Creative ready 24-bit colour Webcam

Creative Labs has announced a high-end Webcam that can capture VGA movies in 24-bit colour (16.7 million of them) at 15fps. The detachable PC-CAM 300 can record 75 seconds of movie footage or 30 minutes of audio on its 8Mb built-in memory. ...more

Half of all phishes from Romanian cyber gang

'Rock Phish' outfit are behind '50 per cent or more of current phishing attacks today,' says VeriSign. Over half of phishing emails in the world are thought to come from just one criminal gang, according to a security expert. Ken Dunham, director of the VeriSign's security research unit iDefense Rapid Response Team, said that the gang, called 'Rock Phish', is 'likely responsible for 50 per cent or more of current phishing attacks today. ...more

The Domesday Book goes online

One of the nation's finest and best-known treasures has made its online debut: the Domesday Book. Domesday Online is run by the National Archives, the current custodian of the tome, and offers PDFs of the pages for download, search features and a wealth of complementary material, such as features on life in England at the time book was written, games for children and other teaching and learning resources. Commissioned in 1085 to help William the Conqueror establish what resources were available to him to muster an army to defend the country against a Danish raid, the Domesday Book is our earliest surviving public record, the like of which was not written again until the 19th Century census. ...more

Traktor DJ back in the Studio

Native Instruments has announced the latest update to its music mixing software, Traktor Dj Studio. The software provides two virtual record decks on which you can mix tracks, applying dozens of effects, such as scratching and loops, whilst you DJ. Version 2. ...more

UK hacker fights US extradition

A UK man described as the 'world's biggest hacker' appeared in court today to fight an attempt to extradite him to the US to face charges of hacking military computers. Gary McKinnon, 39, allegedly broke into 97 US government computers causing $700,000 worth of damage. Among the charges, he is accused of deleting system files and logs at a US Navy base, leaving its 300 plus computers inoperable. ...more