Critical security vulnerability found in Skype

A highly critical security vulnerability has been discovered in various flavours of the Skype IP telephony software. A boundary error exists when handling Skype-specific URI types such as 'callto://' and 'skype://'. This can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow and allows arbitrary code execution when the user clicks on a specially-crafted Skype-specific URL. ...more

Copyright Office gives Lexmark-duping cartridges the all clear

Static Control Components (SCC) is happily totting up damages to present to Lexmark following the US Copyright Office's decision that its printer-fooling microchips do not violate the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). William 'Skip' London, General Counsel for SCC, said that the Office found that 'the DMCA allows aftermarket companies to develop software for the purpose of allowing the functional operability of remanufactured toner cartridges and printers.' The company fell into Lexmark's bad books for selling its Smartek chip that duped the printers into believing that recycled cartridges were genuine Lexmark ones. ...more

AirPort security issues addressed

The Standards Working Group for the IEEE 802.11 WEP standard used by Apple's AirPort wireless network system has replied to accusations that the technology could allow unauthorized access to, and eavesdropping on, computer networks. The group's statement insists that some of the issues raised by research at the University of California, Berkeley have given rise to "some misconceptions. ...more

Dell formalises name change

Dell has formalised its change of company name - dropping 'Computer' from the title. At an annual shareholders' meeting, the decision to move to simply Dell Inc. has been approved. ...more

Sophos warns of April hoaxes

With April Fool's day tomorrow, Sophos has warned that hoaxes may be a bigger problem than viruses. April Fool's day may seem to be a prime time for virus's to discharge their payload, but Sophos says virus writers wised up to that many moons ago. Carole Theriault, Senior Consultant at Sophos, said: 'Consider the Jerusalem virus, one of the first viruses ever written. ...more