A panel assembled by the prestigious National Academy of Sciences has stated that Congress should make it easier to punish companies that produce insecure software that puts business and consumers at risk
Most consumers are not aware of their right to financial compensation if time frames for phone connections and fault repairs aren’t met by telco players, according to an Australian Communications Authority survey
Chip Rosenthal has an interesting fight on his hands. He has registered and has been using the domain name unicom.com since 1990, but now a California company — also doing business as Unicom — wants the domain name and attempting to commandeer it by alleging that Chip is engaging in cybersquatting
Verisign is proposing to set up a waiting list for domain names, including .com addresses, which are not renewed
Record companies’ efforts to protect CDs against digital copying are beginning to draw scrutiny from lawmakers concerned that the plans might violate the law
Science may rewrite history if bones found under an Italian church prove to be those of Cannibal Count Ugolino, one of the darkest historical figures to make an appearance in Dante’s Inferno
Brushing aside criticism, a 19-year-old US college student said that he revealed a security flaw in AOL’s popular instant messaging service because he was ignored when he tried to tell the media giant privately
Toysrus.com, the online arm of toy retailer Toys R Us, has agreed to pay a US$50,000 fine to settle allegations that it shared customers’ personal information with another firm
Wildlife experts in Kenya are baffled by a lioness that adopted a baby oryx, a kind of small antelope typically devoured by big cats
Fed up with spending more time killing than saving lives, the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in Hong Kong aims to abolish the practice of mercy killing of unwanted pets by the summer
Hundreds of people who bought Microsoft’s hot new Xbox gaming console over the holidays received defective systems, and some said they had to wait weeks and endure shoddy customer service before their systems were fixed
The redial button proved an inconvenient mobile phone feature for three Canadian robbery suspects, providing police with a recording of the crime and an argument over how the loot should be split
Lawrence Lessig’s passionate new book, The Future of Ideas, argues that America’s concern with protecting intellectual property has become an oppressive obsession
Microsoft is being accused of infringing on six patents for a process that improves the quality of images seen on a computer screen
Vanessa Leggett, an aspiring author jailed for more than five months for refusing to hand over her research to a grand jury, was released today from a federal detention centre when the grand jury’s term expired
Civil libertarians in Washington say they’re worried that proposed new anti-terrorism laws could lump together peaceful protesters with others whose actions are criminal, despite assurances from state officials that they aren’t trying to stifle free debate
Is a drunk, rowdy passenger on an aeroplane a terrorist? Is a man who pushes a judge? They are according to annual reports from the Department of Justice. An investigation found that the department routinely overstates the number of terrorist arrests and convictions it makes every year. It does so, apparently, to cook the numbers for Congress, as a way to justify its annual $22-billion budget of which counter-terrorism is a part
The number of vandalised web sites recorded by defacement archive Alldas.de jumped in 2001 to 22,379, over five times more than the 4,393 defacements logged in 2000. Mostly Brazilian cybervandals are responsible for the surge in defacements, according to Fredrik Ostergren, a Sweden-based security analyst and spokesperson for Alldas.de. He also said that more Internet users in general are trying out tools to hack into web sites
The European Central Bank is working with technology partners on a hush-hush project to embed radio frequency identification tags into the very fibres of Euro bank notes by 2005
An elderly German man thwarted armed robbers by throwing a tin of sauerkraut at them
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