By Peter Sayer, IDG News Service\Paris Bureau 9 Mar, 2009
There was no dawn raid by police to seize patent-infringing MP3 players at this year's Cebit trade show -- but behind the scenes, haggling over technology licensing continued. read more »
By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, Computerworld (US) 27 Feb, 2009
Microsoft Corp.'s decision to sue TomTom International BV -- and in the process take on Linux -- isn't likely to affect your use of Linux. As of now, that's the consensus among experts. read more »
The British hacker, who in 2001 admittedly broke into computer systems in the Department of Defense, NASA and the U.S. Army, has lost his latest battle in a seven-year fight to avoid being extradited to the United States for prosecution. read more »
By Jeremy Kirk, IDG News Service\London Bureau 24 Feb, 2009
Ireland's largest ISP won't block The Pirate Bay -- the embattled BitTorrent search engine and tracker -- absent a court order, a spokesman said Tuesday. read more »
By Stephen Lawson, IDG News Service\San Francisco Bureau 23 Feb, 2009
Nortel Networks wants to speed up the sale of assets of its application-delivery division because it's worried it will get less money from the sale as time goes by, according to bankruptcy court documents filed on Friday. read more »
By Robert McMillan, IDG News Service\San Francisco Bureau 18 Feb, 2009
He's been in jail for seven months now, but former San Francisco network administrator Terry Childs [cq] says he's going to keep fighting to prove he's innocent of computer crime charges. read more »
By Carrie-Ann Skinner, PC Advisor (UK) 17 Feb, 2009
The most serious charges against Sweedish file-sharing site the Pirate Bay have been dropped on the second day of the case, after it emerged the prosecution could not prove that illegal downloaders had used the site to distribute media. read more »
Two days into The Pirate Bay trial, it looks as though the file-sharing site may come away victorious, despite many odds. Half of the charges brought against the bit torrent file sharing Web site have been dropped. Gone are the charges that The Pirate Bay has assisted in copyright infringement; now all that's left are claims of "assisting making available" bit torrents for illegal download. read more »
What the average guy might call a con is known in the security world as social engineering. Social engineering is the criminal art of scamming a person into doing something or divulging sensitive information. These days, there are thousands of ways for con artists to pull off their tricks (See: Social Engineering: Eight Common Tactics). Here we look at some of the most common lines these people are using to fool their victims.. read more »
The Italian police force has become the latest to voice complaints that the Skype VoIP service is undermining their use of wiretapping in criminal investigations. read more »
The new pastime for governments at different levels in Nigeria is the development of ICT resource centers. It is a pastime that state governments and local councils love to indulge and one that the federal government is not shy to get involved in. read more »
