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The Source Code Club is back in business, if you can call it that. The anonymous hacker group began peddling proprietary source code last July, disappeared, and now has reemerged with a bargain basement deal of US$24,000 for the source code for Cisco's Pix security firewall. "SCC is proud to announc...

An "information age undercover investigation" led by the U.S. Secret Service has arrested 28 individuals in eight states and six foreign countries who were accused of being involved in a global cyber organized-crime network. Charges against the suspects include identity theft, computer fraud, credit...

Verizon Wireless and Nextel Communications announced yesterday that they have agreed to dismiss their pending lawsuits against each other. As part of the settlement, Verizon will drop its opposition to a July ruling by the Federal Communications Commission that awarded a valuable radio-wave spectrum...

Hundreds of separate instances of electronic voting problems were reported in the U.S. during yesterday's elections, enough to give critics of e-voting ammunition for their continued battle against its use, but not nearly enough to affect the outcome of the election, as some had feared. In a press c...

From the Model T to modern cars and from dusty trails to super-highways, historians tabulate the remarkable evolution of transportation -- the good and the bad combined. However, alongside the great wonders of four wheels, there are the traffic jams, the carjackings, the drive-by shootings and the a...

Intel, responding to market demand for ever-faster computers -- and the recent introduction of new 64-bit processors from competitor AMD -- plans to introduce a new Pentium 4 Extreme Edition (P4 EE) processor in mid-November. The P4 EE will be enabled by Intel's new 925XE Express chipset, which the ...

New data shows the popularity of alternative browsers continues to erode the once monolithic market share of Microsoft's Internet Explorer, even before the latest version of Mozilla's Firefox, which formally hits shelves next week. The latest data from Web analytics firm WebSideStory shows that the ...

Yahoo is hogging the tech media headlines today as observers seek to separate fact from fiction. As the dust settles, it is clear that Yahoo is planning a new search tool, may not be losing its head honcho to Disney, and has wooed a former ABC programmer to its camp. First things first. Yahoo chief ...

Why is Pakistan the hot new offshore information technology (IT) destination? This is because of a combination of favorable economic circumstances. Just when many Western managers are finally becoming comfortable with the idea of working closely with Indian IT firms, along comes Pakistan. Pakistan i...

From New Zealand to India, worldwide tech media is buzzing with headlines about China cracking down on thousands of Internet cafes. In a market that has some 87 million Internet users -- the world's second-largest population of Netizens after the United States -- the implications on e-commerce have ...

Interactive marketing firm DoubleClick said it has hired an investment banking firm to help it examine strategic options, including a possible sale of all or part of the company. In a brief statement, DoubleClick said it had tapped Lazard Freres & Co. to "explore strategic options for the busine...

Dell has declared war on spyware writers. The company announced on October 20 that all of its computers starting November 1 will ship with a free security software package. Dell's announcement to provide its customers with pre-installed antispyware and antivirus software follows industry assertions ...

Among the many questions that might be answered by the presidential election on Tuesday is whether electronic voting can silence its critics by turning in a seamless performance or, instead, will fall prey to any of the number of concerns that have been raised. This week, a number of major e-voting ...

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has revived its long-running campaign to stem file-swapping through legal action, suing 750 alleged file sharers across the U.S. for copyright infringement. The latest batch of suits included 25 users on 13 university campuses around the country a...

Most businesspeople get a knot in their stomachs when they think of bankruptcy. The reasons for this, I believe, are twofold: They don't have the basic knowledge about the implications of bankruptcy; and they feel a loss of control whenever they think about it. This article attempts to dispel the my...