Scarlett Pruitt

Another variant of the Mytob worm began wiggling its way into inboxes this week, enticing recipients to open an e-mail attachment that could allow a remote hacker to access and perform commands on an infected machine. The variant, dubbed "Mytob.bi" by some security researchers, scans the hard drive of an infected machine and sends copies of itself to e-mail addresses it finds in the Windows Address Book, antivirus firm Trend Micro Inc. said Tuesday. The worm poses as a message from an IT administrator, warning recipients that their e-mail account is about to be suspended, Trend Micro said.

Sun Microsystems Inc. said this week that it is thinking about offering some of its Java Enterprise System (JES) under an open source license, although no final decisions have been made.

Microsoft Corp. is teaming with systems integration and consulting firm BearingPoint Inc. to deliver a set of software and services packages aimed at governments.

Yahoo Inc. is scooping up European online comparison-shopping service Kelkoo SA in a move aimed at catapulting the Internet giant's e-commerce and search-related marketing services in Europe.

More than two-thirds of U.K. businesses surveyed reported that they were victims of high-tech crimes last year, costing them millions of pounds in down time, systems damage and client loss, according to a report released Tuesday by the National Hi-Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU).

Mobile phone operators and handset makers are working together in an international campaign to decrease mobile phone theft.

While China's large online population and growing economic development represent an irresistible lure for many IT vendors, any technology they provide that helps the Chinese government impose Internet censorship makes them partially to blame for human rights abuses, a new report by Amnesty International (AI) claims.