It's very rare that I get annoyed with my fellow journos, but I am incredibly angry with the behaviour of the BBC over the arrest of a 37-year-old man - apparently an ex-special constable and team leader at Ipswich Tescos.I am,...

Gromozon, just about the nastiest piece of malware/spyware we’ve ever seen, dropped off the radar recently (I had described it in an interview with Search Security as a piece of malware that “drips blood”). However, it’s...

Senders of WAP messages to mobile phones can be prosecuted under anti-spam regulations, the Information Commissioner's Office has ruled. The ICO has extended rules to include the increasingly popular medium.The extension of the...

I've just completed a feature on SME security for a well-known IT security magazine and have been amazed at how the cost of security appliances have fallen in the last 12 months.It's now possible to get a unified threat...

German states have postponed a decision on whether or not to ban online gambling. The federal states met today to discuss the plan to outlaw the activity in a move that could destabilise a Europe-wide plan to harmonise...

We have rounded the top 150 Digg articles of 2006 as at 19.12.2006 00 00GMT, looked at the links, the number of comments, the diggs and the topics covered and tortured those stats until they tell us the truth. Fascinating...

Security Outfit Websense Inc. announced the results of its first European study of online Christmas shopping behaviour. The survey found that whilst 75% of online Christmas shoppers were not totally confident about being able to...

Alinean has announced the finding of a new IT spending study, examining overall worldwide IT spending trends and how they will shape 2007 investments in technology solutions.According to the study, which looks at historical...

A world famous Swedish file sharing links site has begun a campaign against a major Swedish internet service provider (ISP) after it blocked access to controversial Russian site Allofmp3.com.In what has become a war of attrition,...

Cymfony, a market influence analytics company, issued a Consumer Opinion and Trends report, "A Blue Christmas for Blu-ray," examining consumer market perception of next-generation high-definition video platforms HD DVD and...

A UK man has been sentenced to 18 months of community service for pretexting, the same activity for which US computer firm Hewlett Packard has just paid out $16.5 million in a settlement with the Californian Attorney...

Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) is a cell relay, network and data link layer protocol which encodes data traffic into small (53 bytes; 48 bytes of data and 5 bytes of header information) fixed-sized cells. This is instead of...

Terra Soft shipped its Yellow Dog Linux v5.0 for Sony's newly announced Playstation 3. Available now from the Terra Soft online Store, the 2 DVD set includes more than 2000 packages for a complete desktop, development, and server...