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Authors may challenge Amazon full-text search
Talkback I don't agree with authors' fear that people will dip in, print what they need and leave. The other day, I've dowloaded a PDF file which enclosed 4 consecutive chapters of Web Design book resulting in my purchase because I really like what I saw.
[October 27, 2003, 17:28]
Authors may challenge Amazon full-text search
News The Authors Guild, a professional organisation representing US writers, is recommending that some authors block their works from appearing on Amazon.com's new full-text search tool. In an email alert to members, sent on Friday, the Guild argued the...
[October 27, 2003, 11:40]
Authors rebel against used books on Amazon
News By "aggressively promoting" sales of used books on its site, Amazon.com is snatching money out of authors' pockets, says a group representing 8,000 published authors. In response, the Authors Guild, the largest organisation representing published...
[April 11, 2002, 14:58]
Bridging the Gap Between Developers and Help Authors With ComponentOne DynamicHelp
White Papers C1DynamicHelp's Authoring mode enables developers to pass the application off to the Help authors so they can assign topics to controls. The 2008 v2 release of ComponentOne Studio Enterprise introduced a new product, ComponentOne DynamicHelp for...
[May 14, 2009, 1:17]
Google, US authors settle book-digitisation lawsuit
News The US Authors Guild and a group of publishers announced on Tuesday that they have reached a settlement with Google in a lawsuit over its Google Book Search initiative. The settlement enables authors and publishers to receive compensation for...
[October 28, 2008, 14:47]
Competing authors pump up virus statistics
News The authors of the NetSky and Bagle worms have been battling for virus-writing supremacy in March, with both releasing new variants in a tit-for-tat game of one-upmanship," said Carole Theriault, a Sophos security consultant.
[April 1, 2004, 10:15]
Introduction to Ajax for Page Authors
White Papers Page authors use these Ajax components, along with widgets, JavaScript technology, and other techniques, to incorporate Ajax functionality into their web applications. This paper focuses on page authors and describes various techniques that can be...
[September 11, 2007, 1:00]
Bestselling authors win back domain names
News Three leading authors have won control of Internet domains featuring their names after a Cambridge University lecturer bought them and tried to sell them for a profit. In the next six months he is thought to have purchased more than a hundred...
[April 5, 2001, 8:45]
Malware authors mixing a lethal cocktail
Talkback Virus writers could well start focussing more on GNU/Linux installations in the near future. However, the nice thing about GNU/Linux is that you can disable or completely uninstall anything that proves to be an incorrigible security risk.cough* I.E.
[December 11, 2004, 13:12]
Malware authors mixing a lethal cocktail
Talkback Yeah not all hackers are involved in that or support such actions. I say bring it on. If they wanna have a go then I think we should have a go at them. If SPAMers want to start trouble then why don't we just hack them and screw there network!
[December 9, 2004, 18:02]
Malware authors mixing a lethal cocktail
Talkback I read in the newspaper about a technology which suggested the consumer look for bank or institutions that have single use credit card number. If this single use credit card number (software) was combined with a card present encryption (hardware...
[December 13, 2004, 21:18]
Malware authors mixing a lethal cocktail
Talkback Being against anyone who publishes information about vulnerabilities is foolish. If the average Joe can't read about vulnerabilities, how can he protect himself? Hackers don't have to publish information in order to share it, especially if they are...
[December 9, 2004, 18:02]
Can IT keep up with malware authors?
Talkback All this talk about patches keeps making the same really bad assumption over and over again. The assumption that the patches can be trusted is just plain wrong. Installing Security Patches from Microsoft is playing a game of Russian Roulette.
[September 2, 2004, 8:43]
Malware authors mixing a lethal cocktail
Talkback Your political orientation has little to do with your position on the matter. And, as for laws governing this material, you do realize that a person who writes a VIRUS has little concern for someone writing them a ticket, or slapping them on the...
[December 9, 2004, 18:06]
Malware authors mixing a lethal cocktail
Talkback "This is why vulnerabilities are so important," said Kaspersky. We are against anyone who publishes vulnerabilities because it gives hackers a tool. Taking this quote into account, I'd like to ask Kaspersky, how he feels about companies releasing...
[December 9, 2004, 18:07]
Can IT keep up with malware authors?
Talkback You're omitting the fact that the problem is rather one sided. Non-MS platforms haven't had that many problems - for years. This is not to say they're 100% safe (because they aren't) but in relative terms MS has a lot to answer for - and so do the...
[September 1, 2004, 16:26]
Malware authors mixing a lethal cocktail
Talkback Don't understand why she says she is against anyone who publishes vulnerabilities. Many times people find a hole, they approach M$/other software vendor and are ignored. The hackers know the vulnerabilities and share them amongst themselves.
[December 9, 2004, 18:10]
Malware authors mixing a lethal cocktail
Talkback Time to install a good SELinux policy. Red Hat Fedora Core 3 allready turns on SELinux by default. But unfortunately the secrity policy is targeted at servers. What's need is a policy that sandboxes webbrowsers and e-mail clinets.
[December 9, 2004, 18:17]
Malware authors mixing a lethal cocktail
Talkback Laws against writing viruses, DOS attacks, etc, will do nothing since the makers of malware are going to do it whether it's legal or not. The only solution that I see is for users and admins to use common sense, and to demand more security from the...
[December 9, 2004, 18:38]
Malware authors mixing a lethal cocktail
Talkback Anonymous Consultant in Sweden wrote : I totally agree. DO NOT make the mistake to think that using Linux is always safer then Windows and DO NOT make the mistake to think that 'the bad guys' only attacks Windows.
[December 9, 2004, 18:49]
