Thursday, October 30, 2003

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1.  Wireless Gets The Priciest Plugs (washingtonpost.com). washingtonpost.com - If you're standing in a remote cornfield, Verizon Wireless wants you to know its phone works well there. If touchy feely is your thing, AT&T Wireless wants you to "reach out" with its phone. Sleek and sexy T-Mobile USA, by the way, wants to slip its phone into your back pocket.
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2.  EU Probes Microsoft's Licences

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1.  Grateful for army robot contest, entrants give tanks. The number of entries to a robotic-car contest sponsored by a Defense Department group more than doubles, prompting the agency to extend some deadlines.
2.  Broadband numbers show heightened demand. After a quarter marked by DSL price cuts and cable speed boosts, recently released subscriber numbers make it clear: Broadband use is surging, regardless of what form it takes.
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3.  LaCie warns against using FireWire 800 with Panther (MacCentral). MacCentral - Just hours after Apple Computer Inc. acknowledged problems with FireWire 800 hard drives and its new operating system, Mac OS X Panther, hard disk maker LaCie Corp. issued a warning to users about using its FireWire 800 drives with Panther. The incompatibilities only affect FireWire 800 and not the earlier FireWire 400 hard drives, according to Apple and LaCie.
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4.  Deconstructing the Patriot Act PR Campaign
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5.  Wired News: HDTV Newcomer Faces High Hurdles. They sure don't have much marketing, because I've never heard of it. AVSForum has the details as usual.
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6.  Vulnerabilities: Microsoft Windows DCOM RPC Interface Buffer Overrun Vulnerability. Microsoft Windows provides a DCOM (Distributed Component Object Model) interface to the RPC (Remote Procedure Call) protocol. A buffer overrun vulnerability has been rep...
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7.  WORM_AGOBOT.NN

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1.  Amazon: Sales up from book search
2.  Patent overhaul gets a boost. Warning that patents of dubious legitimacy can slow innovation and stifle competition, the head of the Federal Trade Commission recommends new procedures for challenging patents.
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3.  Yahoo Set to Phase Out Paid Video Service -Sources (Reuters). Reuters - Yahoo Inc. (YHOO.O) is preparing to phase out its online video subscription service and fold it into a wider offering of premium services, people familiar with the Internet company's plans said on Thursday.
4.  Germ-Wary Japanese Fuel New 'Green' Technology (Reuters). Reuters - Car dealer Takeshi Kiyomiya has a piece of wall at his shop in central Tokyo that stays remarkably clean despite the bombardment of dirt and grime from one of the city's main thoroughfares.
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5.  Man Arrested in Australia Over Nigerian E-mail Scam
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6.  World drowning in oceans of data. About 800Mb of information is produced for every person on the planet annually, say US researchers.
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7.  TROJ_GES.A
8.  TROJ_GIGOLO.A
9.  Small business owners disagree on spam approach

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1.  HP, IBM lead in support services. Research firm Gartner gives Hewlett-Packard and Big Blue top marks among major server computer sellers when it comes to so-called "high-availability" support services.
2.  Panther glitch erases some hard drives. A problem is causing some of those who install the new version of Mac OS X to lose the data stored on their external hard drives.
3.  The new IT confusion. Droplets chairman Philip Brittan warns that lingering customer confusion about the differences between "grid" and "utility" computing could stall their wider adoption.
4.  Product activation glitch hits Symantec. A few of the 1.2 million customers that have installed the software company's latest Norton security package complain that product activation is failing.
5.  HP winds down venerated 3000 servers. Although the company will stop selling the systems, it will continue to offer customer support. Also: Loyal HP 3000 fans band to help each other out.
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6.  Apple to address Panther external FireWire drive issues (MacCentral). MacCentral - Apple Computer Inc. has responded to concerns from its users that Mac OS X Panther disables or corrupts external FireWire hard disks. Users began reporting the issues to Apple shortly after the release of the operating system on October 24, 2003.
7.  Streisand Offers Outfits in Online Charity Auction (Reuters). Reuters - People -- people who need pantsuits -- are about to become the luckiest people in the world.
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8.  Debian Can Now Amend Social Contract, DFSG
9.  Mars Attacked, 65 Years Ago Today
10.  Microsoft Launches Portable Music Player
11.  Superfast Optically-Based DSP Announced
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12.  Samsung breaks ground on Sony JV LCD fab. Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. held a groundbreaking ceremony Thursday marking the beginning of construction of an advanced flat panel display factory.
13.  Intel's Pentium 4 Extreme Edition launch set for Monday. Intel Corp. plans to launch its new Pentium 4 Extreme Edition processor Monday, a source familiar with Intel's plans said Thursday.
14.  IBM CEO: National strategy on innovation needed. WASHINGTON - The U.S. government and private industries need to encourage business innovation, because the nation is in danger of losing its edge in technology and in other industries, said Sam Palmisano, chairman and chief executive officer of IBM Corp.
15.  Computer Associates boosts .Net Web services - Infoworld Staff. Looking to boost the management of Web services on the Microsoft .Net platform, Computer Associates plans to link its upcoming Web Services Distributed Management (WSDM) software to the Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2000 systems management platform.
16.  Update: WebMethods plans midmarket ESB. Integration software vendor WebMethods Inc. unveiled this week an array of new applications, including a forthcoming simplified product for smaller businesses and a host of functionality-extending add-ons developed through partnerships. The flurry of announcements came at WebMethods' annual user conference, Integration World, in Orlando.
17.  PDC: Microsoft to release threat-modeling tool. LOS ANGELES - Microsoft plans to publicly release a threat modeling tool it uses internally to help software developers create more secure software, the company said Thursday.

