Saturday | 11 October, 2008
Stories by: Carrie-Ann Skinner
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Online banking fraud losses in the UK hit £21.4 million 03/10/2008 09:04:00
Losses from online banking fraud in the UK hit a record £21.4 million in the first half of 2008 - an increase of 185 percent on the previous year, says the UK payments association, APACS. - +
Study: Common letters get more spam 02/09/2008 07:48:00
Those whose names begin with common letter such as A, S, and M are more likely to receive spam that those who start with uncommon ones such as Z and Q, according to research. - +
Scrabulous removed from Facebook again 28/08/2008 08:15:00
Scrabulous, the controversial third-party Facebook app, has once again been removed from the social networking site. - +
Hackers resort to 'sick' kidnap spam 28/08/2008 10:29:00
Hackers are claiming they have kidnapped children in a bid to infect PCs with a Trojan Horse virus, says Sophos. - +
Royal Bank of Scotland loses 1 million bank details 28/08/2008 01:23:00
A laptop sold on eBay contained personal details of one million Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) customers, the bank has confirmed. - +
Twitter stops SMS alert service in UK 18/08/2008 01:02:00
Twitter has removed text message support for its U.K. users, blaming costs as the reason behind the decision. - +
Microsoft proves seven degrees of separation theory 05/08/2008 16:39:48
Instant messaging may be the key to proving the six degrees of separation theory, if a new survey is anything to go by. - +
Fake Facebook profile author fined £22,000 29/07/2008 09:42:49
A social networker who set up a fake Facebook profile and posted false information has been fined £22,000. - +
UK gov't suffers 30 major security breaches 26/06/2008 12:20:00
The U.K. government has suffered 30 breaches of security since November 2007, the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has reported. - +
Linux users get Google Gadgets 06/06/2008 09:51:37
Google Gadgets are now available for Linux users. - +
Britons arrested in illegal file-sharing case 05/06/2008 07:26:47
Six Brits have been arrested for illegally sharing music files. Cleveland Police made the arrests on May 23 and 28 'in relation to uploading pre-release music' onto the now defunct BitTorrent tracker OiNK.cd. However, the exact offences they are alledged to have committed remain unknown.
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Computerworld Live Podcast #97: The Future of Enterprise Networking 25/07/2008 09:45:36
This week CW Live chats with Mark Thompson, global sales and marketing manager for HP ProCurve, on the future of the enterprise networking. Mark discusses the trends we can expect to see in the near future and how the right infrastructure can ensure your enterprise network is secure. - +
Computerworld Live Podcast #96: Security at the Edge 11/06/2008 09:22:22
CW Live speaks with Amol Mitra, HP ProCurve Director of Marketing for Asia Pacific and Japan. Today's topic: how enterprises are starting to shift away from simply controlling security via server logins, firewalls and moving to more adaptive security frameworks. - +
Data Management Edition #10: Multi-Petascale Systems 02/05/2008 09:12:33
This week we look at sustainability and the development of multicore technologies to build multi-petascale systems. - +
IT Security Edition #11: How to poison the Storm botnet 01/05/2008 08:51:55
This week CW Live presents a case study on how to poison the notorious Storm botnet . Plus we take a look at Cisco's plans for Ironport. - +
IT Security Edition #10: Cyber-battles fought and won 24/04/2008 11:09:47
Vendors bow to end user pressure to improve product security, and we take a look at the latest concepts shaping the cyber-battlefield of the future.
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