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Virus targets programs built with Delphi
News Researchers said on Tuesday that they are seeing something unusual in the malware world: a virus that targets a development environment. The virus, dubbed Win32.Induc, was written to infect applications built with Delphi, according to Nick...
[August 19, 2009, 12:23]
Proof-of-concept malware targets Windows PowerShell
News Virus writers in Austria have reportedly developed malicious code that targets Windows PowerShell, the command line interface (CLI) shell and scripting language product being developed by Microsoft. Security firm McAfee warned this week that it had...
[August 1, 2006, 17:40]
Microsoft targets undergraduate developers
News Michael Bronsdon, Microsoft's lead product manager for academic developer marketing, said that Visual Studio.Net Academic is the company's first offering that specifically targets students and teachers.
[February 28, 2002, 15:50]
E-government targets branded 'inadequate'
News Targets for getting all government services online by 2005 may not be going far enough, critics have said at the government's e-Summit. Dr Ian Kearns, head of the digital society programme at the Institute for Public Policy Research, had earlier...
[November 19, 2002, 15:45]
First virus targets Windows CE
News Several analysts have speculated that handhelds and even VoIP phones could become major targets for virus writers, but so far, massive outages have not occurred. A virus that infects Windows CE has been developed -- the first such bug discovered...
[July 19, 2004, 8:35]
DoCoMo to beat targets and come to the UK
News NTT DoCoMo, Japan's largest mobile services operator, said on Thursday it expects to surpass its earnings targets for the year ending on 31 March. DoCoMo president and chief executive Keiji Tachikawa told a news conference he expected group current...
[March 22, 2001, 9:44]
Dell fudged numbers to meet quarterly targets
News The company felt so pressured to meet Wall Street expectations that its finance department bent accounting rules to make up for shortfalls in certain quarters and under-reported earnings results in others, each time ensuring that Dell did in fact...
[August 17, 2007, 10:33]
lastminute.com targets students
News Students could be a particularly valuable market for lastminute, which targets people with a bit of dosh to spend who prefer to dispose of it in a spontaneous fashion. lastminute.com is looking to get students hooked on its brand by infiltrating...
[November 24, 1999, 11:56]
Adware program targets Mac OS X
News Malicious software that targets Mac OS X systems is rare and has been limited largely to proof-of-concept code, instead of actual attacks. A new adware program silently installs on Mac OS X systems and opens web browser windows, according to F-Secure.
[November 28, 2006, 9:15]
Today's CIOs must 'fulfil revenue targets'
News Chief information officers are increasingly being assessed on their ability to drive IT to achieve revenue targets, according to a study by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Sloan School of Management.
[February 1, 2008, 10:07]
Oracle mulls other targets
News In April 2003, the Oracle board was presented with a list of potential acquisition targets. Those two companies were among the several named as potential acquisition targets for Oracle, during the third week of the Justice Department's antitrust...
[June 22, 2004, 8:20]
Latest smart phone virus targets Symbian
News Symbian is looking into reports of a new mobile phone virus that targets smartphones running its operating system. The worm, dubbed Mabir.A, appears to be a variant of the Cabir virus -- recognised by security experts as the first smartphone virus.
[April 6, 2005, 18:05]
Inland Revenue may miss online targets
News The Inland Revenue is likely to fail to achieve its targets for the take-up of its online services, MPs warned on Thursday. Fresh from lambasting the government for its faults in its approach to the Internet, the Public Accounts Committee has...
[August 29, 2002, 12:05]
Trojan attack targets top executives
News The C-level nature of the targets clearly indicates that the attackers are after information, the MessageLabs spokesperson said, but the greater concern is the social-engineering technique used to spread the Trojan-harbouring email.
[September 25, 2007, 9:23]
Oracle targets SMEs for future growth
News Oracle is taking a two-prong approach to battling the competition, focusing on its Fusion Middleware and growing its presence in the niche applications arena that targets specific industries, said Charles
[October 25, 2005, 15:15]
Banks still top targets for phishing scams
News Financial services companies remain the most frequent targets of online phishing schemes, according to the latest figures released by an organisation working to fight the scams. The Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG), a consortium of businesses and...
[January 21, 2005, 8:30]
IT industry urged to help hit carbon targets
News And the IT industry will need to start helping businesses meet their carbon targets, according to panellists at a green computing forum. Every UK business must carbon budget when the Climate Change Bill comes before parliament over the next year.
[October 15, 2007, 9:35]
ICT causing gov't to miss green targets
News Information and communications technology is a key factor in the government's failure to meet its own targets for reducing carbon emissions from public sector buildings, a report from the Environmental Audit Committee suggests.
[August 7, 2009, 17:42]
IBM misses targets
News IBM's first-quarter revenue and profit rose 3 percent but fell short of its financial targets, the company reported on Thursday. In a surprise statement, CEO Samuel Palmisano said the company had not been able to close a number of transactions in...
[April 15, 2005, 9:20]
Pentium 4 may miss sales targets
News Pentium 4 will not hit Intel's sales targets for 2001 because of its reliance on Rambus memory, according to a leading industry analyst. Jonathan Joseph, Salomon Smith Barney's managing director for semiconductor research, made the comments on...
[June 19, 2001, 12:25]
