New P2P client aims to shut-out snoopers

Mute is a new peer-to-peer file sharing application that claims to be able to circumvent the measures that the US record industry use to indentify and sue individuals making large collections of music available over the Internet. Mute does this by assigning each user a random, virtual address as well as a standard IP address and by routing downloads over several computers rather than directly between the host and client machine. The combination of both factors - described in detail on the Mute website - should prevent the Recording Industry Association of America and iots snooping software from identifying the precise location of shared files. ...more

Parthus takes mobile Internet access to the max

Parthus has launched MachStream, a powerful hardware-based acceleration platform, after taking over Chicory Systems. It may not sound that exciting when put like that, but you'll appreciate it when you're browsing the Web on your 2.5G or 3G handset. ...more

Hackers deploy code obfuscation techniques

Hackers are employing new methods to hide malicious code away from the attention of security products. Called dynamic code obfuscation, the technique is used by an attacker to hide a malicious payload away from signature-based security products such as anti-virus and web filters. Hackers use different strategies to hid malware including providing each visitor to a malicious site with a different instance of obfuscated malicious code, based on random functions and parameter name changes. ...more

Cool.com - from cash cow to 'virtual ghost town'

Once the most treasured of e-commerce properties, catchy dot-com names are no longer the cash cows that they once were. Take the case of Timothy Lee, owner of the once highly-desirable Cool.com. ...more

Mozilla adds spam filtering

Spam filtering has been introduced in the latest version of the email component of the Mozilla Web software. With some initial 'training' - letting the software know which messages you classify as junk - the client can identify and segregate spam messages from good messages. More information on how this works is available in Mozilla Spam Filtering. ...more