David Matoušek is running a poll on his site and has over 6,000 votes. Feel free to vote on your favorite firewall (even if it’s not ours!). Link here, on the front page.

The Register reports that the first and only international treaty designed exclusively to combat computer crime won approval last week from the US Senate.“The Council of Europe Convention on Cybercrime "will enhance our ability...

Absolut vodka has won the rights to a domain name belonging to an escort agency. The World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) has transferred the rights to absolut-escort.com to Absolut's owner, V&S Vin&Spirit AB...

Security vendors, anxious to get the advance word on potential holes in their commercial software products, are compensating researchers and other third parties in cash for exploits that they discover, according to CMP...

A police employee has been found guilty of using police systems to pass on information about a policeman to his jilted lover. Jacqueline Rooney breached the Data Protection Act, the criminal appeals court found.The judgment...

I was interested to read over the weekend that a significant surge in the sales of Apple Macs has resulted in increasing volumes of malware targeting the Mac starting to appear.Last month saw Apple report that sales of Mac...

So - here are ten common reasons why people get spam together with a few practical tips to avoid getting spam.1. When they receive an email with a little GIF file attachment – they click on the GIF file to see the pretty picture...

By the time you read this post, the advert for a ‘Picture of Heart with an attached pikture of DESKTOP PC’ will have disappeared from Ebay.co.uk.The ‘please-I-am-dying-send-money’ kind of scam has been long restricted to email...

Win4Lin, desktop and enterprise Windows-on-Linux solutions provider, announced that the company's Win4Lin Pro product would now be compatible with Linspire Five-0 and is available, along with the Win4Lin 9x product, immediately...

Ok, this service is getting very cool. Meebo, the universal IM client that works through the web, just released a widget. I’m testing it on the blog for a brief time — feel free to try it — it’s on the right side of the page...

Nearly 20 percent of Internet telephone test calls experienced unacceptable call quality over the last 18 months, according to data collected from TestYourVoIP.com, a free, voice quality testing portal that enables consumers to...

Big reorg at Microsoft. And this is interesting: Dave Cutler, the father of NT (and arguably one of the greatest operating systems geniuses of all time) is now going off to work with Ray Ozzie on Live. From Paul Thurrott:

Latest corp blog: Yahoo. Great name — yodel.yahoo.com'

Dice Inc. announced the results of the first Dice Tech Appeal Index, a semi-annual survey of professionals from the technology industry that gauges the overall interest in working in the IT field as compared to other...

Some of the biggest names in internet search have agreed to try to tackle the growing problem of click fraud, the online advertising scam that costs advertisers millions of dollars a year.In the aftermath of a $90 million...

I don’t usually post (or forward) the usual YouTube crap, but this is short and hilarious. Link here via John Paczkowski.

It is often said that physical security is one of the first considerations in a layer defence model. In this case we are talking about how all servers, routers, switches and hubs should be physically protected by, for example,...