AIM Users Prone To Name Hijacks
News Adrian Lamo, the founder and a staff writer for Inside-AOL, accused the Internet giant of not closing the hole in a timely manner. On Wednesday, two AOL user sites -- Inside-AOL.com and AOL-Files.com -- revealed that the accounts of AIM users were...
[December 1, 2000, 9:32]
'Noisy Light' Is New Key To Encryption
News Of all the quantum information technologies, like quantum computing, quantum cryptography appears to be the first to bat in terms of making it into real-world applications," said Ben Stein, a senior writer at the American Institute of Physics.
[November 15, 2002, 14:48]
Bagle Turns To Verse
News The author of the latest variant of the Bagle worm has gone beyond penning just a piece of code: the writer has also included a poem in the document attachment on which the worm piggybacks. A recent version of NetSky, or SkyNet, as the author calls...
[April 27, 2004, 8:40]
What's .Net Got For The Mobile Developer?
News No ASP.Net -- Since most mobile device operating systems don't have integrated Web servers, the lack of any ASP.Net capabilities shouldn't come as a shock.No Web services -- Although Compact apps can consume Web services, they can't provide them...
[January 29, 2003, 8:43]
Bin Laden Video Spreads A Worm For 'The Hobbit'
News It seems this time that the virus writer has focused on the public's appetite for breaking news on the war against terror," said Cluley. The technique of using current events to entice a user to click on a malicious link or open a harmful...
[November 5, 2004, 11:43]
Viruses Pack Triple Threat
News Even a small number of successes can make such schemes worth the effort for the virus writer. That virus then attempts to convince the user to type in personal and financial information, a technique known as "phishing.
[January 19, 2004, 10:10]
Researchers, Literally, Catch Some Rays
News The problem with classical computers is that they can be zero or one only at a given moment," said Ben Stein, a senior science writer at the American Institute of Physics. More recently, the two teams brought light to a halt by shining a pulse of...
[January 22, 2001, 8:33]
Phisers Use The Web
Talkback Just like a trojan writer can't know what an anti-virus/firewall developer will do next to combat them they can see the success rate of their apps and adapt them and work out what they need to change.
[March 20, 2008, 12:47]
Phisers Use The Web
Talkback Just like a trojan writer can't know what an anti-virus/firewall developer will do next to combat them they can see the success rate of their apps and adapt them and work out what they need to change.
[March 20, 2008, 12:37]
Sober Worm Makes A Comeback
News It looks like the virus writer is deliberately using broken English to [convince] people the email is not a virus," said Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant for antivirus firm Sophos. The worm, dubbed Sober.M, reports email addresses of...
[April 19, 2005, 17:20]
DOS To The Rescue
News As a technical writer and consultant, I am constantly working with system documentation. Version note This technique is dependent on accessing MS-DOS. Although I've tested it only under Windows 2000, the basic technique should work under all DOS...
[December 31, 2002, 10:08]
Third Sobig Worm Strikes, And More May Follow
News Toshack speculated that the virus writer might be purposefully releasing a series of short-term worms in order to improve his or her technique. The sites contacted by Sobig.C are not active, but Messagelabs said that the virus writer could activate...
[June 2, 2003, 15:28]
AJAX: Ready To Take On The Old Guard?
News Smaller software makers such as ThinkFree and Writely could eventually create the hosted Web equivalent of Microsoft Office, analyst and writer Richard MacManus noted recently. An emerging Web development technique promises to shake up the status...
[October 3, 2005, 16:55]
