Ethical hacking group GNUCitizen.org has warned that the default settings on one of the UK’s most widely used wireless routers is leaving customers open to attack.
The group showed in a blog posting that the BT Home Hub, the wireless router supplied to BT Broadband customers, uses algorithms that make the device easy to crack when [...]

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New figures suggest that 92.3 per cent of all email sent globally during the first three months of 2008 was spam.
The data from Sophos also indicated that 23,300 new spam-related web pages were created every day during the period, or one about every three seconds.
For the first time Turkey’s contribution to the global spam problem [...]

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The minds behind the smash made-for-the-Web series lonelygirl15 and, more recently, KateModern, have formed EQAL (a la “equal”), a web video content production company with Series A backing of $5 million.
Spark Capital, which includes names like Conrad Riggs, Ron Conway, Marc Andreesen and George Harik, leads the way in funding.
Founders Miles Beckett and Greg Goodfried [...]

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Novell Wednesday released the beta of its new “Just Enough” SUSE operating system targeted as a platform for Linux-based appliances.
The company is releasing the beta in conjunction with the creation of the SUSE Appliance Program targeted at independent software vendors (ISV) who want to package their applications with SUSE Linux on an appliance.
In March, Novell [...]

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Electronic Arts (EA) announced a significant milestone on Wednesday for itself and the entire games industry, revealing that 100 millions copies of The Sims series of games have been sold. The series was first launched in 2000 and since has been available on PC, Sony PlayStation 2 (PS2) and Nintendo Wii. The PC platform has [...]

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The business model for MySQL is that someone, at some time, must pay for something. In this case, Enterprise users are Sun’s paying customers; and at a conference this week, free users wondered again whether the other group is entitled to exclusive new features.
The debate over what paying MySQL customers should be entitled to that [...]

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Hopes of Red Hat releasing a desktop version of Linux for consumers were scratched today as the company announced no such plans would eventuate in the foreseeable future. Meanwhile, its long awaited Red Hat Global Desktop Linux remains on indefinite hold, despite being slated for an original launch date of August 2007.
Although Red Hat had [...]

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The mobile phone groups O2 and Carphone Warehouse have announced they have slashed the price of the smallest capacity Apple iPhone in the UK by 100 pounds.
The price cut comes ahead of the launch of the new upcoming 3G model.
The 8GB model will be available for 169 pounds until June 1st while the 16GB model [...]

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The very fact that there may still be problems to iron out with what used to be Microsoft’s XML-based file format suite, is the justification for the creation of a managing body to manage it as a standard, reads a fresh statement from the ISO.
A newly published FAQ from the International Organization for Standardization, which [...]

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For the month of February Google Sites were again the top U.S. video property with nearly 3.6 billion videos viewed (35.4% share of all videos), gaining 1.1 share points over January according to comScore Video Metrix.
U.S. Internet users viewed more than 10 billion videos online during the month, a three percent increase over January and [...]

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