Egan Orion

Recent articles by Egan Orion

Opinion: Google's privacy reform is a hoax

Opinion: Google's privacy reform is a hoax

After Google announced Monday that it would begin removing Internet addresses from web search records after only nine months instead of its former 18 month retention period, it drew praise for that reform from European Commission privacy regulators and the press.
Egan Orion Sep 15 2008 6:30AM Telco/ISP
IE8 is a resource hog

IE8 is a resource hog

IE8 is a seriously bloated and resource-hogging mess of software, according to an independent performance evaluation done by exo.performance.network.
Egan Orion Sep 3 2008 11:23PM Software
Hitman scam spammer on the prowl again

Hitman scam spammer on the prowl again

A scam artist who threatens to kill spam email recipients or kidnap their loved ones is active again, the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) warns.
Egan Orion Aug 30 2008 12:29PM Security
Quebec sued for buying Microsoft software

Quebec sued for buying Microsoft software

Quebec's government has been sued by an Open Source software group for buying Microsoft products while ignoring free software alternatives, it came to light Wednesday.
Egan Orion Aug 29 2008 8:08AM Software
Taiwan busts hacking ring

Taiwan busts hacking ring

Taiwan Police has swooped down on a ring of cyber-thiefs who had been targeting government and corporate data stores.
Egan Orion Aug 28 2008 11:25AM Security
Linux netbook thieves ignore laptops

Linux netbook thieves ignore laptops

Elonex web books that are preloaded with Ubuntu Linux and currently featured at Carphone Warehouse in Bracknell, UK are apparently is such high demand that thieving opportunists stole a display model.
Egan Orion Aug 28 2008 7:48AM Software
Best Western insists massive database wasn't stolen

Best Western insists massive database wasn't stolen

An article that appeared in last weekend's Glasgow Sunday Herald claiming personal information belonging to eight million travellers had been winkled has been denounced.
Egan Orion Aug 27 2008 8:36AM Security
Netbook prices start falling

Netbook prices start falling

Acer announced just before the weekend that it will slash the prices of two netbook models by US$50.
Egan Orion Aug 26 2008 8:14AM Hardware
Brazilian indicted for botnet conspiracy

Brazilian indicted for botnet conspiracy

A Brazilian man has been indicted for conspiring to broker the sale of a botnet which allegedly damaged 100,000 Pcs.
Egan Orion Aug 25 2008 7:49AM Security
Apple offers to replace bad Ipod batteries

Apple offers to replace bad Ipod batteries

Apple Japan said Thursday that it will replace faulty batteries found to be overheating in iPod Nano devices after a government ministry warned consumers earlier this week that the hot-selling music players might present a fire hazard.
Egan Orion Aug 23 2008 4:44PM Hardware
US presidential candidate is a pirate

US presidential candidate is a pirate

The presumed Republican US presidential candidate John McCain favours draconian copyright enforcement, except when his own election campaign uses other people's music.
Egan Orion Aug 19 2008 7:28AM Software
Dell 'Cloud Computing' trademark rejected

Dell 'Cloud Computing' trademark rejected

Dell's application to trademark "Cloud Computing" has apparently been shot down by the US Patent and Trademark Office.
Egan Orion Aug 19 2008 7:28AM Storage
European court stays Gary McKinnon's US extradition

European court stays Gary McKinnon's US extradition

The European Court of Human Rights has temporarily stayed the extradition of accused UK hacker Gary McKinnon to face computer abuse and cyber-terrorism charges in the US.
Egan Orion Aug 13 2008 9:46AM Security
Apple bails out of Black Hat gig

Apple bails out of Black Hat gig

Security Engineers at the Cupertino have cancelled their planned session at this week's Black Hat security convention in Las Vegas.
Egan Orion Aug 5 2008 9:48AM Security
China to censor journalists' Net access during Olympics

China to censor journalists' Net access during Olympics

No bricks removed from great firewall
Egan Orion Aug 1 2008 10:01AM Security
China launches UFO document software

China launches UFO document software

Mainland China's government will promote home-grown office productivity software in at least six ministries this year that uses a uniquely Chinese document format standard.
Egan Orion Jul 29 2008 1:29PM Software
IPv6 insecurity is a clear and present danger

IPv6 insecurity is a clear and present danger

Internet protocol version 6 (IPv6) is placing many systems at risk of attack because networking software has IPv6 enabled but users don't know it, warns a security researcher.
Egan Orion Jul 22 2008 8:56AM Security
Mozilla issues two critical security advisories

Mozilla issues two critical security advisories

Mozilla Firefox versions 2.X and 3.0, as well as other Mozilla software products, are named in two critical security advisories issued Wednesday.
Egan Orion Jul 18 2008 10:34AM Security
Firefox grabs bigger slice of browser pie

Firefox grabs bigger slice of browser pie

Mozilla Firefox now holds 19 per cent of the web browser market, according to web survey company Net Applications.
Egan Orion Jul 7 2008 2:12PM Software
Microsoft bundling bungling turns India to Linux

Microsoft bundling bungling turns India to Linux

The vole's attempt to force students in India's state of Tamil Nadu to buy Microsoft Office has backfired and they'll be getting laptops running Linux instead of Windows.
Egan Orion Jul 2 2008 3:42PM Software

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