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February 24, 2004 24 Feb'04
Exploiting Software: How to Break Code, Chapter 7 -- Buffer Overflow

This excerpt is from Chapter 7, Buffer Overflow of Exploiting Software: How to Break Code written by Greg Hoglund and Gary McGraw.
February 23, 2004 23 Feb'04
Somerfield speeds up product development with online system

Supermarket chain Somerfield will this week go live with the first stage of an initiative to computerise its new product...
February 15, 2004 15 Feb'04
Seagate touts SAS drives as faster alternative to SATA

Seagate is set to demonstrate a 2.5-inch hard drive based on the serial-attached SCSI interface. The company says the product will fill the need for a smaller, faster and more reliable alternative to serial ATA disks.
February 09, 2004 09 Feb'04
More questions and answers from SAN School lesson # 5

Here are additional questions and answers from SAN School Lesson 5: Designing a SAN. The questions cover topics ranging from how to determine an effective SAN design to meet your needs, to the differences between fabric switches and loop switches.
February 09, 2004 09 Feb'04
More questions and answers from SAN school lesson # 8

Here are SAN School Professor Chris Poelker's answers to more user submitted questions from SAN School Lesson 8, "Tying your SANs together." Q&A's cover topics ranging from what causes SAN problems, to preventing equipment problems.
January 23, 2004 23 Jan'04
Banks turn to alert systems to fight back against phishing attacks

UK banks and retailers are investigating e-mail monitoring services that could offer early warning of “phishing” attacks by...
January 15, 2004 15 Jan'04
Resource guide to disk-based backup
January 04, 2004 04 Jan'04
Security legislation: Where's the breach?

Security legislation isn't all that it's cracked up to be. Find out how California's SB 1386 is letting some breaches fall through the cracks.

December 15, 2003 15 Dec'03
IT staff predict e-government success despite councillors’ doubts

Tony Blair has failed to convince councillors in almost half of the UK’s local authorities of the value of e-government.
November 11, 2003 11 Nov'03
MPs slam Libra as one of UK's worst PFI deals ever

Costs more than double and Whitehall shoulders risk on magistrates IT.
November 10, 2003 10 Nov'03
NHS IT plan risky but will not fail, says OGC

The £2.3bn national programme to modernise health service IT systems is "risky and ambitious" but it has sufficient safeguards in...
October 27, 2003 27 Oct'03
Council migrates to web enabled benefits system

Liverpool City Council has completed a six-week data migration project to get its £5m housing benefit and council tax system up...
July 28, 2003 28 Jul'03
Court blocks former ICL solicitor's Pathway claim

Fujitsu has won a court ruling to stop a former solicitor for the company pursuing allegations about the government's disastrous...
February 10, 2003 10 Feb'03
UK firms are offered help to migrate to open source

Companies are being given help to migrate to free-license software by a joint initiative from OpenForum Europe and the National...

February 06, 2003 06 Feb'03
Users warned as number of software holes soars

IT departments were put on alert this week after it emerged that the number of security vulnerabilities discovered in commercial...
February 05, 2003 05 Feb'03
NHS £5bn IT procurement finally begins

The Department of Health (DoH) has launched the formal procurement process for its £5bn restructuring of NHS IT.
January 29, 2003 29 Jan'03
Courts Libra system 'is one of the worst IT projects ever seen'

The cost of the Libra project to provide a national system for 385 magistrates courts soared from £146m to £390m, and the main...
November 14, 2002 14 Nov'02
Chinook parents set to appeal to Europe

The parents of the two Chinook helicopter pilots labelled guilty of gross negligence over the Mull of Kintyre disaster are...
October 31, 2002 31 Oct'02
Government blocks judicial review of Chinook disaster

The Government has made it impossible for the families of two pilots blamed for the crash of Chinook helicopter ZD576 to seek a...
October 13, 2002 13 Oct'02
Jamie Gruener's position on API sharing

Key questions on API sharing answered
July 24, 2002 24 Jul'02
MoD refuses to concede error in Chinook verdict

The Ministry of Defence (MoD), citing a new series of simulations by Boeing, has refused to clear the names of two pilots blamed...
July 18, 2002 18 Jul'02
MoD will defy Lords and MPs and stand by Chinook verdict

The Ministry of Defence will defy two Parliamentary select committees next week by formally backing the verdict of negligence...
July 18, 2002 18 Jul'02
EMC and HP allow mix and match storage

Rivals EMC and Hewlett-Packard have agreed to expand a cross-licensing agreement for certain storage system application...
July 02, 2002 02 Jul'02
FTC suggests search sites disclose deals

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has suggested that search engine Web sites tell users when they are taking money from other...
June 20, 2002 20 Jun'02
MoD's Chinook tactics spark a constitutional row

