In the 1980s the Japanese government caused a global stir with its long-term, heavily integrated 5th Generation Programme to achieve a step change advantage in supercomputing. The West suddenly found itself behind the Japanese and scrambled to compete.
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.
Security event management (SEM) tools are designed to monitor security events across an organisation's network. They work by correlating data from a range of IT security systems - including firewalls, routers and anti-virus systems - and predicting threat levels based on this aggregated data.
Businesses leave far too much to chance and need to be more proactive in managing operational and IT risk, IBM has announced, as it launched its "Enterprise to the Edge" scheme to manage risk.
Online gambling site Victor Chandler claimed today that it can ensure instant web security in remote offices where it has little or no IT infrastructure. If true, this could lead the way to similar breakthroughs in banking and public sector organisations with similarly remote, unsupported outposts.
Relations between financial companies and suppliers are at "their worst ever" in 2007, a leading chief operations officer told delegates to the City IT conference.
The world's superpowers, the US, Russia and China, are the top three sources of malicious content, with Britain a lowly 14th, according to two reports by security experts Kaspersky Lab.