Security Magazine

The Spanish organisation Aid to Children and Adolescents at Risk Foundation (ANAR) have come up with a very innovative way to get their message across to their target audience. The advert uses lenticular printing, resulting in a different ad depending on your perspective. Read more...

I have been a programmer for going on twenty years. I started with Basic, Fortran and a bit of Small Talk. Mixed in there were the more popular C and C++. Over the years I have kept up my knowledge learning C# and Visual Basic, pretty much be programming in Visual Studio for about the last decade or so. However recently I had to learn Java for a big contract I was working on. Read more...

The first Web Address, with a Hyper Text Markup page was http://info.cern.ch. Hyper Text Markup Language, or HTML as it is now known, along with the Hyper Text Transport Protocol, Web Server and Web Browser, was invented by British physicist Tim Berners-Lee, back in 1989, while working at CERN. Read more...

A hooker (we assume), at the very least a young lady that likes to frequent the back alleys of Manchester was caught on Googles Street View handing (ahem) out a handie to a punter/boyfriend. Read more...

InfoSec is done for another year, always a huge IT Security event, not just for the UK but for Europe. As with every year there were some key themes running through the event. This year the big talking points were Advanced Persistent Threats, Cloud, BYOD and Encryption solutions. Read more...

Reports from users across the web that hotmail.com and outlook.com are down. Currently the services have been offline for around 15 minutes. Read more...

The reality is that servers drive the Internet, as well as most corporate networks. The two big players in the server operating system space are Microsoft and Linux. Yes Google is taking over how user connect to the internet, with mobile devices, phones and pads, out selling desktops in the last three months of 2012. Read more...

An interesting screen capture turned up on Reddit. Twitter user Max (@Irqendeiner) asked David Vonderhaar (@DavidVonderhaar), game director of Black Ops II, “There are so many guys who glitched/hacked to master prestige on PS3. Any chance that they are getting reset?” Read more...

Video Games have had a great year! The top games have out sold every movie released this year solidifying their domination of the entertainment market. Games are no longer for the nerds of the world, but now have mass appeal. Read more...

Reports out of the US election, voters using electronic voting booths with touch screens that tried to vote for the incumbent President Obama are forced to vote for Romney! Read more...

I have a confession to make, I have an iPad. The reason that is so hard for me to admit is I am a techie, someone that knows their way around IT. I have been a Microsoft Certified Engineer since the NT 4 days and am even certified on the early versions of Novell. Read more...

After losing their appeal to a previously lost judgement, Apple have had to publish an apology, of sorts, to Samsung for saying they had stole their ideas, specifically they are required to publish the lost judgement on their front page. Read more...

Apple today announced the new iPad, a slimmed down version of its big brother. However it seems to have a lot in common with the iPhone, for example the processor is the Apple A5 dual-core which is the same chip that was in the iPhone 4S, it will also have the tiny lightning dock connector introduced with the iPhone 5 and there will be versions that allow you to connect to cellular 4g data connections. Read more...

Despite never having the full versions of Skype on their machines previously, many users are today waking up with Skype mysteriously automatically installed on to their desktops. Depending on when your system was set to automatically update users are widely reporting the automatic install of Skype. Read more...

An interesting concept video from the boys over at Sight Systems. The video takes the concept of on eye; possibly via contact lenses, display to a level that might be the nature evolution of the Google Glasses. Read more...

Paul Chambers, 27 year old, male from Doncaster has had his conviction for "menacing electronic communication" overturned. Convicted in May 2010, Chambers was fined £385 and ordered to pay £600 costs at Doncaster Magistrates' Court. Read more...

Kentucky teenager Savanna Dietrich faces jail time. Her crime? Being molested by two teenage boys at a party. Read more...

On July 9th Judge Colin Birss issued a ruling that the Samsung’ Galaxy tablet did not infringe Apple’s registered designs as it was unlikely to be confused with the iPad because they are “not as cool.” Read more...

Back in the fifties everyone had an idea of what the ”World of Tomorrow” would look like, some of the concepts were not far off, for example we do have mono rails, and Under Ground rail, but alas no personal flying transport. Read more...

When is an Advert not an Ad, or more precisely when IS an Advert an Ad? According to the U.K.’s Advertising Standards Authority (ASA), anytime you are promoting a company or its product or services it an Advert, and should be labelled as such. Read more...

During the TV broadcast of the EURO 2012 game between Russian and Czehc Republic, the camera cut to the crowd and focused on a stunner. Read more...

Microsoft has announced a new tablet, they are stealing the name from their other product the Surface, which was previously a large table top touch screen. Read more...

Rockstar the maker of a number of huge game franchises, including Red Dead Redemption, Grand Theft Auto V (one of the top ten games of all time) and Max Payne 3, announced that they are coming down hard on the cheaters. Read more...

Kogan.com announced last week that they will be adding an extra tax on Internet Explorer 7 users that want to purchase products from their website. The logic being that they have to put in extra development effort to make IE7 display the pages in a consistent format. Read more...

E3 is done and dusted for another year. But what a year it has been with huge announcements and brilliant new game trailers and game play released. We have picked the best of E3 2012 and included videos of the visually stunning game play. There are 10 games on the list, but the release of Nintendo Wii U also makes our list and takes our total Top Ten to Eleven Read more...

There have been many great achievements by man over the last sixty years in regards to the final frontier, space. First man in space, 12 April 1961, Yuri Gagarin, first man on the moon, 21 July 1969, Neil Armstrong. But mankind is about to take one further step in its conquest of space, sending its technology out of our solar system in to interstellar space. Read more...

By the nature of being mobile, we are no longer confined to our living rooms or bedrooms to play games. EA Games in conjunction with PopCap, the company EA Games paid $1.3billion dollars for, have spent a lot of time understanding where we are when playing these mobile games. Read more...

To gamers it will come as no surprise that the industry is huge! I mean really big. A new game can out sell a movie blockbuster, and when you consider a blockbuster movie can now easily cost $200m to make, you can see why there is a huge investment in new games. Read more...