Another phishing attack on the customers of UK bank LloydsTSB shows why the UK's lead domain authority is right to seek strong powers and why those who oppose its plans are wrong.
IT Security: "Twihards" targeted by internet crooks
With the craziness that surrounds the release of any Twilight film now in full swing (one ticket booking service says that around 70% of its sales are for the new release) Norton, an internet security firm, says that it has found a disturbing nu...
InfoTech: Putin says Russia's government to migrate to OSS
Russian President Vladimir Putin is the latest political leader to say that his country's government will migrate all its computers to Linux and other open source software. The history of such declarations is at best chequered.
InfoTech: Steve Jobs dies.
Steve Jobs died yesterday after a long illness that blighted his last months. Our F1 man, who has never owned any Apple kit, delivers a mark of respect for a man who took on giants and won.
InfoTech: how governments embed software in the lives of citizens
With Apple now being, on some calculations, more cash rich than the entire US government and Microsoft being one of the world's biggest turnover companies, it is no surprise that the US Government wants to protect those companies and the tax rev...
When the senior officer of an international group of companies changed the default e-mail address provided in his Facebook profile from his corpo...
IT Security: Microsoft ceases use of "supercookies."
Researchers have found that Microsoft used a small piece of code, embedded in a cookie, to defeat the removal of tracking cookies. Microsoft says...
InfoTech: HP tosses consumers on bonfire of its vanity
HP is no more, at least so far as a future in consumer computing is concerned. It has announced that it is buying Autonomy Corporation, spinning...
InfoTech: IBM says future computers will think
Artificial intelligence is, for those with real intelligence, a buzzword rather than a reality. Adaptive learning simply does not work reliably e...
Comms: the use and abuse of mobiles in disorder
When Thailand's Red Shirts began their uprising in 2007, the authorities discovered that SMS was being used to organise the protesters. Things ha...
