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UK police make Zeus Trojan arrests

The UK Metropolitan Police Central e-Crime Unit made two arrests earlier this month for suspected use of the Zeus Trojan. The UK Metropolitan Police Central e-Crime Unit made two arrests earlier this month for suspected use of the Zeus Trojan. A man and a woman, both...

Tags: Spyware, Viruses And Worms, Trojan, arrest, security, virus, Adware & Malware, Tom Espiner ZDNet UK

News items 2009-11-19

Intel to use EC slip-up in antitrust defense

Intel plans to use a finding of the European Ombudsman in its appeal against a European Commission antitrust fine. Intel told ZDNet UK on Wednesday that it is likely to use the Ombudsman's finding that the Commission failed to adequately record meetings as part of its defence against the...

Tags: Commission, Intel Corp., Corporate Law, Sales Force Management, Business Operations, Sales, Intel, antitrust, EU, Tom Espiner ZDNet UK

News items 2009-11-18

Zero-day flaw found in web encryption

A zero-day flaw in the TLS and SSL protocols, which are commonly used to encrypt web pages, has been made public. Security researchers Marsh Ray and Steve Dispensa unveiled the TLS Transport Layer Security flaw on Wednesday, following the disclosure of separate, but similar, security findings. TLS and its...

Tags: Web, Flaw, TLS, SSL, Zero-day Bug, Ssl/Tls, Network Security, Channel Management, Networking, Marketing, zero day, security, encryption, Tom Espiner ZDNet UK

News items 2009-11-05

Microsoft fixes IE patch again

Microsoft has released an out-of-schedule fix for problems introduced by its last patch for Internet Explorer. Microsoft has released an out-of-schedule fix for problems introduced by its last patch for Internet Explorer. The fix, described in Microsoft support article ID 976749, was initially made available on...

Tags: Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Corp., Web Browsers, Internet, IE, Internet Explorer, Microsoft, browser, security, Tom Espiner ZDNet UK

News items 2009-11-04

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VeriSign sets timetable to fix DNS hole

VeriSign has said a significant outstanding internet security vulnerability will be closed by 2011, after delays caused by technical aspects of the implementation. VeriSign has said a significant outstanding internet security vulnerability will be closed by 2011, after delays caused by technical aspects of the implementation. ...

Tags: DNS, VeriSign Inc., Internet Security, Internet, Domain Names, Security, VeriSign, security, Tom Espiner

News items 2009-11-16

Experts: Don't clamp down on social media

The use of Twitter to spread information about the unrest in Iran can teach businesses valuable lessons about the flow of information in their organizations, according to leading lights of the IT security world. The use of Twitter to spread information about the unrest in Iran can teach businesses...

Tags: Howard Schmidt, Twitter Inc., Iran, Government, Instant Messaging, Vertical Industries, Security, Internet, Online Communications, social media, Twitter, Tom Espiner ZDNet UK

News items 2009-06-22

UK outlines Facebook monitoring plans

Britain's Home Office describes how it wants service providers to retain and process data about their users' activities on social networks and other third-party services. The UK government wants communications service providers to record, retain and process details of all communications that take place over their networks, the home...

Tags: Facebook, Monitoring, Service Provider, Communications Service Provider, Consultation, Communications Data, Business Services, Government, Vertical Industries, Enterprise Software, Software, UK, Home Office, surveillance, privacy, Tom Espiner and David Meyer ZDNet.co.uk

News items 2009-04-27

IDC: Downturn to drive Linux adoption

IT decision-makers are planning to increase the use of server and client-side Linux due to the economic climate, analyst firm IDC has found. The current economic downturn is set to drive Linux adoption, according to a white paper by research organization IDC. In a survey of...

Tags: Adoption, Survey, International Data Corp., IT Decision-maker, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, IDC, recession, netbooks, virtualization, Tom Espiner ZDNet.co.uk

News items 2009-03-17

Microsoft exec rebuts hypervisor security claims

Microsoft security strategist Steve Riley has answered claims that the company's hypervisor software could be maliciously replaced on PCs without administrators knowing. SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA--Senior Microsoft security strategist Steve Riley has used the vendor's TechEd conference in Sydney to rebut claims by a Polish researcher that Microsoft's hypervisor software could...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Virtualization, Hardware, Liam Tung ZDNet Australia, rootkit, hypervisor, Joanna Rutkowska, security

News items 2008-09-05

IBM to open-source DB2?

Big Blue is looking into bringing its widely used database software under an open-source license, a U.K. director acknowledges. IBM is positive about the possibility of bringing out its DB2 database management software under an open-source license. While the computing giant has no immediate plans to open-source...

