``People are shocked when they hear the cameras talk, but when they see everyone else looking at them, they feel a twinge of conscience and comply,'' said Mike Clark, a spokesman for Middlesbrough Council who recounted the...

The Equal Opportunities Commission (EOC) is yet another organistion which has discovered that smarter working is the way forward for the UK. It is almost repeating the comments made yesterday by the TUC, CBI, Transport for...

From music, photos and movies to games and ring tones, Americans are creating, downloading, sharing and storing more and more digital content every day. According to a new Harris Interactive study conducted for Seagate...

The Scottish Executive was wrong to withhold sensitive documents regarding Scotland's legal profession, Scotland's highest civil court has ruled. The documents must now be released.The information relates to plans to open up the...

The Patent Office has rejected Sony's appeal to patent a video recording system because it was computer software, but has said that a claim structured differently could qualify for patenting.The Patent Office originally refusal...

I was mildly amused to see a release from APACS, the bank payments association, advising bank customers to be careful when they visit outside ATMs.Buried in the list of top tips - including being aware of anyone watching you...

Tom Cross, X-Force Advanced Research Team, ISS talks about VoIP Vulnerabilities. From the "Security & Network Administration" Theatre, IP06 Event, Earls Court London, 17th & 18th October 2006. Listen to this interview

The company behind file-sharing software Morpheus has lost its case against Skype and its founders Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis.StreamCast Networks had claimed that it had rights to some of the underlying technology used by...

NeXT Replay has successfully enabled a range of organisations to combat unreasonable customer claims through the implementation of its voice recording solution. The network based voice recording system is an easy and affordable...

Reports from the Indian CERT team have confirmed that the massive rise in phishing attacks in the West is being mirrored by a similar increase in attacks on the Asian sub-continent.According to CERT India, phishing incidents in...

After my blog post earlier today on a Spyware Soft Stop, our Eric Howes made a surprising discovery. Look at this screenshot: As you can see, it found six files and identified them as various types of malware. The problem is, not...

In Pictures has launched a new line of free computer how-to tutorials on OpenOffice.org, available at http://www.inpics.net. There are online tutorials on Base, Calc, Impress, and Writer. The tutorials can be used by anyone, free...

Criminals create e-mails that appear to come from legitimate banks, insurance companies, eBay and so on. Unsuspecting people will click on a web link in the e-mail, which then takes them to a fake web site where they enter their...

A dispute between two software houses remains unresolved after the Court of Appeal refused to rule that one company definitely did not copy the other's software. The ruling does not mean that copying did take place, though.In an...

Silicon.Com reports that phishing attacks have outstripped the number of emails infected with viruses and Trojans for the first time.Reportedly, phishing sites are now using Flash content rather than HTML in an attempt to evade...

The Recovery Point Objective (RPO) describes the point in time to which data must be restored in order to successfully resume processing. This is often thought of as time between last backup and when outage occurred and indicates...

Wireless technology has revolutionised how computer users access information. And this revolution continues in the world of manufacturing. Wireless device networking is the best alternative when it is impractical or cost...