Customers conned out of confidential information An email scam is targeting AOL customers in an attempt to steal personal details, according to web monitoring company Websense. Users receive a spoofed email purporting to come from the security...
Company battling to fix the problem as money flies back and forth… PayPal is battling to fix a glitch that has been causing duplicate debit card withdrawals and deposits on some customer accounts since the beginning of September. The...
As early as May 1995, three months before Netscape Communications’ initial public offering sparked the dot-com boom, Microsoft executives were worried that the nascent World Wide Web could one day become a significant threat to the...
And don’t telcos know it VoIP is going to be massive. The effects of internet telephony are touching technology, business, culture, geographic penetration and consumer expectations in a way that is certain to turn the telecoms industry...
Code has been published that exploits one of the flaws patched in the latest Firefox and Mozilla suite releases Computer code that could be used to attack Firefox, Mozilla Suite and Netscape users has been released on the Internet. The...
Simple – just buy its customers When Steve Ballmer yelled at a departing Microsoft employee that he would ?¢‚Ǩ?ìkill Google?¢‚Ǩ? we had no idea just how direct a method he had in mind. Buying all...
Putting two and two together wasn’t very difficult. IBM has practically been joined with Sun at the hip in applying a full court press on the recently OASIS “ratified” (OASIS isn’t really a standards body) XML-based...
Instant messaging by definition is all about messaging. It’s now indisputably about Voice over IP too, thanks to a new VoIP service and new Triton IM preview client announced today by America Online. AOL said its Total Talk VoIP...
Mozilla ‘is in much better shape’ than Microsoft when it comes to fixing security problems, claims the organisation Mozilla has reacted to a Symantec report issued on Monday which said serious vulnerabilities were being found...
Microsoft said today it has filed separate lawsuits against eight of its resellers for allegedly passing off counterfeit copies of its software through distribution channels. The world’s biggest software maker has filed suits in...
Symantec has attacked the perceived security advantages of Firefox and Apple Macs by drawing unfavourable comparisons with Microsoft’s software and describing Mac fans as living in a “false paradise”. According to the...
Volume of spyware with a criminal intent doubling every month A study of the top 2,000 known spyware threats, conducted by security firm Aladdin, has revealed that spying techniques are increasingly being used for ID theft. Spyware with...