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  • 27 April 2007

  • News: Apple's Mac OS as vulnerable as Windows

    Security researcher Dino Dai Zovi sent a shudder through the Mac community last week when he successfully hacked the Mac with an exploit that he sent to a friend attending the CanSecWest security conference

  • News: $1 billion spam lawsuit could benefit us all

    A $1 billion lawsuit filed promises to open up a new front in the battle against spam. It targets not just spammers, but - for the first time - also those responsible for harvesting email addresses on behalf of spammers.

  • News: MySpace China's patio furniture puzzler

    A beta version of News Corp's MySpace community has launched in China, but users must be careful when typing the Chinese site's URL or they may end up shopping for patio furniture.

  • News: Open-source boost for Adobe's Flex

    Adobe has launched a new version of its Flex SDK development tool set, code-named Moxie, along with plans to provide its code to the open-source community.

  • 26 April 2007

  • News: UK doctors personal details posted online

    The UK Department of Health has been forced to apologise after the personal details of hundreds of doctors - including home addresses, phone numbers, sexual orientation and previous convictions - were made available online

  • News: Apple boosted by iPod & Mac sales

    Apple’s Mac and iPod product lines reported impressive growth during the first three months of the year, helping Apple achieve $5.26bn in revenue and $770m in profit in Q1.

  • News: $3 Office & XP suite no threat to $100 laptop

    Microsoft's announcement last week that it will sell a $3 software bundle to students in developing countries is a positive move that won’t hurt the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) effort, according to a member of the non-profit group’s board.

  • News: Yahoo Music offers free song lyrics

    Yahoo has partnered with Gracenote, a provider of CD and digital track identification services, to give users free access to the lyrics of hundreds of thousands of songs from the five major music publishers, according to Gracenote spokeswoman Stephanie Steinwinder.

  • News: Lawmakers get 'Wikipedia for legislation' site

    A new wiki designed to track and allow users to comment on pending federal legislation was launched this week.

  • News: Windows Live Search exec abandons Microsoft

    Another executive is leaving Microsoft's internet search group, as the company continues to struggle to compete with web search leader Google.

  • 25 April 2007

  • News: New site will help tackle web crime

    A new site allowing people in the UK to report web crime was one of the topics of discussion yesterday at InfoSecurity 2007, which runs until tomorrow at London’s Kensington Olympia.

  • News: Microsoft to open Malware Protection Centers

    In a move to strengthen its response to security threats, Microsoft is opening two labs to study the growing amount of malicious software circulating on the internet, security executives announced today.

  • News: Wikipedia CD version now available

    Wikipedia is pushing ahead with plans to sell CD versions of its online encyclopaedia.

  • News: PS3 doubles Folding@home capacity

    Stanford University's Folding@home distributed computing project has seen its capacity more than double in the last month thanks to the addition of idle processor cycles from hundreds of thousands of PlayStation 3 (PS3) consoles.

  • News: Death threats from Gmail, Yahoo & Hotmail

    A new wave of extortion emails that threaten recipients with bodily harm and death if they do not pay thousands of dollars to the sender is circulating on the internet, according to security vendor SecureWorks.

  • News: Microsoft backed on first Vista bugs

    Microsoft Windows Vista operating system took some of its first punches when a dangerous vulnerability was disclosed earlier this month, but the OS held strong, a security analyst said at the InfoSecurity Europe (Infosec) conference in London.

  • News: Mozilla extends Firefox 1.5 life

    Tuesday was supposed to be Firefox 1.5's end-of-life farewell, with no more security or stability patches. But Mozilla has pushed back the date for ending support for the older version to mid-May.

  • 24 April 2007

  • News: ITV boss Grade calls for free HDTV

    ITV's Michael Grade has warned that most UK viewers will not be able to receive HDTV (high-definition TV) when British TV goes digital in 2012. He's concerned that only cable and satellite stations will be able to afford HD bandwidth.

  • News: MySpace unblocks Photobucket videos

    An impasse between the world's largest social network and the US's most popular photo site has ended

  • News: Quicktime enables Apple Mac hack

    The vulnerability that put $10,000 into the pocket of a hacker during a Mac hacking contest is in Apple's QuickTime media player, according to researchers.

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