1st June 2006 Archive

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Nominet warns on Whois data mining

US firm caught harvesting personal information

Nominet has issued a warning about commercial companies that are swiping copyrighted information on domain name owners from its Whois database. Several weeks ago, the UK internet registry owner noticed a sharp increase in the number of people accessing its Whois service, an online searchable database that provides ownership …

Software & Security 1 Jun 2006, 09:09
Spam deluge eclipses email virus threat

Penis pill pandemonium

May witnessed an all-time low for virus-laden emails and a record high for spam, according to stats from email filtering firm BlackSpider Technologies. Emails containing malware made up just 0.73 percent of all emails scanned by BlackSpider last month while junk emails represented 87.74 per cent. By comparison, the number of …

Software & Security 1 Jun 2006, 09:25
Analyst touts AMD-ATI tie-up

Run up flagpole, see who salutes...

AMD wants to buy ATI, a financial analyst has suggested, though he provides no direct evidence that such a move will take place or when it may happen. According to RBC Capital Markets analyst Apjit Walia, writing in a note for investment clients, it's all about the synergies between the two firms: ATI is priced right and AMD …

Reg Hardware 1 Jun 2006, 09:27
Intel to lay off 16,000 workers?

Heard on the grapevine...

Is Intel about to rid itself of 16,000 workers - just over 16 per cent of its global workforce - later this month? So suggest whispers doing the rounds among Silicon Valley's technology community at the moment. That's what blogger Omid Rahmat claims at least. It's certainly no secret that Intel is examining every part of its …

IT Channel 1 Jun 2006, 09:48
Asus readies Core 2 Duo, Core 2 Extreme mobo

Pitched at digital lifestyle PCs

Intel has yet to ship either its Core 2 Duo or its Core 2 Extreme processors, but that hasn't stopped Asus from announcing a motherboard that will support both of the upcoming CPUs. The P5W DH Deluxe motherboard is based on Intel's 975X North Bridge and ICH-7R South Bridge. Asus' board will host an 800MHz or 1066MHz frontside …

PC Builder 1 Jun 2006, 10:26
First StarOffice malware sighted

Mostly harmless

Virus writers have created the first virus to affect StarOffice. Stardust uses macros to attack Sun's alternative office suite. The malware was written as a proof-of-concept code to show what might be possible rather than as a serious attempt to create a new attack vector. Macro viruses usually infect Microsoft Office …

Software & Security 1 Jun 2006, 10:28
EC backs UK tax man on VAT fraud

HMRC to spin carousels into reverse

The European Commission has strengthened HMRC’s hand against VAT fraudsters by backing a “reverse charge mechanism” for VAT payments. The backing for the reverse charge approach was announced as part of a “coherent European strategy” announced by Brussels yesterday. A reverse charge system would mean VAT is accounted for only …

IT Channel 1 Jun 2006, 14:59
AMD pegs mid-2007 for complete chip overhaul

Quad-core and how

AMD today dangled a couple of key dates in front of customers, hoping to keep them sweet in the coming years instead of defecting back to Intel. The chip maker has long promised to ship a four-core server processor in 2007. At its analyst conference here, AMD solidified that date by saying that the four-core product will arrive …

PC Builder 1 Jun 2006, 17:48
Ernst & Young laptop loss exposes 243,000 Hotels.com customers

Exclusive Sun, IBM, BP, Cisco and Nokia commiserate

Ernst & Young's laptop loss unit continues to be one of the company's more productive divisions. We learn this week that the accounting firm lost a system containing data on 243,000 Hotels.com customers. Hotels.com joins the likes of Sun Microsystems, IBM, Cisco, BP and Nokia, which have all had their employees' data exposed by …

Software & Security 1 Jun 2006, 23:14