Thursday, October 09, 2003

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1.  Microsoft Outlines Security Plan (washingtonpost.com). washingtonpost.com - Microsoft chief executive Steven A. Ballmer said yesterday that there is "much, much, much" left to do to protect computer users from viruses, worms and other malicious software.
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2.  Terminator Carly joins Team Schwarzenegger. Keep your hands to yourself, Governor

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1.  Parents Sue School Over Use of Wi-Fi Network
2.  New Seti@Home Client to be Open to Other Projects
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3.  Richard Bennett makes a great point: To some people, end-to-end just means freedom from content discrimination by ISPs, but to other people it means no discrimination and no QoS. The result is a little confusing, but it's no worse than political parties which encompass a range of views instead of a single ideology.

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1.  Dell knows what do with dead PCs. The company is kicking off a program to teach universities and other institutions how to run computer recycling programs.
2.  Feds nab suspected online conman. The SEC and the Department of Justice file charges against a 19-year-old Pennsylvania man accused of using a Trojan horse program to steal money from another man's brokerage account.
3.  Salon CEO resigns

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1.  Interwoven, iManage set date for merger vote
2.  Sun to release Solaris for AMD's Opteron. Sun Microsystems' version of Unix will become the third operating system to take advantage of Advanced Micro Device's 64-bit Opteron chip, Sun software chief Jonathan Schwartz says.
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3.  Napster Tries Again
4.  SunnComm Says Pointing to Shift Key 'Possible Felony'
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5.  EU approves creation of cybersecurity agency. The European Parliament approved a proposal this week to set up a European cybersecurity agency with the aim of forming a common approach to network and information security.
6.  HP, Disney launch 10-year partnership, space odyssey. Building on a relationship that dates back to the early days of both companies, Hewlett-Packard Co. and The Walt Disney Co. entered a 10-year agreement whereby HP will supply hardware to the entertainment giant, the companies announced Thursday.
7.  ComponentOne boosts Microsoft apps on mobile devices. Boosting development of Microsoft applications for mobile devices, ComponentOne this week announced availability of the Q4 2003 version of ComponentOne Studio Enterprise, which supports the Microsoft .Net Compact Framework.
8.  Infohacking.com welcomes hackers. Two Spanish security experts are inviting computer buffs to participate in a competition to deface a Web site on a production server.
9.  Update: Napster's rebirth slated for Oct. 29. The music comes back to Napster on Oct. 29, when the silenced song-swapper gets reborn as a legitimate and law-abiding online music service, Napster's parent, Roxio Inc., announced Thursday.
10.  What's ahead for databases?. PALO ALTO, CALIF. - Is the database still relevant? Panelists at a Software Development Forum session here Wednesday evening debated this and other questions pertaining to what will be the role of databases in the future, chiming in about the elevated role of XML, commoditization, and open source software.
11.  Nokia pins exploding phones on counterfeit batteries. Three recent incidents of exploding Nokia Corp. phones are due to the use of counterfeit batteries, a Nokia spokeswoman in the U.S. said Thursday.
12.  Update: Ballmer calls security 'defining moment' for Microsoft. NEW ORLEANS -- Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer on Thursday outlined an ambitious road map for better ensuring the security of his company's core products, during his keynote speech at the company's annual partner conference here.
13.  CEOs defend moving jobs offshore at tech summit. WASHINGTON - Moving IT jobs outside of the U.S. is necessary if technology companies want to remain competitive in a world market, a group of software vendor chief executive officers (CEOs) said Thursday.
14.  Update: SEC busts hacker for securities fraud, ID theft. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has filed civil charges against a Pennsylvania man for computer hacking and identity theft in a scheme last July to dump worthless options for Cisco Systems Inc. stock.

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15.  Vulnerabilities: BSD Kernel ARP Cache Flooding Denial of Service Vulnerability. The Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) is used to map Internet Protocol (IP) addresses to MAC addresses. When an IP address is resolved to a MAC address, it is stored in t...
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16.  PHP-Nuke 'modules.php' Input Validation Flaw in 'cid' Variable Lets Remote Users Inject SQL Commands
17.  Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Shell Folders Can Be Referenced Using Directory Traversal Characters

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1.  Sun touts Solaris-on-Intel customers
2.  Corel trims staff after takeover. The Canadian software maker, which recently went private, says it's laying off 18 percent of its work force as it focuses on core products such as CorelDraw.
3.  Handspring narrows its loss. In what is likely to be its last earnings report before Palm acquires it, the device maker says sales were limited for the quarter.
4.  Palm looking into Tungsten glitch. Owners of the company's new handhelds, the Tungsten T3, are saying that their devices aren't reading information on certain Secure Digital cards.
5.  Arnold taps Fiorina for transition team. Hewlett-Packard head Carly Fiorina joins a group working to help "The Terminator" star Arnold Schwarzenegger take up his role next month as governor of California.
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6.  Hail Mary Chip (Forbes.com). Forbes.com - Sun Microsystems is in trouble. The vendor of large, costly computers was caught off guard as the economy chilled and customers fled to cheap alternatives such as personal computers. In late September Sun warned that it would lose 7 to 10 cents a share in the fiscal first quarter (those results are due in mid-October); at $3.22, the stock is off 95% from its 2000 high.
7.  Microsoft CEO Says Redoubling Security Efforts (Reuters). Reuters - Microsoft Corp.'s (MSFT.O) chief executive said on Thursday that security is a "mission critical" top priority for the world's largest software maker, even as a new report warned that its dominance of the software market is making systems harder to defend against attacks.
8.  The Sound of One Hand E-Mailing (Forbes.com). Forbes.com - The stand-alone organizer is not dead yet, but Handspring's new Treo 600 smartphone is one more stake through its heart. Like previous Treos, this far sleeker model puts your address book in your phone where it belongs. Then it throws in wireless e-mail and Web browsing, along with the potential to do just about everything a Palm organizer can.
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9.  Vulnerabilities: JBoss HSQLDB Remote Command Injection Vulnerability. JBoss is a freely available, open source Java Application server. It is distributed and maintained by JBoss Group and is available for a number of platforms including Mic...
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10.  Sun cluster guru joins MS in brain drain. Exclusive Top-level defections hit N1

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1.  Apple G5 "changes way people work.". Jon Fortt, a personal technology columnist for the San Jose Mercury News really, really likes the new Apple G5 systems. Apple takes a powerful leap forward with new G5:Apple says this machine will change the way people work. I'd have...
2.  Less bureaucrats, fees, please. So, it's finally happened. The little voice-over-IP companies that could have garnered the attention of regulatory bodies in three (MN, WI, and CA) states, including here in California. PUC aim: Regulate Net phone service:With Internet phones emerging as a possible...
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3.  Earnings alert: Handspring's loss narrows. The device maker sees its sales drop sharply...Yahoo beats Wall Street expectations...Siebel revenue slips.
4.  Parents sue school district for Wi-Fi use. Parents of students take action against an Illinois school district for using Wi-Fi in classrooms, claiming that exposure to the low-level radio waves may damage students' health.
5.  Report: IT spending unlikely to climb. Overall information technology spending in the United States is stabilizing but not likely to grow much in the near future, according to a Merrill Lynch survey.
6.  Web-based music pirate gets jail time. A man charged with selling hundreds of CD compilations of copyrighted songs over the Internet is found guilty and sentenced to six months in jail.
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7.  US nabs teen hacker in securities fraud scheme (AFP). AFP - A 19-year-old computer hacker who allegedly hijacked the brokerage account of an unsuspecting investor to make unauthorized trades was charged with criminal and civil fraud, officials said.
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8.  Spammers Using Hacked Machines as Decoys
9.  Handspring Treo 600 Finally Available
10.  The Next Step In Spam Filtering
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11.  News: Microsoft to improve Windows security. The Associated Press By Ted Bridis
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12.  Vulnerabilities: MiniHTTPServer File-Sharing for NET Forum HTML Injection Vulnerability. MiniHTTPServer File-Sharing for NET is a commercially available web server mainly designed for file sharing. It is available for Microsoft Windows operating systems.

