Internet fraudsters will try to exploit the global financial crisis by sending fraudulent emails purporting to offer cash-strapped consumers new mortgages, loans or money from failed banks, a Microsoft executive said on Wednesday. Tim Cranton, an Internet safety expert at Microsoft, said there are early signs that criminals have...

Good news for workers addicted to Facebook, Bebo and MySpace — a think-tank says bosses should not stop their staff using social networking sites because they could actually benefit their firms. The report by Demos said encouraging employees to use networking technologies to build relationships and closer links with...

Information Assurance Advisory Council (IAAC), setting up a website for a bogus company called Denis Atlas. The fake firm placed an advert in a national newspaper for a job as an office manager, inviting people to apply by sending in their CVs to the web site. Although 107 people...

A lack of IT graduates could begin to affect public services, according to an IT trade body. At a British Computer Society (BCS) debate, it emerged that IT students are needed in The City, and the continuing decline in student numbers graduating from IT courses overall could mean fewer...

Consumer price inflation hit a 16-year high of 5.2 percent in September, but Bank of England policymakers had anticipated the rise which is unlikely to stand in the way of further interest rate cuts. The Office for National Statistics said on Tuesday rocketing utilities bills pushed consumer prices 5.2...

Britain will hold more talks with banks this week over a possible multi-billion pound injection of public funds, industry sources said as the credit crisis tightened its grip on Europe’s main financial centre. News that banks and Chancellor Alistair Darling held talks on Monday evening sent shares in Royal...

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