Gregg's Security News Aggregator

Monday, October 20, 2003

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1.	Hill Hurrying to Renew Ban on Web-Access Taxes (washingtonpost.com). washingtonpost.com - Congress is moving quickly to beat a Nov. 1 deadline for renewing a ban on taxes for getting online, but the push has sparked a furor over how broadly Internet services should be taxed and whether cash-strapped state and local governments might lose billions of dollars in revenue per year.
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2.	Dilbert Readers Rat Out Some Weasels
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3.	EE Times: Startup rolls 10-Gbit Ethernet card. Still fiber only, still expensive.
4.	Sony Ericsson P900.
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5.	Judge: Hands off Internet Phones. Minnesota regulators seeking to treat Vonage like a traditional phone company suffer a stinging setback at the hands of a federal judge. The ruling could boost Internet telephony nationwide.
6.	VeriSign Sells Domain Registrar. VeriSign says it wants out of the domain name registration business and will sell that part of its Network Solutions unit. But it will keep the lucrative underlying system that tracks .com Net names. By Amit Asaravala.
7.	ITunes, Now for the Rest of Us. With his usual razzmatazz, Apple's Steve Jobs introduces the iTunes music download service for Windows PCs. He also announces marketing campaigns with Pepsi and AOL that could wean people off the illegal stuff. Leander Kahney reports from San Francisco.
8.	These Are Not Scully's Breasts. The Fake Detective is on a crusade to save Gillian Anderson and the rest of the world from the plague of fake celebrity porn. By David Kushner of Wired magazine.
9.	A Man's Way to Keep Sperm at Bay. For decades, a man's options for contraception have been limited to the temporary (condoms) or the permanent (vasectomy). Researchers are close to a long-term, reversible solution -- implants. By Louise Knapp.
10.	Future Is Now for Green Cars. Environmentally sensitive drivers can take their pick of a variety of low-emission vehicles already on dealers' lots. The new breed of peppy PZEVs helps pave the way to fuel-cell cars. By David Snow.
11.	Pics Worth a Thousand Protests. Activists around the world are relying on new technologies -- from hidden cameras to satellite communication -- to collect evidence of wrongdoing and promote their causes. By Julia Scheeres.
12.	Feds Want All-Seeing Eye in Sky. Current spy satellites don't work well enough for the feds. So they hope to commission a new generation that can keep watch on the entire world at once, regardless of weather. Noah Shachtman reports from New Orleans.
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13.	21 Oct Troj/IRCBot-P

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1.	S&P puts Sun on credit watch
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2.	Romania Emerges As Nexus of Cybercrime (AP). AP - The e-mail on a computer at the South Pole Research Center warned: "I've hacked into the server. Pay me off or I'll sell the station's data to another country and tell the world how vulnerable you are."
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3.	E-Voting Companies Answer Critics With ... Spin
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4.	The Inquirer: IBM's POWER5: The multi-chipped Monster (MCM) revealed.
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5.	Quattrone trial delayed. The trial of top Wall Street banker Frank Quattrone on obstruction of justice charges is delayed for 2 days due to the absence of a juror.
6.	Germany wins cyber Olympics. Germany triumphs in the Olympics of video games, topping the medal rankings in an global gaming event.
7.	Microsoft offers e-mail controls. The days when you could forward an embarrassing e-mail to your colleagues could be a thing of the past.
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8.	NEC and ARM prep mobile SMPs. Multicore on the go

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1.	U.S. lawmakers form antipiracy caucus. A group of federal lawmakers aims to put more steam behind issues of intellectual property piracy online and offline.
2.	TI profit doubles on strong sales. Texas Instruments reports a third-quarter net income of $447 million, fueled by rising demand for semiconductors.
3.	Earnings alert: TI posts profit. Rising semiconductor demand fuels the company's growth...Lexmark beats estimates...Chip sales spur Samsung past forecasts.
4.	SGI aims high with Altix machine. NASA is using a Linux machine from Silicon Graphics with 256 Itanium 2 processors and plans to double that, the company says after posting financial results that move it closer to a profit.
5.	Upstart storage companies aim for niches. Isilon Systems is targeting its networked storage device at digital content companies, while Panasas is focusing on organizations that use Linux clusters.
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6.	Apple Has Sold 1 Million Songs on iTunes for Windows (Reuters). Reuters - Apple Computer Inc. (AAPL.O) said on Monday that Windows computer users had downloaded its iTunes digital jukebox software and bought more than 1 million songs at a cost of 99 cents each from its online music store since their launch for Windows last Thursday.
7.	McCain demands list of Northpoint beneficiaries (FT.com). FT.com - John McCain, the Arizona senator, has asked Northpoint Technology, a Texas-based company with extensive political connections, to disclose the financial interests of people who would benefit from Northpoint receiving a free licence to provide wireless communications services.
8.	Judge Refuses Caterpillar Request on DVD (AP). AP - A federal judge refused to block Tuesday's U.S. release of a Walt Disney Co. comedy that Caterpillar Inc. contends will hurt its image and sales of children's products.
9.	Gov't, Microsoft Fight Over Online Music (AP). AP - Nearly a year after Microsoft Corp. agreed to end its anticompetitive conduct, the government is raising concerns the world's largest software maker is trying to use its dominant Windows operating system to influence where customers buy their music online.
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10.	AlienRAID.org is a community for people using Apple's Xserve RAID in non-Apple environments.
11.	FiringSquad: Building the Ultimate High-End Gaming Workstation: Stage 1.
12.	K.�J. Nowka, G.�D. Carpenter, and B.�C. Brock: The design and application of the PowerPC 405LP energy-efficient system-on-a-chip.
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13.	Immunix: fetchmail Multiple vulnerabilities
14.	Turbolinux: kernel/kdebase Multiple updates

