Although Google's decision to reinvent the wheel when it comes to digital rights management (DRM) and its new video download service, the company does have some useful applications and services.I'm particularly pleased with...

The weakest link in computing has been, and will always be, humans. You can keep on adding as many security features as you want, but there will always be someone there to mess up the system. Evidence for this can be found in two...

The identities of more than 50,000 people who registered on the Web site of Atlantis, a major Bahamian resort, have leaked, the resort admitted earlier this week.Kerzner International, owner of the luxury 2,300-room resort on...

“Wake up, you sleepwalkers” is the title of the cover story in this month’s SC Magazine and it highlights a very real and growing concern amongst some security analysts. This concern is that security is worse than it was 20 years...

Apple’s unveiling of the first Intel-based Macs, combined with news that neither it nor Microsoft will block users from loading Windows onto the new machines, has provoked a good deal of interest.Running Windows on Macs would...

Silicon reports that spammers appear to have found a new target of choice for 2006 - bombarding internet message boards with unprecedented ferocity.The amount of message board spam has been escalating dramatically since mid-2005,...

Microsoft has been working hard, very hard indeed at re-engineering many of its products to cope with the demands of the 21st Century. Their flagship database product, SQL Server, has not escaped the overhaul, and today we now...

One of the longest running soap operas in IT over recent years has been the supposed rise, or non-rise, of open source software and solutions. Open source, for anyone living on the moon or still using a Commodore 64 as their...