Jeremy Kirk

A Web site owner has blocked Firefox users from accessing his site in protest of a popular browser extension that blocks text and display ads.

Russian prosecutors and a recording industry trade group will appeal the acquittal of a senior manager affiliated with Allofmp3.com, the Web site accused of brazenly selling pirated music without paying royalties.

Microsoft Corp. is offering a preview of the first service pack for Exchange Server 2007, an update that binds the company's latest e-mail server closer to other so-called unified communications products.

A new report on Internet safety has concluded ISPs (Internet service providers) should take more responsibility for online security since end users are often lax.

A security researcher has reported a serious vulnerability in BIND 9, the software widely used in the Internet

One of London's most heavily used subway lines cruises a lot faster during autumn using a software program that predicts the impact of an unlikely enemy: falling leaves.

A new project is aiming to allow U.S. government agencies to share data securely. The objective of the Secure Information Sharing Infrastructure (SISA) project is to create a system that allows data to be shared between the agencies, but in a way that ensures only the people who are authorized to access data are able to do so. Cisco Systems Inc., Microsoft Corp. and EMC Corp. will provide commercial, off-the-shelf products, with smaller vendors contributing specific technologies.

The U.K.'s trial of e-voting and e-counting technologies during recent local elections resulted in crashed computers and technicians scratching their heads, while posing new concerns about the systems' security and reliability, a new report has concluded.