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Could gay porn lawsuit mark the end of free Wi-Fi hotspots?

If you use, or operate, a password-free wireless network then legal action being taken in the US by the adult movie industry might just be about to rain on your parade warns one European IT threat mitigation expert. The lawsuit was filed by Liberty Media Holdings, a producer of adult movie...

How to quickly crack Apple iWork passwords

The Apple iWork office productivity suite for the Mac has been around for ages, and was recently joined by an iOS version. iWork documents have, up until now, been seen as being pretty safe courtesy of the particular implementation of the 128-bit AES encryption Apple used to secure them. I say up...

Making money from Olympic Games 2012 ticket backlinks

Probably the most common Olympic Games 2012 scam is that of unofficial ticket sales. No great surprise there, but the fact that Google appears to be in on the act might come as a shock to many. So what, exactly, is going on? A little known law in the UK is, and I kid you not, the 'London Olympic...

Ice Ice Baby Trojan isn't a plain vanilla threat

All right stop, collaborate, and listen. A new variant of the ZeuS financial malware platform known as Ice. This baby Trojan spawned from the original Ice IX is targeting bank customers on both sides of the pond. Here in the UK the 'big three' telecommunications providers are where it is flowing...

Go Figure: Zuckerberg most hated man in IT history, Bill Gates most loved...

The biggest heroes and villains in IT history have been revealed as the results of a new poll are published. Perhaps rather surprisingly, Steve Jobs is just as hated as Bill Gates and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is more hated than both of them. But that's just where the shock results from this...