Sasser virus author appears in court

Teenage virus writer Sven Jaschan appeared in court today, accused of authoring the prolific Sasser virus. During today's session it was revealed that Jaschan, who is now 19, has confessed to writing Sasser, which was first discovered at the end of April 2004. At the time, Jaschan was just 17 and is being tried as a minor. ...more

Bulldog launches shared Wi-Fi initiative

Bulldog has teamed up with MyZones to enable broadband subscribers to share their connection within their own home and with their neighbours. The initiative will, for example, allow two neighbours to share a 1Mbit connection for less than ?10 per month each. Alternatively, a faster connection could be shared between several flats. ...more

Europe warms to globalisation

Europe 'should not look at globalisation in the way the rabbit looks to the snake' and should embrace the changes to media and information wrought by technologies like the Internet. The remarks were made by Viviane Reding, the European Commission commissioner responsible for Information Society and Media at yesterday's European Forum. In her speech, Reding admitted that the freedom afforded by the Internet can be abused to distribute child pornography around the world and that satellite TV can be abused to circulate hate speech and terrorist propaganda. ...more

Netsky and Mytob in turf war battle

Different groups of hackers are competing with each other to create the greatest number of infections. According to security firm Kaspersky, cyber wars affected the August figures with teams behind Netsky.q and Mytob. ...more

Skype betas v2.6 of its Net phone software

Skype has released version 2.6 of its Net phone software as a public beta. The new version makes a big deal of Skypecasts. ...more