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  • MS fixes Win2K with 17MB security patch

    Only 39 million lines of code to go....

    Microsoft's new-found and recently publicized interest in security has yielded fruit in the form of a security rollup patch for Win2K which clears up a number of niggling hassles with the usual slew of unchecked buffers and some authentication issues and transfer protocols. The 17MB whopper is the first comprehensive offering …

    Software 1 Feb 2002, 08:12

  • Accused Ebay hacker on electronic leash

    Judge sends Heckenkamp home with modifications

    Until he goes to trial in March, the only sophisticated electronics in accused eBay hacker Jerome Heckenkamp's life will be the monitoring bracelet bolted to his ankle, under a court order issued Tuesday clearing the way for his release. In a hearing in federal court in San Jose, Calif., U.S. magistrate Patricia Trumble …

    Security 1 Feb 2002, 09:21

  • MS' new security czar is old govt prosecutor

    While old czar is shipped to govt, for eventual recycling

    After finally unloading washed-out security czar Howard Schmidt on the US government, Microsoft has turned around and got itself a government re-tread to replace him. Former DoJ cybercrime prosecutor Scott Charney, a man who once said, inanely, of home computing that "we're giving weapons of war to five-year-olds," will replace …

    Software 1 Feb 2002, 10:36

  • Register.com to buy Virtual Internet for £12m

    Pinch, punch...

    Register.com – the domain name registration and Internet services outfit – is set to buy the UK domain registrar, Virtual Internet plc, in a cash deal worth £12 million. The bid has the full backing of Virtual's board of directors but still needs shareholder approval. The offer of 46.8p a share represents a premium of around …

    e-Business 1 Feb 2002, 11:56

  • Who needs Linux standards?

    Quite a few of you, apparently

    Standards have always been the Unix world's Achilles heel. Not that there has ever been a scarcity of them. Much like French smoking laws, the problem has been getting anyone to pay attention. They're even more of an anathema to the typical Linux hacker, who can his squirrel his executables away in /etc/spaz/ …

    Software 1 Feb 2002, 12:03

  • Will the MS judge OK the DoJ deal? Aha…

    Maybe a hint, maybe not...

    The judge in the Microsoft case might just be inclined to reject the settlement being proposed by Microsoft and the Department of Justice. Or not. The late Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson's opinions became abundantly clear as his tenure of the trial clanked along, but Judge 2.0, Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, is in the happy position of …

    Software 1 Feb 2002, 12:24

  • Tiny HQ to shut in May

    White rabbit

    Tiny Computer's HQ in Surrey is to shut in May with the loss of up to 320 jobs. Staff were told of the closure late yesterday afternoon. A spokesman for Time confirmed that the office would shut but said that at this stage it was too early to say exactly how many jobs would be lost. No redundancies have been announced as yet …

    Channel 1 Feb 2002, 15:42

  • DoS risks against Cisco storage routers routed

    Get your fix now!

    Cisco is advising users to upgrade software on its line of storage routers after the discovery of multiple security vulnerabilities involving the technology. Three vulnerabilities have been discovered in Cisco SN 5420 Storage Router software releases up to and including 1.1(5). Two of the vulnerabilities (involving sending a …

    Security 1 Feb 2002, 15:44

  • Trust me, I'm a spam message!

    Certifiable email

    Fear of fraud has a big effect on response levels to commercial mail, known to most of us as spam. So what the world needs is a "trusted sender" program to assure customers that they won't get ripped off when they respond to email offers. Step forward TRUSTe, best known for its Web site privacy scheme, which has launched an " …

    e-Business 1 Feb 2002, 16:00

  • Keep-up pressure on Kodak, say campaigners

    Pinch, kick

    Dom Watts is an unlikely consumer champion. Yet, the dad of three from Croydon took on the power and might of Kodak – and won. His Kodakcamera protest Web site became the focus for a month-long campaign by consumers in search of fair play. Yesterday, Kodak caved in to pressure and agreed to honour a deal for a cut-price …

    Personal 1 Feb 2002, 16:01

  • Chinese New Year is no damp squib for DRAM

    Carry on rising

    Chinese New Year is coming up soon, and that means a huge swathe of the computer industry in East Asia (not Japan, of course) shuts down for a week or so from Feb 10. Usually, this means spot market DRAM prices fall, as brokers clear stock in advance of the holiday. But not this year. According to the channel checkers at …

    Channel 1 Feb 2002, 17:21

  • Gnome to be based on .NET – de Icaza

    Interview Learn to loveThe Beast

    How much do you love Microsoft's .NET? Enough to trust your Gnome applications to its APIs in the future? That's what Gnome leader Miguel de Icaza, believes should happen. Miguel calls .NET the "natural upgrade" for the Gnome platform, and enthused about the technology in an interview with us at LinuxWorld this week. Basing …

    Software 1 Feb 2002, 17:56

  • KaZaA.com ‘evaluates’ Dutch court ban

    Bootleg site?

    KaZaA.com continues to operate its Napster-style software downloads despite a ruling against its former owners in a Dutch court. An Amsterdam district court yesterday ruled KaZaA, the Dutch software and products firm that founded KaZaA.com, provided software that encouraged copyright infringement. It ordered KaZaA to stop the …

    Music and Media 1 Feb 2002, 22:40