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18.  Symantec adds compliance features to ESM 6.0. Product includes best practices for variety of regulations
19.  Antispam advocates question Senate bill. Critics say the CAN-SPAM Act will do little to stem the tide of spam

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20.  Small business owners disagree on spam approach. Some businesses defend unsolicited e-mail as a valuable marketing tool
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21.  TROJ_BACKGATE.A
22.  WORM_FAGOT.A
23.  WORM_MOEGA.C
24.  VPN Capabilties
25.  Lutel's Firewall 0.72
26.  telecondex.pl
27.  x-ws_ftp.c
28.  mod_dosevasive.1.9.t..>
29.  sensorTrends-0.6.tar..>
30.  fp-2.4.22.patch.gz
31.  nstx-1.1-beta3.tgz
32.  radmind-1.2.1.tgz
33.  xscreensaver-4.14.ta..>

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1.  Music Group Files 80 Downloading Lawsuits (AP). AP - The recording industry filed 80 more federal lawsuits around the country Thursday against computer users it said were illegally sharing music files across the Internet.
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2.  Ideas Unlimited: 11 Suggestions for New Inventions
3.  U.S. Continues Biological Warfare Research
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4.  SANS Tutorial Webcast: Configuring and Deploying Honeyd
5.  Incident Response Tools For Unix, Part Two: File-System Tools
6.  E-mail Threatened By Spam And IM . . . Or Is It?

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1.  RIAA files 80 new file-swapping suits. Warning letters prompt many people to settle with the Recording Industry Association of America before being sued.
2.  ARM joins embedded Linux group
3.  Linux-based Motorola phone to use Intel chip. The No. 2 market share leader in cell phones will use a processor from its chipmaking rival in the upcoming A760 handset.
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4.  Debian Can Now Amend Social Contract, DFSG
5.  Mars Attacked, 65 Years Ago Today
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6.  VPN Capabilties
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8.  BugTraq: Re: Internet Explorer and Opera local zone restriction bypass. Sender: [psz at maths dot usyd dot edu dot au (Paul Szabo)]
9.  BugTraq: RE: Internet Explorer and Opera local zone restriction bypass. Sender: Thor Larholm [thor at pivx dot com]
10.  Vulnerabilities: Multiple GDM Local Denial Of Service Vulnerabilities. Gnome Display Manager (GDM) is a utility harnessed by Gnome to manage various functions when interfacing with X.

GDM has been reported prone to multiple denial of servi...
11.  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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12.  Minimize your ROI with IBM. Less is ... less
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13.  tc.SimpleWebServer Buffer Overflow in Processing the HTTP Referer Lets Remote Users Execute Arbitrary Code

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1.  Compuware to Cut Most Staff Salaries (AP). AP - Software company Compuware Corp. said Thursday it will cut employee salaries and eliminate some benefits in an effort to reduce costs without cutting more jobs.
2.  DMCA grounds shaken in Lexmark cartridge case (MacCentral). MacCentral - A ruling this week from the U.S. Copyright Office could strengthen manufacturer Static Control Components Inc.'s (SCC's) defense against a copyright infringement lawsuit by Lexmark International Inc. that is expected to have a broad impact on the market for low-cost, third-party printer cartridges.
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3.  Yet Another Big Solar Flare
4.  Factual 'Big Mac' Results
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5.  BugTraq: Re: Mac OS X vulnerabilities. Sender: gabriel rosenkoetter [gr at eclipsed dot net]
6.  BugTraq: Serious Sam is not so serious. Sender: Luigi Auriemma [aluigi at altervista dot org]
7.  Vulnerabilities: Sun Java Virtual Machine Slash Path Security Model Circumvention Vulnerability. The Java Virtual Machine (JVM) is a component of the Sun Java infrastructure that performs the handling of Java applets and other programs. It is available for Unix, Lin...

