Regulation

HP Responds To Oracle Claim Of Itanium Deception

HP and Oracle have accused each other of lying about the future of Intel's Itanium chip

12 years ago

Industry Predicts More Advanced Attacks in 2012

Cyber-adversaries are gearing up for even more advanced attacks. Fahmida Rashid Explores the security outlook for 2012

12 years ago

GCHQ’s Cracking Good Idea That Failed The Test

The GCHQ recruitment puzzle has been full of security holes but it was more of a publicity stunt than anything…

12 years ago

McKinnon’s Mother Pleads Before Extradition Debate

Hacker Gary McKinnon's mother wants MPs to renegotiate controversial US-UK extradition treaty

12 years ago

Assange Set For Final Extradition Appeal

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has won the right to one further appeal to the Supreme Court

12 years ago

Syria Bans iPhones To Stop Protestors Talking

Apple's iPhone banned to silence reports of violence against protestors in Syria's Arab Spring revolt

12 years ago

Swiss Government Rules Downloading To Stay Legal

The Swiss government claims that file-sharing does not lose entertainment companies money

12 years ago

Russian Opposition Sites Hit with Attacks

Websites critical of Russia's government appear to have been silenced in DDoS attacks

12 years ago

Apple’s Samsung Ban Bid Rejected By US Court

A US District Court has refused to grant a preliminary injunction against Samsung's smartphone and tablets

12 years ago

DWP Confirms 1,000 Open Source Desktops Pilot

Microsoft beware: a major UK government department is to trial open source desktops

12 years ago

French Firm Supplied Gaddafi’s Internet Spying Kit

French social media publisher OWNI claims Amesys provided dissident-surveillance equipment to Libya

12 years ago

Samsung Galaxy Tab Ban Extended Down Under

Australian court bans Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 for another week so Apple can launch high court appeal

12 years ago

EC Forms Online Child Protection Coalition

The EC has formed a coalition of 28 leading tech and media companies to improve children's online safety

12 years ago

Ofcom Warns Operators Over Delayed 4G Auction

The head of Ofcom issued a blunt warning to Britain's mobile operators to stop delaying the 4G auction

12 years ago

GCHQ Devises Code-Cracker Game To Recruit Spies

Intelligence agency GCHQ has gone to social media with a code-breaking challenge for would-be spies

12 years ago

British Apple Worker Sacked For Facebook Posts

An Apple Store employee who ranted on Facebook about his job has lost his claim of unfair dismissal

12 years ago

WikiLeaks Launches Anti-Surveillance Campaign

Commercial firms are watching every move, says WikiLeaks' Spy Files campaign

12 years ago

Mobile “Big Brother” Carrier IQ Busted

Carrier IQ software logs every stroke on Android, RIM and Nokia phones, and says it's for your own good

12 years ago

Silk Browser Guards Privacy Amazon Tells Congress

Amazon confirms non- track Kindle Fire policy despite routing browser traffic through cloud servers

12 years ago

Facebook Settles Over Misleading Privacy Changes

Facebook has settled Federal Trade Commission charges of deceptive behaviour over privacy settings

12 years ago

Wikileaks Delays Online Submission System

Security fears over SSL prompt Wikileaks to delay the launch of its online submission system

12 years ago

Yacy Launches New Open Source Search Engine

Peer to peer search engine may turn government and business efforts to control searches on their heads

12 years ago

US Patriots v EU Liberals In 2012 Cloud Olympics

Cloud services could lose, in an Olympian contest over privacy between US patriots and EU human rights defenders, says Eric…

12 years ago

Osborne Plans Open Data and Connected Cities

George Osborne's Autumn statement launched an open data project, and promised connected cities

12 years ago

ICO Fines Councils For Breach

Some council staff don't know the difference between internal and external email, the ICO has found

12 years ago

MoD Admits More Laptop Losses

The MoD has admitted to mislaying IT equipment including more than 180 laptops

12 years ago

Liability Framework Missing From Security Strategy

BCS says the. government strategy is a good overall vision, but lacks emphasis in key areas

12 years ago

Cabinet Office Plans Open Standards Consultation

A fresh consultation will aim to clarify the government's position on open standards

12 years ago

EC To Stop Facebook Eavesdropping

An EC Directive will ban information harvesting on social networking sites for targeted advertising

12 years ago

Bring Computer Science To Schools, Says Industry

Some of the biggest names in multi-media and IT want the government to kick IT education up a notch

12 years ago