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



