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The desire to learn won't be the only thing returning with students to their universities this fall College IT departments can expect a wave of viruses, worms and other computer nasties to accompany their charges as they connect their computers to their college's networks. When many students return ...
One of the biggest questions a person will deal with in his or her life, regardless of the career path, is ethics. We make trade-offs when we "borrow" a stapler from work, take a sick day to go fishing or play golf, and take credit for something that was done by someone else. In the wake of the Enro...
In an unusual image, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured a rare view of the celestial equivalent of a geode -- a gas cavity carved by the stellar wind and intense ultraviolet radiation from a young hot star. Real geodes are handball-sized, hollow rocks that start out as bubbles in volca...
It might seem hard to believe, but there was a time when Microsoft's Bill Gates was begging Apple's Steve Jobs to license the Mac operating system to PC vendors. Apple turned down the offer, and was later crushed by Gate's plan B: Windows. That was in 1985, and thanks to Job's mistake, Gates doesn't...
A Minnesota teenager accused of downloading the Blaster computer worm code, modifying it and releasing the damaging and debilitating variant on the Internet last year pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court this week to infecting computers. If convicted, Parson faces about three years and several hund...
A Minnesota teenager accused of downloading the Blaster computer worm code, modifying it and releasing the damaging and debilitating variant on the Internet last year pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court this week to infecting computers. If convicted, Parson faces about three years and several hund...
A Web services specification moved closer to World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) standard status this week as Microsoft, IBM, BEA, SAP and Sun Microsystems submitted the latest version of the WS-Addressing spec. WS-Addressing is a "foundational component" that is not something users will see, but it wil...
At 5 a.m., German police kicked in the front door of the modest apartment house in working-class Essen and, guns drawn, ordered an unsuspecting family out of bed. Then they hauled off a 22-year-old college student as his stunned parents watched. The intro is from a Boston Globe story that continues:...
Computer viruses and variants have been known to reemerge after a lull in activity, but the latest case, the Bagle.aq virus, highlights continued security problems. Many users are unaware that they are acting as a relay for malicious code, spam and more. The threat level for Bagle.aq was raised by a...
Mobile broadband networking products developer PacketHop today announced it has joined with wireless networks provider Nortel Networks to provide mobile communications technology targeting the homeland security market. Under the agreement, the companies will initially target the US$11 billion homela...
McAfee today announced that the company's Antivirus and Vulnerability Emergency Response Team (Avert) raised the risk assessment to medium on the recently discovered W32/Bagle.aq@MM, also known as the Bagle.aq worm. This new variant is a mass-mailing worm that comes in the form of a .zip file. To da...
A couple of things happened last month that got me thinking about Apple and Sun and their failed merger attempt years ago. Sun held its lab tour event at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California, and Apple became outraged at Real Networks for making its Real Music services compatible...
As winter approaches on Mars, NASA's Opportunity rover continues to inch deeper into the stadium-sized crater dubbed "Endurance." On the other side of the planet, the Spirit rover found an intriguing patch of rock outcrop while preparing to climb up the "Columbia Hills" backward. This unusual approa...
Last weekend, hundreds of die-hard fans gathered at the Star Trek convention in Las Vegas to see the stars and mingle with other sci-fi-minded folks. Costumes and attitudes aptly demonstrated their commitment to the Star Trek philosophy, which has many similarities to American ideals. When asked to ...
TiVo, one of the initial creators of television services for digital video recorders (DVRs), announced today that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has certified TiVo's technology protection of digital broadcast television. The FCC determined that digital broadcast television content shoul...
