Thursday, November 06, 2003

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1.  FCC to begin VoIP inquiry. The Federal Communications Commission is set to start a yearlong investigation into the "appropriate regulatory environment" for Internet-based phoning services.
2.  Music merger to create new giant label. Showing signs of a music business struggling to adapt to new digital realities, Sony Music and the Bertelsmann Music Group agree to create a new joint venture.
3.  Google tests desktop search. The search company is testing software that lets people navigate the Web without opening up an Internet browser, placing itself in a field that Microsoft has designs on--desktop search.
4.  Researcher warns Wi-Fi users of bad passwords. A security expert warns users of the latest wireless network security standard, Wi-Fi Protected Access, to pick good passwords or risk being compromised.
5.  Penn State students blast Napster deal. Angry at what they see as a misuse of their funds, some Pennsylvania State University students are protesting their college's new deal with the Napster music service.
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6.  Kylix in Limbo
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7.  MS Calls Out Bounty Hunters. With investigative leads gone cold, Microsoft places bounties on the heads of the SoBig and MSBlast virus writers, hoping that the lure of money will entice a few whistleblowers to step forward.
8.  Windows 'Feature' Draws FTC Fire. Citing spammers' widespread exploitation of the operating system's Messenger Service, the Federal Trade Commission preps to 'address consumer concerns' about the little-used tool and the pop-up ads it delivers.
9.  Voyager 1 Probes 'Final Frontier'. NASA's little craft that could explores the edge of the solar system, more than 8 billion miles from Earth. Some scientists say it already has crossed over into interstellar space.
10.  Sad End to Computing's Inventor. Wouldn't it be cool to be the guy who invented the computer? Thanks to the greed and viciousness of powerful competing interests, it wasn't very cool at all. Michelle Delio reports from Philadelphia.
11.  Programmer Seeks Mansion, Yacht. Some tech companies have struggled to stay alive after the bubble burst, but don't count Microsoft among them. A site used by its employees to buy and sell stuff is chock-full of big-ticket items like sailboats and vacation homes. By Katie Dean.
12.  Suspect Code Used in State Votes. California officials say Diebold Election Systems installed uncertified software on electronic voting machines used in the state. But they also say the software is tested and voters shouldn't worry that votes were improperly counted. By Kim Zetter.
13.  Panther Bug: Is It Really Dead?. Apple says the hard-drive-eating glitch in the latest upgrade to its OS X operating system is fixed. But others say the problem lives on, affecting multiple devices that use FireWire, including camcorders. By Leander Kahney.
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1.  Apple says could move to Intel, but happy with IBM. The latest version of the Mac OS X operating system could easily run on Intel chips, Apple CEO Steve Jobs says, but the company has little interest in changing processors.
2.  Fujifilm to raise CD media prices
3.  Mirapoint names new CEO
4.  Red Hat sews up Linux for hobbyists. The Linux seller plans to release a version of the open-source operating system for fans on Thursday, part of a move to split its product line to improve profitability.
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5.  New Duet in Music World (washingtonpost.com). washingtonpost.com - Sony Music Entertainment Inc. and BMG Entertainment have signed a nonbinding letter of intent to merge, creating a goliath that would control a quarter of the world's music business. It is the first of what may be several major attempts to overhaul an ailing music industry that has been crippled by Internet piracy.
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6.  News: Thwarted Linux backdoor hints at smarter hacks. A failed attempt to submerge a subtle backdoor in the Linux kernel confirms that sophisticated source code tampering is more than security geek speculation.
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7.  Can't Tune In to MTV? Download It. The music television network plans to enter the downloading arena in early 2004. The beefed-up service will compete with Apple's iTunes and other online song shops.
8.  FCC Moves to Stifle TV Piracy. The Federal Communications Commission passes a controversial mandate to 'flag' digital TV shows with special code to prevent consumers from sharing the programs over the Internet. Critics say the move will suppress innovation.
9.  DNA That's Yours for the Taking. British researchers have documented 200 billion letters of DNA. That's a lot of DNA. To make sure lots of researchers can access and make sense of the data, it's freely accessible to anyone who's interested. By Kristen Philipkoski.
10.  Autopilot Telescopes Ease Gazing. Astronomy is sometimes a matter of luck. A night of bad weather can ruin chances of doing research for as much as a year. But new software can help astronomers snag precious time when something important happens in the sky. By Michelle Delio.
11.  Setback for Financial Privacy. The Senate bounces an amendment that would have made California's stringent financial privacy provisions U.S. law. The bill now places limits only on sharing info for marketing purposes. Ryan Singel reports from Washington, D.C.
12.  Fuel-Cell Stocks Not Powered Up. It won't be long before fuel cells provide the juice for everything from PDAs to cars. But investors in companies that work on the technology should strap in for a bumpy ride, analysts say. By David Snow.

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1.  BoingBoing tribe on Tribe.net turns 300.

A few weeks back, BoingBoing reader Pauly M. and friends created a "BoingBoing tribe" at the online social networking site Tribe.net to "further the banter and chitchat that goes along with boingboing." The group appears to be growing, and just passed the 300-member mark.

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2.  Industry cheers Novell's Linux buy. Computing industry stalwarts such as HP, Oracle and even Microsoft welcome Novell's planned buyout of SuSE Linux, saying the move will mean a stronger business partner for their own wares.
3.  An experiment in Internet self-regulation. The research of Elisabeth Staksrud may determine what additional laws European governments think are necessary to regulate cyberspace.
4.  W3C criticizes antirobot tests. Citing difficulties for the visually impaired, the Web's leading standards group gives a thumbs-down to tests designed to prevent software robots from harvesting information for spam schemes.
5.  Briefly: Benhamou joins RealNetworks. The digital media company names Eric Benhamou to its board ...Start-up doubles up on monitors...AOL: Half a billion e-mails swerved.
6.  FCC to begin VoIP inquiry. The Federal Communications Commission is set to start a yearlong investigation into the "appropriate regulatory environment" for Internet-based phoning services.
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7.  Google Unveils Web-Searching Software (AP). AP - Internet search engine Google has unveiled free software that lets people search the Web quickly — without launching a Web browser.
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8.  Penn State Students to Get Free Music From Napster
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9.  Sad End to Computing's Inventor. Wouldn't it be cool to be the guy who invented the computer? Thanks to the greed and viciousness of powerful competing interests, it wasn't very cool at all. Michelle Delio reports from Philadelphia.
10.  Programmer Seeks Mansion, Yacht. Some tech companies have struggled to stay alive after the bubble burst, but don't count Microsoft among them. A site used by its employees to buy and sell stuff is chock-full of big-ticket items like sailboats and vacation homes. By Katie Dean.
11.  FTC Slams Pop-Up Ad Firm. The FTC sues a California company for selling software to block the same kinds of pop-ads that it sends by exploiting Windows' 'Messenger' feature. Regulators say the company has taken Net advertising 'beyond annoyance to a new level.'
12.  Suspect Code Used in State Votes. California officials say Diebold Election Systems installed uncertified software on electronic voting machines used in the state. But they also say the software is tested and voters shouldn't worry that votes were improperly counted. By Kim Zetter.
13.  Panther Bug: Is It Really Dead?. Apple says the hard-drive-eating glitch in the latest upgrade to its OS X operating system is fixed. But others say the problem lives on, affecting multiple devices that use FireWire, including camcorders. By Leander Kahney.
14.  Penn State, Napster Ink Pact. Penn State students will receive a free subscription to Napster as a way of curtailing illegal music downloads on campus. The deal could pave the way for similar services at other schools. By Katie Dean.

