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The Federal Court has heard almost 100,000 illegal downloads of video and music files were detected during a 59-week investigation of the internet service provider iiNet.
A group of 34 film, television and music companies is …

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Microsoft has blocked access to thousands of Hotmail accounts in response to hackers plundering password information and posting it online.
Cyber-crooks evidently used “phishing” tactics to dupe users of Microsoft’s free web-based email service into revealing …

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Twitter, the micro-blogging platform which has attracted tens of millions of users but has yet to make money, has changed its terms to potentially open up the free service to advertisers.
“In the Terms, we leave …

ABC

The Australian Federal Police (AFP) says the majority of cyber crime committed in Australia is driven by organised crime gangs in Russia.
AFP Commander Neil Gaughan has told a parliamentary inquiry it is hard to estimate …

Sometimes, sniping at your rivals over the Internet just doesn’t pay off. A DDoS attack gone wrong took down the Internet in parts of China earlier this year, and now four people have been arrested …

Not sure how to pick a scam from the real thing? Here are the most common fraud schemes you’re most likely to encounter.

Lottery and competition scams: fake prizes
Lottery and competition scams are delivered in many …

AFP

SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) – Micro-blogging sensation Twitter says it is making progress on ways to pump cash from the free service.
Twitter co-founder Biz Stone had the blogosphere buzzing anew on Friday with talk of generating …

Once you go Google, you never go back? Not quite, but you certainly do use it most frequently, according to a new report.
By Emil Protalinski

Not only do Google users conduct more searches a month compared …

According to search marketing firm Efficient Frontier, Bing’s paid click share has risen 44 percent over the last two months.
By Emil Protalinski

Bing’s share of …

By Emil Protalinski

During July 2009, a company called NSS Labs performed two separate browser security tests, which Amy Barzdukas, General Manager of Internet Explorer, told Ars that Microsoft had sponsored. Right off the bat, your suspicions …

By Yardena Arar, PC World
Looking to start a business, get a degree or learn Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” dance? The Web has a class, video or tutorial to help you do it. Here’s where to get …

Two programmers reveal covert ways to automate characters in an immensely popular game.
By Robert Lemos
It’s the simple necessities that sometimes spur invention. For Christopher Mooney, four years ago, it was the need to take a …

The head of Google’s Web-spam-fighting team warns that spammers are increasingly attacking websites.
By Kristina Grifantini
The head of Google’s Web-spam-fighting team, Matt Cutts, warned last week that spammers are increasingly hacking poorly secured websites in order …

Three researchers find a way to trace compromised machines used to attack other computers.
By Robert Lemos
Anonymity on the Internet can be both a blessing and a curse. While the ability to hide behind anonymous proxies …

‘Gambling can become problem’; Adolescents at higher risk than adults to get hooked, several studies show
By MONIQUE MUISE, The Gazette

Online gambling has become a multi-billion dollar business in the past decade, with more than 2,100 …

By Chris Lefkow, AFP

Video-sharing site YouTube recently created a hub called YouTube EDU at youtube.com/edu for the more than 100 U.S. colleges and universities offering free online learning.
Photograph by: Screen grab, www.youtube.com/edu
WASHINGTON — They don’t …

By Glenn Chapman, AFP

San Francisco-based Twitter was created three years ago as an Internet-based service that could allow people to follow the 140-character messages or “tweets” of friends and celebrities.
Photograph by: canada.com,
SAN FRANCISCO – Hackers …

The next big milestone of Mozilla Firefox is expected to be achieved today. The one billionth download of the extremely popular browser is expected within 24 hours.
The one billion figure refers to all version of …

A report on ‘The Wall Street Journal’ and ‘Businessweek’ identifies that Yahoo and Microsoft maybe sealing a deal after the interest Microsoft showed in Yahoo about a year ago.
According to the reports, the plan is …

Microsoft is preparing to retire MSN Web Messenger on June 30, 2009. The software giant is asking its users to use the Web Messenger that is integrated in Windows Live People and Windows Live Hotmail.
By …