The government has been under attack for making a controversial switch from running mainly Linux servers to Microsoft servers. Labour now has to answer two questions: If it ain't broke, why fix it? Open source generally has a greater profile there...
The author of the Anna Kournikova virus admitted to releasing that program after creating it with a point-and-click toolkit. The agency has caught only a handful of suspected virus writers, usually because the suspects left a digital trail back to...
The teenager accused of bringing down a major US port's computer systems in a denial of service attack was part of an "elite" hacking group, a court heard yesterday. Giving evidence yesterday at Southwark Crown Court, Caffrey said he had seen...
The only silver lining here is that it seems to have been an opportunistic theft rather than a targeted attack," he added. And of course all this laptop theft is not only great news for would-be data thieves and fraudsters but for anybody looking...
Clayton added specific programs, such as penetration testing tools, were designed with the express purpose of hacking into systems and that the distribution of such tools would be limited by UK law. The CMA amendments criminalise the production...
Jens Andreassen, vice president for Asia-Pacific at Fortinet, told silicon.com sister site ZDNet Asia in an email that multi-component threats have existed for several years but today's blended threats have many more components or functionalities...