Gregg's Security News Aggregator

Friday, December 05, 2003

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1.	Judge orders SCO to show Linux infringement. IBM wins a victory in a legal battle with SCO Group when a judge orders SCO to show the Linux software to which it believes it has rights and point out where it believes IBM is infringing.
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2.	Thoughts on the New Crop of Ogg Aware Players?
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3.	News: FTC investigates PetCo.com security hole
4.	Le site web du registre TLD .name piraté

10:24:09 PM

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1.	VoIP's best week ever?
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2.	US Broadband ISPs Expect Price Cuts
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3.	News: FTC investigates PetCo.com security hole. A young programmer's discovery of a massive vulnerability at an e-commerce site leads to a federal consumer privacy probe... again.

9:10:59 PM

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1.	Growing a car. Interesting piece in VentureBlog about job loss in the US. Since 1995, two million Americans have lost jobs in the manufacturing industry. Those jobs didn't go overseas, though. China lost 16 million manufacturing jobs in the same period. Economically, trade is no different than other technologies. Economist David Friedman of Santa Clara University puts it most succinctly: there are two ways to make a car -- you can either make it in Detroit or grow it in Iowa. You already know how to make it in Detroit. You get a bunch of iron ore, smelt it into steel, and have an assembly line of robots and workers shape it into a finished vehicle. To grow it in Iowa, you plant car seeds in the ground (also known as "wheat"), wait until they sprout, and harvest them. Take the harvest and put it into a big boat marked "to Japan" and let it sail off. A few months later a brand new car comes back. Link
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2.	Computing aids India's farmers. A computerised milk collection system in the Indian town of Baramati has changed the lives of its dairy farmers.
3.	Rickshaws connect India's poor. Rickshaws equipped with mobiles are providing a livelihood for women and the disabled in the Indian the state of Rajasthan.
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4.	SSL VPN Case Study
5.	Security fears push users to open source

8:10:40 PM

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1.	Omnivorous Trees: Part 4. Here's another hungry tree. This one has a taste for rusty farm machinery. Link(thanks, Paul!)
2.	The mother lode of omnivorous trees. Here's the site of a guy so obsessed with "gluttonous trees" that he has a collection of pictures of them and a book, to boot. Don't you wish someone had trained a time-lapse movie camera at some of these trees? Links
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3.	Everybody's Favorite... Thing.
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4.	VeriSign still needs ICANN
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5.	Interview with Jeremy Hogan of Red Hat
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6.	Genome institute opens behavioral, social branch. The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) has formed the Social and Behavioral Research Branch (SBRB) to develop ways to translate discoveries from the Human Genome Project into methods of health promotion and disease prevention, and to counsel patients coping with genetic disorders.
7.	Motorola blames phone shortages on camera components. BOSTON - Motorola Inc. hasn't been able to keep up with demand for its latest line of integrated camera phones due to component sourcing problems, but the company believes it has solved the problem in time for the holiday-shopping rush, it said Thursday.
8.	Google seeks legal clarification on trademarks. Google Inc. has asked a U.S. District Court judge to rule that keyword-based advertisements on the Web search engine do not violate trademark law.
9.	Yahoo pitching antispam initiative to industry. Yahoo Inc. has developed a system it says will go a long way toward curbing spam, but the technology's success is dependent on its widespread industry adoption beyond the borders of Yahoo's e-mail servers.
10.	Sun adds meat to low-cost server line - Infoworld Staff. Sun Microsystems is sharpening its low-end server strategy with its first blade system based on a processor from AMD.
11.	IBM refocuses software on specialized industries. IBM said this week that it will reorganize its software business, a move that will include shifting development efforts away from its five software brands and toward cross-brand application packages tailored for specialized industries.
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12.	Ridge calls on business for security blueprint. SANTA CLARA, CALIF. - Calling on the private sector to do its part in securing the U.S. computer network infrastructure, top officials from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Wednesday warned members of the high technology industry that unless they took concrete steps toward cybersecurity, their industry could face government regulation.
13.	Array Networks falters where F5 flies in SSL VPN standoff - Infoworld Staff. For mobile and remote users, SSL VPNs are fast becoming the secure access of choice by IT professionals. They are easy to implement, and because they work through your Web browser they negate the need for an IPSec-style client, making them easier to deploy on a wide range of mobile devices.
14.	Microsoft's patchwork security blanket - Infoworld Staff. A few days ago, I was asked whether a particular fact being used by an InfoWorld writer was reasonable. The fact, according to the writer’s research, was that Microsoft has issued 60 patches to Windows and related software in the last 18 months. In this case, the writer was referring to critical updates, not just the random (but important) patches that some users consider more or less optional. ADVERTISEMENT: Get strong 128-bit SSL security for your online business - To secure your servers with 128-bit SSL encryption, download a copy of the free VeriSign Guide, "Securing Your Web site for Business." You'll learn everything you need to know about encrypting e-commerce transactions, securing corporate intranets, and authenticating your Web site.
15.	WallBotz makes monitoring datacenters a breeze - Infoworld Staff. NetBotz’s Linux-based WallBotz 500 is more than worth its price — comparable that of a high-end laptop — when it comes to network management and datacenter monitoring.
16.	VCN offers virtual network of peers - Infoworld Staff. Your choice of VPN needn’t be limited to mainstream IPSec or SSL solutions. One startup, IP Dynamics, provides a particularly interesting alternative. The company’s Secure VCN (Virtual Community Network) is a carrier-class, software-based solution that connects people and resources across geographic and technical boundaries. It requires no hardware at the end-user’s location and provides secure end-to-end IP communication.
17.	Should you outsource your VPN? - Infoworld Staff. Deploying your own site-to-site or remote user VPN can be a costly affair. It’s up to you to install, manage, and maintain your VPN equipment, as well as to implement all of the various security policies.
18.	Making the VPN connection - Infoworld Staff. When a VPN does its job correctly, remote users don’t notice it’s there. Packets move from site to site, user to user. Encryption algorithms scramble the data and then safely unscramble it at the other end. Information flows. Work gets done.
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19.	Vulnerabilities: ISC BIND Negative Cache Poison Denial Of Service Vulnerability. ISC BIND is a server program that implements the domain name service protocol. It is widely used on the Internet. BIND has been reported prone to a DNS cache poisoning ...
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20.	Turbolinux: glibc and rsync Multiple vulnerabilities

