A worm which has come and gone from the online social networking service Twitter could have been potentially more dangerous according IT security firm, F-Secure.
Problems started last weekend when the worm – a self replicating form of virus – started to infect profiles on the …

Virgin have picked up pace in advertising their broadband services to UK consumers. Much of Virgins advertising has previously focused on comparing its package deals or television capability against its main competitor Sky. Recently however, the company has been pushing their broadband service in the …

Conficker is a computer worm which can cause major damage to unprotected Microsoft Windows systems including Vista and the new beta copies of Windows 7. It’s been around since October 2008, and it’s estimated to have affected 9 to 15 million computers. In fact, top …

Security Guru and Chief Technologist of Motorola Enterprise Wireless LAN, Amit Sinha, has called for firms to pay more attention to the security of their wireless networks.
Research teams from Vanson Bourne questioned 400 executives from all over Europe and found that nearly two thirds of …

For a business, keeping in control your data is of vital concern. In the past, security has been a relatively simple matter of securing wired networks in house and ensuring protection for stolen hardware. However, wireless has changed the terrain for businesses and while many …

Who says crime doesn’t pay? Two years ago Owen Thor Walker was a major player in a criminal network of international cyber-crime at only 16 years old. Walker designed the famous “AKILL” virus, a virus completely undetectable by antivirus software at the time. Two years …

Back in the days of dialup, gamers had to work to squeeze every last kilobit out of their connections. As broadband was adopted in the UK there slowly became a digital divide for gamers who could afford the new service and gamers left on dial-up, …

How secure is your network? With more and more traditional wired networks being replaced by wireless technology, security has become a major concern. Scan for wireless networks in a busy neighbourhood and it’s likely that at least a few will be totally open, while others …