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1.  Justice Department as antipiracy shill?. U.S. Rep. Rick Boucher says adopting a proposal to let the Department of Justice steer an antipiracy campaign because of Internet file-swapping concerns would be a major error.
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2.  OS X Conference: Apple's Bud Tribble talks science (MacCentral). MacCentral - One of the Mac's creators, Bud Tribble, said that one of the trends he and his colleagues at Apple have noticed is that Mac OS X is coming on strong in the sciences, both in the commercial and academic worlds. For the last keynote at the O'Reilly Mac OS X conference, Tribble described some trends for Mac OS X in the sciences and why the operating system and the Mac itself are becoming so attractive to researchers.
3.  IBM CEO Says U.S. Must Innovate to Keep Jobs (Reuters). Reuters - International Business Machines Corp. (IBM.N) Chief Executive Officer Samuel Palmisano said on Thursday that the Unites States needs to step up the pace of innovation to help stem the flow of technology jobs overseas.
4.  Comcast Reports Net Income of $3.18B (AP). AP - Comcast Corp., buoyed by the recent sale of its majority stake in the QVC channel, reported net income Thursday of $3.18 billion and stronger-than-expected demand for premium services including high-speed Internet access.
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5.  BugTraq: RE: Internet Explorer and Opera local zone restriction bypass. Sender: Francis Favorini [francis dot favorini at duke dot edu]
6.  BugTraq: Re: Mac OS X vulnerabilities. Sender: Mike Stark [mstark at ucsd dot edu]
7.  BugTraq: Re: Mac OS X vulnerabilities. Sender: gabriel rosenkoetter [gr at eclipsed dot net]
8.  Vulnerabilities: DansGuardian Denied URL Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability. DansGuardian is a content filtering software package. It is available for Unix, Linux, and Microsoft operating systems.

A problem has been reported in the handling of s...
9.  Vulnerabilities: Musicqueue Multiple Buffer Overrun Vulnerabilities. Musicqueue is a CGI-based jukebox utility designed to invoke external programs to carry out a variety of tasks. Musicqueue is available for the Linux operating system. Th...
10.  Vulnerabilities: Symantec Norton Internet Security Error Message Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability. Symantec Norton Internet Security is a suite of commercial security utilities including Norton Personal Firewall and Norton Antivirus.

A vulnerability has been reported ...
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11.  StorageTek gives early look at tape library behemoth. Mounts faster than a prized bull

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1.  Microsoft whets developers' appetites
2.  Gator sinks teeth into new image. The controversial advertising software ande-wallet company changes its name in a bid to distance itself from a brand that has become associated with allegations of "spyware."
3.  Mac OS X refund suit gets preliminary nod. A judge grants preliminary approval to a settlement that would allow some owners of Apple's Mac OS X to receive a refund.
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4.  Apple Unleashes MAC OS Update 'Panther' (AP). AP - For the second time in just over a year, Apple Computer Inc. is out with a major upgrade of the Mac OS X operating system, packing it with features Windows users won't see for years and attaching a price tag befitting Apple's reputation as the Porsche of computer makers.
5.  Head to Head: Oracle vs. PeopleSoft - Part 2 (NewsFactor). NewsFactor - If the CRM feature/function wars are indeed over, how does a company select a CRM system? Rather than looking at product bells and whistles, "It's more important to focus in on what [a product's] technology looks like -- if it is easy to implement, and how flexible it is to change," says Steve Bonadio, senior program director, enterprise application strategies, Meta Group.
6.  REVIEW: Security Product Features Differ (AP). AP - Keeping your computer secure once meant buying anti-virus software and getting updates on new threats every month or so.
7.  REVIEW: HP Eases Transfer of Tapes to DVD (AP). AP - As DVD players push the venerable videocassette recorder toward obsolescence, all those tapes of birthday parties, vacations and weddings — not to mention your Hollywood movies — are at risk of becoming technology orphans.
8.  Windows Messenger Goes Dark (NewsFactor). NewsFactor - Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) announced that it will disable its Windows Messenger service and activate the Internet Connection Firewall (ICF) in the Windows XP Service Pack 2 upgrade due in the first half of 2004. "Microsoft is committed to making Windows more secure," Amy Carroll, director of product management for Microsoft's Security Business Unit, told NewsFactor.
9.  House Could Vote Soon on Senate Anti-Spam Bill (Reuters). Reuters - The U.S. House of Representatives could vote as early as next week on a bill to outlaw e-mail "spam" that has already passed the Senate, congressional aides said on Thursday.
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10.  Apple Forcing Panther Upgrade for Security Patch
11.  Large Scale Collaborative Editing
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12.  Vulnerabilities: Netscape/Mozilla JAR Remote Heap Corruption Vulnerability. Netscape and Mozilla are freely available web browsers. They are available for various platforms including Linux variant and Microsoft Windows operating systems.

