Future cyber attacks will target the Internet itself

A survey of IT experts reveals that many believe future cyber attacks will target not only individual systems and the information held on them but also the Internet itself. The Pew Internet and American Life Project polled 1,286 experts on what they believe the future of life online will be over the next 10 years. Two-thirds agreed that as the Internet becomes the main infrastructure supporting communications and business, 'at least one devastating attack will occur in the next 10 years on the networked information infrastructure or the country's power grid. ...more

Microsoft tells Google 'hands off our corporate customers'

Microsoft executives have turned up the heat on arch rival Google. In a closing speech at the Microsoft partners conference in Boston last week, the company's Chief Operating Officer Kevin Turner rallied the troops with a take no prisoners attack on Google reminiscent of Ballmer himself. Turner, a former Wal-Mart CIO, told the cheering crowd 'We're not going to let Google win in the enterprise space. ...more

Mobilexpo 2001 highlight - Samsung

Electronics giant Samsung were showing off three next-generation phones at the Mobilexpo 2001 show in Birmingham in the shape of the TV phone, the combined watch phone and the camera phone. The Samsung SCH-M220 (pictured) allows users to make phone calls and watch TV programmes on the move. It features a 1. ...more

FBI reports on white-collar Internet crime

Fraudulent auction Web sites that take your money and run are the most commonly reported instances of Internet-related fraud, according to a study by the FBI. The second most reported US fraud involves Web shopping sites that never deliver the goods or services paid for. While the theft of credit card details may weigh most heavily in peoples' minds when considering online crime, only 4. ...more

OpenOffice open to developers

OpenOffice, the Mac OS X version of Sun's StarOffice suite of business applications for Unix operating systems, is now available for developers who want to contribute to the final stages of the software's development. Sun decided in June 2001 not to develop Star Office for Mac OS X, preferring to make the source code available to anyone else wishing to take up the project. Open source programmers did just that, and in March this year we reported that the result, OpenOffice, was well on the way to completion. ...more