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1.  AMD plans for more chips, fab. At its analysts' meeting, the chipmaker details its strategy for the PC and cell phone markets. CEO Hector Ruiz says the company could once again return to profitability.
2.  Start-up doubles up on monitors
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3.  Campaign Starts Against Some 'Pop Up' Ads (AP). AP - Regulators disclosed a new legal campaign Thursday against an annoying method for delivering unwanted "pop-up" Internet advertisements, accusing a California company of "high-tech extortion" in its offers for software to block the very ads it was sending.
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4.  Star Wars Original Trilogy Gets DVD Release Date
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5.  Microsoft equips 110,000 PCs in German state. DÃœSSELDORF, Germany -- Even though interest in open source software is high in Germany's public sector, Microsoft Corp. continues to grab contracts with local authorities.
6.  Gartner sets technology priorities for CIOs. CANNES, France -- Chief information officers (CIOs) shouldn't worry about bringing IPv6 (Internet Protocol Version 6), 3G (third generation), or 64-bit computing to the desktop until as late as 2007 or 2008, Gartner Inc. analysts advised here Wednesday, at the company's Symposium/ITxpo conference. On the other hand, IP virtual private networks (IP VPNs), Wi-Fi, and replacement desktop machines should all be the subject of careful reflection today, the analysts counselled.
7.  Chip industry predicts resurgence on tap for 2004. The third-quarter upturn in revenue reported by semiconductor companies over the past few weeks will continue for the rest of the year and into 2004, according to the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) and In-Stat/MDR.
8.  Company charged with using Windows to spam pop-up ads. The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has filed suit against a company that allegedly exploited a vulnerability in Microsoft Corp.'s Windows system by using a feature intended for administrative alerts to barrage users with pop-up ads.
9.  Experts disagree on how Congress can help IT security. WASHINGTON - A U.S. House of Representatives member proposed Thursday that the U.S. Congress require every computer in the U.S. to have antivirus software installed, but IT security experts disagreed with that suggestion and other ways for the government to encourage cybersecurity among private companies and individual users.
10.  Microsoft wraps up VirtualPC product. Microsoft Corp. is readying the release of Virtual PC 2004, a virtualization product that allows users to run multiple operating systems on the same computer simultaneously.
11.  HP aims at emerging markets. BANGALORE, INDIA - HP Labs India, the Bangalore, India-based operation of Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) Laboratories in Palo Alto, California, is developing a hardware-software combination package called Shop Owners' Management Assistant (SOMA) that will help small retailers manage their businesses, according to a lab executive.
12.  Interview: IBM's Sutor on how SOAs fuel integration - Infoworld Staff. Big Blue is betting big on the broad-based acceptance of Service Oriented Architectures (SOAs) as the best way to help corporate users integrate application functions and data across the wild patchwork of software platforms they deal with every day.
13.  Cisco to unveil SSL VPN features. Cisco Systems Inc. on Monday will announce a new version of its flagship VPN 3000 Series Concentrator product that includes SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) VPN features, IDG News Service has learned.

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1.  Chart: How to interpret Friendster photos. Via buttafly:

Photo Type | What They Want You to Think | The Truth
* Dark, brooding | Doesn't care | Dangerous, possibly a pirate
* Dude jamming on guitar | He's in a popular band and rocks out all the time | Unemployed
* Guy with beard sitting on couch | Sits on the couch a lot, has a beard | Sits on the couch a lot, has a beard
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2.  Wind River pulls in new chief. The dominant maker of software for embedded computer devices taps former Mercury Interactive COO Ken Klein, as it grapples with a shift to Linux.
3.  Eric Benhamou joins RealNetworks' board
4.  Father of Java joins Sun tools group. Sun Microsystems says that James Gosling, considered the father of the Java programming language, will join Sun's Developer Platforms group as chief technology officer.
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5.  Hardware for Hard Times (Forbes.com). Forbes.com - In March 2000, the eve of the tech crash, Vern J. Brownell left his cushy job as chief technology officer at Goldman Sachs to launch a startup that sells costly, hard-to-explain computers in direct competition with IBM, Hewlett-Packard and Sun Microsystems.
6.  Microsoft Settles N. Carolina Class-Action Suit (Reuters). Reuters - Microsoft Corp. (MSFT.O) said on Thursday that it would pay North Carolina consumers up to $89 million to settle a class-action lawsuit brought against the world's largest software maker for overcharging those who bought its Windows operating software and other offerings.
7.  Test Case (Forbes.com). Forbes.com - Richard M. Stallman has a chip on his shoulder. He is irked because people use the name "Linux" to refer to an operating system that rightly should be called "GNU/Linux," reflecting the fact that Stallman and other developers actually built much of this system as part of an earlier project to create a free version of Unix called GNU. Linux is only the kernel, the nucleus of the system. Yet a Google search of the Web yields 414,000 citations of this supposedly inaccurate description, versus only 18,900 for "GNU/Linux operating system."
8.  How to Exploit the New Cell-Phone Rules (SmartMoney.com). SmartMoney.com - THERE ARE JUST 17 days until wireless local number portability goes into effect. It's definitely something worth talking about.
9.  FTC clamps down on stealth pop-ups (USATODAY.com). USATODAY.com - The Federal Trade Commission is expected to announce restrictions Thursday on the computer scam artists responsible for most of the unauthorized pop-up ads that beleaguer personal computer users.
10.  Apple: ITunes Outsold Napster 5-1 in 1st Week (Reuters). Reuters - Apple Computer Inc. said on Thursday that its iTunes online music store sold five times more songs than rival Napster's service in its first week of operation.
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12.  BugTraq: UPDATE: PSK Cracking using IKE Aggressive Mode. Sender: Michael Thumann [mlthumann at ids-guide dot de]
13.  Vulnerabilities: VieNuke VieBoard SQL Injection Vulnerability. VieNuke VieBoard is a bulletin board software written in ASP and SQL.

A vulnerability has been reported to exist in the software that may a remote user to inject malicio...
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14.  DARPA's indecision threatens integrity of $1 million race. Grand Challenged
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15.  DoS for Ganglia
16.  [CLA-2003:777] Conectiva Security Announcement - thttpd
17.  Re: RE: Six Step IE Remote Compromise Cache Attack

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1.  Antispam "Turing Tests" can't distinguish between the blind and software. The W3C has singled out "captchas" -- the pseudo-Turing-Tests intended to keep spammers form using automated tools to create freemail accounts in bulk -- as disastrous for the blind and other disabled users of the Internet, since they rely on sight and reading comprehension to work. IOW, it's not a good Turing Test if the blind fail it as often as a computer does.

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2.  Attempted attack on Linux kernel foiled. An unknown intruder tries to insert a Trojan horse program into the code of the next Linux kernel--an attempt that raises questions about the security of open-source development methods.
3.  AOL tests streaming-video IM service. America Online is quietly testing a video feature for its instant messaging products now that the government has lifted restrictions against launching such a feature.
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4.  Late-Day Gains Lift Tech Stocks; Nasdaq Closes Up 17 (Dow Jones). Dow Jones - NEW YORK -- Technology stocks finished strong Thursday as Wall Street had a delayed reaction to upbeat economic data and a bullish report from networking bellwether Cisco Systems.
5.  FCC Eyes Regulating Internet Phone Calls (AP). AP - The Federal Communications Commission is taking a look at how to regulate phone calls made over the Internet rather than the conventional handset.
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6.  Bluetooth Shipments Exceed 1M per Week
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7.  BugTraq: [CLA-2003:777] Conectiva Security Announcement - thttpd. Sender: Conectiva Updates [secure at conectiva dot com dot br]
8.  BugTraq: Re: RE: Six Step IE Remote Compromise Cache Attack. Sender: Paul Schmehl [pauls at utdallas dot edu]
9.  BugTraq: DoS for Ganglia. Sender: Jim Prewett [download at hpc dot unm dot edu]
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10.  Can't Tune In to MTV? Download It. The music television network plans to enter the downloading arena in early 2004. The beefed-up service will compete with Apple's iTunes and other online song shops.
11.  FCC Moves to Stifle TV Piracy. The Federal Communications Commission passes a controversial mandate to 'flag' digital TV shows with special code to prevent consumers from sharing the programs over the Internet. Critics say the move will suppress innovation.
12.  DNA That's Yours for the Taking. British researchers have documented 200 billion letters of DNA. That's a lot of DNA. To make sure lots of researchers can access and make sense of the data, it's freely accessible to anyone who's interested. By Kristen Philipkoski.
13.  Autopilot Telescopes Ease Gazing. Astronomy is sometimes a matter of luck. A night of bad weather can ruin chances of doing research for as much as a year. But new software can help astronomers snag precious time when something important happens in the sky. By Michelle Delio.
14.  Setback for Financial Privacy. The Senate bounces an amendment that would have made California's stringent financial privacy provisions U.S. law. The bill now places limits only on sharing info for marketing purposes. Ryan Singel reports from Washington, D.C.
15.  Fuel-Cell Stocks Not Powered Up. It won't be long before fuel cells provide the juice for everything from PDAs to cars. But investors in companies that work on the technology should strap in for a bumpy ride, analysts say. By David Snow.
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16.  Experts disagree on how Congress can help IT security
17.  Quantum kriptografi çözümleri