Chinook: The MoD's actions over the crash of Chinook ZD576 could have legal ramifications
June 05, 2002 05 Jun'02
Peer urges Tony Blair to intervene over Chinook

Lord Chalfont, the head of a Parliamentary campaign to clear the names of two pilots blamed for a Chinook helicopter crash in...
April 22, 2002 22 Apr'02
European Parliament spam ruling angers ISPs

An influential European Parliament committee has voted to drop e-mail from a list of technologies, including fax and SMS...
March 28, 2002 28 Mar'02
Minister slams Chinook campaign in debate

In the week when he sent 1,700 troops to Afghanistan, defence secretary Geoff Hoon issued a blistering criticism of Computer...
March 20, 2002 20 Mar'02
MPs from all parties unite in fight to clear Chinook pilots

This week the Tories led an unprecedented all-party move to get the Government to clear the names of the pilots blamed for the...
March 10, 2002 10 Mar'02
September 11: How Merrill Lynch recovered

Merrill Lynch lost two data centres during the 11 September terrorist attacks in New York. The site is now functioning as a...
February 14, 2002 14 Feb'02
Industry recruits wrong people

UK industry could be recruiting candidates with the wrong personality type to be a success in IT.
February 14, 2002 14 Feb'02
Lords Chinook challenge

The Government expects to have a debate in the House of Lords on last week's select committee report on the fatal crash of...
February 07, 2002 07 Feb'02
Victory! Lords confirm CW stand - software flaw could have caused Chinook crash

An historic House of Lords report has this week vindicated a five-year campaign by Computer Weekly for justice after the crash of...
January 31, 2002 31 Jan'02
Lords prepare to release Chinook verdict report

The House of Lords will publish a report next Tuesday on whether pilot negligence or a possible technical malfunction was the...
November 15, 2001 15 Nov'01
Boeing simulation ignored Chinook's Fadec system

A House of Lords committee investigating the crash of Chinook ZD576 on the Mull of Kintyre has found that a Boeing simulation of...
November 08, 2001 08 Nov'01
RAF Chinook pilots could be vindicated

Details of an RAF Board of Inquiry report into the crash of a Chinook helicopter on the Mull of Kintyre in 1994 were revealed for...
October 25, 2001 25 Oct'01
Chinook pilots feared onboard software

RAF pilots refused to fly the Chinook Mk2 helicopter for even short journeys before the fatal Mull of Kintyre crash due to...
October 18, 2001 18 Oct'01
Chinook pilots may have been unable to slow down, squadron leader tells Lords

The pilots of Chinook ZD576, which crashed in Scotland in 1994, may have been unable to slow down as they approached the Mull of...
October 04, 2001 04 Oct'01
Dell offers new Latitude to mobile users

PC maker Dell is offering a new Latitude C610 notebook PC with extended battery life of up to eight hours.
October 01, 2001 01 Oct'01
Intel launches new mobile processors

Intel has launched 12 new mobile processors, ranging from its fastest mobile chip yet to the first .13 micron version of its...
September 27, 2001 27 Sep'01
Infineon claims cost-cutting success

Semiconductor maker Infineon Technologies is claiming progress in its plan to cut costs by £630m over the next year, but...
September 27, 2001 27 Sep'01
Chinook hearing begins

A new inquiry into the crash of a Chinook helicopter on the Mull of Kintyre in June 1994 is due to begin this week in the House...
September 24, 2001 24 Sep'01
Semiconductor equipment orders down 75%

US semiconductor equipment manufacturers posted $742 (£507m) in orders booked in August, down 75% from a year earlier, according...
September 21, 2001 21 Sep'01
Now Via sues Intel to block sales of Pentium 4

Via Technologies is seeking to stop sales of the Pentium 4 family of microprocessors through a lawsuit filed on 10 September...
September 21, 2001 21 Sep'01
Tablet PC enters mass production

First International Computer (FIC) is on the verge of beginning mass production of a tablet PC based on Transmeta's Crusoe...
September 20, 2001 20 Sep'01
Rambus speeds to take on P4

The company showed its next-generation signalling technology, code-named Yellowstone, at the Rambus Developer Forum in California...
September 20, 2001 20 Sep'01
Intel cancels 2GHz Xeon

Intel has decided not to launch the expected 2GHz version of its Xeon processor for dual-processor servers this year, opting to...
September 20, 2001 20 Sep'01
AMD to put Palomino on desktop

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) is set to launch its first desktop processor based on the Palomino core.
September 11, 2001 11 Sep'01
Mitsubishi Electric looks to earnings revision

Mitsubishi Electric has described as "speculative" reports in a Japanese newspaper that the company is intending to reduce its...
September 10, 2001 10 Sep'01
Via ups the Intel ante

Via Technologies has hit back in its war with Intel by issuing the chip giant with lawsuits relating to patent infringement, fair...