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  • 20 December 2006

  • News: Microsoft releases PatchGuard APIs

    Microsoft yesterday released draft APIs designed to allow third-party security products to get around a contentious kernel protection technology in the Vista OS called PatchGuard

  • News: US data-mining programme under fire

    The EFF has filed a lawsuit against the US Department of Homeland Security, demanding the agency turn over information about an "invasive" data-mining system used to assess the terrorist threat posed by travellers

  • News: Icann faces transparency review

    A UK governance organisation will review Icann, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, as it tries to increase transparency after criticism of its close US government ties

  • News: First update of Firefox 2.0

    Mozilla has released the first update for the Firefox 2.0 browser. The latest version fixes eight security vulnerabilities

  • News: Sony coughs up $1.5m in rootkit suits

    Sony BMG Music Entertainment has agreed to pay $1.5m in penalties to settle lawsuits with two US states over its use of copy protection software

  • News: Hackers plot 'Apple bug month'

    On 1 January 2007, two security researchers will begin publishing details of vulnerabilities in Apple's products – one per day for the entire month

  • News: eBay pulls back from China

    eBay today confirmed it will replace its China auction site with a joint-venture site run by partner Tom Online in 2007

  • News: DVD pirates fined £10,600

    A Beijing court has convicted and fined operators of a pirated DVD shop, the MPA (Motion Picture Association) has announced

  • News: Intel to launch Core 2 Quad in January

    Intel plans to launch the third model of its four-core processor in January, continuing its efforts to stay ahead of AMD in the processor market.

  • 19 December 2006

  • News: 'Bad Vista' site exposes Microsoft

    The Free Software Foundation (FSF) has set up a new website with the intention of exposing Microsoft’s efforts to impose more controls on Windows Vista users.

  • News: Worm may be spreading via Skype chat

    Computer security analysts are studying reports of a worm that may be circulating via a feature in Skype's popular Voip (voice over Internet protocol) service.

  • News: Windows Vista laptop battery warning

    Notebook PC users who upgrade to Microsoft's Windows Vista may have to disable some of the new operating system's flashy graphics features to avoid seeing a decrease in battery life compared to Windows XP.

  • News: Report: eBay China to close

    After failing to gain significant market share in China's consumer auction market, eBay will join Tom.com in creating a Tom.com-operated site in its stead, according to The Wall Street Journal.

  • News: Sharp begins mass producing blue lasers

    Sharp has begun mass production of blue-laser diodes at a new factory in Japan - a move that should help reduce the cost of Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD players.

  • News: Yahoo fixes IM flaw

    Yahoo has resumed promoting a Yahoo Messenger upgrade after fixing a bug in the program that altered users' email preferences without their consent.

  • News: MySpace now on US mobile phones

    MySpace has launched a service in the US that lets Cingular Wireless subscribers use many features of the social-networking portal on their cell phones.

  • News: $50,000 Vista exploit 'for sale'

    An online criminal has offered to sell software that exploits an unpatched bug in Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system, according to security vendor Trend Micro.

  • News: New Opera browser has phishing filter

    Opera Software has added a filter to its web browser software that blocks phishing sites, following the example set by rivals Microsoft and Mozilla.

  • News: Google Earth boosts European maps

    Google has acquired portions of a Swiss company called Endoxon in order to improve the European maps in its Google Earth PC application and Google Maps online search service.

  • News: Google to put NASA data online

    Google and NASA have signed a formal collaboration agreement that calls for Google to help make NASA information readily accessible on the web

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