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  • Trend Micro squashes buffer overflow bug

    Minor problem affects popular AV packages

    Trend Micro has issued a fix to address buffer overflow vulnerabilities within popular versions of its anti-virus software packages. The bug, within the POP3-proxy of PC-cillin and OfficeScan, came to light during evaluations of various antivirus products by Joel Soderberg of Swedish security firm Texonet last month. Texonet …

    Malware 12 Dec 2002, 09:28

  • BTo tops complaints league

    Oftel tally

    Oftel receives by far and away more complaints about BTopenworld than any other ISP, according to the latest stats from telecoms regulator Oftel. Between April and September this year Oftel received 6,800 complaints about UK service providers. Just under half of those were about BTopenworld. The top three complaints from …

    Music and Media 12 Dec 2002, 09:29

  • All bugs are created equal

    ISS pledges equal treatment for open source and Windows flaws

    Security tools vendor ISS has promised to handle security vulnerabilities affecting open source and Windows platforms the same way following criticism of its premature disclosure of open source security problems. In recent months, sections of the security community allege that ISS has jumped the gun in releasing information on …

    Security 12 Dec 2002, 09:34

  • Fire guts Edinburgh's AI library

    40 years of work lost

    Staff and students at the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh are trying to come to terms with a fire which ripped through one of its buildings, destroying 40 years of work housed in its library. The blaze destroyed around a quarter of the School of Informatics, regarded as one of the UK's leading departments …

    Software 12 Dec 2002, 09:36

  • 'From Java to C#: A Developer's Guide' at 30 per cent off

    Top Xmas offers from IT-minds.com

    Learning a new programming language can be intimidating, especially if you need to get up and running with it quickly. If you are a current Java developer who needs to learn C#, From Java to C#: A Developer's Guide will help you make the transition. The guide enables you to use your existing knowledge of object-oriented concepts …

    Site News 12 Dec 2002, 09:37

  • China floors pedal in DSL race

    Vrooooom!

    Take-up of DSL in China is faster than any other country, according to the latest analysis from Point Topic. With around two million DSL lines, China is now the fifth largest country behind South Korea, the US, Japan and Germany. Analysts believe at its current growth rate China is likely to become the biggest broadband country …

    Telecoms 12 Dec 2002, 09:39

  • EMC hops up NAS box

    Waves goodbye to weakest link

    EMC Corp has finally replaced the weakest link in its NAS line-up, swapping out its unpopular IP4700 device for a much beefier machine which combines the Dart operating system from the company's high-end Celerra NAS gateway, and the latest generation of EMC's mid-range Clariion storage array. According to typical industry …

    Storage 12 Dec 2002, 10:21

  • HP to launch iSCSI hardware in Q1

    Credibility boost

    Hewlett Packard Co is poised to plunge into the iSCSI market early next year, by launching a low-end combined NAS and iSCSI storage array - echoing Dell's plans in the same area - and a high-end iSCSI switch that will probably be OEMed from Cisco Systems Inc, writes Tim Stammers. Coming from the largest single supplier of …

    Storage 12 Dec 2002, 10:21

  • Palmsource in China

    Palming On

    PalmSource Inc has launched a major offensive on the Chinese-language PDA market with the announcement of two local licensees, a new system development partner and other initiatives designed to raise its profile in the relatively Palm-free country. New Palm OS licensees include Legend Group Ltd, China's top PC manufacturer …

    Mobile 12 Dec 2002, 10:21

  • IBM backs royalty free approach on Web Services choreography

    Partial stand-down

    IBM signaled a partial stand-down in an emerging cold war over royalties for web services yesterday, saying it would not seek payment for its contributions to BPEL4WS, writes Gavin Clarke. IBM's director of e-business standards Bob Sutor told a web services conference in San Francisco, California, he believes IBM will …

    Hardware 12 Dec 2002, 10:23

  • Interland buysTrellix

    Hostest with the Mostest

    Interland Inc, one of the US's largest small business web hosts, yesterday announced the acquisition of Trellix Corp, which offers web building tools to SMEs, writes Kevin Murphy. The deal gives Interland some tools to better compete with Yahoo! Inc, which is eyeing the market, and gives it leverage on at least five rivals …

