Small businesses wrongly believe that they're too insignificant to attract hackers and spend too little time on security. That's according to the latest survey from security vendor McAfee which found that many SMBs thought they were immune from theft.

The growing risk of defects from increasingly complex in-house software is costing companies dearly, according to new research from IDC.

VMware is to offer the small-footprint version of its ESX virtualisation software free, responding to pressure from Microsoft and other companies that are threatening VMware's market lead.

Mobile company VNL has taken a leaf out of Ikea's book and has developed a mobile base station that can be constructed by the customers. That way, claimed the company, it becomes more economic to offer service in rural areas in developing countries.

Encryption specialist PGP Corporation has come up with an intriguing twist on the old theme of endpoint security - don't just control mobile devices but force them, where appropriate, to use encryption on the data they carry.

Convicted penny-stock spammer Eddie Davidson disappeared from a federal minimum-security prison camp in Colorado on Sunday, the US Department of Justice has said.

Mozilla is aiming to ship the first preview edition of Firefox 3.1 this Friday. The company hopes that fast-track update will be released late this year or early in 2009.

Security experts are warning that a DNS attack is now imminent, following the accidental publication of the details of a DNS flaw.

Sybase has introduced enterprise email support for the iPhone 3G, enabling wireless access to Lotus Notes and Exchange.

EMC has upgraded its Documentum enterprise content management platform with several Web 2.0 tools and a software server. Version 6.5 release of EMC Documentum features four new add-ons, including a web page builder; a rich media interface for reviewing, annotating and sharing rich media files; a personalised client giving users quick access to frequently used content; and new team workspaces.

Companies who opt for an open source software within their organisations could be leaving themselves open to security breaches.

A Japanese software company is stepping up international promotion of its web browser.

IBM, SAP and Adobe Systems are the latest targets of patent lawsuits filed by serial litigant, Implicit Networks.

A computer security company inadvertently published details of a major DNS flaw several weeks before they were due to be disclosed.

Brocade is to buy enterprise LAN vendor Foundry Networks in a deal that the company said would allow it to offer a full line of products from the Internet to the data centre.

The latest version of Asus's Eee PC is now available in the UK, with two models in the Eee PC 1000 series priced at £349 and £369.

SAP has bowed to the inevitable and is winding down operations at its TomorrowNow subsidiary, set up to third-party maintenance for Oracle's full-house of enterprise applications.

A California startup company, Vysr, is trying to improve on the web browser with a free add-on tool that lets you access services from sites without having to actually visit them.

Nexsan has introduced a storage subsystem which it said could enable users to consolidate their long-term business-critical data stores into a single consolidated platform.

Dell has announced a new range of Linux machines, supporting Ubuntu 8.04.

Hackers took down the website for the president of Georgia in yet another attack on the governments of former Soviet states. The website was knocked offline by a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack over the weekend, yet another in a series of cyberattacks attacks against countries experiencing political friction with Russia.

RIM has patched a critical bug in its BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) to stymie hackers hoping to break into company networks by tricking users of the popular smart phone into opening rigged PDFs.

Notebook users looking to use Atom-based machines might end up paying heavily for it. According to Intel's latest price list, the popular Intel Atom microprocessors made for netbooks, or mini-laptops, costs 52 percent more per chip than the desktop version of the same processor.

AMD has quashed rumours that it has shelved its low-power processor for mobile devices and sub-notebooks.

A Dutch court has denied a request from chipmaker NXP to prevent the publication of a scientific study of the security of the firm's Mifare Classic RFID technology. Researchers will continue to pursue presenting their findings in October.