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Turk Guvenligi Hacks Daily Telegraph And Other Websites

telegraph hack Turk Guvenligi Hacks Daily Telegraph And Other WebsitesTHE Daily Telegraph has been hacked. Also hit are UPS, BetFair, The Register, Vodafone, National Geographic and around 200 other sites. All sites are vulnerable. It’s just a shock that such big sites should be so easily hit.

The hackers are called Turk Guvenligi (trans: Turkish Security, Come to Papa).The sites are still there – the hackers attacked the domain name system (DNS), by which users are directed to websites.

This means that emails sent to the sites would have been delivered to the hackers’ site.

Back in April this year, the Telegraph was hacked by a group called Romanian National Security. It was upset at the paper’s identification of “gypsies” and “Romanians”.

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Posted: 5th, September 2011 | In: Technology | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0


All Wikileaks Top Secret Information Is Now Online And Free – Maybe

Assange  All Wikileaks Top Secret Information Is Now Online And Free   MaybeWHAT news of Julian Assange, the Wikileaks founder – he of the many dead? Well, the joke is that Wikileaks are unhappy that their own secrets are being leaked:

Wikileaks says its former pals at the Guardian, “negligently disclosed top secret WikiLeaks’ decryption passwords.”

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Posted: 2nd, September 2011 | In: Technology | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0


Are These Photos Of Sick Steve Jobs Fakes?

steve jobs ill Are These Photos Of Sick Steve Jobs Fakes?STEVE Jobs is ill. How ill? Well, the Now former CEO of Apple has cancer. Anyone who has lived with a cancer patient nows how grim it can get. The weight loss is the visible sign of change. And the photos doing the rounds show a painfully thin Jobs. But as with many things on the internet, an argument develops that the photos may be fakes? Why anyone would make fake photos of an ill man is an odd one. But a voice on Reddit says the pictures are fake. Anorak would guess that the Reddit photoshop expert has not watched a love one get eaten by cancer, much less a vicious form of the disease that is attacking Jobs.

steve jobs fakes Are These Photos Of Sick Steve Jobs Fakes?

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Posted: 27th, August 2011 | In: Technology | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0


Tripping Steve Jobs Gets The Taiwan CGI Treatment: Bill Gates Is Darth Vader

STEVE Jobs is starring on Taiwan’s NMA News channel. Yep. He’s finally made it. You will see the the drugs haze, the birth of a computer,  a fight with Bill  Gates and a bout with death. Who wins..?

Posted: 26th, August 2011 | In: Technology | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0


Found: Planet Made Of Diamond

alan Found: Planet Made Of Diamond WE. ARE. RICH! Astronomers have found a planet made of….diamond.

Says Matthew Bailes of Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne:

“The evolutionary history and amazing density of the planet all suggest it is comprised of carbon — i.e. a massive diamond orbiting a neutron star every two hours in an orbit so tight it would fit inside our own Sun.”

Yeah, whatever. D.I.A.MOND.

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Posted: 25th, August 2011 | In: Technology | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0


No Quick App for Apple’s Mr Fixit: How Steve Jobs Inspires Diabetics

11455053 No Quick App for Apples Mr Fixit: How Steve Jobs Inspires DiabeticsSTEVE Jobs, the 56-year-old who co-founded and led a world revolution in communications with Apple Corp and then introduced the IPod and IPhone has quit as head of the world’s most successful company.

Thousands of column inches will be written of the man who: left college to become co-founder of a computer giant in a Silicon Valley garage; left the company and later returned to head up the ailing company’s new found success.

He will stay linked to Apple as Chairman of the Board.

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Posted: 25th, August 2011 | In: Technology | Comments (11) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0


AOL London Party Captures Coke Snorting Boob Groping Internet Workers On Camera: Photos

DID you go to the AOL party in Shoreditch, London, where partygoers were invited into a booth to have their photos taken? The pictures were on poloroids. But unbeknownst to the revellers, all photos were also uploaded to the company’s website. So, hard luck on the girl seen groping a pal’s naked boobs and the bloke snorting white powders…

Posted: 21st, August 2011 | In: Key Posts, Technology | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0


Daily Mail Kills Off IstyOsty – Are There Other Ways To Read The Mail And Not Encourage It?

istyosty Daily Mail Kills Off IstyOsty   Are There Other Ways To Read The Mail And Not Encourage It?GOODBYE IstyOsty, you were the site that enabled people to read the Daily Mail without having to actually read the Daily Mail. The Mail was not too keen to someone using its work without even a link back to its own site.

