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Defend your network against idle scanning
News It's up to you to continue to use best practices to defend your organisation's systems. If your organisation's intrusion-detection system (IDS) identifies a scan of your network, and you just block that IP address, you likely haven't addressed the...
[September 30, 2005, 16:55]
Novell vows to use its patents to defend open-source
News Joining a growing debate over the role of patents in open-source software, Novell on Tuesday said it will use its patent portfolio to defend its open-source line from legal attacks. In the case of an infringement accusation against Novell or a...
[October 13, 2004, 9:20]
Teams compete to hack and defend
News Each team has to defend its own server and applications while trying to break into the servers of the seven other teams. The experience underscores that knowing how to attack systems is a critical skill in learning how to defend them.
[August 5, 2003, 14:49]
Novell vows to use its patents to defend open-source
Talkback The only way to defend free software (and non-free software) against software patents is keeping them illegal, or illegalising them were they exist. Just wanted to point at a kwiki.ffii.org/Novell041012En commentary attributed to Hartmut Pilch from...
[October 14, 2004, 9:52]
Ebay execs defend IPO share grab
Talkback I have a ground breaking new web site that is copywrited,but I cant get to any excecitives to,let them know. Its the opposite of Ebay. Perfect fit for a merg of sites Some go to www.whohasthis,com and get back to my email.
[November 24, 2003, 0:24]
Online booksellers defend right to sell banned books
News Under German law, the distribution of literature believed to promote racial hatred is prohibited. The Simon Wiesenthal Center, a Los Angeles-based organisation that monitors anti-Semitism, became enraged when it discovered that German citizens can...
[August 10, 1999, 13:51]
Demon Case: ISPA moves to defend ISPs
News The Internet Service Providers Association (ISPA) today warned government ministers and the DTI that "ill-prepared legislation" in the controversial Demon defamation will have far reaching implications for ISPs, users and the UK's e-commerce plans.
[March 29, 1999, 14:50]
A Year Ago: Online booksellers defend right to sell banned books
News Online booksellers have defended their right to sell race-hate literature to countries in which it is banned, after a Los Angeles based anti-Nazi organisation called for a halt to the sale of books such as Mein Kampf in Germany.
[August 11, 2000, 7:07]
Flow-Cookies: Using Bandwidth Amplification to Defend Against DDoS Flooding Attacks
White Papers Distributed Denial-of-Service flooding attacks against public web servers are increasingly common. Websites without the ability to over-provision or rely on a CDN are often overwhelmed by such attacks.
[September 10, 2008, 0:00]
A Year Ago: E-minister rushes to defend BT and Oftel
News At 8am Friday morning, ZDNet's Jane Wakefield boarded a train to Leicester with the e-Minister Patricia Hewitt to discuss BT, the local loop and those comments made by Gordon Brown. This is the first of her reports, which will conclude Monday
[February 18, 2001, 6:03]
Conservatives defend Pentagon surveillance plan
News A Pentagon data-mining project to sift through corporate and government records and spot suspicious activity is necessary to thwart terrorism, two proponents of the plan said on Wednesday. The Total Information Awareness (TIA) project, being...
[April 3, 2003, 8:29]
Core moves to defend Lara
News Fire International publishes 'cheat' software which allows Playstation and Nintendo users to win games more easily. Fire was due to launch new software for Tomb Raider III entitled TombMaster, which Core alleges infringes its Tomb Raider trademark.
[December 14, 1998, 14:29]
P2P foes defend hacking bill
News Supporters of a proposed law that would permit copyright holders to assail peer-to-peer networks angrily defended it on Thursday, saying it had been mischaracterised by opponents. During the first congressional hearing on the bill, Rep.
[September 27, 2002, 10:59]
PeopleSoft, J.D. Edwards unite to defend merger
News PeopleSoft and J.D. Edwards have changed the terms of their $1.7bn merger, speeding up the process and switching from an all-stock deal to a stock-and-cash transaction. The move is most likely an attempt to fend off database giant Oracle's hostile...
[June 16, 2003, 15:59]
Debrief and Defend: Windows XP Home v. XP Professional
White Papers Microsoft's popular Windows XP operating system simplifies computing, improves performance and stability, and delivers powerful tools and utilities. However, Windows XP's several editions - Professional, Home, Media Center, etc.have created some...
[September 26, 2009, 1:22]
Conference will defend against millennium bomb
News British Telecom (BT) and IBM UK will be among companies explaining how they are dealing with the issue, which could lead to calamity in finance, transport and other areas. The Year 2000 Conference will take place at the Ramada Hotel, Heathrow and...
[October 14, 1996, 12:01]
Group aims to defend Linux from bad patents
News A group has been formed to help protect Linux from being undermined by poor-quality software patents. Linux Defenders, launched on Monday, aims to enlist the developer community's help in finding 'prior art' related to patents affecting open-source...
[February 4, 2009, 17:02]
Microsoft staff defend blog censorship
News A senior Microsoft manager has defended the decision to remove the blog of a Chinese journalist from the company's MSN Spaces site, claiming that content which breaks national laws must be taken down.
[January 5, 2006, 16:45]
Trend Micro ServerProtect and Trend Micro ScanMail Combine to Defend 22,000 Fairfax County, Virginia Public School Users and 400 Servers From Viruses and Malicious Code
White Papers The Fairfax County Public School (FCPS) system, located in northern Virginia, is the twelfth largest school system in the United States. FCPS rely heavily on computers for instruction and staff communications.
[March 8, 2007, 0:00]
Defend against patch-based exploits, warns Sans
News Security training organisation the Sans Institute claims centralised patch management can be used to counter the threat of automated, patch-based exploit generation. The advice, published on Monday, follows the release of research from the...
[May 6, 2008, 16:51]
