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Sony burns quarter of year's profit in battery recall

Sony burns quarter of year's profit in battery recall

Six million batteries at risk will cost up to US$265m to replace.
Simon Burns Aug 30 2006 9:55AM Financial Services
Convicted hacker sentenced to three years in jail

Convicted hacker sentenced to three years in jail

A California man was sentenced to three years in prison last week for hacking into thousands of PCs, including some within the U.S. Department of Defense.
Frank Washkuch Aug 29 2006 7:52PM Security
AMD Pledges to demostrate 'true' quad-core by year's end

AMD Pledges to demostrate 'true' quad-core by year's end

The battle for quad-core market position has already begun for processor rivals Advanced Micro Devices and Intel.
Kristen Kenedy Jul 21 2006 2:43PM Hardware
McAfee threat catalog doubles in less than two years

McAfee threat catalog doubles in less than two years

Researchers at McAfee Avert Labs said this week that it took only two years to double the number of malicious threats registered in its vulnerability database.
Ericka Chickowski Jul 7 2006 7:54PM Security
Newspaper: Fed networks under attack, but security improvements years behind schedule

Newspaper: Fed networks under attack, but security improvements years behind schedule

A federal program to protect confidential information within the computer networks of various federal agencies is seven years behind schedule, the Baltimore Sun has reported.
Dan Kaplan Jul 5 2006 8:37PM Security
HP claims its photo paper lasts 80 years

HP claims its photo paper lasts 80 years

HP has criticised the quality of third-party inkjet printer inks and papers, saying that they cannot match the quality or longevity of its own products.
Tim Smith Jul 4 2006 9:45AM Hardware
Gates to step back from regular role at Microsoft in two years

Gates to step back from regular role at Microsoft in two years

Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates announced Thursday that he will transition out of a regular role at the software giant by July 2008 to focus more time on his charitable foundation.
Dan Kaplan Jun 16 2006 9:37PM Security
Mac OS X vulnerabilities jump 228 percent in three years

Mac OS X vulnerabilities jump 228 percent in three years

Security experts warned today that malware attacks targeting Macintosh OS X are on the rise - and by no small margin.
William Eazel May 5 2006 10:01AM Security
Summer of Love Bug started six years ago today

Summer of Love Bug started six years ago today

Today marks the sixth anniversary of the release of the so-called Love Bug, a mass email worm that spread to millions of PCs worldwide and was responsible for an estimated $10 billion in economic damage.
Dan Kaplan May 4 2006 8:56PM Security
University of Texas suffers second data breach in three years

University of Texas suffers second data breach in three years

More than 197,000 personal records were exposed in a security breach at the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas, school officials said this week.
Ericka Chickowski Apr 26 2006 6:07AM Security
'Fat Spaniard' hacker faces 40 years in jail

'Fat Spaniard' hacker faces 40 years in jail

An individual suspected of hacking hundreds of thousands of euros from bank accounts has been extradited from Argentina by international authorities.
William Eazel Apr 11 2006 9:27AM Security
Florida data thief gets eight years in slammer

Florida data thief gets eight years in slammer

A Florida man convicted of one of the largest data-intrusion crimes ever committed was sentenced Wednesday to eight years in prison.
Dan Kaplan Feb 23 2006 9:37PM Security
RSA Conference: What's coming in the next 15 years?

RSA Conference: What's coming in the next 15 years?

As RSA Conference celebrates its 15th anniversary, we thought it only appropriate to find out from leading information security players what they think the industry can expect to see in the next 15 years.
Staff Writers Feb 8 2006 7:46PM Security
Porn spammer faces five years behind bars

Porn spammer faces five years behind bars

A U.S. individual faces up to five years in prison after pleading guilty to charges of aiding and abetting the sending of spam containing graphic pornographic images.
William Eazel Feb 2 2006 3:02PM Security
Windows source code hacker gets two years

Windows source code hacker gets two years

A 29-year-old Connecticut hacker was jailed for two years for selling the source code of Microsoft's Windows operating system.
René Millman Jan 30 2006 10:54AM Security
Botmaster faces six years in jail

Botmaster faces six years in jail

A 20-year-old man who seized control of hundreds of thousands of zombie computers, using them to display cash-generating adverts and renting them out to hackers to send spam campaigns and launch denial of service (DoS) attacks has pleaded guilty to several counts of conspiracy in a California court.
René Millman Jan 24 2006 11:20AM Security
Two years after Gates prediction, spam still exists

Two years after Gates prediction, spam still exists

It has been two years since Microsoft's Bill Gates made the bold prediction that spam would be a “thing of the past," but the problem is still as bad as ever, according to new figures released.
René Millman Jan 23 2006 2:43PM Security
20 years of the PC virus

20 years of the PC virus

If you saw someone buying 20 candles for a cake today, he or she could have been a hacker. That's because today marked two decades since the detection of boot sector virus “Brain” – regarded by many experts as the first PC virus.
Frank Washkuch Jan 19 2006 8:57PM Security
Detroit spammer faces years behind bars

Detroit spammer faces years behind bars

A man accused of sending millions of illegal spam emails from compromised computers belonging to, is expected to plead guilty in a U.S. court session on Tuesday.
William Eazel Jan 13 2006 10:24AM Security
'Dr. Chaos' gets seven more years in jail

'Dr. Chaos' gets seven more years in jail

The hacker responsible for a series of Wisconsin power failures five years ago was sentenced to seven more years in federal prison this week.
Frank Washkuch Dec 1 2005 8:20PM Security

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