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1.	Homestead adds photo service
2.	New Office opens its doors. But is anyone ready to move in? Migration to the latest version of Microsoft's Office package is expected to be slow, given the software's complexity. Still, some backers are ready for the housewarming.
3.	Companies double up for dual-chip cell phones. NEC and ARM team up to design chips that will contain two or more processing cores, the calculating unit inside microprocessors, to be inserted into phones and home electronics devices.
4.	Memorex to raise recordable CD prices. Citing factors such as supply shortages and rising costs from overseas disc manufacturers, Memorex plans to increase CD-R and CD-RW media prices by 10 percent to 15 percent.
5.	Feds, states question XP's music link. Federal and state regulators are concerned that a feature in Windows XP that involves online music purchasing may violate terms of Microsoft's antitrust settlement.
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6.	TiVo Stock Falls 8.8 Percent on Article (AP). AP - TiVo Inc. stock fell Monday after a newspaper article raised concerns that the maker of digital video recorders could get edged out of the market by cable operators in the not-too-distant future.
7.	Court Affirms Internet Radio Royalties (AP). AP - Radio stations must pay royalties to recording companies and performers, as they do to composers and songwriters, when musical broadcasts are "streamed" over the Internet, a federal appeals court has affirmed.
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8.	Warfare at the Speed of Light
9.	SCSI vs. IDE In The Real World
10.	Best Online Mapping Site?
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11.	Telecom World show down but far from dead. DÃ�SSELDORF, GERMANY - They came, they talked and they left -- some with deals in their pockets, others with promising prospects. But will the more than 900 exhibitors and thousands of visitors who attended the Telecom World 2003 conference and exhibition in Geneva from Oct. 12 to 18 return for the next show in three years? Organizers of the event, the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), will need to answer that question in the months ahead.
12.	Symantec purchases SSL VPN maker SafeWeb. Antivirus and computer security company Symantec Corp. said on Monday that it purchased SafeWeb Inc. of Emeryville, California, for $26 million in cash. SafeWeb makes technology that gives workers secure, remote access to network resources over the Internet.
13.	Symantec adds patch management to Ghost software. A new version of the Ghost computer cloning and restoration product from Symantec Corp. adds features that deploy software patches and reduce the network bandwidth used by the program, the company said Monday.
14.	Random chip structures to reduce manufacturing cost. BOSTON - A new chip-making technique developed by researchers at three U.S. universities could help lower the cost of future chips by replacing transistors with wires made from gold atoms and organic molecules that connect randomly placed structures, the team announced Monday.
15.	Xerox minds its MEMS. If you think your data center is too crowded, pay attention to researchers at Xerox Corp., who hope to make optical switches much smaller than today's devices. The secret lies in a technology called optical MEMS, or micro-electrical-mechanical systems.
16.	OASIS adds ebXML business process committee - Infoworld Staff. OASIS on Monday said it has formed an ebXML Business Process Technical Committee to further define the ebXML BPSS (e-business XML Business Process Specification Schema) model for business collaborations within and between enterprises. ADVERTISEMENT: Never Lose Email! Storactive LiveServ for Exchange - Storactive LiveServýs continuous, zero-loss backup eliminates Exchange data vulnerabilities and ensures rapid recovery of individual emails on up to entire data stores. Enables full recovery of data up to the moment a loss occurred. Get free info!
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17.	Immunix: fetchmail Multiple vulnerabilities
18.	Turbolinux: kernel/kdebase Multiple updates

8:59:24 PM

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1.	Dell lands Boeing services deal. The PC maker says it has signed a five-year pact with the aerospace giant to provide professional services to the company's Integrated Defense Systems business unit.
2.	Network boasts a change of address. A group of tech heavyweights launches the largest North American network that uses the next-generation Internet address system.
3.	New Office relies on buddy system. The software giant says the new version of Office, its most profitable product, could also represent a bonanza for its partners.
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4.	Appeals Court Upholds Web-Radio Royalty Fee (Reuters). Reuters - Radio stations must pay copyright fees to the artists and record labels whose songs they play over the Internet, a U.S. appeals court has ruled in a decision released Monday.
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5.	Web Intrusion Detection And Prevention
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6.	Vulnerabilities: CGI.pm Start_Form Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability. CGI.pm is a module for Perl that allows for dynamic creation of web forms and parsing of CGI input. CGI.pm is prone to cross-site scripting attacks under some circumstan...
7.	Vulnerabilities: OpenSSH Buffer Mismanagement Vulnerabilities. A buffer mismanagement vulnerability has been reported in OpenSSH. This issue exists in the 'buffer.c' source file. The source of a problem is that a buffer structure...
8.	Vulnerabilities: Red Hat Linux IPTables Firewall Failure Vulnerability. iptables is a firewall infrastructure developed for the Linux kernel. iptables on Red Hat Linux systems has been reported prone to a vulnerability, which may prevent the...
9.	Vulnerabilities: Sendmail Prescan() Variant Remote Buffer Overrun Vulnerability. Sendmail is prone to a buffer overrun vulnerability in the prescan() function. This issue is different than the vulnerability described in BID 7230. The issue exists in...
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10.	SCO licenses Microsoft protocols. Redmond Music Store, IM also concerns watchdog

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1.	No rush to move into new Office. Behind-the-scenes complexity in the new version of Microsoft's widely used software package means that businesses are likely to take their time before installing Office System.
2.	Royal Bank of Canada invests in SCO
3.	Cypress Semiconductor to buy Cascade. Cypress says the acquisition will bolster its lineup of low-power SRAM chips used in wireless devices and give it greater access to chip foundries.
4.	Zone Labs brews up antispam deal. The computer-security maker will bundle antispam software from Cloudmark into its product mix, both companies are expected to announce.
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5.	eBay, PayPal, Bank One Settle Patent Lawsuits (Reuters). Reuters - EBay Inc. (EBAY.O) and its PayPal money transfer service on Monday said they reached an agreement with Bank One Corp. (ONE.N) to settle two patent infringement lawsuits.
6.	THQ Says It Starts Work on Next-Generation Systems (Reuters). Reuters - Video game publisher THQ Inc. (THQI.O) has started development work on the next generation of game consoles and expects to begin developing software soon for Sony Corp.'s (6758.T) new handheld games device, the company's chief executive said on Monday.
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7.	Top 5 Submerging Technologies Pinpointed
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8.	BugTraq: Cross Site Java applets. Sender: Marc Schoenefeld [schonef at uni-muenster dot de]
9.	Vulnerabilities: KDE Konqueror HTTP REFERER Authentication Credential Leak Vulnerability. Konqueror is a freely available, open source web browser distributed and maintained by the KDE project. It is available for the Unix and Linux operating systems. It has...
10.	Vulnerabilities: Pine rfc2231_get_param() Remote Integer Overflow Vulnerability. Pine is an e-mail client program used with Linux and Unix distributions. It has been reported that Pine is prone to an integer overflow condition resulting in possible m...
11.	Vulnerabilities: Pine Message/External-Body Type Attribute Buffer Overflow Vulnerability. Pine is a freely available, open source Mail User Agent. It is distributed by the University of Washington, and available for the Unix, Linux, and Microsoft platforms. ..
12.	Vulnerabilities: Multiple XDMCP GDM Unspecified Denial Of Service Vulnerabilities. Gnome Display Manager (GDM), is a utility harnessed by Gnome to manage various functions when interfacing with X. X Display Manager Control Protocol (XDMCP) is a protocol...
13.	Vulnerabilities: Safe.PM Unsafe Code Execution Vulnerability. Perl code can implement an extension module called Safe. This allows code to be executed within "safe compartments". Code executed within a Safe compartment cannot acce...
14.	Vulnerabilities: Pam_SMB Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability. pam_smb is a pluggable authentication module (PAM) that provides for authentication of UNIX users to a Server Message Block (SMB) server. pam_smb has been reported pron...
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15.	Victory declared in the open source war that never was. But that's not all right then, really...

