Chernobyl Virus Ready For A Return Run
News ZDNet News' Robert Lemos reported from San Francisco, and staff writer Irene Ang reported from Singapore. The writer, Chen Ing-Hau, created the virus while he attended university in the island nation.
[April 26, 2001, 9:37]
Taiwan: MS May Have Violated Trade Laws
News CNET Asia's staff writer Joseph Chen contributed to this report. CNET Asia's Fran Foo reported from Singapore. See ZDNet UK's DoJ/Microsoft News Section for the latest headlines. The Taiwanese government has launched an investigation into...
[May 8, 2002, 9:05]
India's BlackBerry Dispute Sparks Privacy Concerns
News Swati Prasad is a freelance IT writer based in India. The issue of data security is an issue that involves all countries alike," Ameet Nivsarkar, vice president of Nasscom, told ZDNet Asia. Therefore, this information is directly accessible to bot...
[July 7, 2008, 9:12]
'Legacy Viruses' Lie In Wait
News Others are likely to burn themselves out because they’re too destructive or because the virus writer has written an expiry date into the virus’s code, he explained. Antivirus experts speaking at the Association of anti-Virus Asia Researchers (AVAR...
[November 6, 2003, 9:40]
Asia Outstrips Europe, US In Fibre Rollout
News Edwin Yapp is a freelance IT writer based in Malaysia. First, operators want to future-proof their networks," Hutcheson told ZDNet Asia on the sidelines of the FTTH conference. Asian countries continue to surpass Europe and North America in the...
[July 25, 2008, 8:20]
Handspring Poised To Sell PDA-phone
News Staff writer Richard Shim contributed to this report. Handspring Chief Operating Officer Ed Colligan told CNET News.com on Monday that the device should begin selling in the United States in January, with availability in parts of Asia beginning in...
[November 13, 2001, 8:59]
'MyParty' Worm Goes Global
News However, he cautioned that a virus writer anywhere else in the world could have manufactured such details to mislead investigators. The worm was first spotted in Asia and later tracked in Europe. For all security-related news, including updates on...
[January 29, 2002, 9:40]
Java Peps Up Mobile Phones
News Staff writer Ben Charny contributed to this report. Sun Microsystems' telecommunications partners in Asia will announce deeper use of Sun's Java software in mobile phones and back-end networks next week at the first JavaOne conference in Japan, a...
[November 22, 2001, 12:05]
Relaxed Holiday Attitudes Help BadTrans Worm
News While Badtrans.B is not destructive, it does install a keylogger, a program that records what a person using the infected PC types and then sends the information to the virus writer's e-mail address. However, he noted that there have been more...
[November 27, 2001, 9:07]
Hotmail Deletions Catch Members Out
News For three months, freelance writer Lydia Zajc updated friends and family on her adventures in Southeast Asia by sending detailed messages from her Hotmail account. For everything Internet-related, from the latest legal and policy-related news, to...
[July 26, 2002, 8:14]
3Com Banks On Open-source Strategy
News Edwin Yapp is a freelance IT writer based in Malaysia. Speaking at a media briefing in Malaysia on Tuesday, Peter Chai, vice president and general manager of 3Com Asia-Pacific, said the company's open services networking (OSN) platform will enable...
[August 16, 2007, 13:07]
ISP Confirms Bug's Filipino Connection
News Instead, the worm writer could have obfuscated his identity by passing through several accounts before creating the four accounts that contained the code. The ILOVEYOU worm first hit companies in Asia early Thursday morning and moved through Europe...
[May 5, 2000, 10:49]
Schools 'need Gender-specific Software'
News GFI Asia Pacific is calling on Australian market researchers to investigate "gender-specific" software. The managing director of IT security company GFI, Richard Rundle, believes "the significant differences between the way boys and girls use and...
[May 6, 2004, 10:50]
Anna Virus Writer Goes On Trial
News It is the first time in Dutch history that a writer of a computer virus has been tried. Jan de Wit, the 20-year-old who wrote the Anna Kournikova virus, went to trial on Thursday, but the prosecutor asked for a relatively light sentence with no...
[September 14, 2001, 9:46]
AV Firms Slam 'irresponsible' Virus Writer
News Paul Ducklin, head of technology in Asia Pacific for Sophos, said that although publishing viral source code isn't illegal in most countries, it should be done responsibly. Munir Kotadia reported from Sydney for ZDNet Australia.
[January 25, 2005, 8:50]
Asia Entices Talent With Top Pay
News Farihan Bahrin is a freelance IT writer based in Singapore. A skills shortage continues to plague Asian businesses, prompting many employers to use higher salaries and comprehensive training programmes to attract the talent they need, a new Hudson...
[July 30, 2007, 12:31]
