Reuters
Published on ZDNet News: July 19, 2005, 4:27 AM PT
Hewlett-Packard said Tuesday it will slash its work force by 14,500 jobs, or about 10 percent, the biggest move yet by new Chief Executive Mark Hurd as he seeks to boost the No. 2 computer maker’s profitability.
HP, which employs about 150,000 workers across the globe, said [...]
By John Leyden
Hacking magazine Phrack is closing after 20 years of publishing after its editorial team decided to call it a day. The final date for submissions for the special hardback last issue of the mag was Sunday 10 July. Issue 63 will be released at the Defcon and WhatTheHack2005 hacker conventions later this month.
The [...]
Firefox users are urged to update their web browser software following the discovery of a slew of security vulnerabilities. Version 1.0.5 of the popular web browser addresses nine security bugs while also incorporating stability improvements.
Security notification service Secunia rates the cross-platform update as “highly critical”. The Mozilla Foundation promises to release a related sub-set of [...]
By John Leyden
Net infrastructure firm VeriSign has bought security intelligence firm iDefense for $40m in cash. iDefense’s 45 employees will join VeriSign in a move designed to bolster its managed security services offering with proactive threat warning and security remediation advice.
iDefense is best known for its controversial vulnerability contributor program, which rewards hackers for advance [...]
By John Leyden
Could RSS feeds become a conduit for the transmission of computer worms? Security experts are at odds over the possibility. Those who play down the threat point to the fact that no virus has ever used the propagation technique while others say it’s only when a network reaches critical mass (as in the [...]
By OUT-LAW.COM
Tom Harris MP presented a bill to Parliament that would amend the UK’s 15-year-old cybercrime law to confirm that denial of service attacks are illegal. A similar bill was pitched in March but was defeated by the timetable for the general election.
The Labour MP for Glasgow South called for amendments to the Computer Misuse [...]
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