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Scammers pose as banks in live chat hack
News The chat window is displayed if the log-in credentials are typed in or if any other link on the page is clicked, said Sean Brady, an online fraud expert at RSA. Online scammers have created a phishing site masquerading... [18 Sep 2009]
Intel chip expert heads to EMC
News Intel has reorganised its upper management, and one executive, Pat Gelsinger, is taking a new high-profile role at storage and software company EMC, the companies announced on Monday. Gelsinger had been a major figure at Intel, where he... [15 Sep 2009]
Yahoo! goes after iPhone users with Flickr and finance apps
News Using this application, football fans can manage their teams from their phones, add and drop players, view match-ups and player stats, and get news and expert advice. Yahoo! announced three new mobile applications on... [09 Sep 2009]
Extradition for Nasa hacker rules high court
News McKinnon has also been diagnosed by the autism expert Simon Baron-Cohen with Asperger's syndrome, a disorder on the autistic spectrum. Gary McKinnon has lost his high court bid to avoid extradition to the US for hacking... [31 Jul 2009]
Mobile WiMax won't win race to become 4G king
News If they're able to get live information back from the ground, potentially to an expert in a remote location or to police travelling on their way to the scene, the ability to have video information dramatically improves... [23 Jul 2009]
Has in-flight entertainment got wings in the iPod era?
News Airlines should scrap in-flight entertainment systems because they cannot compete with the thousands of songs and scores of movies that can be stored on modern media players, according to an aviation expert. [03 Jul 2009]
ATM hack talk pulled from security conference
News Last month, a computer forensics expert revealed he had discovered malware on ATMs that allowed criminals to steal account data and PINs. Things were more dramatic in 2001, when the FBI took Russian crypto... [02 Jul 2009]
Microsoft's datacentres get a Yahoo! expert
News Microsoft has grabbed another Yahoo! executive. Operations VP Kevin Timmons becomes the latest to swap Yahoo! purple for Microsoft blue. In his new role, Timmons will lead a datacentre services team, Microsoft infrastructure services... [23 Jun 2009]
PIN-stealing malware hits ATMs
News Malicious software has been found on Eastern European ATMs that allows criminals to steal account data and PINs and even empty the machine of its cash, a computer forensics expert said. About 20 cash machines have been... [05 Jun 2009]
Calls for gov't Phorm investigation rejected
News Privacy legal expert Vanessa Barnett, a partner at Berwin Leighton Paisner LLP, told ZDNet UK on Tuesday that "ultimately only a judge can decide" the legality of Phorm's service. On Tuesday, Number 10 published a... [21 May 2009]
Outsourcing - expert tips on iron-clad protection
News Breaking up is always hard to do, especially when you and your partner are knee-deep in a multimillion-pound deal to transform back-office processes. But these messy divorces are not inevitable, with a bit of forethought and good... [07 May 2009]
IP infringement fines to rise
News However, intellectual-property expert Iain Connor, a partner at law firm Pinsent Masons, told ZDNet UK that people sharing files would be unlikely to face UK prosecution. The UK government is to increase the maximum fine... [07 May 2009]
Gov't denies mass surveillance tech
News However, Cambridge University security expert Richard Clayton told silicon.com sister site ZDNet UK on Tuesday that GCHQ had been "very precise" about what it would not intercept. The government's electronic... [06 May 2009]
Wolfram Alpha: The Google rival that aims to dig deeper
News In a talk at Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Wolfram said: "Like interacting with an expert, it'll understand what you're talking about, do the computation, and present the results in such a way you'll... [29 Apr 2009]
Did IBM make a huge mistake?
News We asked a panel of expert analysts to weigh in on various aspects of the deal. Oracle's proposed $7.4bn acquisition of Sun Microsystems has shaken up the tech industry. The mega-deal, which comes soon after IBM's bid... [22 Apr 2009]