Judging from reports on the security forums, it looks like a rootkit piece of malware called Gromozon is infecting hundreds of thousands of PCs around the world.Also known as LinkOptimizer rootkit, the malware was initially...

Scott Nursten, managing director of Network Specialist S2S, sent us a letter highlighting some misunderstandings that cloud the VoIP sector.“VoIP in the business world is greatly misunderstood. Part of this misconception is...

Life is funny! Having just written a special report on the five myths and security flaws of Microsoft EFS, some late breaking news is in that an EFS Trojan has just been found. See the McAfee site for more details.

Google's Brazilian subsidiary has been ordered to disclose data relating to some of its users. The company has until 14th September to comply with the order or will face daily fines of $23,000.Google-owned Orkut is the subject of...

Last week, I had criticized Jan Monsch’s tests on how well antivirus engines detected viruses inside of variants of Word files, since he had relied on a fake EICAR signature for his testing (Jan was trying to see if viruses could...

Computer game adverts could be completely unregulated in the UK. A new class of ads proposed by games giant Electronic Arts may evade regulation under current rules if they are deemed to be 'product placement' by the Advertising...

As reported in a story last week in The Sunday Times focused on the serious threat posed to businesses and other users by Trojans, and RootKits (AKA CrimeWare) have for some time now been impacting end users of systems without...

Only a few days after Browzar, the no-frills high-privacy free Web browser, was released to the pubberlic, it has flown into controversy over the fact that it points users at adverts.According to newswire reports, even though the...

Open source software is free but support is not, except perhaps if you use Qunu or Open Source forums. IBM. the corporate Open Source champion by excellence, is offering paid support for Eclipse and paves the way for others to...

Switching off lights, computers and printers after work and printing on both sides of paper are among 10 simple steps that employees can take at work to cut energy use and protect the environment published by the Trades Union...

Apple previewed Mac OS(R) X version 10.5 Leopard, the sixth major version of Mac OS X, to its third party developers. Leopard, scheduled to ship in spring 2007, offers several new features that few would call 'ground breaking’. ...

More than a third of all Internet users are now blogging or posting to online forums, creating a new message every second. And it's not confined to just the younger generation.Thirty-six percent of home broadband users over 30...

Diagram 1 A by-product of this more secure way of managing servers is the aggregation of server management. As you can see in diagram 1, in addition to providing additional security features, the Intelligent Central Monitoring...