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BT System Failures Hamper Broadband Competition
News BT has suffered a series of software glitches that have made it harder for other telecoms operators to take control of its telephone lines and offer innovative broadband services. This also suffered hitches - back in February, Black reported that...
[August 9, 2005, 12:35]
Microsoft Warns Of Slammer Morphs
News Microsoft suffered, along with users, in this week's Slammer virus outbreak this week because it has a loose desktop security policy, admitted a Microsoft security officer. The company suffered an outbreak of the Slammer worm which affects SQL...
[January 31, 2003, 14:18]
Access Hacks Hit UK Plc
News One in five of the UK's larger companies suffered security breaches of their IT systems in the past year because of weaknesses in their approach to identity management, according to the preliminary findings of a survey to be published next month.
[March 11, 2004, 9:15]
Two-thirds Of Malaysian Firms Hit By Cyberattacks
News A recent survey on information and communication technology (ICT) security in Malaysia has discovered that 68 percent of respondents suffered some sort of cybersecurity breach in 2000. Other key findings indicated that 47 percent of respondents...
[November 9, 2001, 6:30]
Firms Keeping Quiet About E-crime
News Three-quarters of companies that suffered a high-tech criminal attack in 2003 failed to contact the police, according to figures released on Tuesday, which show that e-crime probably cost UK businesses more than a billion pounds last year.
[February 24, 2004, 16:15]
PlusNet Suffers Data-centre Outage
News Internet service provider PlusNet suffered a complete power outage in its primary data centre early on Thursday morning. In the last two years, PlusNet has suffered several mishaps with its customers' emails: in 2006, the ISP irretrievably lost...
[February 21, 2008, 12:34]
Bulldog Will Face Court Over Service Failures
News A UK businessman who suffered weeks of disruption after agreeing to sign up for a broadband account with Bulldog is taking the company to court. Oppenheim is seeking damages from Bulldog for losses his business suffered through the lack of a...
[February 16, 2006, 15:45]
BT Takes Blame For Wireless Broadband Debacle
News BT has apologised for technical problems suffered by wireless operator FDM Broadband at some of its high-speed rural networks during recent months, but insisted that it has made fewer mistakes than has been claimed.
[December 12, 2003, 15:30]
Irate Bulldog User Settles Court Case
News A UK businessman who suffered weeks of disruption after signing up to Bulldog has agreed to settle out of court for a substantial sum. Phillip Oppenheim, managing director of Cubana bar and restaurant, launched legal action against Bulldog after...
[March 13, 2006, 12:05]
Amazon Hosted Storage Suffers Glitches
News Amazon's hosted storage services suffered technical glitches last week, mishaps that caused some early users to think twice about using the company's nascent web services. Hosted application provider Salesforce.com, for example, has suffered a few...
[January 9, 2007, 7:54]
Salesforce.com Hits Back At The Critics
News Salesforce.com has responded to some of the criticism it has suffered after service outages left users without their CRM services for as long as an hour and a half. Since then the service has suffered intermittent faults, prompting the company to...
[March 3, 2006, 9:35]
Best Western Details Hotel Hack
News In response to an article published in the Sunday Herald, Best Western rejected claims that it had suffered a massive compromise of customer details. Best Western confirmed on Tuesday that it had suffered a breach at one of its German hotels, but...
[August 28, 2008, 16:46]
SAP Consultants Stay Top Of The Pay Scales
News Research published this week by IT services company Millennium shows that although full-time IT posts have suffered, with a drop in salaries and the role of IT director being diminished as companies lose faith in technology, contract workers have...
[November 26, 2003, 12:55]
Garages Seek Compensation For MOT IT Problems
News Technical problems with the system last month left some garages almost unable to work, and now the government has contacted thousands of them to tell them to write in if they have suffered a financial loss.
[May 12, 2006, 9:10]
Microsoft Blames Users For Vista Infections
News The claim that Vista is less secure than Windows 2000 was made last week by security vendor PC Tools, which said that over the past six months Vista had suffered 639 unique threats, whereas Windows 2000 has suffered 586.
[May 15, 2008, 13:58]
Viruses Find Easy Pickings In China
News Only 16 percent of computer users we sampled this year reported they were free from any virus attack, while last year nearly one in three users said they suffered no computer infections," the newspaper quoted the centre's chief engineer, Zhang...
[October 10, 2002, 10:41]
Data Protection Snake Oil?
Blog They have to demonstrate they have actually suffered damage or loss as the result of a data breach to successfully claim under the Data Protection Act (DPA). The Information Commissioner's Office freely publishes information on how someone can seek...
[February 13, 2008, 15:25]
The Mitnick Release: Is It Over?
News Mitnick had already been in a series of minor skirmishes with the law when, in 1989, he suffered his first adult felony conviction for cracking computers at Digital Equipment Corporation and downloading source code.
[January 21, 2000, 8:40]
Bulldog Put Out Of Its Broadband Misery
News However, Bulldog has suffered repeated problems with its customer service and support over the last year, which led to an Ofcom investigation. Analysts said they weren’t surprised by C&W’s decision, following the problems suffered by Bulldog.
[June 8, 2006, 12:30]
A Year Ago: The Mitnick Release - Is It Over?
News Mitnick had already been in a series of minor skirmishes with the law when, in 1989, he suffered his first adult felony conviction for cracking computers at Digital Equipment Corporation and downloading source code.
[January 22, 2001, 6:01]
