Google has added to its long list of employee perks by providing staff with servants that will do everything from picking up dinners to cleaning up dog poo — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The National Broadband Network will give the government an extraordinary opportunity to push its internet censorship agenda on Australians, a cyberspace policy expert says — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The anti autorefresh momentum has continued to build for Australia’s digital industry with Realestate.com.au becoming the first mass reach News Ltd controlled website to sign up for the Audit Bureaux of Australia’s digital audit.
A condition of receiving an ABA audit is that sites cannot use autorefresh – where whole pages are automatically updated every few minutes – with advertisers potentially paying several times for the same set of eyeballs plus the associated ad serving costs — via redwolf.newsvine.com
An internet troll
who posted obscene messages on Facebook sites set up in memory of dead people has been jailed — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A Google malware researcher gave a rare peek inside the company’s massive anti-malware and anti-phishing efforts at the SecTor conference here, and the data that the company has gathered shows that the attackers who make it their business to infect sites and exploit users are adapting their tactics very quickly and creatively to combat the efforts of Google and others — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Enterprises addicted to Microsoft’s nine-year-old Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) browser are having a tough time migrating to Windows 7, an analyst said today.
And although Microsoft has made it clear it wants IE6 dead and buried, the company needs to help solve a problem it created when it released the non-standard browser, then pressed businesses to develop IE6-specific applications, said Michael Silver of Gartner.
Microsoft would rather put the non-standard browser technology behind it,
Silver said in a recently published research report.
Easy for Microsoft to say; it doesn’t have to deal with the IE6 fallout — via redwolf.newsvine.com
I am pleased to preview ‘Dead Drops’ a new project which I started off as part of my ongoing EYEBEAM residency in NYC the last couple weeks. Dead Drops
is an anonymous, offline, peer to peer file-sharing network in public space. I am injecting
USB flash drives into walls, buildings and curbs accessable to anybody in public space. You are invited to go to these places (so far 5 in NYC) to drop or find files on a dead drop. Plug your laptop to a wall, house or pole to share your files and date. Each dead drop contains a readme.txt file explaining the project. Dead Drops
is still in progress, to be continued here and in more cities. Full documentation, movie, map and How to make your own dead drop
manual coming soon! Stay tuned — via Aram Bartholl’s Blog
The Australian Privacy Commissioner Timothy Pilgrim has slammed the Federal Government’s proposed data retention law and called for an inquiry to ensure data is not mishandled if the plan goes ahead — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Boing Boing has suffered a serious defacement in a suspected SQL injection attack that left a vile image and YouTube video scrawled across its home page – via redwolf.newsvine.com
Quite a few badly written apps like to create folders in specific locations, and expect them to be there and nowhere else. For example, my ~/Documents folder contains items such as ‘Microsoft User Data’, ‘Steam Content’, ‘TomTom’, etc. Some even create folders in your home directory or worse, at the root level of the hard disk!
Sometimes you can set a different location in the preferences of the application, but sometimes there’s just no way. If you move the folder, the application will become hopelessly confused and/or create a new copy where it expects it. You can make these folders invisible, but then you can’t easily access them anymore — via Mac OSX Hints
A NSW high school has installed secure
fingerprint scanners for roll call, which savvy kids may be able to circumvent with sweets from their lunch box — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A new trojan horse has cropped up that affects Mac OS X (and Windows as well), primarily disguised as a video flitting around social networking sites. When users click an infected link, a Java applet is launched that downloads multiple files, including an installer that runs automatically without users’ knowledge — via michaelsautter.newsvine.com
Dutch police and net security organisations have teamed up to dismantle many of the command and control servers associated with the Bredolab botnet.
The Bredolab Trojan, which has spyware components that allow criminals to capture bank login details and other sensitive information from compromised machines, has infected an estimated 30 million computers worldwide since its emergence in July 2009.
Infected machines remain pox-ridden but the command system associated with the cybercrime network has been decapitated, following an operation led by hi-tech police in The Netherlands — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Gunther von Hagens, a German anatomist famous for his controversial Body World exhibition displaying plastinated bodies, is now selling human and animal body parts – even as jewellery – online — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Cray is getting traction with its XE6 supercomputers, launched this past May summer and first shipped at the end of July. The University of Stuttgart – which has a bunch of scalar and vector systems from IBM and NEC, as well as some hybrid machines and a baby Cray XT5m – is moving into Cray systems in a big way — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A telecommunications interception organisation has been created within the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) to provide wiretapping advice to law enforcement agencies — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A US judge has granted the music industry’s request to shut down the popular LimeWire file sharing service, which had been found liable for copyright infringement — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Keeping track of how much mobile phone credit or wireless broadband downloads you have left can be fiddly. Consume lets you monitor those — and a bunch more — directly from your iPhone.
Consume is the latest app highlighted in our sibling site Gizmodo’s excellent iAppalooza series on iOS apps. It can track more than 107 Australian services, including mobile phones, broadband usage, frequent flyer programs and even Dropbox. For each service, log in with your user details and you’ll get an up-to-date, accurate usage tracker.
Consume is a free app for iOS devices only — via lifehacker
In a victory for the free speech and privacy rights of Amazon.com customers, a federal judge ruled today that the company would not have to turn over detailed records on nearly 50 million purchases to North Carolina tax collectors — via michaelsautter.newsvine.com
One of the oldest customs of book lovers and libraries — lending out favorite titles to friends and patrons — is finally getting recognized in the electronic age, at least in one electronic book reader: Amazon has announced that it plans to allow users of its Kindle book reader to lend
electronic books to other Kindle users, based on the publisher’s discretion — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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