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10 July 2008
Future on the line for regionals
Regional papers are turning to the net for their future revenue streams, as they haemorrhage advertisers from their print editions amid growing economic uncertainty.

7 July 2008
Mobile journalists to share desks
Mobile journalists, or mojos, face losing their desks as newspapers look to take advantage of mobile technologies, such as laptops and WiFi, to cut down on office real estate.

3 July 2008
Regional star does four million impressions
The web offering of Britain's biggest-selling regional evening newspaper, the Express & Star, has reached a new milestone by breaking through the four million barrier for monthly page impressions.

30 June 2008
Journalists should take blogging seriously
Too few journalists treat blogging seriously and are failing to grasp the truth that the blogging revolution is threatening the established order of journalism, according to Guardian media commentator, Roy Greenslade.

26 June 2008
BBC wants Ł800,000 local video kitty
The BBC has unveiled plans for an £800,000 fund to source local video content from outside the organisation, as part of a £68 million investment in its local network.

23 June 2008
Mail posts first-class online figures
Mail Online has leapfrogged Telegraph.co.uk to become the most popular online national newspaper, according to the latest Audit Bureau of Circulation Electronic (ABCe) statistics.

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22 May 2007

One in ten websites have a dark side

Google has revealed that 10% of websites have a dark side and contain malicious code that could infect a user's PC.

Research by the search engine found pages on websites were capable of launching so-called ‘drive-by downloads’ which are capable of installing programs such as spyware.

It found the ‘drive-by downloads’ when it surveyed billions of websites and subjecting 4.5 million pages to what it called in-depth analysis. Of those, around 450,000 had the programs which are becoming an increasingly common way to infect a computer or steal sensitive information.

The vast majority of ‘drive-by downloads’ exploit vulnerabilities in Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser to install themselves when a potential victim visits a booby-trapped website.

Some downloads, such as those that alter bookmarks, install unwanted toolbars or change the start page of a browser, are an annoyance.

But, increasingly, criminals are using ‘drive-by downloads’ to install keyloggers that steal login and password information. Other pieces of malicious code hijack a computer turning it into a bot (a remotely controlled PC).

Google is now in the process of mapping the threat and, as part of its place in the StopBadware coalition, is already warning users about visiting potentially harmful websites.