The attack - for which a suspect has been arrested - was apparently made easy by lax security and carelessness on the part of the organisers. The hacker copied private data about the Forum's participants onto a CD-ROM, which was sent to the media...
Long waits for planning permission could be a thing of the past under a new e-government contract with Unisys. The Planning Inspectorate handles around 20,000 cases a year from over 6,000 caseworkers, administrators and inspectors.
The law allows you to go in without permission and abate, or stop, the nuisance. Karnow's solution could give hope to system administrators whose networks are under attack and who have found that petitioning law enforcement agencies is both slow...
The feature essentially removes administrator rights, so that the system will not allow unknown applications, such as spyware and other potentially dangerous code, to be installed without express permission from the user.
Each element of data within the computer can have a number of access 'methods' associated with it - create, change, view, use and destroy, for example - and different processes can be provided with permission to use some or all of these methods...
Creditors have been denied a meeting with the administrators of Granville Technology, owner of the Time and Tiny Computer brands, which collapsed in July with debts that are now estimated to be as large as £70m.