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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]
The Online Shadow Economy: A Billion Dollar Market For Malware Authors
White Papers In an online black market worth more than $105 billion, malware authors can produce new, unique threats targeting businesses and employees every 45 seconds. This free white paper examines the growth of this online shadow economy.
[April 2, 2008, 0:00]
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]
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]
The Future Of Bot Worms: What We Can Expect From Worm Authors In The Coming Months
White Papers This paper details the possible new additions and modifications that bot authors might incorporate to their hideous creations in the very near future. The current trend in worms seems to go the bot route.
[January 3, 2006, 23:00]
Word Hacks: Swap Revision Authors
White Papers It lets one view up to eight different revision authors in a single document, each of whose changes are displayed in a different color. In addition to marking revisions in a document, Word's Track Changes feature remembers who made the revisions.
[October 10, 2007, 0:00]
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, 0:00]
Malware Authors Mixing A Lethal Cocktail
Talkback I really wish there were laws that forced these jerks to first make you authorize their crap to be installed on your computer. Also, the law needs to stipulate that they have to warn you that they are installing softare that will transmit...
[December 9, 2004, 19:51]
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]
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]
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 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 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 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]
Can IT Keep Up With Malware Authors?
Talkback SERVICE PACK 2 on CD Wow- I have been discovering that many people are experiencing the same problems with updating their XP systems to Service Pack2. Recently I started to advertise a PC repair service - it's all quite new and exciting for me if...
[September 23, 2004, 11:26]
Can IT Keep Up With Malware Authors?
Talkback Some "[p]eople on the front lines of IT know how much damage Microsoft routinely and callously does with their updates. But not all. I've been in and around 100s of desktops and servers that have never had the problem.
[September 3, 2004, 0:22]
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 Short and simple, Kaspersky is a twit. We are against anyone who publishes vulnerabilities because it gives hackers a tool. This is such a patently ridiculous statement; I don't even know where to begin attacking her.
[December 10, 2004, 14:36]
