Telewest broadband yesterday launched blueyonder PCguard, a free security service for all users. PCguard includes a firewall, Anti-virus software, Anti-spyware software, a popup blocker and web filtering/parental control features.The service will be available to all 850,000 blueyonder customers. Unlike security offerings from many other ISPs, new customers will not have to activate or [...]

The number of file-sharers remains steady despite a number of recent successful prosecutions by record companies against illegal music downloaders. Star Wars Revenge of the Sith was the most downloaded film for the second month running, according to new statistics on peer-to-peer traffic from Internet security company BayTSP. ,p> ‘Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of [...]

Come on, own up, you’ve done it as well - connected to a WiFi network without permission. Well now you should think twice about ’stealing’ bandwidth. In the States a guy has just been convicted of unauthorised access to a computer network from doing exactly this.
I did once when my ISP was down and [...]

Micropersuasion reports that Typepad have made some major improvements in how trackback spam is handled including moderation and Typekey-based authentication.
Personally, I think I prefer the way blogware seem to be tackling the spam problem.
They appear to be developing a system similar to the way Cloudmark deal with email spam, such that spam is dealt with [...]

One in five people in the UK are using instant messaging at work according to security firm Akonix. I find this amazing as I thought in-house security guys would have clamped down on this - they have at my office.
The survey also found that 25% of users just use IM to gossip, but more [...]