A heap ...
13.  Vulnerabilities: Microsoft Internet Explorer Local Resource Reference Vulnerability. Microsoft Internet Explorer is prone to an issue that may allow for unauthorized access to local resources. Internet Explorer version 6 SP1 imposed restrictions to limit...
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14.  StorageTek gives early look at tape library behemoth. Mounts faster than a prized steer

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1.  Lindows working on Web-authoring tool
2.  The (online) music man. RealNetworks CEO Rob Glaser talks with CNET News.com on the shifting future of online music.
3.  Yahoo to kill paid video service. Sources say the Web portal will fold Yahoo Platinum into a new premium-services bundle and expand its free video offerings.
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4.  Leapfrog's Leapster Hand-Held Device Hits Stores (Reuters). Reuters - Educational toy maker LeapFrog Enterprises Inc (LF.N), looking to boost sales and tap the important holiday shopping season, launched its key hand-held game-player on Thursday.
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5.  More on Talking Shopping Carts
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6.  Incident Response: Computer Forensics Toolkit
7.  Firms tap encyption over complex security
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8.  Vulnerabilities: RedHat Apache Directory Index Default Configuration Error. A vulnerability has been reported to be present in the RedHat Apache configuration that may allow remote attacker to view directory listings by sending a specific HTTP GE...
9.  Vulnerabilities: IWConfig Local ARGV Command Line Buffer Overflow Vulnerability. iwconfig is a freely available, open source wireless connection management tool for Linux.

A problem has been identified in the iwconfig program when handling strings on...
10.  Vulnerabilities: Musicqueue SIGSEGV Signal Handler Insecure File Creation Vulnerability. Musicqueue is a CGI-based jukebox utility designed to invoke external programs to carry out a variety of tasks. Musicqueue is available for the Linux operating system. Th...
11.  Vulnerabilities: Les Visiteurs Multiple Remote File Include Vulnerabilities. Les Visiteurs is a freely available, open source web site statistics script. It is written in PHP, and available for the Unix, Linux, and Microsoft platforms.

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12.  Vulnerabilities: Multiple Microsoft Internet Explorer Script Execution Vulnerabilities. Multiple issues have been reported in Microsoft Internet Explorer. Though these issues have been reported by a reliable source, communication issues have presented diffi...
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13.  Berners-Lee comes out fighting to save Web. Father of the Web insists US patent office reviews vital case
14.  Calling Coders for the Greater Common Good. The UK needs you
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15.  Blue Coat buys Ositis
16.  @Stake issues security advisories for OS X Jaguar
17.  UK security 'most shameful in Europe'
18.  AntiOnline Security Spotlight: CD-Wrecker
19.  US: Whether MCI Tried To Defraud Carriers
20.  Internet Suspect Charged
21.  Onvoy Names Whistle-Blower
22.  MCI Phone Routing Illegal, Or Simply Complex?
23.  Rombyte Fined £16k For Flogging Fake DRAM
24.  Revenue Tells Staff: No Peeking
25.  Can Computer Ballots Lead To Fraud?
26.  California Has New Headache
27.  Cybertrust: An Economic Imperative
28.  Italian Police Probe Major Internet Scam
29.  Gangs Into High-Tech
30.  Midwest Banks To Share Crime Information
31.  Accused Web Attacker Called Hi-Tech Loner
32.  Tech Firms Band Together On ID Theft
33.  Nationally Known Hacker Faces Charges In NY
34.  US Man Accused Of Luring Kids To Porn Sites
35.  New York Times Hacker Surrenders
36.  Customs Computer Glitch 'Loses' £2bn
37.  Bank Of Montreal, Desjardins Target Of Fraud
38.  Bogus Internet Casanova Arrested
39.  Banks In U.K., Canada Hit With e-Mail Scam
40.  ECT Act May Be Used Against Absa Hacker
41.  A&M Aims To Catch Cheats
42.  Two Plead Guilty In AOL Fraud Case
43.  Former DTE Worker Charged With Computer Fraud
44.  Absa e-Fraud Charges Increased
45.  Web-Based Music Pirate Gets Jail Time
46.  US Hacker Accused Of Massive Fraud
47.  PC Whiz Cleared In Houston Hacking
48.  Citibank Customers Hit With E-mail Scam