7:10:20 PM

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1.	Bike-eating tree. Number three in a series of object-eating trees: the bike borg. Link (thanks, ernie!)
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2.	NetGear partnership to expand Asian Wi-Fi sales. The company teams with Legend Group in China and Softbank BB in Japan to sell Wi-Fi products, an effort to increase sales in Asia--the world's second largest market for Wi-Fi networking gear.
3.	HP names new IT, operations chief. Hewlett-Packard promotes a printing unit executive and HP veteran to head both the company's operations and its internal computer infrastructure.
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4.	Phone Cos. Cut Internet Service Prices (AP). AP - Phone companies are turning to price cutting to close the gap with the cable guys, who control about two-thirds of the rapidly growing market for high-speed Internet service.
5.	Yahoo Proposes New Internet Anti-Spam Structure (Reuters). Reuters - Internet services company Yahoo Inc. (YHOO.O) on Friday said it is working on technology to combat e-mail spam by changing the way the Internet works to require authentication of a message's sender.
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6.	Return of the Space Invaders
7.	Gerrymandering by Computer
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8.	BugTraq: RE: Websense Blocked Sites XSS. Sender: Mr dot P dot Taylor [petert at imagine-sw dot com]
9.	BugTraq: RE: Websense Blocked Sites XSS. Sender: Hubbard, Dan [dhubbard at websense dot com]
10.	BugTraq: Re: Intresting case of SQL Injection. Sender: Nick FitzGerald [nick at virus-l dot demon dot co dot uk]
11.	BugTraq: Re: Hot fix for do_brk bug. Sender: Gunnar Wolf [gwolf at gwolf dot cx]
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12.	Conectiva: kernel Privilege escalation vulnerability
13.	Spam-Virus Marriage Seen As Leading 2004 Internet Threat
14.	How To Use Encryption On Database Contents

