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Record Execs Risk Arrest For MP3 Hacks
News Could record and music executives who take advantage of the hacking provisions of a proposed US bill face stiff penalties if they travel to countries that outlaw computer break-ins? These measures include spoofing -- the seeding of file-swapping...
[August 7, 2002, 9:39]
Winamp Bug Opens Door To MP3 Viruses
News For all security-related news, including updates on the latest viruses, hacking exploits and patches, check out ZDNet UK's Viruses and Hacking News Section. A glitch with the popular Winamp software for playing digital music files could allow an...
[April 30, 2002, 13:59]
Music File Flaws Could Threaten Traders
News The music industry and Hollywood are eyeing such hacking tactics as a way to stop file swappers from trading copyrighted music in the future. For all security-related news, including updates on the latest viruses, hacking exploits and patches...
[December 19, 2002, 7:51]
Virus Hoax Targets Napster Users
News Find out in ZDNet UK's Viruses and Hacking News Section. A hoax virus warning is circulating on the Internet, threatening computer users who have downloaded unauthorised music from the Web that their PCs will go haywire on American Independence Day...
[July 2, 2001, 12:13]
Hackers Making Napster 'irrelevant'
News Musicians and academics debated the right and wrong of sharing digital music on the Internet at the Hacking on Planet Earth 2000 (H2K) conference Saturday. While both the panelists and the crowd decried the music industry's hold on artists and...
[July 17, 2000, 8:32]
Xbox Mod Chip Delivers 'homebrew Software'
News Antony "Sin-Tex" Jarrett, creator of the British Xbox hacking site Xbox Emulation, said Xbox enthusiasts such as himself will mainly use the mod chips to play imported games and run homemade software, although the chips will also be a boon to...
[May 29, 2002, 14:34]
SDMI Denies Broken Technologies
News Despite a boycott by members of the open source and Linux communities, the firm collecting submissions to the SDMI Hacking Challenge turned over 447 potential breaches on 11 October, three days after the contest ended.
[October 17, 2000, 9:45]
SDMI Hack Popular Despite Linux Boycott
News A threatened Linux community boycott doesn't seem to be putting a chill on a hacking challenge sponsored by the music industry. It will release the results of the hacking challenge at its next meeting in Los Angeles in October.
[September 19, 2000, 13:18]
Anti-piracy Bill May Hit Consumers
News In the last few weeks, Hollywood and the music industry have stepped up their demands for more authority to curtail digital piracy, backing a new bill to allow hacking of peer-to-peer networks, trying to limit Americans' rights to record TV and...
[July 30, 2002, 6:27]
Apple Vs Real: Is The User The Loser?
Talkback I'm looking forward to seeing Rob Glaser's "perp walk" as he gets frogmarched to jail for hacking FairPlay. It's no coincidence you look like Lenin, because what you are suggesting is communism. Apple introduced neither the first MP3 (and other...
[August 9, 2004, 18:29]
Surveillance Software Keeps Track Of Rogue MP3s
News The software is designed to search for the presence of unwanted applications, such as P2P clients, IM software or hacking tools, and allows administrators to log, block or remove the offending files. For all security-related news, including updates...
[July 1, 2003, 11:56]
Hackers Build Movie Player For Xbox
News For all security-related news, including updates on the latest viruses, hacking exploits and patches, check out ZDNet UK's Viruses and Hacking News Section. The first homemade software to take advantage of new hacker add-ons for the Xbox has...
[June 12, 2002, 9:13]
Klez Virus Set To Wipe Itself Out
News For all security-related news, including updates on the latest viruses, hacking exploits and patches, check out ZDNet UK's Viruses and Hacking News Section. A minor variant of the Klez virus is set to go into action tomorrow, erasing a host of...
[September 6, 2002, 10:16]
KWBot Worm Hits Kazaa
News For all security-related news, including updates on the latest viruses, hacking exploits and patches, check out ZDNet UK's Viruses and Hacking News Section. The Kazaa file-swapping network has been hit by another worm, just months after the first...
[July 5, 2002, 15:19]
News Schmooze: Resurrected Daleks Hail New E-minister
News They insisted nobody has succeeded so far, despite blackouts around the same time the hacking activity was at its peak -- insidious government cover-up anyone? A new e-minister has arrived to put Britain at the centre of the Internet, and this...
[June 15, 2001, 16:12]
News Burst: Linux Community Wants SDMI Hack Boycott
News The Linux Journal is sponsoring a boycott of the Secure Digital Music Initiative hacking challenge, which starts tomorrow and promises to pay $10,000 (£7,078) to any hacker who strips out the watermark from a digital song.
[September 14, 2000, 17:29]
Lindows Offers Free PCs To Antitrust Victims
News Robertson funded a $200,000 hacking challenge aimed at Microsoft's Xbox and will go to court later this year in a trademark dispute lodged by the software giant. Linux software seller Lindows.com is looking to capitalise on Microsoft's antitrust...
[September 18, 2003, 8:40]
Microsoft Changes Xbox Configuration
News Word of the changes began spreading on sites devoted Xbox hacking, with some buyers of recently manufactured Xbox units complaining that mod chips designed for the original console won't work now. Microsoft has changed the internal configuration of...
[September 24, 2002, 7:17]
RIAA Calls Hacking Claim A Hoax
News The music industry isn't hacking back, but someday it might. Nowadays, that's called hacking. For all security-related news, including updates on the latest viruses, hacking exploits and patches, check out ZDNet UK's Security News Section.
[January 15, 2003, 7:56]
1999: The Year In Technology
News Mon, 27 Dec 1999 -- People may associate it with the US, but hacking -- both legal and illegal -- is an international phenomenon. For your reading enjoyment, ZDNet over the new year has published a series of reports on some of the top technology...
[December 23, 1999, 6:37]
