Jeremy Kirk

Microsoft will release a new version of its Dynamics CRM (customer relationship management) software with functions that mesh with its forthcoming Vista OS and Office 2007 software, the company said.

U.K. banks reported a 55 per cent increase in losses from fraudulent online transactions for the first half of the year, mostly from phishing scams, an industry trade group reported Tuesday.

Microsoft is investigating reports of a vulnerability in a Windows ActiveX control that could allow an attacker to remotely take control of a computer, according to an advisory. One security company rated the vulnerability critical, while Microsoft said it allowed only limited attacks.

Spam faces a new foe with the formation of an international group to exchange tactics and legal information. The StopSpamAlliance Web site launched on Tuesday, the result of a plan hatched at the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) meeting in Tunis, Tunisia, in November 2005.

Microsoft Corp. is preparing 55 legal actions worldwide against sellers on auction sites who are hawking illegal copies of the company's software, the company said Tuesday.

A tricky malicious program has become more prevalent in spam, but experts don't know what its creators plan to do with it.

In a push to attract bloggers and techies, Amnesty International UK is offering special code tools to raise awareness about bloggers around the world who are censored or imprisoned for their writing.

A U.S. judge has denied an appeal that would have suspended the domain name for Spamhaus, a U.K. antispam firm, averting a potential quagmire over how U.S. legal rulings apply across the global Internet.