Microsoft issues Jan security bulletin

Microsoft has published its security bulletin for January with patches for three flaws, although it has yet to address the site-spoofing hole. The most serious of the three concerns its Internet Security and Acceleration Server 2000, and Small Business Server 2000 and 2003 (which contains the 2000 version). The patch fixes a buffer-overflow vulnerability in the filter that handles data sent on the H232 standard: a real-time multimedia communications protocol that is also used in Voice-over-IP devices. ...more

Nominet warning touches nationalistic nerve

Nominet has warned Scottish businesses against taking false Scottish Internet domain names. Apparently businesses in Scotland have received offers to register their names with the supposedly Scottish .sc domain. ...more

Laptop sales in Europe leap a third

Research analysts have reported a strong growth in PC shipments for markets in Europe and the Middle-East. According to the latest figures from Canalys, total PC shipments for the last three months of 2004 rose 17 per cent when compared with the same a period a year ago. Leading the way are notebooks, with shipments up by 30 per cent compared to the same quarter last year. ...more

BPI pressures ISPs to suspend filesharing accounts

The UK record industry has asked two ISPs to suspend 59 Internet accounts that they allege are being used for p2p filesharing. The industry's main umbrella group, the BPI, has written to Tiscali and Cable & Wireless, owner of Bulldog, in what it describes as a 'significant development' in its campaign against 'illegal filesharing', allowing it to deal with a greater volume of cases more quickly and efficiently. Previously it has pursued alleged file sharers individually, with some success. ...more

UK games chart: Movie spin-off makes it to number one

The movie spin-off Madagascar has made it to number one in this week's ELSPA UK games chart, with the Central Park Zoo animals edging out THQ's city-based racing game Juiced, which falls to number three. Between the two, at number two, sits THQ's action game for the PS2 and Xbox, Destroy All Humans!. There are two new entries this week. ...more