Microsoft has been ordered to give the US Department of Justice (DoJ) access to its databases so government prosecutors can garner evidence for their battle against the software giant. The DoJ filed for access to the documents so it could check...
The IR has claimed it has a statutory right to use information collected in loyalty card databases as evidence in the investigation of specific cases of suspected tax fraud. Confusion prevails this week over whether the Inland Revenue (IR) should...
Oracle is to cut the sale and support prices for its Oracle8i databases, and will standardise them to allow the company to sell more effectively over the Internet. The price of an 8i Standard Edition has been lowered by 40 per cent to $15 per power...
Groups developing the Gnome and KDE Linux desktops, the Apache web server and large Linux distributions, are among those that use servers with the source code databases. Flaws in two popular source code database applications could allow attackers...
The government has chosen the northwest of England to pilot the National Enforcement Service (NES), which is linking the databases with an enforcement taskforce charged with finding those who avoid court orders.
New data protection guidelines have been issued covering the buying and selling of customer databases that contain personal information. The Information Commissioner's Office has issued the compliance guidance to cover databases being sold when a...