Hackers Crack Layered Tech Database

Dedicated hosting company Layered Technologies is advising customers to reset account logins after an incident Monday night in which hackers were able to access a client support database. Layered Tech said it doesn't believe that any customer credit card numbers were compromised, but is nonetheless advising customers to change the login credentials on all their servers and underlying services created in the past two years, including webmail, SSH access, MySQL databases and cPanel reseller control panels.


Netcraft: Hackers Crack Layered Tech Database

Salary survey: IT pay falls short

Typical raises beat national rate of inflation, bringing average base pay to $86,700. Yet network professionals aren’t happy with their salary packages, our annual survey finds.

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Find Out If Your Computer Is Secretly Connecting to the Web

* Type cmd in your Windows Run box.
* Type "netstat -b 5 > activity.txt" and press enter.
* After say 2 minutes, press Ctrl+C.
* Type "activity.txt" on the command line to open the log file in notepad (or your default text editor)


Windows: Find Out If Your Computer Is Secretly Connecting to the Web - Lifehacker

A new way to pay in the UK

Contactless cards such as the OnePulse recently launched by Barclays can be used to "wave and pay" for low cost items.

A new way to pay in the UK | Video | Reuters.com

Canadian police detain Nigerian in alleged 419 scam

Canadian police detain Nigerian in alleged 419 scam

A Nigerian national who had been living in Canada was taken into custody by Winnipeg police in connection with a West African email scam alleged to have bilked an 84-year old man of $30,000.

Toluwalade Alonge Owolabi, 36, of Toronto, was charged with fraud in excess of $5,000

Canadian police detain Nigerian in alleged 419 scam | The Register

Quechup is rotten: don't accept invites

Quechup is rotten: don't accept invites

While you were Burning / vacationing / spacing out offline this Labor Day weekend, many folks online were hit with invitations from a social networking service called Quechup that violates your address book, and abuses user trust by spamming all your contacts.

Quechup is rotten: don't accept invites - Boing Boing

Winfrey turns it on for Obama

Oprah Winfrey was rolling out the red carpet for Barack Obama and the high-wattage stars invited to a gala "celebration" expected to raise $US3 million ($3.6 million) for the Democratic presidential candidate.

The most powerful woman in show business was celebrating her favourite candidate at her palatial estate in this coastal enclave south of Santa Barbara yesterday. Tickets to the sold-out private event went for $US2300 apiece, keeping them within campaign finance limits.

Stevie Wonder was scheduled to perform for the guests, who were expected to include actors Will Smith, Jamie Foxx and Halle Berry. As the presidential hopeful was preparing for his fundraiser, former president Bill Clinton was contemplating a possible return to the White House as "first laddie" if his wife, senator Hillary Clinton, were elected president.

The Australian, News from Australia's National Newspaper