Jeremy Kirk

A teenager who crashed a former employer's server by sending a torrent of junk e-mail, a practice known as mail bombing, could still face up to five years in prison after the case was sent back to trial.

BT Group PLC said Wednesday it will offer enterprises IP-based phone network services by early 2007 with features similar to PBX (private-branch exchange) networks. The project, called Enterprise FMC, is a larger scale version of BT's Fusion service, launched in June 2005. BT Fusion, targeted at consumers and small businesses, uses a Bluetooth connection for broadband calls that are about 50 percent cheaper than landline calls, a BT spokesman said.

A British court on Wednesday approved a request by the US for the extradition of an unemployed systems administrator who allegedly caused US$700,000 in damage by hacking into US military and government computers.

A British court on Wednesday approved a request by the U.S. for the extradition of an unemployed systems administrator who allegedly caused US$700,000 in damage by hacking into U.S. military and government computers.

When the British government wanted to test the resiliency of its financial institutions, it commissioned

British naturalist Charles Darwin is credited with the theory of evolution, but there is evidence to show that a crucial part of his theory came from his mentor, Cambridge University professor John Stevens Henslow.

A new kind of malware circulating on the Internet freezes a computer and then asks for a ransom paid through the Western Union Holdings Inc. money transfer service. A sample of the Trojan horse virus was sent to Sophos PLC, a security vendor. The malware, which Sophos named Troj/Ransom-A, is one of only a few viruses so far that have asked for a ransom in exchange for releasing control of a computer.

Microsoft Corp., which has been carving a larger slice of the mobile device OS market, is developing a new product, code-named "Crossbow," which will incorporate features such as instant messaging, a Microsoft executive confirmed. Crossbow will take aim at the Symbian Ltd. and BlackBerry operating systems.