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Posted: 17th, August 2011 | In: Technology | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0


Why Was Facebook Murder Plot Victim Corey White Killed?

white corey Why Was Facebook Murder Plot Victim Corey White Killed?COREY White, 22, has been shot dead in Philadelphia. His lover, 20-year-old London Eley, allegedly offered $1,000 on Facebook for someone to kill him. She advertised thus:

“I will pay somebody a stack to kill my baby father.”

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Posted: 16th, August 2011 | In: Technology | Comment (1) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0


Pathetic Police Arrest Man For Organising Water Fight On Blackberry And Facebook

cameron looting Pathetic Police Arrest Man For Organising Water Fight On Blackberry And FacebookSO tough are the police in David Cameron’s Bullingdon Britain that a 20-year-old man from Colchester in Essex has been arrested for allegedly arranging a big water fight via BlackBerry Messenger and Facebook. The man is charged with “encouraging or assisting in the commission of an offence“.

An Essex policeman addresses media:

“In the light of recent events, we would have to be careful that [the planned water fight] is not all that it seems.”

Are the police observing Blackberry Messenger and Facebook – or are the big US corporations working with the police to profile their customers?

Cameron says he will “look at whether it would be right to stop people communicating via these websites and services when we know they are plotting violence, disorder and criminality”.

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Posted: 16th, August 2011 | In: Key Posts, Technology | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0


Operation Cup Of Tea: Forget The London Riots Let’s Have A Nice Sit Down

operation cup of tea Operation Cup Of Tea: Forget The London Riots Lets Have A Nice Sit DownOPERATION Cup Of Tea is the Twitter hashtag that will undo the London Riots and make things better.

Operation Decent Biscuit is in the planning phase. What we need is hero to make OCoT fly. We’ve found him…

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Posted: 9th, August 2011 | In: Technology | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0


Graham Linehan Finds That Twitter And Reddit Are Like Brass Eye – Only Less Believable

riot photos Graham Linehan Finds That Twitter And Reddit Are Like Brass Eye   Only Less BelievableGRAHAM Linehan – a writer on Father Ted, The IT Crowd, Brass Eye and more – finds that writing for twitter on 140 characters or fewer can create problems.  has made it to the front page of Reddit. His Tweet was:
Forget @DeanEsnard and do searches for anyone else boasting about involvement in riots. Take screengrabs. #riotprevention

Posted: 9th, August 2011 | In: Technology | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0


Blackberry Security: Another victim of London Riots?

blackberry thumb 150x150 Blackberry Security: Another victim of London Riots?THE bleeding-heart liberals among us are worried that the backlash to the London Riots will usher in a harsher police state and that tolerance will get swept out with the broken glass. Let me just put in a techie’s plea for something else in danger of getting pushed aside: the security of  Blackberry Messenger.

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Posted: 9th, August 2011 | In: Technology | Comment (1) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0


London Riots: Forget BBM, It’s the Back-Button That Has Created Generation Whatever

22 london bus riot thumb 150x150 London Riots: Forget BBM, Its the Back Button That Has Created Generation WhateverEvery week, the Daily Mail will blame the internet for something else. Pedophiles, exam results, cancer and yes, the random violence that has swept through London in the past three days. I love the internet, but I’m going to do the same.

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Posted: 9th, August 2011 | In: Key Posts, Technology | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0


Riot Police Promise To Spend More Time on Twitter

22 Rioters confront police thumb 150x150 Riot Police Promise To Spend More Time on TwitterPOLICE Officers promised to spend more time on Twitter trying to predict where violence would break out after copycat riots sprang up in Brixton, Walthamstow, Dalston, Islington, Westfield, Oxford Circus and Ponders End following the protest about the death of Mark Duggan in Enfield on Saturday night.

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Posted: 8th, August 2011 | In: Key Posts, Technology | Comments (2) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0


The iPhone 5 Will Be Really Thick and Fat

iphone 5 fat 150x150 The iPhone 5 Will Be Really Thick and Fat NO, no it won’t be. I’ll give every reader of this blog $100  if the iPhone 5 is thicker than the iPhone 4. The iPhone, rather like Steve Jobs, always gets thinner at each new launch.

