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iPhone war breaks out - Cisco sues Apple
Blog This just in: Cisco IS suing Apple over unauthorised use of the iPhone trademark. Cisco entered into negotiations with Apple in good faith after Apple repeatedly asked permission to use Cisco's iPhone name," Mark Chandler, senior vice president and...
[January 10, 2007, 22:35]
Netgear launches open-source Wi-Fi router
Blog There's been a long history of unauthorised open source Wi-Fi on Linksys' WRT54G router. Now Netgear's jumping in with an official open source router. There's nothing too unusual about Netgear's KWGR614 and WGR614L routers.
[July 1, 2008, 15:42]
O2 to remotely fix router vulnerability
Blog The cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability could allow someone to gain unauthorised access to a user's private network. O2 has come up with a fix for a flaw that affects some of its home broadband routers.
[September 3, 2009, 17:09]
First virus writer arrested in Japan
Blog Japanese authorities are therefore prosecuting the alleged writer of a particular piece of code, and two others, as the code was allegedly distributed using unauthorised anime images. Under Japanese law writing malicious code isn't illegal...
[January 25, 2008, 16:55]
Organisations unprepared for iPhone security threat
Blog The stats were surprising - 65 per cent of IT decision makers recognised that unauthorised users could access valuable company data through the iPhone, 64 per cent said they had not taken any steps to secure company data against this threat.
[July 21, 2009, 12:16]
Tuesday
Blog I'm surprised that nobody's suggested that FAST build a few detector vans and start to skulk around a few dark alleyways, sniffing the air and looking for the signature of unauthorised software to waft past on the waves.
[November 22, 2002, 17:08]
Is Your Web Site Vulnerable?
Blog Furthermore, over three quarters (78%) of Web sites tested contained one or more medium level risk that may enable external users to gain unauthorised access or disrupt service availability. NTA Monitor recently released some statistics which are...
[April 10, 2008, 12:03]
Virgin considering filesharer suspensions
Blog In parallel, the two companies will be working together to protect Universal Music's intellectual property and drive a material reduction in the unauthorised distribution of its repertoire across Virgin Media's network," a statement read.
[June 15, 2009, 13:22]
Passport chief comments on ID Card security
Blog And around this database we will have very tight controls to ensure that those able to access information have been security vetted; it will be a criminal offence to make unauthorised disclosures from the database.
[November 14, 2006, 16:31]
BBC bought botnet
Blog It looks to me like an offence under Section 1, which deals with unauthorised access. The British Broadcasting Corporation bought its own botnet. What a silly thing to do. Using 22,000 computers that had already been infected, the BBC bought...
[March 12, 2009, 16:40]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog But it was not to be: Aunty caught wind of such errant creativity and caused the removal of unauthorised images, double-quick. Tellytubbies on the Web! Terrific! No so terrific is the way in which the Beeb carefully put the TubbyFrighteners on...
[April 25, 1998, 7:00]
Android modders to cut Google Apps out of ROM
Blog Google posted a blog on Friday, in which it did not mention CyanogenMod by name, but said "unauthorised distribution of [the closed-source apps] harms us just like it would any other business, even if it's done with the best of intentions".
[September 28, 2009, 17:25]
Tech-Savvy Kids Are Ruffling Schools’ Feathers
Blog An anonymous proxy server is a routing communications between a computer and the Internet that can hide or mask your unique address to prevent unauthorised access to your computer over the Internet. It worried me recently when I read about the...
[September 26, 2008, 14:03]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog We can be grateful that the problem involved such a high profile voter, otherwise we'd never know that following all the kerfuffle over unauthorised code changes and vanishingly poor security, the electronic voting systems are still a wobbly sack...
[November 11, 2005, 17:30]
Is the corporate line obscuring the real security message?
Blog That's not totally unlikely as IT managers I have spoken to have told me they have gained access to datacentres completely unauthorised. It's curious how two telecoms companies have both been broken into in the last fortnight.
[November 6, 2006, 17:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog In the good old days, the transmission chain was very well defined and had numerous safeguards to prevent someone feeding in unauthorised material at any point. Monday 20/01/03 When the ITV Digital liquidators told the million or so owners of set...
[January 24, 2003, 16:44]
Mobile enterprise apps proliferate, but how did we get here?
Blog This is the kind of technology that can track your device inventory and secure them all so that unauthorised users can’t use them. Readers may have already seen the news on ZDNet.co.uk announced last night that SAP and Sybase are working together...
[March 12, 2009, 10:40]
FTP not VPN
Blog For security reasons I also recommend removing details of the server name from the welcome message, replace it with ‘Unauthorised Access prohibited’. In the unlikely event you are missing the office this Christmas, this is how I like to arrange...
[January 7, 2009, 7:03]
Corporate UK Facing Compliance Time Bomb
Blog If you’re not keen on researching, let me sum up what you need to know: Software piracy is the unauthorised copying or distribution of copyrighted software. You would have thought any competent IT department would know the risk to their business...
[November 10, 2008, 11:03]
IRC admins claim TimeWarner hijacks DNS to clean botnets
Blog In the United Kingdom it is a definite breach of the Computer Misuse Act for any system or user to perform 'Unauthorised Modification' of another computer system. Administrators of Internet Relay Chat (IRC) servers say they have recently become...
[July 25, 2007, 15:12]
