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Archive - 05 Apr 2000

Government report highlights threat to music industry

News The music industry should be concerned about the Internet according to Culture Secretary Chris Smith. Justin Pearse reports

Open source fans break strong encryption

News 597 computers get stuck into a feat of number crunching madness. Will Knight reports

Update: Stock market glitch resolved, trading resumes

News The technical glitch that brought down the stock exchange Wednesday has been fixed, after hours of suspended trading

Cyber terrorism - A ZDNN Special

News February's Denial-of-Service attacks on Web sites underscored a sobering fact: We're vulnerable. The plan for protection is examined here

Are they 'hackers'? Or 'crackers'?

News According to the word police, there's a difference

The Security Ecology

News If hackers aren't necessarily out to get you, just what role do they play in computer security?

Microsoft - thrive, strive or dive?

Comment Microsoft "is guilty" of crimes against the anti-trust laws in America, and its share price has dropped. So, does this week mark the moment when the world suddenly realised that Microsoft is, above...

Netscape releases 'preview' of 6.0 browser

News It's here, it's new and if Mozilla.org has done a good job, it could revolutionise Net browsing

Grey Hats, Black Hats, and Script Kiddies

News Most of these guys are kids who don't always think through the consequences of their actions

How to fight cyber thugs

Comment When things got out of hand in the Wild West, they created the Texas Rangers. When England needed a centralised police agency, Scotland Yard was born.

Is hacking healthy?

News One of the biggest assets to the computer security industry is - surprise! - hackers

Unbundling moves closer as Oftel announces operators

News 14 operators get the all clear to offer services after the local loop is unbundled

Denial-of-Service: How big is this threat?

News The distributed Denial-of-Service attacks that recently hit eight major Web sites are just "the tip of the iceberg," according to FBI Director Louis Freeh

The Day Ahead: Amid market volatility, common sense returns

News Following the Nasdaq's most volatile day, market psychosis is everywhere. Time for common sense to make a comeback

Half of Europe will be surfing by 2003 - IDC report

News Half of Europe's population will be regular surfers by 2003 according to a report from research firm IDC published Tuesday

Oracle steps up Internet caching presence

News Oracle stepped up its ever-expanding presence in the Internet infrastructure market Tuesday, turning up the heat on the likes of Inktomi, CacheFlow and Akamai Technologies

Government to shake up its Web plans

News Labour wants to wake up to the Net age and bring Whitehall along for the ride

Microsoft to fight on

Comment While legal analysts and industry competitors spent the day speculating on what remedies the government will pursue now that Microsoft has been found guilty in its antitrust case, executives at the...

Watch out, Napster - it's Scour.net!

News Napster and Gnutella have competition. Scour Exchange lets users access just about every multimedia format available, including MP3s

Antitrust ruling doesn't faze Microsoft

News Company launches 'aggressive' MSN marketing campaign, as well as another beta of Internet Explorer, the day after it is ruled a monopolist

Update: Tech glitch locks up stock exchange

News As tech shares continue to fall, traders are shut out of the London stock exchange -- no time set for recovery

Linux -- disrupter?

Comment When IBM executives describe Linux as a "disruptive technology," as they started doing a week ago, they don't mean that it breaks a tried-and-true pattern on a spot basis, although Linux skeptics...

Government warns music industry to adapt to Net

News Government warns of fall of UK music industry if Net is not embraced...

Securing a brave new e-world

News With the new economy and e-crime booming, President Clinton's plan to protect computer systems could impact everything from national defence to privacy to free speech

Gates' gamble: One bluff too many?

News Microsoft's chairman is a sharp card player, but his willingness to run risks may have put his strategists in a hole

Compaq ignites Wildfire servers

News More details of the hyped servers reveal strong competition for IBM, Sun and HP servers

Firms facing data storage mountain

News Firms are reaching data limits and may need to go offsite or dump data, says expert

A Year Ago: MSN UK loses 25,000 users

News Originally published Tue, 06 Apr 1999 17:25:22 GMT

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