Or how Bob Metcalfe set out to solve the challenge of wireless data and inadvertently gave Starbucks a business model. Is there a more ubiquitous, enabling technology than Ethernet? If there is it’s hard to think what it might be. It...

Is the FinFisher suite legitimate surveillance or software’s Dr Strangelove? The UK is a bulwark against cybercrime, noted the world over for its respect for the principles of law and order; except that is when a British-based firm is accused...

Now that Silicon Glen is a memory Scotland needs more than worthy aspirations Internet startups can look effortless. Google surfaced like an information leviathan from the genius factory of Stanford University, Facebook came out of a dorm room full...

Lock up your DNS - the little blue men are back.A day on from what was only yesterday being described as a DDoS attack so large it had slowed the Internet itself, the sceptics have rallied with a simple question:...

Linux in China, Ubuntu styleRecent history is strewn with the corpses of national operating system projects and it is probably too early to tell whether Canonical's Ubuntu ‘Kylin’ collaboration with China’s Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (CSIP) will...

Industrial control systems and SCADA are under attack but from who or what?According to a Trend Micro researcher who decided to find out by setting up an be Industrial Control Systems (ICS) SCADA honeypot that mimicked among other things an...

How on earth did this happen? By its own high standards, Microsoft’s Windows 8 juggernaut is in a bit of a sales fix while a Google OS/Chromebook platform few consumers had even heard of six months ago is suddenly just...

It sometimes hides behind hacktivism. But 75Gbps peak DDoS on US banks is no amateur protest...We can say with a growing sense  of certainty that the world’s first cyberwar is upon us, unfolding behind the scenes with a rising level...

Not even Oracle’s recent security overhaul to Java Development Kit 7, Update 10 (JDK 7u10) deserves to save its seat on the average non-business PC, a slew of informed experts have argued. I'm not about to disagree.We’ve written about Java...

We end 2012 with the alarming knowledge that the SMS two-factor authentication systems used to secure online banking have suffered their first major security failure and left a clutch of banks down to the tune of €36 million (£30 million).Between...