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Skype To Address Identification Concerns
News There's a lot of leverage space in the identity segment," Kurt Sauer, chief security officer for Skype, told ZDNet UK. Skype is a public key infrastructure, which means nothing if you don't know who you are identifying at the other end," said Sauer.
[June 21, 2006, 16:25]
Tsunami 'hacker' Is Innocent, Say Readers
News Last Thursday's conviction of a computer security consultant for illegally accessing a Web site set up to aid victims of the Boxing Day Asian tsunami prompted a wide range of opinions from readers of ZDNet UK.
[October 10, 2005, 16:00]
Microsoft 'frightened' By Police XP Hack
News SOCA requested ZDNet.co.uk give no more details than this about how the exploit was constructed. At a Get Safe Online event on Monday aimed at heightening security awareness among small businesses, officers connected a machine running Windows XP...
[November 13, 2007, 10:26]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog It's also my first go at writing a daily leader for the site -- where we express ZDNet UK's opinion about something fun in the time-honoured anonymous tradition of newspapers. But now I've told you I wrote that one, it's not anonymous… hm.
[August 20, 2004, 18:35]
ID Management Remains Problematic For Businesses
News Identity management remains a problem for both private and public sector organisations, according to security experts speaking to ZDNet UK at London's Infosecurity Europe event this week. Andy Kellet, senior research analyst at Butler Group, agreed...
[April 27, 2007, 18:00]
Sony Rootkit Prompts Clampdown On CD Use
News Andrew Yeomans, vice-president for global information security at investment bank Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein, told ZDNet UK that he is already assessing whether his firm need to tighten up their controls.
[November 14, 2005, 12:50]
Small Webcasters Get Fee Reprieve
News However, a single legislator put an anonymous hold on the bill at the last minute, preventing a vote before the Senate's adjournment. Get the latest headlines at ZDNet UK's E-commerce News Section. Go to the ZDNet news forum.
[October 21, 2002, 8:58]
BT's Wireplay Hit By CIH Virus
News Matteucci told ZDNet News that mplayer.com was infected on Tuesday morning at 10 a.m.and noticed problems around 4 p.m. Matteucci told ZDNet News this was because "we were not sure if we infected anyone at all.
[July 31, 1998, 11:21]
Canada's ISPs May Get 'spy' Role
News Get the latest on spy networks such as Echelon and Carnivore, as well as privacy issues for companies and individuals alike, at ZDNet UK's Privacy News Section. Michael Geist, a professor at the University of Ottawa who specialises in e-commerce...
[August 28, 2002, 13:12]
Exclusive: IBook Speed Bump Ahead
News New information obtained by ZDNet News confirms details of a forthcoming speed bump to Apple Computer's iBook -- details that were, ironically enough, featured in documents Apple filed last week in its effort to clamp down on what it says are...
[August 11, 2000, 8:41]
BBC IPlayer Launch On, Despite Crack
News It has already attracted controversy and criticism over the decision to use proprietary technology for a platform supposedly catering to all licence-fee-payers — at its launch it will work only on computers running Windows XP — but the recent...
[July 17, 2007, 13:48]
Chatroom Danger: Opinion - When Online Chat Leads To The Crying Rooms
News Richard Barry's last opinion piece for ZDNet (he is moving on after three years at the ZDNN helm) is an impassioned plea to the Internet industry to do more to make chatrooms safer for children. That company's executives have known for several...
[March 15, 2001, 12:08]
DoJ May Regret Battling Google Over Porn Probe
News It makes no difference, in our view, that the government wants anonymous search queries. In a ZDNet UK sister site CNET News.com survey published this month, Google, America Online, Microsoft and Yahoo declined to answer whether they had received...
[February 22, 2006, 12:30]
HP Merger Gets Cautious Thumbs-up
News Visitors to Hewlett-Packard's ENSA@Work event in Amsterdam seemed broadly in favour of the HP-Compaq merger, although some people felt it was a merger that started at the surface and had yet to drive all the way through service and support...
[January 21, 2003, 13:40]
Bulldog: Problems Are Over. Users: No They're Not
News For some though, the billing issues have worked in their favour — so far at least. Andrew Morley, Bulldog's chief commercial officer, told ZDNet UK that Bulldog had "turned a corner", following Ofcom's decision last month to close its investigation...
[November 7, 2005, 13:40]
Clarke Joins Latest Cyberterror Debate
Talkback Urgent - 'Experts' challenge mi2g Chairman's speech at Oxford University - Open Letter With respect, we are concerned that we have not been asked to make a comment at all in regard to the originally published articles, which amounts to firing a gun...
[February 11, 2005, 15:59]
Cyberterror Threats Dismissed
Talkback Urgent - 'Experts' challenge mi2g Chairman's speech at Oxford University - Open Letter With respect, we are concerned that we have not been asked to make a comment at all in regard to the originally published articles, which amounts to firing a gun...
[February 11, 2005, 16:03]
Spammers Hide Behind A Friendly Face
News Junk-mail senders are turning to new come-ons as consumers increasingly skip over messages with anonymous subject lines such as "Hi, remember me" or "Here's the information you requested. But even people on high spam alert find it difficult to...
[April 15, 2002, 11:32]
Startup Spotlight: Ybag.com
News Under this "reverse auction" model, Ybag retailers theoretically reply to the buyer's own personal Ybag (an anonymous mailbox system) within a few hours, allowing the consumer to decide whether to make their purchase online, over the phone or in...
[May 26, 2000, 16:13]
Google Product Tracker Could Raise Privacy Concerns
News Google goes out of its way to inform people that the toolbar will track where they surf, earning it plaudits from at least one privacy advocate who suggested that the company had cleared crucial hurdles by disclosing its intentions and making the...
[December 12, 2000, 9:32]
