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Korean Firm Offers $100,000 In Hacking Competition
News A Korean company is offering $100,000 (£70,000) in a 48-hour hacking competition, to be run this week. Korea Digital Works (KDWorks) will launch the competition, which will involve gaining root access to a server, on Tuesday 16 April at 11am Korean...
[April 15, 2002, 10:35]
IBM To Cut 10,000 Jobs
Talkback Another businessman decides to trash 10,000 and lives, and will he be charged with crimes against humanity? If these trashed workers are in management, how many are in their 50s and so unlikely to ever find a good job again?
[May 5, 2005, 15:59]
Marks & Spencer Loses 26,000 Staff Details
News Retailer Marks & Spencer could face prosecution if it does not comply within two months to the overhaul of its data-security procedures, after losing 26,000 employees' pension details. The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has threatened the...
[January 25, 2008, 16:32]
Hotwire Uses Salesforce To Keep Tabs On More Than 7,000 Hotel Partners Across North America
White Papers As a discount travel site, Hotwire maintains relationships with more than 7,000 hotels. It became a nightmare to track individual hotel information on shared Excel sheets. Hotwire needed a central system to manage a wealth of data on its hotel...
[July 18, 2006, 0:00]
HP To Miss Targets And Cut 3,000 Jobs
News Blaming a "rapid deterioration" in consumer IT spending, Hewlett-Packard on Wednesday said its second-quarter earnings and revenue will fall short of estimates. HP also said it would lay off up to 3,000 people in management positions as part of...
[April 18, 2001, 14:53]
£35,000 For Hackers To Crack Web Server
News Computer hackers from around the world are being invited to break into a locked-down Web server for £35,000, in a competition launched for to publicise Britain's largest security conference, Infosec. US-based security firm Argus Systems Group will...
[April 19, 2001, 14:39]
£35,000 Hacking Challenge Cracked
News A team of computer hackers has captured £35,000 for hacking into a computer system just twenty-four hours after the competition began. The hack is likely to be a major embarrassment for the company behind the high-profile hacking comptetion...
[April 23, 2001, 14:44]
Intel To Cut 1,000 Manager Jobs
News Intel will begin cutting about 1,000 manager jobs worldwide this week as part of an effort to become more competitive. This step is important because it addresses a key problem we've found in our efficiency analysis: slow and ineffective decision...
[July 14, 2006, 8:35]
Brazilian Web Fraud Grabs 10,000 Credit Card Details
News A Brazilian Web scam may have wangled credit card details from 10,000 Internet users, reports Ananova Friday. The fraudulent Web site sent out 10,000 emails asking recipients to fill in and return a fake online registration form, in order to gain...
[February 16, 2001, 16:55]
IWF Crackdown On Net Paedophiles Gets £100,000
News The UK's online pornography regulator the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) announced over £100,000 of additional funding on Monday to help implement some of the recommendations contained in the government-backed Chat Wise, Street Wise report.
[April 3, 2001, 15:13]
IBM To Cut 1,000 Consulting Jobs
News IBM today notified more than 1,000 workers in its consulting and services business that their jobs are being eliminated as part of an effort to make sure worker skills match with customer needs. Less than 1 percent of the 150,000 jobs in IBM Global...
[July 3, 2001, 12:04]
Inkjet Design Could Print At 1,000 Pages Per Minute
News Inkjet printers could put out 1,000 pages per minute, thanks to a full-page print technique proposed by researchers. The JeTrix technique could print books to order at bookshops at the rate of two a minute, or at airport kiosks eliminating the need...
[September 22, 2006, 16:05]
Blair Intervenes To Prevent 3,000 Mobile Job Losses
News Prime minister Tony Blair has made a personal plea to Motorola amid fears the firm is poised to announce the closure of a mobile phone manufacturing plant in Scotland, with the loss of 3,000 jobs. An announcement,expected from the company on...
[April 10, 2001, 18:15]
Coventry City Council Cuts Overhead By US$414,000 By Migrating 24% Of Spend To Online Purchasing
White Papers Coventry City Council provides local government services to 306,000 residents and businesses in the United Kingdom's eleventh largest city. Coventry City Council wanted to streamline and e-enable financial and purchasing processes following a...
[March 24, 2008, 23:00]
Philips Loss To Be Followed By 4,000 Job Cuts
News Shares in Philips fell almost three percent in Tuesday morning trading after the Dutch semiconductor and consumer electronics manufacturer declared a loss of £470m for the second quarter of this year.
[July 17, 2001, 10:57]
Five ISPs Win £200,000 From BT
News BT has chosen the names of the five ISPs who will receive £200,000 each to spend on broadband advertising over the next few months. The successful ISPs are Easynet, Colt, One.Tel, Albion and Colloqium.
[August 7, 2002, 16:10]
Microsoft Upgrade Knocks Out 80,000 Government PCs
Talkback "the point is that MS software shouldn't just fall over, reguardless of what 3rd party software is installed " Do not know if that is completely fair. I have software that once installed knocks my Linux servers on their butts.
[November 27, 2004, 23:14]
'Code Red' Worm Claims 12,000 Servers
News Almost 12,000 Web servers have been infected by a new Internet worm that takes advantage of a security flaw in Microsoft software to deface sites, security experts said on Wednesday. The worm could also help attackers identify infected computers...
[July 19, 2001, 9:56]
Man Drops Spanner And Cuts Off 70,000 Phone Lines
News Around 70,000 Telewest subscribers lost their phone lines on Tuesday after an engineer dropped a spanner while fixing some equipment at the cable company's offices in Scotland. The spanner landed on some batteries, starting a fire that took down...
[August 16, 2001, 12:51]
Securing A Mid-Size Business Network With Solutions From Symantec And AIS Delivers $98,000 In Annual Savings
White Papers Based in Colorado Springs, Colorado, Insurance Technologies, LLC needs to protect its intellectual property, as well as the data of the top-tier financial institutions that make up its client base. The firm turned to Symantec and Advanced Internet...
[August 25, 2006, 0:00]