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13.  Vulnerabilities: MiniHTTPServer WebForums Forum HTML Injection Vulnerability. MiniHTTPServer WebForums Server is a commercially-available HTTP server. It is available for the Microsoft Windows platform.

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14.  TREND MICRO's free online virus scanner
15.  TROJ_ISBAR.A
16.  TROJ_QQPASS.E
17.  PHP_VIRDRUS.A
18.  TROJ_MICO.A
19.  BKDR_SMOKODOOR.A
20.  TROJ_LADMIN.A
21.  WORM_AGOBOT.H
22.  WORM_RANDEX.G
23.  WORM_SPYBOT.D
24.  WORM_DELFER.A
25.  No medium or high risk alerts
26.  Teen charged in cyber stock scam
27.  Technology Helps to Remember Passwords
28.  Gateway To Ship Secure, Windows-powered Servers for SMBs
29.  OpenOffice Remote Access Input Validation Flaw Lets Remote Users Crash the Application
30.  HP-UX dtprintinfo Buffer Overflow May Let Local Users Gain Elevated Privileges

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1.  Pynchon to do The Simpsons. Thomas Pynchon is slated to do a guest voice on The Simpsons:

We also have a show where The Simpsons go to London and it includes guest voices from Ian McKellen, J.K. Rowling, Jane Leeves and Prime Minister Tony Blair, playing himself. We have a show coming up where Marge writes a novel and gets endorsements from writers playing themselves, including Tom Clancy, Thomas Pynchon-

..He's wearing a paper bag over his head, but it is his voice.

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(Thanks, Tregoweth!)
2.  RC robots at Tokyo Game Show. Justin Hall has turned in agreat report on phone-controlled RC robots at the Tokyo Game Show for The Feature.

Tiny tanks controlled with mobile phones seem positively playful compared with Fujitsu Labs' Maron-1, a home security robot also run by mobile devices. A research prototype was announced last year; according to information on the web site, the Maron-1 robot comes with two cameras, taking pictures on command and sending them to a mobile phone. Also, the Maron-1 can be programmed to understand the house layout, traversing locations issued by mobile phone command, calling the police or a mobile device if there is a disturbance or intrusion. Best of all, Fujitsu announced that the Maron-1 has infrared ports built-in to control appliances, so perhaps a lonely Maron-1 can entertain itself by piloting Combat DigiQ tanks. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep indeed.

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(Thanks, Justin!)
3.  Whiny crybaby lobe of brain located. Stefan sez, "Scientists have located a part of the brain that becomes active when a person recieves a severe social snubbing . . . and believe that such slights are as unpleasant as actual physical pain."

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(Thanks, Stefan!)
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4.  Trillian connects with Yahoo yet again. Cerulean Studios' popular instant-messaging software releases a new patch that should allow its users to regain connectivity with Yahoo Messenger.
5.  Microsoft forges ahead with IPTV push. The software maker takes another stab at the interactive TV market with an Internet-based technology that lets cable and telecommunications companies deliver video.
6.  Handspring narrows its loss. The device maker says sales were limited for the quarter, in what is likely to be its last earnings report before being acquired by rival Palm.
7.  Student faces suit over key to CD locks. Antipiracy technology developer SunnComm says it will likely sue Princeton student who showed how to break its CD copy protection by pushing the Shift key.
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8.  Microsoft to Offer Free Security Updates (AP). AP - Stung by criticism over lax software security, Microsoft Corp. disclosed plans Thursday to update its flagship Windows operating systems early in 2004 to make consumers less vulnerable to hackers.
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9.  News: Teen charged in cyber stock scam. Trader allegedly hacked a brokerage account to dump worthless Cisco options.
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10.  BugTraq: NetBSD Security Advisory 2003-015: Remote and local vulnerabilities in XFree86 font libraries. Sender: NetBSD Security Officer [security-officer at NetBSD dot org]
11.  BugTraq: NetBSD Security Advisory 2003-016: Sendmail - another prescan() bug CAN-2003-0694. Sender: NetBSD Security Officer [security-officer at NetBSD dot org]
12.  BugTraq: NetBSD Security Advisory 2003-017: OpenSSL multiple vulnerabilities. Sender: NetBSD Security Officer [security-officer at NetBSD dot org]
13.  Vulnerabilities: SLocate User-Supplied Database Heap Overflow Vulnerability. slocate is the Secure Locate program. It is available for various UNIX and Linux operating systems, and is maintained by public domain.

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14.  Teen charged in cyber stock scam. Trojan claim
15.  Yahoo! flies high in Q3. Barnstorming quarter
16.  SunnComm to sue 'Shift key' student for $10m. Alleges DMCA violation, damage to its reputation
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17.  Toys Boys War Over Talking Books. Leapfrog sues Mattel for patent infringement of its popular talking-book technology. Mattel shakes its collective head and says nah, nah, we didn't do it. Did Mattel just do it better?
18.  Nobel Winner Critical of U.S.. Dr. Peter Agre, who shared this year's Nobel Prize in chemistry, says U.S. restrictions on scientific research in the name of fighting terrorism should be resisted. He may even put his money where his mouth is.
19.  House Fights P2P Risks. The U.S. House of Representatives votes to require the government to beef up the security of its computers so they are not exposed to privacy and security risks associated with peer-to-peer networks.
20.  China's Great Leap Upward. After 11 painstaking years of planning, China is poised to become the third nation to launch a manned space flight. Shenzhou 5 appears ready for an Oct. 15 launch, and the 'taikonaut' will be traveling with Chinese takeout.
21.  Open Access? Not Anytime Soon. An appeals court decision still has a way to go before cable companies have to abide by it and open their pipes to competing ISPs. Regulatory maneuvering and further appeals are possible. By Staci D. Kramer.
22.  Seattle Takes Stock of Paul Allen. Seattle's economy is reeling, and Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen wants to help by building a large biotech facility. But some locals say the billionaire philanthropist has too much sway in city affairs. Bobbi Nodell reports from Seattle.
23.  Crack Team to Move Liberty Bell. The Liberty Bell is moving on Thursday to a new home 300 feet from its current site. Engineers will be keeping close tabs on the bell to make sure its famous crack doesn't get any worse. By Michelle Delio.
24.  New Napster, IPod Don't Play Nice. Napster is back, if only in name. But don't expect fans of Apple's popular iPod music player to flock to the new service. The two run on different file formats. By Katie Dean.
25.  Cloaking Device Made for Spammers. Once looked down upon, the junk e-mail business is now luring money-grubbing crackers. One of the first fruits of the new cracker-spammer union is 'invisible' websites that can't be traced. By Brian McWilliams.
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26.  EU approves creation of cybersecurity agency
27.  Infohacking.com welcomes hackers
28.  SEC busts hacker for securities fraud, ID theft
29.  Update: Ballmer calls security 'defining moment' for Microsoft
30.  Ballmer Calls Security Crisis

