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Europe's art needs cash to land at digital fingertips
News The Commission has also yet to resolve the question of so-called 'orphan works' - where the author is unknown or unable to be located, and therefore can't be asked the necessary permissions to allow their works to be distributed through Europeana. [12 Aug 2008]
Has Barclays stamped out fraud with PINsentry?
News The UK's third-largest bank said this week that it has distributed the card reader, made by Amsterdam-based Gemalto, to more than one million customers, and that none have been hit by fraud. Barclays claims to have reduced online fraud to zero... [18 Jul 2008]
The 15-petabyte network behind the Cern atom smasher
News The LCG will allow researchers to tap into the distributed processing power of almost 100,000 CPUs, crunching through vast amounts of data from the detectors and speeding their hunt for clues about the fundamental nature of the universe. [15 Jul 2008]
Microsoft's future in the post-Bill Gates era
News He said: "Especially over the past 10 years, many functions, by necessity, have been gradually distributed to others. As the end of an era draws near, silicon.com looks at what Bill Gates' departure will mean for the company he founded and made... [24 Jun 2008]
Phishing, malware and online fraud is booming
News Spam emails are often used in phishing attacks or to deliver malware it says, distributed by networks of compromised botnet computers which are also used for denial of service attacks. A government report on serious criminal threats to the UK has... [06 Jun 2008]
Cyber crime: The global battle
News The majority of work carried out by the computer intrusion team are criminal intrusions on computers such as hacking and distributed denial of service attacks but it also deals with intrusions relating to counter terrorism and espionage. [05 Jun 2008]
Admit to security breaches, companies told
News Certs, dubbed 'digital fire brigades', help countries combat distributed denial of service attacks and spam generated by hijacked botnet computers. The EU's online security body is calling for laws to force companies to reveal when their computer... [27 May 2008]
£50m mobile funding to keep police on the beat
News The funding was announced by policing minister, Tony McNulty, and will see around 10,000 handheld computers distributed to 27 police forces across the UK. Police across the UK will receive mobile data devices to be used on the beat as part of a... [27 May 2008]
Nato allies form cyber defence command
News Nato allies have pledged to help each other deal with major attacks similar to the distributed denial of service attack that took down key banking and state systems in Estonia in 2007. The Cyber Defence Management Authority (CDMA) will co-ordinate... [08 Apr 2008]
Remote working here to stay
News Pressure to shrink carbon footprints and attract and retain talented staff could see workforces becoming more distributed, said Quocirca. The research shows once a business develops a culture of remote working the level of service experienced by... [13 Mar 2008]
e-Crime Crackdown - silicon.com launches national campaign
News Compounding this shortfall is the fact that Soca focuses mainly on computer crime linked to major international drug and people smuggling and fraud - leaving everyday phishing, hacking, distributed denial of service and other malicious attacks to... [12 Mar 2008]
Gambling site brought to its knees by 'unstoppable' botnet
News Gala Coral ecommerce's gambling sites were taken down for almost 30 minutes by the next generation 10Gb distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, delegates at the e-crime congress in London were told this week. [06 Mar 2008]
How the good guys fight the security arms race
News These are still important but the way that people build systems these days is far more distributed. Bret Hartman has over 25 years of experience building data security systems and protocols for some of the biggest authorities and companies in the... [15 Feb 2008]
CPS hack attack guidelines: 'Confused'
News The CPS guidance gives an example of basing a decision to prosecute a suspect on the amount of thought that has gone into how a tool has been distributed. However, the guidance states they should in part base a decision to prosecute on the... [04 Jan 2008]
Wikia Search ready for launch
News The search platform includes the Grub search project, acquired by Wikia in July last year, which employs user-donated distributed processing power to crawl the web. Wikia Search, a community-driven search engine, will get its first public preview... [03 Jan 2008]
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