What is going on with the UK Government? It is possible to lose track of just how often it loses private data. In the last six weeks, three serious data breaches have released details of staff in the Courts system and armed forced personnel. The...
IT Security: Bank phishing scam smacks of malware download
Phishing and identity theft may be stupid names but they represent real problems - and for M&T Bank the risk of damage to their reputation is increased today by fraudsters posing as the bank with an exceptionally well crafted spam that will...
InfoTech Security: UK Gov can't be trusted with personal data
Favours from the Data Protection authority, whitewashing reports and ignoring the problem are the hallmarks of the UK's Labour Government when it comes to handling your personal data. And it's lost more than 100,000 sets of data. Again.
InfoTech: Hong Kong's plans to nationalise domain registration
Hong Kong is renowned for being one of the world's free wheeling economies and societies. But things are changing under the skin and a proposal to nationalise the management of the territory's domain registration and management may be the thin e...
InfoTech: Open Source may be free but it's not free of restrictions.
In a judgment that states the obvious (at least to us) a US court has held that OpenSource software may be free of charge, but it is not free of conditions. That, surely, is the logical and correct position.
For several weeks, our own web domain manager has been deluged with spam from a company that wants to panic him into spending a large sum of mone...
Infotech: quiet takeover has great importance
A quiet takeover has been completed that consolidates part of the Web that is low profile but remarkably popular.
InfoTech: ICANN's new plans - a cause for celebration or concern?
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has just concluded a meeting in Paris. The meeting lasted a week - the consequenc...
InfoTech: ISPs act against child porn
Is it the beginning of the end for free speech, or the actions of responsible corporate citizens? Or is it a fear that now monitoring technology...
Comms: Blackberry tells India "no way" for data
RIM (Research in Motion), the company that makes Blackberry, the device that allegedly threatened US security when the service went down and the...
