McAfee signs up for Skype certification

McAfee has signed up to go Skype-certified, ensuring its products are officially approved for security communications made over the Net phone software. Skype chat and voice communications are already encrypted as part of the application. But McAfee software will also scan files sent using the file transfer function for malicious content. ...more

Legal music downloads boom

Music fans are increasingly turning away from illegal downloading from p2p sites and increasingly buying their music from legitimate music libraries. The number of music fans legally downloading digital music has grown by 75 per cent in a year. The figures, which come from the 2005 Digital Music Survey carried out by online music research specialists, Entertainment Media Research (EMR), will come as a relief to the music industry which has been pleading poverty over the past few years as it saw spiralling numbers of downloads taking place via p2p networks like Kazaa. ...more

Symantec moves to plug its anti-virus vulnerability

Symantec has moved to plug the security gap in its anti-virus software, which was originally flagged just last Friday. Few details of the flaw were revealed, but the vulnerability could be exploited remotely. The exact products affected are: Symantec Client Security 3. ...more

Virus plays fast and loose with online poker

A rootkit virus - one which is hidden from the very operating system of a computer - has been discovered in a program designed to help online poker players tot up monies owed them by casinos after games. Checkraised.com stopped distributing its Rakeback Calculator after it was discovered that versions of the software secretly installed components that gave the author remote access to login information for a variety of websites, including Partypoker, Empirepoker, Eurobetpoker and Pokernow. ...more

AMD ups the mobile ante

AMD updates its high-performance XP processor for notebooks. Emerging from AMD's Fab 30 in Dresden is the mobile Athlon XP 1800+. Building on the first mobile Athlon XP release back in April, the 1800+ runs on a clock speed of 1. ...more