A group of experts is creating a protocol to allow spacecraft to communicate as if they are on the internet. Nearly all of the internet protocols we're familiar with - web browsing, file transfer, remote console access - are designed to be used in...
By the middle of the summer, we heard Gartner saying ID theft in the US was up 79 per cent year-on-year and - get this - around 7 million Americans had been affected. Barclays, Citibank, LloydsTSB and Natwest were just some of around 20...
The pan-player capability is pretty cool," said Mike McGuire, an analyst with GartnerG2, a division of the Gartner research firm. Songs sold in the music store will be distributed in the Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) format, an open standard...
The worms infect vulnerable systems by establishing a remote connection to the targeted computer, installing a File Transfer Protocol (FTP) server and then downloading themselves to the new host. The original worm did not spread very quickly on...
While antivirus experts are not positive whether Sasser.E started spreading before or after the arrest, Microsoft believes that the fifth version of the worm was released four days before the teenager was arrested, according to a representative of...
Network operators and companies looking to provide pornography or gambling-related internet content for mobile phones may face the same extortion attacks that have plagued online providers, according to analyst group Gartner.