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Article | 17/07/2009 Analysts see alarming development in mobile malware

The first worm that spreads between mobile devices by spamming text messages has developed a new communications capability that one security vendor sa...

Article | 16/07/2009 UK brothers sentenced for making fake credit, debit cards

Three brothers were sentenced to prison on Tuesday in a London court for creating counterfeit credit and debit cards, defrauding victims of more than ...

Article | 15/07/2009 Investigation into cyberattacks stretches around the globe

British authorities have launched an investigation into the recent cyberattacks that crippled Web sites in the U.S. and South Korea, as the trail to f...

Article | 15/07/2009 Survey finds one in six consumers act on spam

About one in six consumers have at some time acted on a spam message, affirming the economic incentive for spammers to keep churning out millions of o...

Article | 14/07/2009 Microsoft confirms another zero-day vulnerability

Microsoft confirmed another zero-day vulnerability on Monday in a set of software components that ship in a wide variety of the company's products.

Article | 14/07/2009 Survey says most companies won't deploy Windows 7

Nearly six in 10 companies have no current plans to deploy Microsoft's latest operating system, Windows 7, due for release in October, according to a ...

Article | 13/07/2009 Twitter suspends accounts of users with infected computers

Twitter is suspending the accounts of some users whose computers have fallen victim to a well-known piece of malicious software that has targeted othe...

Article | 10/07/2009 Dangerous security flaw likely just a hoax

A claim of a software vulnerability in a program used to connect securely to servers across the Internet is likely a hoax, according to an analyst wit...

Article | 9/07/2009 PayPal to open platform to third-party developers

PayPal will soon open up its platform to third-party developers, allowing them to build applications with a range of money transfer options.

Article | 1/07/2009 Joost unplugs Web TV service, concentrates on selling tech

Web video site Joost is restructuring, abandoning its hopes to be a successful ad-supported Web TV provider. Instead it will sell its video-serving te...

Article | 3/07/2009 When your phone rings, the copyright police may come calling

A digital rights group is contesting a U.S. music industry association's assertion that royalties are due each time a mobile phone ringtone is played ...

Article | 3/07/2009 Vendor squabbles cause W3C to scrap codec requirement

The latest rewrite of the Web's mother tongue won't recommend the use of specific audio and video encoding formats that could make it cheaper and easi...

Article | 2/07/2009 New Trojan puts sneaky twist on click fraud

A new piece of malicious software has been discovered that cheats Google and potentially other search engines out of money.

Article | 2/07/2009 New Trojan puts sneaky twist on click fraud

A new piece of malicious software has been discovered that cheats Google and potentially other search engines out of money.

Article | 30/06/2009 Report: Microsoft to sell Razorfish ad agency

Microsoft is planning to sell Razorfish, its interactive ad agency, according to a report in Monday's Financial Times.