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Code for MSBlast variant posted online
News A piece of code that exploits the critical vulnerability for which Microsoft issued a patch only last week has been posted online, raising fears of an imminent MSBlast-style attack On 10 February, Microsoft released a patch that fixes a networking...
[February 17, 2004, 11:20]
Cisco flaw exploit posted online
News Security experts warned on Friday that code that could be used to attack and crash Cisco Systems routers has been posted to public mailing lists. The code, posted to the Full-Disclosure security mailing list early on Friday morning, could be used...
[July 21, 2003, 8:03]
Windows 2000 source code posted online
Talkback I don't think this is a "managed leak" by Microsoft, but consequently and certainly it pushes users of Win2K or NT into upgrading their current OSes to Win2K3 Server.
[February 14, 2004, 7:43]
Windows 2000 source code posted online
Talkback Time for the Linux revolution! The source is open - take shelter, MS victims!
[February 13, 2004, 12:35]
Windows 2000 source code posted online
Talkback I guess this means that code will be returned back to the people it was stolen from human knowledge belongs to the world! Antiturst 2000)
[February 13, 2004, 9:54]
Windows 2000 source code posted online
News Microsoft is investigating how a file containing some protected source code to Windows 2000 was posted to several underground sites and chat rooms. A spokesman said late on Thursday that incomplete portions of Windows 2000 and Windows NT were...
[February 13, 2004, 7:20]
Apple says trade secrets posted online
News Apple is suing an unknown individual or individuals who posted images and disclosed details of unannounced products. In a lawsuit filed in court in California Wednesday, Apple said digital images of its new ApplePro Mouse and Power Mac G4 were...
[August 3, 2000, 9:08]
E-voting source code posted online
News VoteHere, a maker of security software for voting machines, published the source code for its product online in hopes of garnering additional analysis of its method for verifying the integrity of electronic votes.
[April 7, 2004, 10:55]
Microsoft sticks to its patching guns
News An early version of a security fix for a Windows flaw that is being used as a conduit for cyberattacks was prematurely posted online by a Microsoft employee. Copies of the file have since been posted online elsewhere, but Microsoft recommends that...
[January 5, 2006, 8:45]
MS ruling leaked through security blunder
News A security specialist is highly critical of apparent procedural inadequacies which saw the long-awaited judgment in the Microsoft anti-trust case posted online almost two hours before its official release.
[November 5, 2002, 8:25]
Illegal 'Matrix' sequel available on P2P
News However, still shots that appeared to be taken from the movie had been posted online. Information posted on several widely read hacker sites described a two-CD release of the film by a group that had earlier claimed to have posted the "X-Men...
[May 15, 2003, 10:22]
Court blocks DVD-cracking suit
News The California Supreme Court handed Hollywood's antipiracy efforts a setback on Monday, ruling that a Texas resident who posted controversial DVD-cracking code online can't be sued in the California. Monday's case is one of a handful filed by the...
[November 26, 2002, 8:19]
Secret security holes released to public
News A self-proclaimed hacker claims to have stolen three unreleased security advisories from a corporate computer and posted them to a public mailing list. The three latest advisories were posted to the Full Disclosure security mailing list.
[March 20, 2003, 10:25]
Internet defamation leads to £10,000 libel damages
News Smith brought the case against Tracy Williams after she posted a series of derogatory remarks about him on an online discussion board run by Yahoo. The landmark Godfrey vs Demon case in 2000 established that statements posted online were not beyond...
[March 23, 2006, 10:25]
Esquire tests wiki ethos
News When Esquire magazine writer AJ Jacobs decided to do an article about the freely distributable and freely editable online encyclopaedia Wikipedia, he took an innovative approach: He posted a crummy, error-laden draft of the story to the site.
[September 30, 2005, 16:45]
Lightning takes down Amazon cloud
News In a statement posted on the forums section of Amazon's web-services site, the online retailer addressed concerns from some US customers who said their use of the EC2 service had been disrupted at around 6:30pm US Pacific Time on Wednesday.
[June 11, 2009, 16:31]
Net gently weeps for Beatle Harrison
News As of midmorning Friday, America Online members had posted nearly 1,500 messages, 200 messages had been posted on Yahoo! Fans crowded online message boards and chat rooms Friday to express their sadness over the death of former Beatle George Harrison.
[November 30, 2001, 17:09]
Hackers earn their place in history
News Among the messages was the correct password to the locked database, which the centre had posted online. Email messages from more than 100 good Samaritans flooded the Ivar Aasen Center for Language and Culture, starting on Thursday afternoon after...
[June 10, 2002, 10:39]
DVD copier faces another lawsuit
News The DVD CCA recently dropped lawsuits against individuals who posted code used in the process of copying DVDs online. The battle over DVD copying technology has been on a roller-coaster ride during the past four years, since a Norwegian teenager...
[February 16, 2004, 10:40]
Inland Revenue online service doesn't add up
News To file over the Internet, tax-payers must register for a user name, which is then posted not online, but via Royal Mail. One user checked his answers with TaxSaver and posted the form, only to discover the form wasn't complete.
[January 31, 2001, 16:09]
