Neowin News Feed for: Attacked

Minecraft replica of Denmark attacked by American gamers

Daniel Hull — Thu, 08 May 2014 17:04:28 +0000

A 1:1 replica of Denmark has been attacked by American gamers. The server which features exact data on the country has attracted over 19,000 users to check out the unique build, and can be downloaded. Read more...

Vista attacked by 13-year-old virus

Steven Parker — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 10:20:22 +0000

A batch of laptops pre-installed with Windows Vista Home Premium was found to have been infected with a 13-year-old boot sector virus.Those of you with a long memory will vividly recall the year 1994: Nirvana's... Read more...

BBC's use of Windows DRM attacked by open source advocates

Sun, 24 Jun 2007 23:56:01 +0000

The BBC's upcoming iPlayer service is being targeted by the UK's Open Source Consortium. The iPlayer in question is a BBC service that will allow viewers to watch any show that they have missed for... Read more...

Unprotected PCs will be attacked instantly

Steven Parker — Sat, 04 Dec 2004 13:01:48 +0000

An unprotected PC that connects to the Internet can be hacked in minutes, and used together with other hacked machines to dispense spam, conduct denial-of-service attacks or carry out identity-theft scams. That was the finding... Read more...

Realtek Site attacked

Steven Parker — Sat, 23 Feb 2002 11:51:46 +0000

Cheers Orphic of Laughnonstop.com for passing this one to me. It seems (at the time of posting) that the Realtek website has been defaced. Heh, I have 2 of their cards in my system but... Read more...

TweakXP attacked as spyware, unfounded

Steven Parker — Tue, 09 Oct 2001 18:22:49 +0000

Users have attacked TweakXP as spyware here on Neowin and now also over at 3dwin.de, We have always said that TweakXP DOES NOT contain spyware and have close relations to the authors over at Totalidea... Read more...