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News The security threat from email attachments has fallen dramatically during the same period, dropping from one infected attachment in every 332 emails in the first six months of 2007 to one in every 2,500 during the first six months of 2008. [23 Jul 2008]
UK youths going mobile web crazy
News More than 45 per cent of mobile users access websites every day via their mobile device, according to the survey, while a whopping 62 per cent check emails daily and more than a fifth (24 per cent) have subscribed to social networking on their... [17 Jul 2008]
Privacy chief fights UK-wide database
News A database of all calls, emails and internet traffic, to be stored by the Home Office for at least 12 months, is thought to be included under proposals for "modifying procedures for acquiring communications data" in the draft Communications Data... [15 Jul 2008]
City slickers addicted to email
News More than a quarter of the 300 London workers surveyed by IT security company Credant Technologies said they check their emails daily during their holidays, with 14 per cent admitting they do so more than once per day. [07 Jul 2008]
Timeline: HM Revenue & Customs data blunder
News In subsequent emails, NAO employees emphasise the CDs must be "delivered to the NAO as safely as possible due to their content". An HMRC employee emails an NAO employee to tell them the password for the fourth set of data discs. [26 Jun 2008]
Free wi-fi arrives in York station
News He said in a statement: "For business passengers our wi-fi creates a productive mobile office, with the ability to send and receive emails as well as to access the internet. Travellers using York railway station can now enjoy free wi-fi while they... [13 Jun 2008]
Phishing, malware and online fraud is booming
News Spam emails are often used in phishing attacks or to deliver malware it says, distributed by networks of compromised botnet computers which are also used for denial of service attacks. A government report on serious criminal threats to the UK has... [06 Jun 2008]
Building society streamlines system support
News The system also sends out alerts to customer support on triggers within customer emails, so they can deal with complaints more quickly. Principality Building Society has implemented a process automation platform to streamline a number of functions... [27 May 2008]
Broadband Blighty gets a rural flavour
News England The English spend more time on the internet than in any of the UK's other nations, going online for an average of 12.4 hours on the internet, and 77 per cent of their time online is used to send emails and IMs, and visit chatrooms... [22 May 2008]
Critics attack gov't email, phone database plan
News But the Home Office insists that any database would not keep the contents of emails and web traffic - only information on who's been emailing or phoning who and which sites have been visited. All email, blogs, instant messaging and VoIP calls could... [20 May 2008]
National Work from Home Day: A blessing or a curse?
News Several calls to the IT desk later I had limited access to my emails and by 9.30am I was communicating with my workmates via IM. In honour of National Work from Home Day, the silicon.com team stayed out of the office to find out just how easy it is... [16 May 2008]
Warning: The Storm still rages on
News In the past, the Storm worm authors would directly link to malware on websites or within spam emails. A number of nascent Storm hosting domains using fast-flux techniques to mask their URLs have been identified by the security company, which issued... [07 May 2008]
Facebook under attack: The spam and phishing threat
News Kelly explained the hack attacks included non-specific threats, such as edge-of-network penetration attempts and application flaw exploits, and more specific threats such as phishing attacks against users, in the form of forged emails purporting... [23 Apr 2008]
UK phishing attacks shoot up 200 per cent
News The sharp rise is evidence that fraudsters are still using fake emails to trick people into revealing personal information that allows access to their bank accounts, Apacs said. Phishing email attacks on the UK have gone up by 200 per cent this... [16 Apr 2008]
PayPal wages war on phishing
News According to Gartner, 3.3 per cent of the 124 million people who received phishing emails in 2007 were duped and lost money. PayPal has brought in a number of tech solutions including digital email signatures - something that the company now does... [11 Apr 2008]
