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  • 25 August 2006

  • News: Intel suffering patch problems too

    Microsoft isn't the only company re-issuing security patches this month. Intel plans to re-release a critical security patch for its Centrino platform because of a memory hogging bug.

  • News: Vietnamese Communist Party gets Intel onboard

    The Vietnamese Communist Party's decision to move its computer systems to open-source software got a boost today from Intel, the world's largest chip maker.

  • News: Companies 'must report cybercrime'

    Companies that work with law enforcement agencies on cybercrime can get valuable information, including lists of hostile IP addresses and information on new types of attacks.

  • 24 August 2006

  • News: First IE7 release candidate available

    Microsoft is calling on developers to ensure applications and websites are compatible with Internet Explorer 7.0 Release Candidate 1.0 for Windows XP, which the company will make available later today.

  • News: UK at top of spyware infection league

    The UK's spyware infection rate is the highest in Europe, according to security vendor Webroot.

  • News: Free rootkit-detection tool from Sophos

    Sophos has released a free tool to help PC users root out rootkits.

  • News: Microsoft tests Wi-Fi management service

    Some Office 2007 beta testers can test drive a forthcoming service from Microsoft that helps users manage wireless connections when they are using Wi-Fi hotspots.

  • News: Teenager admits DoS email attack

    Prosecutors claimed a victory after an 18-year-old man pleaded guilty yesterday to crashing his former employer's server with a flood of five million emails.

  • 23 August 2006

  • News: Google Brazil threatened with closure

    State prosecutors in Brazil are threatening to force Google Brazil to shut down and pay fines for failing to turn over customer records as part of investigations against paedophiles.

  • News: Apple staff sacked over Leopard leak

    If reports are to be believed, at least five employees of Apple's retail stores have been fired after downloading copies of Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard.

  • News: Federal Trade Commission examines net neutrality

    The US Federal Trade Commission has formed a task force to examine whether net neutrality advocates' fears of large broadband providers blocking or slowing web content from competitors are justified, the agency's chairwoman said.

  • News: Microsoft tips hat to open-source community

    In a concession to the open source software paradigm, Microsoft has added support for the Firefox browser to its MSDN Wiki, company officials are reporting this week.

  • News: Microsoft goes after 'cybersquatters'

    Web users who've had the frustrating experience of mistyping a common or popular website URL and inadvertently landing on a page full of pay-per-click ads may soon have relief due to a campaign by Microsoft.

  • News: PowerPoint flaw 'old news'

    An unpatched security flaw in PowerPoint is not so new after all, according to Microsoft, which claims it fixed the problem earlier this month.

  • News: Microsoft encouraged to ease Vista transition

    Microsoft partners are asking the software vendor to do whatever it takes to make the transition to Windows Vista easier.

  • News: Security bug in Microsoft's August IE patch

    Instead of making the browser more secure, Microsoft's August Internet Explorer security update introduced a critical security bug, according to researchers at eEye Digital Security.

  • 22 August 2006

  • News: Better quality promised for mobile Skype calls

    Software in the Skype PC client that enhances call quality is now coming to dedicated devices such as mobile phones that use the peer-to-peer voice service.

  • News: Two-thirds of all email is spam, plus other facts

    The latest edition of a book of global digital facts has exposed spam as an even more massive problem than previously imagined. Two-thirds of all email sent in March was spam, while only 20 per cent of it was legitimate, according to the 2006 edition of the 'Digital Economy Fact Book', released Monday by the Progress and Freedom Foundation (PFF), a conservative think-tank based in Washington, DC. PFF researchers gathered data from a variety of public and private sources in the fact book.

  • News: 'Demon Wave' worm disrupts broadband in China

    Chinese government officials have warned ADSL users to install a recent Microsoft security patch after Worm.Mocbot.A - called "Demon Wave" in Chinese - caused massive system failures and disrupted broadband Internet access across the city of Shanghai.

  • News: AOL reviews privacy policy, sheds staff

    AOL has announced that it's taking steps to prevent a similar security breach to the recent occasion in which subscriber search query results were posted online. The company has also accepted the resignation of its chief technology officer, and two other members of staff have been sacked.

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