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1.  SuSE wins partial BMC support. BMC Software touts its support for SuSE Linux at the LinuxWorld Frankfurt trade show--but the support doesn't span SuSE's entire product line.
2.  SanDisk, Fuji in photo card deal
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3.  EU Expands Probe of Microsoft to Software Licenses (Reuters). Reuters - The European Commission widened its probe into Microsoft Corp for anti-competitive practices on Thursday, asking computer hardware makers for details of their licensing deals with the software giant.
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4.  Vietnam Going Open Source
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5.  UK security 'most shameful in Europe'
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6.  BugTraq: [OpenPKG-SA-2003.047] OpenPKG Security Advisory (postgresql). Sender: OpenPKG [openpkg at openpkg dot org]
7.  BugTraq: Re: Mac OS X vulnerabilities ['Virus checked"]. Sender: Kurt Harvey [k_harvey at mac dot com]
8.  BugTraq: Re: Internet Explorer and Opera local zone restriction bypass. Sender: william schulze [was at macromedia dot com]
9.  BugTraq: Multiple Vulnerabilities in Led-Forums. Sender: ProXy - [proxy at excluded dot org]
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10.  Rätsel um Patches für OS X
11.  Microsoft aktualisiert Security-Updates
12.  News: Gone Phishin'
13.  Bugwatch: Server-based safety

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1.  Who's doing selective enforcement?
2.  Gateway, IBM whittle customer-response time. The hardware maker partners with Big Blue's services team to provide its business customers with quick relief for servers.
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3.  Gartner analyst scrutinizes SCO-Linux flap (TechTarget). TechTarget - ORLANDO, Fla. ndash;- Back in May, when the SCO vs. IBM issue was heating up, Gartner analyst George Weiss advised enterprises to consider their Linux plans with caution. Since then, a couple of more lawsuits have been filed, SCO's received a cash infusion from venture capital firm BayStar Capital, and the dispute's course has only become more murky. In this interview with SearchEnterpriseLinux.com, Weiss offers his take on what's going on with the fight.
4.  Ericsson Posts Narrower 3rd Quarter Loss (AP). AP - LM Ericsson, the world's largest supplier of equipment for wireless phone networks, posted a narrower third-quarter loss Thursday and said the battered industry was starting to recover.
5.  Printer Cartridge Clones Get Boost (PC World). PC World - Copyright office says DMCA doesn't block reverse-engineering tactics of clone makers.
6.  New FCC rules to target HDTV piracy (SiliconValley.com). SiliconValley.com - WASHINGTON - Federal regulators are expected to adopt new rules within days aimed to block the swapping of high-definition digital broadcast TV programming over the Internet.
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7.  U.S. Continues Biological Warfare Research
8.  Columnist Threatens to Sue Blogger
9.  Human Accomplishment
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10.  Microsoft, Vodafone outline services plan. Los Angeles - Microsoft and Vodafone Group published a technical road map and a white paper as part of their effort to allow PC applications to take advantage of services offered on mobile networks.
11.  @Stake issues security advisories for OS X Jaguar. Security consulting firm, @Stake issued three security advisories for Apple's Mac OS X operating system this week. The advisories affect Mac OS X 10.2.8 and lower and do not appear to affect the company's recently released Panther operating system. In fact, @Stake is recommending users upgrade to Panther as a fix for the problems.
12.  Developers get their hands on Microsoft's NGSCB. LOS ANGELES -- In addition to showing off its next-generation Longhorn operating system this week, Microsoft Corp. for the first time handed out code that underlies its closely watched Next-Generation Secure Computing Base (NGSCB) security technology.
13.  Sun, TI team up for Java apps on cell phones. Java pioneer Sun Microsystems Inc. and cell-phone chip maker Texas Instruments Inc. (TI) are joining to make it easier for phone makers and mobile operators to get Java-based applications out to end-users, the companies announced Wednesday.
14.  EU quizzes hardware makers on Microsoft licences. BRUSSELS, Belgium -- The European Commission has contacted unspecified hardware manufacturers about Microsoft Corp.'s licensing policy because it suspects anticompetitive behavior, it said Thursday.
15.  EU directive on direct marketing takes effect Friday. The European Union (E.U.) directive on Privacy and Electronic Communications is due to take effect Friday, requiring marketers in member states to seek the consent of consumers before sending direct marketing e-mail in most cases.
16.  EDS meets Q3 expectations, plans more layoffs. Embattled IT services provider Electronic Data Systems Corp. (EDS) met Wall Street expectations for its third quarter but said it plans to cut 2,500 jobs, bringing this year's announced layoffs to 5,200, or about 4 percent of its workforce of 135,000, the company said Wednesday.

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17.  Symantec buys ON Technology. Security vendor spends $100 million to get remote PC management technology
18.  Symantec adds compliance features to ESM 6.0. Product includes best practices for variety of regulations

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19.  @Stake issues security advisories for OS X Jaguar. Consulting firm recommends users upgrade to Panther as a fix
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20.  News: Gone Phishin'. The Register By John Leyden [john dot leyden at theregister dot co dot uk]
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21.  Vulnerabilities: Chi Kien Uong Guestbook Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability. Chi Kien Uong Guestbook is a guest book written in PHP.

