Kournikova Virus Suspect Faces Four Years In Slammer
News The Dutchman suspected of unleashing a virus inspired by tennis player Anna Kournikova has been charged and released by Dutch police for computer crimes and faces a possible four years behind bars. Masquerading as a picture of the Russian tennis...
[February 15, 2001, 12:31]
Naughton: The American Dream Turned Sour, Part II
News There he saw a diminutive blonde with butterfly hair clips, a bright white sweater and tennis shoes. His partner in that encounter had the screen name of KrisLA. Naughton had met KrisLA six months earlier in a chatroom called "dad&daughtersex".
[March 21, 2000, 13:55]
Dutch Treat? Netherlander Takes Credit For 'Anna'
News The attachment purports to be a photograph of Kournikova, a 19-year-old Russian tennis player. A Dutch virus writer known as OnTheFly admitted Tuesday to writing the Anna Kournikova virus, as Excite@Home compiled evidence against a subscriber in...
[February 14, 2001, 8:03]
Virus Update: From Russia With Love
News Initial reports indicated that the virus' promise of a picture of the teenage tennis heartthrob had lured a large number of people into opening the fake image. "I think it is under control at this point," said Vincent Gullotto, director of security...
[February 13, 2001, 7:47]
Purported 'Anna' Virus Toolkit Author Yanks Files From Site
News Also known as VBS/SST, VBS_Kalamar, and VBS/OnTheFly, the AnnaKournikova virus initially poses a photo of the wildly popular, 19-year-old Russian tennis beauty included in an e-mail message with the subject line "Here you have ;o).
[February 16, 2001, 8:25]
Trial Date Set For Kournikova Suspect
News Twenty-year-old de Witt, who is a self-proclaimed fan of Russian tennis star Kournikova, is charged with spreading information via a computer network with the intention of causing damage. Masquerading as a picture of the Russian tennis star, the...
[June 21, 2001, 13:49]
PS2 Games Get Electronics Boutique's Tills Ringing
News On Friday 23 November, a massive 12 new PS2 titles hit the shelves -- including Virtua Tennis 2 and the action game "James Bond 007 in .Agent Under Fire". High street retailer Electronics Boutique (EB) has announced record-breaking sales figures...
[January 8, 2002, 12:30]
Anna Virus Writer Goes On Trial
News However, he claimed ignorance of the effect of his worm, which purported to be an email with an attached picture of tennis star Anna Kournikova. Jan de Wit, the 20-year-old who wrote the Anna Kournikova virus, went to trial on Thursday, but the...
[September 14, 2001, 9:46]
Linux Moves Into The Mainstream
News Linux also will house the Web site of the US Open Tennis Tournament, following similar moves by the Professional Golf Association, the National Hockey League and the Wimbledon tennis organisers. Updating the love it has for Linux, IBM will argue on...
[August 28, 2001, 10:38]
Open Source Plan Could Aid Torture Victims
News With his boyish haircut and black tennis shoes, the wiry Fruchterman exhibits a zeal that evokes a mad scientist and an inventor as he discusses his latest plan: to create open source software that would help human rights investigators document...
[April 10, 2001, 8:31]
Hilton Hacker Sent Down
News The numbers included those of rapper Eminem, actor Vin Diesel, singers Christina Aguilera and Ashlee Simpson, and tennis players Andy Roddick and Anna Kournikova. A Massachusetts teen who admitted to accessing T-Mobile USA's internal systems and...
[September 15, 2005, 9:25]
UK's Prince Wins Right To Preserve Domain
News Prince Sports Group, best known for its tennis racquets, had challenged Prince plc's right to register the 'prince.com' domain name but quietly dropped its suit on October 15 before any verdicts had been delivered.
[October 23, 1997, 10:08]
Luscious Lara Unleashes IRC Worm
News Earlier this year, a virulent email worm disguising itself as a picture file of the Russian tennis star Anna Kournikova had a disastrous impact upon many UK companies. The promise of a luscious Lara Croft screensaver is likely to fool Internet...
[September 5, 2001, 9:33]
Happy New Ear From Sony Ericsson
Blog From the tennis star to business women and young mothers, [this] is the ultimate tool for making the day go that little bit more smoothly.it] will be a welcome relief to active, fashion-conscious women across the globe, and comes after extensive...
[January 10, 2008, 15:15]
Virus Dresses Up As A Naked Jennifer Lopez
News The Jennifer Lopez file is the latest in a string of mass-mailing worm viruses -- copycat versions of the Anna Kournikova virus -- that spread across the globe in February by encouraging victims to click on a supposed picture of Russian tennis...
[June 1, 2001, 8:56]
IBM Promises Rewards From Utility Vision
News IBM is showing the software that's in use by the US Open, which is relying on pSeries Unix servers at IBM that switch back and forth between running the tennis match's Web site and performing cancer-related protein calculations for IBM research...
[September 2, 2003, 9:10]
Antivirus Virus On The Loose
News However, occasionally, a virus contains a more interesting wrinkle than being named after a tennis player or teen-punk idol. The appearance and spread of viruses throughout the tech-enabled world is rapidly becoming par for the course for home and...
[January 20, 2003, 9:23]
The Luncher
News Seems we'll all be the wiser next week when tennis-mad, Sussex-born boss Mike Cowpland gives the gen at CeBIT. A series of fact-finding tours had kept him away from his readers for too long but now he was back and ready, as his American friends had...
[March 14, 1998, 6:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
News Monday 7/6/1999 Aha! Interesting email from a distant correspondent reveals that they were slipped a BT internal briefing on a new service to be launched on Tuesday. As you'll know if you've read our news service (though quite possibly not if you...
[June 11, 1999, 18:39]
