Category: Technology

A survey conducted by Belgian IT security company, ScanIT, shows many of the world’s computers are "sitting targets" for hackers. Results collected from over 100,000 users of the company’s free online ‘Browser Security Checker’. show almost half (45 per cent) of users to be at "high risk" of a potential hacker attack. Thirty-six per cent […]

Soldiers and rescue workers could soon be using next generation technology to see through walls. Scientists at Cambridge Consultants Ltd – a UK-based independent technology company – have developed a groundbreaking radar device that works like a pair of X-ray specs. This could mean police raiding a house would be able to see who was […]

The ever-changing Internet beast’s most recent fad: the blog, is offering surfers a compelling new way to spend their time and cash, as Mahesh Shantaram discovers… Many of us built our first houses, dealt in property, managed public utilities, and even went to prison for the first time well before we entered our teens. That […]

Pakistan is to launch a fresh offensive against cyber terrorism as concerns grow over national e-security. Pakistan’s Minister for Information Technology, Awais Ahmed Khan Leghari, presented a new policy aimed at countering cyber terrorism last week. He said he was primarily concerned with protecting national government websites from national or international attacks. A committee set […]