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Terrorists turning to tech, warns gov't
News Black said that eventually "threat prints" could be developed by analysing potential targets, such as the London 2012 Olympic Games, and developing a model of potential terrorist behaviour. Z is for Zero-day [04 Jul 2008]
Met Office forecasts blue skies for green IT
News Its global climate change model relies on the same software and teams, splitting the world into 40sq km chunks and analysing the data within each cell to reveal patterns and make predictions. The HQ minimises its CO2 emissions, air-con is replaced... [09 May 2008]
Gambling site brought to its knees by 'unstoppable' botnet
News Attackers disguised the build up of traffic from up to 30,000 PC and Apple Mac botnet computers during the attack by analysing and reproducing the browsing habits of the sites' typical users. Z is for Zero-day [06 Mar 2008]
Phishers snare Salesforce.com data
News It said it is monitoring and analysing logs to be able to alert customers who have been, or could still be, affected by the incident, and added it is "reinforcing [employee] security education, and tightening access policies within Salesforce.com". [08 Nov 2007]
Oracle grid gets a bit of Sport Relief
News Gill added that in the past simply processing transactions took so much of the system's resources that "analysing statistics has always been a distant second priority", despite the fact the charity could benefit greatly from knowing which pledges... [14 Jul 2006]
Decision on Microsoft antitrust fine to take "weeks"
News The European Commission said yesterday it will need to spend a number of weeks analysing the information that Microsoft is presenting in a hearing before making a final decision on whether the company will be fined for not complying with a 2004... [31 Mar 2006]
IBM expands efforts to promote RFID
Major computer companies view the intricacies of storing, managing and analysing the flood of data the tags could produce as a significant new business opportunity. RFID proponents say such tags will one day save businesses billions and make... [14 Jun 2005]
Firms failing to get their heads around back-up
News Red Monk's Governor added: "Organisations need to do a better job of analysing their data and working out what to store and where as part of an overall IT governance strategy, underpinning a wide range of business initiatives including compliance. [22 Mar 2005]
DeepNet 1.3 browser to contain anti-phishing features
Lin said the blocker works by using both a blacklist of known phishing sites and by analysing the URL and Web site. He said it is currently experiencing 1,500 to 2,000 downloads per day, and is talking to various companies including Google, to work... [22 Nov 2004]
Bloggers' hoax theory over Bush military service memos
News Keepers of online journals around the country have been analysing the memos in excruciating detail, comparing the notes' typography to the technical specifications of early 1970s typewriters. It's too early to say whether the bloggers calling "hoax... [13 Sep 2004]
SCO denial-of-service attack intensifies
News CAIDA's Moore also confirmed the attack by analysing backscatter data showing that both SCO's web server and FTP server had been inundated by network traffic. A day-old denial-of-service attack on the web server of the controversial SCO Group has... [12 Dec 2003]
IT Myths: Who's analysing our trans-Atlantic phone calls?
News One technology expert who has worked with the security forces in the past told silicon.com: "Start by working out how many [trans-Atlantic] calls are made every day, every minute, every second. One of the most commonly heard IT myths has it that... [17 Jul 2003]
Security flaw hits SETI@home project
News The SETI 3ebsite explains the logic: "While you are getting coffee, or having lunch or sleeping, your computer will be helping the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence by analysing data specially captured by the world's largest radio telescope. [07 Apr 2003]
NTL defends its broadband download cap
News NTL plans to spend the next 60 days analysing its network traffic before contacting customers who regularly exceed this new 1GB limit. It confirmed, however, that it will be targeting users who regularly download more than 1GB of data per day. [11 Feb 2003]
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