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Toshiba tossed in the towel on Tuesday in the DVD format war handing victory to Sony's Blu-ray disc. Toshiba will no longer develop, manufacture or market HD DVD players and recorders.

The most significant changes to IT security have come from sociological shifts such as young virus writers finding love or seeking employment after international wars, says a security veteran.

clipped from computerworld.co.nz Google finds evil all over the web The search engine giant trained its web crawling software on billions of web addresses over the past year looking for malicious pages that tried to attack their visitors. They found more than 3 million of them, meaning that about one in 1,000 web pages is malicious, according to Neils Provos, a senior staff software engineer with Google.

FutureSoft, Inc. today announced that it has restructured and expanded its sales and marketing team

The Storage Network Industry Association (SNIA) of Australia and New Zealand has set about adapting its relations with end users and the wider ICT community as part of its plan to "make storage sexy".

Google has started warning people when search results could potentially lead them to malicious code. New coalition to name companies that sneak ads and spying programs onto computers of unsuspecting Web surfers.

William Jackson | Anti-spyware: double agent? The fight against malicious software can look like a game of Spy vs. Spy, with each player doing his best to put a knife in the other’s back.

Online gamers, social networks and sensitive corporate data are among the top potential targets for online attacks in 2008, according to the latest Internet Security Outlook Report from CA. The study, based on data compiled by CA’s Global Security Advisor researchers, features internet security predictions for 2008 and reports on trends from 2007. In 2007, 56% of the total malware seen was malicious spyware, 32% was trojans, 9% was worms, and 2% was viruses. The report also stated that more than 90% of e-mail was spam, and more than 80% of spam contained links to malicious sites or malware. Malware will target virtualised computers, and increasing use of obfuscation techniques to hide in plain sight, including steganography and encryptions, will help criminals conceal their activities. More Spyware News

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Hackers flock to D.C. during this week's conference to talk government, security and going on the defense -- for a change.

As I look at a newly arrived MacBook Air laptop, it occurs to me there has never been a better time to switch to a Mac. That's not something I say lightly. With the exception of a couple of years working at a magazine, I have never been a Mac user. After all, I'm a game player and games on the Mac are always light years behind games on Windows.