Tag Archives: Europe

Estonia Nets A Big Phish

The Register, quoting AP, says that an Estonian man suspected of plundering millions from hundreds of online bank accounts accounts across Europe was arrested last week. AP reports that the unnamed 24 year-old allegedly used a sophisticated Trojan in order to monitor the keystrokes on victims’ PCs and extract confidential banking passwords that allowed him… Read More »

Sparking The Wi-Fi Revolution

Glancing at the charts on JiWire’s newlook website of the top 10 Wi-Fi countries and cities, I wondered whether it was worth taking a closer look at the figures to see if there’s any conclusions we could draw about the wireless revolution. The figures only include those commercially available hotspots, as far as I can… Read More »

The Wi-Fi Revolution And Smart Homes

It always amazes me how many home Wi-Fi networks there are. I don’t do a lot of sniffing, but wherever I am I take a look and there they are, whether it’s a Jakarta towerblock or rural England. Wi-Fi, it seems, is as commonplace as any other kind of connection. And now market research company… Read More »

The Slow Life

I’m not sure it’s the kind of thing that readers of this blog are interested in, but I’ll flag it anyway: I’ve started up a new, sporadic blog on downshifting/downsizing etc, particularly with reference to a growing movement in Europe towards moving through life at a slower pace. Naturally enough, it’s called Slow Life. Check… Read More »