BBC recently did an undercover story uncovering some unscrupulous individuals selling valid UK credit card details. While this is not particularly unusual by itself it turns out the source of the cards was linked to Symantec. The cards details were all acquired after users had just bought Norton subscriptions. A criminal gang selling UK [...]
March 2009
The BBC tech show Click bought a botnet to show how at risk we are for cyber crimes. The botnet consists of 22,000 hijacked PCs around the world and was purchased over the net through a chat room. The Click team will show how effective spamming can be done with a botnet already of [...]
An exhibition put together by some of the Fine Artist of Blackpool and the Fylde BA(hons) Fine Art course. This is a diverse show sampling interesting and visual set of works produced by Danielle Merricks Glen Moyers Vicky Lockwood Stephen Bell Jayne Hudson Salima Beal and Mary Ibison. The work has been made to fit [...]
There has been quite a lot of chatter in the SEO world the past few weeks regarding Google implementing changes to their algorithm to heavily favour branding. Aaron Wall first blogged about the changes when he noticed certain big name brands ranking for competitive terms that had previously never ranked. These jumps in rankings were [...]
