New York/Toronto - A spying operation that infiltrated computers - many of them belonging to governments - in 103 countries has been uncovered by a group of Canadian researchers, the New York Times reported Sunday.
Victims of the malicious software, or malware, include computers in: the offices of the Dalai Lama; Tibetan exile centres around the world; NATO headquarters in Brussels; and the Indian embassy to the United States.
In all, 1,295 computers might have been accessed and had documents copied by the system, which the researchers dubbed GhostNet.
Hamburg - High expectations can lead to serious disappointment and PC gamers are all too acquainted with that feeling. Many games that are heavily hyped before hitting stores often turn out to be nothing special at all. That's why flying under the radar can be advantageous sometimes.
Munich - Experts say there's no need to spend a lot of money on expensive programmes for burning CDs and DVDs given the wide range of free disc-burning software available on the market.
Washington - Need a copy of the receipt for an order you placed online? Usually, you get a printable copy from the vendor, but if not, you can save a record for yourself. Just open the File menu of your web browser, click Save As, and put a copy of the file into a folder on your hard drive. Save it as HTML so that when you open it up again, it will look largely the same as it did when you were online.
Unterschleissheim, Germany - Windows PC owners are advised to trash any e-mail messages claiming to provide a fix for flaws in Service Packs 1 and 2.
Hanover - External burners in the slim line format are well suited for any laptop's travel bag. Yet it's important to give some consideration to how the external drives will draw their power, says the Hanover-based computer magazine c't.
