On the ongoing saga of Spamaus vs. David Linhardt, life is a bit better.From SecuriTeam:The proposed order is limited to only the first remedy, suspension of the domain name by The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and...

Telecoms and media regulator Ofcom will change the rules governing premium rate phone services to include mobile based services next month, it has said. It is making the change to clear up what it calls ambiguity in the current...

Fancy the sunshine, love the sand, and live to surf? If so, it might be time to pack your things and head “down under.”A series of large-scale IT projects have prompted the Australian Government to add a number of positions to...

Research into the adoption and use of VoIP and convergence shows that there is a spectrum of benefits to be gained. Peter Hall looks at the evidence for productivity and performance improvements from IP communications as well as...

It starts with the external connection. The old dial-up problems of losing the phone service when on-line to the office has dissolved into second lines, cable access and broadband filters. The new problem area is more likely...

The internet is a dangerous tool of radical ideologies, according to the US Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff. He said that last summer's attacks on London was an example of a domestic terrorist threat in...

It seems that some IT security firms are less than pleased with Microsoft and the way it has handled IT security features in its new Vista operating system.The problem, it seems, stems from the fact that Vista is a 64-bit...

Amazon, Google, Quanta, Gigabyte, Asus, Foxconn, Yahoo, AOL, IBM, Intel .... These are all companies that have undergone or are rumoured to undergo tera-merging in a not-so distant future.The ten companies mentioned are all...

Part 1 of the article was published yesterday. The following answers must be construed generally as personal opinions and preconceptions, and not in any shape or form an official BBC position. Michael Sparks does not speak for...

Atalum Wireless launched its enterprise system, GREENoperator, providing the necessary functionality for commissioning, managing and maintaining any ZigBee network.GREENoperator comprises multiple components for configuring and...

Do you have important data on your company’s laptops? Would it be a serious problem if that data landed in the wrong hands? Are you aware of the potentially significant costs of even a single data loss including negative...

Microsoft has released a set of privacy guidelines for developers. Failing to protect customer privacy can lead to an erosion of trust. Over the last several years, Microsoft has established extensive internal guidelines for...

A leading security expert has admitted that the problem of ID theft is going to get worse before it gets better. At least in the US.The problem, says Robert Siciliano, is the rising level of illegal immigration in the US and a...

Following on from the blog I did a while back on data theft from Indian call centres this piece here, highlighted on the Beeb’s web site, shows how the problem is rearing its head in UK based operations.With high staff turnover...

I bank with HSBC's retail (consumer) and business banking services. Earlier this month I was locked out from my personal e-banking and telephone banking service because of a security alert flag being raised on my retail bank...

Now, if I type something that I am more likely to be interested in, such as "saving for retirement", I get 24,400,000 results from Google, 6,160,000 from Yahoo and 2,551, 184 from MSN. Great - somewhere in there is...