Opera 9.1 boosts security with fraud protection features

Opera Software is waging war against phishing by including real-time protection in the latest version of its web browser The latest version of the Opera web browser features enhanced fraud protection designed to help safeguard users from the ever-increasing threat of phishing. Opera 9.1 is equipped with beefed-up security technology from digital certificate expert GeoTrust and phishing data clearing house PhishTank that includes a real-time tool to protect users from such attacks. ...more

Allofmp3 defends its right to sell music downloads

Allofmp3.com has defended its right to sell music downloads, amid increasing international efforts to close it down. In a statement the administrators of the Russian website said that it operated in full compliance with the country's laws 'The site Allofmp3. ...more

iTunes 4 opens a critical security flaw

A highly critical security flaw has been discovered in versions of iTunes 4. The vulnerability is due to a boundary handling error within MPEG-4 file parsing, which can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow via a specially crafted MPEG-4 file. It could potentially be exploited to compromise a user's system. ...more

Microsoft claims Vista take-up doubles XP

Microsoft said on Monday that it has sold more than 20 million Windows Vista licenses in the first month since the operating system's debut of the consumer version on 30 January. The world's biggest software maker said the pace of Vista adoption is at more than twice the rate of its predecessor, Windows XP, which had sold 17 million licenses after its first two months of release. 'It's a little bit better than what we were expecting,' said Bill Mannion, a director in the Windows marketing group. ...more

Microsoft to advise House of Lords on Net security

Senior Microsoft executives will face the House of Science and Technology Committee to answer questions as part of the House of Lords Internet Security Inquiry. Jerry Fishenden, National Technology Officer and Matt Lambert, Government Affairs Director at Microsoft will appear this Thursday to give evidence to the committee, answering questions on what it has done to protect Windows users online and its co-operation with competitors in safeguarding people online. The executives will also offer advice on what the technology industry can do to protect the public from 'Internet-based criminals'. ...more