Tags: IBM DB2, IBM Corp., Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, ZDNet (UK), Open source

News items 2008-06-16

Puncturing the myth of the invulnerable OS

Puncturing the myth of the invulnerable OSWell ..."Do you want Microsoft or Apple or your favorite Linux distro to say, "I'm sorry, Dave, I can't allow that," ..."Vista already does this when the broadcast flag is set, so not allowing any cracking tools shouldn't be too far behind. ;)Is Vista...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), operating system, Microsoft Windows Vista, UAC, invulnerable OS

Discussion threads 2008-05-20

Europe still top source of spam

For the third month running, compromised computers in Europe have pushed out more spam than those in the U.S. European spam networks have pumped out more unsolicited e-mail than those in the U.S. for the third month in a row, according to security vendor Symantec. Symantec...

Tags: Symantec Corp., Spammer, CBS Interactive Inc., Europe, Broadband, Cyberthreats, Spam, Security, Spam And Phishing, Tom Espiner, Attacks

News items 2008-02-06

Wikia Search to offer first peek next week

A public alpha of the community-driven, open-source search tool is set to launch Monday. Wikia Search, a community-driven search engine, will get its first public preview on Monday, according to co-founder Jimmy Wales. In an e-mail sent to the Wikia Search mailing list on December 24, Wales...

Tags: CBS Interactive Inc., Wikia Inc., Search Platform, Search, Open Source, Tom Espiner, Web software, Search Tool, CNET Networks Inc.

News items 2008-01-02

U.K. government loses pensioner data

Department responsible for collecting taxes, administering other services, admits another data loss. Her Majesty's Revenue & Customs, the U.K. government department responsible for collecting taxes and other services, has admitted losing the personal details of more than 6,500 people who file pension claims. The details were lost...

Tags: Cartridge, CBS Interactive Inc., Government, Spokesperson, HMRC, Data Cartridge, Taxes, Free Trade, Financial Planning, Finance, Tom Espiner, Privacy & data protection, CNET Networks Inc., Tax

News items 2007-12-19

Oracle to push out 51 patches

Update includes fixes for 27 vulnerabilities in Oracle Database, five of which may be exploited remotely without authentication. Oracle plans to push out 51 fixes for flaws in its software, in a self-described "critical patch update" on Tuesday. The flaws affect a number of Oracle products. Some...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Flaw, Patch Management, Security, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Tom Espiner, Software flaws, Oracle Database

News items 2007-10-15

Study: Businesses falling short on data disposal

Study commissioned by BT Group finds that many organizations fail to clean sensitive data off secondhand hard disks. Organizations charged with safeguarding sensitive data are not doing enough to ensure that information is cleansed from hard disks before disposal, according to communication services provider BT Group. A...

Tags: Hard Drive, Patient, Disk, U.K., Data, 42, Tom Espiner

News items 2007-09-24

HP targets Cisco dominance with core switch

HP ProCurve says continued growth means it has to compete with Cisco. HP ProCurve has launched a core switch that it hopes will challenge Cisco's market dominance. The 8212zl, launched on Monday, is a scalable chassis core switch platform with 692Gbps switch capacity and 10Gb Ethernet connectivity....

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., HP ProCurve, Cisco Systems Inc., 8212zl, Utility Computing, Tom Espiner, Network architecture, Platform, Module

News items 2007-09-10

Boo.com back after dot-com boo-boos

One of the most high-profile failures of the 2000 dot-com crash, a British fashion site, takes on a new form as a travel site. Boo.com, which was originally an online fashion retailer when it fell into liquidation in 2000, has been relaunched as a social-networking and travel-booking site, using...

Tags: Dot-com, Liquidation, Site, Boo.com, Boo, Web 2.0, Y2K, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing, Tom Espiner, Web Technology

News items 2007-05-02

TomTom shipped viruses on its navigation devices

"Small number" of GO 910 devices included two Windows-based bugs; no reports of problems yet, company says. Satellite navigation company TomTom has admitted that it shipped two viruses on a number of its devices. According to the company, a "small number" of TomTom GO 910 satellite...

Tags: Device, TomTom, Virus, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Tools & Techniques, Management, Tom Espiner

News items 2007-01-29

'Storm worm' Trojan horse surges on

Many home PC users may have been infected after a large-scale sustained Trojan horse attack that took place over the weekend. Many home PC users may have been infected after a large-scale sustained Trojan horse attack that took place over the weekend, security vendors believe. ...

Tags: Antivirus, Trojan Horse, Worm, F-Secure Corp., Attack, Spyware, E-mail, Security, Viruses And Worms, Online Communications, Tom Espiner, Adware & Malware

News items 2007-01-23