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clickEmail and web snoop plans slammed - again
News The Home Office proposals will bring the UK in line with this requirement, extending the monitoring requirement to include all online traffic by 2009 at the latest. Click on the links below to find out more. [04 Sep 2008]
Home broadband gives kids better GCSE results
News The latest UK internet access report from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) has revealed a clear link between education and online households. According to the ONS stats, degree-level educated adults are most likely to have internet access... [28 Aug 2008]
Virtual worlds under siege from cyber crime
News Virtual worlds are playgrounds not just for people who want some online fantasy role-playing but for cyber criminals who are looking for places to launder money and steal data, according to security firm McAfee. [28 Aug 2008]
Third of UK homes still without web access
News There is also a clear link between a household's level of education and whether it's online, according to the ONS report. Individuals who have no formal qualifications are least likely to have internet connection in their home, at 56 per cent now... [27 Aug 2008]
OpenID at risk due to DNS flaw, claims researcher
News OpenID is a shared, online identity service that lets people create one single login to use on multiple sites. Security from A to Z Click on the links below to find out more. Z is for Zero-day A is for Antivirus [14 Aug 2008]
£68m 'snooping' database: Little impact on serious crime
News As of last September telecoms providers must keep all text and phone call records between six months and two years under an EU directive, and this is to be rolled out to include all online traffic by 2009 at the latest. [13 Aug 2008]
UK spam mountain just got bigger
News We have developed significant security processes to protect against this type of threat, including sending more than two million card reader devices to our customers with the specific purpose of protecting them from online fraud such as phishing. [12 Aug 2008]
Generation Y setting tech agenda
News Generation Y is also the most internet-savvy group, spending more time online than they do watching television, with 42 per cent watching online video at least once per month. Golvin said the key distinction between Generation X and Y is that... [25 Jul 2008]
Has Barclays stamped out fraud with PINsentry?
News Barclays claims to have reduced online fraud to zero among users of its two-factor authentication system, PINsentry. Take-up of the devices has been higher than expected, exceeding 30 per cent of the online user base, Barclays said. [18 Jul 2008]
Security heading for the cloud
News Security software will jump off PCs and into 'the cloud', with spending on online security services forecast to triple by 2013. Security company Symantec is also forecasting a shift from home users and businesses installing security packages on... [17 Jul 2008]
Brits still dissatisfied with broadband speeds
News The survey also found nearly a third (30 per cent) of consumers now watch TV or video online.uSwitch added that international broadband rankings put the UK's 4Mbps average to shame, with Japan boasting an average connection speed of 64Mbps, Korea... [14 Jul 2008]
Terrorists turning to tech, warns gov't
News Tom Black, chief executive of Detica, told silicon.com sister site ZDNet.co.uk: "Terrorists are using the internet for secure communications, mission planning, assessing targets online and to radicalise the next generation. [04 Jul 2008]
Viacom vs Google: YouTube privacy fears
News Viacom, owner of movie studio Paramount and MTV Networks, requested the information as part of its $1bn copyright infringement lawsuit against the popular online video service and its deep-pocketed parent, Google. [04 Jul 2008]
Skype touts biz credentials
News Karen Hollands, founder of online language school Toniks, has built her business around Skype to link pupils to language tutors based across the world. Broadband from A to Z Click on the links below to find out more. [02 Jul 2008]
CIOs not taking security breaches seriously
News Mike Davies, director of identification and authentication services at VeriSign which conducted the research, said security and trust needs to be top of the agenda for online businesses if they want to maintain the boom in online transactions. [27 Jun 2008]
