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Article | 27/11/2003 Spanish police arrest alleged Raleka worm author

The Spanish police arrested Tuesday in Madrid a 23-year-old man suspected of being the author of the W32/Raleka worm which infected over 120,000 compu...

Article | 15/10/2003 Study: Internet fraud and attacks rise in tandem

Internet use is still growing fast but so is Internet-based fraud, according to security vendor Verisign, which examined data from its own infrastruct...

Article | 9/10/2003 Toshiba produces first X architecture test chip

Toshiba has produced the first functional test chip which conforms to a new integrated-circuit architecture called X, which includes interconnects usi...

Article | 20/08/2003 Scientists develop DNA tic-tac-toe expert

Two scientists in the U.S. have developed a DNA-based system which plays an unbeatable game of tic-tac-toe (noughts and crosses) which they describe i...

Article | 8/08/2003 Civil liberties group slams Internet ID proposal

A proposal to make it as difficult for Australians to open an Internet account as to open a bank account has drawn stinging criticism from online civi...

Article | 30/07/2003 APEC furthers plans to combat cybercrime

Countries that want to be able to tackle cybercrime need to pass wide-ranging laws and be prepared to openly cooperate with other countries, delegates...

Article | 15/07/2003 Commodore brand to be relaunched

Tulip Computers NV, which owns the Commodore brand name, plans to relaunch the brand to take advantage in an upsurge of interest in the obsolete Commo...

Article | 10/07/2003 Asian Wi-Fi players look for regional tie-ups

As Singaporean public Wi-Fi companies look to set up roaming agreements across Asia, one of Australia's leading Wi-Fi operators has moved into the cit...

Article | 9/07/2003 NEC tops 100km with quantum cryptosystem

NEC, the Telecommunications Advancement Organization of Japan (TAO), and Japan Science and Technology have tested a quantum cryptography system with a...

Article | 26/06/2003 OECD turns attention to online fraud

The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has issued a report which it hopes will help governments address cross-border fraud, ...

Article | 19/06/2003 IT vendors worst for jargon, Deloitte says

IT companies are the worst offenders when it comes to communicating their corporate message, recording the lowest readability scores and using the mos...

Article | 13/06/2003 ACA takes aim at SMS spam

Australia's telecommunications regulator the Australian Communications Authority (ACA) issued a code Friday to restrict marketers sending spam via SMS...

Article | 15/05/2003 Fake bank Web site scam reaches US

The Bank of America has warned its customers to be aware of a scam which attempts to get them to log in to a fake Web site which then captures their p...

Article | 1/05/2003 Intel plans lip-reading boost for voice recognition

Intel Corp. has released software which enables a computer to perform a similar task to human lip-reading, as an aid to existing sound-based voice rec...

Article | 11/04/2003 IDC: China, Taiwan to be Asia's next broadband stars

China and Taiwan will see a rapid growth in the number of broadband Internet access subscribers and will begin to challenge South Korea, currently the...