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Posted: 5th, August 2011 | In: Technology | Comments (3) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0


ePetition Site proves Government by Wikipedia Would Definitely Work: Let’s Get Rid of The Houses of Parliament

45 deathpenalty 150x150 ePetition Site proves Government by Wikipedia Would Definitely Work: Lets Get Rid of The Houses of ParliamentSO FAR the government’s ePetition website has proved one thing: Government by online polls would definitely work.

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Posted: 5th, August 2011 | In: Key Posts, Technology | Comments (3) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0


Buying Twitter Followers is the new Getting Twitter Followers by Being Witty and Insightful: Newt Gingrinch leads the way

44 newt thumb 150x150 Buying Twitter Followers is the new Getting Twitter Followers by Being Witty and Insightful: Newt Gingrinch leads the wayPEOPLE claim that social networks aren’t popularity contests. But some of us know that they are: and that you can win them by paying lots of money. Republican Presidential candidate Newt Gingrich is showing the way.

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Posted: 5th, August 2011 | In: Technology | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0


Twitter And Facebook Toddlers Are Future Daily Mail Writers And BBC Experts

BYLINE writers, nodding heads, football show experts, Question Time panelists, MPs and anyone who insists on using a title listen up:

Facebook and Twitter have created a generation obsessed with themselves, who have short attention spans and a childlike desire for constant feedback on their lives, a top scientist believes. Repeated exposure to social networking sites leaves users with an ‘identity crisis’, wanting attention in the manner of a toddler saying: ‘Look at me, Mummy, I’ve done this.’

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Posted: 1st, August 2011 | In: Technology | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0


Flamboyant Hacker Topiary aka Jake Davis was Agoraphobic, Clever, Quiet & Withdrew After A Family Death

Flamboyant hacker Jake Davis, who now facing 10 years in prison, was a “clever, quiet” boy who developed a fear of open spaces and withdrew from school and friends after a family member died while he was in his early teens  according to a woman who claimed to know him.

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Posted: 1st, August 2011 | In: News, Technology | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0


Shetland Hacker Named: Jake Davis Liked Playing Online Chess, God.

topiary 21 150x150 Shetland Hacker Named: Jake Davis Liked Playing Online Chess, God.The Shetland teen arrested for the LulzSec hacking has been named as Jake Davis an online chess fanatic and a resident of Yell, one of the northernmost islands in the Shetlands with a population of 957 at the last census.

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Posted: 1st, August 2011 | In: Key Posts, Technology | Comments (4) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0


Facebook Bans Nirvana’s Naked Baby: Presenting The 20 Best Child-Unfriendly Album Covers Of All Time

nevermind Facebook Bans Nirvanas Naked Baby: Presenting The 20 Best Child Unfriendly Album Covers Of All TimeARGH! The world is filled with sexual predators! Leave your child alone for 2 seconds with a computer, and betchabygollywow! they’ll be immediately whisked away by some dirty fella in a stained raincoat.

That’s the world we live in, so we’re told.

However, that doesn’t stop everyone from being so very, very jumpy about everything concerning nudity and children. And this includes Facebook who, for reasons that don’t make any sense at all, have decided to censor the front cover of Nirvana’s ‘Nevermind‘ album.

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Posted: 27th, July 2011 | In: Key Posts, Technology | Comments (2) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0


Footballer Tweets about Smashing Wife’s Back Doors in, Mum-in-law Laughs, American Accuses Everyone of Sodomy

LEICESTER City footballer Paul Gallagher has reminded everyone just how refreshingly open Twitter can be by signing up and posting this little gem as his second tweet ever:

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Posted: 27th, July 2011 | In: Technology | Comment (1) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0


NHS Wants You To Skype Gran in Hospital, is Google + Next for the Infirm?

44 grandma computer 300x199 NHS Wants You To Skype Gran in Hospital, is Google + Next for the Infirm?AN NHS hospital in Maidenhead has suggested that visitors Skype their relatives in the wards instead of coming in to visit them everyday. 

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Posted: 22nd, July 2011 | In: Technology | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0


Dutch Railway Station’s Transfer Accelerator Is A Slide Into The Future

transfer accelerator Dutch Railway Stations Transfer Accelerator Is A Slide Into The FutureTHERE’S a slide at the Overvecht Station in Holland. Only the slide is called a “transfer accelerator“. It allows commuters to reach the train faster.

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Posted: 21st, July 2011 | In: Technology | Comments (4) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0