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RIPA surveillance may break human rights laws
News The information commissioner's legal opinion, from Ben Emmerson QC, advised that RIPA's data access provision could break the law because of conflict with anti-terrorism legislation hurriedly introduced by the Home Office following last September...
[July 31, 2002, 16:43]
Red faces and the dangers of sending emails
News Her comments were made in an email sent after the World Trade Center towers had been attacked, but before the towers collapsed. A new survey has suggested that mis-sent emails cause embarrassment more frequently than might be imagined, with one in...
[June 7, 2002, 16:32]
FBI investigates Nimda worm
News An FBI representative said the agency was "assessing" the incident, but so far it found no relationship between the online deluge and last week's terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
[September 19, 2001, 9:22]
Virus writers latch onto war theme
News Clark said: "Virus writes will use any occasion that they think will work on computer users, no matter how sick -- be it the attack on the World Trade Center or the war with Iraq. Virus writers have taken advantage of the onset of war to release an...
[March 20, 2003, 8:51]
Apple polishes OS X with upgrade
News However, that show was cancelled amid security concerns after the 11 September terrorist attacks on the Pentagon and World Trade Center. Apple Computer is expected to unveil a long-anticipated upgrade to the Mac operating system on Tuesday.
[September 25, 2001, 9:03]
New 'anthrax' email worm is a dud
News Anthrax -- a disease caused by bacteria that can often be fatal, especially if the spores are inhaled -- came to the public's attention as a potential bioweapon soon after the 11 September terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon.
[October 17, 2001, 9:57]
Former FBI chief takes on encryption
News Encrypted computer files found in Manila belonging to Ramzi Yousef, the mastermind behind the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, proved that terrorists are using this technology, Freeh said. When Louis Freeh ran the FBI, he loved nothing more than...
[October 15, 2002, 10:43]
Palm extends a hand to developers
News The fifth annual US developers conference was originally set for October, but Palm postponed the event following the terror attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Palm announced on Tuesday that it is bolstering relations with its third...
[October 23, 2001, 14:33]
Civil liberties group opposes Clinton's spy plans
News It did not, for example, stop or lead to the apprehension of the Unabomber, Timothy McVeigh, or the World Trade Center bombers. With most wiretaps authorised by U.S.judges over the past decade targeted at individual offenders such as gamblers and...
[March 24, 1998, 10:14]
Intel, AMD up sales forecasts
News Some forecasts were overly pessimistic and became even more dour after the World Trade Center attack. Things are looking better in chips. Intel on Thursday raised the range of its revenue expectations for the fourth quarter, a move that will is...
[December 7, 2001, 11:38]
FBI taps ISPs in hunt for attackers
News Two flattened the World Trade Center, while a third seriously damaged the Pentagon. The hunt for suspects in Tuesday's terrorist attacks has moved online. On Wednesday, both America Online and EarthLink acknowledged that they were working with the...
[September 13, 2001, 9:57]
Emergency services turn to IM
News While the World Trade Center attacks intensified the need for cross-agency and cross-jurisdiction communication, the project actually goes back to 1999. Instant messaging is going to the scene of the crime.
[August 22, 2002, 14:20]
Pop-up ads influence Web rankings
News The research company also found that traffic to news sites skyrocketed as a result of last month's terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Pop-up ads continue to gain momentum and drive up traffic numbers for little-known Web...
[October 16, 2001, 10:00]
Bush lobbies EU to drop traffic data retention ban
News The EU's anti-terrorism programme following the bombings on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon only amounts to one new proposal, which aims to examine immigration and asylum legislation in light of the terrorist threat.
[November 5, 2001, 13:04]
Nasa hacker loses extradition appeal
News The Extradition Act 2003 is a revised version of the original act, which was introduced in the wake of the attack on the World Trade Center and applies only to extradition to the UK from the US. Gary McKinnon, the man accused of hacking into the...
[April 3, 2007, 14:16]
IBM sets up courses in China
News The massive training contract is a further testament to the explosive demand for skilled labour following China's accession into the World Trade Organization in 2001, the company added. As part of the contract signed last week with the China...
[September 6, 2004, 11:55]
Europe's most powerful supercomputer launched
News Speaking at the CeBIT trade show in Hanover last week, Dr Thomas Lippert, head of the Jülich Research Centre, explained that JUBL will be used to tackle major scientific problems. The largest non-secret supercomputer in the world is Blue Gene/L...
[March 14, 2006, 7:25]
P3P: Green light for online privacy?
News A report released in late May by the Federal Trade Commission found that only 20 percent of sites offered privacy polices that honoured all of the so-called fair information practices established by the government.
[July 5, 2000, 13:21]
Mira device gains new supporters
News Microsoft said it planned to announce the new partners on Tuesday at the giant CeBIT trade show taking place this week in Germany. For full coverage of CeBIT 2002 -- the biggest tech show in the world, see the CeBIT News Special.
[March 13, 2002, 8:52]
Oracle toots its own horn in auto-exchange deal
News The company, which is still searching for a chief executive, also recently won approval from the Federal Trade Commission. In recent weeks, Covisint, which has experienced its share of bumpy roads, has been picking up speed in the burgeoning world...
[December 13, 2000, 14:05]