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1.	Hot spot fever?. Wayport CEO Dave Vucina has big plans to create a far-reaching network of hotel and airline Internet hot spots.
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2.	AP Corrects Apple Online Music Story (AP). AP - In an Oct. 14 story about Apple Computer Inc.'s online music store, The Associated Press reported erroneously that the store uses its own Advanced Audio Codec format. The format is called Advanced Audio Coding � an audio compression codec that was developed by Dolby Laboratories.
3.	Apple Has Sold 1 Million Songs on iTunes for Windows (Reuters). Reuters - Apple Computer Inc. (AAPL.O) said on Monday that Windows computer users had downloaded its iTunes digital jukebox software and bought more than 1 million songs at a cost of 99 cents each from its online music store since their launch for Windows last Thursday.
4.	U.S., Microsoft Fight Over Online Music (AP). AP - Nearly a year after Microsoft Corp. agreed to end its anticompetitive conduct, the government is raising concerns the world's largest software maker is trying to use its dominant Windows operating system to influence where customers buy their music online.
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5.	Windows iTunes Sells A Million Songs In 3.5 Days
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6.	BugTraq: Re: Gaim festival plugin exploit. Sender: [merlyn at stonehenge dot com (Randal L dot Schwartz)]
7.	Vulnerabilities: Solaris AnswerBook2 Administration Interface Access Vulnerability. A lack of authentication checks for certain scripts within the administration interface of AnswerBook2 versions 1.4.4 and prior, for Solaris, allows remote users to creat...
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8.	Boeing boosts Dell services. Desktop deal

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1.	Commentary: Facing the music. Apple's Windows music store leads its rivals in ease of use and distribution. Together with Musicmatch and Napster, it will catapult legitimate music downloads into the mainstream.
2.	Quattrone trial highlights integrity crisis. The only thing worse than locking up Frank Quattrone, assuming that he is guilty, would be to let all the other scofflaws go scot-free.
3.	PeopleSoft updates business software
4.	T-Mobile USA provides a security blanket
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5.	Heavy petting on the Internet for cat and dog lovers (AFP). AFP - The ever-expanding world of online dating in the United States took another step with the launch of kissykat.com, a special service aimed at helping people who love their pets find love.
6.	Google Ordered to Pay Fine in French Trademark Case (Reuters). Reuters - A French court has ruled against Internet search powerhouse Google Inc in an intellectual property rights case that could have far reaching technological and financial implications for Web search firms, who process tens of millions of queries a day.
7.	Sony Ericsson Launches Two New Mobile Photo Phones (Reuters). Reuters - Swedish-Japanese mobile phone maker Sony Ericsson unveiled on Monday two new color-screen camera-phones to boost its offering of imaging phones in a fast growing market.
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8.	The Art of Unix Programming
9.	FTAA Treaty Threatens Innovation
10.	Seven Years of KDE Celebrated
11.	Skype Vs. SIPphone - VoIP Compared
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12.	BugTraq: Re: IE remote code execution. Sender: Jouko Pynnonen [jouko at iki dot fi]
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13.	Design patterns for a Black Box Brain?. Guest Opinion Pt.2

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1.	Wired: interview with "Matrix" FX guru John Gaeta. In Wired News today, an interview I conducted with special effects guru John Gaeta on the future of film and media convergence. Fresh from finishing work on The Matrix Revolutions (which opens November 5), Gaeta hopped a plane to Barcelona to speak at tech/culture confab Artfutura, and I spoke with him there about his belief in a hybrid future of gaming and motion pictures. Link
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2.	Dell lands Boeing services deal. The PC maker says it has signed a five-year pact with the aerospace giant to provide professional services to the company's Integrated Defense Systems business unit.
3.	Symantec snaps up SafeWeb. The security company acquires the maker of secure network devices for $26 million, as the tide of consolidation continues to sweep through the industry.
4.	Sony updates rewritable DVD drive line
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5.	PeopleSoft, IBM Target European Telcos (NewsFactor). NewsFactor - PeopleSoft (Nasdaq: PSFT) and IBM (NYSE: IBM) are working together to target European telcos, in particular the wireless providers, with a package of PeopleSoft's vertical CRM applications and IBM's infrastructure and sales and implementation services.
6.	eBay, PayPal, Bank One Settle Patent Lawsuits (Reuters). Reuters - EBay Inc. (EBAY.O) and its PayPal money transfer service on Monday said they reached an agreement with Bank One Corp. (ONE.N) to settle two patent infringement lawsuits.
7.	Sony Mulls Job Cuts, TV Plant Closures (Reuters). Reuters - Sony Corp's sweeping restructuring to be unveiled next week will include job cuts and domestic TV plant closures, but details have not been finalized, a company source said on Monday.
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8.	IBM First to Receive Common Criteria Security Certification
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9.	BugTraq: Multiple SQL Injection Vulnerabilities in DeskPRO. Sender: Aviram Jenik [aviram at beyondsecurity dot com]

