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A Los Angeles-area college recently started a class on breaking into network systems. The students pay nearly $4,000 to attend “Hacker College,” where they race through topics like symmetric versus asymmetric key cryptography (symmetric is faster), war dialing (hackers will always call late at night) and well-known TCP ports and services (be wary of any […]

South Korea-based SK Telecom will offer an antivirus service for cell phones. The service will allow users to download virus definitions through wireless Internet connections and check all files that are downloaded or executed on the the WIPI (wireless Internet protocol interoperability) platform. WIPI allows users to download games and music to mobile terminals. Read […]

Gateway Inc.s eMachines division launched a trio of new machines on Monday, all geared at a budget-minded audience. eMachines launched the T2824, the T2958 and the T3092, all priced at less than $600. All three machines are designed for consumers wishing to purchase a cheaper alternative than higher-priced, more powerful PCs, such as a computer […]

Paul Horn, senior vice president and director of IBM Research, oversees IBMs more than $5 billion research and development budget and helps the systems company turn its research nuggets into valuable hardware and software gold. Now IBM Research is trying to do the same for services, which make up half of the companys revenues. eWEEK […]

As part of its official launch of Windows CE 5.0 on Monday, Microsoft Corp. announced that, for the first time, all CE source code licensees will be allowed to ship so-called “derivative works” based on the CE 5.0 code. Previously, Microsoft allowed only Windows CE Premium source-code licensees to take advantage of the “derivative works” […]

Phishing attacks hit an all-time high in May 2004 with nearly 1200 unique attacks reported to the Anti-Phishing Working Group. Each attack represents anywhere from 50,000 to 10 million spam emails directing readers to fraudulent websites, designed to fool recipients into divulging personal financial data such as credit card numbers, social security numbers, account logins […]

Topping the Q2 2004 scorecard for online banks in Watchfire GómezPros rating scheme is Citibank for the second consecutive quarter. Thanks to a recent redesign, Charter One came in second overall with Bank of America and Wells Fargos online banking sites ranking third and fourth. Released twice a year, the Watchfire GómezPro Internet Banker Scorecard […]

IBM and EMC Corp. lead in market share in the Americas region last year, according to a report published last week by Gartner Dataquest Inc. Hewlett Packard Co. slipped to third place in the region that includes United States, Canada and Latin America. In 2002, Gartner said Compaq reported $906 million in services revenue while […]

Red Hat Inc. last week unveiled its storage file system based on Linux. The Red Hat Global File System (GFS) allows Red Hat Enterprise Linux servers to shuttle files to one shared system on the SAN in order to avoid redundant copies. The products source code is available under the General Public License (GPL), Red […]

Japan will lead in DVD recorder market share worldwide this year, according to the Market Intelligence Center (MIC). Taiwan will come in second place. The MIC expects Taiwans production of DVD recorders to reach three million units for the year. Read the full story at DigiTimes

The Department of Energys Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) last week announced plans to develop storage technology with Silicon Graphics Inc. The partners will work to shift computation and transformation of data from client computers to storage devices. “By developing methods to perform computing inside the file system, we will be able to reduce the […]

Microsoft Corp. has no plans to port the security and feature enhancements due in Windows XP Service Pack 2, now in final beta testing, to older versions of Windows. The decision means that enterprises running older versions of Windows will be less secure and more vulnerable to attacks than those running XP systems that upgrade […]