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Article | 2/09/2010 Wikileaks servers move to nuclear bunker under Stockholm

The Wikileaks whistleblowing website has reportedly moved its server hosting to a Cold War bunker deep under the streets of Stockholm.

Article | 3/09/2010 Fake antivirus software using ransom threats

Fake antivirus programs appear to be adopting some of the money-raising tactics of more threatening ransom malware, security company Fortinet's latest...

Article | 7/09/2010 Employee gets big bounty for revealing software abuse

The software industry's police self-styled police force, the Business Software Alliance (BSA), has said that it recently paid a £10,000 ($15,300) boun...

Article | 7/09/2010 UK police terror trainers lose USB stick in street

The curse of the unencrypted memory stick has stuck Manchester Police, which has suffered embarrassment as a drive containing apparently sensitive inf...

Article | 25/08/2010 Lexmark hits ink cartridge cloners with suit

Printer giant Lexmark has filed a patent infringement suit against 24 companies, accusing them of importing and selling replacement inkjet and toner c...

Article | 17/08/2010 Virgin Media tracks Zeus Trojan using white hats

ISP Virgin Media is now using organisations such as The Shadowserver Foundation to work out which of its customers might be part of botnets spreading ...

Article | 11/08/2010 Skype files for $100 million IPO

Would-be Internet telephony giant Skype has filed the paperwork for an initial public offering (IPO) on Nasdaq, the company has announced.

Article | 26/07/2010 IE8 stops one billionth malware download

Internet Explorer 8's Smartscreen Filter, used to secure users from dodgy websites, has stopped its one billionth malware download, Microsoft has prou...

Article | 26/07/2010 Mozilla shows new 'tab candy' Firefox interface

Future versions of Firefox are set to adopt a new tab design that will transform the browser's interface, a senior Mozilla developer has announced.

Article | 23/07/2010 Seagate GoFlex packs streaming and backup punch

Seagate has announced a new network attached storage (NAS) drive for the 'Terabyte home', the GoFlex Home.

Article | 15/07/2010 Imperva adds NAS firewall to line-up

Security company Imperva has announced a software firewall that protects and monitors access to files sitting on network-attached storage (NAS) server...

Article | 10/07/2010 Laptop PSU standard in the works

The days of having to use a different power supply unit (PSU) for every laptop could be drawing to a close with reports that the IEEE industry body is...

Article | 3/07/2010 IBM buys BigFix for data centre patching

IBM is to further bulk out its profitable software division with the acquisition of privately-held patching company, BigFix.

Article | 1/07/2010 Internet survives World Cup traffic surge

The English and US football teams found the World Cup a struggle but can the Internet itself hold up under the huge traffic demands imposed by the fir...

Article | 1/07/2010 DiskGenie PIN drive gets SSD upgrade

iStorage has announced a new version of its unusual PIN security diskGenie portable hard drive based on solid-state (SSD) drive technology.