Introducing a new website PhishTank which is a collaborative clearing house for data and information about phishing on the Internet. It also provides an open API for developers and researchers to integrate anti-phishing data into their applications at no charge.
If you receive any email or link, well this is the service that you can use to verify it before you continue with the transaction.
The service also uses Google's mapping technology to help literacy organisations find each other, and provides links to reading resources.
Google embarked two years ago on a massive project to digitally scan all of the world's books, a plan that has been embraced by some publishers and pilloried by others who consider it copyright violation. A group of them have filed a lawsuit against Google in the United States.
(Source: CNN Tech, Oct 4th)Questions:
How does this website beneficial to us, as a student?
GENEVA: Manchester United star Wayne Rooney has won the right to a Web site address including his name.
Ownership of the www.waynerooney.com domain name must be handed to the England forward and his management company, a UN intellectual property panel ruled on Friday.
The domain name was registered in 2002 by an actor from Wrexham, England, when Rooney was a 16-year-old player for Everton. Rooney subsequently filed a trademark on his name.
A World Intellectual Property Organization arbitration panel said the present owner had no legitimate interests in using it.
The panel said the owner’s claim that he had registered the domain in order to create a fan site was “a difficult story to swallow.”
The WIPO panel said the current owner acted in “bad faith” when he registered the domain, and that it should be handed over to Rooney within 10 days unless the decision is challenged in a civil court.
The arbitration panel, which was set up in 1999, allows those who think they have the right to a domain to gain control of it without having to fight a costly legal battle or pay large sums of money.
In July, Brazilian football star Ronaldinho successfully defended the right to control the use of his name in Web site addresses.
Other stars who have recently won rulings against so-called “cybersquatters” include Italian international Francesco Totti, England midfielder Joe Cole and Dutch football manager and former player Frank Rijkaard. – AP
Beware - you may face the same issue if you become famous one day. Better register your own domain name now.
“If parents think playing online games is bad, they should honestly ask themselves what they did as youths to entertain themselves when there were no computer games,” said Jeffery Wong, 31, a cybercafe owner.
“I bet they were involved in activities that were not that much more productive either, and probably a lot more dangerous,” he said, recalling his adventurous days of swimming in ex-mining pools when he was a teenager.
“It also provides job opportunities. I know many people who didn’t get to complete school, but because of online games, they’re able to survive and earn a decent living doing something they like,” Wong said.
“And what’s so bad about making money from playing games? It’s not like it’s illegal,” said Leon Jalleh, 27, a cybercafe operator.
“If kids are learning how to earn money by pursuing their interest, their parents should be proud of them instead!”
“It’s better than having them waste money loitering in shopping malls, or worse, get involved in drugs or criminal gangs,” he added.
Jalleh said cybercafes were also comparatively healthier than other entertainment avenues, such as nightclubs.
“You won’t find drugs or alcohol in cybercafes, and most don’t even allow smoking nowadays,” he said.
Jalleh told The Star that it was possible to earn several thousand ringgit a month by trading virtual items or helping other gamers improve their avatars.
“It is a good way to bond with friends and meet new people who share the same interest, plus it’s the cheapest form of entertainment around – definitely much cheaper than clubbing,” said Chris Chong, 26, who meets his friends for game sessions on weekends.
Discussion:
What is your opinion on this issue? Is online games bring more goods or harm?
A group of computer-savvy youth was nabbed recently after scoring a first of sorts for phishing.
Phishing uses email and fake websites to lure Internet users into providing their personal banking details, which are then used to steal from their accounts.
This group of 13 is believed to have conned at least 26 people by using their particulars to steal more than RM36,000 from their accounts in two weeks.
All 26 victims had accounts in one particular local bank and it was the bank that notified police of the fraudulent transfers.
Following the report, police monitored several homes and cybercafes in three states.
After two weeks of checks, they nabbed 13 suspects, including a woman, in Kelantan, Selangor and here.
The suspects, between 18 and 25, have been described as computer experts with several hackers among them.
Commercial Crime Department assistant director ACP Ismail Yatim said four of the suspects were college and university students.
"The 13 are skilled in different areas and they joined forces to steal confidential data from unsuspecting victims.
"The losses reported may have been bigger if the bank had not been alert in detecting the fraudulent transfers."
Police believe this may only be the tip of the iceberg as more reports were expected.
It was learnt that several of the suspects had the ability to hack into the computer systems of leading firms in the city. Checks revealed that the group used a foreign server and police were trying to ascertain if they had international connections.
The group preyed on those who used Internet banking, sending account holders emails asking them to update their accounts.
In that same email, links would be available for the victims to click on and a new web page would open revealing a web site similar to the bank’s internet login site.
The unsuspecting victims would login, unknowingly giving their usernames and passwords, which would be sent to a decoy website set up by the group.
Using the confidential information, the group would access the victims’ accounts and transfer funds to another account before it is withdrawn.
"We believe there are still groups out there actively involved in such scams," Ismail said.
He urged account holders to check with their banks upon receiving notifications to update their accounts.
Meanwhile, four people were cheated by a group, which sent them text messages claiming they had won cash prizes and obtained their bank account details.
They then made online withdrawals totalling RM7,000.
The group had imitated a similar group of scam artists, who had cheated 36 fans of the reality show Akademi Fantasia.
The victims were told to call a phone number and asked to reveal their Internet banking account details, including their pin number, on the pretext of depositing their winnings.
The victims’ accounts were then cleaned out.
Police have so far received four reports — three from Kuala Lumpur and another from Sabah.
