Now here's an interesting story. It seems that, if you are a US congressman, you can't be prosecuted for hacking!A row has broken out after Jim Cooper, a Senator for the State of Nashville, who has been accused of gaining...

I was interested to read that Easyjet, aka Agent Orange in airline circles, is getting more than a bit shirty with third-party Web sites which it claims are screen scraping its pages.The problem, it seems, is that Easyjet thinks...

Malware has mushroomed and evolved.  No longer is malware an attack all problem.  It has become focused on countries and industries.  This Podcast gives the highlights from the session on Malware with Borders given...

A picture can save reading a thousand lines of a security log file. Raffael Marty of Splunk discusses his book and talk on Applied Security Visualisation with Peter Wood of First Base.  This Podcast was recorded at the First...

In this podcast, Peter Wood of First Base and Raffael Marty of Splunk discuss the key points from Peter’s talk at the FIRST 2008 conference on how many attacks are a combination of technological and social engineering and...

The point being made here was that fifteen years ago, we had several security issues such as:-•    Employees forgetting their passwords •    The odd virus getting through•  ...

Ivan Krstić, the second keynote speaker, at the FIRST 2008 conference talks about how each component within a system from the CPU, motherboard, graphics card, coolant system up to the hard disk and network card could be hacked or...

At the recent Gartner SOA show in London, I was surprised to see a stand from Intel. Turns out Intel are striking back at the burgeoning SOA Appliances market. The Intel claim is that its 'software appliance' performs at least...

Clearly, the BBC is spread betting on a number of High Definition technologies as it prepares the daunting task of planning the delivery of Eastenders and Teletubbies to the British public for the next few years. According to...

Findings released today from an independent research report commissioned by Distributor Bell Micro suggests that UK businesses are still failing to implement internal security procedures despite growing awareness of the potential...

Real Network is betting on its resurgent Rhapsody music download service to topple Apple's iTunes which owns anywhere between 70 percent and 85 percent of the market. Real, together with double-act Viacom, is planning a USD 50...

A new feature that Microsoft is integrating with Windows Server 2008 will allow several operating systems to run simultaneously on a single physical computer, a move that will turn the heat on the likes of VMWare, the software...

Verizon's high profile Chief Executive Officer, Ivan Seidenberg, wants to take over the 45 percent share that Vodafone US owns in Verizon Wireless and take charge of its own destiny. In an interview to the Financial Times, Mr...

Research carried out by moneysupermarket.com has crowned O2 as the fastest 8Mbps broadband package in UK with speeds 50 percent faster than second place Sky. The mobile phone company purchased ADSL2+ pioneer, Be There, a few...

In what some could consider as yet another sign of allegiance to the US of A, Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has signed an agreement with the American Immigration and Customs Enforcement (AICE) to give share...

Asus has recently introduced an ultra-portable laptop powered with Blu-ray technology which sports a 1TB hard drive.Asus M70, the newly launched laptop, offers 1terabyte hard drive, and the firm claims that the hard drive can...

Apple is planning to introduce an application that will enable its users to control iTunes remotely, while sitting at home, using their iPhone or iPod Touch. A report by MacRumors suggests that Apple will soon launch an...

A poster presented at the 11th Annual Scientific Meeting for the European Association for Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry (EACLPP) in Saragossa, Spain looks set to have wide ranging implications for the way knowledge is organised...

NVIDIA is the only company to support SLI; there is no licence for SLI on Intel chipsets, which honestly is a real shame as Intel has already got Crossfire working fine - why not SLI? The easy guess is that NVIDIA wants to hold...

Fujitsu Services opened its newest secure data centre which ha cost £44 million data centre to build  and will be the first in Europe to be independently certified to the Uptime Institute’s international Tier III...

Phone Maker Nokia released a brand new range of mobile phones on Friday, aimed clearly at those who prefer style to substance, and in the same vein as Dell's laptops a few days earlier, the phones can be personalised to through...

It is a universal authentication framework frequently used in wireless networks and Point-to-Point connections. It is defined by RFC 3748. Although the EAP protocol is not limited to wireless LANs and can be used for wired LAN...

Turbo51 is a free Pascal compiler for the 8051 family of microcontrollers. It features a fast single pass optimizing compiler, Borland Turbo Pascal 7 syntax, full floating point support, mixed Pascal and assembler programming,...

SharePoint Cross-Site Lookup provides additional features beyond the default Lookup function of SharePoint 2007. These features include: Allow users to refer to a lookup list from a different site in one site collection; Support...

In 90% of cases the incident went unreported. Research conducted on behalf of marketing email firm StrongMail found that 61% of marketing workers and 43% of data protection workers had experienced personal data breaches. The...

One recurring theme from this year’s set of talks was that no matter whether speakers agreed or disagreed with each other about the problems or solutions, each of them called for greater collaboration on how the industry is...