Fascinating to read some of the local news reports in the US about how some of the smaller banks are handling the fallout from the recent rash of card database hacks.Envision Credit Union of Florida is one such institution, and...

I was interested to see a report over on Betanews that European ISPs are more than a bit concerned about the cost if complying with EU cybercrime proposals, but how one expert says it could cost them more if they don't comply.The...

In this podcast, Peter Allor of IBM tells Ben Chai what it’s like being the FIRST 2008 Conference Liaison and the importance of this role for the FIRST membership.Click here to download and listen to this podcast.With...

Ben Chai finds out why George Stathakopolous, general manager of security at Microsoft, enjoys being at the FIRST conference. Click here to download and listen to this podcast now. With special thanks to...

The Trusted Stack As we saw in my earlier blog, the SD3 model with a layered defence model still proved inadequate – see quote below.  Part of the problem is that the security solutions employed to date are primarily...

According to recent industry figures, the number of radio listeners on the Internet has jumped-up drastically.A recent report conducted by industry's audience research body, known as Rajar, has revealed that listening to radio...

Settling the game developers concerns over the expected delays and price hikes because of the rating system proposed in Byron's report, the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) has stated that the new system won't be...

A small black Opel car with a high roof-mounted camera and a Google logo was spotted by one Flickr user and by Channel 4 News, indicating that Google is gathering data for a London Steet View service.Google confirmed today that...

Topware Interactive has won fines of £750 and costs awards of £2,000 from four people it had sued. The Court issued default judgments after the people sued did not respond to the Court or turn up to the hearing.The...

Barclays Bank has decided to offer a new comprehensive security application for its online customers. Although the bank is already offering free antivirus software to its internet banking customers, it has realized the need for...

According to Sophos, an IT security firm, hackers have made their way to the official website of Sony's PlayStation. It was found that an unauthorized code was pasted on some pages of the site including SingStar Pop and God of...

Microsoft has recently declared that Circuit City will soon be the first to offer an all new Microsoft Office subscription service. Microsoft has joined hands with retailer Circuit City to provide a consumer software...

It is called the EEE Monitor but doesn't have any VGA or HDMI or DVI entry; "it" is the next member of the Asus EEE family, a family which is growing faster than Apple's "i" clan. The Eee monitor is actually...

Recent independent surveys conducted in both the United States and Europe by Storage Firm ONStor, Inc., indicate that the majority of businesses surveyed in both US and Europe believe that their existing storage solutions will...

The 2012 London Olympics is in effect one of the biggest and most complex projects in recent British history. The planning application detailed a schedule of project phases including extensive work to waterways, construction of...

When a public body starts to think in terms of Web 2.0, then you know things have gone bad; the UK government has apparently decided to bypass its traditional idea providers - fat cats, million dollar consultants and the likes -...

They took a small leave of absence after the introduction of their 680i-SLI motherboard series and didn't release any more enthusiast based platforms. However, they did stay with putting emphasis on their graphics card lines...

But there's a far more staid side to these workhorse products: more often they're to be found installed in classrooms and boardrooms, carrying out the mundane task of informing and educating. It's a job they're supremely well...

Data compiled by research firm Point Topic reveals that in Q1 2008 fibre optic broadband for the first time added more subscribers than cable.   While there were 2.5 million cable broadband subscribers added worldwide in...

AVG Anti-Virus offers maximum virus protection, product customization, and free virus database updates and technical support. The core of the testing engine is a Virtual Device Driver which loads into memory on Windows...

Intel Matrix Storage Manager provides software support for high-performance Serial ATA RAID 0 arrays, fault-tolerant Serial ATA RAID 1 arrays, high capacity and fault-tolerant Serial ATA RAID 5 arrays and high performance and...

With the advent of high capacity Solid State Drives like the OCZ Core Series, that do not cost the earth, it is only a matter of years before these devices replace traditional hard drives in all but the most capacious...

To achieve effective customer based process management it is necessary to implement the right technologies that seamlessly link front and back office functions and staff workflow. Then by converting customer, supplier and...