The new MiMail worm is technically of the garden variety, or no-frills, type it’s still managing to sucker in a lot of users through its use of social engineering
A man has been cleared of child porn charges, after investigators found that an Internet attacker was responsible for the presence of illicit images on his PC
The pioneering e-mail protocol is under intense scrutiny by its critics, one of its originators and standards bodies trying to rescue the Internet from overdosing on spam
If you need a short term junk mail address or a very temporary e-mail address, Mailinator is right up your alley. When you’re suspicious of something, make up an address on the spot. The address will be instantly active at Mailinator for about 24 hours during which you can check for replies to see if your suspicions were grounded
By proceeding carefully, documenting everything, being persistent and keeping his cool, Steve Oualline was awarded a $199 refund for his unused copy of Microsoft Windows XP
Xerox has made a chance discovery lets printers superimpose glossy images on regular printouts, creating the possibility for document authentication along the lines of holograms on credit cards
Web Access has been ordered to reverse the transfer of more than 500 Australian domain names it made during the past two months
For many IT managers a weeklong failure of the corporate email system under their control would be more traumatic than a divorce
As much of the world nears an Internet address crunch, North America stands as an island apart, threatening to fragment plans for the biggest overhaul of the Web in decades
The FBI is so scared that Internet telephone calls are fast becoming a national security threat that must be countered with new police wiretap rules. Yet another intrusion into your privacy
MIT student, James Patten, has created a Corporate Fallout Detector. It acts and looks like a Geiger counter, but it’s a barcode scanner with an internal, updateable database of corporate misdeeds, with both Pollution and Corporate Ethics modes
Apple has just added Soundtrack to their arsenal of digital/creative apps. Soundtrack allows users to produce high quality audio for video, DVD and web projects for a reasonably priced AU$499.
Initially it came as a (pleasant) surprise to me that Apple released an audio/music app – but I guess it was purely logical after releasing iMovie, DVD Studio Pro, Final Cut Pro etc, all apps where users will want to incorporate a soundtrack of some description. It makes perfect sense to create an app that’ll a) help compose audio to compliment your latest creation, and b) keep ’em using (damn fine) Apple products.
I’m very interested to see how readily this app is used/accepted and put through it’s paces. Go hard Apple!
On a slighlty unrelated note, you need an iPod. Your friends need an iPod, your family, lover, dog, cat and single cell amoebas need an iPod. I recently acquired a 30giger and totally adore it! This is some of the best product design you’ll ever see, and one of the most desirable objects you’ll ever posess/caress, from it’s slick shiny chrome to it’s sleek white polymer (or whatever the white parts are).
The iPod has replaced my clunky CD walkman and cds accompanying me on my daily train commuting adventures. It also means I don’t need to play CDs through my computer at work any more, and chance more blue screen of death situations than I have to. (Bloody Windows). I can also carry a hell of alot more music around with me.
The backlit screen is very clear and crisp, coupled with the very intuitive scroll wheel, gives me easy access to my growing collections of mp3s, calendars and notes. Having an extra external 30GB firewire hard drive is also very fucking handy!
Now go forth and iPod-ify!
Australia’s internet service providers who are excluded from the notorious ‘gang of four’ peering arrangement are steadily forming a more inclusive gang of their own, with help from PIPE Networks, a new national internet exchange operator
Napster may be long dead, but the name and the kitty logo of the pioneer online music-swapping program could return to cyberspace before the year is out. Roxio, which owns the rights to the Napster name, plans to shelve its current online music service, pressplay, and roll out Napster 2.0 by Christmas
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission plans to have an automated robot trawl the web for suspicious sites and discussion board postings could be operational by October
I’ve emailed this around before, but was reminded of it on the weekend when I read John Sladek’s Poe parody The Purlioned Butter and thought it would suit the blog nicely. Here it is, then: Edgar Allan Poe’s 404 message.
Once upon a midnight dreary,
While I websurfed, weak and weary,
Over many a strange and spurious website ofhot chicks galore,While I clicked my fav’rite bookmark,
Suddenly there came a warning,
And my heart was filled with mourning,
Mourning for my dear amour.
‘Tis not possible,I muttered,
Give me back my cheap hardcore!—
Quoth the server, “404”.
Malaysian Muslim men can divorce their wives through text messages on mobile telephones. Anyone who is gutless enough to initiate a divorce using SMS is someone you should be glad to be shot of
Spammers last week got on the wrong side of the wrong man, and quickly found themselves with a taste of their own medicine. The man? Deputy Communications Minister Andrei Korotkov. Tired of the endless spate of unsolicited messages that clog e-mail systems everywhere, an audio message was volleyed non-stop to the telephone numbers listed in the spam
A non-invasive neural network that is designed to read minds could give freedom of movement to everyone, thanks to a system that lets them steer a wheelchair using only their thoughts
Anti-spam activists have upped the ante in their fight against junk email by publishing the details — including credit card information — of people who’ve ordered spamming services online
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