6:10:03 PM

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1.	eCommerce is 0wned by bogus patents. Want to get a sense of just how screwed up the patent system is? Check out this mockup of a simple e-commerce page, which is annotated with the twenty patents it violates. * 24-kids-scannÃ¡n.ie: Ã© domain name. National characters in domain names: EP1159820 * [Action] [Kids] [Drama] [Adventure]: (tabbed pallettes) EP689133 * Picture link - pop-up window: EP0537100 * Watch - Displaying video through the web: EP0933892 * Download film - Displaying video through the web (same as above): EP0933892 * mpeg4-format - Widely used video format for video download: More than 40 patents (herunder DK638218) Link (Thanks, Yoz!)
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2.	Big Blue sambas Linux centers into Brazil. IBM opens two centers in Sao Paulo devoted to developing the open-source operating system for use in the country's public sector.
3.	Linux guru: Move quickly to new kernel. The programmer in charge of the current version of the heart of Linux plans to curtail the adding of new features in order to encourage a move to the upcoming kernel, a decision that's irked some.
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4.	Intel's Shares Sink More Than 3 Percent (AP). AP - Intel Corp. shares sank more than 3 percent in early trading Friday after warning a day earlier of a $600 million charge after one of its wireless businesses failed to meet expectations.
5.	HSBC Reports Fake Web Site in Hong Kong (Reuters). Reuters - A Web site made to look like the Hong Kong home page of global banking giant HSBC Holdings Plc asked customers to type in their User ID and password, the bank said on Friday.
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6.	SCO Ordered to Produce Evidence
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7.	BugTraq: RE: Websense Blocked Sites XSS. Sender: Greg Meehan [GMeehan at LifeTimeFitness dot com]
8.	BugTraq: Re: netscreen flaw?. Sender: Bryan Burns [bburns at netscreen dot com]
9.	BugTraq: Re: Intresting case of SQL Injection. Sender: Florian Weimer [fw at deneb dot enyo dot de]
10.	BugTraq: Re: Hot fix for do_brk bug. Sender: Goetz Babin-Ebell [babin-ebell at trustcenter dot de]
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11.	efasfae
12.	Sun Microsystems Plans RFID Test Center
13.	Magdeburg bekommt großes Testcenter für Virensoftware

5:09:49 PM

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1.	Yahoo plugs IM security hole. The Web giant issues an update to its instant-messaging software in order to address a security flaw found in the application earlier this week.
2.	Qualcomm-challenging cell phones to debut in 2004. Texas Instruments and STMicroelectronics say Code Division Multiple Access phone chips they developed will debut in handsets next year, stepping into a market dominated by Qualcomm.
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3.	CRM Sales Set To Boom in Asia (NewsFactor). NewsFactor - The customer relationship management software market in the Asia Pacific region will post continuous growth through 2009, says Frost & Sullivan. Though in its early stages, the monumental potential of the area still awaits exploitation.
4.	Tech Spending Is on a Roll (NewsFactor). NewsFactor - Tech spending will increase significantly, the server market will see increasing commoditization, and broadband technology will play a leading role in 2004, according to research firm IDC's annual forecast of the I.T. year ahead. The wide-ranging report makes predictions involving many areas of technology, including the SCO-IBM lawsuit, RFID technology and the I.T. job market.
5.	TI Challenges Qualcomm with New CDMA Tech (NewsFactor). NewsFactor - Texas Instruments (NYSE: TXN) has partnered with European chip-maker STMicroelectronics to launch CDMA wireless technology that poses a direct challenge to CDMA pioneer and market leader Qualcomm (Nasdaq: QCOM).
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6.	So You Think Physics is Funny?
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7.	New critical vulnerabilities discovered in IE. A set of new security vulnerabilities have been discovered in Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer (IE) Web browser which used together could allow hackers to compromise user PCs, researchers warned Tuesday.
8.	'Cyber diversity' research aims to strengthen security. College campuses and corporate boardrooms aren't the only places that benefit from diversity -- computer networks and the Internet could stand up better to viruses and worms if they relied on more diverse software, according to computer scientists at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of New Mexico.
9.	Top-down security - Infoworld Staff. I’m sure the look on my face was incredulous, but the inspector was resolute. “Yep,” he said, “the ball joint.”
10.	IBM submits EPAL to W3C. IBM Corp. has submitted a draft of its EPAL (Enterprise Privacy Authorization Language) to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) to develop, the company announced this week.
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11.	BugTraq: Re: Apple Safari 1.1 (v100). Sender: Mary Carol Scherb [mcsjgs at cox dot net]
12.	BugTraq: [CLA-2003:796] Conectiva Security Announcement - kernel. Sender: Conectiva Updates [secure at conectiva dot com dot br]
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13.	PowerQuest Works Some ServerMagic

