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News Burst: Trojan horse alert

According to the hacker site Rootshell the trojan has turned up in the US and Australia and is... Read more

11 August, 1998 by Richard Barry

A Year Ago: Clueless in Seattle

First published: Wed, 23 Dec 1998 12:35:01 GMT Read more

23 December, 1999 by Richard Barry

A Year Ago: Hotmail glitch steals passwords

First published: Tue, 25 Aug 1998 14:44:47 GMT Read more

25 August, 1999 by Matthew Broersma

Microsoft confirms April Fool's bug

If they're not careful, Microsoft Windows users could become victims of an irksome April Fool's joke, come April 1, 2001. Read more

13 January, 1999 by Matthew Broersma

Latest scary virus draws skeptics

An Israeli security company finds an ingenious hack that has impacted no one and has yet to be spotted on the Internet, and everyone gets upset. But should they? Read more

6 January, 1999 by Jim Kerstetter

News Burst: Strong virus to be reported

Network Associates is expected later today to announce discovery of a potent new "smart" virus. Read more

21 December, 1998 by ZDNet

US Report: Microsoft issues patch for IE bug

Microsoft is urging Internet Explorer users to download a patch from its Web site to circumvent a security problem that may allow hackers to read files on unsuspecting users' computers. Read more

7 September, 1998 by Lisa Bowman

US Report: Microsoft Access bug scrambles data records

A new bug in Microsoft's Access software could wreak havoc among some users of the program. Read more

26 August, 1998 by Lisa Bowman

US Report: Hotmail glitch tricks users into revealing passwords

Canadian Web programmers have uncovered a security glitch that could fool users of Microsoft's Hotmail e-mail service into revealing their passwords. Read more

25 August, 1998 by Matthew Broersma

Hacking the 'crackers': Key Internet security issue solved

Cryptographers at IBM Research and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology have found a way to make public key infrastructures resilient against even the most savvy hackers. Read more

25 August, 1998 by Jim Kerstetter

News Burst: CIH antidote available for free

The Anti Virus Research Centre at Symantec has developed a free tool, it says will "turn off" all strains of the CIH virus. Read more

17 August, 1998 by Richard Barry

US Report: Microsoft fixes Outlook bug

Microsoft has posted updated patches for the "long file-name attachment" bug that was recently discovered in its Outlook 98 and Outlook Express 4.x messaging clients. Read more

13 August, 1998 by Christy Walker

Clueless in Seattle

Nearly a week after the Remote Explorer virus struck down MCI WorldCom in the US, Microsoft UK has little idea what the... Read more

23 December, 1998 by Richard Barry

News Burst: Security flaw in NT IIS

ZDNet has investigated, with success, claims by rootshell.com that simply adding ::$DATA at the end of an .asp URL... Read more

2 July, 1998 by Richard Barry

Excite owns up to gaping EWS security hole

...to fix it were posted on the well known hacking Web site rootshell.com on New Year's Day. Hackers were therefore potentially in possesion... Read more

15 January, 1998 by Craig Paterson

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Lonnie

those conformation letters are hard to figure out what is which letters it is a pain in the back side. Please make it more Ledge-able being better...

34 minutes ago by Lonnie on Screenshots: Photoshop CS6 Beta
BrownieBoy

"cites" even. Ouch!

8 hours ago by BrownieBoy on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Horace Ontalhold

...... and PDP11s too

8 hours ago by Horace Ontalhold on Fusion-io lays minefield with a billion IOPS
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...

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

496,999 BT Fon Hotspots lovingly situated in your next door neighbours garden, no matter how you dress that up its still a pup... Not where I need...

11 hours ago by bobandroid on London Olympics: BT needs 25,000 more Wi-Fi hotspots
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...

13 hours ago by apexwm on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Smilig Eddie

2 – 4 more weeks of waiting: how many buyers are going to decide instead to see what the iPhone 5 offers? Consumer trust in the brand has also...

13 hours ago by Smilig Eddie on Samsung Galaxy 'S3' delayed by special paint
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...

14 hours ago by SRist on Photoshop users attack Adobe upgrade policy change
Jack Schofield

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

15 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...

16 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

17 hours ago by debsmk on Samsung Galaxy 'S3' delayed by special paint
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

18 hours ago by Atangana on UK's 15-year-old World Excel champion offered £100k job
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....

19 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...

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

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

21 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

Don't blame CEO, they want RIM win. RIM has strange culture and self distruct political environment. In RIM if a new hired person figure out...

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Thomas Gellhaus

I've been very pleased with Mageia 2. My review went up on Sunday. My only issue is that my particular wireless printer hasn't been detected on...

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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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