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ISPs' traffic handling in the spotlight
News The high-profile squabble over Comcast's slowdown of BitTorrent file-sharing traffic - and broader questions of network handling by ISPs - is set for public scrutiny at a federal hearing today. BBC... [25 Feb 2008]
Web 2.0 threat looms
Comment XSS is one of the top 10 web application vulnerabilities identified by the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP), along with injection attacks and malicious file execution. The net effect is that... [26 Nov 2007]
National Archive tackles 'digital dark age'
News Using the technology, the National Archive will also be able to convert material into open file formats which can be accessed via more current software. Microsoft has already shown commitment to this... [04 Jul 2007]
Devil's Advocate: Microsoft's new allies
Comment Clearly of some value, such standards are not enough to make file formats open. And all this comes just at the time when a fresh battle over Office file formats is brewing. The coming... [15 Nov 2005]
Cheat Sheet: Wikis
Cheat Sheet Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales also created a list of 10 things that should be free (both free as in speech and free as in beer), including school curricula, TV listings and file formats. We came back to... [16 Aug 2005]
Netscape pioneers launch free content network
News Part TiVo, part BitTorrent file swapping, the network puts publishers' content into a peer-to-peer distribution network that could help lower bandwidth costs substantially. Netscape pioneers Mike Homer and Marc... [26 Apr 2005]
Re:Viewing 2004: Digital music and DRM
News Having given digital music an initial push when Napster - back in its illegal heyday - launched, creator Shawn Fanning still has his money on file-sharing, albeit legit this time. Fanning also announced... [17 Dec 2004]
Preventing Data Loss During Backups Due to Open Files
White Paper Without an open file backup solution, organizations are at risk of losing significant amounts of data. But, in order to achieve both of these goals, companies must look for tools that address an age-old... [28 Oct 2004]
Ballmer email takes on open source
News Red Hat fixes issues which other operating systems wouldn't fix, such as temporary file vulnerabilities," said Cox, adding that the report also failed to take into account the severity of the issues. A vulnerability... [28 Oct 2004]
Latest Bagle fried by web wrong number
News Opening the Zip archive and running either the HTML file or the program file will infect any Windows computer with the virus, unless the PC is protected by up-to-date antivirus software.... [02 Sep 2004]
MyDoom brings down Google
News MyDoom.M mainly arrives as a simple executable program file, Telafici said, making it more damaging for anyone who gets fooled into opening a message. Several worms open back doors and... [27 Jul 2004]
Porno spammers by-pass Outlook filters
News However, John Cheney, chief executive of email security firm BlackSpider Technologies, explained that one of the growing trends is for spammers to attach a pornographic image file to their emails and then use HTML code... [22 Jun 2004]
The Bloor Perspective: Trojan horses, legacy systems and IBM's new clients
Comment Trojans can be put on a PC by viruses or attached to dubious downloads, such as those you might get through file-sharing network Kazaa or be tempted to take from interactions in chat rooms. They are also able to process... [17 May 2004]
Microsoft plans server upgrade before Longhorn
News Microsoft acknowledged that it needs an update to its server OS at some point that will be ready to interact with PCs running Longhorn, a major revision to the OS that introduces a new file system and presentation... [08 Mar 2004]
The Bloor Perspective: Frog kissing, relationship banking and the decline of TVs and papers
Comment All together this combination makes the Java Desktop System a viable Microsoft Windows alternative, with read and write compatibility to Microsoft file formats. The Sun Java Desktop System gives the laptop family a... [01 Feb 2004]
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