4:09:33 PM

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1.	Audiocast archive. Open HTML container page.
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2.	Japan Police Thwart Internet File-Sharing (AP). AP - In a rare police crackdown on Internet file-sharing, two Japanese men were arrested for allegedly disseminating movies and games with software that claimed to protect users' identities.
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3.	AT&T Wireless Fumbles Number Portability
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4.	Une nouvelle distribution de Linux compromise
5.	Les bases de données de la police de Minneapolis accédées par des hackers depuis Internet

3:09:10 PM

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1.	Tree with Attitude. Inspired by yesterday's sign-eating tree, Boing Boing reader "cow" sent in these pictures of a plaque-biting tree. Link
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2.	NetGear, Legend ally on Chinese sales push
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3.	WSIS to Consider Internet Governance Under U.N.
4.	Dread Empire's Fall: The Praxis
5.	ViewSonic AirPanel v150 Review at Ars Technica
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6.	BugTraq: Yahoo Messenger Flaw allows injection of JavaScript into IM Windows. Sender: Chet Simpson [secure at ytunnelpro dot com]
7.	BugTraq: [Fwd: Security Alert; possible buffer overflow in all Mathopd versions]. Sender: Gregor Lawatscheck [gpel at mpex dot net]
8.	BugTraq: Re: Linksys WRT54G Denial of Service Vulnerability. Sender: [Eerik dot Kiskonen at toptronics dot fi]
9.	BugTraq: Jason Maloney's Guestbook XSS Vulnerability.. Sender: Shaun Colley [shaunige at yahoo dot co dot uk]
10.	Vulnerabilities: Net-SNMP Unauthorized MIB Object Access Vulnerability. Net-SNMP is a freely available, open source implementation of the SNMP protocol. It was previously known as UCD-SNMP, and is available for the Unix and Linux operating sy...
11.	Vulnerabilities: Cisco Aironet Access Point Wired Equivalent Privacy Key Disclosure Vulnerability. The Cisco Aironet appliance is a wireless LAN solution. Cisco Aironet Access Points that are running Cisco IOS have been reported prone to an information disclosure vuln...
12.	Vulnerabilities: IBM AIX RCP Utility Local Buffer Overrun Vulnerability. rcp is the remote file copy program. It is designed to allow the copying of files from one system to another across a TCP/IP network. It is also designed to be syntactica...
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14.	Yahoo Plugs Security Hole In Messenger
15.	Rapport hebdomadaire sur les virus
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16.	Book Review: Windows XP Hacks. Preston Gralla has collected 100 of the best and most useful hacks for the Windows XP operating system. Whether you want to speed up the boot process, block pop-up ads, remove "unchangeable" icons from the desktop or a multitude of...

2:09:00 PM

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1.	Briefly: IGN, GameSpy to merge. Avaya targets small, midsize businesses..Toshiba, SanDisk fast-forward flash facility...Wyse, Transmeta in computer pact.
2.	Week in review: No holiday for hackers. Hackers paused briefly during the long Thanksgiving weekend to give thanks for security holes and flaws that allow them to wreak havoc on the Internet.
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3.	Gentoo Linux Server Flaw Found? (Ziff Davis). Ziff Davis - After several days of extensive forensic work, Gentoo officials believe that they have identified the vulnerability and exploit used to compromise one of the servers that house the code for the company's Linux distribution.
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4.	Vulnerabilities: Sun PC NetLink Backup Restoration ACL Permissions Vulnerability. Sun PC NetLink is a server software package designed to provide a number of services to Microsoft Window's based machines. PC NetLink is able to perform network backup op...
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5.	How Nintendo almost beat Nokia to the gamephone. Letter Could've been a contender
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6.	LightSand Extends FC over SONET Offerings
7.	Guardian Digital Customers Protected From Linux Kernel Vulnerability

