Marshal Security says that its research team have identified that a total of six botnets are responsible for 85 per cent of the spam in circulation on t'Internet.Three weeks ago, Marshal says it reported the Mega-D botnet was the...

A recent urban report suggests that carrying two handsets could be regarded as a security threat. Doubtless this is an exaggeration as many people use two phones to split calls between office and home, especially as using the...

The infamous interceptions of Royal family’s conversations were a warning for the first generation of mobile users.   Many subsequent conversations were preceded with a warning that they could be tapped or taped with...

No, but seriously. It seems that the popular auction portal played host to a rash of senior police offers, security officers and technology specialists this week.The eBay Red Team security event, which was held at the firm's San...

In another embarrassing episode of (Data) Leaking Britannia, the Home Office has been informed that a laptop containing an encrypted disc and which apparently belonged to the HO has been sold on Ebay.The mishap was uncovered...

In the data related blunder to hit the UK, a laptop that has been sold on Ebay happened to contain data from the Home Office which was fortunately encrypted.The world's biggest auction site sells hundreds of thousands of laptops,...

Google relaunched Google Sites yesterday as the search giant looks to take on Microsoft Sharepoint with a host of free tools.Google Sites is a rebranded Jotspot which Google acquired in 2006. The start-up offered a mix of Wiki...

After pleasing the younger generation of geek developers with the Dreamspark Scheme, UK Microsoft has launched a trio of applications aimed at the UK corporate market. SQL Server 2008, Windows Server 2008, and Visual Studio 2008...

Fortify Software says that buffer overflows are at the heart of a series of hacks against the Facebook and MySpace social networking sites. "A buffer overflow enabled hackers to exploit the Aurigma ActiveX image uploading...

USB flash drives are NAND-type flash memory data storage devices integrated with a USB (universal serial bus) connector. They are typically small, lightweight, removable and rewritable. (USB Memory card readers are also...

Last week Bill Gates (you might have heard of him - used to run a software company as I remember) announced a new Microsoft initiative called DreamSpark. This gives all students (even those unlucky enough to be at places which...

The NEC PlasmaSync 60XC10 has a native screen resolution of 1366 x 768 with a 16:9 aspect ratio. The viewing angles are over 160 degrees and the contrast ratio is 10000:1. Brightness is 1200 cd/m2 with the ability to display 1...

Nvidia had its GeForce 8600 GTS, but that card didn't really perform well enough to measure up similarly priced DX9 cards. On the Radeon side of things, AMD had, well, pretty much nothing. You could buy a cheap, slow DX10-ready...

A lawsuit was granted class-action status by a federal judge surround the accusation that Microsoft financially benefited from promoting PCs are 'Windows Vista Capable' when they could only run 'Vista Home Basic'. During the...

Microsoft, the biggest software manufacturer in the world, has been fine a record $1.4 billion because of its anti-competitive behaviour. The fine comes a few days after Microsoft announced that it would open its environment to...

The demand for data centres (and specifically data storage space) is growing at an exponential rate. As the world moves even more towards an electronic environment, the demands for the management and storage of data increase with...

Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 opens a new market for home PC sales, helping you build and sustain a profitable business with the potential for ongoing service revenue opportunities.Home users are looking for more...

The Plexus 10/100/1000Mbps PCI Gigabit adapters delivers high performance wired network connectivity to your desktop PC.Connect to your Gigabit home or business network and transfer files at speeds 10 times faster than 10/100...

Are you tired of crashes, slow internet connections and applications that run out of resources every 5 minutes? SpeedUpMyPC is a new powerful system utility from LIUtilities Inc that helps you get the most out of your computer...

Device Watchman Pro includes a configuration tool to assign custom drive letters and applications to run to all your USB devices and a Tiny Windows Service to keep your drive assignments as you specified on any number ofPCs. Now...