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1.  Stalemate on digital content?. Rights-management schemes are threatening to put customers under proprietary lock and key. And critics warn that Microsoft is gaining too much power, from multimedia to corporate memos.
2.  McDonald's: Some Apple downloads with that?. According to a published report, the fast-food giant is planning to give away 1 billion song downloads from Apple's online music store.
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3.  U.S. Sues Over 'Pop-Up' Ad Software (AP). AP - Regulators disclosed a new legal campaign Thursday against an especially annoying practice for delivering "pop-up" advertisements to Internet users, suing a California company for selling software to block the same kinds of ads the company was sending.
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4.  Longhorn's Flash Killer?
5.  FTC Shuts Down Pop-Up Extortion Firm
6.  "Nigerian" Spammer Arrested
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7.  Vulnerabilities: OpenBSD isakmpd Multiple IKE Payload Handling Security Weaknesses. isakmpd is the IKE key management dameon provided with OpenBSD. isakmpd is used when negotiating security associations in authenticated or encrypted network traffic and i...
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8.  MS Calls Out Bounty Hunters. With investigative leads gone cold, Microsoft places bounties on the heads of the SoBig and MSBlast virus writers, hoping that the lure of money will entice a few whistleblowers to step forward.
9.  Windows 'Feature' Draws FTC Fire. Citing spammers' widespread exploitation of the operating system's Messenger Service, the Federal Trade Commission preps to 'address consumer concerns' about the little-used tool and the pop-up ads it delivers.
10.  Voyager 1 Probes 'Final Frontier'. NASA's little craft that could explores the edge of the solar system, more than 8 billion miles from Earth. Some scientists say it already has crossed over into interstellar space.
11.  Sad End to Computing's Inventor. Wouldn't it be cool to be the guy who invented the computer? Thanks to the greed and viciousness of powerful competing interests, it wasn't very cool at all. Michelle Delio reports from Philadelphia.
12.  Programmer Seeks Mansion, Yacht. Some tech companies have struggled to stay alive after the bubble burst, but don't count Microsoft among them. A site used by its employees to buy and sell stuff is chock-full of big-ticket items like sailboats and vacation homes. By Katie Dean.
13.  Suspect Code Used in State Votes. California officials say Diebold Election Systems installed uncertified software on electronic voting machines used in the state. But they also say the software is tested and voters shouldn't worry that votes were improperly counted. By Kim Zetter.
14.  Panther Bug: Is It Really Dead?. Apple says the hard-drive-eating glitch in the latest upgrade to its OS X operating system is fixed. But others say the problem lives on, affecting multiple devices that use FireWire, including camcorders. By Leander Kahney.
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15.  AntiOnline Security Spotlight: Tripwire Tutorial
16.  StorageTek Makes Play to Keep Pace in ILM Race
17.  RE: Six Step IE Remote Compromise Cache Attack

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1.  Napster and Penn State Announce Free Music Deal. Attempting to stem widescale online piracy on college campuses, Penn State University today reached a deal to offer students free access to the Napster music service. By Reuters.
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2.  An experiment in Internet self-regulation. The research of Elisabeth Staksrud may determine what additional laws European governments think are necessary to regulate cyberspace.
3.  Study: Salary gloom ahead for IT workers. Starting wages for techies will fall next year, and pay for jobs that boomed in the '90s will keep on dropping, says a recent study. But there's a bright spot for some in-demand pros.
4.  PC security audits for businesses?. Lawmakers unveil a draft of long-awaited legislation that would require U.S. corporations to certify that they have conducted an annual computer security audit.
5.  Napster to give students music. The music service announces a deal with Penn State University to give students access to music funded by student fees, in an attempt to replace campus file-swapping with legal listening.
6.  Glitch cuts off some AT&T cell phones. A faulty software upgrade has kept some AT&T Wireless subscribers waiting for days to get connected to their cell phone service, as the carrier prepares for a rush of customer switching.
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7.  IBM Makes Lotus More Collaborative (NewsFactor). NewsFactor - IBM (NYSE: IBM) has unveiled four new Lotus Workplace software products designed to improve user collaboration. The company says its aim is to help people become more productive rather than performing mere computer tasks.
8.  Patch Issued for Latest Microsoft Office Software (NewsFactor). NewsFactor - Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) has issued a "critical update" patch for its Office 2003 package -- about two weeks after launching the business software -- after identifying a problem with compatibility between older versions of Office and the latest release.
9.  US regulators target "pop-up spam" scheme using Windows loophole (AFP). AFP - US regulators announced an effort to clamp down on a new type of "pop-up" advertising scheme that exploits a loophole in Microsoft Windows designed for network administrator messages.
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10.  VeriSign jazzes up Trust Mark seal. Company uses Flash animation

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11.  Experts disagree on how Congress can help IT security. Spam, viruses compared to SARS
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14.  UK MoD scraps £120m computer project. Obsolete before completion
15.  FTC gets injunction against 'pop-up spam scam'. Ads tout software to stop annoying pop-ups
16.  Google trawls chat. Ask not for whom the bot crawls - it crawls for thee
17.  Sun's AMD and Xeon blades stay tuned for delivery. Just a few months late
18.  Pseudonymous blogging safe (for now). Stalkers' corner
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19.  Can't Tune In to MTV? Download It. The music television network plans to enter the downloading arena in early 2004. The beefed-up service will compete with Apple's iTunes and other online song shops.
20.  FCC Moves to Stifle TV Piracy. The Federal Communications Commission passes a controversial mandate to 'flag' digital TV shows with special code to prevent consumers from sharing the programs over the Internet. Critics say the move will suppress innovation.
21.  DNA That's Yours for the Taking. British researchers have documented 200 billion letters of DNA. That's a lot of DNA. To make sure lots of researchers can access and make sense of the data, it's freely accessible to anyone who's interested. By Kristen Philipkoski.
22.  Autopilot Telescopes Ease Gazing. Astronomy is sometimes a matter of luck. A night of bad weather can ruin chances of doing research for as much as a year. But new software can help astronomers snag precious time when something important happens in the sky. By Michelle Delio.
23.  Setback for Financial Privacy. The Senate bounces an amendment that would have made California's stringent financial privacy provisions U.S. law. The bill now places limits only on sharing info for marketing purposes. Ryan Singel reports from Washington, D.C.
24.  Fuel-Cell Stocks Not Powered Up. It won't be long before fuel cells provide the juice for everything from PDAs to cars. But investors in companies that work on the technology should strap in for a bumpy ride, analysts say. By David Snow.
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25.  Elsewhere: Brazil police bust gang of Internet hackers
26.  W32.Randex.Y
27.  Backdoor.IRC.Yoink.A
28.  AntiOnline Security Spotlight: Tripwire Tutorial
29.  Worm Copies Itself to File in System Folder
30.  A Glimpse Inside the Virus Writer

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1.  WIPO has crazy toilets. I'm in Geneva, representing EFF at the World Intellectual Property Organization meeting on the unbelievably misbegotten Broadcast Treaty, an Orwellian masterwork that makes the DMCA look like junior-high playground strong-arming.

