Berners-Lee urges industry to share

Tim Berners-Lee, often described as the inventor of the Internet, said in an interview last week that he hoped the industry would learn from the public sector and realise the benefits of sharing data, says Computing.co.uk.

Berners-Lee is spearheading a government initiative to put state data online so that it can be re-used by developers and private enterprises.

“The value of having government data out there will be huge. Lots of people in and around the UK government really understand the value of linked data. It's really exciting,” he said.

A security researcher has identified a new attack that has infected almost 300 000 Web pages with links that direct visitors to a potent cocktail of malicious exploits, reports The Register.

The SQL injection attacks started in late November and appear to be the work of a relatively new malware gang, says Mary Landesman, a researcher with ScanSafe. Hacked sites contain an invisible iframe that silently redirects users to 318x .com (a space has been added to protect the clueless), which goes on to exploit known vulnerabilities in at least five applications.

At time of writing, this Web search showed more than 294 000 Web pages that contained the malicious script. Infected sites included yementimes .com, parisattitude .com and knowledgespeak .com.

Computer hacker Gary McKinnon is mounting a fresh High Court challenge to stop his extradition to the US, writes the BBC.

Solicitor Karen Todner said papers were lodged with the High Court seeking a judicial review of the home secretary's decision not to block his transfer.

The home secretary has 14 days to respond before a judge considers it.

AT&T, the wireless service provider that has mastered all-you-can-eat monthly service packages for its mobile phone customers, is having second thoughts, states Business Week.

Concerned that some customers are consuming more than their share of data over wireless networks, the company plans to offer some subscribers "incentives" to "reduce or modify their usage" of bandwidth, said AT&T Mobility CEO Ralph de la Vega.

De la Vega didn't specify the company's plans, but said one step will be giving users more information on how much data they've consumed.