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An alleged sender of unsolicited e-mail whose success earned him the title of "spam king" has been arrested in Virginia in what is being called the first felony prosecution of a spammer in the United States. Virginia officials, who announced the arrest with AOL, MCI and UUNet, charged that Jeremy Ja...
Portability and price have combined to fuel consumer thirst for personal computers, according to IDC findings on worldwide PC shipments -- a trend the company says will be matched by more corporate spending through 2004. Updating its Worldwide Quarterly PC Tracker, IDC forecast "record levels" for 2...
At the same time that a judge's call for evidence sent SCO Group's stock price lower, the Lindon, Utah-based company was taking a hit on its Web site, against which attackers launched a denial-of-service attack that also knocked some of the company's internal operations offline. SCO, hit by a simila...
Microsoft's new monthly patching policy is getting put to the test as several vulnerabilities, such as another Internet Explorer hole disclosed this week, present attackers with opportunity. The latest IE hole -- announced by Secunia, the same Danish security company that disclosed a separate, criti...
A scheme to counter the Balkanization of digital rights management on the Internet was unveiled Wednesday by a standards group whose members include ContentGuard, Macrovision, Microsoft, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone, Universal Music Group and VeriSign. The group -- called the Content Reference For...
With a goal of connecting all villages, schools, hospitals and governments by 2015 to put half the world's people within reach of information and communication technology (ICT), the U.N. opened the first-ever global summit on information in Geneva, Switzerland this week. International issues such as...
A U.S. House of Representatives subcommittee confirmed this week the concerns of security experts and Washington insiders by grading most federal agencies with a D or F in terms of IT security. There was improvement from last year's federal computer-security progress report as the Nuclear Regulatory...
After recently building a new system with one of the latest Nvidia cards powering the graphics, I poked around Nvidia's demos to see if I could push the new card to its limits. After installing a few of the demos designed to showcase Nvidia power, I was blown away. In the interest of hearing from th...
Rather than move for an all-out frontal assault, voice over IP (VoIP) service providers are flanking the traditional telecommunications companies. In building their businesses, the VoIP providers -- which develop products that let customers make telephone calls over the Internet -- are not trying to...
Concerns about computer viruses and worms are spreading beyond the PC arena as embedded software and systems vulnerable to attack are introducing risk to several unique technology sectors, including automatic teller machines (ATMs), emergency response systems and even automobiles. ATM maker Diebold ...
Although there is agreement that IT spending will increase in 2004, views vary on whether it will be marked by a return to more traditional buying patterns or by significant structural changes forced by commodity pricing. According to a survey of more than 600 IT decision makers, IT spending confide...
Smut distributed through peer-to-peer networks isn't inherently more dangerous than titillating matter found elsewhere on the Internet. That was one of several findings by the research arm of the U.S. Congress, the General Accounting Office (GAO), in a letter responding to written inquiries by the S...
Companies and developers hanging on to older releases of Microsoft software will no longer find downloads or support from the Redmond, Washington-based company as it complies with a nearly three-year-old settlement with Sun Microsystems over the use of Java. Microsoft said that because of the settle...
Last week was looking relatively uneventful until I got a copy of SCO CEO Darl McBride's "Open Letter" in which he argues that the Linux GPL is unconstitutional. Now, for some of you, you red-lined the letter and spent the next several hours posting your pronounced disagreement with this position to...
IBM claims it has found a way to apply nanotechnology -- a field of study in which researchers have manipulated materials at dimensions approaching the size of individual molecules -- to producing semiconductor components with existing chip-making tools. Big Blue researchers, who will present their ...
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