The high point (other than working with the amazing coalition of activists that Jamie Love and the Civil Society Coalition have gathered here) was the utterly bizarre self-papering toilets in the WIPO building. I was so taken by these things that I had to shoot a movie -- I knew I could never describe them adequately with words alone.

675k AVI Link
2.  Gadgetgasm-inducing new products from Sony. Sony announces plans for a new, all-in-one, handheld gaming device: the PlayStation Portable is said to be digital music player, video player, mobile phone, and then some. An iPod rival is also in the works for 2005 release, with a projected street price of as low as $60 US. Link, pic via Gizmodo, Sony PDF presentation which includes detailed specs. (via unwired)
3.  Poison Ivy Awareness. I always thought it was easy to identify poison ivy. Three leaves, red-tinged, waxy appearance. But this site has set me straight. "Poison ivy is so adaptable that it grows under very different conditions, so it shows up looking different ways." Be sure to check out the gallery of rash photos, especially if you enjoyed the pics of my ringworm. Link (Thanks, Stefan!)
4.  Smart Dust Gets Back to Nature. Here's a piece I wrote for TheFeature about using Smart Dust to monitor bird breeding on an island off the coast of Maine. (Smart Dust are small wireless sensors that can form ad-hoc networks.) Link
5.  Mack White's conspiracy comics. I'm a longtime fan of Mack White's comics. He did a regular strip for the print edition of bOING bOING called Jokey, which used a secret language. Mack recently let me know about his terrific blog, which is loaded with weird conspiracy stuff (including a link to an article that looks into Gen. Wesley Clark's involvement in the Waco massacre). Here's a one page comic Mack did for The Comics Journal about the Kennedy assasination, and how the reason behind it is similar to the current war in Iraq. Link
6.  International Protection from Crappy Porn Week of Resistance. Now there's a (>cough<) mouthful. Anyway: the final week of October, 2003 was declared "Protection from Pornography Week" by President Bush. Some object to the declaration's equation of "pornography" as a whole with child porn, or adult entertainment produced in a coercive, exploitative manner. In other words, they believe porn per se isn't a problem -- bad porn is. And, by golly, they're taking action.
What do I mean by "crappy"? Well, basically, I mean pornography that doesn't affirm what sexuality really should be all about -- or what being a human being really should be all about. (...) So I thought I would launch a new campaign... because I believe that what we really need isn't to be protected from pornography, but to show resistance against crappy pornography and support for better, sex-positive, humane pornography that is produced without exploitation, without perpetuating damaging stereotypes, and that fully affirms the principle of informed, revocable consent.

Link (Thanks, Jonno)
7.  On your marks... get set... LINK-FU!. Link-Fu starts now! Here's a reminder, in case you missed Tuesday's post:

Link-Fu is an online competition where during a specific, pre-established period of time -- in this case, Thursday, November 6 from 9AM-12PM, Eastern Time -- you send us one url that links to some very weird something somewhere. Something so bizarre and wild and intriguing and fascinating, that no-one else (or as few nobodies as possible) has seen.

Judges: Warren Ellis, Invisible Cowgirl, Mark, Pesco, and yours truly. We declare a winner based on whatever we happen to like best. Not the grossest, not neccesarily Farkish or Rotten. Just the flat-out most bizarre -- though grotesquery is not neccesarily out of the question. In fact, here was last week's barfbag winner (WARNING: extremely distgusting, NSFW, Cowgirl found it). The winner wins the title of High Master of Link-Fu, until we hold the next battle.

Starting now, through 12PM EST (9AM Pacific), e-mail the funkiest, most potently bizarro url-age you can find to linkfubattle@yahoo.com. We will announce the winner Friday morning. May the best link win.
8.  WSJ breaks down lawyer's potential winnings from SCO v IBM. This WSJ article says attorney David Boies could see $49.4 million or more from representing SCO in its $3B lawsuit alleging IBM stole trade secrets over Linux software-- even if SCO's case is unsuccessful.
Documents SCO recently filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission say the Lindon, Utah, software firm "is in the process of finalizing" a deal with its counsel. Under the agreement, SCO would pay the lawyers 20% of the proceeds of "a sale of SCO during the pendancy of litigation." (...) In 4 p.m. trading on the Nasdaq SmallCap Market Wednesday, SCO was at $17.87, giving the company a market capitalization of $247 million. If SCO sells at that price, the Boies firm would be entitled to $49.4 million -- and probably more with the premium that usually comes in a takeover.
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9.  Beasties exonerated for sampling. The 9th Circuit has ruled that the Beastie Boys' sampling of a three-note segment of James Newton's composition to the song "Choir" did not infringe Newton's copyright.

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10.  Napster's Flash "Street" ad campaign. Napster Bad -- not. This series of flash shorts on the Napster.com site seem to be a sort of animated equivalent to the faux graffitti ad campaign. Both the posters and the shorts cast that be-headphoned mascot as a hunted rebel The Man just won't leave alone. Sure, it may smell like teen spirit -- but Old Napster it ain't, despite the conspicuous attempts at street cred. Link
11.  Lab Notes: research from UC Berkeley's College of Engineering. My latest issue of Lab Notes is online. Please take a look!

* The first ever nanofluidic transistor manipulates proteins and DNA instead of data.
* Neutron beams detect the clandestine transport of nuclear weapons materials in shipping containers... by triggering fission reactions!
* Studying the basic physics of the San Francisco Bay helps preserve delicate ecosystems and protect our water supplies.
* Esoteric mathematics amp up productivity in the workplace, from sandwich shops to banks.
* ....and more!

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12.  Dashboard cig lighters are the new cup-holders. The automotive cig lighter has become a kind of lingua-franca for chargers of all descriptions -- this CNN piece calls it "the new cup-holder." The same thing is happening in USB: I charge virtually all of my devices (phones, PDA, etc) with retractable ZipLinq USB cables these days -- sure makes travelling easier.

In model-year 2004, there are 47 vehicles that come, standard, with five or six lighter sockets, according to Carsdirect.com. In 1998, no vehicles came with that many...

The Pink Pussycat Boutique, an "adult novelty" store in Manhattan, sells a variety of devices that can be plugged into car cigarette lighter sockets. We'll go no farther.

If you get a flat tire, Safetycentral.com sells a 12-volt impact wrench for removing lug nuts. Among other car lighter-friendly devices the site sells are a 20 oz. coffee pot, a frying pan, an oven, a curling iron, an electric cooler and a special adapter so you can plug multiple devices into one lighter. That way you can make breakfast, curl your hair, run your impact wrench and maybe light a cigarette while you wait for your beer to get cold.

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13.  Maher Arar: terrorist? Innocent computer scientist? It's who you know.. Maher Arar -- a dual Canadian-Syrian citizen who operated a computer consulting business -- was arrested by US officials during a stopover at New York's JFK airport, then and deported to Syria by the US government. The FBI flagged him as a "suspected terrorist." After year of torture in a Syrian prison (he describes having been beaten with objects including shredded electrical cables, and living in a urine-filled, rat-infested 3'x6'x7' "grave"), they seem to have decided he was innocent, and safe enough to ship back to Canada. From Joi Ito's blog:

Obviously, it's probably easier for a Syrian national to get on a "list" than a Japanese, but this really scary. They say he had had a relationship with another suspected terrorist who is also being imprisoned and tortured now in Syria. He says he barely knew the guy. So what does this mean for us? If we meet someone, we should not "become friendly" with them until we are certain that they are not a suspected terrorist. What does this mean? We need to make sure they don't hang out with other suspected terrorists. So if you believe in six degrees, it's likely at some point you will be a suspected terrorist.

