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7th February 2004 Archive

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  • SCO abandons trade secret attack on IBM

    But keeps fighting

    The SCO Group abandoned a major rationale of its case against IBM by dropping its trade secret claims. These were the basis, last June, for SCO revoking IBM's UNIX license. IBM didn't blink, and has simply carried on selling its AIX Unix without blinking. But today SCO dropped the trade secrets and claimed breach of copyright …

    Business 7 Feb 2004, 03:14

  • Extortionists attack Paddypower.com

    Gamblers Anonymous

    Irish on-line betting site Paddypower.com is the latest high-profile Web property to suffer a denial of service attack from malicious users bent on extortion. The company confirmed that its Web site was temporarily off line for a number of hours on Wednesday evening (Feb 4) as a result of interference from a distributed denial …

    Security 7 Feb 2004, 22:46