1:08:41 PM

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1.	SCO's McBride sounds off in Linux legal battle. Chief Executive Darl McBride invokes the Founding Fathers in his company's battle over intellectual property rights. Also: SCO postpones its quarterly earnings report.
2.	Sun sets up European RFID test center. Amid some privacy concerns, the Java advocate enters the retail-tracking game in Europe by opening a test center where companies can test their radio frequency identification systems.
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3.	Intel's Shares Sink More Than 3 Percent (AP). AP - Intel Corp. shares sank more than 3 percent in early trading Friday after warning a day earlier of a $600 million charge after one of its wireless businesses failed to meet expectations.
4.	Ex-Employee Guilty of Internet Threats (AP). AP - A former Global Crossing Ltd. employee was convicted of using a Web site to threaten executives at the now bankrupt telecommunications company.
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5.	SCOrched Earth
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6.	Online shopping soars during 2002. Online shopping and other forms of e-commerce grew by 39% in the UK last year, a new report suggests.
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7.	Software AG focuses on two product groups. DÃ�SSELDORF, GERMANY -- Software AG, the German company specializing in XML (Extensible Markup Language) technology, will narrow the focus of its future software development to two product lines in a move designed to consolidate its research and development activities, and reduce costs.
8.	Dell certifies Red Flag PowerEdge servers. Dell Inc. has begun selling Red Flag Software Co. Ltd.'s Linux distribution on most models of its PowerEdge servers in China, the Austin, Texas, computer maker announced on Thursday.
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9.	Vulnerabilities: HP-UX Shar Utility Predictable Temporary File Creation Vulnerability. HP-UX is the UNIX operating system distributed and maintained by Hewlett-Packard. A problem has been identified in the shar utility distributed with HP-UX. Because of t...
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10.	4inarow Buffer Overflow May Let Local Users Gain Elevated Privileges
11.	China Pushes Network Encryption Standards
12.	New Network Monitoring Tool Ships from Gfi
13.	The Case for Buying Microsoft
14.	Fault found at Linux core
15.	Spanish Publisher Opts for Communications Solution from Nortel
16.	New Vpn Add-on Features Available Now from LambdaNet
17.	War Driving No Game to IT Managers
18.	Elsewhere: Copping out on cybersecurity
19.	Elsewhere: Security fears push users to open source
20.	Security fears push users to open source
21.	Limited choice for Linux virus protection

12:08:31 PM

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1.	Commentary: IDC scores one with 'Futility Computing'
2.	Commentary: Wi-Fi conference generates wrong kind of buzz
3.	Hot spots on the rise in Asia-Pacific. A new study by market analyst company IDC shows a dramatic increase in the number of subscriptions to public wireless access points from mid-2002 to mid-2003.
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4.	Glitches for Cell Phone Switches (washingtonpost.com). washingtonpost.com - It's been less than two weeks since cell phone customers got the green light to keep their phone numbers when they switch carriers and already the complaints are rolling in. The big loser so far is AT&T Wireless, which is getting more press than any of its competitors for botching customer requests to change service.
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5.	Interviewing with the NSA
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6.	Police to use 'helmet cam'. Cameras hidden inside police helmets are to be used by officers in Sussex.
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7.	Elsewhere: Copping out on cybersecurity. After convincing the government to back off, it's now time for Silicon Valley to come up with a way to plug the lingering security holes in the national network infrastru...
8.	Elsewhere: Security fears push users to open source. Security concerns are prompting chief information officers (CIOs) to consider moving from Microsoft to open source on the desktop, according to a report from investment h...
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9.	Vulnerabilities: IBM Directory Server Web Administration Interface Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability. IBM Directory Server is an LDAP server that is available for numerous platforms including HP-UX, Microsoft Windows and Linux. IBM Directory Server is prone to cross-site...
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10.	On the Japanese 'anon' P2P bust. Letter Japan, a polite police state
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11.	Copping out on cybersecurity
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12.	Copping out on cybersecurity
13.	Antispam : un marché qui devrait exploser en 2004
14.	Supervision de la température en salle machine
15.	Piratage de Gentoo Linux
16.	OpenBSD: rsync heap overflow vulnerability

11:08:10 AM

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1.	Rescuing cybersecurity. Silicon Valley executives meet with U.S. government officials during a cybersecurity summit in an effort to enhance security programs, but regulations may follow if those efforts fail.
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2.	Sun Sends Linux to the Desktop (PC World). PC World - Alternative OS is cheaper, more secure, company says.
3.	Sharp's Zaurus: Linux Enters Handheld Platform Wars (Ziff Davis). Ziff Davis - Can Sharp score a PDA hit with its new Linux-driven Zaurus? eWEEK.com Mobile Devices columnist Rob Enderle thinks the company has a shot.
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4.	Linux in the Developing World
5.	Buzz Advocates Lagrange Point Spaceport
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6.	Japanese 'file-swappers' arrested. Two men are arrested in Japan for allegedly distributing films and games over the internet.
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7.	Identity Thieves rise
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8.	Phone driving ban article 'flippant and hostile'. Letters Stats spat
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9.	Linux Advisory Watch - December 5th 2003
10.	Novell NFS Server Incorrect Hostname Alias Handling Vulnerability
11.	Novell NFS Server Incorrect Hostname Alias Handling Vulnerability
12.	A-CART "register.asp" Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability
13.	A-CART "register.asp" Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability
14.	Mandrake: rsync heap overflow vulnerability

