- Wed Jul 28 1999 Chemdex shines on market debut
The online seller of laboratory chemicals and equipment, with sales of $29,000 last year, rose almost 60 percent in its first day of public trading.
- Tue Nov 22 2005 Sober worm offshoot trades on Paris Hilton, FBI
Worm variant flares up in the wild, playing on lure of heiress and fear of Fed snooping, but is coming under control.
- Wed May 28 2003 College plans virus-writing course
The University of Calgary is offering a class in which students will write and test their own viruses--a move that has touched off a wave of criticism within the antivirus community.
- Fri Feb 17 2006 New Trojans plunder bank accounts
Bank-stealing Trojans wait for victims to sign onto their bank's Web site and then steal money.
- Wed Feb 7 2001 Symantec reveals software-updating patents
Newly unveiled patents guard the company's incremental updates, but experts question whether the "technology" is truly new.
- Wed Feb 23 2000 New hacker software could spread by email
A group of anonymous programmers releases a new version of the software that shut down Yahoo and Amazon.com earlier this month--one that makes it far easier to launch attacks, computer experts say.
- Wed Nov 7 2007 The sad state of console cycles
Nintendo's CEO thinks the video game industry has it all wrong with its decision to release new consoles every four years. Don Reisinger thinks that opinion is way off base.
- Tue Nov 1 2005 New competitors in Microsoft's crosshairs
Plenty of companies will get caught in the wake as Microsoft races to compete with Google.
- Wed Apr 24 2002 New "Klez" still clobbering PC users
Computers without up-to-date antivirus software are proving easy targets for the modified worm, more than a week after it first went wild. Have you updated your software?
- Thu Jan 3 2002 2001: Year of the "junkyard" virus
Virtuoso worm writing has gone out of style. If you could use a PC in 2001, it seemed, you could write a worm to cripple corporate e-mail servers. Did you?




