Jeremy Kirk

Researchers deploy an XML-based Instant Object Description Exchange Format (IODEF), already being used by computer incident response teams to report adverse network events, to track and collate Internet fraud and scams on a common browser friendly format

Exhibitors at the CeBIT show demonstrated technologies such as Elliptic Curve Cryptography and Advanced Encryption Standard to scramble voice calls. Find out what Secusmart, Caspertech, Compumatica and Rohde and Schwarz have in store

The software maker has patched the bug that put users at risk merely by viewing malicious Shockwave Flash files. Other updates addressed risks of clickjacking and denial of service

User backlash forces the social networking site to recall changes in its terms of use that gave it over-reaching and perpetual control over data posted there

The U.S. Security and Exchange Commission wants companies to use Extensible Business Reporting Language data-markup language for better transparency and to make it easier for investors to analyze financial data

Microsoft blames slumping software client revenues blamed on weak PC sales brought mounting consumer interest in low-cost netbooks for the company's latest woe

A little-known company is suing 22 major software companies for alleged patent infringement over an invention which allows computer users to control an application in order to thwart malicious software

Misunderstanding of licencing deal, which allows only music played within the previous four weeks to be rebroadcast, forces broadcaster to stop putting tunes by the Fab Four online