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  • DEF CON's sport: Spot the fed

    Singling out federal government officials is the big pastime at the annual hacker convention.

    News items | July 6, 1999 12:00am PDT

  • 'Melissa' suspect appears in court

    David Smith makes first court appearance, even as some question if he is the virus author.

    News items | April 8, 1999 12:00am PDT

  • Trial by e-mail

    From what we've seen this week, e-mail continues to be the best place to find the "smoking gun" evidence in the Microsoft trial. And it's the very nature of e-mail that makes it so strong. In...

    News items | March 4, 1999 12:00am PST

  • MS socked with two class action suits

    Software giant's legal woes mount as suits seek damages for anti-competitive behavior.

    News items | February 22, 1999 12:00am PST

  • PC co-conspirators?

    Federal class action says Compaq, Dell and Packard Bell NEC colluded to exclude competition.

    News items | February 20, 1999 12:00am PST

  • MS socked with two class action suits

    Software giant's legal woes mount as suits seek damages for anticompetitive behavior.

    News items | February 19, 1999 12:00am PST

  • Chase: MS a 'breath of fresh air'

    Microsoft VP claims Netscape arrogance was a factor in AOL's browser decision.

    News items | February 17, 1999 12:00am PST

  • DOJ video counters MS video

    Microsoft VP Brad Chase backs off testimony about ease of installing AOL version of Netscape.

    News items | February 16, 1999 12:00am PST

  • The Microsoft depositions won't be open, regardless

    As a member of the public, I'm looking forward to hearing what Bill Gates has to say. As an attorney, and a member of the legal community, I'm not going to get my hopes up. That's because if the...

    News items | August 19, 1998 12:00am PDT

  • 'Cracker' term gains acceptance by media

    The debate has existed for 13 years. When someone breaks into your computer system, is he or she a "hacker" or "cracker?" Journalists have been calling these cyber intruders "hackers" for years....

    News items | May 19, 1998 12:00am PDT

  • Is hacking a war game?

    The host of a "hack this site" contest will continue to improve security after being hit with series of new attacks last week in response to the hacker wargame created by controversial Carolyn...

    News items | April 23, 1998 12:00am PDT

  • 'King of the Hill': It's more than a game

    At least one person believes the "King of the Hill" game is far from just a game. Richard Windman, a network security consultant for Allserve Technologies, Inc., in Fairfield, Iowa, observed...

    News items | April 23, 1998 12:00am PDT

  • Hackers wipe out an ISP during hacking contest

    A small ISP and its 5,000 customers were innocent casualties of a hacker wargame last Thursday and part of Friday. For almost 36 hours Rt66 Internet and its customers were off-line, courtesy of a...

    News items | April 9, 1998 12:00am PDT

  • Judge to Mitnick: No PC, pal

    LOS ANGELES -- Notorious hacker Kevin Mitnick cannot have access to a computer in prison, a federal court indicated this afternoon. The judge also pre-emptively denied Mitnick's request for...

    News items | March 30, 1998 12:00am PST

  • Protect your ID

    The recent San Francisco bust involving a ring of counterfeiters responsible for hijacking hundreds of identities, and making off with a reported $5 million, highlights the growing problem of...

    News items | March 20, 1998 12:00am PST

  • Exclusive: Diary of a hack counter-attack

    As the FBI investigates several Cloverdale High teens for a hack into government computers, the school district has decided to suspend student Internet access -- at least for now. A knee-jerk...

    News items | March 9, 1998 12:00am PST

  • Experts dispel conspiracy theories in hack attack

    Monday night's hack of thousands of government, military and university computers begs a dark suspicion -- that it may have been the work of a carefully orchestrated plot. But security...

    News items | March 6, 1998 12:00am PST

  • Pentagon hack Windfall

    With Attorney General Janet Reno's request for $64 million in increased funding to battle cybercrime arriving on the heels of the...

    News items | March 6, 1998 12:00am PST

  • School officials deny Net access after hack

    School officials have temporarily revoked Internet access for Cloverdale High School students -- in connection with last week's FBI raid on two teens suspected of hacking into unclassified...

    News items | March 6, 1998 12:00am PST

  • High school denies Net access after hack

    School officials have temporarily revoked Internet access for Cloverdale (Calif.) High School students -- in connection to last week's FBI raid on two teens suspected of hacking into...

    News items | March 6, 1998 12:00am PST

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