Top 10 articles, 11 Dec 2009

The big hit with V3.co.uk readers this week was our list of the top 10 Great Britons in IT history, which was inspired by a comment on a previous list suggesting that we weren't being sufficiently patriotic in our admiration of the world's IT heroes.

Security stories were popular, as ever, particularly scientists promising an end to web attacks, Microsoft's Patch Tuesday update, the latest critical vulnerabilities, and an ethical hacker offering a WPA cloud-based cracking service.

Readers were also keen to learn about Seagate's entry into the solid state drive business, an academic's view of bloatware, Samsung's new Bada mobile platform and a review of HTC's HD2 smartphone.

Top 10 Great Britons in IT history
The UK's information technology giants

Seagate enters SSD market
Pulsar is the firm's first enterprise solid state drive offering, but won't be the last

Scientists promise an end to web attacks
New technology could make cyber attacks 'computationally impossible'

Comment: Down with bloatware!
It's high time users demanded less, not more, advises Dr Tim Watson of De Montfort University

Microsoft plans six updates for December
Total of 12 fixes slated for Patch Tuesday

Samsung's Bada aims to deliver smartphones for everyone
First handset with the new touch-based platform coming in early 2010

Good Technology extends email to iPhone and Android
Users want business email on device of their choice

Firms urged to apply Microsoft and Adobe patches
Vulnerabilities could cripple critical systems

Review: HTC HD2 smartphone
The HD2 adds a large touch-screen and slick user interface to Windows Mobile 6.5

Ethical hacker starts WPA cloud cracking service
Cloud cluster will check passwords using dictionary attack