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Charity donor concerned about phishing scam found guilty of hacking for checking whether money had been received legitimately…

1 November 2005 | Paul Gershlick

Daniel Cuthbert, a computer consultant, has been found guilty of breaching the Computer Misuse Act 1990 for hacking into a website set up in the wake of the Indian Ocean tsunami disaster.  Cuthbert clicked...
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Spyware rampant in UK, with 55% of consumers unaware that they have adware programs on their PC…

1 November 2005 | Paul Gershlick

The UK has the third highest rate of spyware on PCs, behind only Thailand and the USA, according to Webroot, the security firm.  Spyware is software that tracks what users do with their PC and can enable...
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Most UK consumers don’t like overseas call centres…

1 November 2005 | Paul Gershlick

About 80% of UK consumers feel negatively about overseas call centres, with over 50% feeling very negatively.  Harris Interactive, the survey firm, based its results on a survey of 2,300 UK adults. ...
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New Flock browser aimed at letting people write and interact easier with web…

1 November 2005 | Paul Gershlick

A group of software developers, many of whom work for other businesses, have developed what they hope will be a revolutionary new Internet browser to compete with Internet Explorer.  Their browser, called...
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1 in 3 large and medium sized businesses don’t have basic data back-up…

1 November 2005 | Paul Gershlick

A third of large and medium sized businesses do not have even elementary data back-up and recovery procedures, according to research by Quocirca, the analyst firm.  Even those which do take back-ups do...
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New Metacharge service enables online service providers to verify identities of customers…

1 November 2005 | Paul Gershlick

A new service has been launched that enables website operators to check the age, identity and other information about UK-based customers - including whether they are still alive - against the UK Electoral...
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PC sales rise 17%…

1 November 2005 | Paul Gershlick

Worldwide PC sales have risen by 17% in the third quarter of 2005 compared to the corresponding period in 2004, according to IDC, the IT market analysts.  It now predicts that the total annual rise will...
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MIVA launches pay-per-click email service enabling businesses to make money from direct marketing…

1 November 2005 | Paul Gershlick

MIVA, the electronic advertising services provider, which charges its advertising customers on a pay-per-click basis - ie depending on the number of times users click on the advertisers' adverts - has...
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Private detective fined for unlawfully obtaining personal data…

1 November 2005 | Paul Gershlick

A director of a private eye company has been fined over £6,000 for breaching the Data Protection Act 1998.  Ray Pearson obtained data from a Revenue and Customs employee and used it to misrepresent himself...
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Ofcom consults on proposals to limit silent cold calls…

1 November 2005 | Paul Gershlick

Ofcom, the communications regulator, is consulting on proposals to limit the effects of silent cold calls.  Silent calls are often caused by software that dials more numbers than there are telesales operators...
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