A leaked document from a project set up by the European Commission to fight terrorism online reveals suggestions for wide-ranging surveillance. The CleanIT project was set up to create voluntary guidelines to stamp out terrorism ...
Tags: Counter-Terrorism, Surveillance, ISP, Social Media
It's a rare year that sees updates to both OS X and Windows,but 2012 marks such an occasion.About a month after Apple released OS X Mountain Lion and two weeks after Microsoft finalized Windows 8(not shipping until Oct.26 but available for ...
Tags: Apple, OS X Mountain Lion, Windows 8, VMware Fusion 5
Security researchers released two tools at the Defcon security conference that can be used to crack the encryption of any PPTP (Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol) and WPA2-Enterprise (Wireless Protected Access) sessions that use MS-CHAPv2 ...
Tags: Microsoft, PPTP, US, Cyberwarfare
A block on file-sharing site The Pirate Bay is proving ineffective, according to data from a top UK internet service provider (ISP). In May, the UK High Court ruled that UK ISPs must block access to The Pirate Bay site – but the 11% ...
Tags: file-sharing site, internet service, network, music-playing site
Government-sponsored servers designed to keep DNSChanger-infected PCs and Macs online were switched off earlier today as scheduled,but several major U.S.Internet service providers downplayed problems to their customers. The number of IP ...
Tags: ISPs, substitute servers, DNSChanger, malware
Regulator Ofcom says ISP TalkTalk and mobile operator 3 received more complaints than any of their rivals in the first quarter of 2012. In the latest quarterly report from Ofcom–which names and shames the worst customer offenders in ...
Tags: Ofcom, ISP TalkTalk, broadband, BT