Surpising Football and Internet Bugs

First up, what a shock the results have been for most football followers this year. No sooner had Spain lost to Portugal and not gone through to the next round, than so did Germany to the Czech Republic. As if that wasn't enough, England got knocked out before the semi-finals by Portugal, and France by Greece. Whatever next?

Although, to be fair, Germany did manage to win something. Yes, they became the country with the most number of porn sites in their domain name space. Congratulations :)

Now for something a bit more serious. A bug in the Internet Explorer web browser has been found (and not yet patched) that allows backdoors to be installed on PCs, steals passwords, credit-card numbers and uses it to relay spam and to hack other computers from. And thinking that it doesn't affect you because you're not stupid enough to open email attachments nor to visit 'alternative' websites won't get you anywhere, as the malicious code has been injected onto many important websites, including those of search engines, banks, online shops etc.
The statements of the security companies makes it clear, by recommending users use another browser instead of IE (like Mozilla Firefox, for example). Take action now !

And on an ending note, I just thought I'd say a late Happy Birthday to Sophia, who celebrated on the 13th June. For those of you from the Erasmus year 2000/01 you will remember her as the blonder of the two english girls :)

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