The U.S. federal government took steps earlier this week to shut down Web sites in California in order to protect the public from hacked Web sites, but new incidents show that the problem is not going away any time soon.
Trading on the Euronext.Liffe futures and options exchange was halted for more than four hours on Monday after an outage hit part of its Connect trading platform.
In the patent case of the century, the day of the reckoning is today -- Friday, February 24. Depending on what a U.S. court decides, it could be a black Friday for either BlackBerry vendor, Waterloo, Ont.-based Research in Motion Ltd. (RIM), or NTP Inc., in Arlington, Va.