BT caught out by Email loophole

A customer of BT's Talk21 email service has found he can access other user's email accounts. Business user John Heaton made the discovery when trying to send out a marketing email on behalf of his business, Hotelkeeper.net. ...more

Government launches online child safety campaign

The Government has announced it will begin a new advertising campaign warning of the dangers to children when online and on mobile phones. Previous campaigns have proved effective, with a decrease from 40 per cent to 27 per cent of children who use chat rooms and instant messaging willing to give out their email address. Nearly two thirds of parent now monitor or advise their children on their online activities and three-qharters of children can recall having been given safety advice. ...more

The weekly roundup - Friday 4 May

Keep abreast of the news with our weekly roundup of the week's main tech stories. The battling blue laser formats, Blu-ray and HD DVD, are never far away from the news and this week's main development was the battle to contain the cracking of AACS copy-protection. The organisation responsible for licensing AACS, which is used by both Blu-ray and HD DVD, sent out 'cease and desist' notices to various websites that were linking to a software key that enables the DRM to be cracked. ...more

SP1 materialises for Microsoft's Virtual Server 2005

Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer has announced the availability of the company's Virtual Server 2005 Service Pack 1 (SP1) beta version at the annual Microsoft Management Summit. The SP1 will provide support for upcoming Windows Server 2003 x64 editions to provide host operating system support for virtual machine software. At the same time, he emphasised Microsoft's commitment to interoperability The Service pack is available at the the Microsoft website. ...more

SCO makes its Unix IP licence for Linux available on the Web

SCO takes Visa, Mastercard and American Express for Unix IP licences. SCO has made its Unix IP licence for Linux available on its website for what it describes as the 'many customers [that] are concerned about using Linux since they have become aware of the allegations that Linux is an unauthorized derivative work of the UNIX operating system'. In buying a SCO licence, you are obliged to sign up to the EULA in the process. ...more