Spyware kits for sale online for a pittance

UK security company Sophos reports that spyware kits are readily available from a Russian website for around ?10. The kit, called WebAttacker, allows the user to quickly and easily create their own malicious code, and offers technical support. The kit comprises of a library of scripts that the user needs to simply bundle into a file upload to a website. ...more

Intel demos 65nm process

Chip giant has demonstrated its next generation 65 nm technology, which it plans to put into full production in 2005. The demonstration was on full working SRAM (Static Random Access Memory) chips. A nanometer is one billionth of a meter. ...more

EU to give Europa website a face-lift

The EU's giant website Europa is to get a face lift throughout 2004. The site's stated aim is to 'capture new audiences'. The site - which claims to be 'probably' the world's biggest - provides information about the EU in all of its different languages which adds up to some 2. ...more

Red Hat preps JBoss Windows alliance

Red Hat has joined the Interop Vendor Alliance in a bid to get its software working properly with Windows. Initial work on interoperability had already been begun by application server builder JBoss a year and a half ago, before it was bought up by Red Hat. So far, the interoperability work has focussed on Web Services standards such as WS-Security, WS-Transactions, and WS-Addressing. ...more

MORI: Internet users prepared to pay ISPs for better spam protection

Internet users are prepared to pay extra to their ISPs in return for protection against spam and 'malicious Web content', according to a new survey. MORI found that the majority of Web users look to their ISPs to block spam, viruses and obscene websites for which 45 per cent are prepared to pay as much as ?2 extra per month. Twenty-nine per cent believe the problem is so bad that they would pay an additional ?5. ...more