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1.  New Pay Version of Napster Service Debuts. Nearly a year after software maker Roxio scooped up the Napster brand, a revamped online music store bearing the familiar brand name debuted today in limited release. By The Associated Press.
2.  Technology Briefing: Telecommunications. SIERRA TO SELL PHONE WITH MICROSOFT SYSTEM; F.C.C. CLEARS GLOBAL CROSSING-S.T.T. DEAL;.
3.  Technology Briefing: Hardware. SYMBOL POSTS LOWER-THAN-EXPECTED RESULTS;.
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4.  Microsoft details new security plan. The software giant will focus on adding new security technologies to its products, educating its customers and improving its process of releasing patches, CEO Steve Ballmer says.
5.  Torvalds starts locking down next Linux. Linus Torvalds moves the development of the upcoming 2.6 kernel of the open-source operating system to a new phase aimed solely at making the heart of the OS less likely to crash.
6.  IDC: Smiles for the camera phone?. Sales of camera phones are expected to jump dramatically over the next several years, but mass-market success for the technology will ride heavily on customer satisfaction.
7.  Charting Sun's new chip strategy. Sun's David Yen explains why cozying up to x86 processors is a good idea for a company that's traditionally preferred to do its own chips.
8.  Dell to debut slender handheld. The Axim X3, which the company says will be thinner and lighter than its current device, will be released next week in two versions: one with and one without wireless capabilities.
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9.  iTunes for Windows rollout scheduled for Oct. 16 (MacCentral). MacCentral - In April Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced that his company would, before the end of the year, introduce a Windows version of its iTunes software. Since then, Jobs and other Apple executives have stopped short of offering a specific timetable for when the Windows version of the music player software would be released. Now, at long last, it appears that the wait will soon end: MacCentral has received an invitation to a special Apple event scheduled for October 16th, presumably for the rollout of the long-awaited iTunes for Windows.
10.  Genesys Offers CTI for Microsoft CRM (NewsFactor). NewsFactor - It has been just over six months since Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) announced the first release of its much-anticipated CRM application. Since then, the company's reseller channel has swelled, sales have taken off, and as Microsoft had hoped, its standards-based CRM technology has encouraged the development of many enhancements and add-ons by its ISV partners.
11.  Quantum MP3 May Soon Be Reality (NewsFactor). NewsFactor - "Good afternoon, gentlemen. I am a HAL 9000 computer. I became operational at the H.A.L. lab in Urbana, Illinois, on the 12th of January."
12.  New "legal" Napster joins crowded field with 99-cent song downloads (AFP). AFP - Napster, the website that helped popularize online music before being shut down as a hub for piracy, will be relaunched October 29 as a legal site with 99-cent song downloads, its new owner said.
13.  Intuit Apologizes to Customers Over TurboTax (Reuters). Reuters - Hoping to signal a return to its customer-friendly roots, Intuit Inc. (INTU.O) on Thursday apologized to its TurboTax customers who were angered when the company installed anti-piracy technology on the popular tax-preparation software for the 2002 tax year.
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14.  system.verbs.builtins.radio.data.localization.languages.english.outlines.help changed on Thu, 09 Oct 2003 19:21:16 GMT: Add pref for setting the folder where downloaded RSS enclosures are saved.
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15.  EU approves creation of cybersecurity agency. Agency will make assistance on security issues accessible to SMBs
16.  Infohacking.com welcomes hackers. Security experts issue challenge to deface Web site on production server running Windows 2000
17.  SEC busts hacker for securities fraud, ID theft. Man charged in scheme to dump worthless options for Cisco stock
18.  Update: Ballmer calls security 'defining moment' for Microsoft. Microsoft CEO likens company's current security initiatives to its decision to drastically overhaul its Internet strategy in 1995
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19.  Juggling With Packets: Floating Data Storage
20.  Technology Helps to Remember Passwords
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21.  Vulnerabilities: Sun Cobalt RaQ Message.CGI Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability. RaQ is a server appliance originally developed by Cobalt. It is now distributed and maintained by Sun Microsystems.

A problem with message.cgi script used by Cobalt RaQ ...
22.  Vulnerabilities: SuSE Linux SuSEWM Configuration File Insecure Temporary File Vulnerability. SuSEConfig is a component of the SuSE Linux operating system. It is designed to be a standardized configuration tool to SuSE operating systems.

A problem exists in the ...
23.  Vulnerabilities: SuSE Linux JavaRunt Configuration File Insecure Temporary File Vulnerability. SuSEConfig is a component of the SuSE Linux operating system. It is designed to be a standardized configuration tool to SuSE operating systems.

A problem exists in the ...
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24.  Press 'Shift' and Copy Away. MediaMax CD3 is supposed to prevent the copying of music CDs onto computers. That it does, but as one grad student discovered it's also easily disabled. Music industry execs say they're unconcerned.
25.  Nokia's N-Gage Hits the Streets. Nokia launches its N-Gage game phone, seeking to gain a foothold in the portable gaming market now controlled by Nintendo's Game Boy line. Consumers and game enthusiasts give mixed reviews.
26.  Mobs Turn Net into Money Machine. Organized crime gets an upgrade as syndicates do their dirty work online. To tech-savvy gangs, the Net is the perfect place to run extortion rackets, kiddie-porn rings and assorted scams.
27.  Charter: Hands Off Song Swappers. Broadband service provider Charter Communications sues the Recording Industry Association of America to block it from getting names of about 150 of Charter's customers suspected of file trading.
28.  How Computer Chips Keep Cool. A Silicon Valley startup has developed a water-cooling 'radiator' for computers that could show up in laptops using next-generation monster chips. By Leander Kahney.
29.  AAA Battery Gets a Mini-Me. A tiny new rechargeable battery -- the smallest of its type in the world -- could power implantable bionic neurons, making medical treatment of certain disorders safer and easier. By Louise Knapp.
30.  Music Label Cashes in by Sharing. Magnatune is trying to turn the music industry on its ear by encouraging file sharing and giving artists a large chunk of the proceeds. It seems to be working. By Chris Ulbrich.
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31.  Noos débranche sa messagerie victime d'un virus spammeur
32.  RedHat: mysql buffer overflow vulnerability
33.  SANS releases new Top 20 vulnerability list
34.  Security Group, Governments Name Top Windows, Linux Vulnerabilities
35.  Faille Critique (non patchée) dans Internet Explorer et Media Player

