Interesting story on the New Zealand newswires over the weekend about The Computer Society rejecting a suggestion that PC sales and repair shops needing to be registered by the Police.According to the NZ newswires, stores in...

A survey, published by First Direct, revealing that more than a third of British workers now work outside traditional working hours has been heralded by Work Wise UK as yet another demonstration that the nature of work across the...

The English Premier League, the top football division in England, has sued YouTube for copyright infringement. The case is the latest by a major rights owning business against the Google-owned video sharing site.The Football...

A panel of leading experts are warning that as financial institutions rush to comply with the EU’s Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID) 1st November deadline, security risks are in danger of being overlooked,...

A European Parliament vote on mobile phone roaming charges has been postponed because the three EU governing bodies cannot agree on a compromise deal. The plan would cap voice call charges for calls made within the EU.A vote...

The growth of Secure Sockets Layer virtual private networks (SSL VPNs) has accelerated in the last 12 months due to greater awareness among users of the commercial advantages, better marketing which focuses on benefits rather...

A router is a device on the network or sometimes software that determines that destination of a network packet and is be connected to atleast two networks. It determines the way send each information packet based on its current...

IP network level threats are faced by all IP applications. For the last 10 or more years the IP security industry has been building Firewalls to protect web, email and other application servers from flooding attacks, malformed...

I was mildly amused to read that the Angry Young Hackers, a hacker group from Sweden have hacked into The Pirate Bay (TPB), the well-known BitTorrent indexing site.According to the UPI newswire, the hackers have stolen a database...

From Microsoft Watch: “Users running certain configurations of Windows XP Service Pack (SP) 1 beware: That pesky Zotob worm that hit Windows 2000 users last week could affect your systems, too. This week, Microsoft issued a new...

Open source innovator and SNORT creator, Sourcefire, Inc., and Insecure.Org, the creator of the Nmap Security Scanner, today announced a licensing agreement for the parties to jointly develop open source vulnerability scanning...

Remote Management Software SolutionsRemote management software solutions are a popular and cost-effective choice to manage servers remotely, but the limitations of these solutions must also be considered. These solutions are...