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Recycling Legislation Delayed Six Months - Again
News The EC sent letters to these eight countries asking for their reasons for not implementing the Directive, and gave them 60 days to respond. He also urged the DTI to pay attention to industry calls for a national clearing house — the collective name...
[August 10, 2005, 17:55]
Hacking Is Greater Threat Than Military Attack
News And read other letters. Computers now manage most of our critical national infrastructure but with these new opportunities there also comes the risk of new threats. According to the foreign secretary, the government's "National Infrastructure...
[March 30, 2001, 7:14]
FBI Criticised For Ignoring Early Code Red Warnings
News And read other letters. The FBI's National Infrastructure Protection Centre (NIPC) had received earlier reports of a Code Red-like worm that affected a buffer overflow vulnerability in the .htr files of Microsoft IIS 4.
[September 6, 2001, 13:18]
.tm Makes Net Trademark Debut
News In exchange, NetNames gets to register companies for a fee under the attractive ".tm" domain.tm' also happens to be, purely coincidentally, the international symbol for 'trademark,' " said NetNames USA President Tony Van Couvering.tm' happens to...
[February 4, 1998, 9:20]
Internet Pioneers Get US Honour
News The main idea was to enclose packets in "datagrams" that would act something like envelopes containing letters. After working for DARPA for 13 years, Kahn became chairman, chief executive and president of the Corporation for National Research...
[November 7, 2005, 8:15]
Tech Stocks Are Favourites For Short Sellers
News And read other letters. The Web infrastructure company has suffered as analysts questioned its ability to survive in a difficult economic climate. Short interest in another Net infrastructure firm, Level 3, went from 42.39 million in June to 56.6...
[July 27, 2001, 16:44]
News Roundup: 3G, A Year On
News And read other letters. Mon, 30 Apr Network operators want to cut costs and share 3G infrastructure. While Chancellor Gordon Brown is pretty clear where the money the government has collected is going -- paying off the national debt -- mobile...
[May 1, 2001, 12:13]
IBM Makes Declaration Of Independence For Chips, Software
News And read other letters. IBM Research's Arvind Krishna, director of computing utilities and Internet infrastructure, and Bill Pulleyblank, director of exploratory server systems, have been charged with focusing research on the new autonomic initiative.
[March 8, 2001, 9:26]
US Government Mulls An Internet Of Its Own
News And read other letters. We need to bifurcate cyberspace: We need to have a secure zone in cyberspace and then we can leave the rest of it as it is today," he said at the time, when he had been serving as President Clinton's National Coordinator for...
[October 11, 2001, 11:19]
MI5 Warns Of Chinese Digital Espionage
News More than 1,000 letters were subsequently sent by the director general of MI5 to the heads of UK business yesterday, according to Jordan, warning them spies are targeting financial information relating to deals that may occur and involve Chinese...
[December 3, 2007, 11:27]
SirCam Worm Snatches FBI Documents
News And read other letters. A researcher at the FBI's National Infrastructure Protection Center -- the bureau's cyberprotection unit -- allowed the rapidly spreading SirCam worm to send private FBI documents from a bureau computer to outsiders...
[July 26, 2001, 9:23]
Power Play: Electric Company Hacked
News And read other letters. Unknown intruders have hijacked an electric company's servers, using its computers and the company's Internet connection to host and play games, the National Infrastructure Protection Center revealed Wednesday.
[December 15, 2000, 10:18]
FBI Builds Cybercrime Division
News And read other letters. The FBI did not announce where the National Infrastructure Protection Center (NIPC), the interagency group that tracks cybercrimes, would fit in the new picture. The FBI announced on Monday that, as part of its latest...
[December 4, 2001, 11:17]
Feds Issue Warning As Virus Spreads
News For example, at 2:27 p.m.on March 27 the virus will copy the following Bart Simpson quote into the current document: "Twenty-two points, plus triple-word-score, plus fifty points for using all my letters.
[March 29, 1999, 8:46]
Code Red Worm Traced To Chinese University
News And read other letters. The US has been investigating the Code Red since the 19 July, when it infected more than 250,000 systems in just nine hours, according to the National Infrastructure Protection Centre (NIPC).
[September 4, 2001, 11:42]
IT Managers 'should Be Liable For Harbouring Cyberterrorists'
News And read other letters. The Internet infrastructure is increasingly becoming a target for cyberwarfare according to Strassman, as it is an economical way of crippling a country or an economy from a distance.
[October 26, 2001, 18:03]
Third World Nations Embrace IT
News And read other letters. Estonia has laid a telecommunications infrastructure that puts it in the top 20 of connected regions. But detailed analysis of experience around the world reveals ample evidence that, used in the right way and for the right...
[July 17, 2001, 9:38]
One In Three UK Companies Have Been Hacked
News And read other letters. News of the research comes just a week after Foreign Secretary Robin Cook warned that computer hacking may pose a greater threat to the national infrastructure than military attack.
[April 3, 2001, 17:11]
EU Proposes Plan To Secure Internet
News And read other letters. The proposal answered a call for a comprehensive strategy to secure electronic networks made by the Stockholm European Council in late March and follows in the footsteps of the United States' National Plan for Critical...
[June 7, 2001, 9:23]
Feds Warn Of New Worm Threat
News And read other letters. On Saturday, the National Infrastructure Protection Centre posted an advisory to its Web site warning companies of the worm. A government Internet watchdog warned companies this past weekend of a new malicious program that...
[June 26, 2001, 7:16]