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1.  Kyocera halts phone shipments on blowup report. Kyocera is the fourth cell phone maker this week to report an exploding handset, saying it has stopped shipping its Phantom phone model after a family in Nebraska reported a blowup.
2.  GSM gaining ground in North America. The cell phone standard that dominates Europe is growing three times faster than Qualcomm's Code Division Multiple Access, challenging CDMA's hold on North America.
3.  Samsung tunes in Napster with new gizmo. Capitalizing on the re-launch of Napster on Thursday, the consumer electronics maker has announced a new digital audio player that can store up to 5,000 songs on its 20GB hard drive.
4.  VC firm to buy Pivotal
5.  Audiocast archive. Open HTML container page.
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6.  Web Site Welcomes Hackers (PC World). PC World - Infohacking.com challenges people to deface a Web site on a production server.
7.  Parents Sue School Over Wireless Network (Reuters). Reuters - A pioneering elementary school district outside Chicago has been sued for installing a wireless computer network by parents worried that exposure to the network's radio waves could harm their children.
8.  Microsoft Unveils Small Business Server Software (Reuters). Reuters - Microsoft Corp. (MSFT.O) on Thursday unveiled new server software that it said gives smaller firms the ability to run big-business computer systems for a fraction of the cost.
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9.  Distributed Statistical Debugging
10.  Apple to Launch iTunes for Windows
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11.  system.verbs.builtins.radio.data.localization.languages.english.outlines.help changed on Thu, 09 Oct 2003 19:06:26 GMT: Added help text to the Built-in Macros page for macros which had not previously been documented in Radio's help system.
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12.  The SANS Top 20 Internet Security Vulnerabilities
13.  RedHat: mysql buffer overflow vulnerability
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14.  AntiOnline Security Spotlight: Loose Valve

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1.  Share iTunes Smart Playlist tips. Spencer sez, "In light of the recent post about Smart Playlists in iTunes, I thought this was timely: 'Announcing the launch of SmartPlaylists.com! This new website is a resource for creating, sharing, and chatting about iTunes' Smart Playlists. Why? Because they're cool and there are many ingenious ways to use them to keep your music fresh.'"

Link

(Thanks, Spencer!)
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2.  Net2Phone eyes the middle ground. The VoIP provider introduces a package of services aimed at midsize businesses, especially those with locations all over the world.
3.  Microsoft details new security plan. The software giant will focus on adding new security technologies to its products, educating its customers and improving its process of releasing patches, CEO Steve Ballmer says.
4.  Apple to launch iTunes for Windows. The Mac maker is expected to unveil the long-awaited Windows version of the iTunes Music Store at an event next week.
5.  Handspring, Sprint dash to smart phones. Device maker Handspring has quietly begun selling its highly anticipated Treo 600, which uses the Sprint PCS cellular network.
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6.  New Pay Version of Napster Service Debuts (AP). AP - Nearly a year after software maker Roxio Inc. scooped up the Napster brand from the ashes of the pioneer file-swapping service, a revamped online music store bearing the familiar brand name debuted Thursday in limited release.
7.  US nabs teen hacker in securities fraud scheme (AFP). AFP - A 19-year-old computer hacker who allegedly took control of the brokerage account of an unsuspecting investor to make unauthorized trades was charged with criminal and civil fraud, officials said.
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8.  Intuit Apologizes to Turbo Tax Customers
9.  Automating Unix and Linux Administration
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10.  Cloaking Device Made for Spammers
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11.  Vulnerabilities: File Sharing Software Easy File Sharing Web Server Information Disclosure Vulnerability. File Sharing Software Easy File Sharing Web Server is an application designed to provide peer-to-peer file sharing functionality for Microsoft Windows platforms.

Easy Fi...
12.  Vulnerabilities: Conexant AccessRunner DSL Console Authentication Bypass Vulnerability. The Conexant AccessRunner DSL Console is the interface for administering and configuring the DSL device.

The Conexant AccessRunner DSL Console is vulnerable to an authen...
13.  Vulnerabilities: XShisen '-KCONV' Local Buffer Overflow Vulnerability. XShisen is a puzzle game that is played with 144 mahjong pieces. The software runs on the Linux platform and a Microsoft Windows binary is available as well.

It has bee...
14.  Vulnerabilities: XShisen 'XSHISENLIB' Local Buffer Overflow Vulnerability. XShisen is a puzzle game that is played with 144 mahjong pieces. The software runs on the Linux platform and a Microsoft Windows binary is available as well.

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15.  Ballmer's new MS security fix - same patches, but 'nicer'. New regime strangely similar to old regime...
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16.  Toys Boys War Over Talking Books. Leapfrog sues Mattel for patent infringement of its popular talking-book technology. Mattel shakes its collective head and says nah, nah, we didn't do it. Did Mattel just do it better?
17.  Nobel Winner Critical of U.S.. Dr. Peter Agre, who shared this year's Nobel Prize in chemistry, says U.S. restrictions on scientific research in the name of fighting terrorism should be resisted. He may even put his money where his mouth is.
18.  House Fights P2P Risks. The U.S. House of Representatives votes to require the government to beef up the security of its computers so they are not exposed to privacy and security risks associated with peer-to-peer networks.
19.  China's Great Leap Upward. After 11 painstaking years of planning, China is poised to become the third nation to launch a manned space flight. Shenzhou 5 appears ready for an Oct. 15 launch, and the 'taikonaut' will be traveling with Chinese takeout.
20.  Open Access? Not Anytime Soon. An appeals court decision still has a way to go before cable companies have to abide by it and open their pipes to competing ISPs. Regulatory maneuvering and further appeals are possible. By Staci D. Kramer.
21.  Seattle Takes Stock of Paul Allen. Seattle's economy is reeling, and Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen wants to help by building a large biotech facility. But some locals say the billionaire philanthropist has too much sway in city affairs. Bobbi Nodell reports from Seattle.
22.  Crack Team to Move Liberty Bell. The Liberty Bell is moving on Thursday to a new home 300 feet from its current site. Engineers will be keeping close tabs on the bell to make sure its famous crack doesn't get any worse. By Michelle Delio.
23.  New Napster, IPod Don't Play Nice. Napster is back, if only in name. But don't expect fans of Apple's popular iPod music player to flock to the new service. The two run on different file formats. By Katie Dean.
24.  Cloaking Device Made for Spammers. Once looked down upon, the junk e-mail business is now luring money-grubbing crackers. One of the first fruits of the new cracker-spammer union is 'invisible' websites that can't be traced. By Brian McWilliams.
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25.  AntiVir Personal Edition 6.21.09.20 (Updated)
26.  F-Prot Antivirus 3.14b
27.  Ad-aware referencefile 01R224 06.10.2003
28.  Norton AntiVirus Virus Definitions October 6, 2003
29.  McAfee DAT 4297
30.  McAfee SuperDAT 4297
31.  AntiVir Personal Edition 6.21.09.20 (Updated)
32.  Norton AntiVirus Virus Definitions October 8, 2003

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1.  22 pregnant cows killed by a single lightning bolt. A lightning strike in Florida has killed 20 pregnant cows and fatally injured two more.

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2.  Virtual Book Tour is underway. This year's "Virtual Book Tour" has kicked off:

In a nutshell, a Virtual Book Tour consists of an author "stopping" at a given number of websites in a given about of time, either to be interviewed, to take over the site for a day, to hang out with the site owner if they're in the same physical location etc. It's just like a traditional book tour except the cities are websites. The author never needs to live their living room, which makes it cheaper and easier than booking flights, hotel rooms, rental cars and all that jazz.

