'Like testing ABS brakes by pushing a car over a cliff' Anti-malware vendors have launched a counter-attack on a study questioning the effectiveness of internet security suites, suggesting that the methodology in tests carried out by vulnerability notification firm Secunia was fundamentally flawed.… Full published article at: Read More »

Subpoenas Yahoo! for his name Underscoring a weak link in the security chains of even the world's biggest companies, a luxury hotel chain is subpoenaing Yahoo in an attempt to learn who breached its computer network and accessed sensitive emails sent to company employees.… Full published article at: Read More »

The aftertaste of InfiniBand Chip maker Intel today said that it paid $8m to acquire the assets of NetEffect, a maker of Ethernet networking adapters and ASICs. NetEffect was founded a decade ago to create InfiniBand networking technology and a business based on it, but this didn't work out.… Full published article at: Read More »

Hey, whoa, we never meant to buy that bit A formatting fubar involving an Excel spreadsheet has left Barclays Capital with contracts involving collapsed investment bank Lehman Brothers than it never meant to acquire.… Full published article at: Read More »

G-Day announced Brits will be able to get their hands on T-Mobile's G1 Googlephone at the end of the month, the carrier said today.… Full published article at: Read More »

Better roadmaps needed for safe speeding As part of the launch of the Sparc T5440 midrange server this week in San Francisco, top brass from both Sun Microsystems and Fujitsu spent some time assuring customers that the companies' chip and systems partnership going strong and that both were working away on Sparc processors that would end up in future systems.… Full published article at: Read More »

Tom Young, Computing, Wednesday 15 October 2008 at 15:42:00 Communication database plan put on hold as government seeks to extend powers The government wants to give law enforcement authorities greater access to information held by social networking sites amid concerns that terrorists are increasingly using them for communications. The intention was announced by home secretary Jacqui Smith this morning in a speech to think tank the Institute of Public Policy Research as she highlighted the importance of communication interception. "Our ability to intercept communications and obtain communications data is...Read More »

Servers still struggling to service demand The latest version of OpenOffice - providing you can get at it - supports Macs natively for the first time.… Full published article at: Read More »

Buff up your halos Reader Poll We asked what looks to have been a pretty contentious question – what’s the role of managers in software development? - and we got some pretty contentious answers, which are well worth a look in their entirety. The conclusion: a lot of managers are crap. But – and it’s a big but – they don’t have to be, if they get certain basics in place.… Full published article at: Read More »

With love from Brussels The regulator's rule book for deciding what is permissible on today's roads is very thick indeed. The content, behaviour and performance of "stuff on roads" is massive, and grows by the day. Try hot-rodding your lawnmower – or deciding that on Thursdays, you will only make left turns, and see how far you get.… Full published article at: Read More »