The Data Protection Commissioner has launched a TV advertising campaign to promote public awareness of privacy rights. The campaign is a follow-up to the 1998 Data Protection Act which came into power in March, and aims to encourage the public to...
With the ActiveX and the security zone model, Microsoft has taken browsers in a different direction, which provides a mechanism for the most serious exploits in IE. As security bugs swarm around the Firefox browser, volunteer marketers want to...
If there is no authentication mechanism available on the targeted page, the beginning part of the URL is ignored. After users install the new patch, IE will no longer recognise links coded with usernames and passwords and will send surfers to a web...
SQL uses a keep-alive mechanism to distinguish between active and passive instances but the flaw means that if a particular data packet is sent to the SQL Server 2000 keep-alive function, it will reply to the sender with an identical packet.
To date, no large entertainment company has agreed to partner with the file-swapping services and the pair has been limited to distributing independent artists and labels' content, along with a handful of video games.
Sony became embroiled in controversy earlier this month after the record label was discovered to be distributing secret code similar to a rootkit with certain music CDs as a copy-protection mechanism.