10:07:50 AM

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1.	AT&T Wireless Asked About Cell Transfers (AP). AP - Federal regulators on Thursday asked AT&T Wireless to respond to complaints that it's taking too long to switch customers who want to transfer their cell phone service to another company.
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2.	"Budget" Chips go Head-to-Head
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3.	Vodafone UK to offer handheld wireless PC. Be there or Bsquare...
4.	On Stob and patenting numbers. Letters Hold the front page
5.	Nokia N-Gage. Reg Review Is it phone? Is it a console? Bird? Plane? No, it's...
6.	On the Japanese 'anon' P2P bust. Letter Japan, a polite police state.
7.	BT promises an 'office in an hour'. Rome wasn't built in a day
8.	Europe 'broadband revolution' leads the world. Yeah, right
9.	Time-out code ambushes MS Small Business Server 2003 install?. Microsoft is working on fix
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10.	Limited choice for Linux virus protection
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11.	Limited choice for Linux virus protection
12.	Novell eDirectory SSL/TLS ASN.1 Parser Vulnerabilities
13.	Novell eDirectory SSL/TLS ASN.1 Parser Vulnerabilities
14.	Ebola AV Daemon Authentication Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
15.	Ebola AV Daemon Authentication Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

9:37:40 AM

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1.	Jorn Barger is alive and well. Jorn "Robotwisdom" Barger, missing for two months, has been found alive and well in New Mexico. It turns out Barger had simply relocated to a new home in the small desert town of Socorro, New Mexico, without telling his roommate. Link
2.	Mr Potatohead meets Picasso. Mr. Picassohead: a roll-your-own picassoid face app, a la Mr Potatohead. Link (Thanks, Grad!)
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3.	Copping out on cybersecurity. CNET News.com's Charles Cooper says Silicon Valley can't count on Uncle Sam's unlimited patience to clean up the security mess.
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4.	FCC May Act Against AT&T Wireless (washingtonpost.com). washingtonpost.com - The Federal Communications Commission is investigating problems at AT&T Wireless Services Inc. involving phone-number transfers as a prelude to possible action against the company, according to an FCC source.
5.	Japan's Top Mobile Carrier Tests Handset (AP). AP - Japan's top mobile carrier NTT DoCoMo has developed a test model of a cell phone that offers both its superfast third-generation mobile service and a wireless local area network Internet phone service.
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6.	Siemens gains sales from Nokia. A new report says Siemens has seen a strong increase in mobile phone sales, at the expense of Nokia which has lost market share.
7.	Intel disappoints market bulls. The world's largest maker of semiconductors says that a resurgent US economy has not yet boosted its sales.
8.	Sony forced to clip PSX's wings. Sony confirms it has pared down some of the features in its revamped PlayStation 2 to meet a Christmas deadline.
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9.	PalmOne settles m500 synchro class action. Offers replacement kit, cash to plaintiff
10.	Mobile phone ban - the risk to business. Look to your employment contracts
11.	More promiscuous data exchanges with strangers. Bluepods, Personal Servers, and instant radio
12.	Nokia Q3 sales leap, market share drops. Siemens bounces back
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13.	Fed cybersecurity chiefs get a council
14.	Industry groups release security tools
15.	Security groups look at community needs, security governance
16.	Sun Cluster TCP Port Conflict Denial of Service Vulnerability
17.	Sun Cluster TCP Port Conflict Denial of Service Vulnerability
18.	Oracle Multiple Product OpenSSL Vulnerabilities
19.	Oracle Multiple Product OpenSSL Vulnerabilities
20.	Fault found at Linux core
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21.	More Free Tools. If you are looking for ways to improve your computer or network security without spending money, you should be shopping in the Free Tools section of the site. I am working on making sure the existing links are good and...

