Tuesday, August 26, 2003

MIT's Open-Course Project. From Ho Chi Minh City to Nashville, Tennessee, students are flocking to MIT's new program to post about 2,000 classes on the Web, for free. Meet the global geeks getting an MIT education, open-source style. By David Diamond of Wired magazine. [Wired News] 5:12:16 PM    comment []

D-Link Offers Hot Spot Access Point. D-Link to offer a preconfigured hot spot access point: The Airspot DSA-3100 Public/Private Gateway has a suggested price of $599, for which you get captive portal/gateway page, up to 250 local accounts, authentication pass-through for back-end 802.1X and other AAA, MAC filtering, and time/bandwidth limits and monitoring. It also has various firewall and attack monitoring options. Configuration is handled through a Web-based interface, but it doesn't mention whether it's an encrypted, SSL/TLS Web... [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service] 5:11:37 PM    comment []

More attacks on SCO SCO Web site attacked again. Open source community implicated in second DoS attack [InfoWorld: Security] 5:11:18 PM    comment []

Much of the news continues to focus on the recent worm damage. SCO is really getting hit by the industry over their claims of ownership of key Linux code. 3:59:54 PM    comment []

SCO Web site hit by denial of service attack. The SCO Group's Web site was accessible again Monday after being down for about three days, the victim of a denial of service (DOS) attack launched by a "senior" member of the open source community, according to open source advocate Eric Raymond. 3:57:35 PM    comment []

Linux People: Check out this article!  We can talk about this in class... Check the link listed in the story for details about a site that tracks Linux security attacks. Is Linux as Secure as We'd Like to Think? [Slashdot] 3:56:47 PM    comment []

AOL Sued For Over-Zealous Blocking [Slashdot] 3:56:28 PM    comment []

Web surfers flock to antivirus sites. Computer users are rushing to Microsoft's antivirus site to search for ways to combat the recent onslaught of worms. [CNET News.com - Enterprise] 3:56:00 PM    comment []

Ingram spies potential in surveillance. The giant distributor of information-technology products steps into the surveillance market, in a move to provide one-stop shopping for its resellers and customers. [CNET News.com - Enterprise] 3:55:49 PM    comment []

U.S. Now Demanding Biometric Technology. Biometric technology that scans faces, fingerprints or other physical traits to confirm people's identities is about to get its biggest test: at U.S. border checkpoints. By The Associated Press. [New York Times: Technology] 3:55:04 PM    comment []