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3.  Napster launches, minus the revolution. The one-time file-swapping king is reborn as a legitimate, for-pay music download service with the record labels' blessing.
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4.  Linux and French fries -- a real happy meal (TechTarget). TechTarget - French fries and Linux. Doesn't exactly roll off the tongue, but it is a tasty combination for agribusiness J.R. Simplot Co.
5.  Yahoo Surges on Sharply Higher Profits (Reuters). Reuters - Shares of Internet media company Yahoo Inc. (YHOO.O) on Thursday surged to nearly a three-year high, a day after it posted a quarterly profit more than double that of a year earlier and boosted its outlook, driven by optimism about its core advertising business.
6.  Getting serious about electronic hazardous wastes (USATODAY.com). USATODAY.com - While accessing the Internet may seem clean and easy, the chemicals and hazardous waste left behind by discarded computers, monitors and electronic parts have become a growing problem. In a recent attempt to combat this problem, California Governor Gray Davis signed Senate Bill 20, the Electronic Waste Recycling Act ("the Act"), on September 25. This law has various features, including the imposition of fees on computer monitors and television sets to fund waste recycling efforts.
7.  Microsoft to Develop Broadband TV for Telcos (Reuters). Reuters - U.S.-based software maker Microsoft said on Thursday it would develop software to deliver standard television over the Internet, targeting telecoms operators wanting to expand their business.
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9.  Vulnerabilities: PrimeBase SQL Database Server Insecure Default Binary Permissions Vulnerability. PrimeBase SQL Database Server is a database implementation that is available for Unix/Linux variants as well as Microsoft Windows platforms.

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10.  Vulnerabilities: PHP Prayer Board Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability. PHP Prayer board is web based community bulletin board software implemented in PHP.

PHP Prayer Board has been reported prone to a cross-site scripting vulnerability.

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11.  Vulnerabilities: PHP Prayer Board SQL Injection Vulnerability. PHP Prayer board is web based community bulletin board software implemented in PHP.

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13.  Press 'Shift' and Copy Away. MediaMax CD3 is supposed to prevent the copying of music CDs onto computers. That it does, but as one grad student discovered it's also easily disabled. Music industry execs say they're unconcerned.
14.  Nokia's N-Gage Hits the Streets. Nokia launches its N-Gage game phone, seeking to gain a foothold in the portable gaming market now controlled by Nintendo's Game Boy line. Consumers and game enthusiasts give mixed reviews.
15.  Mobs Turn Net into Money Machine. Organized crime gets an upgrade as syndicates do their dirty work online. To tech-savvy gangs, the Net is the perfect place to run extortion rackets, kiddie-porn rings and assorted scams.
16.  Charter: Hands Off Song Swappers. Broadband service provider Charter Communications sues the Recording Industry Association of America to block it from getting names of about 150 of Charter's customers suspected of file trading.
17.  How Computer Chips Keep Cool. A Silicon Valley startup has developed a water-cooling 'radiator' for computers that could show up in laptops using next-generation monster chips. By Leander Kahney.
18.  AAA Battery Gets a Mini-Me. A tiny new rechargeable battery -- the smallest of its type in the world -- could power implantable bionic neurons, making medical treatment of certain disorders safer and easier. By Louise Knapp.
19.  Music Label Cashes in by Sharing. Magnatune is trying to turn the music industry on its ear by encouraging file sharing and giving artists a large chunk of the proceeds. It seems to be working. By Chris Ulbrich.
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1.  Presidential web roundup at E-Democracy. The volunteer, nonprofit E-Democracy project has put together a good site with links to resources around the 2004 Presidential campaign.

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2.  Get up, stand up, buy a laptop. CNET News.com's Michael Kanellos reports how global demographic forces are changing Silicon Valley in profound ways.
3.  Microsoft expects security effort to take time. The software giant announces a detailed plan of action to combat recent security threats, but one executive says things won't change overnight.
4.  Microsoft readies Web document software. The company plans to release a version of its Web document management software aimed at small and medium-size companies.
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5.  Sun is feeling its age in valley of upstarts (SiliconValley.com). SiliconValley.com - To see Silicon Valley capitalism at work, exhibit A is the current turmoil at Santa Clara's Sun Microsystems.
6.  Microsoft Disappointed at New Deadline (AP). AP - The European Union gave Microsoft Corp. until Oct. 17 to rebut the latest antitrust charges, prompting unusually strong criticism Thursday from the software giant.
7.  Napster returns as online music store (SiliconValley.com). SiliconValley.com - Raquel Hernandez doesn't really care that Napster, the name that first put the fear of the Internet into the music industry, is being reborn today as an online music store.
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10.  Siemens handset sales up 44%. Germany's Siemens says new mobile handsets have proved a major hit with consumers, giving a much-needed boost to its market share.
11.  Napster runs test launch. Napster, which became synonymous with online music piracy, begins testing its legitimate paid-for service.
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12.  SANS list of top vulnerabilities includes Outlook, P-to-P. WASHINGTON -- Microsoft Corp.'s Outlook e-mail program and peer-to-peer (P-to-P) software have been included for the first time on the SANS Institute's annual list of the 20 security vulnerabilities most exploited by attackers on the Internet.
13.  Update: CA execs asked to resign over accounting flap. Three senior executives at Computer Associates International Inc., including its chief financial officer, have been asked to leave the company in an ongoing investigation over past accounting practices, CA announced Wednesday.
14.  ARM expands Foundry Program for fabless chip companies. ARM Ltd. will add one of its most frequently licensed processor cores to its Foundry Program for fabless chip companies, so those companies can develop products using ARM cores without the upfront cost that other chip companies pay, ARM said Thursday at the Fabless Semiconductor Association Suppliers Expo in San Jose, California.
15.  Siebel introduces BI to broader audience. SAN DIEGO -- Siebel Systems formally launched Siebel Customer Analytic Applications 7.7 and Siebel Enterprise Analytic Platform 7.7 on Wednesday at its Siebel User Week show here.
16.  Intuit apologizes to users over anti-piracy restrictions. Intuit Inc. apologized to TurboTax users for the trouble caused when anti-piracy technology stopped them from installing the same copy of the personal finance software on multiple computers.

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21.  EMusic buyer to kill off unlimited download offer. Puts limits on subscriptions
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25.  Simple Flaw in CD-Copy Protection System?
26.  Home Users Finally Buying Security Products
27.  Microsoft Releases New Security Initiatives: Industry Partners Play Key Role

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1.  eMusic turns into a steaming pile. eMusic, having been acquired by Dimensional Associates LLC, has eliminated its all-you-can-download plan (the only thing that made the service worth the $10 a month), in favor of a 40-download-a-month plan, with a "premium" $15 plan that gets you 60 tracks a month. The whole point of digital music is the risk-free grazing -- downloading things on the chance that you'll like them, downloading songs for an occassion (such as Christmas songs, or the time I made my Dad a three-CD set of different versions of "Stormy Weather"), and other forms of no-risk, all-you-can-eat entertainment. Well, eMusic was fun while it lasted. Bye.

