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Grand National Extortion Attacks 'unlikely'
News The massive bandwidth extortion attacks that crippled online gambling sites last year are unlikely to be repeated ahead of this year's Grand National horse race, which takes place on Saturday, industry experts predicted on Friday.
[April 8, 2005, 12:20]
Police Play Down Grand National Hack Threat
News With the Grand National taking place this Saturday, it's been reported in some UK tabloids that criminal gangs based as far away as Russia have threatened online bookmakers with severe disruption. Claims that organised criminals will launch a flood...
[March 31, 2004, 15:05]
Web Bookmakers Tool Up Against Blackmail Hack Attacks
News E-enabled businesses have been facing such threats for some time, but reports this week claim that British Internet bookmakers are coming under renewed pressure ahead of major sporting events, including the Grand National.
[February 23, 2004, 14:35]
Retailer Shops For File Services With Higher Standards And Rings Up Super-Combo HP NAS-SAN
White Papers Meijer Inc.located in Grand Rapids, Michigan, is a family-owned grocery and general merchandise retailer with over 150 stores across the Midwest that feature more than 120,000 national brands and private-label products.
[November 28, 2005, 23:00]
Robot Meets Robot In 'Darpa City' Race
News Virginia Tech's team, VictorTango, won third prize and $500,000 (£240,000) in the Urban Grand Challenge on Saturday. It was part of Darpa's $3.5m (£1.6m) robot race, the Urban Grand Challenge. Stanford university's robot, Junior, was the first to...
[November 6, 2007, 10:51]
White House Preps Cybersecurity Plan
News Also under consideration are a "cyber emergency response plan" that would be activated during Internet crises and a National Cyberspace Academy to "advance research in cybersecurity education. Brad Jansen, an adjunct fellow at the free-market...
[September 17, 2002, 15:19]
NCC Grasps At Straws To Save Telecom Consumers In Limbo- Part 1
Blog First, subscribers are at the mercy of the network with no intervention whatsoever by the National Communications Commission (NCC). The manner in which some of them rip off their customers’ phone credits leaves very few people in doubt that a grand...
[March 10, 2008, 9:03]
A Bit More Competition And We Could Really Fly
Leader It has a national ethos that nurtures business free of regulatory niggles or an antagonistic press. Microsoft should stop messing about, up sticks and transplant its entire operation to Beijing to embark on close co-operation with the Chinese...
[September 30, 2005, 14:50]
Judge OKs FBI Hack Of Russian Computers
News Upholding the rights of law enforcement to cross national borders in pursuit of cyberspace criminals, a federal judge has ruled that FBI agents did not act improperly when they tricked a pair of suspected hackers out of passwords and account...
[May 31, 2001, 15:33]
Hackers Rule OK
News These tweed and corduroy cyber-cowboys received virtually no public acknowledgement for their exploits because of national secrecy as well as the lack of mean handles such as "laser boy" or pHr3Ak! Estimated to have cost Prestel customers a grand...
[December 27, 1999, 6:05]
Computer Science Turns Off Students
News The National Science Board, an independent body that advises Congress and oversees the National Science Foundation, recently warned of a "troubling decline" in the number of US citizens studying to become scientists and engineers, even as the...
[August 12, 2004, 9:45]
Pair Indicted In Trade-secret Theft
News A federal grand jury on Wednesday indicted two men on criminal charges of stealing trade secrets from Sun, Transmeta and other companies in order to make and sell processors based on the technology in China.
[December 5, 2002, 15:44]
British Man To Be Extradited For US Military Hacks
News After McKinnon was charged with the network break-in, the DOJ worked to try McKinnon in the United States, said Judy Prue, a spokeswoman for the Britain's National High-Tech Crime Unit. Gary McKinnon, a 36-year-old former systems administrator from...
[November 13, 2002, 9:10]
The Future Of Classroom Tech At BETT
News This year's event runs until Saturday at London's Olympia and fills both floors of both the National and Grand Halls. Despite declining attendance rates at technology exhibitions in recent years, BETT has thrived.
[January 10, 2008, 14:58]
Farewell To The Technophobe Prime Minister
News It's fair to say that Blair's lack of personal tech savvy was disappointing in a leader that expected the population to accept grand IT schemes such as UK Online and the controversial national ID card project.
[June 27, 2007, 9:07]
Information Poverty Gap Is Widening, Says Report
News The report, from the Office of National Statistics (ONS) covers Internet use in the first quarter of 2000 and, like similar reports published today, finds Internet use has doubled overall. But Net use among the poorest third of the UK has increased...
[July 11, 2000, 14:45]
Lacey's Paper Round
News Paul Allen - co-founder of Microsoft - has just given Oxford University three hundred grand to launch an online post graduate degree course, an American company has raised $52 million to make spherical processors, and a Netscape founder is...
[July 27, 1998, 8:59]
Teen Hacks 27 ISPs, Gains Root Access
News In fact, the police have charged just one person, a 16-year-old West Hills, California, resident, with several felonies including unlawful access and grand theft. Innercite also reported that its service had been used to perform network scans of...
[January 11, 2000, 17:15]
3 In 5 British Firms Suffer Security Breach - Report
News The Information Security Breaches Survey 2000,commissioned by the Department of Trade and Industry as well a number of major British businesses, canvassed 1000 "demographically representative" British organisations on their computer security...
[April 3, 2000, 15:14]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Amazingly, nobody in the US has had a hissy fit over Alcatel buying Lucent Technologies - even Senator Charles Schumer, who led the national spots before the eyes over Dubai wanting to buy the American ports, says he's happy because "The United...
[April 10, 2006, 11:35]
