20.08.2008 Auction website eBay has revealed it plans to reduce the fees it charges sellers to list fixed-price items from September. more...
20.08.2008 NASDAQ-listed financial software and payments company Trintech this morning reported a net loss of close to US$1m in its fiscal second quarter, despite delivering revenues of US$10.5m for the quarter. more...
19.08.2008 Despite a steady wave of global economic tremors, Gartner is predicting that IT spending worldwide will exceed US$3.4trn this year, up 4.5pc in constant currency terms. more...
18.08.2008 Windows and Mac users of the popular Firefox browser as well as users of the Apple Safari browser are being warned about a new cyber attack that targets the clipboard where copied text is stored. more...
18.08.2008 Opportunistic data thieves — masquerading as bank technicians — have fooled shop owners into giving them access to credit card terminals and managed to download the details of over 20,000 credit and debit cards, it emerged this morning. more...
14.08.2008 The recent loss and theft of laptops belonging to both Bank of Ireland Life and the Irish Blood Transfusion Board attracted headlines. But Michael Conway (pictured) of Renaissance Software is still not convinced Irish firms know the real dangers more...
13.08.2008 The loss of a laptop containing 380,000 records of social welfare and pension recipients is a wake-up call for the Government and public and private sector bodies to ensure all staff are trained properly in data protection and use of encryption. more...
13.08.2008 The current conflict between Georgia and Russia over the Georgian province of South Ossetia has been marked by an accompanying form of cyber warfare. But this type of online aggression may just be the tip of the iceberg, with security firm McAfee predicting a rise in the use cyber security attacks as a weapon in tandem with actual physical attacks. more...
12.08.2008 The bitter conflict currently ongoing between Georgia, the former Soviet republic, and Russia over the Georgian province of South Ossetia appears to have migrated online. more...
11.08.2008 The loss of a laptop containing social welfare details of a significant number of Irish citizens has been labelled a “serious incident” by the Data Protection Commissioner, Billy Hawkes. more...
11.08.2008 Dublin-based spread betting house Delta Index has pumped €3m into an upgrade of its online trading platform and plans to double its IT development team to 20 over the next 18 months. more...
07.08.2008 Recent coverage of the ISPAI (Internet Service Providers Association of Ireland) has focused on the fact that Irish ISPs who have not joined this voluntary organisation are also by inference choosing not to support the ISPAI’s Hotline.ie service, which monitors and reports child porn on the web, but the... more...