Movers and stinkers from the world of business

From Silicon Valley to Station X during the Second World War, why Romania is teeming with software developers, and Zhongguancun in China where Microsoft is building its Chinese headquarters.

Script-kiddie virus authoring tool starts churning out custom exploit code.

'Disturbing' photo attacks reported.

Clothing boutique loses nearly 100,000 credit card details.

Some of the people on this list are successful billionaires, Some Nobel prize winners or high-tech nomads. However, some individuals are weird even by geek standards.

Pretty much every new product gets hyped as a potentially disruptive technology these days, and usually nobody outside of the company's marketing department actually believes it.

Things that make you go aaaargh, including Vista, Bluetooth and other things that may or may not make you mad

Unless you've been living in a cave for the last week, you've witnessed the wholesale hysteria being launched over the recent Swine Flu outbreak..

Researcher wins US$10,000 bounty with JavaScript attack.

Microsoft has responded to public criticism of its User Account Control (UAC) system, and has confirmed that it will not classify the reported issue as a security vulnerability.

Site claims to pay users for submitting stories.

Dancing baby sets legal landmark.

Barack Obama, Fox News and Britney Spears among the victims. Is anyone surprised?

Key fob device provides new security code every 30 seconds.

A security researcher is warning of a possible security hole in the latest beta version of Windows 7..

Site targets social networks and webmail users.

Tongue-in-cheek campaign targets social networking site.

Search firm to place text ads within embedded videos.

Financial institutions bullish on new system, but privacy concerns loom.