Ex-IT Worker Charged With Sabotage
News The attack allegedly carried out by Duronio failed to have the desired effect, however. A two-count indictment charged 60-year-old Roger Duronio with being behind the more than $3m (about £2m) in damage caused when malicious programs placed on some...
[December 19, 2002, 8:08]
International Cyberattack Drill Tests Nations' Responses
News Details have emerged about "Cyber Storm II", a large-scale exercise carried out to test how governments and critical-infrastructure organisations respond to cyberattacks. The exercise, which began on 10 March, 2008, was designed to test the...
[April 10, 2008, 11:22]
Broadband Prevails For UK Internet
News In a survey of internet connectivity carried out in September 2007, the ONS found that broadband accounted for 88.4 percent of all internet connections, up from 86.2 percent in June 2007. The index of all connections rose to 117.6 in September 2007...
[November 21, 2007, 7:48]
US Hit By 57 Million Phishing Attacks In One Year
News The Gartner survey was carried out during April and questioned more than 5,000 US Internet users, and the answers were extrapolated to create a representative sample of the US population. In October 2003 they recorded 279 phishing emails to 215,643...
[May 5, 2004, 17:45]
The Day Ahead: Mixed Bag For IPO Quiet Period Pops
News Underwriters JP Morgan and UBS Warburg dutifully carried out their buy ratings, but Lehman Brothers started Avici with a neutral. Maybe it's Evoke's $3.16m in pro forma sales and a loss of $25m for the quarter ending 31 March, but I'm not feeling...
[August 30, 2000, 12:17]
Deadlier Klez Worm On The Prowl
News The variant, carried by email and known as Klez.e, overwrites victims' files with random content on the sixth day of odd-numbered months. Microsoft patched the IE hole last March, so any Windows system that has been recently updated should be...
[February 12, 2002, 10:01]
Tech Salaries Defy Slump
News Rises average out at about 5 percent year-on-year, with an 8 to 10 percent increase for people will the more in-demand skills - figures backed up by silicon.com's annual Skills Survey, carried out across the UK, France and Germany in February and...
[April 4, 2003, 8:51]
Local Authorities Failing On E-accessibility
News The survey was carried out by a team of reviewers who visited all 468 local authority sites. The survey, published on 1 March, 2005, casts doubt on councils' progress towards the priority outcomes for e-government drawn up by the Office of the...
[March 2, 2005, 13:10]
