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Grubbing XP Pro to 2nd Boot
Blog I had a hard drive failure on my home Windows XP Pro DELL system last week. In the end what's installed on the system is SP3 from the network install package already resident on the second hard drive and approximately 60 updates downloaded “live...
[September 14, 2009, 9:03]
Intel to integrate security chip
News Security analysts say that many virus outbreaks and security problems are caused by the failure of computer owners to apply patches soon enough. People are making security a bigger topic of conversation than it was, but in the end I think it's been...
[August 1, 2003, 8:35]
Cost blamed for gloomy global 3G outlook
News Ofcom's annual report into the communications market, released in August, showed that 3G has been somewhat of a failure in the UK, with none of the four major operators having as many as a million 3G subscribers.
[October 13, 2006, 12:30]
Hackers break into Yahoo! home
News The letter promised a nationwide failure of power grids "on exactly 01:00 hours February 14, 1997 (sic)" as a demonstration of their ability. He was caught by network administrator Tsutomu Shimomura, and brought to fame in a book by New York Times...
[December 10, 1997, 9:20]
EC auditors criticise Galileo overruns
News According to the auditors, the Galileo programme experienced problems at different levels, including a failure to adequately negotiate and carry through a public-private partnership (PPP). The Galileo satellite-network project, which aims to...
[July 1, 2009, 14:59]
Audi adds 'myAudi' personalised Web sites
News The auto industry's failure to offer personalised Web sites to car buyers Speaking to ZDNet after his keynote address, Wargitsch refuted suggestions that this centralised e-business approach would falter at the dealer network level - and would lead...
[March 5, 2002, 16:19]
A Year Ago: Hackers break into Yahoo! home
News The letter promised a nationwide failure of power grids "on exactly 01:00 hours February 14, 1997 (sic)" as a demonstration of their ability. He was caught by network administrator Tsutomu Shimomura, and brought to fame in a book by New York Times...
[December 10, 1998, 10:30]
Report: Business fails on global security
News A security environment aimed primarily at preventing outside intrusions is destined for failure. The report found that a third of executives considered hackers attacking from the Internet to be the greatest threat, but the reality, it said, is that...
[November 15, 2001, 6:30]
Nine-year Iridium bankruptcy saga over for Motorola
News A judge has finally ruled that Motorola has nothing to pay over the bankruptcy of its Iridium satellite venture in 1999, described as the biggest project failure in history. The original Iridium network required a million users to break even but...
[May 23, 2008, 15:49]
Microsoft: Office '10 years ahead' of OpenOffice
Talkback After years of MS Office failure to support previous versions of it's own .DOC format, after countless hours of migraine-inspiring overtime trying to troubleshoot why MS Word refused to stop padding the documentation with useless background data...
[March 16, 2006, 0:43]
BT broadcasting plans get City thumbs-down
News Their failure to recover all the lost ground may be related to the fact that some city figures were unimpressed that Bland made his comments before incoming chief executive Ben Verwaayen has had a chance to give his views on BT's future strategy.
[January 11, 2002, 14:59]
Union bangs the drum for universal broadband
News Relegating broadband to an appendix in the Communications Bill, which said that 'broadband did not require legislative action' was absolutely breathtaking in its failure to the challenges ahead," Drake added.
[October 22, 2002, 12:09]
Hacker Mitnick may sue AT&T over data breach
News I may file a lawsuit for invasion of privacy for the failure to adequately protect my information. AT&T wants me off their network because they can't secure my account, and after being a loyal customer for almost a decade I find that reprehensible...
[August 21, 2009, 14:50]
Security is moving beyond the perimeter
Blog There’s nothing like threat of jail or business failure to get the CEO to sit up and ask what’s being done to secure customer data. Of course the edge of the network is still important. I was reading some of the early results from our 2008 (ISC)2...
[April 17, 2008, 14:48]
ID Cards: A Titanic project waiting for its iceberg
News There will be a 0.1 percent failure rate at least. Imagine the security issues of having 40,000 or 50,000 retail outlets, linked to the ID card network. Peers refused to pass the bill primarily on the grounds of costs, and voted to force the...
[January 18, 2006, 11:25]
Mesh networking goes industrial
News VIA's mini-ITX motherboards come fitted with its own line of low-power x86 processors (the C3), which are suited to appliances such as mesh nodes, where failure-prone moveable parts such as fans and hard disks are highly undesirable.
[February 1, 2005, 12:25]
UNESCO calls for 'Cyber Mums' against paedophiles
News Arnaldo pointed to the failure of the COPA law as a test case. UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation) is calling for a worldwide network of `cyber mums' as a result of the conference -- Sexual abuse, Child...
[March 22, 1999, 10:53]
Secret codes 'not hidden in Web images'
News The researchers offered three possibilities for their failure to confirm a single piece of steganographic content in a single image. To prove that steganographic content had been hidden within these images, the researchers used their network of...
[September 26, 2001, 13:27]
Novell, VMware push virtual appliances on Suse Linux
News These include a tool to monitor SAP application components and another to automatically restart applications on any available virtual or physical system if there is a hardware failure. The product integrates VMware Infrastructure physical and...
[February 25, 2009, 13:34]
Exploit-selling site will boost security, say founders
News The existing business model to reward researchers is a failure," said Herman Zampariolo, chief executive of WSLabi, and the man behind the WabiSabiLabi auction site. This situation led Zampariolo, previously chief executive of Italian network...
[July 6, 2007, 13:55]
