Kingston admits some USB sticks can be hacked Kingston Technologyhas issued a highly unusual warning that several of its supposedly secure encrypted USB drives can be hacked. The precise nature of the hack has not been disclosed, but the company named named three drive models, the DataTraveler BlackBox, the DataTraveler Secure – Privacy Edition, and the DataTraveler Elite – Privacy Edition, as being vulnerable to “a skilled person with the proper tools and physical access to the drives”....

10 technologies we’ll miss when they’re gone As tech speeds inexorably forward, many gadgets and services will be left in heaps on the roadside. Problem is, we’ll truly miss some of them. Technology moves so quickly, that gadgets introduced today and usually obsolete within in a few years, in favour of new improved items. But we don’t necessarily think change is always a good thing. Here are 10 tech items whose days are numbered, and we’re going to miss them all – though some more than others – when they’re gone....

Broadband Survey 2009: 14 best UK ISPs Frustrating at times but impossible to live without, web access is too vital to settle for sub-standard service. PC Advisor analyses what 6,500 of you had to say about your broadband experiences, which ISPs are best, and how to get cheaper broadband. Web access seems to have bucked the trend for belt-tightening in these tough economic times, having become a near-necessity rather than a luxury....

Free PDF reader Foxit hits 70m downloads Foxit Reader, a free PDF-reading competitor to Adobe Reader has won what its maker estimates is 70 million users worldwide because of its speed and light weight. The latest version of Foxit Reader 3.0 for Windows is a svelte 3MB download, compared with Adobe Reader 9.1 for Windows, which tips the scales at 25MB. And Foxit now has something else going for it: better security....

World of Warcraft blocked in China The relaunch of the popular online game World of Warcraft in China, where it has already been offline for six weeks, still faces an indefinite delay as it awaits government approval for its content. Problems for Blizzard Entertainment, the game’s creator, started when it switched to a new local operator for World of Warcraft in China, online gaming company NetEase. New operators of foreign games have to submit the games for government approval, and China has objected to some of the content it found in its latest review of World of Warcraft....