How do they know if you hang out with someone? Friendster? LinkedIn? Your email? We need to be VERY careful about the privacy of not just the content of our communication, but the privacy of who we are in touch with, often called sigint, or signal intelligence. Seriously though, this will cause a chilling effect on meeting, calling, emailing or otherwise "being in touch with" anyone who you don't know very well that could land you on the "suspected terrorist" list.

Among questions being raised by Arar's advocates: why was he deported to Syria, notorious for violating the human rights of prisoners, instead of being returned back to Canada -- where he lived for 15 years, and owned a technology company? There are now calls for an open investigation in Canada -- and in the US. Here's a link to one article in which Arar describes his imprisonment, Another in which his Canadian citizenship is said to have prevented more severe torture, and here's a link to the Google News search. (Thanks, Ned)
14.  BoingBoing tribe on Tribe.net turns 300. A few weeks back, BoingBoing reader Pauly M. and friends created a "BoingBoing tribe" at the online social networking site Tribe.net to "further the banter and chitchat that goes along with boingboing." The group appears to be growing, and just passed the 300-member mark. Link
15.  Urban sport of"Parkour" for wannabe spidermans. Mindbending videos of a guy running up walls, jumping from building-to-building, etc. It's like a superhero come to life. Link (Thanks, Ben!)
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16.  McDonald's: Some Apple downloads with that?. According to a published report, the fast-food giant is planning to give away 1 billion song downloads from Apple's online music store.
17.  Red Hat releases new hobbyist Linux. Fedora, the latest version of the open-source operating system, is the first of a new line of fast-changing, more experimental software from the company.
18.  CNET Face to Face. CNET Face to Face
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19.  Redmond offers more details on reward money (TechTarget). TechTarget - Microsoft is not getting into the bad-guy catching business, a Microsoft lawyer said after the software maker announced Wednesday that it will provide a $5 million pool of reward money to help catch cybercriminals.
20.  Obscure Windows Feature Lets in Pop-Up Ads, FTC Says (Reuters). Reuters - U.S. regulators said on Thursday that Microsoft Corp.(MSFT.O) Windows users should turn off a little-used feature that allows unscrupulous marketers to bombard them with unwanted "pop-up" ads.
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21.  McDonald's Billion-Song iTunes Giveaway
22.  Who Makes MapQuest's Maps?
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24.  BugTraq: RE: Six Step IE Remote Compromise Cache Attack. Sender: Tyler Larson [noreply at tlarson dot com]
25.  Vulnerabilities: Coreutils LS Width Argument Integer Overflow Vulnerability. Coreutils 'ls' utility is a binary application that is used to list directory contents.

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26.  MS Calls Out Bounty Hunters. With investigative leads gone cold, Microsoft places bounties on the heads of the SoBig and MSBlast virus writers, hoping that the lure of money will entice a few whistleblowers to step forward.
27.  Windows 'Feature' Draws FTC Fire. Citing spammers' widespread exploitation of the operating system's Messenger Service, the Federal Trade Commission preps to 'address consumer concerns' about the little-used tool and the pop-up ads it delivers.
28.  Voyager 1 Probes 'Final Frontier'. NASA's little craft that could explores the edge of the solar system, more than 8 billion miles from Earth. Some scientists say it already has crossed over into interstellar space.
29.  Sad End to Computing's Inventor. Wouldn't it be cool to be the guy who invented the computer? Thanks to the greed and viciousness of powerful competing interests, it wasn't very cool at all. Michelle Delio reports from Philadelphia.
30.  Programmer Seeks Mansion, Yacht. Some tech companies have struggled to stay alive after the bubble burst, but don't count Microsoft among them. A site used by its employees to buy and sell stuff is chock-full of big-ticket items like sailboats and vacation homes. By Katie Dean.
31.  Suspect Code Used in State Votes. California officials say Diebold Election Systems installed uncertified software on electronic voting machines used in the state. But they also say the software is tested and voters shouldn't worry that votes were improperly counted. By Kim Zetter.
32.  Panther Bug: Is It Really Dead?. Apple says the hard-drive-eating glitch in the latest upgrade to its OS X operating system is fixed. But others say the problem lives on, affecting multiple devices that use FireWire, including camcorders. By Leander Kahney.
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33.  EMC Pressures McDATA
34.  StorageTek Ties Up to Keep Pace in ILM Race
35.  Microsoft Offers XP Wireless Security Rollup
36.  Network pros 'make security happen,' CISO says
37.  18 Hacker bei Operation "Trojan Horse" verhaftet
38.  FTC nimmt Windows-Nachrichtendienst ins Visier

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1.  IBM eyes modular WebSphere. The company is rewriting its application server software to improve the integration of components within the rest of its product line.
2.  Treaty casts shadow on Webcast rights. A U.N committee OKs the world's first Webcasting treaty, the terms of which could make it harder for people to rebroadcast shows and films in the public domain, critics say.
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3.  Hacker Hunt: Sponsored By Microsoft (washingtonpost.com). washingtonpost.com - Microsoft Corp. gets a lot of criticism for releasing software that's vulnerable to computer worms and viruses. That's no news flash in itself, but its latest response to the problem appears to be worth its weight in gold. Instead of making the Trustworthy Computing initiative more trustworthy, it's ready to hand out some green.
4.  Napster and Penn State in Music Deal (Reuters). Reuters - Penn State University said on Thursday it reached a deal to offer students free access to digital music and limited downloading from the relaunched Napster online music service.
5.  U.S. Sues Over 'Pop-Up' Ad Software (AP). AP - Regulators disclosed a new legal campaign Thursday against an especially annoying practice for delivering "pop-up" advertisements to Internet users, suing a California company for selling software to block the same kinds of ads the company was sending.
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7.  Vulnerabilities: Unichat Unhandled Character Set Denial of Service Vulnerability. Unichat is a graphical chatting application available for the Windows operating system. The Unichat application makes use of the 'u2res000.rit' file, which contains a lis...
8.  Vulnerabilities: PHPRecipeBook Unspecified Cross-Site Scripting/HTML Injection Vulnerabilities. PHPRecipeBook is a web application for managing recipes. It is implemented in PHP and available for Unix/Linux and Microsoft Windows.

PHPRecipeBook 2.18 has been releas...
9.  Vulnerabilities: ThWboard Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability. ThWboard is a bulletin board software written in PHP and MySQL.

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

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10.  Vulnerabilities: ThWboard SQL Injection Vulnerability. ThWboard is a bulletin board software written in PHP and MySQL.

A vulnerability has been reported to exist in the software that may a remote user to inject malicious SQL...
11.  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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13.  Vorsicht: Gefälschte Mails mit Absender pcwelt.de unterwegs
14.  November Issue of InfoSecurity Magazine is out
15.  Re: Six Step IE Remote Compromise Cache Attack
16.  [bWM#017] Cross-Site-Scripting @ PHPKIT
17.  Re: RE: Six Step IE Remote Compromise Cache Attack
18.  Re: POS#1 Self-Executing HTML: Internet Explorer 5.5 and 6.0 Part III

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1.  Microsoft mobile phone exec to depart. Juha Christensen, a former Symbian co-founder, plans to leave the software giant and join a mobile device startup.
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2.  Tech Stocks Flat Ahead of Friday's Unemployment Report (Dow Jones). Dow Jones - Technology stocks wavered Thursday, as Wall Street remained cautious despite upbeat economic data and a bullish report from networking bellwether Cisco Systems.
3.  Fuji to Boost Recordable CD Prices 10-15 Pct (Reuters). Reuters - The U.S. unit of Japan's Fuji Photo Film Co. Ltd. (4901.T) said it plans to raise prices on its recordable compact discs by 10-15 percent, citing supply shortages because of an increased demand for DVD discs.
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7.  Elsewhere: Brazil police bust gang of Internet hackers. Brazilian police arrested 18 Internet hackers on Wednesday in a massive operation to dismantle a gang operating across four northern states, authorities said.

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8.  Vulnerabilities: Synthetic Reality SymPoll Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability. Sympoll is web-based voting booth software. It is implemented in PHP and will run on most Unix and Linux variants as well as Microsoft Windows operating systems.

