Apparently for the third time in under a fortnight, the Web site of the Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's Workers Party was hacked into last week.The incident was the third in just ten days, party supporters say,...

The chairman of a UK online gambling business has been arrested in the US. Peter Dicks of Sportingbet has been arrested just weeks after the US arrest of Betonsports chief executive David Carruthers.Sportingbet requested that its...

A social networking website has agreed to pay a $1 million fine to settle with authorities over allegations that it collected, used and disclosed personal details of children under 13.Xanga and its founders, Marc Ginsberg and...

Celebrities are getting younger. Suri Cruise, five-month-old daughter of Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes, was yesterday's Vanity Fair cover star in the US and already has a global reputation. An academic today questions her image...

Postini identified new IM threats including Prokeylogger, which logs the keystrokes typed by the user, captures passwords and screenshots, and sends them to identity thieves. They found a 160 percent increase over June in instant...

The US division of AOL, fresh from opening up its portal to all comers who register, is under fire for its client software (AOL 9.0), which is used by its subscription dial-up and broadband users.According to StopBadware.org, a...

Earlier we showed Microsoft’s security solutions being pushed in Vista. Now we see the same thing in Exchange 2007 (beta 2), right from the console, thanks to some pictures forwarded to me by a faithful blog reader. In this...

new fake code site, movscodec(dot)com, hosted (not surprisingly) by the infamous Intercage/AtrivoThese fake codecs are bad news and this one is no better. A user recently told us:“This disgusting program installed itself when I...

A piece of software which allows a user to track another person's mobile phone use would be almost impossible to use in the UK without breaking the law, according to a surveillance law expert.Flexispy is the controversial...

I looked at some Torrent stats lately, for the fun of it and found a few bits . First, there happens to be negative leechs, which should not exist (you can't have -1 apples, can you?) and that one torrent has more than two...

VIA has launched a motherboard so small, you would be able to fit two of them on an A4 sheet. The EPIA EK-Series targets a new generation of network based ultra compact digital media appliances and boasts a maximum power...

Dialogue Communications is launching the Payforit solution for mobile payments on the Vodafone and Orange networks here in UK. Payforit is a payment framework agreed by the UK mobile operators and the company is planning to offer...

Forrester released a 14-pages report on Open source, called "Open Source Becoming Mission-Critical In North America And Europe". Written by Michael Goulde with Michael Speyer and Jacqueline Stone, it shows that a majority (around...