Despite all the slagging off of Microsoft in the last few weeks about the software giant we all love to hate refusing to allow third-party access to the Vista kernel code, Symantec has managed to upgrade its IT security software...

The former chief executive of one of the world's leading computing companies has been sentenced to 12 years in jail for committing securities fraud. Sanjay Kumar of Computer Associates, aged 44, has also been fined $8...

If companies are going to make the most of the business opportunities offered by IP Telephony, they need a comprehensive strategy for process, organisational and people changes as well as technology. Drawing on his company’s...

A combined flash drive memory stick and data logger that outsmarts commercial products is the lead construction project in the new November issue of Elektor Electronics magazine.The design offers a choice of memory cards, two...

After devoting the effort to define good policies and implementing consistent security processes and infrastructure, many organizations are lulled into a false sense of confidence.Effective security is a dynamic process that...

"Mobility offers major opportunities for business growth and innovation," said John Gustafson, Computational Scientist SCL Associate Scientist ."The culmination of all the preceding trends, mobility is made possible by the...

Advance fee fraud is a confidence trick in which the target is persuaded to advance relatively small sums of money in the hope of realizing a much larger gain. The most visible form is the Nigerian Letter or 419 fraud, named...

If you’re in Orlando for the CSI conference, a number of Sunbelters (including me) will be wandering the halls — causing inordinate amounts of trouble, of course.

Novell has signed agreements with four white-box PC manufacturers who will globally distribute PCs pre-loaded with SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 from Novell.European manufacturers ETegro Technologies, MAXDATA and Transtec...

Fascinating to hear over the weekend - and even see a BBC e-news report on the subject - that APACS will this week reveal that ATM scams have risen in numbers and volume.The problem, says APACS, is the arrival of criminal gangs...

msystems announced the availability of high-capacity mSIM MegaSIM cards through its Microelectronica subsidiary. In addition to the currently available 128-megabyte, 256-megabyte and 512-megabyte msystems MegaSIM SIM cards,...

Magictaxi is a new search engine with a twist. It gives half of all its profits to charities and uses Yahoo search system to do so. Not only that but it can also look straight into Kelkoo and Wikipedia as well.I like the idea as...

If the world is only two seconds away, what does this mean for business? What do corporations and organizations need to do to survive and thrive?"Today we are in the exact same position as in the 1980s pre-reengineering era, but...