Jeremy Kirk

If you told residents of Winsford, England, that their personal computers had been turned into an invisible electronic army, they'd probably think you're mad. But the 33,000-person town in northwest part of the country reportedly has one of the highest rates of computers infected with programs that receive and respond to commands from other remote computers.

A new phishing method is targeting users of Yahoo Inc. by recording their user name and password while logging them into a legitimate area of the portal, according to Websense Inc., a Web security software firm.

A gamut of projects under the U.K. e-Science Program, many of which involve employing large-scale IT systems to analyze data over the Internet for scientists in a range of fields, are being detailed this week at the fourth annual e-Science All Hands Meeting 2005 in Nottingham, England.

Computers and mobile devices using wireless networks or other end points by company employees are posing increasing threats to their organizations' computer systems, although there are ways IT managers can reduce risk, according to an analyst Thursday at the Gartner IT Security Summit 2005 in London.