Symantec launches remote tech-support services

Microsoft Office 365 can greatly reduce business IT costs, should a company require the complete package but what if a business only requires Microsoft Office without the Lync, Exchange or Sharepoint components, would Office 365...

Most of us will have heard of "the cloud" and many of us will be aware that we are somehow using it in our day-to-day lives, even if that just means having the same email on our phone as our laptop. A few of us might even feel...

VMware has improved its software as a service (SaaS) products through the acquisition of Shavlik Technologies, a leading name in the virtual machine management market, although exact financial details were not disclosed.Shavlik...

The latest version of the Fedora Linux distribution, Fedora 14, has officially been released - and it brings with it some impressive improvements over its predecessors.Aiming for what the project describes as "a free desktop...

Security expert and researcher Aviv Raff has discovered a serious security vulnerability in Adobe’s Download Manager, which is capable of being exploited by hackers wanting to install and execute malicious content on the PC...

Google's stab at Chrome operating system has had many a pundit thinking more and more about the direction of the OS market. Microsoft's Windows has been suffering heavily since Windows XP's inception. It's widely reported that it...

Figures just in from Information Week, the US publication, reveal that 85 per cent of US corporates either have NAC technology already installed on their networked IT resource or are planning to install a system in the...

Have you heard the one about the printer repair technician and the malware outbreak?... A seemingly harmless printer repair technician arrived at the premises of Company X. Needing to download the fix from the internet, the...

Privacy has got to be the security buzzword of 2007.  All out war has been declared by the subversives to use any means necessary to capture everyone’s personal details. Privacy is so paramount that even the...

If you’re into IT security, it’s pretty hard to avoid discussions about deperimiterisation: the loosening of controls at boundary level in favour of pervasive security throughout the network, systems and applications. The idea’s...

Part 1 of the article was published yesterday. The following answers must be construed generally as personal opinions and preconceptions, and not in any shape or form an official BBC position. Michael Sparks does not speak for...

Homeland Security: Fix Your WindowsIn a rare alert, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has urged Windows users to plug a potential worm hole in the Microsoft operating system. The agency, which also runs the United States...

Most businesses understand the need for IT security, and fortunately the level of user awareness is growing as each new virus outbreak hits the headlines. With this has come a whole new industry providing software and hardware...

Did you know that according to studies from IDC and the Gartner Group, no matter which operating system you have each workstation in your network is costing you a minimum of £2000 per annum? Did you know further that each...

A recent survey on theITportal found that a third of organisations are still relying on Windows NT Server (NT4) as their primary operating system. With life support for NT4 ending this year, and with many of these businesses...