A cross-site scripting vulnerability has been reported to exist in the software.

The problem is reported to exis...
22.  Vulnerabilities: Chi Kien Uong Guestbook HTML Injection Vulnerability. Chi Kien Uong Guestbook is a guest book written in PHP.

Chi Kien Uong Guestbook has been reported prone to a HTML injection vulnerability. The issue has been reported to...
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23.  Lexmark loses round 2 in DMCA chip case. US Copyright Office lands punch
24.  College students care more about beer than software. Unethical sods
25.  Broadband Britain back on track - or is it?. Fetch me the BB gun, Boy
26.  FTC calls for US patent reform. More hurdles, less backlog
27.  Berners-Lee comes out fighting to save Web. Father of the Web insists US patent office review vital case
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28.  Unlucky phisher pleads guilty
29.  Elsewhere: UK firms fare poorly in virus protection
30.  Elsewhere: @Stake issues security advisories for OS X Jaguar

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1.  Fiber Still Binding Gear Makers (Investor's Business Daily). Investor's Business Daily - Contrary to earlier hopes, makers of fiber-optic networking gear no longer expect any quick payoff on what still could, at some point, be huge fiber-to-the-home contracts.
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2.  Elsewhere: UK firms fare poorly in virus protection. BRITISH firms are among the most lax in western Europe when it comes to electronic security.

Despite new virus threats appearing regularly, almost one third of all comp...
3.  Elsewhere: @Stake issues security advisories for OS X Jaguar. Security consulting firm, @Stake issued three security advisories for Apple's Mac OS X operating system this week. The advisories affect Mac OS X 10.2.8 and lower and do ...
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4.  Vulnerabilities: Wu-Ftpd S/Key Remote Buffer Overrun Vulnerability. A remotely exploitable buffer overrun vulnerability has been reported in Wu-Ftpd if support for S/Key authentication is enabled. The issue exists in the skey_challenge f...
5.  Vulnerabilities: Yahoo! Messenger File Transfer Buffer Overrun Vulnerability. Yahoo! Messenger is prone to a remotely exploitable buffer overrun vulnerability. This vulnerability is due to insufficient bounds checking during user-initiated file tr...
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6.  Intel pushes back the fashion envelope. Luxury laptop bag for today's connected woman
7.  Crack codes and win prizes. Fancy a go at the Thawte Crypto Challenge IV?
8.  Ericsson posts profit. Ends restructuring
9.  Sony Ericsson ships GPRS Wi-Fi combo card. Reg Kit Watch Plus: Sony upgrades to Vaio to Centrino, adds 802.11g kit
10.  Brussels starts probe of MS consumer electronic deals. Hardware OEMs get "routine" request for information
11.  Unlucky phisher pleads guilty. Why oh why did I try the FBI?
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12.  UK firms fare poorly in virus protection
13.  New identity theft alert system tested
14.  Tips from veteran Linux programmer Spence Murray
15.  In depth look: Devil-Linux 1.0
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16.  Un multi-millionaire suspecté de piratage
17.  Sober-Wurm verbreitet sich stärker als erwartet
18.  Standardizing Authentication Using the Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML)

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1.  EU Officials Probe Microsoft on Licenses (AP). AP - European Union antitrust officials said Thursday they were investigating computer software giant Microsoft Corp.'s licensing policies.
2.  United Online Profits Up, Ups Subscriber Target (Reuters). Reuters - United Online Inc. (UNTD.O), a discount Internet provider, on Thursday reported higher quarterly profit, as it signed up more new dial-up subscribers while pricier competitors lost customers.
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3.  Ideas Unlimited: 11 Suggestions for New Inventions
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4.  Cheer for China's internet firms. Three of the country's biggest internet companies post strong results, as consumers take eagerly to their paid services.
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5.  Standardizing Authentication Using the Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML)
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6.  Vulnerabilities: Sun Solaris Runtime Linker LD_PRELOAD Local Buffer Overflow Vulnerability. Sun Solaris runtime linker (ld) is a utility that is harnessed to link shared objects to executables at runtime. The environment variable LD_PRELOAD is used to define a l...
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7.  Longhorn as the next Microsoft desktop domination play. Yes, you have been here before...
8.  Paper offers Nokia N-Gage for 1p. No wonder game retailers can't shift it
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9.  WORM_KINES.B
10.  Now Disabled on Your PC: Windows Messenger
11.  OpenPKG update for postgresql
12.  OpenPKG update for postgresql
13.  Booby Error Message Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability
14.  Booby Error Message Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

