MessageLabs warn of new Bagle email worm epidemic

Security experts at MessageLabs are warning of a new email worm epidemic, racking up roughly 50,000 reports an hour. The new worm arrives as an attachment in a blank email (both the subject line and body text are blank). If the recipient runs the attachment, the virus is activated and trawls through a list of online resources attempting to download a variant of the Bagle virus. ...more

Sony upgrades PlayStation Portable

Sony's new PlayStation Portable handheld gaming and multimedia player is getting a makeover in the US. The device, which is due to launch in the UK on 12 September, now has Wi-Fi capability enabled to connect to the Internet through hot spots. As part of the upgrade it is now providing the device with a built in browser. ...more

Iomega join forces with SONICblue

A strategic alliance has been announced between media specialists Iomega and SONICblue, which markets the RIO range of portable MP3 players. The deal means that Iomega's existing PocketZip drive technology will be a feature of new SONICblue products. The PocketZip format was used in Iomega's own HipZip MP3 player, a small unit that uses proprietary media to store MP3 and WMA files. ...more

TK Maxx admits hacker's theft of data from 45.6 million credit cards

Fashion retailer TK Maxx has revealed that hackers have stolen credit card information for 45.6 million of its customers in the UK, US and Canada. The company said that the hacker had accessed its data centres in Watford and Massachusetts and stole details of four years of transactions up to December of last year. ...more

Google apologises over Kama Sutra virus

Google has apologised for an internal error that may have caused fans of its popular video site to inadvertently download the Kama Sutra virus. On Tuesday this week, three items were posted on the Google Video blog that may have contained the mass mailing worm, officially called W32/Kasper.A@mm, which obliterates registry keys and files. ...more