MyDoom virus brings down SCO website

As predicted last week, the MyDoom worm launched a massive Denial of Service attack on the SCO website over the weekend. The site is currently unavailable. The attack has been caused by the tens of thousands of computers which were infected being used as 'zombies' to flood the SCO website with requests. ...more

Microsoft site felled by denial of service attack

Microsoft has said its Web sites were down for 100 minutes on Friday due to a Denial of Service attack. It said that the attack had no 'association with any known vulnerability in Microsoft software' and the its Web sites are back up and running. It described the attack as 'a malicious flood of site requests that results in exponentially higher-than-normal traffic, and overwhelms the server capacity'. ...more

I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that...

The Computer Entertainment Show in Las Vegas saw a product that seems to be very appropriate for 2001. Home Automated Living (or 'HAL') won the Tech TV Best of Show Award in the Home Automation and Networking category for its HALdeluxe software. The software allows users to control all manner of devices in their homes from anywhere in the world using their voice. ...more

And also today (17-September-2001)...

Here, in brief, are some of the day's other stories. GameCube rolls out Nintendo has released, in Japan, its first home console since Nintendo 64. Judging by the lack of queues at retail outlets, the Japanese public was not overwhelmed with joy at its arrival. ...more

Gates promises more transparency and security

In an email to Microsoft customers, Bill Gates outlines Microsoft's progress towards Trustworthy Computing and admits 'there is still more to do - at Microsoft and across our industry'. The 'executive email' concentrates heavily on what the company has already achieved: investing more than $200m in improving Windows security; taking whole sections of the workforce off the production line to introduce security training and practices; automating security analysis and updates, and offering clearer explanations of security issues to consumers; and making new products secure by default as oppose as features turned on by default. Championing Microsoft's Palladium initiative, Gates waxed lyrical on the benefits of the 'new hardware/software architecture' that will allow physical areas of the system to be 'curtained off' from others. ...more