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Article | 18/08/2000 Swiss Bank Hit by Love Bug Variant
The "Love Bug" worm has continued to mutate and infect its way through systems all over the world. This time, it's a Swiss bank, as Rick Perera report...
Article | 18/08/2000 Judge Rules Links Illegal, Code Not Free Speech
US District Court Judge Lewis Kaplan handed down his verdict in the Motion Pictures Association of America lawsuit against 2600 Magazine. 2600's defen...
Article | 18/08/2000 Napster Fans Crack Website
"This isn't a security story. This is really a story about how the music industry is dealing with its former reluctance to work with the Internet," sa...
Article | 17/08/2000 ASIC issues warning to online brokers
Inadequate complaints-handling systems are the key problem preventing many local online stockbrokers from "clean bills of health", the Australian Secu...
Article | 17/08/2000 New South Wales Govt proposes ‘Anti-hacking' legislation.
The NSW State Attorney General, Bob Debus, has proposed amendments to the NSW Crimes Act which will see those found guilty of "interfering with electr...
Article | 17/08/2000 2600 Australia finds a hole in Woolies
The 'hacking group' 2600 Australia has in recent times set up a security and vulnerability advisory service via their Web site. Known as 'Wiretapped',...
Article | 17/08/2000 Tivoli ramps up IBM mega-solution for 2000 Games
IBM's information systems management subsidiary, Tivoli Systems, is betting the Sydney 2000 Games' e-business infrastructure is in safe hands, claimin...
Article | 16/08/2000 Cyber Extortionists Arrested in Bloomberg Case
A pair of Kazakh crackers were awaiting extradition to the U.S. today on charges they threatened financial and news impresario Michael Bloomberg with ...
Article | 16/08/2000 RealPlayer Takes Subscriptions
Despite the monthly bill, cable television offers better quality TV than what those old rabbit ears brought you. With its new subscription service, Re...
Article | 16/08/2000 NTT DoCoMo's I-mode Service Fails Again
NTT DoCoMo's "i-Mode" enlisted 10 million subscribers before the service had even completed its first year of operation. Now, problems are beginning t...
Article | 16/08/2000 Banned from the Olympics
The Olympics are almost upon unsuspecting Web and TV users in Australia, yet the furore over broadcasting rights for Internet channels has been a quie...
Article | 15/08/2000 Compaq re-aligns PC profile to be IT consulting giant
Compaq Computer will attempt to reposition its brand name from a PC powerhouse to an IT consulting specialist through a $338 million media campaign ai...
Article | 15/08/2000 BigFatRadio killed the radio star
Some of Australia's biggest radio personalities are going online at BigFatRadio.com (BFR), the first in a series of interactive web/radio channels man...
Article | 15/08/2000 1.1GHz Athlon systems due this month
Advanced Micro Devices has started shipping a 1.1GHz version of its Athlon processor to PC makers, and expects the first desktop systems based on the ...
Article | 14/08/2000 When cyber-anarchy comes full circle
Popular online rumour mill Kuro5hin.org has signed off as the latest victim of a denial of service attack.
Article | 14/08/2000 Partners Push Open Source Model for Video Games
A partnership has been announced which will provide a new forum for the open-sourced creation and Web-based distribution of video games.
Article | 11/08/2000 Amazon, Toysrus.com teaming to sell toys online
Amazon.com and Toysrus.com - two of the big names of internet-based retailing- this week announced that they're teaming up to launch a new co-branded ...
Article | 11/08/2000 Sun, MS Java battle delayed
Sun Microsystems will have to wait a little longer to find out when its epic Java lawsuit against Microsoft will come to trial, now that a case manage...
Article | 11/08/2000 AOL takes AIM at file sharing
A group of programmers with a file sharing application for America Online's popular Instant Messenger program may raise the stakes in the messaging in...
Article | 11/08/2000 Adobe sues Macromedia
Adobe and Macromedia may support each other's file formats and share space on the desktops of graphics professionals, but they're now adversaries in c...

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