It seems that criminals in the US have discovered that the latest generation of spoof caller ID services can be used to fool punters into thinking that an incoming call originates from their bank.Which is exactly what has...

Now here's an interesting case involved Asda in Peterhead - apparently, due to a glitch in the store's computer system, large numbers of debit card transactions took several weeks to clear.And, as a result, says the Aberdeen...

Travelling across US borders may further get beleaguered, as US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) have instructed the border regulating authorities, to confiscate laptops of travellers.The new guidelines allow the concerned...

Asus has released a couple of stick controllers for its popular EEE PC range which will be bundled with some EEE PC and EEE Box alongside with a collection of games developed or adapted specifically to be used with it. The pair...

Citing the proliferation of online attacks and hacking evidences, the software giant, Microsoft has announced to release supplementary details of the vulnerabilities it fixes in its monthly security packs, which is released on...

The European Union (EU) has sent a letter to UK government, asking it to decide about the validity of web browsing tracking service from Phorm, within a span of 30 days. The letter from the EU Telecom and Media Commissioner,...

A Spanish hacker has been put behind the bars for two years, for illicitly hacking his colleague’s emails, containing details about his sex life, and then forwarding them to other individuals. The hacker sent those...

US authorities have unravelled, what is said to be the largest hacking and identity fraud in the history of the United States. The US Department of Justice declared conviction of 11 people, including a Secret Service Informant...

Age restriction systems on social networking websites like Facebook, Bebo or Myspace are as easy to flout as it can be; a poll published last night by Garlik showed that nearly a quarter of children aged between eight and 12 have...

Information as a concept has a diversity of meanings, from everyday usage to technical settings. Generally speaking, the concept of information is closely related to notions of constraint, communication, control, data, form,...

As the EU continues to expand, European businesses must look to how they can trade across increasing numbers of regional boundaries, languages, cultures and laws, both within the EU and across the greater Europe. The...

Research undertaken among 100 chief information officers of UK companies employing more than 1000 people reveals that an overwhelming majority believe that the carbon footprint of outsourced IT operations should still count...

A Security Researcher from the University of Amsterdam has managed to develop a fail-safe method of reading, duplicating and altering chips on the so called safe biometric passportsHe produced fake passports which were regarded...

We are continually being bombarded by so much of it that these days that it can be difficult to manage efficiently. Over the last decade, the amount of information that people manage on a daily basis has become overwhelming. We...

An interview with Mike Worhach, CEO of Data Specialist Sepaton, helps us delve deeper in the complex world of data integrity and casts some light on what awaits the storage industry in a near future.1. Let's start off with an...