Featured Review - Friends, foes and Facebook


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This is the tale of one man’s nervous foray into social networking. 

By DAN KAUFMAN - SMH | Tuesday, 27 November 2007 

Innocently thinking it was an online dating agency in disguise, I optimistically joined Facebook in the hope that desperate women would soon be knocking on my door. Fast forward four months, however, and my life is still devoid of vamps and vixens - but I can count almost 40 friends.

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Future Tech, Industry News - Teen arrested for virtual theft


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Dutch police have arrested a teenager who stole £2,500 worth of virtual furniture from an online hotel.

Authorities said in what was the first case of its kind the 17-year-old was arrested after playing Habbo Hotel - an international game and online community with an estimated seven million members.

Habbo Hotel an online community with an estimated seven million members /Ext

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Talent - Alleged Cisco hacker convicted in Sweden


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The 19-year-old man will have to pay more than $42,000 to three Swedish universities and to the national supercomputer centre

A 19-year-old from Uppsala, Sweden, has been found guilty on seven counts of unauthorised access to Swedish university servers and research computers. He is also suspected by the US Federal Bureau of Investigation of breaking into servers at Cisco Systems and stealing classified source code. read more »

Future Tech, Industry News - Expert scares world with VoIP hacking proof


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A proof-of-concept shows how easy it is to eavesdrop on the VoIP calls

By John E. Dunn London | Friday, 23 November, 2007

An expert has released a proof-of-concept program to show how easy it would be for criminals to eavesdrop on the VoIP-based phone calls of any company using the technology.

Called SIPtap, the software is able to monitor multiple Voice-over-IP (VoIP) call streams, listening in and recording them for remote inspection as .wav files. All that the criminal would need would be to infect a single PC inside the network with a Trojan incorporating these functions, although the hack would work at ISP level as well.

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