Watch Out - Your Data May Be Kidnapped
Talkback Interesting that even though the contents of the PC were maliciously "changed", the police don't consider this real crime to be worth pursuing, yet TB allowed a chap to be extradited to the US for just looking at files on an insecure system.
[July 25, 2006, 9:56]
Watch Out - Your Data May Be Kidnapped
Talkback Ransomware dates back all the way to dBase files. There used to be a worm that tried to spread and encrypt databases without you noticing it until after a while it stopped decrypting. Nothing new there.
[July 24, 2006, 23:30]
Watch Out - Your Data May Be Kidnapped
News Small and medium-sized companies are being advised to back up data if they want to avoid the risk of ransomware — the use of malicious code to hijack user files, encrypt them and then demand payment in exchange for the decryption key.
[July 24, 2006, 17:40]
News Burst: James Bond Kidnapped By Pirates
News The film, due November 18 is currently available free on the Web according to reports. It is the second time Hollywood has fallen foul of the Internet. Star Wars: The Phantom Menace was widely available on the Net during the summer.
[November 8, 1999, 14:26]
Safety Experts Meet In Cyberspace
News Diana Lamplugh, whose estate agent daughter Suzy was kidnapped while showing bogus house-hunter 'Mr Kipper' around, has turned to the Net to spread the word about the problem of safety at work. Safety '98 is the world's first free, online...
[November 2, 1998, 11:35]
Net Abductor's Sentencing Delayed
News A British judge has adjourned sentencing on Monday for a Net paedophile who kidnapped a 12-year-old girl that he met in an Internet chatroom. Winchester Crown Court heard on Monday morning how Richard Wait, 32, abducted a 12-year-old girl for five...
[April 10, 2001, 8:39]
FTC Cracks International Web Porn Ring
News These operators hijacked Web sites, 'kidnapped' consumers and held them captive," said Jodie Bernstein, director of the FTC's Bureau of Consumer Protection. The Federal Trade Commission announced Wednesday it has won a federal injunction against an...
[September 23, 1999, 9:29]
Gang Steals £3m Worth Of Nokia Handsets
News According to the Evening Standard the thieves kidnapped two employees of Hawk Precision Logistics late on Saturday night. Thieves stole 10,000 mobile phones worth a total of £3m on Sunday in what is being described as a meticulously planned raid.
[June 26, 2001, 7:12]
BitDefender And The Anti-gypsy Movement
News The virus, dubbed Antiman.A, was discovered at the end of April and duped users into executing its payload by pretending to contain news about three Romanian journalists that had been kidnapped. Romanian security firm BitDefender has revealed that...
[June 13, 2005, 14:45]
Police Arrest Nine Men Over £3m Mobile Raid
News Two employees of Hawk Precision Logistics were kidnapped the night before, held at gunpoint and then doused in petrol and forced to unlock the premises. Police investigating the theft of £3m worth of mobile phones announced on Friday they had...
[July 6, 2001, 15:54]
Germans Rank Berners-Lee Alongside Einstein
Talkback The WWW that came from http in its first version was something put together so secret scientists could do what they need to do without risking being kidnapped while traveling. Under, er, stuff people should know-Germans rank Berners-Lee alongside...
[August 22, 2005, 5:37]
Startup Spotlight: Un-useless Gifts From It3c
News Strange things happen in the it3c postal system -- parcels can go down with tummy bugs, or be kidnapped in Greenland. It3c.co.uk is the new gift giving site that intends to offer "Goodwill. Globally," by promising to never deliver an unwanted present.
[August 13, 2000, 7:00]
US Sex Offenders' Registries Hit The Net
Talkback About 2 years ago a 7-year old little girl was kidnapped from her bed because a sex offender was their neighbor and had been watching her for months and finally decided he could not resist hurting her.
[March 11, 2006, 20:30]
Photo Users Complain As Yahoo Tweaks Service
News The original versions have now been 'kidnapped' by Yahoo. Changes to Yahoo's photo and storage sites have elicited cries of bait-and-switch from users, even as the portal giant opens its photo site to unlimited storage capacity.
[December 24, 2003, 9:25]
University Bans Controversial Links
News The State Department calls Columbia's FARC a terrorist group because it has kidnapped and murdered US citizens. The University of California at San Diego has ordered a student organisation to delete hyperlinks to an alleged terrorist Web site...
[September 26, 2002, 11:56]
US Furor Rises Over PC Wiretap Plan
News In the context of law enforcement operations, stopping a terrorist attack or seeking to recover a kidnapped child, time is of the essence and may mean the difference between success and catastrophic failure.
[August 23, 1999, 9:07]
Chris Long's Column - 'I Hate Digital Everything'
News Yes DIGITAL, and the reporter proceeded to make out that this was a great thing and suggesting this may be the end of the cinema as we know it -- presumably because someone had kidnapped his family and was threatening them if he didn't go through...
[June 18, 1999, 13:55]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Oddly, nobody seems too keen to talk about this: there are dark hints of projects being kidnapped and divisional infighting, and a steady scent of internecine politics. Still at the wettest Glastonbury on record.
[July 4, 1998, 8:42]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
News Oddly, nobody seems too keen to talk about this: there are dark hints of projects being kidnapped and divisional infighting, and a steady scent of internecine politics. Still at the wettest Glastonbury on record.
[July 4, 1998, 7:42]
FBI Digs Deeper Into The Web
News Gordon Crovitz, Dow Jones' senior vice president of electronic publishing, said his eyes were recently opened to undue restraints on the FBI during the investigation into the death of Daniel Pearl, a Wall Street Journal reporter who was kidnapped...
[June 6, 2002, 12:28]
