Three California men have pleaded guilty charges they built a network of CAPTCHA-solving computers that flooded online ticket vendors and snatched up the very best seats for Bruce Springsteen concerts, Broadway productions and even TV tapings of Dancing with the Stars — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A well-known and respected computer security researcher was detained for several hours Wednesday night by border agents who searched his laptop and cell phones before returning them to him.
The researcher, who goes by the hacker handle Moxie Marlinspike, was met by two US Customs and Border Protection agents at the door of his plane when he arrived at JFK airport on a Jet Blue flight from the Dominican Republic. The agents escorted him to a detention room where they held him for four and a half hours, he says. During that time, a forensic investigator arrived and seized Marlinspike’s laptop and two cell phones, and asked for his passwords to access his devices. Marlinspike refused, and the devices were later returned to him — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Booko is a site with a very simple goal – to find the cheapest place to buy books and DVDs in Australia. This site started out as a personal itch and has slowly grown into a very handy site, slowly adding more shops for comparison and more features to make it easier to use. You can read more about Booko at the Blogo
South Korea has installed digital bunkers
to prevent a repeat of the massive distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks that crippled parts of the country last year — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A campaign has launched aimed at improving the online experience for people with disabilities — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Levels of spam have fallen by almost 50% since August 2010, suggest figures — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Australia will move on Wednesday to restrict internet tobacco advertising, preventing retailers from promoting cheap or tax free cigarettes, as part of a campaign to cut smoking rates by 10 percent by 2018 — via redwolf.newsvine.com
For 18 minutes in April, China’s state-controlled telecommunications company hijacked 15 percent of the world’s Internet traffic, including data from US military, civilian organizations and those of other US allies — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Now you can shop ’til your mouse finger drops after Westfield unveiled its answer to eBay with its own virtual shopping mall — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Legislation to introduce mandatory ISP filtering has now been deferred to the second half of 2013, according to strategy papers issued by the Department of Broadband Communications and the Digital Economy (DBCDE) — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Free fonts have met their match. Font Squirrel know how hard it is to find quality freeware that is licensed for commercial work. They’ve done the hard work, hand-selecting these typefaces and presenting them in an easy-to-use format
Tabs Open Relative makes all new tabs open to the right of the current tab, rather than at the far right of the tab bar
Digital consumer expert Jeffrey Cole gives social networking giant Facebook five years before its audience begins to splinter.
Dr Cole, who addressed a digital marketing forum hosted by Ninemsn in Sydney this morning, predicted the site would be no more successful than MySpace and Bebo at hanging onto the fickle teenage audience — via redwolf.newsvine.com
NSW’s State Records Authority is unable to archive digital records supplied by government departments and agencies due to a lack of infrastructure
, in breach of laws requiring access to public records — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A public servant has managed to keep his job despite emailing an entire Federal Government department in a bid to track down a girl he met at a party — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Despite the title, this isn’t just about Google-ifying your iPhone but really any iOS device you might own. If you’re an iPad or iPod touch owner, we’ve got you covered too. That said, let’s take a look at the ways you can bring more Google to your device — via lifehacker
Here is a solid, free solution to reading HFS+ formatted discs in Windows OS using only the Snow Leopard install disc. The nice thing is that the Windows install doesn’t have to be real
Boot Camp — via Mac OSX Hints
Whistleblower WikiLeaks has registered in media-friendly Iceland its first known legal entity — a business that so far has no office or activity — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Researchers have devised a theoretical quantum computer that could function even if one in four quantum bits (qubits) were missing.
With scientists struggling to build devices as large as three qubits, the new method could bring future applications closer by lowering the engineering requirements of a functional machine — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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