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Exciting news for xG fans!
A press release from xG Technology - the first since May - reports on what's been happening in the last four months. "28 August 2008 xG Technology, Inc. FIRST TX60 MOBILE... More
Nasa and the virus
Yesterday the BBC ran a story about a computer virus making it into orbit, which I read with incredulity. OK, it's a nice silly season story on the surface, but what really got me was... More
Nathan Barley's magic hotzone
Via an interesting post on Absolute Gadget, I learned of BT and Fon's plan to distribute 1,000 routers in Shoreditch, East London. The idea, it seems, is to create what BT like to call... More
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The days of desktop antivirus apps are numbered
Robert Vamosi Security vendors are exploring new avenues in the fight against malware, making the death of the desktop antivirus app a serious proposition more
Amazon S3 outage rains on cloud-computing parade
Stephen Shankland Initial problems with cloud computing, such as the occasional outage, should not put you off the idea. These hiccups are only to be expected more
The man who transformed internet security
Robert Vamosi When security researcher Dan Kaminsky discovered a potentially disastrous flaw within the Domain Name System, his measured response led to the biggest-ever multiparty patch release more
Nasa and the virus
Yesterday the BBC ran a story about a computer virus making it into orbit, which I read with incredulity. OK, it's a nice silly season story on the surface, but what really got me was that NASA...
Tom Espiner
Customer data found on eBay server highlights people as weak link
The recent news about customer details being retrieved from a server sold on eBay is yet another story about the sorry state of information security in the electronic age (see:...
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Does it matter if you are an aardvark or a zebra?
In spam terms, apparently it does. According to Cambridge University security expert Richard Clayton, if your email address is aardvark at animal.net, you are more likely to receive spam than if...
Tom Espiner
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While full medical records may be of (dubious) value at rear/base medical facilities, these could be provided much simpler by either physical disk or electronic transfer to an "in theatre" database for individuals posted in. That £80m (and it's associated running costs) could have been far better employed in resuscitating a disbanded infantry battalion or providing a big boost in equipment quality and quantity.
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