Microsoft released a security advisory [1] with details about a so far unpatched vulnerability in th ...(more)...

A recently declassified history through 1964....

This doesn't seem like the best idea: Authorities in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh are planning to set up an outsourcing unit in a jail. The unit will employ 200 educated convicts who will handle back office operations like data entry, and process and transmit information. It's not necessarily a bad idea, as long as misuable information isn't...

Sounds like fearmongering to me. How real is the threat? Many of the world's most dangerous pathogens already are transmitted by arthropods, the animal phylum that includes mosquitoes. But so far the United States has not been exposed to a large-scale spread of vector-borne diseases like Rift Valley, chikungunya fever or Japanese encephalitis. But terrorists with a cursory knowledge of...

The British High Court ruled that a software vendor's EULA -- which denied all liability for poor software -- was not reasonable. I wrote about software liabilities back in 2003....

William wrote in to let us know that the changelog to upcoming release to MySQL, version 5.1 ...(more)...

We have had a couple of reports over the last 24 hour of users experiencing issues with Symantec an ...(more)...