Cybercrime threatens Internet economy
Government ministers from across the world have issued a call for greater vigilance against cybercrime at the close of meeting on the future of the Internet economy, says Computing.co.uk.
The Seoul Declaration came at the end of a two-day ministerial conference on the future of the Web in the South Korean capital hosted by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
OECD member countries, the European Community and ministers from Chile, Egypt, Estonia, India, Indonesia, Israel, Latvia, Senegal and Slovenia affirmed the declaration.
Turkish hacker tips Photobucket
Photobucket, the popular photo sharing Web site, became the target of a DNS hack on Tuesday, reports The Register.
As a result of the attack, some (but not all) surfers hoping to check out pictures were involuntarily redirected to a greeting from hacker NetDeliz and a message in Turkish.
A post to Photobucket's user forum blamed the problem on "an error in our DNS hosting services". It stressed that users' personal information was not affected by the redirection.
Verizon speeds up fibre-optic Internet
Verizon Communications is boosting the speed of its FiOS fibre-optic Internet service in 10 states, says The Associated Press.
The FiOS service areas of California, Delaware, Indiana, Maryland, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia and Washington will see new plans that nearly double Internet speeds, Chief operating officer Denny Strigl said in remarks to be delivered at a conference Wednesday.
The faster speeds were already available in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, where competition from cable is particularly fierce, and in Florida, Massachusetts and Rhode Island.
Data glitch stops Mars lander
The Phoenix lander stopped digging soil near Mars' north pole Wednesday as engineers on Earth worked to fix a glitch that caused the loss of a day's worth of photos, reports The Associated Press.
The problem was discovered late Tuesday after the spacecraft dug a trench inside a polygon-shaped surface feature that was likely caused by seasonal expansion and shrinking of ice.
The lander beamed back pictures of the trench, but an overload of data prevented it from saving images of the landscape and atmosphere in its flash memory.
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