MPAA vice president Michael O'Leary made the battle against movie pirates sound downright patriotic.

"The key foundation of American industry, the expectation that hard work and innovation is rewarded, is imperiled when thieves, whether online or on the street, are allowed to steal America's creative products and enrich themselves along the way.".

From the end of last year, the time-travel themed drama is becoming more and more popular.

"The time-travel drama is becoming a hot theme for TV and films. But its content and the exaggerated performance style are questionable. Many stories are totally made-up and are made to strain for an effect of novelty. The producers and writers are treating the serious history in a frivolous way, which should by no means be encouraged anymore."

One interesting result of this work is that the folks at the Electronic Frontier Foundation have discovered that there are tens of thousands of legitimate certificates issued by CAs for unqualified names such as "localhost" or "Exchange," a practice that could simplify some forms of man-in-the-middle attacks.

"In the Observatory we have discovered many examples of CA-signed certificates unqualified domain names. In fact, the most common unqualified name is 'localhost', which always refers to your own computer! It simply makes no sense for a public CA to sign a certificate for this private name."

Critics are accusing the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), owner of the severely damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station, of understating the scale of the crisis it faced early on, and failing to call in outside help that might have avoided the current and ongoing leakage.

Though outsiders were initially sympathetic to TEPCO, the consensus is now that it should have been more open about the situation, and sought international help and advice earlier.

According to Mozilla, "installing 10 add-ons will double Firefox's start-up time." In some cases poorly written add-ons can slow down the browser even more.

The slower start-up times make Firefox look bad, even if add-ons are responsible, which is why Mozilla is launching a new effort to improve Firefox add-ons.

To help speed up what many consider the best part of Firefox, Mozilla is reaching out to developers of slow add-ons and asking them to work on performance. The company has updated its Performance Best Practices for add-on developers and is encouraging developers to optimize their code.

"The internet makes it much easier than in the past to find information about Satanism," said Carlo Climati, a member of the university who specialises in the dangers posed to young people by Satanism.

While the number of genuine cases of possession by the Devil remained relatively small, "we must be on guard because occult and Satanist practices are spreading a great deal, in part with the help of the internet and new technologies that make it easier to access these rituals," he said.

Heavy fighting is taking place in Ivory Coast's main city, Abidjan, for a third day as rival forces battle for power.

Residents of Abidjan say they are too afraid to leave their homes as the fighting continues. Many report running out of food, with all shops closed and widespread looting.

Aid agencies have warned repeatedly that civilians were being subjected to major violence.

West Africa's second biggest economy has been brought to its knees by the conflict, which has sent global cocoa prices spiralling upwards.

Upon further examination, however, the allegations appear to be incorrect. Samsung is claiming that the result is simply a false positive.

After Samsung made its claim, security software company F-Secure went a step further, and demonstrated that VIPRE will indeed identify a directory named C:WindowsSL as StarLogger - even if the directory is empty.

Neither Hassan nor NetworkWorld, who published his claims, provided any evidence beyond the directory name; no logging binaries, no logs, no e-mail traffic or screenshots.

Rajib Karim, 31, from Newcastle, was found guilty of attempting to use his job at BA to plot a terrorist attack at the behest of Yemen-based radical cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, a leader of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsular.

The single-letter substitution cipher they used was invented by the ancient Greeks and had been used and described by Julius Caesar in 55BC.

"The case just dealt with shows where we have got to in the real world. The level of cryptography they used was not even up to the standards of cryptology and cryptography in the Middle Ages, although they made it look pretty using Excel."

A security researcher says he discovered keylogging software installed on two brand-new Samsung laptops that could be used to monitor all activities on the computer remotely.

Eventually, a supervisor got on the phone and confirmed that Samsung put the software on the laptop to monitor machine performance "and to find out how it is being used."

The incident could incur the wrath of customers similar to the backlash that occurred after Sony BMG Music Entertainment sold copy-protected compact discs that installed so-called rootkit software hidden inside computers in 2005.