Results tagged “mac”

So, do netbooks need special anti-virus programs or not? We're still not sure. First, niche-filler Kaspersky Lab announced a special ‘netbooked' version of its suite, and this week it was the turn of the equally ambitious (and also European) Panda...

The BBC has been accused of going soft recently, but the hiring a botnet complete with 22,000 zombie PCs by its online show Click, is anything but. Inevitably, the legal pedants have had a good bleat about the demonstration ,...

Netbooks are cheapish, fairly basic in features, portable and keep going for hours if you are careful to buy one with a 6-cell battery. But are they secure? It's a valid question. Do low-cost computers have the power to run...

A Russian company has started selling a cheap system for cracking WPA encryption keys, but should companies using Wi-Fi be at all worried? Security consultancy GSS certainly thinks so, and put out a media comment article to sum up the...

Here's a joke you've probably heard before. Businesses are going to buy Apple Macs. Feel free to laugh now. Not very likely you might think, but that hasn't stopped a small independent analyst in the US claiming in portentous fashion...

At Techworld we wouldn't normally write about 'Apple' and 'security' in the same breath, and for a very simple reason - Apple security problems are rarely interesting enough. The world's cleverest malware writers devote their efforts to creating fiendish programs...

With the appearance of a new set of malware testing guidelines, it looks as if the hitherto erratic industry of software security testing could finally be about to grow up. But there is still a long journey ahead. The <a...

If I read the market correctly, the argument over whether a company should buy a specialist security appliance for every need, or invest instead in ‘all-in-one' devices is about to be won. The specialist security box is heading for extinction....

When the UK government isn't losing its databases, it's plotting to create new ones of unprecedented scale and reach. Indeed, the word ‘database' might turn out to be the term that defines its whole period in office. It started in...

How many browser wars are we on now? I make it at three and counting, each one won by achieving a different objective. Browser war one, the war to control web standards, saw the massacre of Netscape by Internet Explorer...

Just over two years after Chip and PIN arrived in the UK to save plastic from a torrent of fraud, the nay-sayers are still knocking it at every opportunity. But the problem isn't that it's failed but that its success...

Lock up your routers. The infamous but fascinating DNSChanger Trojan (AKA ‘Zlob’) has returned in a new variant that once again to hacks routers to redirect any DNS lookup made through that device. Ouch! You don’t have to be...

There’s been a vague assumption in some quarters that because Vista initially proved so hard for legitimate programmers to tangle with, malware writers would struggle as well. Here’s a real-world example of Vista being undermined, passed on by PC...

Let’s demystify the process of buying a laptop because there are plenty of vendors who’d like people to pay over the odds: buy a laptop to run a specific operating system. Am I kidding myself it's that simple? Set...

Last week's European Green IT summit showed how much interest there was in the subject ... and at the same time how there is to go before green issues start penetrating the IT mainstream. There was a healthy attendance...

The law of unintended consequences is up there with Murphy’s as the smuggest of its kind, but there’s no denying its talent for stripping bare our assumptions about technology. A report in The Guardian on the OLPC (one laptop...

An editor at US title InfoWorld has reminded me that it has a campaign . to save the soon-to-be discarded XP, now in its last months of sanctioned life. You can learn about XP’s many advantages over Vista, and...

It is sixty years since the invention of the transistor, or was on Sunday December 16th, an event that must have happened in a room somewhere off the long, serious marble corridors of Bell Laboratories' famous Murray Hill facility...

Does the imminence of Vista’s SP1 overhaul make it a better proposition for ordinary users and businesses? We now know that SP1 will be a 65MB Internet download, and it is claimed that it will improve Vista’s performance in...

Another version of AOL’s AIM instant messaging client arrives, this time version 6.5, and still there's no solution to its habit of eating CPU resources under Windows Vista. What’s habit is that, you say? I can’t say for sure...