Apple's environmental record under fire
News After Rachel Gibson, who was speaking on behalf of an environmentally oriented mutual fund called Green Century Funds, asked why Apple wasn't doing more to take back its products, Jobs thanked Gibson for the question and launched into a lengthy...
[April 22, 2005, 11:05]
SecurityNew
Downloads This little app converts the transcripts from the "Security Now" podcast with Leo Laporte & Steve Gibson to speech using the mac's text to speech capability you can assign Leo & Steve their own voice and select which episode to listen to
[August 2, 2006, 8:00]
Windows XP slammed as gift to 'zombie' hackers
News Steve Gibson, president of Gibson Research Group, is convinced that Microsoft is making a serious mistake by fully implementing support for what are known as "raw sockets" in its Windows XP operating system, due for release on 25 October.
[June 7, 2001, 10:58]
WMF flaw: Malice or incompetence?
News The recent security problem regarding the rendering of WMF images was so bizarre that it has to be an intentional backdoor in the operating system, security researcher Steve Gibson said in a podcast posted Thursday.
[January 16, 2006, 8:20]
Microsoft zombie hacker denial condemned
News The US software giant released a statement last week in which it said Steve Gibson, president of Gibson Research Group, was incorrect to claim that the implementation of "raw sockets" in its Windows XP operating system was a serious mistake.
[June 11, 2001, 16:17]
Security pros dig in for new DoS attacks
News This is a vastly powerful tool for mass destruction," said security expert Steve Gibson, of Gibson Research in California, whose Web site was hit by several DDoS attacks last month. The attack that took down Gibson's site last month began as a...
[June 18, 2001, 16:05]
Microsoft sticks to its patching guns
News Microsoft's fix appears to be nearly done, said Steve Gibson, the president of Gibson Research in Laguna Hills, California "It works great," said Gibson, who downloaded the file and tested it. After examining the software, Gibson believes Microsoft...
[January 5, 2006, 8:45]
No remedy in sight for denial of service attacks
News Just ask Steve Gibson, an independent security consultant known for his free Shields Up service for testing a PC's security across the Web. Since early May, Gibson has been the target of frequent denial-of-service attacks.
[June 4, 2001, 9:13]
What ZDNet UK readers want for Christmas
News Colin Gibson, director of a Web design consultancy, wants to beam up "one of those machines they have on Star Trek that makes whatever food you want. Santa will be sure to leave the product suggestion when he pops down Steve Jobs' chimney.
[December 24, 2004, 8:40]
Know the BIZ
Downloads This game features over 225 actor well known actors/actresses like Mel Gibson, Chevy Chase, Burt Reynolds and Carrie Fisher. This game features over a hundred well known actors/actresses like Mel Brooks, Kermit, Clint Eastwood, Steve Martin and...
[December 12, 2004, 6:00]
South Korea orders Microsoft to unbundle Windows
Talkback It's not impossible to disable it - but tricky (thanks to Steve Gibson) David, A house with a bedroom is a poor analogy. It's more like - if you dare use cable TV, your house will fall down. Messenger is not bundled, it's built into admin and...
[December 7, 2005, 14:18]
Norton AntiVirus 2005 review
Reviews We ran Norton Worm Protection against Steve Gibson's ShieldsUp security checker, which reported that our test PC successfully blocked most of the test Internet packets. Setup & interface Norton AntiVirus 2005 now takes less time to setup and...
[October 6, 2004, 10:35]
ZoneAlarm with Antivirus review
Reviews We tested ZoneAlarm with Antivirus's firewall against Steve Gibson's ShieldsUp security checker, which reported that our test PC was very secure and wasn't exposing its NetBIOS networking protocol over the Internet.
[May 27, 2004, 9:30]
ZoneAlarm Pro 4.0 review
Reviews We ran ZoneAlarm Pro 4.0 against Steve Gibson's ShieldsUp port tester. Setup & interface Download the 4MB ZoneAlarm Pro, and within five minutes, you can have your guard up. Like earlier editions, ZoneAlarm Pro 4.0 walks you through the opening...
[June 13, 2003, 14:23]
ZoneAlarm Pro 5.5 review
Reviews We tested our installation against Steve Gibson's ShieldsUp tool; the test reported all but the http/https ports either closed or stealthed (hidden), which was the expected result. ZoneAlarm Pro 5.5 is available via a boxed CD or for purchase...
[November 12, 2004, 8:10]
PeopleSoft fails to see all Oracle emails
News PeopleSoft plans to formally ask Oracle to remove the documents' confidential designation soon, said Jonathan Dickey, a Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher attorney who is representing PeopleSoft. But the judge said we have to ask Oracle to release them first...
[September 5, 2003, 9:50]
Steve Jobs bio hits legal snags
News With a little more than a month to go before it hits bookshelves, a controversial unauthorised biography on Apple Computer founder and chief executive Steve Jobs has been hit with a number of problems some experts are calling "mysterious".
[August 14, 2000, 9:31]
ATI suffers wrath of Jobs
News Steve didn't care who was to blame," an ATI staffer said. The incident began Monday when ATI, which supplies graphics cards for all Apple's current models, issued a four-paragraph news release that stated its Radeon processor would be featured in...
[July 24, 2000, 8:22]
