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Lawyers for Gary McKinnon have launched an impassioned attack on the UK justice system, following a decision to allow extradition proceeding...

"Mobile technology and broadband need to be considered to latch onto 'first class, real time' service delivery, KwaZulu-Natal F...

Experts have lambasted new laws to collect information about prepaid cellphone users, citing their "severe" privacy implications. ...

The Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa) will ask Communications Minister Siphiwe Nyanda to review the time frame for the migr...

Facebook is revising its privacy settings to give the more than 200 million users the ability to share as much or as little as they want.

Applications that allow direct access to micro-blogging site Twitter may be hit by a copyright claim.

Business Against Crime SA has welcomed the introduction of the country's new RICA Act, saying the legislation would enhance initiatives ...

It's been more than a decade since Mark Shuttleworth caught South Africa's imagination by becoming an overnight IT billionaire and s...

Here's the question the publishing industry is trying to figure out: Does it make sense for Google (GOOG) to have the rights to exploit ...

The new law, which comes into effect today, will require cellphone users to provide proof of address and identification when activating a ne...

A California company that says its software was illegally used in Beijing's new internet filter has threatened unspecified legal action.

A woman has been ordered to pay $1.92m for downloading 24 tracks from the Kazaa file sharing site - $80 000 per song.

Manchester City Council broke the Data Protection Act when it failed to encrypt laptop computers containing data on nearly two thousand work...

Oscar-nominated film director David Fincher is in talks to direct a movie based on the rise of social networking website Facebook, it has be...

The heads of the top US companies might be engaged in the boardroom, but they're switched off when it comes to social media, according t...

Contract managers are being more cautious than ever when they negotiate new agreements, contract managers' body IACCM has said. It has s...

A controversial blogging detective has failed in his attempt to protect his anonymity and The Times newspaper has named him. The High Court ...

The handing over of a set of stolen invoices from one dairy wholesaler to its most bitter rival was a breach of confidence, the High Court h...

Supermarkets and other retailers who create own-brand goods must change the way they package them in the wake of a European court ruling on ...

The French Government will move ahead with a new Internet law even though a key aspect contravenes the 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man...

Thousands of bloggers who operate behind the cloak of anonymity have no right to keep their identities secret, the High Court ruled yesterda...

The success of any consumer electronic device depends to a large extent on the appeal of the user interface (UI) and how easy the device is ...

Popular online social networking service Facebook has announced that it will let members use their full names in online addresses for profil...

More than one-third of information technology professionals abuse administrative passwords to access confidential data such as colleagues...

President Barack Obama has outlined his plan to enhance cyber security protections in the US

Consumers are spoilt for choice when they seek content online and are confused about what is legal and not legal.

"Companies are increasingly turning to Twitter to improve their understanding of how consumers view them"

The UK film and television industry is calling on the government to introduce online 'speed humps' that would slow down or restrict ...

Hi everyone, My name is Candice Govender from Deloitte & Touche. I will be assisting Reinhardt with posting hot topics on the blog. Watc...

Cyber crime-fighting efforts have to be improved, or SA could face a bigger problem in 10 years, says the South African Police Service (SAPS...

Cyber crime-fighting efforts have to be improved, or SA could face a bigger problem in 10 years, says the South African Police Service (SAPS...

Consumers are spoilt for choice when they seek content online and are confused about what is legal and not legal, according to a report publ...

Social network sites, such as Facebook, pose risks to the information security of businesses and other organisations, says a Johannesburg te...

Social network sites, such as Facebook, pose risks to the information security of businesses and other organisations, a technology law exper...

Companies caught using illegal software paid out more than R3.4 million, following its piracy reporting campaign, says the Business Software...

One of the Internet's most popular social networking websites, Facebook, has been hit by scammers trying to lure users to a number of fa...

South African companies are going to have to realise that Internet search giant Google will no longer protect their trademarks, and their co...

A US federal judge on Monday questioned whether prosecutors were correct in bringing charges against a Missouri mother who was involved in a...

Companies in the technology, media and telecommunications industries (TMT) significantly reduced investment in security spending in 2008, ac...

Despite their relative newness, companies are embracing Web 2.0 technologies such as social networking tools, blogs and webcasts for interna...

Stockholm - Four music industry giants want heavy fines imposed on the three founders of The Pirate Bay file-sharing website as long it keep...

Record labels have given up on copyright law and are trying to make internet service providers (ISPs) fight their battles for them in a ...

Cape Town - The internet sex pest who has been targeting a teacher from Pretoria with hundreds of vulgar and obscene phone calls, used, amon...

The Internet is increasingly being used to cause hurt to former partners after love goes sour — and the malice lasts forever.

Johannesburg - Social network sites, such as Facebook, pose risks to the information security of businesses and other organisations, a techn...

"Washington - US newspapers are in a state 'perilously close to free fall' and time is running short for them to find a busines...

FOR the sixth year running, SA has slid down the rankings of the world’s most technology-savvy countries, with a lack of government commitme...

Insider attacks are on the rise and, while they don't constitute the majority of security incidents and breaches yet, they can already p...

Parliament has failed to finalise a proposed DNA Bill – raising doubts that it would be signed off by the first half of 2009.

A US fraudster who used fake electronic greetings cards to spread malware has avoided a jail sentence for his crimes.

