Xeon processors clocks past 3GHz milestone

The Xeon - Intel's offering for servers and workstations - has clocked its way past the 3GHz mark. New 3.06GHz and 3GHz versions of the processor are now available. ...more

Big Brother to cripple UK business

While pacing the floor at the Internet World 2001 show, I found myself at the Mediapps stand, a company that has commissioned a report on how the TV show Big Brother has affected UK businesses. The Big Brother phenomenon began last year and it was estimated that office-based fans were costing UK businesses ?1.4 million a week in lost productivity. ...more

Wireless hacking tool released

Security experts and hackers can now verify that wireless networks relying on WEP encryption for security are insecure. Blake Hegerle and Jeremy Bruestle have released a tool called AirSnort, which gathers packets of network traffic and, once it has enough, can guess the encryption password "in under a second", rendering the protection afforded by WEP useless. Both 40- and 128-bit encrypted sessions can be compromised in this way. ...more

Wozniak calls for Apple to compensate shareholders

Steve Wozniak has called for Apple to compensate shareholders in the wake of the company's investigation into illegally backdated stock option grants. 'Woz', one of Apple's co-founders along with current CEO Steve Jobs, said the company has to correct the errors it made. 'I think that there are ways that the stock option programmes basically leave other shareholders treated at a disadvantage, and that's illegal,' he told the Guardian. ...more

Tiger widget vulnerability highlighted

Apple's Dashboard technology - one of the high profile new features in Tiger - could leave users vulnerable to hacker attacks by allowing the installation of a malicious widget. The vulnerability was discovered by a widget developer, going by the name stephan.com. ...more