Stories by: Kieren McCarthy

Life online is getting more miserable by the day. Spam has got so bad that just about every country is introducing legislation to deal with it. Now it seems not a day goes by without another virus making everyone's lives - especially sysadmins - that little bit harder.

The controversy surrounding the use of network intrusion tools shows no signs of slowing, with a group of independent testers coming out strongly in favor of so-called Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS).

An "extremely critical" hole in Internet Explorer may ruin Christmas for Microsoft and thousands of its customers, IDG has learned.

There is a long and nasty history of people having their domains stolen from under their nose, thanks to the sloppy security of the companies the domain was registered with.