Archives for Hackers - Page 2
Feds try to take logs from Nmap creator
The creator of the famous hacking tool Nmap is being hounded by the FBI for copies of Web server log data from his Web site Fyodor, as he is known,…
Over the Thanksgiving holiday Hackers defaced off SCO Web site
The SCO website appears to have been hacked over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend. SCO's Web site was largely out of commission until Monday morning, a representative of the Lindon, Utah-based…
Winamp Security Hole
Nullsoft has issued a fix for a newly discovered security vulnerability affecting Winamp , and Pro or newer. The vulnerability takes advantage of the Winamp Skin installer mechanism coupled with…
Security officials to spy on chat rooms
The CIA is quietly funding federal research into surveillance of Internet chat rooms as part of an effort to identify possible terrorists, newly released documents reveal. In April 2003, the…
Kazaa creates worst spyware threat, says CA
Peer-to-peer program Kazaa is the number one spyware threat on the Internet, according to Computer Associates. According to the company's Pest Patrol research, Kazaa created a greater threat than other…
Opera 7.60 joins the browser battle
Opera says the next version of its browser will improve Web page rendering to make it easier to view and print online content. The next version of the Opera browser,…
Firefox cutting into IE
As Firefox marks its 5 millionth download and moves to retail stores, a survey showed Microsoft's heavyweight Internet Explorer slipping below 90 percent market share. , an Amsterdam, Netherlands-based provider…
Linus Torvalds speaks out against EU patent law
Linux creator Linus Torvalds has made an appeal to the EU Council to oppose the adoption of the Directive on the Patentability of Computer-Implemented Inventions, known as the software patent…
Netscape aims beyond Firefox
Once chided for jumping the gun with its Mozilla-based browser, Netscape is gunning to surpass the original with its next release. Netscape on Wednesday confirmed an earlier report that it…
Does anybody like Norton AntiVirus?
Has anybody had a good experience with Symantec's Norton Antivirus? Whenever I have written about Symantec's flagship consumer antivirus application, the response from readers is always the same. Hordes of…
IView MediaPro v2.6.2
Imagine everything you wanted to do with your digital media all in one place. iView MediaPro is a media management, presentation, editing, publishing and cataloging application. It offers a rich…
Panda Software reports the appearance of Sober.I
PandaLabs has detected the appearance of a new worm called This malicious code is designed to spread rapidly via email in a message that can be written in English or…
Microsoft says IE updates possible
Microsoft, under pressure to add new features to Internet Explorer, said it might do so by way of the browser's add-on mechanism. The company has been steadfast in its insistence…
Intel Aims to Make PCs Cooler, Quieter, Sleeker with BTX Form-Factor
As projected, Intel Corp. Monday said its new BTX form-factor co-developed by Intel and a number of industry partners entered the scene and systems made using BTX guidelines are widely…
Dear IE, I
Dear Internet Explorer: It's over. Our relationship just hasn't been working for a while, and now, this is it. I'm leaving you for another browser. I know this isn't a…
Is Microsoft using ‘Halo 2’ to thwart Xbox hackers?
Microsoft appears to be using its smash "Halo 2" game as a vehicle to crack down on mod chips and other hacks of its Xbox video game console. Hundreds of…
Windows Media Player: Pirate Edition
A German PC magazine has found out that that Microsoft pirated a copy of Sound Forge to edit .WAV files. In the listing: "WindowsHelpToursWindowsMediaPlayerAudioWav". There are exactly nine WAV files,…
Virus warning: Cyborgs at risk
Kevin Warwick, professor of cybernetics at Reading University in England, is looking forward to becoming a cyborg again. But the academic, who has wired his nervous system up to a…
Google stars in Firefox’s new browser
Google and Mozilla may or may not be working together on a Web browser, but the two are cozier than ever in the latest Firefox release. The search company is…
Microsoft skips Itanium with new Windows
Microsoft will come out with a special version of Windows next year for clusters, but it won't run on Intel's most powerful server chip, at least for now. The Redmond,…