Q: Why is EMusic changing its service?
A: The music industry continues to suffer under intense financial, legal and technological pressure. As a provider of music downloads, EMusic is subject to a complex system of intellectual property rights and technological challenges that impose high costs and often uncertain risks on the company.

In order to respond to these ongoing challenges and maintain a compelling service for our valued customers, EMusic will be making a number of significant changes in the coming weeks and months. As part of these changes, we will be discontinuing the current unlimited service plan and replacing it with a new service offering, as described above.

Translation: Our industry is thrashing in the tar. We had a pretty decent service here that didn't involve treating our customers like crooks, but the studio execs hated how stupid that made their DRM-and-lawsuit strategy look, so they've made us break it. Our new plan, described above, doesn't taste so bad if you put a lot of ketchup on it and hold your nose. Won't some nice lawmaker please stop us before we hurt ourselves?

Link to new Terms of Service, Link to Cancel eMusic Account Form

(via MeFi)
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2.  IBM takes over Electrolux's PCs. Big Blue's Global Services wing begins overseeing about 15,000 computers for the household-appliances maker, as the company looks to tidy up its IT operations.
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3.  Computer Associates Shares Sink (AP). AP - Shares of Computer Associates International Inc. sank 7 percent Thursday on news the software company had asked three executives, including it's chief financial officer, to resign following a review of its accounting practices.
4.  Yahoo! 3rd-Qtr Profit More Than Doubles (AP). AP - Shares of Yahoo! Inc. surged more than 10 percent in early trading Thursday after the Internet icon reported its earnings more than doubled in the third quarter with help from a resurgent online advertising market.
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8.  Elsewhere: Expert undermines hacking suspect's defence. An expert witness has undermined the hacking suspect's claim that he was framed for an Internet attack on a major US port

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9.  BugTraq: Re: [PAPER] Juggling with packets: floating data storage. Sender: der Mouse [mouse at Rodents dot Montreal dot QC dot CA]
10.  BugTraq: Re: [PAPER] Juggling with packets: floating data storage. Sender: Aron Nimzovitch [bugout at clouddancer dot com]
11.  BugTraq: [RHSA-2003:281-01] Updated MySQL packages fix vulnerability. Sender: [bugzilla at redhat dot com]
12.  BugTraq: Re: [PAPER] Juggling with packets: floating data storage. Sender: Adeel Hussain [ad33lh at hotmail dot com]
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13.  Another Nokia phone explodes. In Vietnam, this time
14.  Mac OS X 10.3 to ship in 15 days' time. Day of the Panther
15.  Nokia ships 3650 phone with improved display. Re-launched as 3620 and 3660
16.  O2 to axe 200 jobs. Devolution rules
17.  GameCube outsells PS2 in US after price cut. How long will it last?

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1.  DIY Hallowe'en recipes.

Here's a great assemblage of Hallowe'en recipes from last year, including a DIY Mexican sugar-skull formulation.

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(via Making Light)
2.  Polish hackers offering "untraceable" hosting on hacked boxen. Wired Magazine reports on a new kind of ISP: an "invisible" hosting service, based in the former Soviet Union, which uses a network of compromised machines and some redirection-fu to make it very hard to determine where a web-server actually lives. The service is reportedly marketed to spammers as an untraceable base-of-operations. I'm pretty skeptical about the untraceability of these systems -- I suspect that rather, they are resistant to some tools, not resistant to others, and not hard to write new tools to uncover. Still, it's juicy, lurid reading.

Another site hosted by the Polish group offers free credit consultations. Traceroutes to the site, removeform.com, also provided ever-changing results, ranging from a computer connected to a DSL line in Israel to another provided by EarthLink. However, the title of the site's home page consistently read "Yahoo Web Hosting," suggesting it was actually located on a server run by the Internet giant.

According to Tubul, his group controls 450,000 "Trojaned" systems, most of them home computers running Windows with high-speed connections. The hacked systems contain special software developed by the Polish group that routes traffic between Internet users and customers' websites through thousands of the hijacked computers. The numerous intermediary systems confound tools such as traceroute, effectively laundering the true location of the website. To utilize the service, customers simply configure their sites to use any of several domain-name system servers controlled by the Polish group, Tubul said.

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3.  Roll your own gossip magazine cover.

UK tea-vendor Quickbrew has put up a cute Flash thinggum wherein you pick from among lurid tabloid headlines and photos, enter a few personal details, and out pops a very plausible gossip-magazine cover starring you and your pals.

188K Flash Link

(via Geisha Asobi)
4.  Online-game academic group-blog. Ted Castranova (the academic whose game-world works have revealed such fascinating factoids as the GDP of Everquest ranking it among the world's top economies) has kicked off a group blog with a bunch of his fellow acadmic game-theorizers and observers, and it's fine stuff -- a kind of Crooked Timber for online gaming.

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(via Joho the Blog)
5.  Lyrics to 2,000 "Island" songs. Island Song Lyrics is a collection of words (and the occasional accompanying music) to over 2,000 Hawai'ian and south-seas songs:

1602 Bora Bora Breeze
1603 Island In The Blue
1604 Anywhere You Are
1605 Dark And Velvet Sky

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(Thanks, Larry!)
6.  SF writers on Schwarzenegger. Eileen Gunn (editor of the brilliant online sf magazine Infinite Matrix) has solicited comments from a number of science fiction writers on the Schwarzenegger gubernatorial victory in California:

William Gibson: I forget whether, in the Virtual Light books, Arnold is president of the US or merely Governor of SoCal, but, hey, it looks like I've gone and been prescient again. I hate it when that happens.

Harlan Ellison: To all the other 49 states — with the exception of Minnesota, whose election of a mountebank transcends even ours — the coronation of Ahnuld seems phantasmagoric. But not to us. We've done it at least twice before: George Murphy to the Senate, and Reagan to the White House. So, been there, seen that, done that. I thought, early on, that it was a great slate with Gary Coleman and Schwarzenegger both running: remember in MAD MAX: BEYOND THUNDERDOME, the behemoth called "Master Blaster" — this seven-foot-tall brain-damaged, muscle-bound giant, with the midget strapped to his shoulders? Wow, what a terrific Governor we'd have if we just cranked Gary Coleman down onto Ahnuld's shoulders!! As long as nobody blew a high-pitched dog whistle, we'd be in sweet milk an' honey. So what do I actually think about all this foofaraw? To quote Thomas Jefferson, who was rewording Joseph de Maistre: "People get pretty much the kind of government they deserve."

