The free flow of data between Europe and the US remains in danger of grinding to a halt, after the latest talks on data protection broke down two weeks ago. The talks are stalling because the two sides hold fundamentally different views.
Microsoft Word has a serious security flaw which allows viral macros to spread, according to a warning from anti-virus company Sophos. The flaw allows viral macros to execute without warning by opening a document based on rich text format (RTF) in...
Microsoft Word documents that use the software's built-in password protection to avoid unauthorised editing can easily be modified using a relatively simple hack that was published on a security website last Friday.
At an event in Sydney yesterday the creator of the Java programming language, and fellow at Sun, made a rare appearance to speak frankly to local developers in a question and answer session. The Java guru commended Microsoft on opening up the...
An "extremely critical flaw" in Microsoft Word 2000 is currently being exploited by malicious attackers, which could lead to remote execution of code on a user's system, security researcher Secunia advised on Tuesday.
Avatar - An old word with a very modern definition. Do they worry what might happen if word reaches the blogosphere or are they confident all the citizen journalists will either show too much netiquette or be too busy flamebaiting to name and shame...