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9.  Vulnerabilities: MPM Guestbook Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability. MPM Guestbook is a freely available web application. It is implemented in PHP and available for Unix/Linux variants as well as Microsoft Windows platforms.

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10.  Vulnerabilities: PHPKit Include.PHP Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability. PHPKIT is content management software. It is implemented in PHP and available for Unix/Linux variants as well as Microsoft Windows.

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11.  Ballmer cheers Apple's iPod with Monkey Boy Dance. Get on your feet!
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14.  RE: Six Step IE Remote Compromise Cache Attack
15.  MDKSA-2003:104 - Updated CUPS packages fix denial of service vulnerability

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1.  Online sales may zoom during holidays. Jupiter Research calls for a merry shopping season, predicting a boost in Web sales to $17 billion.
2.  Start-up makes quantum leap into cryptography. Magiq Technologies begins shipping commercial data-scrambling devices that use a radically new technology called quantum encryption.
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3.  Former worker: `IBM lied to me' (SiliconValley.com). SiliconValley.com - Alida Hernandez was a model IBM employee with an exemplary record. She never thought the chemical fumes she inhaled on the job were dangerous -- even though they sometimes gave her headaches, made her eyes water and left her lightheaded and unable to focus, she testified Wednesday.
4.  Media Giants Getting Together (washingtonpost.com). washingtonpost.com - Pittsburghers tuned into the Discovery Times cable channel get New York Times headlines the night before Manhattanites get their papers. Londoners reading their hometown Financial Times may see Los Angeles Times stories hours before Angelinos. An NBC News viewer in Tulsa learns of a breaking Washington Post story before an Arlingtonian whose television is turned off.
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5.  Search for Miss Digital World
6.  Microsoft Forgets To Renew Hotmail.co.uk
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7.  Music giants join forces. Sony Music and BMG agree an alliance, while EMI makes progress in its bid for Warner, as the troubled sector continues to consolidate.
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8.  Office 2003 gets first 'critical' update. Microsoft Corp. this week issued its first "Critical Update" for Office 2003, less than a month after the software was officially launched.
9.  Progress seen as steady as Tablet PC turns one. It's been a year since Microsoft Corp. launched Windows XP Tablet PC Edition and declared a new chapter in the history of personal computing to be starting. The platform hasn't caught on as fast as its biggest cheerleader was perhaps hoping, but despite a quiet first year few are willing to dismiss the platform just yet.
10.  Startup takes aim at document management. Startup PSS Systems Inc. this week unveiled its first product: software aimed at helping companies track and secure documents that are distributed inside and outside of corporate boundaries.
11.  Red Hat goes live with Fedora. Red Hat Inc. has posted the first release of a new Linux distribution it hopes will become a community-driven test bed for software that may one day make it into its commercial Red Hat Enterprise Linux software. Called Fedora Core 1, the software was posted to the fedora.redhat.com Web site on Wednesday.
12.  NEC plans advanced chip plant in Japan. TOKYO -- NEC Electronics Corp. is planning to build a state-of-the-art semiconductor production line at one of its existing facilities in Japan, the company said Thursday in a statement.
13.  Nokia shows off IPv6 phone. Nokia Corp., the world's largest handset maker, has unveiled a prototype mobile phone based on IPv6, the next-generation Internet Protocol (IP) technology.
14.  FTC to address Windows pop-up spam problem. The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is set to air concerns Thursday over external party exploitation of a service in Microsoft Corp.'s Windows software that is designed to allow network administrators to send notices to users.
15.  IBM heads toward next generation of app servers - Infoworld Staff. IBM revealed that it is working on a componentized version of WebSphere, code-named Vela, which the company said represents the next generation of application servers.
16.  Microsoft mobile phone exec leaves for startup. Juha Christensen, Microsoft Corp.'s corporate vice president of mobile devices in its marketing group, is leaving the company to join a startup company in the San Francisco Bay area, a Microsoft U.K. spokeswoman said Thursday
17.  Jobs: 'No point in Intel switch'. Apple Computer Inc. believes Mac OS X could "easily run" on Intel Corp. chips, but the company has "little interest" in changing processors, company Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs said Wednesday night.

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19.  Elsewhere: 'Critical' patch sent out for Office flaw. Microsoft issued the first major patch for the new version of its Office software, fixing a flaw that could result in lost work.

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20.  Elsewhere: http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/cms.dll/html/uncomp/articleshow?msid&9501. Brazilian police arrested 18 Internet hackers on Wednesday in a massive operation to dismantle a gang operating across four northern states, authorities said.

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21.  News: Snag in next-gen Wi-Fi security unearthed. The Register By John Leyden [john dot leyden at theregister dot co dot uk]
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22.  BugTraq: Re: RE: Six Step IE Remote Compromise Cache Attack. Sender: Steven M dot Christey [coley at mitre dot org]
23.  BugTraq: MDKSA-2003:104 - Updated CUPS packages fix denial of service vulnerability. Sender: Mandrake Linux Security Team [security at linux-mandrake dot com]
24.  BugTraq: Re: POS#1 Self-Executing HTML: Internet Explorer 5.5 and 6.0 Part III. Sender: Kurt Seifried [kurt at seifried dot org]
25.  BugTraq: Re: Six Step IE Remote Compromise Cache Attack. Sender: http-equiv at excite dot com [1 at malware dot com]
26.  Vulnerabilities: Multiple Ethereal Protocol Dissector Vulnerabilities. Multiple Ethereal protocol dissectors are prone to remotely exploitable vulnerabilities. These issues have been addressed with the release of Ethereal 0.9.16.

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27.  Vulnerabilities: Nullsoft SHOUTcast icy-name/icy-url Memory Corruption Vulnerability. Nullsoft SHOUTCast Server is used to broadcast Shoutcast music. It is available for Unix and Linux operating systems, as well as Microsoft Windows.

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28.  Vulnerabilities: DBMail From Header Field Command Execution Vulnerability. dbmail is a set of applications used for storing and retrieving e-mail messages from a database. dbmail supports MySQL or PostgreSQL databases. It is available for Unix ...
29.  Vulnerabilities: OpenSSL CBC Error Information Leakage Weakness. OpenSSL is an open source implementation of the SSL protocol.

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30.  Tablet PC takes under 1% of Euro notebook shipments. Microsoft's OS too expensive, says analyst
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31.  Conectiva: apache multiple vulnerabilities
32.  Mandrake: CUPS denial of service vulnerability
33.  RedHat: fileutils denial of service vulnerability
34.  RedHat: CUPS denial of service vulnerability
35.  Conectiva: bugzilla multiple vulnerabilities
36.  Wireless Intrusion Detection Systems

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1.  AOL: Half a billion e-mails swerved
2.  Chips on the move again. The Semiconductor Industry Association forecasts a worldwide sales boom for 2004 in the semiconductor industry.
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3.  Tech Stocks Waver in Morning Trading Despite Cisco News (Dow Jones). Dow Jones - NEW YORK -- Technology stocks wavered early Thursday as Wall Street remained cautious despite a bullish report from networking bellwether Cisco Systems.
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5.  Key ID cards decision delayed. Plans for a national identity card scheme are agreed in principle by ministers - but a decision on making the scheme compulsory is put off.
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6.  Wireless Intrusion Detection Systems
7.  RedHat: CUPS denial of service vulnerability
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9.  Elsewhere: Weakness Reported in Wireless Security Protocol. A researcher at ICSA Labs has reported that some implementations of Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA), a standard for cryptography of data on Wi-Fi networks, can be compromise...
10.  Elsewhere: Telewest blames viruses for lost broadband users. The cable company has won thousands more broadband users, but says that virulent code is partly responsible for scaring others away

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11.  Vulnerabilities: Cups Internet Printing Protocol Job Loop Denial Of Service Vulnerability. CUPS is a freely available, open source UNIX printing utility. It is freely available for the Unix and Linux platforms.