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1.	Lexmark beats third-quarter estimates. The company surges past analysts' expectations for third-quarter profit as it rides stronger sales of both printers and printing supplies.
2.	Dell turns on satellite TV. The PC maker is finalizing a deal to sell satellite TV systems provided by DirecTV, as part of its push to reach further into consumers' homes.
3.	PalmSource gets credit from Valley bank
4.	EarthLink casts a wider broadband net. The Internet service provider says its digital subscriber line service aimed at small businesses will now be available in 65 more locations.
5.	Sony to ax 20,000 jobs globally. The job reduction will occur partially through retirements and limiting new hires. Also: Two Japan factories that produce CRTs will switch to assembling TVs.
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6.	State of the Art: Enterprise Video Conferencing (NewsFactor). NewsFactor - Videoconferencing still presents the same problem initially posed by any technology that is ruled by the "network effect": It increases in value (and drops in cost) as more people use it. As such, videoconferencing has not yet delivered on the early promises attached to this market.
7.	Caught Between PeopleSoft and a Hard Place (NewsFactor). NewsFactor - PeopleSoft's (Nasdaq: PSFT) enterprise customers were caught unawares when Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL) launched its hostile takeover bid in June. Those that already had PeopleSoft software in place wondered whether they could count on continued support if Oracle should succeed. Others, in the process of making a decision, had to factor in concern over the long-term viability of the company. But what about those that found themselves in mid-implementation when the news hit?
8.	Open Source gains at Microsoft's Expense in Massachusetts (NewsFactor). NewsFactor - Massachusetts' yearly technology budget of $80 million does not make it a top tier software buyer. But analysts say the state's decision to favor open source technology may be a signpost that has major implications for the software industry -- particularly for Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT).
9.	Network Associates Launches New Integrated Security Application (NewsFactor). NewsFactor - Security authority Network Associates (NYSE: NET) today unveiled a new strategy integrating enterprise PC and server protection in a single software offering. The companys end node approach to secure computing represents part of an industry trend to address system attacks with a technology that protects all or most of the various components.
10.	Music industry readies more lawsuits, but will provide warnings (AFP). AFP - The recording industry is preparing a new wave of lawsuits against suspected online music pirates, but will give warnings to its targets before going to court.
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11.	Clearing hard drive takes more than deleting
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12.	BugTraq: Re: IE remote code execution. Sender: K-OTiK Security [Special-Alerts at k-otik dot com]
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13.	TV on DVD: What's the Difference?. Studios often change the sounds of original television broadcasts when they release a DVD version of the show because they say it costs too much to license the music. Some studios are coughing it up for the fans.
14.	Romania, Nexus of Cybercrime. Increasingly, computer-savvy Romanians hack vital systems, scam consumers and release viruses worldwide. With more than 60 arrests so far in Romania, FBI, Scotland Yard and other agencies team up with programmers to roust the villains in cyberspace.
15.	Re-grow Your Own Bodily Organs. Broken heart? No problem. New liver? Coming right up. The road to regeneration starts here. By Jennifer Kahn from Wired magazine.
16.	Not So Quiet on Tech Job Front. Finally, signs of life in Silicon Valley. A surge in online job listings has analysts and hiring managers anticipating a tech job turnaround in the region. By Suneel Ratan.
17.	Entertainment Beyond The Matrix. Fresh from finishing work on The Matrix Revolutions, special effects guru John Gaeta talks about the future of film and media convergence. Xeni Jardin reports from Barcelona.
18.	Concorde: Fast Flight to Nowhere. The supersonic plane will make its last flight this month, a victim of economics. While enthusiasts mourn its early demise, analysts say it will be some time before Mach travel will be commercially viable. By Noah Shachtman.
19.	E-Vote Firms Seek Voter Approval. Bad publicity about electronic voting machines prompts the industry to launch a PR campaign to convince the public their machines are safe. They're also rethinking their opposition to a paper trail of votes. By Kim Zetter.
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20.	Network Associates To Combine Product Lines
21.	Integrated Security
22.	Quantum Is Key To New Security Alliance
23.	NetScreen Beefs Up Firewall-VPN Protection
24.	Rapport hebdomadaire sur les virus
25.	CertiNomis obtient le Trophée de l´innovation des Tiers de Confiance

2:28:42 PM

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1.	IBM tool catches Java errors
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2.	Web Firm Loses $4.3M Case to 3 Brothers (AP). AP - Three young brothers were awarded $4.3 million � and stand to win more in punitive damages � after accusing X10 Wireless Technology of trying to bully them out of business.
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3.	Sun Solaris Vs Linux: The x86 Smack-down
4.	Where's Sanford Wallace Now?
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5.	BugTraq: Unpatched Internet Explorer Bugs. Sender: Liu Die Yu [liudieyuinchina at yahoo dot com dot cn]
6.	BugTraq: JAP Wins Court Victory. Sender: Tarapia Tapioco [comesefosse at ntani dot firenze dot linux dot it]
7.	BugTraq: Opera HREF escaped server name overflow. Sender: at stake Advisories [advisories at atstake dot com]
8.	BugTraq: @stake tool announcement: RedFang 2.5: The Bluetooth Hunter. Sender: Ollie Whitehouse [ollie at atstake dot com]
9.	Vulnerabilities: Bajie HTTP Server Example Scripts And Servlets Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability. Bajie HTTP Web Server is a Java web server. It is available for Microsoft Windows and Unix and Linux variants. Demonstration scripts and servlets that are distributed a...
10.	Vulnerabilities: Oracle Database Server OracleO Binary Local Buffer Overflow Vulnerability. Oracle is a commercial database product, which is available for a number of platforms including Microsoft Windows and Unix and Linux variants. Oracle Database Server 'or...
11.	Vulnerabilities: Oracle Database Server Oracle Binary Local Buffer Overflow Vulnerability. Oracle is a commercial database product, which is available for a number of platforms including Microsoft Windows and Unix and Linux variants. Oracle Database Server 'or...
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12.	Apple adds iTunes DRM to one million Windows PCs. Come and get it, kiddies
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13.	Judge: Hands off Internet Phones. Minnesota regulators seeking to treat Vonage like a traditional phone company suffer a stinging setback at the hands of a federal judge. The ruling could boost Internet telephony nationwide.
14.	VeriSign Sells Domain Registrar. VeriSign says it wants out of the domain name registration business and will sell that part of its Network Solutions unit. But it will keep the lucrative underlying system that tracks .com Net names. By Amit Asaravala.
15.	ITunes, Now for the Rest of Us. With his usual razzmatazz, Apple's Steve Jobs introduces the iTunes music download service for Windows PCs. He also announces marketing campaigns with Pepsi and AOL that could wean people off the illegal stuff. Leander Kahney reports from San Francisco.
16.	These Are Not Scully's Breasts. The Fake Detective is on a crusade to save Gillian Anderson and the rest of the world from the plague of fake celebrity porn. By David Kushner of Wired magazine.
17.	A Man's Way to Keep Sperm at Bay. For decades, a man's options for contraception have been limited to the temporary (condoms) or the permanent (vasectomy). Researchers are close to a long-term, reversible solution -- implants. By Louise Knapp.
18.	Future Is Now for Green Cars. Environmentally sensitive drivers can take their pick of a variety of low-emission vehicles already on dealers' lots. The new breed of peppy PZEVs helps pave the way to fuel-cell cars. By David Snow.
19.	Pics Worth a Thousand Protests. Activists around the world are relying on new technologies -- from hidden cameras to satellite communication -- to collect evidence of wrongdoing and promote their causes. By Julia Scheeres.
20.	Feds Want All-Seeing Eye in Sky. Current spy satellites don't work well enough for the feds. So they hope to commission a new generation that can keep watch on the entire world at once, regardless of weather. Noah Shachtman reports from New Orleans.

