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Bethlehem Steel wants to go deeper online, but the economy isnt cooperating. “We had big plans, but they are still on the shelf at this point,” says Jeffrey Karsonovich, director of business development and e-business of the nations second largest steel producer. In fact, across the steel industry, plans to capitalize on e-commerce have sputtered, […]

The PC turns 20 this Sunday amid declining demand in an industry that seems genetically profitless. Today is not the PCs proudest moment, but for me and countless others, its provided a great living. The cop beat got old around 1980, just before the PC came into its own. Crediting the PC with igniting a […]

You finish your speech. the next thing you know, youre in jail. welcome to America, Dmitry Sklyarov. Although the Russian programmer and encryption expert may be a free man by the time you read this, his incarceration will not have been in vain if it can help us get rid of the Digital Millennium Copyright […]

Yahoo! and giant bank HSBC Holdings think theres money to be made in global Internet-based money transfers. But given the sorry state of online banking, last weeks announcement that the two companies will offer global person-to-person payment and other services seems curious. Even more curious is Yahoo!s assertion that the service will be free. To […]

VPN equipment sells like hotcakes VPN equipment has become so mainstream that its proved immune to the effects of the increasingly sour economy. Thats because, according to International Data Corp., of Framingham, Mass., virtual private networks are low cost, and they provide businesses with flexible ad hoc connectivity. Indeed, IDC forecasts revenue growth from IP […]

What do the U.S. State Department, the British military and the FBI have in common? Each of these security-centric organizations has recently lost laptops with sensitive information. The cost of losing a laptop can be much greater than the $2,000 or so spent on the hardware. Gartner estimates laptop loss or theft costs a company […]

A wave of hysteria, a brief surge in traffic, a burst of defacements—by now, its a familiar story. The most recent chapter, of course, was written by the Code Red worm, which has swept through the Internet, infecting thousands of systems running unpatched versions of Microsofts IIS Web server software, including Microsofts own update site. […]

Support for Russian Grows The Russian software developer arrested last month by the FBI for allegedly violating the controversial U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act is almost reaching cult status, with support groups cropping up all over the Internet. Dmitry Sklyarov was arrested the day after giving a speech at the Def Con 9 conference in […]

Were All Gonna Die! CEOs of data security companies must patiently pray that — yes! — this will be the week that some freaky, out-of- control virus metastasizes across the Internet, bringing everything in its path to a crashing halt and thereby demonstrating the need for their products. With last weeks Code Red worm, the […]

Security experts are warning that the problems spawned by the malicious computer program Code Red may be dwarfed by the pain that lies ahead. Some worry Internet security problems are going to get really bad, really soon, especially because of the “polymorphic worm,” an impending threat thats nearly undetectable. “Code Red is just the beginning,” […]