Alerts sends you email and SMS alerts for practically anything
It’s hard to stay on top of everything in such a busy world. So Alerts.com will pretty much blast you with an alarm about everything that you need to know.
The Bellevue, Wash.,-based company is launching a service at DEMOfall 08 that will alert you to everything, including baseball game scores, stock price movements, your appointment at the hair salon, or the time you need to pick up your kid from soccer practice. We wrote about it when it emerged with a beta version.
Internet Traffic Growth Slows
Despite prognostications that the Internet is about to collapse from the weight of traffic growth — especially video — international Internet traffic grew 53 percent between mid-2007 and mid-2008, down from 61 percent the preceding year, according to a market research firm.
For the second consecutive year, total international Internet capacity grew faster than total Internet traffic, leading to lower utilization levels on many Internet backbones, according to market tracker TeleGeography. Between 2007 and 2008, average traffic utilization levels decreased from 31 percent to 29 percent, while peak utilization fell from 44 percent to 43 percent, the firm found.
The 15 best Firefox 3.0 add-ons
Improve your experience with Firefox by downloading these 15 terrific add-ons that make many routine tasks easier and increase the browser’s power many times over.
As web browsers go, Mozilla’s Firefox 3.0 which was released earlier this year, is viewed as one of the best by a huge number of web surfers. However, with the help of some free add-ons that integrate directly into the browser and offer loads of useful new features, you can further improve your browsing experience.
We’ve rounded-up the 15 best add-ons that will help you increase your security and privacy, synchronise bookmarks and even juice up Google.
Aussie teen’s $365,000 computer scam
A teenage computer whiz in Australia has pleaded guilty to an attempted A$300,000 (NZ$365,000) fraud involving an elaborate trail of dummy businesses.
The 15-year-old boy pleaded guilty to 33 counts of fraud and attempted fraud in the Perth Children’s Court today. Prosecutor Simon Formby told the court the offences dated from March 10 to June 3 this year, when police executed a warrant at the boy’s home.
Mr Formby said the boy had a total of six registered business names which he used to open cheque accounts with various banks. “He then wrote cheques that he knew would be dishonoured to either obtain property, pay debts or open further cheque accounts,” he said.
Paris Hilton used in fake AV scam
Paris Hilton’s image is being used by cybercriminals to push fake anti-virus software programs that actually do more harm than good, researchers have warned.
Hilton regularly pops up in online scams, alongside female celebrities such as Angelina Jolie and Madonna, often in emails that promise to take you to nude pictures of the hotel heiress or to news of a scandal involving her.
And fake anti-virus programs such as Antivirus XP 2008 have been circulating on the web recently, which fool surfers into installing rogue software on their PCs by flashing up fake virus warnings.
Google set to introduce its own Web browser
Google Inc is set to introduce on Tuesday a new Web browser designed to more quickly handle video-rich or other complex Web programs, posing a challenge to browsers designed originally to handle text and graphics.
Google officials confirmed news of long-rumored plans to offer its own Web browsing software, entitled Google Chrome, in a company blog post after it mistakenly mailed details of the plan to a Google-watching blog, called Blogoscoped.com.
The company statement calls the move “a fresh take on the browser” and said it will be introducing a public trial of the Web browser for Microsoft Corp Windows users on Tuesday.
Dead Sea Scrolls to go digital on Internet
Filed under: Internet, Religion, Science, Technology, Web
Scientists in Israel are taking digital photographs of the Dead Sea Scrolls with the aim of making the 2,000-year-old documents available to the public and researchers on the Internet.
Israel Antiquities Authority, the custodian of the scrolls that shed light on the life of Jews and early Christians at the time of Jesus, said on Wednesday it would take more than two years to complete the project.
For many years after Bedouin shepherds first came upon the scrolls in caves near the Dead Sea in 1947, only a small number of scholars were allowed to view the fragments.
Revealed: The Internet’s Biggest Security Hole
Two security researchers have demonstrated a new technique to stealthily intercept internet traffic on a scale previously presumed to be unavailable to anyone outside of intelligence agencies like the National Security Agency.
The tactic exploits the internet routing protocol BGP (Border Gateway Protocol) to let an attacker surreptitiously monitor unencrypted internet traffic anywhere in the world, and even modify it before it reaches its destination.
Firefox Add-on squeezes out wi-fi hackers
It’s a nasty old digital world out there, what with ‘man in the middle’ hackers intercepting your wi-fi signals and criminal gangs spoofing DNS entries to redirect banking traffic to compromised websites.
So a big round of applause for researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, who have just released an add-on for Firefox 3 that promises to restore your faith in the internet.
Browser Extension Thwarts Internet Eavesdropping
The growth of shared Wi-Fi and other wireless computer networks has increased the risk of eavesdropping on Internet communications, but researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have devised a low-cost system that can thwart these “Man-in-the-Middle” (MitM) attacks.
The system, called Perspectives, also can protect against attacks related to a recently disclosed software flaw in the Domain Name System (DNS), the Internet phone book used to route messages between computers.
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