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Betfair spins into financial trading
News The company set up an internal VC unit to explore other ways to exploit its exchange technology - Tradefair, which launched in late 2007 as a subsidiary of Betfair, is the result. Online betting exchange Betfair has spun... [10 Nov 2008]
Microsoft: Trojan threat is rising
News Vulnerabilities are decreasing but becoming easier to exploit; Trojans are the biggest threat; and Chinese computers are infected with more browser-based exploits than anywhere else. Meanwhile, the percentage of... [04 Nov 2008]
Android security hole gets patched up
News Earlier, Google appealed for what it called "responsible disclosure" of security vulnerabilities - in other words, a grace period to fix problems before they're made public to reduce the likelihood an attacker will get a chance to... [03 Nov 2008]
Social networks 'could replace' public services
News Gartner analyst Andrea Di Maio told silicon.com the public sector could exploit social networking communities which improve on services already provided by the government, and could work with online communities to... [27 Oct 2008]
Microsoft 'critically' patches 'worm hole'
News In issuing MS08-067, Microsoft warns "it is possible that this vulnerability could be used in the crafting of a wormable exploit". On Thursday, Microsoft issued a rare out-of-cycle patch for a vulnerability in the... [24 Oct 2008]
Cotswold council signs £2m support contract
News Cotswold District Council ICT services manager Mike Brown said in a statement: "Steria's experience will prove invaluable to us as we implement a service improvement roadmap to continually identify ways to exploit ICT... [09 Oct 2008]
Phishers cash in on credit crisis
News Phishers and scammers commonly exploit news events to lure victims to sites that contain malware or that ask them to supply information. It seems phishers are cashing in on the current economic crisis and climate of... [03 Oct 2008]
Nottingham to plant WiMax Forest
News Speaking to silicon.com, member of Nottingham Trent University's public spaces research group, Frank Abbott, said: "WiMax in a way is a technology which is additional to what's already there and can fill in certain gaps and do certain... [24 Sep 2008]
Staff web 2.0 skills can boost work productivity
News Businesses should exploit their employees' knowledge of web 2.0 in order to fully take advantage of the tech, according to analysts. With more consumers than ever involved with social networking, user-generated content... [24 Sep 2008]
Firefox extension to protect from wireless hacks
News Perspectives also protects against attacks that exploit a recently exposed flaw in the DNS system, which translates web addresses into numerical IP addresses, said Dave Andersen, a computer science professor at Carnegie... [27 Aug 2008]
Ubuntu patches flaw
News A local attacker could exploit this to execute arbitrary code as root, or crash the system, leading to a denial of service. Ubuntu became the latest Linux vendor to patch a vulnerability in the open-source operating... [26 Aug 2008]
Microsoft's 'Patch Tuesday' targets six critical flaws
News In Security Bulletin MS08-041, Microsoft warned that attackers could further use the internet to exploit a vulnerability in the ActiveX control for the Snapshot Viewer for Microsoft Access. Microsoft has released six... [13 Aug 2008]
Apple releases patch for critical flaw
News An exploit code that could allow someone to attack the DNS was available in various places on the internet on 23 July. Apple released a security update yesterday to users of its Tiger and Leopard operating systems to... [01 Aug 2008]
RIM patches PDF security hole
News RIM announced the "highly critical" security advisory two weeks ago, detailing that a booby-trapped PDF could exploit a hole in RIM's server software to gain remote access to corporate networks. RIM has released a patch... [23 Jul 2008]
Is the UK an open source laggard?
News He said: "We are keen to exploit some of the opportunities that open source brings - not just for the obvious cost advantage but also to benefit from some of the innovative thinking - such as with Service Component... [21 Jul 2008]