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7.  Macromedia joins Web-conference crowd. The Flash and Dreamweaver maker, with the introduction of Breeze Live, adds its product to the crowded market for online meeting software.
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8.  Group Policy may ease Active Directory pain (TechTarget). TechTarget - Few IT administrators have fond memories of setting up their Microsoft Active Directory, but some of the features in Active Directory Group Policy for Windows Server 2003 may help lessen the pain.
9.  New Pay Version of Napster Service Debuts (AP). AP - Nearly a year after software maker Roxio Inc. scooped up the Napster brand from the ashes of the pioneer file-swapping service, a revamped online music store bearing the familiar brand name was debuting Thursday in limited release.
10.  Six in a Row for Yahoo (washingtonpost.com). washingtonpost.com - In the aftermath of the 1990s boom, producing just one quarter of profits is a significant accomplishment for many public companies. But for Web portal Yahoo, it's business as usual.
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15.  Updated top 20 vulnerabilities list by SANS
16.  Disgruntled Phillies fan arrested in hacking
17.  IBM unveils wireless IDS service
18.  Gates answers cop’s plea for help
19.  Technology helps to remember passwords
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20.  Cloaking device made for spammers
21.  House votes to lock out P2P threat
22.  What to do before the RIAA knocks
23.  11,000 IP addresses found on accused hacker's PC
24.  House passes P2P security bill
25.  Software group has security framework
26.  No 'big bang' security fix - Microsoft
27.  Updated top 20 vulnerabilities list by SANS
28.  Disgruntled Phillies fan arrested in hacking
29.  IBM unveils wireless IDS service
30.  Gates answers cop’s plea for help
31.  Technology helps to remember passwords
32.  Existe-t-il un lien entre virus et organisations criminelles ?
33.  HP SCM update for MySQL
34.  HP-UX dtprintinfo DISPLAY Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
35.  EnGarde update for OpenSSL
36.  Bosses Are The Weakest Link

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1.  Intuit Apologizes to TurboTax Customers (AP). AP - Hoping to win back alienated customers, personal software maker Intuit Inc. is formally apologizing to users of its popular TurboTax program who rebelled against an anti-piracy feature the company introduced last year.
2.  Sony Shows 'Crossover' Video-Game Machine (AP). AP - Sony Corp. offered a preview Tuesday of its next-generation PlayStation, a hybrid gaming machine with digital media hub features: a TV tuner, DVD and hard-drive recording and photo album and music player functions.
3.  Yahoo! 3rd-Qtr Profit More Than Doubles (AP). AP - A resurgent online advertising market is helping Yahoo! Inc. revisit the earnings heights the Internet icon reached during the dot-com boom.
4.  Nokia Launches Two New Camera Phone Models (Reuters). Reuters - The world's largest mobile phone maker Nokia (NOK1V.HE) launched on Thursday two new handsets with in-built cameras in a bid to bolster its imaging phone range.
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3.  Second-generation Transmeta Efficeon chip due in 2004. Transmeta Corp. isn't launching its first-generation Efficeon processor until next week but the company has already begun talking about the second-generation version of the chip.

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5.  Cloaking device made for spammers
6.  House votes to lock out P2P threat
7.  What to do before the RIAA knocks
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1.  Microsoft's IE attitude: Embrace, extend--abandon?. Web developers want to light a fire under Microsoft to get better standards support in the company's Internet Explorer browser, but they can't seem to spark a flame.
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2.  Oak bets on CRM companies (The Daily Deal). The Daily Deal - The firm boosts its investment in customer-relationship software companies with two going-private deals.
3.  Computer Associates Says CFO, Other Execs Resign (Reuters). Reuters - Software maker Computer Associates International Inc. (CA.N), in its biggest housecleaning since it said federal authorities were investigating its accounting, said on Wednesday it ousted three executives, including its chief financial officer.
4.  At 'The Office,' break time is over (USATODAY.com). USATODAY.com - He's the self-satisfied clown of a boss from The Office, the acclaimed BBC series making waves Stateside: The show's six-episode first season is out on DVD this week, its second season pops up on BBC America Sunday (9 p.m. ET/PT), and an American remake is in the works from writer Greg Daniels (King of the Hill) and NBC.
5.  Nokia Cites Fake Batteries in Phone Explosions (Reuters). Reuters - Nokia Thursday pointed the finger at counterfeit batteries after another of its phones exploded and burned its user, the third such case in two months, and said original batteries sold with its phones were safe.
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6.  Toys Boys War Over Talking Books. Leapfrog sues Mattel for patent infringement of its popular talking-book technology. Mattel shakes its collective head and says nah, nah, we didn't do it. Did Mattel just do it better?
7.  Nobel Winner Critical of U.S.. Dr. Peter Agre, who shared this year's Nobel Prize in chemistry, says U.S. restrictions on scientific research in the name of fighting terrorism should be resisted. He may even put his money where his mouth is.
8.  House Fights P2P Risks. The U.S. House of Representatives votes to require the government to beef up the security of its computers so they are not exposed to privacy and security risks associated with peer-to-peer networks.
9.  China's Great Leap Upward. After 11 painstaking years of planning, China is poised to become the third nation to launch a manned space flight. Shenzhou 5 appears ready for an Oct. 15 launch, and the 'taikonaut' will be traveling with Chinese takeout.
10.  Open Access? Not Anytime Soon. An appeals court decision still has a way to go before cable companies have to abide by it and open their pipes to competing ISPs. Regulatory maneuvering and further appeals are possible. By Staci D. Kramer.
11.  Seattle Takes Stock of Paul Allen. Seattle's economy is reeling, and Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen wants to help by building a large biotech facility. But some locals say the billionaire philanthropist has too much sway in city affairs. Bobbi Nodell reports from Seattle.
12.  Crack Team to Move Liberty Bell. The Liberty Bell is moving on Thursday to a new home 300 feet from its current site. Engineers will be keeping close tabs on the bell to make sure its famous crack doesn't get any worse. By Michelle Delio.
13.  New Napster, IPod Don't Play Nice. Napster is back, if only in name. But don't expect fans of Apple's popular iPod music player to flock to the new service. The two run on different file formats. By Katie Dean.
14.  Cloaking Device Made for Spammers. Once looked down upon, the junk e-mail business is now luring money-grubbing crackers. One of the first fruits of the new cracker-spammer union is 'invisible' websites that can't be traced. By Brian McWilliams.
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17.  DeskPRO SQL Injection Vulnerability

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1.  Yahoo profits double to 65.3 million dollars (AFP). AFP - Internet giant Yahoo's net profit for the third quarter more than doubled from a year ago to 65.3 million dollars, as a new strategy to seek more income from services and fees began to pay off.
2.  S.Korea Info Minister Says No Bugs in Mobile Phones (Reuters). Reuters - South Korea's information minister said Thursday that allegations of government wiretapping of mobile phones flew in the face of technological limits and that he spoke to the country's president on a regular cellphone.
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6.  9 Oct Troj/Bdoor-AAG

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1.  'Low-tech' video phones fight back. Broadband and mobile technology promise video calls, but one UK firm is touting a low-tech option.
2.  Broadband at the price of dial-up. Internet firm Tiscali is to offer a lower speed broadband package for the price of dial-up, but experts are sceptical.
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6.  Accused port hacker says log files were 'edited'
7.  Review - Red Hat Linux 9 Unleashed
8.  More enterprises planning secure WLAN rollouts
9.  A harvest of security certifications

