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Digital Dilemmas: Should I add my boss as a Facebook friend?
Comment With others - those sober-looking individuals who exist semi-invisibly on the fringes of the office - you might assume they're digitally non-existent. What do you do when the 'One new friend request' on Facebook is from... [28 Oct 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 16.10.09
Round-Up The idea is, of course, to prevent any drunken missives reaching bosses and ex-lovers which would only be regretted in the cold, sober light of the next day. How many times have you heard a tale of woe that features 1)... [16 Oct 2009]
Photos: The best of Google Labs
Photo The aim of the app is to make sure you're thinking clearly enough to send the email and thus prevent any drunken missives reaching bosses and ex-loves only to be regretted in the sober light of the next day. [19 Nov 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 10.10.08
Round-Up Invented by Google Labs engineer Ian Perlow the Goggles are actually five maths puzzles set when you are sober and then activated between 10pm and 4am on Friday and Saturday nights. You don't have to be - like the... [10 Oct 2008]
Back to reality for Bangalore
Comment Once a high-flying tech hub, Bangalore is seeing more sober days in the wake of the credit crisis. Saritha Rai reports from India. It looks like the global economic turmoil and the dramatic Wall Street meltdown is... [30 Sep 2008]
Whose data is it anyway?
Comment Dilemmas of Privacy and Surveillance: Challenges of Technological Change makes sober reading in the light of recent events but it also offers a series of sensible recommendations spanning systems design, risk analysis,... [17 Dec 2007]
Leader: Linux vs Windows - is the battle over?
Leader But these days the debate sounds much more sober. Remember the Battle of the Desktop? A few years ago excitement began to grow - could Windows at last have a strong competitor in the shape of open source Linux? [08 Nov 2006]
Microsoft's plans for 'new JPEG' leave users cold
News The reader wrote: "Let's be sober here in saying that anybody arguing that this isn't going to be a new standard, must be disillusioned. The world is ready for a new photo compression format to rival the ubiquitous JPEG,... [01 Jun 2006]
Identify/React Chart: Sober.I/Sober.J
White Paper The Sober mass-mailing worm uses its own SMTP engine to spread as an e-mail attachment. TechRepublic's Identify/React chart for Sober.I/Sober.J puts critical information for identifying... [25 May 2006]
Identify/React Chart: Sober.P
White Paper The Sober mass-mailing worm uses its own SMTP engine to spread as an e-mail attachment, usually with a .zip extension. TechRepublic's Identify/React chart for Sober.P puts critical information for... [16 May 2006]
Shut down Sober-infected PCs, ISPs urged
News ISPs were urged on Monday to check their user traffic patterns to locate and shut down machines infected with the mass-mailing Sober worm. Although Sober is no longer trying to replicate, antivirus... [10 Jan 2006]
Sober attack shouldn't bite, say antivirus experts
News The Sober attack predicted to occur on 6 January should not be a problem, antivirus experts said on Wednesday. As reported last month, machines that were infected by Sober in November have the potential... [04 Jan 2006]
Was your business at risk for 56 days this year?
News IronPort claims businesses were unprotected against Bagle, Goldun, MyDoom, MyTob and Sober and their variants for a total of 1,335 hours - or nearly 56 days. The company claims CA, Kaspersky Labs, McAfee, Sophos,... [19 Dec 2005]
Sober virus code cracked by security firms
News Antivirus companies say they have cracked an algorithm that was being used by the Sober worm to "communicate" with its author. The latest variant of the Sober worm caused havoc in November by duping... [12 Dec 2005]
Expect worms in the New Year, say experts
News A new outbreak of Sober may be coming, security experts have warned, even as email systems worldwide work to get rid of the last infestation of the mass-mailing worm. The next attack is hard-coded in the version of... [08 Dec 2005]
