Jeremy Kirk - Author - Good Gear Guide

Stories by Jeremy Kirk

Article | 8/01/2009 Norway pulls downloadable Beatles podcasts

Norway's public broadcaster has stopped offering a downloadable podcast with songs from the Beatles, citing a licensing issue.

Article | 7/01/2009 Google comes in third on top 10 list of spam enablers

Google has yet to stop a rising number of spammers from abusing Google Docs, its Web-based collaboration and spreadsheet application, according to jun...

Article | 19/12/2008 YouTube pushes HD video, new landing pages

Google's YouTube has rolled out a high-definition option for video and created new landing pages to make it easier to find popular video categories.

Article | 18/12/2008 Yahoo to scrub personal data after three months

Yahoo said Wednesday it will anonymize most of the data it collects about people's Web searches after three months, a move that could put further pres...

Article | 17/12/2008 Swedish police warn of tampered credit card terminals

Swedish police are unraveling a scheme where criminals stole credit card details by tampering with a point-of-sale (POS) terminals at a Toys R Us stor...

Article | 16/12/2008 Microsoft releases its first-ever iPhone application

Microsoft's first-ever iPhone application is a slick photo viewer with a browsing capability that handles a large number of photos on a mobile device ...

Article | 12/12/2008 Chinese team mistakenly released unpatched IE7 exploit

Chinese security researchers mistakenly released the code needed to hack a PC by exploiting an unpatched vulnerability in Microsoft's Internet Explore...

Article | 9/12/2008 Wikipedia article censored in UK for the first time

For the first time, U.K. Internet service providers have censored a Wikipedia article, one that includes an album cover image of a naked and possibly ...

Article | 5/12/2008 Firefox users targeted by rare piece of malware

Researchers at BitDefender have discovered a new type of malicious software that collects passwords for banking sites but targets only Firefox users.

Article | 4/12/2008 Pentagon hacker tries one more time to avoid extradition

A British systems administrator who hacked into U.S. military computers in 2001 and 2002 will have another chance to make his case of why he shouldn't...

Article | 3/12/2008 Apple quietly recommends using antivirus software

I'm a Mac. You're a PC. But we both need antivirus software.

Article | 28/11/2008 Estonian ISP cuts off control servers for Srizbi botnet

An Estonian ISP that temporarily hosted the command-and-control servers for the Srizbi botnet, responsible for a large portion of the world's spam, ha...

Article | 27/11/2008 UK bans Apple 3G iPhone advertisement

The U.K.'s advertising regulator banned a video advertisement for Apple's 3G iPhone, saying Wednesday that the ad exaggerates the phone's speed and is...

Article | 21/11/2008 Researchers find vulnerability in Windows Vista

An Austrian security vendor has found a vulnerability in Windows Vista that it says could possibly allow an attacker to run unauthorized code on a PC.

Article | 18/11/2008 Dodgy ISP briefly comes online, updates botnet

An Internet service provider associated with online crime and child pornography briefly came back online over the weekend before being cut off again, ...