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Sender ID loses supporters
News The use of Microsoft's technology in the standard means that the company can specify a licence that potential users have to agree to before using the code. Microsoft has actively lobbied other companies to accept the Sender ID framework and its...
[September 3, 2004, 9:25]
No regrets for Newham
News One of the first projects implemented is the Open Application Sharing Portal, which will allow local authorities to share best practice and source code to cut development costs. We hope that it will provide a key facility to enable organisations to...
[April 1, 2005, 9:25]
Expect more stock option cases, warn Feds
News The senators indicated they were weighing a number of legislative options, including changes to — or even a repeal of — a section of the tax code that puts a $1m cap on the amount of employee compensation that firms can deduct from their income...
[September 7, 2006, 9:55]
MyDoom strikes again through IE flaw
News There was a good bit of attention [among security researchers] to the demo code [of this flaw]. It's not the first time a code writer has exploited a flaw in a Microsoft product before the software giant has had a chance to plug the hole.
[November 9, 2004, 7:53]
Programmers adopt 'Extreme' methods Pt II
News Extreme also mandates communal ownership of all code. By keeping code clean and defining things only once, programmers reduce the number of errors that must be addressed later. For code writers themselves, one of the most striking differences is...
[April 3, 2001, 14:20]
UK Government suffers data retention blow
News A spokeswoman for the Home Office said: "The Home Office is currently consulting with members of the telecommunications industry, the Office of the Information Commissioner, and other government departments, in the drawing up of a voluntary code...
[September 17, 2002, 12:30]
Employers can read your email from today
News We would like to see a code of practice being drawn up by each company. The Institute of Directors believes that employers should have the power to monitor emails, but says that in practice they may create a hostile working environment.
[October 24, 2000, 11:45]
Attack of the clones
News However, if Red Hat truly wanted to hamper the rebuilders, it could stop its current practice of releasing its product's source code in the convenient packages called source RPM files. CentOS and others - Lineox, White Box Linux, Tao Linux, X/OS...
[March 24, 2005, 17:35]
E-Commerce law raises liability concerns for ISPs
News Gilbert agrees that a self-regulatory code of practice could work, providing that it is clear and accepted by the law courts, and has statutory backing. Legislation] is not fluid enough -- the technological process is best dealt with by an industry...
[August 20, 2001, 15:40]
'Smart' worm lies low to evade detection
News Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant for antivirus firm Sophos, said malware authors try to make the job of the antivirus researchers as difficult as possible by adding confusing code and using evasion techniques.
[July 13, 2004, 12:00]
Piracy Focus: Microsoft's anti-piracy manager speaks
News However despite strong laws protecting copyright owners in both the UK and USA it is still a fact that 31% (or 1 in 3 pieces) of software code in use in the UK is not legally licensed or counterfeit. Hundreds of individuals spend thousands of hours...
[June 19, 1998, 17:24]
ISS slammed for 'selling' security patches
News Blackspider's Cheney said the practice of publishing of attack code is common and could force companies into changing their security policies: "This trend can only continue. Mikko Hyppönen, director of antivirus research at F-Secure, said he has...
[March 30, 2004, 15:40]
Academics scrutinise open-source culture
News Informalisms are such things as information posted on a Web page, a threaded email discussion or a set of comments in source code in a project repository. Here you say, "I create something you want, so I make my work in both contexts and together...
[January 6, 2004, 11:05]
Re: The big con - open source
Talkback In the end case, the open source author will seldom put down any low level code at all and will simply bind together a bunch of libraries and put their own application code on top. Once the code has reached a level of maturity that it can stop...
[January 7, 2009, 7:54]
Lexmark's loss is everyone's gain
Leader Furthermore, said the court, SCC's reverse engineering was not a circumvention of Lexmark's Toner Loader Program but a replacement of it, so even if the code had been covered by copyright, SCC's implementation would have been allowed under the...
[October 27, 2004, 12:05]
EC: A Q&A on the Microsoft decision
News The Commission is not seeking disclosure of Microsoft's source code. As regards tying, the US remedy did not contain provisions on code removal as it was designed for a monopoly maintenance and not a tying liability.
[March 24, 2004, 11:20]
Yahoo! mail filters out Java-related words
News uses an automated filter to swap out a handful of words such as "mocha" that pertain to Web code known as JavaScript. s filter changes the term "eval" -- a JavaScript command used to evaluate a string of code -- to "review.
[July 17, 2002, 13:40]
Nimda floods corporate networks
News Basically what we were afraid Code Red would do on the Internet, Nimda is doing within single company networks," said Mikko Hypponen, Manager of Anti-Virus Research at F-Secure. Servers within firewalls, they say, are particularly susceptible to...
[September 20, 2001, 12:44]
A Year Ago: Netscape announcement - Giant Lizard eats San Francisco
News That site has been set up by Netscape to serve as a co-ordinating point for developers who are being given free licences to use and modify the code providing they post any useful results back for the rest of the community.
[March 31, 1999, 6:02]
MS security chief: We are not stopping development
News Shared Source, introduced last summer, enables participants to view select chunks of Microsoft source code, but not to modify it. Open source licences allow customers to modify code and redistribute it, as long as they make their modifications...
[February 15, 2002, 15:07]