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1.	Sun to resell Avaki data grids
2.	Apple whistles a happy 1 million iTunes. The company says that 1 million copies of its iTunes software for Windows have been downloaded since its introduction last week and that song sales have spiked as a result.
3.	IBM eyes digital documents with Adobe. Big Blue will integrate technology from the document-software maker into its brands such as DB2, WebSphere and Tivoli.
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4.	Linksys routers caught up in open source dispute (TechTarget). TechTarget - Irvine, Calif.-based chipmaker Broadcom Corp. has run afoul of the copyright protections of the open source code behind Linux. A number of wireless networking vendors that use Broadcom's chips in their products are working toward a resolution, but their customers aren't likely to face any significant repercussions.
5.	Apple: 1 million iTunes copies, songs in three days (MacCentral). MacCentral - Last week Apple introduced its long-awaited iTunes for Windows software. The software provides Windows PC users with the ability to buy music from the iTunes Music Store, and it sports the same features and capabilities as its long-running Macintosh counterpart.
6.	French SFR to Launch Vodafone Mobile Internet (Reuters). Reuters - France's No. 2 mobile phone firm SFR, owned by Vivendi Universal and Vodafone, will launch a French version of Vodafone's successful mobile multimedia service on October 29, a source familiar with the matter said on Monday.
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7.	Farewell To The Concorde
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8.	Microsoft answers EU concerns. The software giant files its defence against accusations that it abuses its monopoly just two hours before the deadline.
9.	Strong debut for iTunes for PCs. Apple's online music store for Windows gets off to a flying start, with a million songs sold in three days.
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10.	Motorola sells cell-phone plant to Taiwan's Hon Hai. Taiwan's Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. Ltd. has agreed to purchase a Mexican manufacturing facility for cellular phones from Motorola Inc. for an undisclosed sum as part of a deal that includes a multi-year manufacturing agreement, the company said in a document filed with the Taiwan Stock Exchange on Friday.
11.	Arm, NEC to develop multiprocessor core. Processor core designer Arm Ltd. and NEC Electronics Corp. have signed an agreement to develop a multiprocessor core for multimedia devices and mobile handsets, the companies announced Monday.
12.	iAnywhere upgrades sales app, offers Wi-Fi kit. iAnywhere Solutions Inc. released an upgrade to its mobile sales application Monday, along with a developer kit offered in conjunction with Intel Corp. for small and medium-size companies looking to build and test Wi-Fi applications.
13.	NEC shows Wi-Fi at 205mph. TOKYO -- Researchers at NEC Corp. have taken Wi-Fi wireless connectivity to new levels by successfully demonstrating handovers between access points while traveling past them at bullet-train speed.
14.	MS antitrust: New licensees point to progress, MS says. Microsoft Corp. says that it is continuing to comply with the final judgement in the U.S. government's antitrust case against it, holding up as proof four new licensees of its Microsoft Communications Protocols Program (MCPP), which allows third-party products to interoperate with Windows clients.
15.	NetScreen announces deep inspection firewall. Citing an increase in attacks that take advantage of holes in existing firewall technology, NetScreen Technologies Inc. said on Monday that it will release new "deep packet inspection" features across its line of network firewall products.
16.	Oak Grove updates workflow engine - Infoworld Staff. Oak Grove Systems on Monday announced its latest workflow engine, Reactor 5.5.
17.	Andreessen labels DCML 'HTML of the datacenter' - Infoworld Staff. Hoping to bring utility computing closer to fruition, 25 companies last week unveiled the XML-based standards initiative DCML (Data Center Markup Language). The standard is designed to serve as the foundation on which users can build and deploy enterprise-capable applications.
18.	SupportSoft refreshes tech support suite - Infoworld Staff. SupportSoft on Monday released a new version of its real-time service management platform.
19.	Security vendors unleash silver bullet - Infoworld Staff. Security vendors are gearing up to offer centrally managed products to enterprise customers, who are increasingly eschewing the stand-alone approach. ADVERTISEMENT: Never Lose Email! Storactive LiveServ for Exchange - Storactive LiveServýs continuous, zero-loss backup eliminates Exchange data vulnerabilities and ensures rapid recovery of individual emails on up to entire data stores. Enables full recovery of data up to the moment a loss occurred. Get free info!
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20.	NetScreen announces deep inspection firewall. New features to be released across NetScreen's line of network firewall products
21.	Security vendors unleash silver bullet - Infoworld Staff. Network Associates, ISS launch multi-functional security products
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22.	Vulnerabilities: Eric S. Raymond Fetchmail Unspecified Denial of Service Vulnerability. Fetchmail is a freely available, open source mail retrieval utility. It is maintained by Eric S. Raymond. A vulnerability has been reported to be present in the software...
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23.	Tiscali's 150K service goes through roof. Take-up 'extremely good'
24.	Asus A620BT Bluetooth Pocket PC. Reg Review
25.	Boffins discover true power of water. Electrokinetic energy
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26.	Claim To Fame. Different countries or regions are known for different things: Detroit is known for making cars, the Middle East is known for producing oil, Hershey, PA is "Chocolate Town USA" and St. Andrews, Scotland is the birthplace of the game of...

