NEWS ARCHIVE - JULY 2008
Illinois tops the spam list - 2008/07/31A recent study has revealed that the US state of Illinois receives more spam email than any other state in ...
China restricts web access to foreign media - 2008/07/31Officials in China have reversed a decision to allow unrestricted internet access to foreign journalists ...
Walkers has fastest growing website in UK - 2008/07/30Snack food giant Walkers has attained the distinction of being the fastest growing website over the last 12 ...
Website monitoring 'must take into account disabled users' - 2008/07/29Businesses are ignoring a sizeable portion of the online market by failing to take into account the needs of ...
China has the most web users - 2008/07/29Recently released figures have revealed that China now has the biggest army of internet users in the ...
Internet holds one trillion web pages - 2008/07/28Google has revealed a milestone in internet history with the news that its database has recorded a trillion ...
Ryanair web monitoring reveals OFT breaches - 2008/07/24Ryanair could be at risk of being pulled up by the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) because issues with its ...
Firms urged to have downtime 'service level agreement' - 2008/07/24Firms that rely on the internet for their business to function should look to establish a "service level ...
Default security is not enough - 2008/07/24Small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) are being warned against complacency with regard to IT security ...
Cloud Storage falls out of the sky - 2008/07/23The silver lining came off Amazon's Cloud Storage when technical glitches knocked the system offline for ...
Amazon offers credit following outage - 2008/07/22Amazon Web Services customers affected by the recent seven-hour outage of its Simple Storage Service (S3) are ...
Google named UK's top internet brand - 2008/07/22Search engine Google has been named the top consumer brand in the UK. ...
Common sense approach to avoid malware - 2008/07/22The common sense approach should be employed in order to avoid malware, according to Web-User. ...
Security site in security breach - 2008/07/22A Turkish internet hacker by the name of 'm0sted' has attacked Kaspersky's Malaysian website. ...
O2 suffer security breach - 2008/07/21MMS messages sent to mobile phone users who do not own a compatible phone - including the new iPhone 3G - ...
Times Online a market leader in downtime - 2008/07/18The results of a new survey measuring the uptime of the world's top news sites were revealed ...
Failed email causes E-rage - 2008/07/18A new survey has revealed just how important email is as a business tool by highlighting the inevitable ...
Hack attack on domestic goddess - 2008/07/17Users of Nigella Lawson's website – Nigella.com - may have been exposed to malware after the site was ...
11th hour outage for lastminute.com - 2008/07/17During what is traditionally a very busy week for lastminute.com, business was interrupted for 11 hours when ...
Kids are the new pirates - 2008/07/16New research has found that the majority of internet piracy is being perpetrated by 11 to 24-year-olds and ...
Viacom demands cool over YouTube - 2008/07/16The on-going row between Viacom and YouTube cooled recently when demands for data showing the details of ...
Didn't ask for it? Delete it! - 2008/07/15Phishing is now reaching cynical levels with unscrupulous criminals attempting to obtain sensitive personal ...
Hacker walks free after global internet attack - 2008/07/15Charges levelled at a New Zealand teenager relating to an attack on the computer system at the University of ...
Public showing more caution when buying online - 2008/07/14Figures released in a survey by online payments firm, PayPoint.net have shown that online shoppers are being ...
O2 suspend online orders for iPhone - 2008/07/14The Carphone Warehouse and O2 have both suffered so much from the "incredible demand" for the new ...
ZoneAlarm fix for Microsoft patch - 2008/07/11The problems caused by Microsoft's security patch KB951748 have now been addressed by ZoneAlarm, reports ...
Cable and Wireless Watford site burgled - 2008/07/11Sainsbury's and Ordnance Survey websites went dark at around 01:00 (GMT) today (Friday, July 11th) as a ...
Security patch locks many offline - 2008/07/10Microsoft released its security patch for Domain Name System (DNS) on Tuesday as part of its regular update ...
Website monitoring throws up security glitch - 2008/07/10Internet security expert, Dan Kaminsky has discovered a flaw which could allow people to redirect legitimate ...
Twitter's failings cause mutual mockery - 2008/07/10Many web start-up companies were knocked off line in February when certain Amazon services that power those ...
When it all goes wrong it's trauma - 2008/07/09Web monitoring services are agreed that the problem with companies like Google - who want us to store as much ...
A Payne asks: Is it everyone or just me? - 2008/07/09The internet is a place that is perceived as 'always on' and therefore the source of frequent disappointment ...
Broadband price hike in rural blackspots - 2008/07/08A postcode lottery is determining which homes get access to cheaper, more reliable broadband ...
Small firms need fibre-optics - 2008/07/08Blair Stewart, Digital Island general manager acknowledges that the NZ $100 (£38) that small businesses ...
Hold the back page: Czech Republic win Euro 2008 - 2008/07/07In a website competition run in parallel with Euro 2008, Czech Republic picked up the Euro 2008 trophy after ...
Tesco accelerating virtualisation - 2008/07/07Tesco has launched a review of its IT procedures in response to chairman, Terry Leahy's aim to halve to ...
Sainsbury's web site down twice in a month - 2008/07/07High street giant, Sainsbury's has experienced more problems with its online operation as more than an hour ...
Mozilla breaks its own record - 2008/07/07Internet technologies firm, Mozilla has entered the record books by posting the largest number of software ...
e-Governance wide open to security breaches - 2008/07/04Although there are many ways that data can be compromised - malware, bots, key-loggers, phishing and spoofing ...
SEO traffic rise is only half the battle - 2008/07/03Increased website traffic among new users may not be enough for successful search engine optimisation (SEO), ...
Web 'has transformed holiday market' - 2008/07/02The internet has transformed the way in which people find holidays and search for and advertise holiday ...
Weak server certificates compromise online security - 2008/07/01An error in technology used to generate server certificates could have left millions of people vulnerable to ...
£44 million data centre opens - 2008/07/01The first data centre in Europe to be certified independently to the Uptime Institute's international Tier ...
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