XM97/Morx-A virus attacks Excel Spreadsheets

Virus security company Sophos is warning of a new virus which attacks through Excel spreadsheet macros. The virus is activated when Excel workbooks are opened. As an Excel macro virus, when an infected document is opened the viral macros are copied into a file in the XLSTART directory. ...more

Microsoft, Intel introduce new web services standard

Microsoft, Intel, Lexmark and Ricoh have announced a set of core specifications which provide a framework for devices wishing to access web services. The goal is to provide a basic level of interoperability between the increasingly varied number of devices wishing to allow network installation and communication. The Devices Profile for Web Services aim is to provide seamless connectivity between everything from PDAs to network printers without the need to worry about whether the underlying protocol is IP based 802. ...more

Microsoft issues security updates for June

After a quiet May, Microsoft's monthly update of vulnerabilities to its software has a busier June with three critical updates. Two of the critical updates involve Internet Explorer, including one that could allow an attacker to take control of a system via HTML Help. As reported, there are a total of ten security vulnerabilities for June although two of these include cumulative patches for several problems reported earlier. ...more

UPDATED: SiteAdvisor software warns of untrustworthy sites

Five per cent of all Internet traffic goes to disreputable websites according to a survey by SiteAdvisor. For the past 11 months the company has been tracking Net usage with specially-developed Web crawling software and found that one in every 20 sites visited uploaded unwanted software to the visitor's PC, sent out spam or attempted to trick users into giving up sensitive information. They say that they visited 95 per cent of all websites during the survey, downloaded and tested 475,000 pieces of software and automatically filled in forms, each with one of 1. ...more

World's first holographic disc drive unveiled

Colorado-based start up InPhase Technologies has announced a prototype of what it says is the world's first holographic disc drive. The company says that it intends to develop a family of WORM drives under the name 'Tapestry' with capacities ranging from 200Gb up to a whopping 1.6Tbytes. ...more