France and Germany have already told their citizens to avoid Microsoft’s Internet Explorer because of a critical hole in the browser, so what does the British government think? The problem emerged late last week and both governments reacted with a simple warning – use another browser until this is fixed.
Three days later [...]
Mozilla has released an updated version of Firefox that addresses nine security flaws, one of which earns the dreaded ‘critical’ rating. The critical flaw addressed by Firefox 3.09 involves a memory corruption problem.
The two “high-risk” flaws involve same-origin violation security bugs. The other six moderate or low risk flaws are detailed in Mozilla’s release [...]
Google is set to make changes to its search ranking algorithm to combat the spate of links leading to malicious web pages appearing at the top of Google’s search results, according to an inside source.
Over the past few months, cybercriminals have been using blackhat SEO techniques to manipulate search rankings. When it first began, they [...]
Internet scams are by no means a recent phenomenon, but certain scams come back again and again. Here are five popular Internet scams that you should be on the lookout for:
1. Auction fraud
You may love cheap stuff on eBay as much as the next person, but that ’73 Collectors Edition Elvis Plate you’re bidding on [...]
The Home Office recently said it was working with the European Parliament on plans to extend police powers to conduct remote searches of computers. UK police already have the power to hack into suspect systems without a warrant, due to an amendment to the Computer Misuse Act, which came into force in 1995.
Kaspersky Labs have [...]
Users of the world’s most common web browser have been advised to switch to another browser until a serious security flaw has been fixed.
The flaw in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer could allow criminals to take control of people’s computers and steal their passwords, internet experts say. Microsoft is investigating the problem and preparing an emergency software [...]
