bill being introduced in the House of Representatives with support from both Republican and Democrat members.   The bill aims to extend existing laws that ban interstate telephone gambling.   It would, however, fall foul of a World Trade Organization ruling last August that the US [...]

Luis Ochoa, 25, of Corona, California, faces up to a year in jail and a fine, if found guilty.   Prosecutors say Mr Ochoa uploaded a "screener" version of the Oscar- nominated film, which was intended for an Academy voter.   Mr Ochoa was arrested after the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) set up [...]

At today’s meeting of the House International Relations Subcommittee on Global Human Rights, Google took the opportunity to explain how "Don’t be evil" squares with collaborating with censors, while Cisco, Yahoo, and Microsoft expressed their positions much more clearly than they had hoped. All in all, it was a very good day for the Cult [...]

Mike Slocombe 13 Feb 2006 Major UK consumer broadband providers NTL are teaming up with BitTorrent, the developers of the world’s most popular peer-to-peer (P2P) application. The download service will offer a large variety of licensed video content for purchase in the UK, including popular films, music videos and TV programmes. BitTorrent’s enormous bandwidth-hogging qualities [...]

The firm has been pilloried over accusations it has provided information to the Chinese government that led to the jailing of two dissidents.   Ahead of a US Congress hearing on Wednesday to discuss the issue, Yahoo said firms could promote openness.   In a written statement that did not refer to China, it said [...]

The End of the Internet? Jeff Chester The nation’s largest telephone and cable companies are crafting an alarming set of strategies that would transform the free, open and nondiscriminatory Internet of today to a privately run and branded service that would charge a fee for virtually everything we do online. Verizon, Comcast, Bell South and [...]

Here it is! The highly anticipated release of xplorer360. This is beta software and needs testing. What better way then let you guys find the bugs! Too many features to list but here are a few: * FULL Read/Write to 360 HDDs.   * FULL Read/Write to 360 Memory Units. * Physical and Logical drive [...]

A French IT company named PeerFactor and based in Paris, launched 2 weeks ago a new P2P software. Usually with peer to peer software, you share your bandwidth and can get unlimited access to content available on other PCs from the network. PeerFactor works in a different way. You install the PeerFactor client and share [...]

The Blackberry email device, made by Canadian company Research in Motion (RIM), is used by more than three million people in the US, and several million more worldwide. An injunction was sought in the US last year by NTP Software which claims the Blackberry device breaches its patents.   RIM announced details of the software [...]

Chips that really get under your skin Researchers at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) weren’t concerned with such weighty questions when they developed a chip that allows you to listen to an iPod using your forearm as the transmission wire for the audio signals. The chip was detailed in one of [...]

"I’ll start by saying that I am a paying cable subscriber. Often times there are multiple shows on at the same time that I would like to watch and I wanted a way to be able to watch those other shows." "I have a 37 inch Dell LCD TV and enjoy watching as much HD [...]

An easy step-by-step guide that will teach you the ins and outs of using this popular DVD authoring program. There are many programs to choose from when creating a DVD. WinAVI and Nero seem to be the most popular, the latter being my personal favorite. Now in additon to converting your video files they both [...]

After years of struggling to contain a growing plague of spam and its antecedents, like phishing and 419 scams, AOL and Yahoo have fallen back to the Bill Gates playbook: Charge for it. In all fairness, Gates stole the idea from the US Post Office, which profitably elevated advertising missives from "junkmail" to "Standard Mail [...]

While some users battle destructive vendor-based rootkits like those unleashed by Sony-BMG, many more suffer from Windows registries clogged by DRM entries left behind by poorly wrought uninstall software. Registry Trash Key Finder is specifically designed to find digital rights entries, so you can copy, edit or delete them from your system.

Researchers at the Fraunhofer Integrated Publication and Information Systems Institute have successfully tested a software system, based on the group’s own digital watermarking technology, for tracking pirated audio files in peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing networks, said Michael Kip, a spokesman for the institute.   Kip referred to the Fraunhofer approach as an alternative to digital rights [...]

This video iPod, which has been in development and on the table since before Apple released the 5G iPod last year with video playback, will feature a display that will occupy the entire front face of the device.   Sources who have seen the device report that it features a digital click wheel, one that [...]