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Creating a 'Facebook for spies'

One might expect James Bond's MySpace page to list shaken martinis, Walther PPKs, and Aston Martins among his interests. Read more »

Wikipedia's neutrality is a 'facade'

An Australian academic has accused Wikipedia of "US-centric bias" over the way the online encyclopaedia's administrators edit user-generated entries. Read more »

Cyber-extortion on the rise, warns Schneier

Noted security expert, Bruce Schneier, has declared that cyber-extortion is on the rise, but has warned importantly that it mainly affects "fringe" industries such as online gambling, rather than critical national infrastructure and other major organisations. Read more »

Cyberattack caused multiple-city power failure

The CIA has said that a cyberattack caused a power blackout in multiple cities in a country outside the US. Security training body the Sans Institute reported the CIA's disclosure on Friday. Read more »

US Senate moves to legalise 'illegal NSA spying'

Google, Yahoo, MSN along with other search and e-mail companies may no longer be acting illegally if they spy on their customers and then share that information with the National Security Agency. Read more »

John Howard's team revise history on Wikipedia

A tool used to discover the source of changes in Wikipedia has uncovered edits made by a number of Australian government organisations, including the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet and Department of Defence. Read more »

CIA and Vatican alter Wikipedia entries

The CIA and the Vatican have made alterations to Wikipeda entries, according to a US hacker's homemade program that detects the source of edits to the online encyclopedia. Read more »

Aust journo saved by a Google search

The Australian journalist kidnapped by Iraqi militants, John Martinkus, never thought that the search engine Google would one day save his life. Read more »

Features (3)

Script Table definitions using TSQL

Generating scripts in SQL Server using TSQL has never been easy. This article will show you how you can use TSQL in SQL Server 2005 code to script a table's definition. Read more »

Running totals in SQL Server queries

This article demonstrates how running totals are simple to create in SQL Server queries once you understand the requirements. Read more »

W3C standards: The relationship between RDF and Topic Maps

In this article we analyse the background of both the the Resource Description Framework (RDF) and Topic Maps standards and their interoperability. Read more »

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Ellison reflects on Oracle history

At Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco, CEO Larry Ellison shares his insights into the company's 30-year history, including its contract with the CIA to build the first commercial relational database. Read more »

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This week's news regex: Open[A-Za-z]+

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- If there were announcements to be made this week, many of the usual suspects chose Oracle's OpenWorld conference in San Francisco as the place to make them. Read more »

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