Phishing scams swarm past 3 billion

Phishing scams have topped 3.1 billion, according to antispam company Brightmail, meaning that the nascent scam phenomona is here to stay. The figure shows a 50 per cent increase since January alone, and last August the figure stood at some 300mn. ...more

MyDoom tops the January virus chart

MyDoom-A has topped the charts for the first month of 2004, and for 2003, according to Kaspersky. 'Within a week MyDoom beat all the statistics produced by Sobig-F, last year's leader,' says Kaspersky. Accounting for more than three in four reports to the AV company, MyDoom's 'success' is already well-documented. ...more

FBI 'confirms theft of Cisco code'

According to Infoworld, the FBI has confirmed that it is working with Cisco Systems to track down the person who has stolen source code for the company's Internetwork Operating System (IOS) The theft was reported on the Russian site securitylab.ru and was said to involve some 800Mb of code taken by hacking into Cisco's internal network. A portion, of 2. ...more

Microsoft to unveil new Internet communications kit

Microsoft will introduce new hardware later today designed to connect the workplace phone to email, instant messaging, real-time presence information, conferencing, voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and mobile communications. Together with nine leading manufacturers - Asustek, GN, LG-Nortel, NEC, Plantronics, Polycom, Samsung, Tatung and Vitelix - the company will unveil 15 new devices at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) 2007. These are designed to work with the recently released Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 and Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 public betas. ...more

Microsoft skins XP with Stardock's WindowBlinds

Microsoft has adopted Stardock's app for customising the Windows environment as an official add-on for its upcoming XP OS. The company has created a beta version of WindowBlinds XP for its testers. WindowBlinds enables you to change the look, feel and even functionality of the desktop environment. ...more