MyDoom authors seek antivirus employment

New versions of MyDoom have been spotted over the weekend, with a desperate plea from the authors for work in the antivirus industry. MyDoom Versions U and V were discovered on Friday, while W appeared a few days later. Like other versions of MyDoom, which first appeared at the beginning of this year, they arrive as an attachment to an email that if executed installs itself to the computer and attempts to download further components from the Internet by opening a 'back door'. ...more

Charity warns over growing online abuse of children

Barnardo's has published a report today detailing the extent to which children are suffering abuse which is made available through the Internet and mobile phones. It is calling on the Government to set up a Centre of Excellence to find and help the victims of these crimes and provide levels of funding to enable international cooperation because, despite thousands of images of child abuse being posted online every day, very few victims have been identified. Detective Inspector Terry Jones, Internet paedophilia consultant and former Head of Greater Manchester Police Abusive Images Unit, said: 'Law enforcement worldwide has only traced approximately 250 children - this is totally inadequate. ...more

DoCoMo offers 3G Compact Flash card

NTT DoCoMo has announced it will offer a Compact Flash card that contains a 3G radio, giving access to the company's third-generation FOMA service to handheld and desktop computers. The card - P2402 - will enable videophone and other wireless data services offered on FOMA at speeds of up to 384Kbits/sec downstream and 64Kbits/sec upstream. It will allow connections to other FOMA handsets and ISDN fixed-line videophones. ...more

Microsoft announces more redundancies

Microsoft is to lose 62 software testing jobs from its Windows Core Operating System Division according to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. The job cuts, said to be effective from last week are because Microsoft now feels able to replace manual testing with automated versions. The new losses are part of a general move away from manual testing at Microsoft. ...more

Borland's new model of Togetherness boosts .Net development

'Bringing affordable modelling to the masses' is Borland's claim for its new programming support tool, Together Edition for Microsoft Visual Studio .NET v2.0. ...more