World News
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Russian cops cuff 10 ransomware Trojan suspects
01 September 2010
Russian police have arrested 10 suspected members of a ransomware gang who allegedly made millions via a locked computer malware scam.
27 August 2010
Security researchers have disrupted the botnet known as Pushdo, a coup that over the past 48 hours has almost completely choked the torrent of junkmail from the once-prolific spam network.
Online sales hit three-year high
20 August 2010
Internet sales grew in July at their fastest pace since before the recession, as wet weather encouraged home shopping, a survey suggests.
Orange coughs to data network failure
19 August 2010
Orange UK has admitted that its data network is having all kinds of trouble, and that the problem is ongoing with no scheduled fix.
More than a million Britons take out 'payday loans' to keep them afloat
14 August 2010
The number of people taking out expensive payday loans quadrupled over the last four years, a consumer watchdog said today. Consumer Focus warned banks needed to offer affordable short-term loans as alternatives, as well as recommending stronger safeguards to protect consumers from spiralling payday loan debts.
Botnet of 100,000 UK PCs taken down
04 August 2010
Security researchers have uncovered the command and control network of a Zeus 2 botnet sub-system targeted at UK surfers that controlled an estimated 100,000 computers.
Botnet with 60GB of stolen data cracked open
02 August 2010
Researchers have cracked open a botnet that amassed more than 60GB of passwords and other stolen data, even as it cloaked itself using a state-of-the-art technique known as fast flux.
Details of 100m Facebook users published
29 July 2010
Personal details of 100m Facebook users have been collected and published on the net by a security consultant. Ron Bowes used a piece of code to scan Facebook profiles, collecting data not hidden by the user's privacy settings. The list, which has been shared as a downloadable file, contains the URL of every searchable Facebook user's profile, their name and unique ID.
Why does broadband speed vary so much?
28 July 2010
If you are a night owl who enjoys surfing between the hours of 4am and 6am and are fortunate enough to live on top of a telephone exchange then you are probably very happy with your broadband speeds. But the majority of people in the UK are not getting the broadband services they signed up for, according to a comprehensive speed report by regulator Ofcom.
