Spring Conference this year is from 9-11 March at NewcastleGateshead. The Conference Agenda has been finalised and is now available online. For those members who registered for conference before 31 January, hard copies will be arriving through the post very soon and your pass will follow at the end of the month. If you haven’t

Home affairs committee wants internet service providers to direct more resources into tackling the growing problem of online radicalism

Here’s a round-up of stories we haven’t had time to cover on the site this past week… John Leech tables Commons motion calling for Alan Turing pardon (BBC) Manchester Withington’s John Leech submitted the Early Day Motion and said people should sign an online petition protesting against Turing’s conviction. The gay computer pioneer was convicted

Anonymous, the hacking group being investigated by the Met and the FBI for a range of online attacks, has infiltrated a conference call about the case

Online activists across Europe are protesting against the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), which officially aims to protect intellectual rights but which critics say violates privacy. An online petition against the international treaty attracted more than a million signatures, EurActiv's network in Central Europe reports. More »

The government should not "scare people" about the dangers of cybercrime but do more to make people aware of how they can protect themselves online, a group MPs says.

The spokesman from the country's top poverty reduction authority on Tuesday blamed the "foolish behavior" of a county government in Central China's Hunan province for posting cheerful remarks about being named a State-level poverty-stricken area. A picture posted online shows...

Round 1 to Anonymous as Dana White of UFC.com learned the hard way after he crossed the group and had his personal information disclosed online and his website "defaced!" In light of this, conventional wisdom has said that as we move further into the 21st century cyber-security issues may in fact supersede other types of national security threats. As a neophyte on technical matters such as the sec...

The public has been invited to test gov.uk - a new approach to access government services online.

The online magazine Uni Lad received a lot of attention this week after they published an article on seduction that "jokingly" suggested a majority of rapes go unreported made for "pretty good odds" if your date refused you sex. When challenged on Twitter, they initially asked the person complaining if they were "a dyke", before taking down the piece from their site and issuing a partial apology.