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1.	Intel, iAnywhere team up for Wi-Fi. The chipmaker and the Sybase subsidiary aim to foster wireless applications for corporations with a bundle of mobile development tools and Wi-Fi ready notebook and handheld PCs.
2.	Monster tries to scare up more job seekers. The online career site is launching a Web-based networking section where its members can communicate with other job seekers.
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3.	Tech Layoffs Fading, But No Hiring Boom (Investor's Business Daily). Investor's Business Daily - While IBM's earnings report Wednesday didn't thrill investors, its plan to add 10,000 jobs next year offered the best tangible hope yet that tech-sector job woes could be ending.
4.	NEC Speeds Wi-Fi Transfers (PC World). PC World - New software allows high-speed handovers between access points.
5.	About 85 percent of all Chinese computers infected by viruses: survey (AFP). AFP - About 85 percent of all computers in China have been infected with viruses, and widespread Internet use ensures that the number is growing, state media said.
6.	Google Ordered to Pay Fine in French Trademark Case (Reuters). Reuters - A French court has ruled against Internet search powerhouse Google Inc in an intellectual property rights case that could have far reaching technological and financial implications for Web search firms, who process tens of millions of queries a day.
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7.	John Patrick: ENUM is a Really Big Deal
8.	Building A High-End Gaming Workstation
9.	Review of YOPY YP-3700 Linux PDA
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10.	Taking the Security Message to the Suits
11.	LEAP attack tool author says he wants to alert users to risks
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12.	Elsewhere: Retail wireless security: a few considerations. Retailers worldwide are making the move to wireless computing, both for the flexibility it brings to in-store operations and the speed it adds to business processes. Mobi...
13.	Elsewhere: Microsoft pushes for security in Longhorn. Microsoft will preview its forthcoming server-stack software at the Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles. Developers will get an in-depth technical review o...
14.	News: NetScreen firms firewalls against app attacks. The Register By John Leyden [john dot leyden at theregister dot co dot uk]
15.	News: Spam inspires musos to song. The Register By John Leyden [john dot leyden at theregister dot co dot uk]
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16.	HP unveils the last, big Alpha box. Era ending
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17.	PC whiz cleared in Houston hacking
18.	Peering through firewalls
19.	For cybersecurity, it's share and share alike
20.	An overview of high-tech surveillance
21.	Attaining web services security
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22.	NUS takes comprehensive approach to network security
23.	After Trojan Horses and worms, here comes the Beast
24.	Romania emerges as nexus of cybercrime
25.	HNS Newsletter issue 184 has been released
26.	mod_security 1.7 Apache module released
27.	Interview with Arne Vidstrom
28.	PC whiz cleared in Houston hacking
29.	Peering through firewalls
30.	For cybersecurity, it's share and share alike
31.	An overview of high-tech surveillance
32.	Attaining web services security
33.	Informer takes market by Vistorm
34.	Time to lay on layered security
35.	UK builds up alert network
36.	VeriSign puts its security news online
37.	Sanitec Chooses Equant for Network Upgrade
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38.	Microsoft Announces 5 New Windows Vulnerabilities. On October 15 Microsoft released their monthly vulnerability patch bulletin for the month of October. It contained details and patches for 5 different vulnerabilities: 4 critical and 1 important. Refer to the links below and make sure you apply any...

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1.	Lexmark beats third-quarter estimates. The company surges past analysts' expectations for third-quarter profit as it rides stronger sales of both printers and printing supplies.
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2.	Microsoft Replies to EU Charges (Reuters). Reuters - Microsoft Corp. (MSFT.O) filed a reply on Friday answering European Commission charges of abusing its dominance in personal computer systems, a European Commission spokeswoman said on Monday.
3.	Kinder, Gentler RIAA (washingtonpost.com). washingtonpost.com - Sue first, ask questions later. That was the recording industry's tactic last month, when 261 people nationwide were sued for allegedly engaging in online music piracy.
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4.	Cisco warns its WLan security can be cracked
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5.	'We have your water supply, and printers' - Brumcon report. All purely in the interests of science, of course...

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1.	A new tech battle brews in D.C.. CNET News.com's Declan McCullagh has the skinny on the latest assault the U.S. Congress is planning against peer-to-peer computing.
2.	The stuff of dreams. Nanotubes are stronger than steel, are as flexible as plastic, conduct energy amazingly well and can be made from unexotic raw materials. But can they live up to their promise?
3.	Scientists plumb water power for mobiles. A technology for generating electricity from water for use in small devices, developed by Canadian scientists, could pave the way for devices such as water-powered mobile phones.
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4.	Peeling away the hosted hype (TechTarget). TechTarget - If you listen to the hype from hosted providers, enterprise CRM customers aren't just for enterprise CRM vendors anymore. But some analysts say those marketing messages aren't entirely grounded in reality.
5.	EarthLink to Sell Service at RadioShack (Reuters). Reuters - Internet services provider EarthLink Inc. (ELNK.O) said on Monday that it would start selling its service at more than 5,000 RadioShack Corp. (RSH.N) stores in the United States.
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6.	New Method To Generate Electricity from Water
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7.	Kingston Comms rejects buy-out talk. Speculative rumours
8.	NetScreen firms firewalls against app attacks. Deep Inspection
9.	Windows server buyers buy it... because it's there?. But they're less likely to like it, or believe in it
10.	Motorists face £1000 fine for cellphone use. Mirror, (mobile) signal, manoeuvre...
11.	Spam inspires musos to song. The Outside the Inbox compilation
12.	Comtralis unwires Newmarket. 'We're number one in rural broadband'
13.	US corporate security disclosure plan won't help. Analysis Bad idea
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14.	Nouvelle version de SELinux, la distribution linux sécurisée de la NSA
15.	Preuves et délits detacute;un nouveau genre, Gilles Prola de Kroll Ontrack France répond à nos questions
16.	Alain Thivillon expert en tests det#8242;intrusion pour le cabinet HSC nous parle de son métier

