Much of the news reporting about the massive denial-of-service attack against anti-spam service Spamhaus over the past week or so …
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“We are investing in the future,” says Saudi Arabia finance minister
Saudi Arabia finance Minister Mohammed al-Jadaan has recently highlighted that the Kingdom is determined to make significant investments in diversifying its economy. 0 1225
Researchers find another piece of POS malware
A new piece of malware that infects point-of-sale (POS) systems has already been used to compromise thousands of payment cards …
Gartner: Worldwide IT spending to break $3.8tn this year
Worldwide spending on IT products and services will grow by 4.1 percent this year to roughly US$3.8 trillion, according to …
Internet sales tax proposal passed by US Senate
The U.S. Senate has overwhelmingly passed a non-binding proposal to allow states to collect sales tax on Internet sellers that …
Microsoft discloses law enforcement requests
Following similar disclosures from companies such as Google and Twitter, Microsoft has for the first time released statistics about requests …
BB10 a ‘viable solution’ for UK govt
Both BlackBerry and the U.K. government have denied reports that the new BB10 software has been rejected for use in sensitive government …
Microsoft taking bribery allegations seriously
Microsoft said on Tuesday that it is taking allegations that business partners engaged in bribery to gain government contracts in …
North Korea suffers 36-hour Internet outage
Internet connectivity in North Korea was restored on Friday following a 36-hour outage that the country’s official media blamed on …
Cisco ‘did not infringe’ VirnetX patents
A jury in Texas has found that Cisco Systems did not infringe four patents held by VirnetX Holding, according to …
Average user carries 2.9 devices – Sophos
A new Sophos survey has found that the average technology user carries 2.9 devices. The vendor’s Naked Security site conducted …