The privacy watchdog for EU institutions has called for a planned requirement for telecoms companies to publish details of information security breaches to be extended to banks, businesses and medical bodies. The European...

People behind anorexia-promoting websites could be jailed in France under a law that has been passed by one of the country's two houses of parliament. Lower house the French National Assembly adopted a bill aimed at...

This is truly the easiest way to network your house or office Simply plug one HomePlug into a mains socket and another within the house to create a network. This switch will convert the powerline into four Ethernet sockets, ideal...

The Play.com Flash Drive is a fast and easy way to transfer data between computers in style. Floppy disks, Zip drives and CD-R's are now history for transferring data between computers. You might be slightly disappointed by its...

It seems the days of hackers breaking into company PBX systems and then punting large volumes of calls to overseas destinations are far from over, judging from reports from Australia.A Melbourne retailer and a...

According to Radware, version 1.4.x of the iPhone's firmware is open to a denial of service (DoS) attack that causes the handset's memory allocation pool to overflow and allow remote access."While vendors are struggling to...

The Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL®) is the most widely adopted best-practice IT framework for service management. ITIL defines terminology and processes across IT organizations by providing a common...

Juniper Reseach has published a new set of researches which point out to a massive growth in the number of mobile banking transactions, hoping that it will grow from 2.7 billion to 37 billion by 2011 while the number of people...

CAPTCHAs (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart) have been by far the most popular way to distinguish real humans from nasty spam bots. But cracks have already appeared in the system and it...

Nearly 70 million PCs have been sold in the first quarter of 2008 according to research company IDC with the US posting the lowest year on year growth compared to other international markets. Laptops continue to drive the...

A spokesperson for Virgin Media released a statement in a move that should alleviate any fears that the cable company could start a campaign against net-neutrality. A few days ago, Virgin Media's CEO Neil Berkett lashed out at...

Dell has introduced two new ranges of laptops destined primarily to Small and Medium Customers and in an interesting twist, with direct input from Dell customers suggestions on its IdeaStorm website. The US-based company has...

The birthplace of the ruling personal computer ecosystem, the cradle of the expression "IBM PC compatible" and the bastion of the x86 community could soon fall. IBM's Research Information Services are considering...

Nokia’s global marketing VP, Anssi Vanjoki has rejected the idea that the number one mobile phone manufacturer will be making portable computers like the Asus EEE PC in the near future. Speaking to Mobiletoday, he argued...

Optical fibre is ultimately the preferred technology for next generation UK broadband and works extremely well for the provision of services to large businesses in central London. However, there are considerable hurdles to...

UK's Internet Watch Foundation says that collaboration amongst countries could quell the scourge of online child pornography after its research found more than 2,700 English-language websites. More than three quarters of those...

Challenge long established assumptions.  For example, application developers tend to specify new equipment to support their software.  However, an examination of the actual, rather than perceived, load may reveal a...

An annual survey carried out by the organisers of the Inforsecurity Europe conference found that 64% of the people asked for their passwords on the street in a mock survey handed them over. That figure fell to 21% this...

Telecoms regulator Ofcom will consider whether next generation internet could be deployed faster and at a lesser cost by making use of existing utilities infrastructure like water pipes. The industry regulator might have been...

It describes the process of decoupling and migrating a physical server's OS, applications, and data from a physical server to a virtual machine guest hosted on a virtualization platform.Read the rest of the article here

Gathering for the keynote Ray Ozzie was first to speak and take questions. Steve Balmer arrived looking like this: ..and left dressed like this I think we had better find a University of Hull sweatshirt to give him next...

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It is a high-quality standalone firewall protection developed with our trusted technology partners. is targeted for small and medium-sized business organizations and home users, providing seamless and powerful protection for...

Interesting results from our non-scientific poll here (you can vote yourself on the front page of our site). This is after Gartner basically said that the End is Nigh. Certainly, videos like this don’t help the cause.I...

BayWords is a new effort by the folks at PirateBay to have an uncensored blog. In their words: “Many blogs are being shut down for uncomfortable thoughts and ideas. We will not do that. Our goal is to protect freedom of...

Most of these push videos that push fake codecs.But it’s not just malware. There’s spam-a-plenty:And there’s also splogs pushing malware, not as porn, but just off of keywords. Here’s a search for...

Freesat might still be in the starting block but already manufacturers are preparing to inundate the market with receivers. TV specialist Hauppauge has released the WinTV Nova-S-USB2, a £79.99 Freesat Box. The receiver...

That’s about to change though, as today we have with us the 9600GT. The thing that’s particularly exciting about the Albatron 9600GT is that it really follows nothing but the reference design, including the core and...

Caroline Ikomi, technical director of Checkpoint wrote an article on Securing Moving Targets an article on how to protect data on your laptops and USB devices. In this Podcast, she discusses with Ben Chai her thoughts behind the...