Security
Computerworld, 9/22/04: Update: Credit card firm hit by DDoS attack
The attack was still under way this afternoon
News Story by Jaikumar Vijayan
SEPTEMBER 22, 2004 (COMPUTERWORLD) - Credit card processing firm Authorize.Net has been the target of an "intermittent" and "large scale" distributed denial-of-service attack since last Wednesday that has resulted in "periodic disruptions" of service for some customers.
Bellevue, Wash.-based Authorize.Net is owned by Burlington, Mass.-based Lightbridge Inc. and provides payment processing services for more than 91,000 small to medium-size e-commerce firms.
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Microsoft
Infoworld, 9/22/04: XP SP2 distribution accelerated, VPN problem fixed
Microsoft makes first patch to huge operating system update
By Joris Evers, IDG News Service September 22, 2004
Microsoft (Profile, Products, Articles) will accelerate the rollout of Windows XP (Overview, Articles, Company) Service Pack 2 (SP2) over the next month and has released the first official update for SP2 to fix a problem some users had with VPNs (virtual private networks).
As of Friday, Microsoft had distributed SP2 to roughly 20 million users through the Automatic Updates feature in Windows and the Windows Update Web site, a Microsoft spokesman said Wednesday. Most of these users are home and small business users, he said.
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C|net, 9/23/04: Microsoft to secure IE for XP only
By Paul Festa
If you're one of about 200 million people using older versions of Windows and you want the latest security enhancements to Internet Explorer, get your credit card ready.
Microsoft this week reiterated that it would keep the new version of Microsoft's IE Web browser available only as part of the recently released Windows XP operating system, Service Pack 2. The upgrade to XP from any previous Windows versions is $99 when ordered from Microsoft. Starting from scratch, the operating system costs $199.
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Otherwise
C|net, 9/22/04: Yahoo: Internet withdrawal anguishing
By Jim Hu
Tobacco companies, drug cartels and Starbucks beware--the Internet may be giving you a run for the money in the addiction department.
According to a study sponsored by Yahoo and advertising company OMD, Internet detox makes people feel emotionally vacant and lost in life. Twenty-eight participants were asked to record their thoughts and feelings during a two-week period of no Net usage. From studying the subjects' video and written diaries, researchers noticed that two weeks of Internet deprivation affected social lives and left many feeling bored.
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