Companies may begin to use complex commercial services contracts when engaging law firms after a case underlined the rights of workers whose...

The state is allowed to bug communication between lawyers and their clients, the House of Lords has said. The UK's highest court ruled t...

A report released Monday by Symantec gauges the far reaching impact of cybercrime and finds most organizations have dealt with a cyber attac...

A defunct payment gateway has exposed as many as 19,000 credit card numbers, including up to 60 Australian numbers.

Unlike many economies around the globe, the criminal industry of cybersquatting and brand abuse saw no downturn in 2008.

The U.K. government is considering the mass surveillance and retention of all user communications on social-networking sites, including Face...

An IT contract employee who formerly worked at an oil and gas production company in Long Beach, Calif., was indicted yesterday on charges of...

An FBI agent in New York has been accused of keeping in touch with an informant after their professional relationship ended and then claimin...

Getty Images is suing a removals firm for the alleged use of a copyright-protected image on its website. The global picture company is takin...

The World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) ruled on more domain name disputes last year than ever before but has warned that disput...

A privacy campaigner will launch a legal challenge to Google's Street View service, which was launched today. Simon Davies of Privacy In...

PROMINENT IT lawyer Reinhardt Buys has complained that the IT governance provisions in the third King report on corporate governance are ...

Prominent IT lawyer Reinhardt Buys has complained that the IT governance provisions in the third King report on corporate governance are “in...

Finnish President Tarja Halonen on Friday ratified a controversial new law giving employers the right to monitor employees' emails where...

The Times website team at the iLab on Wednesday night stopped a hacker from artificially inflating the DA’s online votes to over 20 000 on i...

During The Pirate Bay trial, the music industry placed the blame for the decline in their revenues squarely on the shoulders of file-sharers...

The iPod has become something of a benchmarking tool after the Australian bank Commonwealth Securities launched an iPod index, using the iPo...

THERE has been excitement in the market about new licences to be issued that allow ISPs and other service providers to set up their own tele...

Sprint is warning several thousand customers that a former employee sold or otherwise provided their account data without permission.

An Army database that contains personal information about nearly 1,600 soldiers may have been penetrated by unauthorized users, Army officia...

BBC Click got its hands on a botnet of 22,000 compromised PCs from an underground forum. It used these machines to send spam to two accounts...

A University of Tennessee student accused of illegally breaking into the email account of Alaska governor Sarah Palin has been hit with thre...

The Wireless Application Service Providers' Association of South Africa (WASPA) has set out clear television advertising regulations for...

THE great thing about digital photography is that it’s free — once you’ve paid for the camera, that is.

The European Union's Database Directive is infringed when data is taken out of someone else's database regardless of what they inten...

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) missed an opportunity to kill an absurd libel law this week. That law exposes online news archives...

Less than 7 of the 141 pages of the Report deal with IT governance – that is simply not enough for such an important corporate issue” says I...

The ballooning costs of installing IT systems, coupled with the need to ensure information security and system integrity, means a company...

Stafford Masie has resigned his position as head of Google's South African operations, a little after 18 months in the position, the US ...

Stafford Masie has resigned his position as head of Google's South African operations, a little after 18 months in the position, the US ...

Search giant Google has updated its maps.google.com website with detailed SA street maps. Previously, the system showed only major arterial ...

Rights groups called on Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft on Friday not to censor their Web search engines one day this week to help protest cybe...

POPULAR SOCIAL NETWORKING service Facebook last week released a new version of its terms of service - that led to a mass exodus of users who...

According to a report released this week at the Internet Governance Forum, South Africa has fallen a long way in the African rankings since ...

The University of Florida in Gainesville late last month disclosed that a breach discovered in January exposed personal data on 97,200 stude...

Personal medical records belonging to Scotland's rich and powerful - including Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Holyrood's First Mini...

A senior corporate executive leaves the company, taking with him his framed family photographs, his prized gold pen-and-pencil set -- and th...

A federal judge has ordered a criminal defendant to decrypt his hard drive by typing in his PGP passphrase so prosecutors can view the unenc...

Web sites involved in defamation suits are not required to immediately hand over the identities of readers who leave anonymous comments, a M...

It's also safe to say that everyone likes free stuff. One would imagine that the combination of those two things would be met with unani...

A top music industry official has told The Pirate Bay file-sharing trial in Stockholm that online piracy has caused 'immense damage'...

Prosecutors have been forced to drop their more serious charges against file-sharing links site The Pirate Bay in a dramatic climbdown in th...

Online retailers cannot reclaim some of the purchase price of goods even if they are returned after a long time and have given the user some...

News agency The Associated Press (AP) has won the right to fight a court battle to defend a property right over facts. Copyright law does no...

The much-anticipated criminal trial of The Pirate Bay's operators begins in a Stockholm criminal court on Monday.

The founders of a website which carries links to copies of music, films and TV programmes have gone on trial in Sweden on charges of copyrig...

The 12 million users of mobile social networking service Mxit could save up to R5 billion per year in transaction and telecommunications fee...

A perfume manufacturer which created a list of famous perfumes its fragrances smelled like did not break EU trade mark law, an Advocate Gene...

An employee's dismissal was unfair because the email inviting him to the first in a series of disciplinary meetings did not specifically...

The Independent Communications Authority of SA's (ICASA's) long-awaited handset subsidy draft regulations will only be available fro...