Important Information for Zen Home 1000 and 2000 ADSL users
(Mar 2007:source: Busted Networks)
On 1st March 2007 Zen introduced a
monthly usage allowance on all Home 1000 and Home 2000 broadband
services. The usage allowance is 100 Gigabytes (GB) per month.
New ADSL Product
(Aug 2006:source: Busted Networks)
Our new ADSL product the Office 8000
Max, offers up to 8Mbps download and up to 832Kbps upload with no
bandwidth limits. A great product the SMB office and the greater upload
speeds offer better inter-site VPN performance.
EU domain registration start 7th April
(Apr 2006:source: Busted Networks)
Domain names in the new TLD
'.eu' become available from 07/04/2006.
New ADSL Products
(Mar 2006:source: Busted Networks)
Two New products - 8000
Active and 8000 Pro have been launched replacing the Home 500, 1000
and 2000 products. These products will
provide customers with much faster broadband speeds for the same monthly
payment. Importantly, the trial proved it is not commercially viable to
offer unlimited usage with download speeds of up to 8Mbps so usage
allowances have been introduced for the first time on these new
products.
64% of UK connections via Broadband
(Feb 2006:source:BBC)
Data from
the Office of National Statistics shows that 64% of Internet connections
in the UK are now made via 'broadband' services.
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Red Earth Policy
Patrol upgrade
(Jan 2008:source: Busted Networks)
Policy Patrol version 5 is
now available for download
See us at Sussex
Enterprise Business Conference 2007
(Sep 2007:source: Busted Networks)
Busted Networks are exhibiting
at this prestigious south coast
conference
in Brighton on 2nd October 2007.
Red Earth Policy
Patrol upgrade
(Apr 2007:source: Busted Networks)
Policy Patrol version 4.32 is
now available for download
Trend Micro CSMS
SMB upgrade available
(Mar 2007:source: Busted Networks)
Trend Micro have released
version 3.5 of their comprehensive SMB security package "Client Server
Messaging Suite".
Busted Networks to
sell Policy Patrol
(Feb 2007:source: Busted Networks)
Busted Networks are now a
reseller for Red Earth Software products. With recent changes in UK
legislation Red Earth's Policy Patrol allows us to offer a powerful and
flexible solution for adding disclaimers to email, particularly in the
our target SMB and Microsoft Exchange markets.
Trend Micro
security advisory
(Feb 2007:source: ZDNet)
Trend Micro has become aware of a
vulnerability in its Scan Engine, wherein a corrupted UPX file can cause
a buffer overflow. It affects all Trend Micro products and versions
using the Scan Engine and Pattern File technology.
click here for details
Firefox 2.0
release
(Oct 2006:source: ZDNet)
Mozilla have released version 2.0 of the
Firefox web browser. The new version is said to have been tuned for
security, stability and speed.
Dell battery
recall
(Aug 2006:source: Busted Networks)
Priority : Urgent / Immediate
Dell has identified a potential issue associated with certain batteries
sold with Dell Latitude™, Inspiron™, XPS™ and Dell Precision Mobile
Workstation™ notebook computers.
click here
for details
Draytek Product
Safety Advisory
(Aug 2006:source: Busted Networks)
Priority : Urgent / Immediate
Release Date : 18th July 2006
PSU No. 3A-181WP15
For all Vigor2800 Series Users
click here
for details
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Microsoft and Novell collaborate
(Oct 2006:source: ZDNet)
Microsoft and Novell have agreed a joint
project aimed at helping Windows and SuSe Linux work together. Included
is a deal on patents designed to protect customers running Novell's open
source products.
BT's Openreach opens for business
(Jan 2006:source:
Computing)
BT's newly
segmented autonomous business 'Openreach' has begun operations. The
drive behind this operation is the need for BT to comply with the
regulator in giving rivals operators equal access to its local
exchanges.
Sun buy Storagetek
(Jul 2005:source:BBC)
Sun
Microsystems is to takeover Storagetek for a reported £2.3bn giving them
a greater presence in the rapidly expanding data storage market.
SCO lose Daimler Chrysler case
(Jul 2004:source: ZDNet)
SCO's campaign to claim
intellectual property rights to Unix had another set back when it largely lost its case
against Daimler Chrysler.
mm02
revenues increase
(Jul 2004:source: silicon.com)
The mobile phone network operator
signed up 600,000 new customers in the last quarter. Annual revenue per user was up £25
on the year.
Bergen
follows Munich in Linux move
(Jun 2004:source:
silicon.com)
The authorities in Bergen,
Norway, have followed the city of Munich in moving their systems from Unix and Windows to
Linux. Database servers are moving from HP-UX to SuSE Linux and Windows servers are being
moved to IBM Linux based blade servers.
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Two new flaws found in Firefox
(Feb 2007:source: ZDNet)
The first flaw
lies in Firefox's pop-up blocker feature potentially allowing a hacker
access to files on the local machine. The second concerns Firefox's
phishing protection feature which can be fooled by certain characters in
a site URL.
Problems for Microsoft Update
(Oct 2006:source: ZDNet)
Some of the latest
Windows and Office critical fixes were only available for manual
download at the time of release due to problems with the 'Microsoft
Update' platform.
AOL Privacy Gaff
(Aug 2006:source: ZDNet)
AOL has apologised
for releasing search log data on subscribers that was intended for use
with the company's
new research site. The data focused on 658,000 subscribers and was among
the tools intended for use on the recently launched 'AOL Research site',
the company has since removed the search logs from public view.
Mozilla/Firefox users urged to patch
(Apr 2006:source: ZDNet)
CERT has warned that earlier versions of Firefox and Mozilla derivatives
contain critical flaws and users should upgrade to the latest versions.
SpyBot & Symantec tiff
(Jan 2006:source:SpyBot)
SpyBot claim
Symantec are publishing false accusations about SpyBot's product in
order to influence the market. See SpyBot's article for
futher details.
UK targeted by
online fraud
(Aug 2004:source:
Computing)
Online fraudsters are sent
over 100,000 emails to UK users attempting to trick them into downloading a trojan
designed to steal keystrokes from the victims machine.
Spammer gets away
with $50,000 costs
(Jul 2004:source: silicon.com)
Spam king Scott Richter
avoided a $20m fine by promising to be good in the future. Hew was left with $50m costs to
pay.
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