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12.  Nokia phone explodes in Finland. Counterfeit battery to blame
13.  Snag in next-gen Wi-Fi security unearthed. Down to weak passwords, again
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14.  Can't Tune In to MTV? Download It. The music television network plans to enter the downloading arena in early 2004. The beefed-up service will compete with Apple's iTunes and other online song shops.
15.  FCC Moves to Stifle TV Piracy. The Federal Communications Commission passes a controversial mandate to 'flag' digital TV shows with special code to prevent consumers from sharing the programs over the Internet. Critics say the move will suppress innovation.
16.  DNA That's Yours for the Taking. British researchers have documented 200 billion letters of DNA. That's a lot of DNA. To make sure lots of researchers can access and make sense of the data, it's freely accessible to anyone who's interested. By Kristen Philipkoski.
17.  Autopilot Telescopes Ease Gazing. Astronomy is sometimes a matter of luck. A night of bad weather can ruin chances of doing research for as much as a year. But new software can help astronomers snag precious time when something important happens in the sky. By Michelle Delio.
18.  Setback for Financial Privacy. The Senate bounces an amendment that would have made California's stringent financial privacy provisions U.S. law. The bill now places limits only on sharing info for marketing purposes. Ryan Singel reports from Washington, D.C.
19.  Fuel-Cell Stocks Not Powered Up. It won't be long before fuel cells provide the juice for everything from PDAs to cars. But investors in companies that work on the technology should strap in for a bumpy ride, analysts say. By David Snow.
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20.  HP-UX Software Distributor Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
21.  New Worm Targets Net Users
22.  Security fears about wireless prove to be exaggerated
23.  Techfocus exclusive interview with HITB

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1.  Hitachi Consulting has trans-Pacific plans. The consulting and services wing of the Japanese technology giant aims to grow by highlighting its familiarity with the business practices of both Japan and North America.
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2.  Redmond offers more details on reward money (TechTarget). TechTarget - Microsoft is not getting into the bad-guy catching business, a Microsoft lawyer said after the software maker announced Wednesday that it will provide a $5 million pool of reward money to help catch cybercriminals.
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8.  MS Calls Out Bounty Hunters. With investigative leads gone cold, Microsoft places bounties on the heads of the SoBig and MSBlast virus writers, hoping that the lure of money will entice a few whistleblowers to step forward.
9.  Windows 'Feature' Draws FTC Fire. Citing spammers' widespread exploitation of the operating system's Messenger Service, the Federal Trade Commission preps to 'address consumer concerns' about the little-used tool and the pop-up ads it delivers.
10.  Voyager 1 Probes 'Final Frontier'. NASA's little craft that could explores the edge of the solar system, more than 8 billion miles from Earth. Some scientists say it already has crossed over into interstellar space.
11.  Sad End to Computing's Inventor. Wouldn't it be cool to be the guy who invented the computer? Thanks to the greed and viciousness of powerful competing interests, it wasn't very cool at all. Michelle Delio reports from Philadelphia.
12.  Programmer Seeks Mansion, Yacht. Some tech companies have struggled to stay alive after the bubble burst, but don't count Microsoft among them. A site used by its employees to buy and sell stuff is chock-full of big-ticket items like sailboats and vacation homes. By Katie Dean.
13.  Suspect Code Used in State Votes. California officials say Diebold Election Systems installed uncertified software on electronic voting machines used in the state. But they also say the software is tested and voters shouldn't worry that votes were improperly counted. By Kim Zetter.
14.  Panther Bug: Is It Really Dead?. Apple says the hard-drive-eating glitch in the latest upgrade to its OS X operating system is fixed. But others say the problem lives on, affecting multiple devices that use FireWire, including camcorders. By Leander Kahney.
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15.  Demarc Does It Again with Sentarus Hardware Offering
16.  Linux Kernel "Back Door" Attempt
17.  Brazilian police arrested 18 Internet hackers on Wednesday in massive raids
18.  Magazine questions Gartner Group objectivity
19.  Red Hat's Fedora released - the upgrade path for the rest of us?
20.  Is Microsoft's new version of Windows a radical innovation?
21.  Gateway invoicing system revealing information!
22.  2.8GHz Intel Celeron now for sale
23.  Sun and AMD set date for Opteron coming out party
24.  China to invest in Linux-based software
25.  Virtual Battlefield The Answer To Real Threats
26.  RSA secures deals for tighter ID
27.  A glimpse inside the virus writer
28.  Intel's Pentium 4 Extreme Edition in price hell
29.  Techfocus exclusive interview with HITB: How a Security Conference is Started
30.  Paving the way for 'uncrackable' codes

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4.  So WIPO, why did you scrap the Open Source meeting?. Yielding to US pressure, maybe?
5.  Thin client thrives in Web services era. Reg Reader Studies Cost, security benefits
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7.  Can't Tune In to MTV? Download It. The music television network plans to enter the downloading arena in early 2004. The beefed-up service will compete with Apple's iTunes and other online song shops.
8.  FCC Moves to Stifle TV Piracy. The Federal Communications Commission passes a controversial mandate to 'flag' digital TV shows with special code to prevent consumers from sharing the programs over the Internet. Critics say the move will suppress innovation.
9.  DNA That's Yours for the Taking. British researchers have documented 200 billion letters of DNA. That's a lot of DNA. To make sure lots of researchers can access and make sense of the data, it's freely accessible to anyone who's interested. By Kristen Philipkoski.
10.  Autopilot Telescopes Ease Gazing. Astronomy is sometimes a matter of luck. A night of bad weather can ruin chances of doing research for as much as a year. But new software can help astronomers snag precious time when something important happens in the sky. By Michelle Delio.
11.  Setback for Financial Privacy. The Senate bounces an amendment that would have made California's stringent financial privacy provisions U.S. law. The bill now places limits only on sharing info for marketing purposes. Ryan Singel reports from Washington, D.C.
12.  Fuel-Cell Stocks Not Powered Up. It won't be long before fuel cells provide the juice for everything from PDAs to cars. But investors in companies that work on the technology should strap in for a bumpy ride, analysts say. By David Snow.
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13.  Microsoft Puts Bounty on Virus Writers
14.  6 Nov W32/Spybot-W

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1.  Gadget rush. CNET News.com's Michael Kanellos warns that some smart companies are making some very risky decisions.
2.  Plan A for Microsoft. Is Microsoft's new version of Windows, code-named Longhorn, a radical innovation or a return to the company's winner-take-all software strategy from a decade ago?
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3.  FTC clamps down on stealth pop-ups (USATODAY.com). USATODAY.com - The Federal Trade Commission is expected to announce restrictions Thursday on the computer scam artists responsible for most of the unauthorized pop-up ads that beleaguer personal computer users.
4.  Microsoft putting up $5 million reward to catch cybervillains (USATODAY.com). USATODAY.com - SEATTLE Microsoft (MSFT) said Tuesday it will ante up $5 million for a reward program to nab cybercriminals who infect the Internet with worms and viruses.
5.  License to View Needed for New Nokia TV Phone (Reuters). Reuters - Planning to buy the new Nokia cellphone that allows you to watch television? Don't forget to tell the government -- they might want to charge you for it.
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6.  Tanker Truck Shut Down Via Satellite
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7.  ID card plan delayed. Tony Blair's spokesman says that a decision on compulsary ID cards will be delayed until later this decade.
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8.  IBM gets ready for SOAs - Infoworld Staff. IBM on Thursday is announcing its support of key industry standards for Web services security for its WebSphere and Tivoli server applications that will better enable those products to fully embrace service oriented architectures (SOAs).

