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Vista backdoor rumours shut down
Talkback All we hear from Ferguson is that BitLocker by itself make not have a back door and his team will not put that one in. There are too many qualifiers in Ferguson's statement. Why would a backdoor be limited to BitLocker?
[March 6, 2006, 9:06]
Life sentence for Net murderer
News David Ferguson, 31, of Chatham was found guilty of stabbing Susan Kent to death at her home near Gillingham on 24 November 1999. Maidstone Crown Court heard that Ferguson connected his home PC to the Internet six days before he sexually assaulted...
[November 6, 2000, 15:53]
Warning as rogue Facebook apps steal log-in data
News So far, six malicious applications have been identified — Stream, Posts, Your Photos, Birthday Invitations, Inbox (1) and Inbox (2) — according to a blog post by Trend Micro researcher Rik Ferguson. The activity started earlier in the week with a...
[August 20, 2009, 9:47]
Facebook disables rogue apps, but more appear
News Five more of the apps appeared on Thursday, called 'Friends', 'Friends Gifts', 'Matching', 'Pok' and 'Your Photos', according to an updated blog post by Trend Micro researcher Rik Ferguson. According to Ferguson's post: "The new rogue apps take the...
[August 21, 2009, 9:12]
IRC administrators may out-hack Fizzer virus
News Several postings on an IRC-Security list have debated the merits of trying to shut the computer virus down, and one operator, QuakeNet security team member Daniel Ferguson, warned that manipulating the worm could be illegal.
[May 19, 2003, 7:59]
Wireless PDA keyboard hits the UK
News The Pocketop, which first hit stores in North America in March this year, is about half the size of competing products such as the Stowaway keyboard, said David Ferguson, vice president of sales and marketing.
[September 20, 2002, 11:34]
Trend Micro gives false positive details
Blog When Trend Micro tried to correct the issue, this inadvertently casued more damage, according to Rik Ferguson, Trend Micro's senior security adviser in the UK. Trend Micro technical support has advice for users whose systems have fallen down, said...
[September 10, 2008, 17:28]
Verisign brings security profiling to Europe
News Companies typically have separate teams for patching, change management and event monitoring," said John Ferguson, Verisign's director of product strategy. Vulnerability management products, which tell companies when a new flaw affects their...
[April 26, 2006, 15:30]
IBM adopts fighting talk over SCO Unix suit
News SCO's likely strategy is to "start up at the top and take out the biggest defendant out there -- IBM in this case -- hope it gets a quick settlement, and use that money to get a settlement with smaller companies down the line," Ferguson said.
[March 10, 2003, 8:21]
Vista backdoor rumours shut down
News The suggestion is that we are working with governments to create a back door so that they can always access BitLocker-encrypted data," Niels Ferguson, a developer and cryptographer at Microsoft, wrote Thursday on a corporate blog.
[March 6, 2006, 8:45]
Broadband migration finally gets easier
News The changes to the MAC process are not going to solve all the problems, but it does give more power to the consumer," said Andrew Ferguson, an industry analyst with thinkbroadband.com. Ferguson said that new regulatory conditions would mean ISPs...
[February 13, 2007, 13:44]
Conficker worm fails to wreak predicted havoc
News Paul Ferguson, an advanced threats researcher at Trend Micro, told ZDNet UK's sister site, CNET News.com on Wednesday that the security company had seen some effect in Asia. They're generating the 50,000 list of (potential) domains to contact...
[April 2, 2009, 17:02]
Smaller broadband ISPs outshine larger rivals
News According to Andrew Ferguson of ADSLGuide, a Web site that rates UK ISPs, smaller providers typically score higher for customer satisfaction. One possibility is that the smaller providers may attract the type of user who understands some of the...
[August 3, 2005, 14:30]
iCon review
Reviews Best exposed in Charles Ferguson's High St@kes, No Prisoners. Ferguson was founder and CEO of Vermeer, the company that originally produced what is now Microsoft's Front Page. In that book, Ferguson considers company structures and their...
[June 29, 2005, 11:45]
Critics hit out at BT's ADSL2+ delays
News Andrew Ferguson from broadband industry watchers ADSLguide.org.uk said BT could have been quicker. But Ferguson added that there might not be much demand for ADSL2+ from ISPs, because of the higher cost they would have to pay BT for the extra...
[November 15, 2006, 10:37]
Rural areas face long broadband delays
News BT has perhaps being caught out by the rapid rise in the rate at which exchanges have triggered, and this has led to some delays in the enabling system to date," said Andrew Ferguson of ADSLGuide.org.uk, a Web site that tracks the broadband market.
[April 13, 2004, 17:20]
Real stories of virtualisation
News We're now exploiting about 70 to 80 percent of the CPU capacity of our machines rather than 10 percent, and we can deliver services more quickly," Ferguson says. But by 2004, says Ferguson: "We entered a strategic review to prepare for de...
[August 10, 2006, 13:15]
Bulldog users bite back over poor service
News Ferguson suspects that some of the delays reported by Bulldog customers have occurred because the unbundling of their exchange hasn't actually been completed when their order is taken. Andrew Ferguson of ADSLGuide believes that Bulldog has been...
[July 5, 2005, 16:30]
Newspapers hit back at online jobs sites
News Matt Ferguson, chief operating officer of CareerBuilder, said the payments were not guaranteed and only payable if AOL and MSN could live up to their promises of delivering more new customers to his company.
[August 8, 2003, 12:35]
Networks crippled by worms' onslaught
News The majority of the messages that are sent across the Internet normally don't come up to the root level," Ferguson said. VeriSign controls one of the 13 primary servers and has seen an amount of mail-record lookups jump by a factor of 20 since...
[August 22, 2003, 8:45]
