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Game: Debug your system with Infosecurity Europe

  • Event
  • Date: 13 February 2008
Coffee break? Play Debug, a great free online game from Infosecurity Europe, and get that virus out of your system.

Smoke-free smoking walks rings round ban

  • News
  • Date: 19 November 2007
The lighter side of IT

Eye of newt and toe of frog make spam a heady grog

  • News
  • Date: 02 November 2007
A run of Halloween spam has been spotted inviting recipients to visit a website and download a "dancing skeleton" - a program that purports to create a novelty dancing skeleton on your desktop.

Cunning spammers find internet users’ soft spot

  • News
  • Date: 02 November 2007
Strippers are helping spammers to overcome security checks.Spammers keen to register free e-mail accounts en masse to send out messages face one obstacle: the captchas of disfigured text that users have to type to confirm they are human when registering.

First it was Big Brother, now it’s Bebo (Oh) Brother

  • News
  • Date: 02 November 2007
Social networking site Bebo has launched an online series entitled "The Gap Year" with Big Brother peddler Endemol UK. The interactive series will follow...

Calendar makers sell IT as fast track to modelling

  • News
  • Date: 02 November 2007
Downtime is a firm believer in getting more women into the IT profession. There are any number of strategies that could help. Equal pay, active promotions to managerial roles, greater responsibility and advanced IT training would probably top the list.

My 10 pages-per-minute trumps your dot matrix

  • News
  • Date: 02 November 2007
Confirming prevailing knowledge that the IT industry consists of boys and their toys, Dicom Technologies has released the ultimate sales tool to help increase your product knowledge, in the form of printer Top Trump cards.

Japan becomes nation of card-carrying smokers

  • News
  • Date: 26 October 2007
Downtime: the lighter side of IT

Keep friends close and your enemies on Hatebook

  • News
  • Date: 19 October 2007
You could bury IT managers under the mountain of surveys that say that Facebook is the fourth horseman of the employee productivity apocalypse. But this is not a one-horse race to consume network bandwidth, as horseman number five enters the race in the form of Hatebook.com.

E-mail archiver forgets to mention free services

  • News
  • Date: 22 October 2007
At first glance, an independent survey commissioned by Mimecast appears to shoot itself in the foot. The firm, which sells web-based e-mail, found that 63% of the UK's IT managers have more than one e-mail system within their company - presumably one for work and the other for seeing if they have received any new Hatebook enemy requests or responses to their CVs.
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