Internet domain names will be managed independently of the US Government by 2009, according to the US Commerce Department. The European Commission has welcomed the decision.The Commerce Department currently controls the Internet...

A European banking organisation broke privacy rules by allowing the transfer of citizens' transaction details to US authorities, the Belgian privacy protection commissioner has ruled. EU officials may appoint an independent...

SuperJANET5, a world class ICT network for UK education and research operated and developed by UKERNA and supported by JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee), has been launched recently. Following a review of requirements...

Whilst most of Europe's banks are either piloting or planning trials of two-factor authentication devices for their high value retail (i.e. consumer) or business customers, a French bank, BMCE, is trialling card sleeve readers...

What is the best way to plant rogue software inside an organisation? The prevalence of electronic devices is amazing. Stand in any city station during rush hour and you are guaranteed that at least 80% of the people walking by...

JasperSoft Corporation announced the availability of Jasper4Salesforce for salesforce.com's AppExchange. Jasper4Salesforce delivers easy access to advanced reporting by building on top of the AppExchange on-demand platform to...

London is the capital of credit card fraud – and that’s official! The latest figures from Early Warning for Cardholder Not Present (CNP) fraud show that Greater London had the largest number of fraudulent transactions in the past...

The folks over at SiteAdvisor have made a video on spyware, called Spyware Rubbernecking. It shows a machine getting infected by WMF exploits and the like, set to opera. Link here.

A controversial broadcast copyright treaty opposed by podcasters and internet broadcasters has been dealt a blow by the General Assembly of the body behind it.The World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO)'s ruling body, the...

“Music should flow freely…there should be an ability to get what you want when you want it…and I’m not sure you’re protecting that much with DRM…I think it puts a lot of obstacles up…the consumer is buying those files, and they...

The general public has been invited to register .mobi domain names a few weeks ago now. As the only top level domain dedicated to delivering Internet content to mobile devices, .mobi sites aim at making the Internet on a mobile...

Broadband value-added services (BVAS) grew strongly during 2005. Whilst revenues from services to residential customers grew by almost 74% during 2005, business revenues increased from $3.7 billion at the beginning of the year to...

Just a little side humor, we’ve had a number of amusing emails from a malware author, Dark Omega. Apparently, we’ve made grave errors in the classification of his product. It starts off with this (edited for clarity, as he’s...

LSI Logic Corporation demonstrated a SAS (Serial Attached SCSI) solution delivering SQLIO benchmarks of greater than 3.2 GB/s throughput.This demonstration allows end users to realize the performance, scalability and quality...

A mother in Florida is reported to be less than impressed when photos she sent from her Cingular network mobile phone appeared to a family member as hard core porn.Kim Admire said she sent MMS photos of her daughter's braces to...