Jeremy Kirk - Author - Good Gear Guide

Stories by Jeremy Kirk

Article | 16/09/2009 Soon to sink, Pirate Bay's torrents come ashore

The old news kiosk in the center of Weimar, Germany, doesn't sell newspapers any more, but you can find pointers to plenty of other media there.

Article | 14/09/2009 Powerful tool to scour document metadata updated

A Spanish company has released an upgraded version of a powerful software application that can be used to perform intelligence gathering on a company'...

Article | 11/09/2009 Google plans to offer micropayments service to media owners

Google is promoting a payments system to the newspaper industry that would let Web surfers pay a small amount for individual news stories, an idea tha...

Article | 10/09/2009 Skype bungles software upgrade for the iPhone

Take a deep breath: Skype isn't working so great on the iPhone right now. But a fix should be available by Wednesday evening in Apple's App Store.

Article | 7/09/2009 Small English town outpaces others in likely online fraud

A town in England with a modest population of 10,000 or so has chalked up the highest percentage of online transactions flagged as fraudulent by a U.K...

Article | 8/09/2009 European banks warned: brace for rise in cash machine fraud

Banks are likely to see cash-machine fraud rise unless steps are taken to improve their cash-machine infrastructure, the European Network and Informat...

Article | 4/09/2009 Apple ships vulnerable Flash version with new Mac OS

Mac users may be surprised that versions of Apple's latest operating system, Snow Leopard, also installs an older version of Adobe System's Flash play...

Article | 21/08/2009 U.K. government looks to smart ticketing for transport

The U.K. aims to have a plan by the end of this year that lets people use their mobile phones or smart cards to pay for travel across England's public...

Article | 19/08/2009 Apple investigating malfunctioning iPhone reports

Apple is investigating reports that some of its popular iPhones may have malfunctioned following a query from a European Commission directorate that o...

Article | 13/08/2009 ICANN says new policy has killed 'domain tasting'

The entity in charge of the Internet's addressing system is declaring victory over an abusive trend in registering domain names.

Article | 17/08/2009 Georgia cyberattacks linked to Russian organized crime

The cyberattacks against Georgia a year ago were conducted in close connection with Russian criminal gangs, and the attackers likely were tipped off a...

Article | 17/08/2009 Hackers put social networks such as Twitter in crosshairs

Web sites such as Twitter are becoming increasingly favored by hackers as places to plant malicious software in order to infect computers, according t...

Article | 12/08/2009 Attacks on US, Korea Web sites leave a winding trail

The investigation into the attacks against high-profile Web sites in South Korea and the U.S. is a winding, twisty electronic goose chase that may not...

Article | 12/08/2009 Study: Adobe Flash cookies pose vexing privacy questions

Adobe's Flash program is being used on heavily trafficked Web sites to collect information on how people navigate those sites even if people believe t...

Article | 6/08/2009 Microsoft slammed over Bing's sponsored online drug ads

Microsoft profits by selling online ads on its search engine to criminal gangs running pharmaceutical Web sites that offer medication to people withou...