Security vendors are taking advantage of a discovery by two members of the Honeynet Project who uncovered a new way to detect the Conficker worm on infected PCs.

Security vendors are taking advantage of a discovery by two members of the Honeynet Project who uncovered a new way to detect the Conficker worm on infected PCs.
Intel's new flagship can cut your data centre's power and space demands by packing more virtual machines in, but think before you put all your eggs in one basket, warns Cameron Sturdevant
Is the Open Coud Manifesto doomed even as it is officially announced? The top three cloud platforms have backed off, and the group faces stern criticism from the outsiders
Critics say the IBM-backed Open Cloud Manifesto is a bid to use standards to slow down faster-moving competitors
Avaya has launched a product which can de-couple applications from companies' networks, so users can simplify their communications even if they have equipment from multiple vendors
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop is ready for business. It's a strong alternative to Windows, but limited in its software packages
New government regulations could extend flexible working to an extra 4.5 million UK staff
Questions are being asked about the degree to which a costly IT project contributed to the decision to effectively nationalise and then sell Scotland's largest building society
Security threats like Conficker, along with the regulations and measures to combat them, are a nightmarish waste of resources, says Peter Judge
A major update is due for Conficker on Wednesday. But should we fear such a well-understood piece of malware?
Small business owners considering dumping their BlackBerry smartphones for the slick Apple iPhone may just have one more reason to do so
With Microsoft and Amazon on one side and IBM and a host of others on the other side of an emerging battle over cloud standards, some ask if it is too early to try to set standards for cloud computing
The Nehalem architecture focuses on improving performance and efficiency through such features as an integrated memory controller similar to that found on AMD's Opteron chip and greater support of virtualisation technologies
The database maker has announced tighter integration between Oracle Database Vault, the company's database access control technology, and Enterprise Manager
Google co-founders are two of the investors pumping money into Tesla Motors which could be monitored via an iPhone or a laptop
The direct model did away with the old way of buying PCs. Now it's time to apply cloud economics to the data centre and slash the management costs, says Dell's Raj Kushwaha
Vodafone is letting its customers to tweet for free over SMS. The trial offer has been welcomed by analysts, but dismissed as opportunistic by bloggers.
Psyb0t exposes router and broadband vunerabilities.
People blogging about Saturday's Earth Hour, and watching it on television, may use more power than is saved by switching lights off for an hour - but it's a symbol, say organisers
Security flaws reported in Google Docs have been described. If Google doesn't take these reports seriously, it will lose the enterprise users it is gaining, says Michael Hickins
Three-quarters of users are happy with mobile email on the device - despite its lack of a qwerty keyboard
Google says that security concerns about its online document service Google Docs are "not significant", despite claims that users can access material to which the author has denied access.
Google announces plans to lay off 200 employees on its sales and marketing teams
By the time the latest round of layoffs are completed, IBM will have cut nearly 10,000 jobs, according to unions
Administrators can push security updates to the X270 even when it's not powered on
Twitter is looking to businesses as a way to possibly kick-start an elusive revenue stream by offering paid commercial accounts to users
VMware, Citrix, Microsoft and other virtualisation companies will benefit as the worldwide hosted virtual desktop market accelerates through 2013
Done properly, going green means lower costs, not higher, says Dave Cox, operations chief at Blue Coat and the man driving the company's BluePlanet eco-programme
Could a lack of Twitter privacy cost you your job?
30 percent of SharePoint servers are deployed outside the management of the IT department.