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9.  Mimail variants spreading, target antispam sites. New variants contain instructions to launch DDoS attacks
10.  IBM gets ready for SOAs - Infoworld Staff. IBM supports Web services security
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11.  Wireless security a daunting challenge
12.  SSL VPN Gateways: A New Approach to Secure Remote Access
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13.  Microsoft fails to renew hotmail.co.uk domain. Exclusive Kindly soul, El Reg to the rescue
14.  Intel Alderwood chipset details emerge. Dual-channel DDR 2 for Prescott
15.  Intel takes Celeron to 2.8GHz. Now officially targeting notebooks
16.  Cisco posts solid results. Steady recovery
17.  PC sales are getting better, better all the time. IDC on Germany and UK markets
18.  Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy back on the wireless. It's impossible... But it's happening
19.  Nokia pleased with N-Gage, but there's 'a lot to do'. Sticks to 6m units for 2004
20.  Which? slams 118 services. Shocking
21.  IBM toying with Tablet plans for 2003. Testing the water
22.  Red Hat's Fedora released - the upgrade path for the rest of us?. What if we have a cuckoo in the nest here?
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23.  Wireless security a daunting challenge
24.  SSL VPN Gateways: A New Approach to Secure Remote Access

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1.  STI Sees Strong Growth on 3G Services (Reuters). Reuters - Telecoms equipment maker Superconductor Technologies Inc (STI) said on Thursday it expects sales to double this year and grow further next year, helped by healthy demand for multimedia mobile services.
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2.  Retailers count cost of Worldpay attack. The internet payment service is returning to normal after a hack attack, but not quickly enough for some clients.
3.  Let your fingers do the talking. Soon your finger could be helping you hear who is calling you on your mobile phone.
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4.  AMD Opteron 250 to ship early 2004. Whatever it's called, it runs at 2.4GHz
5.  Microsoft fails renew hotmail.co.uk domain. Exclusive Kind-hearted soul, El Reg to the rescue
6.  Intel 'Alderwood' chipset details emerge. Dual-channel DDR 2 for Prescott
7.  Intel takes Celeron line to 2.8GHz. Now officially targetting desktops and notebooks
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8.  MS Calls Out Bounty Hunters. With investigative leads gone cold, Microsoft places bounties on the heads of the SoBig and MSBlast virus writers, hoping that the lure of money will entice a few whistleblowers to step forward.
9.  Windows 'Feature' Draws FTC Fire. Citing spammers' widespread exploitation of the operating system's Messenger Service, the Federal Trade Commission preps to 'address consumer concerns' about the little-used tool and the pop-up ads it delivers.
10.  Voyager 1 Probes 'Final Frontier'. NASA's little craft that could explores the edge of the solar system, more than 8 billion miles from Earth. Some scientists say it already has crossed over into interstellar space.
11.  Sad End to Computing's Inventor. Wouldn't it be cool to be the guy who invented the computer? Thanks to the greed and viciousness of powerful competing interests, it wasn't very cool at all. Michelle Delio reports from Philadelphia.
12.  Programmer Seeks Mansion, Yacht. Some tech companies have struggled to stay alive after the bubble burst, but don't count Microsoft among them. A site used by its employees to buy and sell stuff is chock-full of big-ticket items like sailboats and vacation homes. By Katie Dean.
13.  Suspect Code Used in State Votes. California officials say Diebold Election Systems installed uncertified software on electronic voting machines used in the state. But they also say the software is tested and voters shouldn't worry that votes were improperly counted. By Kim Zetter.
14.  Panther Bug: Is It Really Dead?. Apple says the hard-drive-eating glitch in the latest upgrade to its OS X operating system is fixed. But others say the problem lives on, affecting multiple devices that use FireWire, including camcorders. By Leander Kahney.

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2.  Telewest reports strong BB growth. 389,000 and counting
3.  Chip biz raises annual sales forecast by $8bn. Growth up to 15.8%
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4.  Microsoft Windows NIPrint Buffer Overflow (Exploit)

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1.  Quantum Cryptography Systems Commercially Launched
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3.  Intradot presente boss Backup Operating System en avant-premiere en ligne
4.  Netegrity annonce un seminaire educatif - Comment securiser les web services
5.  Analyse des e-mails en mode hébergé
6.  L'appât du gain... attention aux spams!
7.  Faiblesse des mots de passe dans le protocole WPA

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1.  Major Facelift For SAP Enterprise Portal (TechWeb). TechWeb - The first major upgrade to SAP Enterprise Portal in nearly two years is a component of SAP NetWeaver, an integration and application platform that is supposed to ensure cross-vendor app connectivity.
2.  Lotus Preaches Richness, Open Source For Future Domino Apps (TechWeb). TechWeb - The goal for Domino 7 and 8 over the next few years is to provide full rich client access to applications using open-source code.
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3.  Sales boost lifts Cisco profits. Higher spending by businesses on IT helps boost profits at Cisco Systems, the world's largest maker of equipment that directs internet traffic.
4.  Gamers get Intel power boost. Intel's new chip for Pentium 4 is released, specifically aimed at PC gamers who want high-performance machines.
5.  Cabinet split over ID cards. The debate on compulsory identity cards pits ministers against each other and may delay their introduction.
6.  Voyager 'at edge of solar system'. Scientists say the Voyager I space probe is near the edge of the solar system, 26 years after its launch.

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1.  Matsushita sets up joint venture for 3G networks in China (AFP). AFP - A mobile phone subsidiary of Japan's home electronics giant Matsushita said it has set up a joint venture with a US firm in China to develop third generation (3G) mobile phone networks.
2.  InterActiveCorp has billion-dollar war chest for European expansion (AFP). AFP - Fast-growing e-commerce group InterActiveCorp (IAC) has amassed a four-billion-dollar war chest and is casting an acquisitive eye at Europe, particularly its online travel business.
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3.  Fedora Core 1's X server does not work on my machine because of bug 107805.
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4.  A new gen. of Instant Messenger with Social Networking
5.  Microsoft offers $500,000 to catch virus writers
6.  Q&A: Interpol, FBI officials weigh in on cyber crime-fighting hurdles
7.  Effects linger from security breach at Interland
8.  Experts, IT managers say Microsoft should forget bounty, focus on security

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2.  Detroit Warns on traffic light changer
3.  CAPS-II -- doing the math
4.  Cyberterrorist attack would be more sophisticated than past worms, expert says
5.  Tips for Speedy and Safe Patch Deployment
6.  Microsoft offers $500,000 to catch virus writers
7.  Q&A: Interpol, FBI officials weigh in on cyber crime-fighting hurdles
8.  Effects linger from security breach at Interland
9.  Experts, IT managers say Microsoft should forget bounty, focus on security

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1.  Senate Debate Due on Hotly Contested Internet Tax Bill. A long-delayed Internet tax bill that would transform a moratorium on taxes for Internet services into a permanent ban is scheduled for debate. By John Schwartz.
2.  Cisco Exceeds Wall Street's Expectations. Cisco Systems, the large Internet equipment maker, reported quarterly earnings and revenue growth that exceeded Wall Street's expectations. By Matt Richtel.
3.  Microsoft Offers Reward to Catch Writers of Computer Viruses. At a news conference in Washington, Microsoft said that it was putting a bounty on the heads of virus writers. By John Schwartz.
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4.  Are PCs next in Hollywood piracy battle?. The FCC's "broadcast flag" mandate could have a wider-than-expected impact as TVs and computers converge.
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5.  Blender Conference Closes, Version 2.3 Released
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6.  CSI - Security certifications: Employers want them. WASHINGTON - Peter Stephenson, an IT security consultant, says he would not bother getting a security certification unless it helped feed his family. In his case, it did.
7.  Cisco posts strong gain in Q1 earnings. Cisco Systems's fiscal first-quarter revenue and profit surged above results from a year earlier, with the network equipment supplier bringing in $5.1 billion and earning $0.15 per share, the company reported Wednesday.
8.  Sun seeks partners in per-user licensing plan - Infoworld Staff. Sun Microsystems at its SunNetwork user conference in Berlin next month plans to announce the first independent software vendors that have agreed to distribute their software along with Sun's Java Enterprise System middleware and Java Desktop System software.

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