Online vandals are using a two-month-old security hole in Sun Microsystems’ Solaris operating system to break into servers on the internet
As Silicon Valley’s vultures and sentimentalists gather today to inspect the assets of Be Inc prior to its liquidation auction, Palm has told community site BeUnited that it won’t be licensing the BeOS operating system it acquired from Be to any third party
The University of Queensland is to install a $4 million supercomputer as part of a project to develop a supercomputing consortium within the state
Microsoft opponents who signed up for information on the latest competitor to Windows, Lindows, now find that their names and addresses have been handed over to the software giant
Microsoft on Monday acknowledged that it shut down a Web site for an online Microsoft Developers Store last Thursday to look into a possible security vulnerability that could compromise customer information
One of the board members of the net co-ordinating body ICANN has called the organisation secretive and undemocratic. Karl Auerbach, ICANN regional representative for North America, made his comments while testifying before a Senate subcommittee investigating the organisation
Optus has denied rampant rumours within the broadband community that it’s firing up an ADSL service that will rival Telstra’s oft-criticised broadband solution
The Korean government is to buy 120,000 copies of Hancom Linux Deluxe this year, enough to switch 23% of its installed base Microsoft user to open-source equivalents. By standardising on Linux and HancomOffice, the Korean government expects to make savings of 80%, compared with buying Microsoft products
New security problems highlight Microsoft’s ongoing battle to keep its software — and its ambitious .Net strategy — safe from malicious hackers. Critics say the company treats bugs as a PR problem
The CIA has recruited British defence and hi-tech companies in an attempt to acquire the latest technology for its spying missions and intelligence-gathering — Labour MPs protest that this would give the CIA the power to snoop on any house in Britain
As one of the building blocks of the human genome, DNA has become an important agent in medicine and forensic crime fighting. Now DNA may be used to tag merchandise with codes that counterfeiters cannot crack. A trace of synthetic human DNA embedded with a hidden code and then applied to a designer dress, a CD or a DVD, or mixed into brand-name perfume, for example, could be used to authenticate a product — and enable someone with the key to the code to detect counterfeits
An ADSL bug that has baffled Telstra for seven months is continuing to outwit the telco giant, with the fix date for some disabled peer-to-peer files sharing services now pushed back for the third time this yea
Vipul’s Razor is a distributed, collaborative, spam detection and filtering network. Razor establishes a distributed and constantly updating catalogue of spam in propagation. This catalogue is used by clients to filter out known spam
The Open Relay Database is a non-profit organisation which stores a list of machines which are open SMTP relays. These relays are, or are likely to be, used as conduits for sending unsolicited bulk e-mail. By accessing this list, system administrators are allowed to choose to accept or deny e-mail exchange with these servers
Pakistan has banned internet access in certain areas including border belt with neighbouring India as a security measure in the wake of war threats emanating from India
The Chesterfield and North Derbyshire Royal Hospital admitted it mistakenly sent letters to 30 patients, including six elderly men, telling them they were pregnant. They were sent by a computer system that automatically generates letters telling patients their operations have been postponed
The US government now claims that Congress has the power not only to extend existing copyrights, but also to restore the copyright of work that has entered the public domain and that copyright is totally immune from First Amendment scrutiny
The IRS has lost or misplaced 2332 laptop computers, desktop computers and servers over three years, according to a recent report by Treasury Department auditors. They concluded it’s a persistent problem: The IRS has reported a material weakness in inventory controls every year since 1983
Antivirus companies have received a copy of the first virus capable of infecting files based on Microsoft’s .Net Intermediate Language, or MSIL
The two groups striving to make their respective formats the standard for rewritable DVDs used this week’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas as an opportunity to demonstrate their progress
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