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1.	Despite a New Outlook, Office 2003 Offers Little Reason to Upgrade (washingtonpost.com). washingtonpost.com - The best reason not to buy Microsoft Office is Microsoft Office. This suite of e-mail, spreadsheet, word-processing and presentation software so thoroughly dominates the market that it has become its own toughest competitor. When Microsoft has already jammed so many features into earlier versions, why bother upgrading to this year's model?
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2.	FCC Commercializes More Bandwidth for 3G services
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3.	Microchip 'to do away with pills'. A microchip being developed in the US could revolutionise the way we take medicines, scientists say.
4.	German chatty bot is 'most human'. A German chatbot wins an annual contest to find the most human-like artificial intelligence.
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5.	Columnists: Disclosure Plan Won't Help. Encouraging publicly-traded companies to disclose their cyber security efforts would only force them to choose between providing vague and useless platitudes, or specific and dangerous details.
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6.	Creative unveils 60GB iPod alternative. Reg Kit Watch Plus: LG's Microsoft smart phone
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7.	GDM Local Denial of Service Vulnerabilities
8.	fetchmail Denial of Service Vulnerability
9.	Mandrake update for fetchmail
10.	Mandrake update for gdm
11.	Face-Off: Can Security Investments Show ROI?
12.	Attaining Web Services Security
13.	Time to lay on layered security

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1.	Sarbanes-Oxley: Dragon or white knight? (USATODAY.com). USATODAY.com - Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy calls the new law aimed at preventing future Enrons and other corporate bad behavior a disaster. It's so time consuming and laden with red tape that it's like throwing "buckets of sand into the gears of the market economy," he says.
2.	Ericsson wins 150 mln dollar network order from Indian operator TATA (AFP). AFP - Ericsson, the Swedish telecommunications giant, said it had won an order worth around 150 million dollars (129 million euros) from the Indian operator, TATA Teleservices, to deploy a wireless infrastructure network in India.
3.	Second bite of the Apple (USATODAY.com). USATODAY.com - At the launch of the long-awaited iTunes for Windows Music Store last week, Apple CEO Steve Jobs boasted last week that the music-download program written to work with that service was the "best Windows application ever." With several days of usage now under my belt, I'm now in a better position to comment. The bottom line: two out of three isn't bad. He still has the best MP3 player and a great music store. The iTunes for Windows program, however, was clearly rushed out before the bugs were fixed.
4.	Women go high-tech to find way to success (USATODAY.com). USATODAY.com - Technology is driving female entrepreneurship like never before. Speedy Internet connections, cheap computers and other gizmos are helping women reach parity with men in starting more sophisticated businesses, entrepreneurship experts say.
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5.	Microchip Could Replace Pills
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6.	Face-Off: Can Security Investments Show ROI?
7.	Attaining Web Services Security
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8.	Microsoft monopoly says Apple monopoly is too restrictive. 'Beware the March of iTunes,' warns Fester
9.	BT loses 2m punters. It's good to walk...
10.	RIAA to issue warnings first, lawsuits second. Stop sharing - or face the consequences
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11.	Ad-aware referencefile 01R226 19.10.2003

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1.	Microsoft touts 'leak-proof' e-mail. Microsoft says its latest Office software allows e-mails to "self-destruct" after a set time.
2.	Germany takes cyber games crown. Germany triumphs in the Olympics of video games, topping the medal rankings in an global gaming event.
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3.	Nvidia GeForce FX 5950, 5700 to launch Wednesday?. So say graphics card companies
4.	Microsoft monopoly says Apple monopoly is too restrictive. 'Beware of the March of iTunes' - warns Fester
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5.	TV on DVD: What's the Difference?. Studios often change the sounds of original television broadcasts when they release a DVD version of the show because they say it costs too much to license the music. Some studios are coughing it up for the fans.
6.	Romania, Nexus of Cybercrime. Increasingly, computer-savvy Romanians hack vital systems, scam consumers and release viruses worldwide. With more than 60 arrests so far in Romania, FBI, Scotland Yard and other agencies team up with programmers to roust the villains in cyberspace.
7.	Re-grow Your Own Bodily Organs. Broken heart? No problem. New liver? Coming right up. The road to regeneration starts here. By Jennifer Kahn from Wired magazine.
8.	Not So Quiet on Tech Job Front. Finally, signs of life in Silicon Valley. A surge in online job listings has analysts and hiring managers anticipating a tech job turnaround in the region. By Suneel Ratan.
9.	Entertainment Beyond The Matrix. Fresh from finishing work on The Matrix Revolutions, special effects guru John Gaeta talks about the future of film and media convergence. Xeni Jardin reports from Barcelona.
10.	Concorde: Fast Flight to Nowhere. The supersonic plane will make its last flight this month, a victim of economics. While enthusiasts mourn its early demise, analysts say it will be some time before Mach travel will be commercially viable. By Noah Shachtman.
11.	E-Vote Firms Seek Voter Approval. Bad publicity about electronic voting machines prompts the industry to launch a PR campaign to convince the public their machines are safe. They're also rethinking their opposition to a paper trail of votes. By Kim Zetter.