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1.  Apple Readies Next Server Operating System (TechWeb). TechWeb - Mac OS X Server 10.3, dubbed "Panther," is scheduled to ship on Oct. 24 with more than 150 new features.
2.  Microsoft To Deliver Management Software Nov. 11 (TechWeb). TechWeb - Systems Management Server will include enhanced patch and application deployment capabilities. Microsoft Operations Manager 2004 is due in mid-2004.
3.  Windows Gains Market Share, Despite Linux Threat (TechWeb). TechWeb - But IDC predicts that Windows won't get much more market share than the 55.1 percent it held in 2002. Linux and Unix will keep it from getting 90+ percent of the server OS market.
4.  Outsourced WLAN Security Service Launched (TechWeb). TechWeb - The service by Wireless Security Corporation is aimed at small and medium-sized businesses that don't have the internal resources or expertise to provide their own security.
5.  Nokia to Probe Blast After Mobile Phone Explodes (Reuters). Reuters - A young Vietnamese woman was injured after her mobile phone apparently exploded, a spokesman for manufacturer Nokia said Thursday.
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7.  ITV merger gets the go-ahead. ITV firms Granada and Carlton are given permission to merge, but the £4bn deal comes with conditions.
8.  Global Crossing sale finally agreed. A Singaporean firm at last wins approval to buy the bankrupt telecoms group, closing a deal that was opposed by the FBI, CIA and Pentagon.
9.  Napster set for test launch. Napster, which became synonymous with online music piracy, begins testing its legitimate paid-for service.
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11.  IBM expands wireless security service
12.  Risk Assessment Moves Beyond The Patch

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1.  Judge Says Minnesota Cannot Regulate Internet Calls. Analysts said the case is the first to scrutinize the legal status of the fast-growing business of shifting voice communications to the unregulated realm of the Internet. By Barnaby J. Feder.
2.  Getting a Bead on 'Buzz'. Is it possible to measure word of mouth? Two marketing professors say they have found a way via the Internet.
3.  To Make Sure Votes Count, Sensor Device Goes Back On. New York City has agreed to reactivate a feature on its voting machines that is intended to keep people from mistakenly failing to cast a ballot before leaving the booth. By Mike Mcintire.
4.  Oscar Voters May Get DVD's After All. Jack Valenti, the chief lobbyist for the movie industry's trade group, is considering revising and edict that bans DVD's from being sent to Academy Award voters. By Laura M. Holson.
5.  Pixar-Disney Talks Said to Show Progress. The two companies have been in talks for two months about extending their 12-year partnership, which is set to expire in 2005. By Laura M. Holson.
6.  Computer Associates Fires 3 Amid Inquiry. Computer Associates International fired the executives after a company investigation into how it recorded sales. By Bloomberg News.
7.  A CD Burner to Go, Size XS. People who are burning up the miles can also burn DVD's on the go without needing to haul around another hefty piece of hardware. The new Digistor UltraSlim DVD Multi Burner from Sunland International, which weighs less than a pound, can record and play DVD discs in three formats (DVD-R, DVD-RW and DVD-RAM) and record on CD-R and CD-RW discs for data backup, archiving and video needs on the road (or on different computers around the house). By J.d. Biersdorfer.
8.  Closed Captions, Refreshed Without a Racing Typist. For deaf users, the Internet was initially a great leveler. But that is quickly changing. By Ian Austen.
9.  Where Your Browser Is a Welcome Guest. Q. Would it be worthwhile to purchase a notebook computer with an integrated 802.11a/b wireless card to use while traveling, to avoid needing to use a hotel's computer? By J. D. Biersdorfer.
10.  Splicing the 50's Sinatra With Digital Razzmatazz. A Frank Sinatra show this month at Radio City Music Hall will feature the singer his voice and digital image, that is accompanied by a live orchestra. By Marcia Biederman.
11.  Cyberstalkers and Wordsmiths. On the dark side of Net life lurks the cyberstalker, who finds victims to harass online. By Pamela Licalzi O'connell.
12.  The Free-Range Mouse Points the Way. People making multimedia presentations can roam free with Iogear's new Phaser, a wireless, trigger-action mouse with a laser pointer. The mouse can be used in midair to control a computer from distances of as much as 50 feet. By Adam Baer.
13.  Tear Out a Check, Then Watch It Vanish. Now banks and billers are beginning to turn some checks into electronic payments automatically. By Jeffrey Selingo.
14.  For Venus and Mars, a Midpoint in Design. Aiming beyond a man's world, gadget makers are finally seeking an allure for both sexes. By Michel Marriott.
15.  From Blurry Type to Tagalog, the Scanner Is Unfazed. Typing skills may be as useful as ever, but the need to retype has diminished considerably as optical-character recognition software has improved. The programs, referred to as O.C.R. software, can analyze a page of type scanned from a magazine, manuscript or memo and reproduce the text for use in a word-processing or other editing program. The new FineReader 7.0 Professional program from Abbyy Software House offers a 25 percent gain in accuracy over the previous version of the software, and several other improvements to reduce the amount of time spent fussing with scanned documents. By J.d. Biersdorfer.
16.  Outfitting the Teenager's Dominion. Web sites offer one-stop shopping for that "pulled-together" teenage bedroom. By Michelle Slatalla.
17.  As the Music Swells, Soak It Up in the Hot Tub. Nobody would deny the restorative powers of a dip in a hot tub. But for the true connoisseur of indulgence, even the most perfectly situated tub tends to have one glaring shortcoming: the music-listening issue. Now SpAudio, a new system manufactured by Hot Spring Spas, sends sound waves through the spa's shell, essentially transforming the tub's surface into a giant high-fidelity stereo speaker. By Andrew Zipern.
18.  Decoding the Subtle Dance of Ordinary Movements. Researchers are working on ways to make computer programs better at spotting tiny expressive qualities in gait and gesture. By Anne Eisenberg.
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19.  AOL buys Egenera blade servers
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20.  File-Sharing Services Have Plan to Pay (washingtonpost.com). washingtonpost.com - A group representing the Internet's most popular free music-sharing service has come up with a business plan that it says would stop piracy by allowing consumers to legally buy copyright-protected music, though the music industry remains skeptical.
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1.  Gartner echoes concerns on Microsoft reliance. Exclusive use of Windows could subject firms to greater damage during a cyberattack, says an upcoming Gartner report. The note mirrors a paper by prominent security researchers.
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2.  Apple should have used Intel chips, Sculley says (MacCentral). MacCentral - Apple Computer Inc. should have adopted the Intel Corp. architecture when it had the chance, former chief John Sculley said Tuesday.
3.  New Pay Version of Napster Service Debuts (AP). AP - Nearly a year after software maker Roxio Inc. scooped up the Napster brand from the ashes of the pioneer file-swapping service, a revamped online music store bearing the familiar brand name was debuting Thursday in limited release.

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1.  Google bolsters advertising tools. The search company augments its popular AdWords program with several new features, including a tool that lets advertisers gauge how frequently clicks on paid links result in transactions.
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2.  File-Sharing Services Have Plan to Pay (washingtonpost.com). washingtonpost.com - A group representing the Internet's most popular free music-sharing service has come up with a business plan that it says would stop piracy by allowing consumers to legally buy copyright-protected music, though the music industry remains skeptical.
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3.  CA execs asked to resign over accounting flap. Three senior executives at Computer Associates International Inc., including its chief financial officer, have been asked to leave the company in an ongoing investigation over past accounting practices, CA announced Wednesday.
4.  Update: Yahoo exceeds Q3 expectations. Web portal Yahoo Inc. topped Wall Street's earnings and revenue expectations for its third quarter, ended Sept. 30, 2003.

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