Neowin News Feed for: Blame

North Korea's hackers "got sloppy", FBI director says

Adrian Potoroaca — Thu, 08 Jan 2015 02:10:01 +0000

The FBI Director James Comey has chosen to do a bit of explaining on how the Bureau arrived at the conclusion that North Korea is behind the hack of Sony Pictures in 2014. Read more...

Foxconn CEO blames outside factors for employee suicides

Andrew Stevenson — Mon, 30 Jun 2014 12:06:54 +0000

Terry Gou, CEO of Foxconn, has blamed outside factors such as bad breakups, financial and/or family problems as the reason for the run of 24, attempted or otherwise successful, suicides. Read more...

Experts: Don't blame Microsoft for mass site defacements

Steven Parker — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 10:38:13 +0000

Progress was made Monday in mitigating thousands of SQL-based Web sites injected with malicious javascript code. However, one security expert says we can expect more such attacks in the near future. A traditional SQL injection... Read more...

eBay: Phishing likely to blame for members' data theft

Fri, 28 Sep 2007 18:02:03 +0000

eBay spokeswoman Nichola Sharpe announced that the company's security experts have determined that it's highly likely that whoever posted confidential information about 1,200 eBay members in the company's Trust & Safety discussion forum this week... Read more...

Skype absolves Microsoft from outage blame

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 11:24:36 +0000

Skype has clarified an earlier statement which appeared to blame Microsoft's monthly patch for last week's outage of the VoIP service. Skype had attributed the two-day crash of its service to a large number of... Read more...

Blame Your IP, RIAA Will Drop the Case

Fri, 28 Jul 2006 12:10:01 +0000

Interesting bit of news posted by pyehac in our Back Page News. Looks as though the RIAA has quietly dropped several lawsuit cases rather quickly because the defense started to 'cry IP': For years, the... Read more...

Don't Blame Vista - Monad Not Bundled with Final

Sat, 06 Aug 2005 15:04:52 +0000

Earlier this week, Neowin reported (article) the first wave of malicious viruses may surface sooner than expected for Microsoft's latest version of Windows Vista - specifically targeting their new command shell, codenamed "Monad". Now,... Read more...

Oracle to European Commission: Blame Microsoft

Fri, 02 Apr 2004 15:17:15 +0000

Oracle, the world's No. 2 software company, is warning the European Commission that if it does not approve the company's proposed US$9.4 billion hostile takeover of PeopleSoft, regulators might have another run-in with No. 1... Read more...

Bill Gates says users to blame for security problems

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 03 Nov 2003 09:54:15 +0000

MICROSOFT'S CHIEF SOFTWARE ARCHITECT Bill Gates is repeating the mantra that users are to blame for insecure PCs, in an interview with a Canadian newspaper. This refrain is familiar to the INQUIRER: Gates said more... Read more...

IE Gets Blame for Theft of Half Life 2 Code

Sat, 04 Oct 2003 17:56:29 +0000

Security experts are blaming known but unpatched vulnerabilities in Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer for the theft and distribution of the source code for a much anticipated new video game. The source code for Valve Corp.'s... Read more...

Is Microsoft to Blame for SQL Slammer?

Tom Warren — Tue, 03 Jun 2003 10:47:22 +0000

Microsoft Corp. and its customers need to take joint responsibility for security issues such as the SQL Slammer worm, which brought down systems all across the world earlier this year, several large enterprises said here... Read more...

SQL worm: Blame laid squarely on Microsoft

Tue, 28 Jan 2003 12:06:43 +0000

Thanks xStainDx for this story. The Internet Wide impact of routers being flooded with SQL attack messages can be laid directly at the feet of Microsoft. The patch that would have... Read more...

CD copying not to blame for sales slump?

Tue, 13 Aug 2002 22:56:39 +0000

Video may have killed the radio star, but Forrester Research has said Internet piracy was not to blame -- as record labels have claimed -- for the 15 percent drop in music sales in the... Read more...