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Dial-up doomsday: 2010
News Dial-up's days appear to be numbered - the old favourite will be on its last legs by 2010, according to uSwitch.com, a site which offers comparisons of utilities and broadband services. In 2010, 80 per cent of households will have internet... [12 Oct 2006]
Will IT bring about the end of the world?
News The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists - famed for its Doomsday Clock which now sits at seven minutes to midnight - is holding a series of "doomsday reconsidered" meetings to look at future threats to civilisation. [02 Jun 2006]
Kama Sutra worm: How was it for you?
News But others fear that the predicted doomsday scenarios followed by a non-event may cause PC users to become complacent about security alerts. The Kama Sutra worm's anticipated bombshell ended up fizzling out but experts are still divided on whether... [06 Feb 2006]
3 February virus: Are we ready for it?
News Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant for antivirus firm Sophos, said: "We're less concerned about it being a digital doomsday. Antivirus companies are at odds over the severity of a time-bomb virus which is set to go off on 3 February. [31 Jan 2006]
Nazi gold to UFOs - National Archives frees information
Case Study The first version of William the Conqueror's Doomsday Book was completed in 1086 - the first-ever survey of the English people and their way of life. It is the oldest record held at the National Archives (NA) today and one of millions of historic... [14 Sep 2005]
Leader: Good Lord, it's another cyber-terror warning
Leader A number of security experts have previously expressed concerns about politicians buying into hype about a 'digital doomsday' and the words of Labour peer Harris certainly suggest those fears were well-founded. [22 Mar 2005]
Devil's Advocate: Digital doomsday just round the corner?
Comment However, it has been suggested this leaves the possibility of a doomsday scenario. It was quite a minor hack but losing my website recently certainly got me thinking. We know about the various kinds of digital attack. [08 Feb 2005]
VeriSign: Cybersecurity starts with schools
The Internet has withstood major assaults to bring the system crashing down, but each new cyberattack raises the spectre of a doomsday scenario. What if terrorists launched a physical attack in combination with a major cybersalvo aimed at bringing... [04 Jan 2005]
Offshoring won't turn UK into "nation of hairdressers"
News I do not think we are looking at a doomsday scenario of a nation of hairdressers," he said. The UK will not be turned into a "nation of hairdressers" by outsourcing IT and call centre jobs to low-cost offshore locations such as India, according to... [04 Nov 2004]
Bookie reveals $100,000 cost of denial-of-service extortion attacks
News Twenty thousand dollars also went on a 'doomsday' denial of service simulator from Spirent. We got a demand for $50,000 from an unidentified source. These are the words of a UK-based online bookmaker who has agreed to speak to silicon.com, on... [11 Jun 2004]
Benchmark of Merit: A New Way to Measure the Usefulness of Tape Drives
White Paper Like numerous doomsday predictions we will see in 1999, this one is also wrong. Tape is dead, reads the sign carried by the bearded man in robe and sandals as the year 2000 approaches. It is interesting to note that there have been three waves of... [25 Feb 2004]
Cisco: Move to IPv6 - IPv4 time bomb is ticking
News Other experts have said that it may take as long as 20 years before the existing address pool is used up and warn against doomsday scenarios. Studies show that there are far fewer internet addresses available than we think, a senior Cisco engineer... [07 Jul 2003]
Goodbye to 2000: Bursting bubbles, mega mergers and teetering telecoms
Comment Twice - on 1 January and again on 29 February - we breathed a collective sigh of relief when the Doomsday scenarios forecast failed to materialise. Yes, we escaped the worst the millennium bug could throw at us. [20 Dec 2000]
