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Article | 18/12/2012 Google head grovels after users vent fury at Nexus 4 shortages
Google’s UK managing director Dan Cobley has blamed LG for shortages of the Nexus 4 smartphone after angry customers mugged his upbeat 2012 review blo...
Article | 17/11/2011 BlackBerry shunned by app developers as Windows Phone 7 booms
App developers are rapidly losing interest in RIM's BlackBerry platform and setting their sights on the new big three, Apple, Android and Windows 7, a...
Article | 9/10/2011 Users warned after YapBrowser returns from the dead
YapBrowser, a replacement web browser once promoted by controversial spyware company Zango, has made a sudden return, GFI Software security researcher...
Article | 16/09/2011 BitTorrent web downloads hijacked to push fake antivirus
The publisher of the uTorrent file-sharing program has admitted to suffering a major security breach that allowed attackers to substitute downloads of...
Article | 24/08/2011 Warning after Zeus bank Trojan fused with Ramnit worm
Researchers have uncovered evidence that the infamous Zeus login-stealing Trojan has been blended with the Ramnit worm to create hybrid malware that c...
Article | 20/08/2011 Surge in attachment spam a sign of desperation, say experts
Botnet criminals have flooded the Internet with a surge of attachment spam in recent weeks in a desperate attempt to rebuild a spam-distribution indus...
Article | 7/08/2011 Users turning off UAC put their PCs at risk, says Microsoft
An alarming number of Windows users are needlessly opening themselves up to attacks by rootkit and worm malware by turning off the User Access Control...
Article | 17/07/2011 Internet Explorer 9 hammers rivals in download blocking test
The in-house reputation system used in Internet Explorer 8 and 9 is markedly superior at blocking social-engineering attacks than the Google equivalen...
Article | 27/06/2011 Russian CEO arrested for alleged DDoS attack on rival
One of the most controversial figures in Russia's online world, ChronoPay co-founder and CEO Pavel Vrublevsky, has been arrested on suspicion of order...
Article | 21/06/2011 ICANN votes for huge domain expansion as users shrug
The age of .com has been put on notice. After years of wrangling, Internet governing body ICANN has finally approved a dramatic expansion of top-level...
Article | 14/06/2011 World Bank cut connection to IMF after "major" cyberattack
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has admitted to being the victim of a cyberattack so serious that its global partner the World Bank temporarily ...
Article | 14/06/2011 Russian bank puts lie detector in ATM machine
Customers of the Russian Sperbank might in future have to pay attention to how nervous they sound if they wish to withdraw money from the bank's ATM m...
Article | 3/06/2011 Windows 8 gets dramatic smartphone makeover
Whatever Microsoft ends up calling Windows 8, a press event at the Computex Show in Taiwan confirms that the company has already given the next versio...
Article | 25/05/2011 Spammers create short URL systems to beat security
Spammers have started setting up bogus URL shortening services to act as relay points for traffic generated by their emails, Symantec's MessageLabs di...
Article | 24/05/2011 Fake drive rescue utility demands $80 to restore desktop
The fake software pushers just won't give up. Security company Symantec has discovered a Trojan that tries to get PC users to pay for a worthless driv...