Computing staff, Computing, Wednesday 10 December 2008 at 15:30:00 Every research study points to a massive growth in scale of cyber attacks in 2008 The scale and sophistication of IT security threats increased at an unprecedented rate during 2008, according to a series of end-of-year research studies published last week. Anti-virus vendor Kaspersky Lab said that 15 million new forms of malware will have been detected by the end of this year ­ up from just two million in 2007. IBM said data from its 3,700 managed security services customers worldwide showed that the number of...Read More »

Parliamentary reporter, Computing, Wednesday 10 December 2008 at 09:46:00 Speaker Michael Martin forced to make statement after growing concerns that police may have accessed shared servers Speaker Michael Martin has formally assured MPs that police had no access to confidential material stored on the parliamentary network servers when they raided the offices of Tory MP Damian Green. Martin delivered a special statement in the Commons in which he also pledged: "No access will be given unless a warrant exists and I approve such access." The Speaker was responding to mounting concern among MPs who use...Read More »

Bryan Glick, Computing, Tuesday 9 December 2008 at 15:31:00 BT to develop National Resilience Extranet system The government is to set up a secure web site to improve information sharing during civil emergencies. The UK Cabinet Office Civil Contingencies Secretariat and the Department of Communities and Local Government have commissioned BT to develop the National Resilience Extranet (NRE). The site will provide more than 1,000 organisations, such as fire and rescue services, utilities and strategic health authorities, with secure, internet-based collaboration technology, allowing...Read More »

'A decommitment of intent' IBM has a love, hate, love, hate, hate, hate relationship with Solaris, Sun Microsystems' Unix variant. And becoming an OEM partner of Sun's to distribute Solaris has apparently changed none of that.… Full published article at: Read More »

Rumours and speculation about an ultra-thin laptop, thanks to a new teaser website and a Dell executive slip. Full published article at: Read More »

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No no there's no convergence limit Orange is bringing the Technocentre concept to London, citing the success of the existing centres as proof that the company can take the best of the internet and make it work for a telco.… Full published article at: Read More »

Bloomin' MessageLabs A florist is complaining that MessageLabs wrongly identified emails it was sending as infected with a computer virus.… Full published article at: Read More »