Waitrose turns ISP

Supermarket chain Waitrose has launched its first 2Mbps broadband service. Nothing new in that, but what makes the John Lewis-owned chain's offering different, is that all the money raised is given to charity. The service costs ?18. ...more

GNU servers hacked

The GNU Project has admitted that its FTP servers have been hacked. The organisation says that the servers were compromised as far back as March but only came to light at the end of July. The Free Software Foundation which is the sponsor of GNU says that a root compromise and a Trojan were found on gnuftp. ...more

Challenge mounted to Microsoft's FAT patent

US legal pressure group The Public Patent Foundation is attempting to have the 1996 patent granted to Microsoft for its File Allocation Table (FAT) technology revoked. The organisation claims it has discovered sufficient 'prior art' - i.e. ...more

WinZip Companion for Outlook introduced

The makers of WinZip, the ubiquitous file compression utility for PCs have come up with a new version for email. The WinZip Companion for Outlook can be configured to automatically or manually Zip attachments on outgoing emails. For added security the company has also added an encryption facility As attachments get larger with people shunting larger and larger files around the Internet, they are often rejected by mail servers for being too large. ...more

New phishing flaw found in Opera

Secunia Advisory 11901 notes that the issue may be caused due to a race condition and will sometimes make it possible to display spoofed information in the address bar via a specially crafted HTML document. The flaw is categorised as less critical and has been confirmed in version 7.51 for Windows; other versions may also be affected. ...more