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Protesters to Nike: Just hack it!
News Computer vandals have discovered that they can trick registrars into changing ownership of domain names by sending specially formed email messages that use a technique called 'spoofing'. Nike's Web site is the latest victim of 'domain name hijacking'.
[June 22, 2000, 8:17]
iZito review
Reviews You can get through a lot of sites very quickly using this technique -- assuming, of course, that you don’t need to go beyond the retrieved page to decide whether a site is relevant or not. There are three elements to iZito: the in-browser search...
[November 18, 2004, 10:45]
Hackers attack eBay accounts
News A time-tested technique, a dictionary attack involves an automated program, or "bot," that tries to find a password for a known user ID by drawing on a list of common passwords and a dictionary of words.
[March 26, 2002, 10:41]
Microsoft patches serious IE flaws
News This month's update cuts links between IE and other pieces of Microsoft software that the Web browser can call on inappropriately, a technique that could be used to compromise a system, Microsoft said.
[December 14, 2005, 9:00]
The Napster controversy
News How MP3 went - with a bullet - from an obscure German compression technique to the music industry's current chart-topping controversy Only a few years ago, consumers were largely unaware of MP3. Talk of MP3s or those who knew anything about the...
[April 10, 2000, 8:43]
Botnets and spyware still on the rise
News The technique allows an attacker with special equipment to connect to a Bluetooth handset without authorisation. Personal computers that play unwitting host to zombie code are proliferating at a startling pace, according to a new report.
[July 12, 2005, 14:20]
3G: Will 3G devices be secure?
News Cryptographic experts at the Weisemann Institute in Israel claimed in December to have developed a technique allowing a standard PC to listen in to GSM networks and figure out the 40bit key used to encrypt voice signals.
[August 23, 2000, 16:17]
Toshiba goes green with reprintable printing
News The technique is entirely based around what Keene calls "very, very clever paper". The only problem is that it is a very special paper that comes at a very special price. The Toshiba B-SX8R uses thermal technology and re-writable paper.
[November 22, 2006, 16:26]
A tardy Morpheus meets mixed reviews
News The software also includes the ability to download bits of the same file from several places at once, a now-common download speeding technique called "swarming". File-swapping company StreamCast Networks released a long-awaited new version of its...
[August 21, 2002, 7:58]
Security flaw hits Linux
News Most legitimate programs wouldn't try to repeatedly free memory except by accident, but attackers could use such a technique to attempt to force the operating system to run code designed to take over the computer.
[March 12, 2002, 8:52]
Intel set to overhaul Pentium 4 by 2005
News In this design technique, germanium atoms, which are larger than silicon, are mixed in with silicon on the base layers of the chip. Code-named Nehalem, the chip will embody a new architecture that will substantially differ from the current Pentium...
[October 9, 2002, 8:52]
IBM, Cisco pursue IP intranet streaming
News It also uses a technique known as multicasting, a process of intelligently routing audio and video in packets. IBM and Cisco are teaming up to sell a digital media delivery package to businesses, to capitalise on growing corporate demand for...
[May 30, 2003, 10:45]
Microsoft removes more legal obstacles
News With his company's technique, the particular computer itself is less critical, because "the information is always protected," he said. With the settlement on Monday of its long-simmering patent dispute with InterTrust Technologies, Microsoft has...
[April 13, 2004, 11:05]
Thunderbird 2.0, Exchange Server and Email Dreamland
Blog For employees, using a variation of VPN or some secure tunneling technique takes care of the connection security issues but doesn't necessarily lend itself to expansion beyond the corporate structure.
[July 29, 2009, 9:28]
IBM stacks up storage bricks
News IBM is using a technique Garner developed called "capacitive couplers," small pads that can send signals from one brick to another with which it's in contact. The project, called Collective Intelligent Bricks and formerly code-named IceCube, uses...
[December 17, 2002, 12:36]
Attack downs Yahoo, Google and Microsoft
News In a recent incident, the Netsky virus used such a technique to target Kazaa and other file-sharing networks, disrupting service at some. The attack caused problems for more than two hours -- from 5:30 a.m.to 7:45 a.m.
[June 16, 2004, 8:35]
Police crack down on US Net fraud ring
News Last weekend some customers of Kaypro Technology, an online computer store, received email from a computer criminal using the same technique as the PayPal fraudster. The suspects were involved in a variety of schemes using stolen credit cards...
[February 21, 2001, 13:25]
Transmeta round-up: Technology worth the hype?
News When you have the ability to run different OSs it has to be an emulation technique. Everything known about the Transmeta microprocessor prior to its launch Wednesday was based on information gleaned from patent applications, seasoned with a fair...
[January 21, 2000, 12:01]
SSL-based VPNs are gaining favour
News Since SSL is a Web encryption technique, it might seem that SSL-based VPNs would be subject to another major limitation, since most corporate applications are not delivered through the Web. These problems are especially pronounced when the VPN's...
[August 27, 2002, 16:01]
The 3D Internet - will it take off?
News Viewpoint, formerly MetaCreations, is powering Sony's 3D version of Aibo, a robotic dog and entertainment system using a rendering technique. FAO Schwartz lets users take apart toys in its 3D playroom.
[October 27, 2000, 8:48]
