Larry Ellison and Marc Benioff's long-running public feud appears to be over, with the CEOs of Oracle and Salesforce.com making a joint appearance yesterday to extol the virtues of a new partnership they describe as financially sensible and strategically pragmatic.

With the once $40,000 Carberp Trojan's source code now freely available, experts expect exceptionally destructive variants of the malware to flow onto the Internet.

Microsoft today shipped Windows 8.1, the free upgrade to Windows 8, with CEO Steve Ballmer calling it "a refined blend" of what many critics had called a jarring disconnect between its two radically different user interfaces.

UK Internet users were subjected to 3,000 phishing attacks per day in the year to April 2013, a small part of the swelling global tide of web-based fraud, Kaspersky Lab has reported using data from its own user base.