At last someone has taken a peek into what really goes on inside social networking phenomenon Twitter, and dug up something surprising. Far from being busy and gregarious, a lot of the time it’s remarkably friendless and silent.After analysing 19...

However driven by short-term share prices, it feels like a significant moment that the world’s richest person as measured by Forbes is no longer Bill Gates, and is not even an American. That crown now goes to a Mexican, Carlos...

Mobile malware often looks like a scare story put out by security companies with products to sell and programmers who over-estimate geeky theoretical risks.Fair assessment or delirious complacency?Every security show held (the recent RSA Show for instance) has its mandatory...

Name the most important anti-crime organisation on the Internet. Not easy. An international police body? Some wing of the US government? Here’s my guess, and I base this on some evidence. It’s Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit a small department so...

Microsoft watchers will have watched in horror (or perhaps delight) this week as Microsoft did something monumentally ill-advised. It phoned its corporate lawyers, who phoned domain hoster Network Solutions, who took down the small but well-known anti-secrecy website, Cryptome.org.Taking down...

So I wasn’t the only one scratching my head over claims made a week ago that real-world memory usage on Windows 7 could routinely hit the 90 percent mark. It turns out that the company from which the unusual claims...

Sports stars have been accused of a number of things over the years, but the hacking allegations against former US Tour de France cycling champion Floyd Landis always set a new benchmark for murk. To my knowledge the Pennsylvania Mennonite-born...

The words ‘Windows’ and ‘frugal’ have rarely been seen in proximity to one another, but even by those standards a new claim that Windows 7 gorges on memory is unusual.Devil Mountain Inc draws its stats from its 23,000 PC Exo.performance.network...

Credit to Silicon Valley Insider for telling us what we thought we knew. Microsoft makes its money from yesterday’s products, fashioned in a pre-Internet age few of us can remember.The first interesting thing about the graph published on the magazine’s...

A new chip and PIN vulnerability has the industry shrugging its shoulders, and consumer groups up in arms, but the bigger question is this: can it be fixed?The Cambridge University research team cracked the apparently impregnable four-digit PIN verification system...