Oracle has released a staggering 66 new fixes across 28 product lines in its January 2011 security advisory.

Research in Motion (RIM) will introduce partitioning software on its BlackBerry smartphone devices to allow users to separate personal and corporate data.

Dozens of military, government and education websites have been hacked and are up for sale, according to researchers from Imperva’s Hacker Intelligence Initiative (HII).

Researchers from AppRiver are reporting ‘opinion poll’ emails arriving on the internet, supposedly from fast food outlet McDonald’s, and offering recipients the prospect of a $250 reward.

Guidance Software, the company behind the popular range of EnCase digital forensics software, has extended/ported the forensics application to support the Apple iPad, iPhone 4 and iPod touch.

Google co-founder Larry Page is to take over as chief executive in April from Eric Schmidt, who will then become executive chairman.

The European Commission (EC) has suspended trading in carbon credits after unknown hackers compromised the accounts of Czech traders and reportedly siphoned off around 28 million euro worth of carbon credit certificates.

Internal fraud poses an increasing risk to financial institutions, according to a report from the Aite Group.

The Stuxnet worm was an Israeli-US project developed at the highly secretive Israeli Dimona complex in the Negev desert to sabotage Iran’s nuclear program, according to a report in the New York Times.

Google has announced that Iranians will be able to download Google Earth, Picasa and Chrome, available for the first time following the easing of US export controls.