    Business 12 Dec 2002, 10:24

  • Ran Mokady takes helm at Pogo

    IP play

    Pogo, the UK PDA maker, today rises from the ashes with a new CEO-cum-investor, a change of business model, and a slightly new name. The new CEO of Pogo Mobile Solutions (as it is now called) is Ran Mokady, wireless entrepreneur and former Microsoft bigwig, where he ran the feature phone division. You can read his CV here. The …

    Mobile 12 Dec 2002, 10:57

  • MS talks smartphone -developer support follows ‘soon’

    Act not entirely together alert...

    The Register's spies at a Microsoft "Smartphone Application Security" chat earlier this week give us the impression that the company might just have been caught a little flat-footed by the development/application signing issue. Because the answers to 'when' and 'how' currently seem to be, um, soon, but er, it'll be great. "How …

    Mobile 12 Dec 2002, 12:00

  • MS puts the squeeze on new Win2k PC preinstalls

    Switch off for dual boot

    Microsoft may have relented on switching off mainstream support for Windows 2000 next year, but that doesn't mean it isn't serious about pushing users away from the OS. According to Extremetech, PC manufacturers are to be barred from selling dual boot WinXP and Win2k systems from next year. Many major corporate customers are …

    Software 12 Dec 2002, 12:46

  • Frugal Google aims to be catalog, e-commerce lynchpin

    Let's go shopping

    If there's any doubt that Google is compiling what could potentially be the world's most lucrative database, it should have been dispelled last night. Already the leading search engine, Google has signaled its intention to become a key e-commerce destination, too. Google has launched a beta of a shopping catalog service it calls …

    Music and Media 12 Dec 2002, 21:36

  • Mac fraud bust: the Inside Story

    Sting for Christmas

    Police in Markham, Illinois charged a 38-year old man this afternoon on two counts of forgery The arrest is the result of extraordinary perseverance and pluck from a 21 year old New Orleans student, aided by the online Mac community. Melvin Christmas obtained a G4 PowerBook from a student Jason Eric Smith, and paid for it …

    Mac Channel 12 Dec 2002, 22:45

  • Your Microsoft critical security patches tonight

    Remote compromise and privilege evaluation flaws land on Windows, again

    Microsoft last night released three sets of security patches, the most important of which aims to address flaws in Microsoft Virtual Machine (VM) which it admits could enable system compromise. The VM patch is designed to address eight vulnerabilities, the most serious of which would enable an attacker to gain control over a …

    Security 12 Dec 2002, 22:47

  • US! .gov! shuts Saddam! sprog! Yahoo! account!

    Sins of the father

    Yahoo! Has shut down Saddam Hussein's son's email account following an intervention by the US government. A message posted late last month on the site of Iraq's official daily Baghdad Babil, which is published by Uday Hussein, said Uday should now be contacted at udaysaddamhussein@warkaa.net. WorldNetDaily.comreports that the …

    Music and Media 12 Dec 2002, 22:52

  • Septic tank spam – the 419 de nos jours?

    As if you needed to be told what the spam top ten are...

    Anti-spam filtering outfit Brightmail has released a list of the ten most common spam messages assaulting users' in-boxes this year. Based on volume of messages as a percentage of all spam (monitored through Brightmail's Probe Network of decoy email addresses), the following Subject lines top the list in 2002: Protect Your …

    Music and Media 12 Dec 2002, 23:04

  • Amazon.com, sodomy and the lash

    Letter Rudes vs Prudes

    : Re: Sodomites overrun Amazon.com Dear Mr. Orlowski: Thanks for your story regarding the curious Amazon.com juxtaposition of my book with Pat Robertson's *Six Steps to Spiritual Revival*: Most of the other stories on this incident mentioned Pat Robertson and the title of his book quite prominently yet euphemized the title …

    Letters 12 Dec 2002, 23:46