It’s never been easier to stay connected while you’re traveling—just make sure you’re not leaving yourself wide open to snoopers in the process. Check out these tips for staying connected and secure at the same time.
Internet cafés: Always a welcome haven for weary travelers looking for news from home and messages from friends and family, your garden-variety Internet café is also a playground for hackers looking to grab your info. Unlike networks at home or at work, Net cafés networks (be they in the U.S. or abroad) are pretty much wide open, meaning that it’s a cinch for anyone to follow your every click and keystroke—and that includes any usernames, passwords, or messages you send. Read More »
VietNamNet Bridge – Five young men wielding knives forced two gamers to transfer money from their gaming accounts into the knife wielders’. This kind of criminal activity is the first of its kind in Vietnam, and authorities are still not sure how to apply the law.
On the afternoon of February 16, two gamers in Hanoi, Le Chien Thang and Au Hoang Nam, went to an Internet café on Giai Phong road, Hoang Mai district, Hanoi to meet other gamers to make a transaction, in which Thang and Nam would sell products and a volume of money in a computer game called Vo Lam Truyen Ky (Swordman Online) for the price of VND3 million. Read More »
February 12, 2008 – 12:19 pm
China will probably surpass the U.S. as the nation with the most Internet users later this spring, according to statistics recently released by the Chinese government.
The number of Internet users in China rose 53 percent to 210 million at the end of 2007, up from 137 million at the end of 2006, according to the quasi-governmental China Internet Network Information Center. That compares with roughly 215 million Internet users in the U.S.
The Chinese government’s crackdown on political bloggers and censorship of certain Web sites, sometimes dubbed the “Great Firewall of China,” will undoubtedly receive greater attention - and condemnation - as the world focuses on Beijing for the Summer Olympics.
Some Internet analysts expect Web traffic in and out of China will slow this week with greetings and information being exchanged for Chinese New Year, which begins Thursday - like the effect in the U.S. of trying to place a cell phone call or text message near midnight on New Year’s Eve. Read More »
February 5, 2008 – 11:17 am
AN INTERNET café and its occupants were robbed in broad daylight by four still unidentified men at Sumulong Street in Baguio City, a police official said.
Stolen were three computer central processing units, two cell phones, and two wallets containing cash and important documents.
Senior Superintendent Moises Guevarra, chief of the Baguio City Police Office (BCPO), identified the victims in the robbery as Bryan Caras Mangonon, 23, an employee of ZOOOM LM Internet Café located at 4 Sumulong Street; Christian Tomas Castillo, 22, a student and resident of Rimando Road; Junjun Malyongan Agagon, 25; and Kenneth Longangis Oyaan, 18. Read More »
February 3, 2008 – 9:28 am
Media advocacy groups have condemned Burma’s new crackdown on Internet freedom after the military regime reportedly arrested a wellknown blogger in Rangoon.
Nay Myo Latt was taken into custody on Wednesday after writing about the suppression of freedoms since last September’s prodemocracy demonstrations, Reporters Without Borders and the Burma Media Association said.
The blogger, owner of three Internet cafes and a member of Aung Sun Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD), was arrested at his home in Rangoon’s Thingangyun district, the groups said in a release.
Writing under a pseudonym on his website www.nayphonelatt.blogspot.com, Nay Myo Latt wrote poems and stories relating indirectly to politics.
He is the first blogger to be arrested, according to the editor of The Irrawaddy, an independent Burmese publication based in Chiang Mai.
“In the past there were crackdowns on the media, but it seems to me this is the first official case related to blogging,” Aung Zaw said. “Photographers and a blogger have been briefly detained in the past, but it’s never been this serious.” Read More »
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