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1.  New Kazaa beta makes debut. Sharman Networks, maker of the peer-to-peer file-sharing software, has announced the release of a new beta version of the popular program.
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2.  OS X Conference: Virginia Tech on the G5 (MacCentral). MacCentral - Link 1,100 Power Mac G5s together and it will make the news. Link 1,100 Power Mac G5s together to create the third most powerful academic computing facility in the world, and it will make headlines worldwide and earn project director Dr. Srindhi Varadarajan adulation from Macintosh enthusiasts.
3.  Apple Unleashes MAC OS Update 'Panther' (AP). AP - For the second time in just over a year, Apple Computer Inc. is out with a major upgrade of the Mac OS X operating system, packing it with features Windows users won't see for years and attaching a price tag befitting Apple's reputation as the Porsche of computer makers.
4.  Brussels seeks computer firms' help in Microsoft probe (AFP). AFP - The European Commission is seeking information from computer makers over licensing deals with Microsoft in a probe into charges the US giant unfairly crushed competitors through its near-monopoly in PC software, the EU executive said.
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5.  Big Bang Really a Big Hum
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6.  UK.gov websites under fire (again). Out of Form
7.  Informatics UK goes titsup. Retreat
8.  Gone Phishin'. Analysis Tactics to curtail email scams
9.  EDS waves goodbye to 5,200 staff. Putting on the pink slips
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10.  Bugged by spyware?
11.  Tackling the top 10 security issues
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12.  Faible sécurité des entreprises européennes face aux virus
13.  Introduction à Nessus
14.  30 Oct W32/Sober-Enc
15.  BEA Tuxedo and WebLogic Enterprise Administration Console Vulnerability
16.  BEA Tuxedo and WebLogic Enterprise Administration Console Vulnerability

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1.  Can Tessera pack an IPO punch?. As cell phones and other devices get smaller but more powerful, chip packaging is taking on increased importance. And Tessera Technologies holds some important patents.
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2.  3G services boost Japan's mobile operators (FT.com). FT.com - Strong demand for photo and video messaging services boosted results at Japan's top mobile phone operators, NTT DoCoMo and KDDI, with both looking to achieve record profits this year.
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3.  Microsoft Audits UK Council To Prove Cost Effectiveness
4.  A Gator By Any Other Name
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5.  Reuters boss forfeits perks. The head of the news group is giving up some of the more lavish terms of his contract as a "goodwill gesture" to shareholders.
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6.  Symantec buys ON Technology. Security vendor spends $100 million to get remote PC management technology

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7.  Developers get their hands on Microsoft's NGSCB. Microsoft hands out code for security technology previously known as Palladium
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8.  Orbitz hacked by spammers to harvest e-mail addresses FBI Investigating
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9.  Usability - is it what we think it is?. Dropped and dragged through the mire
10.  Rio Chiba 256MB MP3 player. Reg Review Farewell, jog-dial controls
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11.  Tunneling HTTP : l'ennemi des administrateurs réseaux
12.  Un multi-millionaire suspecté de piratage
13.  Problème d'activation de Norton Antivirus 2004
14.  Médiatisation des mises en gardes de sécurité
15.  Le service d'"affichage des messages" sera désactivé par défaut dans le prochain service pack de Windows XP
16.  Renforcement de la sécurité dans les aéroports américains
17.  Orbitz hacked by spammers to harvest e-mail addresses ?

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1.  Ericsson returns to profit. Telecoms giant Ericsson posts a profit for the July to September period, its first in nearly three years.
2.  DIY approach urged for rural broadband. Rural communities need help and local champions to set up their own broadband networks, say experts.
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3.  Bugged by Spyware?
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4.  Indian call centers: cracks begin to show. High rate of attrition
5.  Welcome to Orange World. I am curious, Orange
6.  Orange revenues up, capex down. Looking after the parent
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7.  Unlucky phisher pleads guilty
8.  Computer security divides Europe
9.  Panther: a £99 security update?
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10.  La Zone de Tests de GFI Software propose de nouveaux tests de sécurité pour messageries
11.  La Zone de Tests de GFI Software propose de nouveaux tests de messagerie bases sur des exploits