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1.	Sage hits profit targets. Tyneside based software firm Sage posts a 12% rise in full year profits to £151m.
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2.	Anti-scam site beats domain attack. European City Guide on last legs

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1.	Death of the PDA?
2.	Baffling the Spam Bots
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3.	Job cull fears at Sony. The world's largest consumer electronics maker is set to cut up to 20,000 jobs within three years, the Japanese press reports.
4.	Doubts over cyber crime cases. The acquittal of a teenager over a high-profile hack attack could dent cyber crime prosecutions, say experts.
5.	Microsoft launches 'leak-proof' e-mail. Microsoft says its latest Office software allows e-mails to "self-destruct" after a set time.
6.	Water sparks new power source. Scientists develop a new way of generating electricity from water which could power computer chips.
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7.	Linux Security Week - October 20th 2003
8.	Developers Believe in Linux Security
9.	Let Common Sense Guide Security ROI
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10.	Video Games Will Calm Your Fears. According to a Canadian study, regular ol' video games are an effective method of treating phobias. In the tradition of exposure therapy, researchers say a spider-laden Half-Life has helped arachnophobic folks overcome their fright.
11.	RIAA Croons a New Warning Tune. The recording industry group says from now on it will send out warning letters to suspected music-file traders before taking them to court, allowing them to negotiate a settlement. Those who do not respond within 10 days will be sued.
12.	Do-Not-Spam? Don't Bet on It. If a do-not-call list can keep telemarketers at bay, shouldn't a do-not-spam list achieve the same thing with junk e-mail? Well, no, say skeptics of the attempts to create such a list.
13.	Senators Want JetBlue Probe. Three senators ask the Pentagon to investigate whether it broke a privacy law by gathering information about JetBlue customers without notifying the passengers. By Ryan Singel.
14.	Wireless Phone Sales Still Go-Go. One segment of the tech industry is still thriving: wireless phones. Thanks to a new generation of mobile phones that let people play video games, listen to tunes and take pictures, sales are booming. By Michael Stroud.
15.	Moms Battle Genetic Engineering. Images of four-breasted women are being seen on billboards in New Zealand. It's part of an ad campaign by a group of mothers who oppose genetic engineering. By Kristen Philipkoski.

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1.	An Optimist Aims to Revive Red Herring. A French investor hopes to resuscitate Red Herring, a magazine that was an early messenger of the new economy. By Victoria Shannon International Herald Tribune.
2.	Sony Expected to Cut Thousands of Jobs. The Sony Corporation will cut 15,000 to 20,000 workers from its 160,000-person global work force by March 2006 as part of a revamping. By Reuters.
3.	Buy the OutKast CD and Catch the Sale on Dogs and Paintings. The hip-hop group OutKast is offering something new to listeners: pit bull terriers. By Chris Nelson.
4.	Audible Service Could Teach Music Industry a Lesson. Reasonably priced secure downloads. Compensation for writers and artists. Peaceful alliances between publishers and online distributors. A utopian vision for the music industry? By Lisa Napoli.
5.	Surprise, It's Not Tiffany's. A bargain shopping Web site offers necklaces that it says came from Tiffany. But Tiffany begs to differ. By Bob Tedeschi.
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6.	Sharp to increase production of small, high-resolution LCD panels (AFP). AFP - Japanese high-tech firm Sharp Corp. said it planned to boost production of small, high-resolution liquid crystal display (LCD) panels used mainly for products such as mobile phones.
7.	UK Software Firm Sage Says Year Results in Line (Reuters). Reuters - Britain's largest listed software company Sage Plc said on Monday profits and revenues grew in line with expectations in its latest financial year, adding to optimism on the battered technology sector's outlook.
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8.	Linux Security Week - October 20th 2003
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9.	Judge: Hands off Internet Phones. Minnesota regulators seeking to treat Vonage like a traditional phone company suffer a stinging setback at the hands of a federal judge. The ruling could boost Internet telephony nationwide.
10.	VeriSign Sells Domain Registrar. VeriSign says it wants out of the domain name registration business and will sell that part of its Network Solutions unit. But it will keep the lucrative underlying system that tracks .com Net names. By Amit Asaravala.
11.	ITunes, Now for the Rest of Us. With his usual razzmatazz, Apple's Steve Jobs introduces the iTunes music download service for Windows PCs. He also announces marketing campaigns with Pepsi and AOL that could wean people off the illegal stuff. Leander Kahney reports from San Francisco.
12.	These Are Not Scully's Breasts. The Fake Detective is on a crusade to save Gillian Anderson and the rest of the world from the plague of fake celebrity porn. By David Kushner of Wired magazine.
13.	A Man's Way to Keep Sperm at Bay. For decades, a man's options for contraception have been limited to the temporary (condoms) or the permanent (vasectomy). Researchers are close to a long-term, reversible solution -- implants. By Louise Knapp.
14.	Future Is Now for Green Cars. Environmentally sensitive drivers can take their pick of a variety of low-emission vehicles already on dealers' lots. The new breed of peppy PZEVs helps pave the way to fuel-cell cars. By David Snow.
15.	Pics Worth a Thousand Protests. Activists around the world are relying on new technologies -- from hidden cameras to satellite communication -- to collect evidence of wrongdoing and promote their causes. By Julia Scheeres.
16.	Feds Want All-Seeing Eye in Sky. Current spy satellites don't work well enough for the feds. So they hope to commission a new generation that can keep watch on the entire world at once, regardless of weather. Noah Shachtman reports from New Orleans.

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1.	A Game Player That Happens to Be a Phone. Nokia's new mobile phone offers graphically rich, three-dimensional, full-color video games stored on cards. By Eric A. Taub.
2.	Can Cable Fast-Forward Past TiVo?. TiVo, the best-known maker of digital video recorders, may need to worry about the cable industry, which is napping at its heels. By Seth Schiesel.
3.	Live TV Pitfall Rerun on Web. In live television, things inevitably go wrong. And in the Internet age, TV missteps can take on lives of their own. By Lisa Napoli.
4.	Europe's Antipiracy Proposal Draws Criticism. In an effort to fight product counterfeiting and piracy, the European Union is preparing to enact a sweeping intellectual property law. By Paul Meller.
5.	Electronic Memory Research That Dwarfs the Silicon Chip. A team of university researchers has constructed an electronic memory circuit from disordered arrays of electronic clumps of gold atoms. By John Markoff.
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6.	Open Source Makes Gain in Massachusetts (AP). AP - With more than $32 billion in sales last year, Microsoft Corp. doesn't usually worry about losing one customer. But this one may be different.

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1.	Symantec tackles patchwork approach to patching. The company is releasing a new version of its Ghost software for managing PCs that's designed to let information technology administrators apply patches en masse.
2.	Upstart storage companies aim for niches. Isilon Systems is targeting its networked storage device at digital content companies, while Panasas is focusing on organizations that use Linux clusters.

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