Phishing emails jump 800-fold in six months
More evidence that phishing attacks are a plague on all our houses rained down hard this week as mail filtering vendor MessageLabs announced it had detected an 800-fold increase in the number of phishing emails in the last six months. More...

Kumar out as CA’s chairman and CEO
Sanjay Kumar has stepped down as chairman and CEO of Computer Associates International (CA), but partners have said the move shouldn’t affect the channel. More...

Microsoft presents anti-spyware strategy
Deceptive software, also known as spyware, now accounts for more than 50 percent of the Windows failures reported to Microsoft and is becoming an important industry concern. More...

Merrill Lynch downgrades Seagate
A top financial securities firm downgraded its rating on hard disk drive maker Seagate, saying "the company's operating model appears to be broken." More...

Motorola device sales, earnings surge
Motorola this week reported strong sales and earnings for the first quarter of 2004 that significantly exceed previous guidance from the company. The strong results were paced by a surge in sales of its mobile devices. More...

Netsky.y sparks high threat level
A new and apparently very dangerous version of the Netsky worm, Netsky.y, has appeared this week. More...