Four laptops containing personal details of 10,000 people have been stolen from the Bank of Ireland (BOI). The Data Protection Commissioner in Ireland is investigating the thefts. Data on the four laptops is not thought to have...

The European Commission has ordered the computer games industry to come up with a voluntary code of conduct within two years to stop children having access to violent computer games. Information Society and Media Commissioner...

The Information Commissioner has been notified of almost 100 data breaches by public and private sector organisations since the loss of 25 million people's details by HM Revenue and Customs last November, according to figures...

Amusing to see that, as the race for the next Prez of the US reaches another peak that Barak Obama's Web site was hacked over the weekend, with punters being directed to Shrillery Clinton's site instead.The hack was thanks to yet...

I was down at the Infosecurity Europe event yesterday where I met up with GrIDsure, a company that has developed a whizzy pictorial alternative to PIN-based authentication technology.One of their partners is a company called...

The IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL®) is the standard for IT best practices. One of the core books, entitled Business Perspective: The IS View on Delivering Services to the Business, focuses on the importance of managing IT...

Entreprise 2.0 is bound to set the Corporate world ablaze if the latest figures from Forrester Research are to be believed. According to the research firm, firms will spend up to $4.6 billion by 2013, with expenditures in the...

Details of 34,000 Boots customers and staff members have been stolen at the beginning of this month from a courier car in Bristol. The customers and employees details were collected as part of Boots Dental plan and included...

One of Germany's biggest retailers, Metro, might be looking into acquiring DSGi, the parent company of Currys, Dixons and PCWorld in a transaction that could be worth around £1 billion. Dixons is present in 13 countries...

A BBC Investigation found out that the UK credit and debit card fraud could be much higher than previously thought when "failed attempts" figures are tallied, reaching half a billion Pounds. More than £290...

A report by Microsoft reveals an inconvenient truth about Windows Users and their behaviour which some security experts might find... troubling. According to the compiled data, users voluntarily download and install adware even...

It may well be the boldest bet Steve Ballmer, as Microsoft's CEO, has taken in the last few years together with Chief Software Architect, Ray Ozzie. The world's biggest software company is to launch a program called "Live...

Undeterred by recent setbacks, Nokia is busy preparing the launch of its soon-to-be-live "Comes with Music" integrated service with a couple of mobile phone releases and a welcomed agreement. The mobile device...

The concept of long tail content is finally picking up, albeit in the closed environment of Apple's iTunes, as UK's largest Free to Air commercial broadcaster, ITV agreed to sell 260 hours of premium content for £1.89 per...

The world's athletes and hackers now share a common focus - the Beijing Olympics. Whilst the athletes have a legitimate reason to concentrate on the Games, today's hackers are using the 2008 Olympics for their own glory. ...

Austin-based PC manufacturer Dell, has announced that it will sell a minuscule PC that some commentators say could pit Dell against Apple's Mac Mini. During a conference which was part of the Earth Day, at the Fortune Brainstorm...

Nearly one hundred data breaches have been reported to the Information Commissioner Office in the five months following November's HM Revenue and Custom breach which put the shambolic administration of UK citizens data in the...

It is designed to allow a network of heterogeneous machines to be used as a single distributed parallel processor.PVM was developed by the University of Tennessee, Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Emory University. The first...

 It includes new scanning engine together with rootkit scanner and extended protection for Internet threats (HTTP, Instant Messaging, Safe Search and Safe Surf), email protection with SPAM filter, Firewall and System tools....

On the one hand, there is the whole bunch of companies that have wrapped up their production.Does it mean that the competition here has become less aggressive? I don’t think so, especially if we look at the eternal battle...

Impressively compact for its huge storage capacity, it offers a relatively minimal desktop footprint. Driver-free and plug & play, it's ready to use just seconds after removing it from the box. LaCie '1-Click' Backup Software...

Wireless access point and 4-port 10/100 switch combined with powerline technology Powerline technology has matured and is now widely available at an affordable price. This Netricity model is on sale at Maplin for only...