1998
The website of the Brookhaven National Lab is hacked by “Toxic ‘n Xnec”.
The website of the Patricia Seybold Group is hacked by “No|d”. View an archived version of the defaced website.
The website of the Rainbow Casino is hacked by “Seal”. View an archived version of the defaced website.
The website of the U.S. Army 7th Brigade is hacked by “No|d”. View an archived version of the defaced website.
The website of the U.S. Army Air Defense Artillery School at Fort Bliss is hacked by “No|d”. View an archived version of the defaced website.
The website of the U.S. Army Executive Software Systems directorate is hacked by “No|d”. View an archived version of the defaced website.
1999
The United States government announces that it has reached a settlement with the Intel Corporation in regard to charges filed the previous June alleging that Intel used its market dominance to “bully competitors and stifle innovation”.
2000
Apple Computer settles several lawsuits against Daewoo, eMachines, and other computer manufacturers which Apple had alleged copied the look of Apple’s iMac out of court.
The Coca-Cola Company warns consumers that an Internet chain letter promising free Coke products as a reward to help build an email database is a hoax.
Dennis Moran, a 17 year-old high school dropout, is arrested and charged with hacking into the website of the Los Angeles Police Department’s drug prevention program, DARE, under the alias “Coolio”. Moran defaced the website with pro-drug slogans and images, including one of Donald Duck with a hypodermic syringe in his arm. On March 1, 2001, he will be sentenced to nine months behind bars, during which time he is ordered to help program the jail’s computers. See a mirror of the defaced website at the Attribution.org website.
Intel begins shipping very limited quantities of the 1GHz Pentium III microprocessor.
2001
America Online (AOL) membership surpasses twenty-eight million users.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) warns that organized international hacker groups, primarily in Russia and the Ukraine, have been targeting US computer systems. Their goals are to steal valuable data such as trade secrets and customer credit card numbers.
2002
Sun Microsystems files a private antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft in U.S. District Court in San Jose, California. Sun seeks one billion dollars in damages, a preliminary injunction requiring Microsoft to ship Java with Internet Explorer and Windows XP, the release of source code for Internet Explorer, and the release of interfaces between Windows and higher-level Microsoft source code. Read more at FindLaw.
2004
Version 2 (v1.4.2_04) of the Java programming language is released. Visit the official Java website.
2005
F-Secure announce the detection of the first mobile messaging worm, dubbed CommWarrior.A, which is transmitted through the popular Mobile Messaging Service (MMS). When messages carrying the worm are opened, it duplicates itself and uses the infected phone’s address book to send further copies of itself. The worm, which had been spreading among cell phone users since January, is not considered a serious threat to cell phones, however, it does mark the beginning of a new age of security concerns.
The Fair Trade Commission of Japan rules that Intel violated Japanese antitrust laws and hurt competition in the country’s processor market. The ruling follows the agency’s raid of the offices of Intel’s Japanese subsidiary on April 8, 2004. Visit the official Fair Trade Commission website.
2006
Microsoft launches Windows Live Search, a revamped search engine, in an effort to remain competitive with search giants Google and Yahoo!. The new search engine includes support for tabbed web browsing, a search slider bar that offers previews of data, a “smart scroll” function that displays all search results at once, multiple methods of viewing images, and the ability to save their search parameters as macros. Visit the official Live Search website.
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