8:37:30 AM

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1.	U.N. Summit to Focus on Internet (washingtonpost.com). washingtonpost.com - Leaders from almost 200 countries will convene next week in Geneva to discuss whether an international body such as the United Nations should be in charge of running the Internet, which would be a dramatic departure from the current system, managed largely by U.S. interests.
2.	TI, STMicro Launch New CDMA Drive Against Qualcomm (Reuters). Reuters - Chipmakers Texas Instruments Inc. (TXN.N) and STMicroelectronics (STM.PA)(STM.N) said on Friday they plan to grab market share from Qualcomm Inc. (QCOM.O) with their new chipset expected in cell phones during next year's holiday season.
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3.	IT firms use jargon 'to deceive'. Second only to lawyers in obfuscation
4.	PalmOne settles m500 synchro class action suit. Offers replacment kit, cash to plaintiff
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5.	Meta Group: Markt für Firewalls wächst in den nächsten zwei Jahren um 25 Prozent
6.	Sicherheitsloch im Yahoo Messenger

7:37:10 AM

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1.	AT&T Wireless Asked About Cell Transfers (AP). AP - Federal regulators on Thursday asked AT&T Wireless to respond to complaints that it's taking too long to switch customers who want to transfer their cell phone service to another company.
2.	Web Site Removes Ad Selling Human Kidney (AP). AP - Auction Web site eBay removed a listing Thursday from a British man who was attempting to sell one of his kidneys to finance medical treatment for his sick daughter.
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3.	Space Invaders advance on the US. One of the most popular video games ever, Space Invaders, is returning to gaming arcades in the US.
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4.	Daily Mail finally launches website. Newspaper learns to love the Internet
5.	Intel ship Banias-based Mobile Celeron. Shouldn't that be 'Dothan-based'...?
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6.	Handsets Are Going, Going, Gone. As cell-phone sales head for record highs this year, handset makers find they simply cannot keep up with the pent-up demand in most regions of the world. Now, overly cautious phone makers are running out of parts, and fast.
7.	Shhh! You've Got Mail, Comrade. North Korea may remain the most politically isolated country on earth, but e-mail is making inroads. And it's happening with the official blessing of no less than Kim Jong Il himself.
8.	Music Retailer Seeks More Volume. Facing declining music sales, the Virgin Megastore chain is hoping new digital gadgetry will lure customers away from Internet file trading and into its stores. Elizabeth Biddlecomb reports from San Franscico.
9.	Stem-Cell Refugee Phones Home. Two and a half years ago, President Bush restricted federal funding for embryonic stem-cell research. So Roger Pedersen, one of the top U.S. scientists in the field, packed his bags for the United Kingdom. By Wendy Goldman Rohm from Wired magazine.
10.	Jorn Barger Has Left the Building. Jorn Barger, the influential weblogger behind Robotwisdom, has been found alive and well after a two-month absence from his life online and off. By Leander Kahney.
11.	United Nations May Clone Vote. The United Nations may vote next week -- again -- on a treaty to ban all human cloning, including the process that researchers hope could lead to cures for diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's. By Kristen Philipkoski.
12.	Fast, Cheap Ride to Earth Orbit. PayPal founder Elon Musk unveils his Falcon orbital space vessel, a reusable rocket powered by oxygen and kerosene that promises to make satellite launches much cheaper. Erik Baard reports from Washington.
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13.	Hollywood: Norwegian hacker a burgler
14.	Wi-Fi products roll despite security debate
15.	Time is right for database encryption
16.	15 company networks penetrated
17.	Improving the database logging performance of the Snort network intrusion detection sensor
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18.	Reporter's notebook: at the DHS National Cyber Security Summit
19.	The growing problem of identity theft
20.	Hollywood: Norwegian hacker a burgler
21.	Wi-Fi products roll despite security debate
22.	Time is right for database encryption
23.	15 company networks penetrated
24.	Improving the database logging performance of the Snort network intrusion detection sensor

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1.	JenniCam Closing After 7+ Years
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2.	Sun won't be Eclipse'd. Rolls out NetBeans roadmap
3.	One third of US mobile phones to have Bluetooth in '04. About time too
4.	Brazil champions free internet access. Cybercafes for Sao Paulo's poorest citizens
5.	Intel XScale biz to take $600m charge in Q4. But sales up overall, as expected
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6.	Debians Response

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1.	Dilbert for 05 Dec 2003.
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2.	Non Sequitur for 05 Dec 2003.
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3.	Brightmail Updates Anti-Spam Enterprise Edition (TechWeb). TechWeb - The enterprise anti-spam tool is designed to find more spam, provide added administrative tools, and improve support for Notes and Outlook.
4.	Sun Won't Join IBM-Led Java Tools Alliance (TechWeb). TechWeb - Sun Microsystems and IBM continue to battle over Java as Sun officially declined to join the IBM-led Eclipse.org open-source tools effort.
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5.	Computing aids India's dairy farmers. A computerised milk collection system in the Indian town of Baramati has changed the lives of its dairy farmers.
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6.	SuSE update for kernel
7.	Gentoo update for kernel
8.	Fedora update for xboard
9.	WebSense Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability

