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Amorous Couple Caught on Google Street View

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. The randy couple did not seem to be too bothered about the approaching cars, with neither the man pulling up his trousers to protect his modesty or the woman letting go of the gentleman’s member as the Google camera car approached. The pictures, taken along Temperance Street, Manchester, UK, is meters away from main arterial routes and within a few minutes’ walk of Manchester Piccadilly... 
 

Kaspersky Says “No!”

Kaspersky Anti-Virus users today were waking up to no internet! An update from the Anti-Virus vendor cut off internet access for users. Presumably with no Internet access your risk profile was significantly improved, however users were none too happy to find they could not check in to Facebook to see what the Ex-Boyfriend/Girlfriend was up to. The update seemed to impact the web anti-virus component of the Kaspersky suite. In an update from Kaspersky they stated that the issue was caused by a database update at 8:52pm on Feb 4th, Moscow time. They... 
 

Top Free Internet Security Tools

Obviously the old adage, you get what you pay for is just as relevant on the Web as it is offline. However there are always exceptions to the rule, and software developed by the community, or by Enterprises that give you a free taste of their full version, hoping you will one day upgrade are an example of one of those exceptions. There are many commercial antivirus products out there, and most are worth paying for, our favorite is Trend Micro Titanium Large organisations do not usually install freeware or open source, as they struggle to get the... 
 

The Top Eight Places You Are Playing Mobile Games (eewww)

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. And it is an interesting read: #8 – At Social Gatherings 14.7% of us will play our mobile games at social gatherings, well lets be honest it’s better than talking to girls, who obviously have cooties. #7 – While Shopping 15% of us will play our mobile games while out... 
 

FBI’s MOST WANTED – Chinese Generals!

Sun Kailiang On the 1st May 2014 a United States grand jury in Pennsylvania indicted five Chinese military officials on 31 counts of cyber espionage. The five instantly jumped to the top of the FBI’s Cyber’s Most Wanted list and are all members of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) of the People’s Republic of China (PRC). The indictment included: conspiring to commit computer fraud; accessing a computer without authorization for the purpose of commercial advantage and private financial gain; damaging computers through the... 
 

Riot Rocks an Impressive Event!

This week has seen the boys and girls at Riot Games put on a world class event with the Season 3 Finals of League of Legends in Los Angeles. The week started at Culver Studios, where European champions Fnatic took on North American seed champions Cloud 9 Kingston HyperX. The Culver Studios location was very intimate and very cool, with only 300 odd people allowed in the event, but because of the size and setup of the studio the atmosphere was brilliant! I much preferred this location to the Galan Center, which was much larger and had a lot less... 
 

Syrian Electronic Army Turns on Assad Regime

The longest standing Syrian Electronic Army Twitter account @Official_SEA7, about the only SEA account that has not been banned over the last six months, today turned on the Assad regime linking to a YouTube video of the Syrian leader’s chemical attack on its people. The account goes on to Tweet that “Evil Lives” and linked to a photo of the Syrian President. In a phone interview with one of the “leaders” of the Syrian Electronic Army, a hacker calling himself “ThePro” told Seczine that they “no longer... 
 

CYSEC Free Anti-Virus Review

CYSEC AV I have been a fan of the CYSEC Cyber Security related videos for a while, visiting their website on and off for the last couple of years. In 2011 they released a Free Anti-Virus, which being version one of the product I wasn’t expecting much, but I was pleasantly surprised. It wasn’t, at the time, the best free AV on the market, it still needed some work. But over the last 24 months they have completed a number of updates and the product is GREAT! We tested it against AVAST and AVG which are another two free AV products to see... 
 

Syrian Electronic Army Have Been Busy

It has been a busy couple of months for a hacking collective calling themselves the “Syrian Electronic Army” (SEA). Targeting mostly media organisations Twitter accounts and websites the hacktivists have managed to claim the scalps of some high profile media companies. The Guardian, one of the victims of SEA, would have you believe that the hacktivists are funded by the Syrian government based on a speech given by Assad to Damascus university students at the end of 2011, where he praised the electronic army and embraced them as an extension... 
 

InfoSec Done For Another Year!

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. From my untrained eye the numbers seemed to be down from previous years, I attended all three days and by far Day 2 was the busiest. I was also scanned about 20 times as I went in and out of the venue across the 3 days, I did wonder how many times that would count as... 
 
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