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A California man who served jail time for hacking hundreds of military and government computers nine years ago was charged Tuesday with new computer crimes: stealing tens of thousands of credit card accounts by breaking into bank and card processing networks.

The old carnival freak show is dead and gone (or has at least moved to reality television and daytime talk shows). But in our hearts, we still long to gawk at the strange and the bizarre.

In a move that could alienate it from a lion's share of free e-mail account holders, Canadian Web host GaltGroup Internet Services has turned its back on Windows Live Hotmail - as well as all the products, services and partners of Hotmail's parent company, Microsoft.

BT has chosen Novell's eDirectory as the hub for user services on 21CN, its next-generation converged voice, data and video network.

Phishing is hooking more victims as the e-mail fraud attacks become more sophisticated and prevalent.

IBM is acquiring identity management software developer Access360, whose technology IBM plans to merge into its Tivoli portfolio of systems management software, the companies said Tuesday. Financial details of the deal were not disclosed.

Oracle Corp. has followed through on an offer from Chief Executive Officer Larry Ellison, made in the days after the Sept. 11 attacks on the U.S., to supply the government with free software to create a national ID card system, he acknowledged in his Tuesday keynote talk at the OpenWorld conference.

Rated on specs alone, ATI's latest board--the much-anticipated Radeon--would be a top contender. It packs an impressive technological résumé, with fill-rate specifications of over 1 gigatexel per second, a sophisticated new hardware transform-and-lighting engine, ATI's innovative Hyper-Z compression for faster frame rates at the highest resolutions, and the ability to process three texture units per pass (more than any other board). The version we tested comes with 64MB of fast Double Data Rate memory (the 32MB version uses a slightly slower version of DDR and has a slightly slower clock speed).

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Week 5: Pat suffers his first e-mail virus and learns that sometimes the student knows more than the teacher

Establishing a secure perimeter around an enterprise in today's lightning-fast business environment is formidable. The challenge of maintaining security is further exacerbated by the need to defend a network against intruders and malicious employees.