Google betas transport search

Google has added a new tool designed to help you get around on public transport to its ever increasing collection of search based services. Initially restricted to the US city of Portland Oregon, Google Transit works out the best route from A to B and presents a detailed itinerary for the journey. It will also tell you how much it will cost and calculate the approximate cost of making the same journey by car. ...more

Poisoned DNS opens new line of attack for pharmers

Hackers are using a new tactic when it comes to convince people to part with personal information. Criminals are using a known vulnerability in some older Symantec corporate products to redirect legitimate URL requests to spoofed sites - a process known as 'pharming'. The new technique uses DNS cache poisoning to redirect the request. ...more

Parallels updates its virtual PC system

Parallels has updated its virtual PC system, Workstation 2.0. It enables users to run networked, independent virtual machines on a single physical system. ...more

Sun floats idea of buying Novell to taunt IBM

Reports that Sun is considering buying Novell have pushed the latter's share prices up nearly 7 per cent in trading yesterday. A post in the blog of Sun's Chief Operating Officer Jonathan Schwartz on Sunday - the eve of the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo in San Francisco - drew attention to Novell as the potential target of a Sun acquisition. Novell is currently valued at $2. ...more

Microsoft out-of-season patch tackles Download.Ject Trojan

Microsoft has issued an out of season patch to close up several critical security vulnerabilities in its software, including the flaw that led to the Download.Ject Trojan horse. The vulnerability was being exploited by infecting web servers that hosted popular websites and then getting users to visit them using the Internet Explorer browser. ...more