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1.  DMCA exemptions boost archivists, disabled. But not much else
2.  Pseudonymous blogging under subpoena threat. Come out, come out, whoever you are
3.  Intel outsells Nvidia, ATI. All down to its integrated chipsets
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4.  U.S. to Install Biometric Screens. New antiterrorist traveler-screening equipment debuts in advance of its Jan. 5 launch. The system will digitally scan fingerprints and photos of all foreigners entering the country through airports or seaports. The GAO calls it 'a very risky endeavor.'
5.  Firestorms Confound Forecasters. Despite the increased power of supercomputers and forecasting programs, scientists remain limited in their ability to predict wildfires' behavior. For strategic decisions, fire managers still must rely on information from exhausted fire crews on the front lines.
6.  Processing at the Speed of Light. Israeli startup Lenslet has built a computer processor that uses optics instead of silicon, enabling it to perform 8 trillion operations per second, equivalent to a supercomputer and 1,000 times faster than standard processors.
7.  Solar Ejection Hurtles to Earth. A huge gaseous cloud of charged particles, known as a coronal mass ejection, hits Earth's magnetic field. Space scientists expect its greatest impacts -- an amazing aurora and some communication problems -- will be felt in Alaska and the Far East.
8.  Time for a Cosmic Reality Check. Surprise! Thanks to the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe, we now know our little corner of the universe is even smaller than we thought. A commentary by Bruce Sterling from Wired magazine.
9.  HDTV Newcomer Faces High Hurdles. Voom wants to be the high-definition answer for TV consumers, but stiff prices and a shifting lineup of channels give the satellite service headaches. By Staci D. Kramer.
10.  Mac Supercomputer Just Got Faster. The first supercomputer made from a cluster of Macs is on track to become the world's third-fastest machine, according to the latest test results. Leander Kahney reports from the O'Reilly Mac OS X Conference in Santa Clara, California.
11.  E-Vote Software Leaked Online. For the second time this year, software used in an electronic voting system has turned up on the Internet. This time, the company is Sequoia Voting Systems. By Kim Zetter.
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12.  Wireless LAN security to be solved, what about management?
13.  Microsoft, security and the road ahead
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14.  Evaluate outsourcing partners
15.  Wireless LAN security to be solved, what about management?
16.  Microsoft, security and the road ahead
17.  Panda Software lance une nouvelle gamme de produits professionnels BusinesSecure Antivirus et EnterpriSecure Antivirus

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1.  EU Probes Microsoft's Licenses to Hardware Makers (Reuters). Reuters - The European Commission said on Thursday it had asked hardware makers for details of their licensing arrangements with Microsoft (MSFT.O) as part of a probe into anti-competitive practices at the software firm.
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2.  We're on the mend, says France Telecom. The telecoms giant reports strong earnings and says recovery is on track, just a year after being bailed out by the French state.
3.  Singapore hi-tech heaven opens. A futuristic science research centre called Biopolis has opened in Singapore for work in areas stem cells.
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4.  Evaluate outsourcing partners
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5.  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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1.  Security Flaws Make Macs Vulnerable To Attacks (TechWeb). TechWeb - Security firm @Stake warns of serious Mac OS X vulnerabilities.
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2.  Cockroaches Daubed With Yeast As WMD Sensors?
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3.  New virus hits computers. A virus dubbed Sober which affects many versions of Windows is starting to spread more widely online.
4.  Freeview reaches first birthday. Digital TV service Freeview, launched after the collapse of ITV Digital, celebrates its first year.
5.  Computer security divides Europe. Attitudes to what counts as hi-tech security problems vary widely across Europe, a survey finds.
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6.  Downloader.Dluca.D
7.  W32.HLLW.Franriv
8.  At Stake issues security advisories for OS X Jaguar
9.  Cross-platform viruses: Tools for 'equal opportunity' offenders

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1.  Canon's net profit rises 27 pct to 657.7 mln dlrs in third quarter (AFP). AFP - Japanese office equipment and camera maker Canon consolidated net profit for the third quarter rose 27 percent from last year thanks to demand for digital cameras and equipment for producing liquid crystal display (LCD) televisions.
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2.  Apple's QuickTime for Java May Let Remote Users Access the System

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1.  Gator sheds skin, renames itself. Gator, the controversial advertising software ande-wallet company, changes its name tobetter reflect its behavioral marketing business.
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2.  Cellphone-Network Industry May Face Steep Decline (Dow Jones). Dow Jones - LONDON -- Just as the $40 billion market for mobile-phone networks seems to be stabilizing, a new study says the industry may be facing a steep revenue decline because of the spread of cheap, more-efficient technology known as 3G, Thursday's Wall Street Journal reported.
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3.  More E-Voting Software Leaks Surface

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1.  Gateway to debut wide-screen TV. The company continues its foray into consumer electronics, unveiling a rear-projection television with a 56-inch screen.
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2.  E-Mail Providers Devising Ways to Stop Spam (washingtonpost.com). washingtonpost.com - Congress recently edged closer to passing the nation's first law to curb e-mail spam, but those who work under the Internet's hood are attacking the problem from another angle.
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3.  Microsoft realigns MSN division. Microsoft is altering the structure of its MSN Internet services and content division by focusing it on two areas: communications offerings and information offerings.
4.  PDC - Microsoft, Vodafone outline services plan. Los Angeles - Microsoft and Vodafone Group published a technical road map and a white paper as part of their effort to allow PC applications to take advantage of services offered on mobile networks.

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