Jul
22

Microsoft gets tough with spammers

Microsoft has taken action in a lawsuit against a company that it thinks infiltrated the privacy of Windows Live Messenger users to conduct a spam campaign among contacts on users’ lists... more
Jul
22

ISACA Names New International President

Emil D’Angelo, CISA, CISM, senior vice president at the Bank of Tokyo Mitsubishi UFJ, New Jersey, USA, was elected international president of ISACA at its 37th annual International Conference in Los.. more
Jul
22

ISACA Leader Calls for Changes to Information Security

At ISACA’s International Conference in Los Angeles this morning, security professional John Pironti called for a sweeping change in how enterprises deal with information security. “Security by compliance is no longer.. more
Jul
22

Rolf von Roessing Elected International Vice President of ISACA

Rolf von Roessing, CISA, CISM, CGEIT, retired partner and now senior external advisor at KPMG Germany, was elected international vice president of ISACA—a nonprofit association serving more than 86,000 IT governance, assurance and security professionals in 160 countries—at its International Conference in Los Angeles, CA,.. more
Jul
22

Broadband subscribers reluctant to swap providers

It is estimated that around half of the UK’s broadband users have not switched the internet service provider in the last fours. According to the broadband comparison site, comsumerchoices.co.uk, many of these broadband users could be stuck on the same contract now as they were.. more
Jul
22

Next gen broadband essential for the future

There was a time when the internet was nothing but a tool for communication and educational organisations, but it was loose on the world and today the internet touches almost everyone in the UK. Yet the UK is struggling to provide even a minimum 2.. more
Jul
22

Eclipse urging subscribers to switch

The business internet service provider, Eclipse, has begun a campaign to try to tempt the customers of Pipex and Nildram to switch providers. This is yet another campaign mounted by an ISP to tempt customers of Tiscali, of which Pipex and Nildram are, to switch.. more
Jul
22

BBC iPlayer on Freeview ASAP

The famous BBC iPlayer will be appear on Freeview as soon as possible, according to the body responsible for overseeing the development of new set top boxes, the Digital TV Group. Freeview HD is due to come out in December, and it is the plan.. more
Jul
22

Malware spread as Swine alert

There is hardly a news report that goes by without a mention of swine flu and this has been playing on the minds of people so much, that when an email arrives with important swine flu information, they are easily persuaded to click to see.. more
Jul
22

UK’s oldest TV connected to Freeview

It is amazing that some televisions have difficulty with handling the digital technology that is currently available, yet one of the oldest TVs in the country has no problem at all with Freeview. The oldest known working television in the UK was found in an.. more