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I always thought my router and firewall combo with its twinkling green lights was actually on my side in the fight against internet baddies. I may have to rethink this. The Register has an interestin...
For me the novelty of Facebook wore off quite quickly - a bit like blogging in that respect. Amusing at first and sometimes useful but hardly essential. I admit it's a handy way to track down real fri...
Our new world of Web 2.0 promises to leave you with less guilt pangs in life. I got this feeling earlier this week when I received an invitation to sign up to www.bet2give.com . The tagline is "...
Some recent headlines from the past month: Barclays chairman loses £10,000 in ID fraud scam Halifax facing Chip and PIN fraud lawsuit Dutch cops arrest 14 ABN Amro customers as phishing mules Phishing...
When doing a little research recently I was stunned by an article from the New York Times: “After a year of relative stability following the revaluation of the dollar, the world money markets have ag...
I can’t understand this; I would have thought that the people at the Halifax know what has happened, and I would have thought that they would be pretty sure about it. They have records of the cards i...
I guess this should be added under Whatever.... I know I have defended Facebook et all before. However, they sent me a disappointing email this morning. Being on the wrong side of middle 30 (ish) I ...
Seven minutes of pure video hilarity. View it here (shame about the sound).
The new year has barely started and we already have an odds-on favourite to win our 2008 idiot of the year award. Step forward Jeremy Clarkson, renowned UK celebrity petrol-head and all-round motormo...
What will the consequences be either way, Ladies & Gentlemen? That there are flaws within the system itself is obvious. The fallback to signature if there's a fault with the chip is just too simp...
Your chief executive took home nearly $100 million in 2006 and you run a fleet of 20-odd corporate jets to ferry board directors to important business meetings and former executives to important Red S...
We should all be saying Happy New Year! Well, actually we have already, especially to tax authorities around the world. Many of them have just received a New Year's present of cash from the financia...