SleepereEye Digital Security has discovered a vulnerability in RealPlayer that allows a remote attacker to reliably overwrite the stack with arbitrary data and execute arbitrary code in the context of the user under which the... More...
Only one day after Wanadoo's price drop of its price of 1Mbps ADSL service to just £17.99 Plusnet have followed suit. As of the 26th August, Plusnet will be offering 512 ADSL for... More...
A new service has been set up to pass on people's whereabouts in case they go missing. Safetytext users can notify others of their whereabouts by sending a text message to a preset... More...
A new Trojan horse program appeared on the Internet Friday, and security experts are worried that its disguise will help it infect a large number of computers rather quickly. Known variously as... More...
A day after Apple Computer Inc.'s introduction of new iPods and updates to the company's leading digital music service here at the Macworld Expo show, RealNetworks Inc. on Wednesday announced a major update to its... More...
Encouraged by Apple Computer Inc.'s introduction of a PowerPC G5-based server, Sybase Inc. on Tuesday announced here the availability of its Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise 12.5.1 relational database for Mac OS X 10.3 "Panther" Server.... More...
Cornice Inc., which has designed a stripped-down, compact 1.0-inch disk drive for consumer applications, said Monday that it will soon begin shipping a larger 2GB drive. The Cornice Storage Element eliminates many... More...
Macromedia Inc. Tuesday announced it has hired a former Microsoft Corp. executive to run its Macromedia Mobile and Devices Division. The San Francisco company announced the appointment of Juha Christensen, who until... More...
Festive internet traffic up by nearly half on 2002 This Christmas Day saw the internet move closer to joining Only Fools and Horses and James Bond movies as the UK's favourite means... More...
BT is to trial broadband over the air as part of its effort to bring broadband access to everyone by the end of 2005. 105 triallists from four regions (Ballingry in Fife, Scotland,... More...
Single workstation controls destiny of space probe The control centre is ready and a big Christmas celebration is expected when, or if, the UK's most ambitious scientific project, the Beagle 2 Mars... More...
Latest cons show increasing sophistication of cyber-criminals Online shoppers are being warned to look out for fraudulent websites dressed up as real businesses following the launch of a police investigation into a... More...
EU directive will be crippled by countries failing to comply, warn anti-spam experts The new anti-spam directive which came into force today will not stop unsolicited email, critics have warned. ... More...
Admit migration schemes unlikely to be completed next year The Chip-and-Pin Programme Management Organisation (PMO) has said that the vast majority of the UK's 42 million cardholders should be using chip-and-Pin cards... More...
Consortium aims to raise awareness of development processes behind the Penguin The Open Source Development Labs (OSDL) is looking to raise awareness about the processes behind the Linux kernel's development. ... More...