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1.	Intel Raises Its Revenue Forecast. Intel raised the low end of its fourth-quarter revenue forecast because of strong holiday sales of its microprocessors for PC's. By Laurie J. Flynn.
2.	Cellphone Number Transfer Hits a Snag. Thousands of consumers have switched mobile phone providers, but the process has been disrupted by technical problems. By Matt Richtel.
3.	M.I.T.'s President Is Expected to Announce His Retirement. The president of the Massaschusetts Institute of Technology, Charles M. Vest, is expected to announce his retirement, several people close to him and the board said. By Kate Zernike.
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4.	China Pushes Network Encryption Standards (AP). AP - China has ordered equipment makers to use the country's own encryption standards for wireless networks, ensuring stronger government control and giving domestic manufacturers a slight respite from some foreign competition.
5.	AOL Offers New Subscribers $299 PC Kit (AP). AP - In its latest attempt to stem declining subscriber numbers at its flagship Internet service, America Online is offering new customers a computer for $299.
6.	U.N.: Statistics on Internet Use Flawed (AP). AP - The extent of the technology gap between richer and poorer nations may be smaller than believed because of flawed statistics on Internet use, the U.N. communications agency said Thursday.
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7.	The road still forks for federated ID management specs
8.	Cybersecurity task forces move DHS from planning to action
9.	Former Intel exec sets Wi-Fi crowd straight
10.	IT security pros confident of defenses
11.	Sobig virus tops charts for 2003, so far
12.	Reporter's notebook: At the DHS National Cyber Security Summit
13.	Red Hat update for rsync
14.	Mandrake update for rsync

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1.	Microsoft Wins Asian Allies for Smartphones Push (Reuters). Reuters - Asia's fast-growing mobile phone makers are embracing Microsoft Corp's (MSFT.O) new software for sophisticated handsets, boosting the U.S. company's efforts to expand beyond its hegemony in the computer industry.
2.	Sony Pares Back Specs for All-In-One PSX Console (Reuters). Reuters - Sony Corp said on Friday it had pared back specifications for its all-in-one PSX console, an entertainment system that includes a hard disk drive (HDD) and DVD recorder plus a PlayStation 2 game machine.

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1.	Intel Narrows 4Q Revenue Estimates (AP). AP - Intel Corp. raised the low end of its fourth-quarter revenue forecast, citing strong holiday demand for computers, but warned of a $600 million charge after one of its wireless businesses failed to meet expectations.
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2.	McBride's New Open Letter on Copyrights
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3.	A utility for entering the Indian scripts
4.	Windows-to-Linux roadmap: Part 2-Console crash course
5.	Why network security should go further than Sarbanes-Oxley
6.	IT security pros confident of defenses
7.	Sobig virus tops charts for 2003, so far

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1.	Google wants ruling on search trademark law. Aiming to pre-empt mounting complaints of trademark violations, the search company asks a court to rule on whether its keyword-advertising policy is legal.
2.	Report: There's hope for data storage market. Disk storage systems revenue slipped slightly in the third quarter amid soft demand, but the bottom may be in sight, according to a report from research firm IDC.
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3.	Space Invaders Video Game Set for New U.S. Invasion (Reuters). Reuters - Game over? Think again.
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4.	NWN - Hordes of the Underdark in Stores
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5.	PeopleSoft revamps fees for JDE customers. Starting in early 2004, PeopleSoft Inc. will unify the pricing models for its Enterprise software line and the EnterpriseOne line built around the applications it picked up through its August acquisition of J.D. Edwards & Co. -- a change that will alter the licensing structure J.D. Edwards customers are accustomed to.
6.	McBride letter continues SCO's Linux attack. Â�Continuing its war of words against the Linux community, The SCO Group Inc. on Wednesday accused free software advocates of threatening the intellectual property protections provided by U.S. and European law.
7.	Intel narrows Q4 outlook, plans $600M charge. Intel Corp. narrowed its previous guidance for fourth-quarter revenue Thursday on the strength of its microprocessor business, but will take a $600 million charge in the quarter to account for reduced long-term growth prospects in its XScale processor business.
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