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  • Scammers exploit Apple iPad fever
  • Date: Sunday, January 31, 2010
  • Cyber conmen are cashing in on hype surrounding Apple's iPad. Security firms have come across attempts to subvert search engines to catch out those seeking more information about the tablet. Those who follow rogue links are re-directed to pages that scan
  • Microsoft patches hole in Internet Explorer
  • Date: Thursday, January 21, 2010
  • Microsoft has patched a hole in its Internet Explorer browser that may have allowed Chinese hackers access to human rights activists' e-mail accounts. It usually issues patches every month but said the attention the problem had received made it move more
  • iPhone orchestra ready for debut
  • Date: Friday, December 4, 2009
  • A group of US students has created an entire orchestra out of separate iPhone applications. As part of their studies, the group from the University of Michigan built the applications themselves and composed music for them. While some of the applications
  • iPhone worm creator lands software job
  • Date: Tuesday, December 1, 2009
  • The 21-year-old hacker who wrote the first iPhone worm has landed a job developing software for the phones. Ashley Towns wrote Ikee, a self-propagating program that changed the phone's wallpaper to a picture of 80s pop singer Rick Astley. Mr Towns has no
  • India blocks millions of mobiles for security reasons
  • Date: Tuesday, December 1, 2009
  • Millions of Indian mobile phones with no valid unique identification code have been blocked for security reasons. The International Mobile Equipment Identity (IMEI) number is a 15-digit code which appears on the operator's network whenever a call is made.
  • Microsoft investigates Windows 7 'screen of death'
  • Date: Tuesday, December 1, 2009
  • Microsoft has confirmed that it is investigating a problem described as the "black screen of death", which affects its latest operating system. The error means that users of Windows 7 see a totally black screen after logging on to the system. T
  • New iPhone worm can act like botnet say experts
  • Date: Monday, November 23, 2009
  • A second worm to hit the iPhone has been unearthed by security company F-Secure. It is specifically targetting people in the Netherlands who are using their iPhones for internet banking with Dutch online bank ING Direct. It redirects the bank's customers
  • Face scanners launched at airport
  • Date: Monday, November 23, 2009
  • Face scanning technology brought in at Gatwick Airport will speed up passport checks, the government has said. Home secretary Alan Johnson officially launched the face scanners at the airport in West Sussex on Monday. He said the self-service technology
  • Age of cyber warfare is 'dawning'
  • Date: Tuesday, November 17, 2009
  • Cyber war has moved from fiction to fact, says a report. Compiled by security firm McAfee, it bases its conclusion on analysis of recent net-based attacks. Analysis of the motives of the actors behind many attacks carried out via the internet showed that
  • Windows 7 borrowed 'look' of Mac
  • Date: Monday, November 16, 2009
  • A Microsoft executive was quoted in an interview as saying "what we've tried to do with Windows 7. . . is create a Mac look and feel in terms of graphics". The comments, by partner group manager Simon Aldous, appeared in UK computing trade magaz
  • Xbox console ban is 'permanent'
  • Date: Monday, November 16, 2009
  • Thousands of Xbox 360 owners who have been cut off from Microsoft's Xbox Live service will have to buy a new console if they want to play online again. Microsoft told BBC News that banned machines will be permanently barred and "unable to connect to
  • Bing teams up with Wolfram Alpha
  • Date: Monday, November 16, 2009
  • Microsoft has teamed up with a web tool once hailed as a rival to Google to provide results for its search engine Bing. Wolfram Alpha aims to answer questions directly, rather than display a list of links like a search engine. The "computational kno
  • Worm attack bites at Apple iPhone
  • Date: Monday, November 9, 2009
  • The first worm to infect the Apple iPhone has been discovered spreading "in the wild" in Australia.
  • Offender IT failure 'a shambles'
  • Date: Tuesday, November 3, 2009
  • A government IT project for tracking offenders in England and Wales through the criminal justice sys
  • Free Google sat-nav shakes market
  • Date: Thursday, October 29, 2009
  • Shares in sat-nav device companies have fallen substantially after Google unveiled its free live sat
  • Microsoft recovers Sidekick data
  • Date: Friday, October 16, 2009
  • Microsoft says it has now recovered the personal data lost when its Sidekick servers suffered an out
  • US file-sharer gets $700,000 fine
  • Date: Saturday, August 1, 2009
  • A US student has been ordered to pay $675,000 (£404,000) to four record labels for breaking copyrigh
  • UAE Blackberry update was spyware
  • Date: Tuesday, July 21, 2009
  • An update for Blackberry users in the United Arab Emirates could allow unauthorised access to privat
  • Windows 7 release date announced
  • Date: Wednesday, June 3, 2009
  • Windows 7, the next major release of the world's most popular operating system, will be officially a
  • Camera grid to log number plates
  • Date: Monday, May 25, 2009
  • A national network of cameras and computers automatically logging car number plates will be in place
  • Wikipedia narcissism
  • Date: Tuesday, August 21, 2007
  • Top companies caught editing their wikipedia entries
  • YouTube Backlash
  • Date: Monday, August 13, 2007
  • YouTube faces major copyright infringement claims
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