Whilst card issuers in the US remain firmly against Chip & PIN, Canada and Mexico have announced plans to phase in the technology on their cards over the next three to four years.Regular readers of this column will be aware...

The Business Software Alliance (BSA) has taken action against five alleged software pirates it says were distributing unlicensed software on internet auction sites.One of the sellers of the software is based in the UK, while two...

The worldwide storage software market experienced its 13th consecutive quarter of year-over-year growth in the fourth quarter of 2006 with revenues of $2.6 billion, a 3.1% increase over the same quarter one year ago. For the full...

‘Acts of theft, fraud and vandalism in the data centre are three times more likely to be an ‘inside job’ than perpetrated by someone who’s unconnected with the company or Centre,’ according to data centre specialists Migration...

In the build up to next week’s “Business Continuity Awareness WeekW which hosts Business Continuity Expo, it may surprise employers to know that 40% of their workforce won’t be turning-up for work if Avian Flu hits the UK, nor...

High street banks are throwing customer information into bins outside their premises in breach of the Data Protection Act, according to privacy watchdog the Information Commissioner.The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has...

Legal experts at Pinsent Masons are giving free legal advice on intellectual property issues on 26th April 2007, the day that marks World Intellectual Property Day (WIPD).Entrepreneurs or established organisations wanting free...

A while back, Paul Laudanski and I started PIRT, a volunteer group dedicated to taking down phishing sites. Paul later evolved PIRT to become MIRT — the Malware Incident Response and Termination group. MIRT broadens the...

The fairness of the domain name system is being undermined by a new practice that turns domain names into commodities for speculative gain, according to the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO), which oversees many...

Falling Leaf Systems, LLC announced the availability of the initial alpha release of their Alky converter software for Linux. While only eight months old, the Alky converter can already convert the Windows Prey Demo to run...

This is why you don’t give in to foreign governments with abysmal human rights records. You just don’t. Moments later, government agents swarm through the front door -- 10 of them, some in uniform, some not. They take Wang...

Lists of credit card numbers, names and addresses are being traded across the internet by criminals involved in ID fraud, it is claimed in a Daily Express report today. Personal indentities and financial information on British...

Nokia phone owners can make free calls to USA landlines and mobiles until March 31 though free calls provider barablu. Barablu already offers free calls on a mobile, PC or PDA between barablu users, who have downloaded the...

Apertio and BEA Systems announced the successful completion of a comprehensive interoperability testing program between Apertio's One-HSS (Home Subscriber Server), and BEA WebLogic® SIP Server. The program is designed to...

3G or Third Generation Wireless systems refers to the developments of the wireless technology, especially in the area of mobile communications. The first generation of mobile technology used a analog voice signaling and the...