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Gamer sentenced for stealing Steam passwords

...statement on Tuesday. McLoughlin was charged under section 3A of the Computer Misuse Act 1990, which forbids the adaptation of a program to gain unauthorised... Read more

18 May, 2011 by Tom Espiner

Anonymous: UK arrests are a 'declaration of war'

...be behind cyberattacks on government websites, including those belonging to Tunisia. Computer Misuse Act In its statement, the group characterised the UK arrests as "exactly... Read more

28 January, 2011 by Tom Espiner

Barnes & Noble calls out Microsoft for patent law 'misuse

...ZDNet UK-selected story, see Barnes & Noble accuses Microsoft of patent law misuse on CNET News. Get the latest technology news and analysis, blogs and... Read more

28 April, 2011 by Jay Greene
Modelling <endeca_term>Misuse</endeca_term> Cases as a Means of Capturing Security Requirements

Modelling Misuse Cases as a Means of Capturing Security Requirements

...move to capturing security requirements so as not to replicate past errors. Misuse cases can be an effective tool to model security requirements. This paper... Read more

14 December, 2011
<endeca_term>Misuse</endeca_term> Detection in Consent-Based Networks

Misuse Detection in Consent-Based Networks

...to a destination in any path. These networks are susceptible to multipath misuses by misbehaving nodes. In this paper, the authors identify the misuses in... Read more

10 April, 2011
Authenticated and <endeca_term>Misuse</endeca_term>-Resistant Encryption of Key-Dependent Data

Authenticated and Misuse-Resistant Encryption of Key-Dependent Data

This paper provides a comprehensive treatment of the security of Authenticated Encryption (AE) in the presence of... Read more

29 May, 2011
Token Attempt: The Misrepresentation of Website Privacy Policies through the <endeca_term>Misuse</endeca_term> of P3P Compact Policy Tokens

Token Attempt: The Misrepresentation of Website Privacy Policies through the Misuse of P3P Compact Policy Tokens

Platform for Privacy Preferences (P3P) Compact Policies (CPs) are a collection of three-character and four-character... Read more

1 October, 2010

Shetland teenager charged over LulzSec campaign

...Shetland teenager was on Sunday charged with five offences under the Computer Misuse Act, Serious Crime Act and the Criminal Law Act. Jake Davis, 18... Read more

1 August, 2011

Essex teenager arrested for hacking and DDoS

...was arrested on Monday night on suspicion of offences under the Computer Misuse Act and Fraud Act. The investigation involved the FBI and, according to... Read more

21 June, 2011 by David Meyer
Multi Secret Sharing Scheme for Encrypting Two Secret Images Into Two Shares

Multi Secret Sharing Scheme for Encrypting Two Secret Images Into Two Shares

Information, image and media encryption is a method for preventing misuse of adversaries. Because encryption and decryption normally need too complex computation. Visual... Read more

1 January, 2012
A Survey on Biometric Cryptosystems and Cancelable Biometrics

A Survey on Biometric Cryptosystems and Cancelable Biometrics

...concerns against the common use of biometrics arise from the storage and misuse of biometric data. Biometric cryptosystems and cancelable biometrics represent emerging technologies of... Read more

8 October, 2011
Integrating a Network IDS Into an Open Source Cloud Computing Environment

Integrating a Network IDS Into an Open Source Cloud Computing Environment

...Cloud Computing paradigm may be jeopardized by concerns about the risk of misuse of this model aimed at conducting illegal activities. This paper addresses the... Read more

6 July, 2010

Seventeen-year-old arrested over TeamPoison attacks

...was interviewed at a local police station on offences under the Computer Misuse Act on Wednesday. Police seized computing equipment, which is now being forensically... Read more

10 May, 2012 by Tom Espiner

Tougher interception laws to reach Twitter

...the Investigatory Powers Tribunal would give people a place to complain about misuse of surveillance powers. The Information Commissioner's Office will review the draft... Read more

9 May, 2012 by Tom Espiner

Anonymous UK vows to target GCHQ again

...McKinnon and what they saw as the inconstant application of the Computer Misuse Act.Asked whether he was concerned about being identified, Smith said: "I... Read more

17 April, 2012 by Tom Espiner

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BrownieBoy

"cites" even. Ouch!

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Horace Ontalhold

...... and PDP11s too

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BrownieBoy

I had a quick skim through the PDF. It seems to be that many of these so-called cost savings would be down to a hardware refresh. Although...

4 hours ago by BrownieBoy on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
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apexwm

Jack : I was hoping you could provide us a summary since you are familiar with this report. I am not yet sure how much of my time I'd like to...

8 hours ago by apexwm on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
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SRist

So it looks like this was a complete red herring - Adobe are allowing upgrades from Photoshop CS3, CS4 and CS5 at the same price. When did this...

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Jack Schofield

@apexwm Have you considered either (a) reading the story above or (b) reading the PDF? There are answers in both.

11 hours ago by Jack Schofield on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
apexwm

I would love to hear why Microsoft believes that "upgrading from Windows XP to Windows 7 pays for itself in a year, in increased productivity and...

12 hours ago by apexwm on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
debsmk

I have just changed mine to white they said 3 to 5 days

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Atangana

I would like a job for me and do good to their tackiness vellent my help I will do my best to help you mercie for all

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BrownieBoy

Well done to IDC for producing a report that says using XP is a waste of money. Only 11 years too late with it is all....

14 hours ago by BrownieBoy on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Jack Schofield

@Burn-IT ...which doesn't mean it isn't true ;-) I'll be interested if you can find any properly-researched, independent data from any of the...

15 hours ago by Jack Schofield on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Burn-IT

As said, sponsored by Microsoft........

16 hours ago by Burn-IT on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
mrbigdong

@620W, I mine 1 BTC/daily for cost of 1.7eur, they naysayers regurgitate the rubbish they read as usual

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Mike Denton

If the link to the next section existed that would be awesome.... Guess I have to ask uncle google where it is

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minzhu

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knapper

That we have :-) Retailers don't buy stuff to lie around in warehouses, particularly with fast moving technology products. If they didn't think...

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JohneKerr

I think that we have been here before, shipments are not equal to sales. Correct?

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