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RSS file hard diskSecurity nightmare: How do you maintain 21 different passwords?
News He added: "The IT industry is simply not taking it seriously enough - losing a laptop, for example, with strictly confidential merger and acquisition documents on the hard disk is one thing but if it's... [11 Dec 2002]
Cheat Sheet: Computer viruses
Cheat Sheet A second line of defence is to treat email attachments with suspicion: save attachments to disk and then check with a virus scanner before opening the file. Some viruses infect code in the boot sector of... [26 Mar 2002]
The A-Z of ebusiness (T-U)
News Files which are stored or transmitted through the internet (eg onto a user's PC to speed their experience of using a website) but which, unless permanently saved to a disk or hard disk... [01 Jan 2002]
Cheat Sheet: Cookies
Cheat Sheet You can view the cookies that have been stored on your hard disk although the content stored in each cookie may not make much sense. A cookie is information that any website can put on your PC's... [29 Nov 2001]
BMG backs a rival to ailing ally Napster
News A mini storage disk will slot into a drive on PCs, stereos and handheld devices. Music device manufacturers including Toshiba, Samsung, and SonicBlue, creator of the MP3 device, have also licensed the technology and plan... [13 Mar 2001]
Little Davinia causes virus havoc says Panda
News Once an infected machine is rebooted the VBS script overwrites data on the hard disk and network drive. Panda claims the infected companies have lost a large amount of data in the attack, which links... [15 Jan 2001]
Transatlantic Cable: Needling Napster & mugging MP3
Comment And like most, I think my MP3 player is cool - mine has a hard disk that holds over 80 hours of music so I can take pretty much most of my record collection with me. It simply provides the search... [30 Aug 2000]
Siemens takes on Napster mantle
News The new company believes instant messaging and hard disk sharing services such as ICQ and Napster are "bellwethers of the next wave of the internet" - peer-to-peer networking. However, unlike the... [04 Aug 2000]
Windows 2000 Special: Roll-out! Roll-out! The greatest OS on earth?
Comment It supports the Kerberos protocol that sends encrypted passwords over a network instead of text; it can use smartcards or physical identification for those that distrust passwords; and it has a check box that turns on the encrypting... [21 Feb 2000]
In brief: CIH virus strikes again
News The CIH virus is spread via executable files - which end in '.exe' - and deletes the first 1MB of each hard disk it infects. If it is active in memory, then every time an anti-virus scanner scans a... [28 Aug 1998]
