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Archive - 05 Jul 2004

Barclaycard fights phishers with password generator

News Barclaycard has issued thousands of credit and debit card holders with a special card reader that can generate temporary passwords

iPods are security risk, warns analyst

News Brief: Mobile storage devices could give thieves and hackers a back door into corporate networks

Industry group demands fix for 'weak' cybercrime laws

News Brief:A single law against hacking and spamming could stop the UK looking like a soft touch, according to the Communications Management Association

Tackling the threat from portable storage devices

Help/HowTo USB flash drives, MP3 players and the like are everywhere nowadays. Giving your staff free rein to use them at work could lead to breaches of security and loss of data

C&W claims big VoIP savings

News The UK's first enterprise-class IP telephony product could save British businesses millions of pounds

Sun seeks open-source middle ground

Feature Unwilling to commit completely to an open-source Java, Sun would like to find a alternative path

Tiny chip as hot as Venus

News A start-up has developed a chip thinner than a hair that becomes extremely hot extremely quickly

Bagle author releases 'dangerous' assembler code

News Two new Bagle worm variants and the worm's original assembler source code were spreading around the Internet on Sunday - a dangerous development, according to security experts

Big Brother frowns on Vodafone and the Home Office

News Privacy International has announced this year's nominations for its Big Brother awards, the scourge of those who violate civil liberties in the UK

Australians can no longer set eBay reserves

News The auction giant has removed the ability to set reserve prices from its Australian site

Cut-price Windows may bypass China

News Despite releasing cheap versions of Windows in Malaysia and Thailand, Microsoft may not repeat the tactic for the Chinese market

Drive doldrums cost jobs

News Maxtor will cut hundreds of jobs as conditions in the hard-drive industry prove more difficult than anticipated

Once-cool iMac loses its sheen

Feature Apple has stopped taking orders for the machine described as 'flat-out cool' at its launch two years ago

UK signs up to international anti-spam agreement

News Britain has signed up with the US and Australia to fight the growing menace of spam, by vowing not to become a 'haven' for junk emailers

Sendo X

Review The Sendo X is a feature-packed Symbian-based phone that can be extensively customised by users and network operators. For a smartphone, it's also reasonably compact and lightweight.

Evaman worm 'could break out' worldwide

News The mass-mailing Evaman worm is spreading slowly, but experts are waiting to see what happens when it reaches the US and Europe

Mobile fails Sharapova

News The new Wimbledon champion was let down by mobile technology after winning the women's crown

IBM prepares second phase of Power5

News Big Blue will launch its next generation of Unix servers next week

First security scare hits next-generation Internet

News The US Computer Emergency Readiness Team has issued alerts for some Juniper routers running IPv6

Explorer hole finally filled

News A flaw that has left Windows users open to attack for the past nine months has been patched by Microsoft

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