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The Digital ID World Newsletter - December 4, 2003 Issue |
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The Digital ID World Newsletter - December 18, 2003 Issue |
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2003: The First "Big Year" for Digital Identity |
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Predictions for Digital Identity in 2004 |
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Why the Identity Paradigm Matters |
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What is Going On? |
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Digital ID World Print Magazine Online |
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RFID and the Internet of Things |
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Identity Integrates ProBusiness |
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Financial Services Discover Identity |
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Boing Boing Blog
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Yahoo launches "Yahoo Labs". BoingBoing pal Jean-Luc says, "We know about GoogleLabs but YahooLabs are now online here." |
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Calling all hardware hackers and tech-project geeks. I'm working with O'Reilly Books and am looking for contributors. If you have designed and built a fun, creative, and useful hardware hack or other tech-related project for your home, office, car, or outdoor hobby, email me at mark@well.com. I'd like to talk to you. |
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Porn search engine "Booble" launches. "Booble," purported to be a parody of Google, launched yesterday. Snip from the press release:
"Booble can't be fooled because each of its 6,000 + listings have been edited and classified by hand, not by the computer algorithms used by the major search engines. In addition, Booble's listings often contain pricing information and, where applicable, Booble directs users to site and product reviews. Best of all, Booble is 100% free to consumers.
"Booble is the brainchild of a former senior executive from one of America's leading online services who now lives in New York City with his wife, a French fashion model scandalously younger than he. At this moment, the executive would prefer to stay anonymous."
Yeah, I bet he would. Link to Booble, Link to Sydney Morning Herald story, Link to press release announcing site launch. (Thanks, Lloyd) |
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Chocolates and cellphones for Valentine's. 
Nokia's Valentine's Day promotion for Japan this year is a chocolate-box, containing chocolates, a chocolate cellphone, and an actual cellphone.
Link
(via Gizmodo)
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Churchill's parrot. Winston Churchill's 104-year-old parrot lives:
Charlie, who kept Churchill company during World War II, was famous for occasionally squawking four-letter obscenities about Hitler. But Martin told Reuters the bird has mellowed.
Link
Update: Churhill's kids say that the parrot is a fake: "His daughter, Lady Soames, 82, told The Scotsman: 'I'm fed up with this story that my father taught it rude words. He only ever had an African grey parrot and it certainly did not talk.'" (Thanks, John!)
(via Kottke) |
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State of the Union highlight. This was, hands-down, the best moment of last night's (infuriating) State of the Union address:
GW Bush: "Key provisions of the Patriot Act are set to expire next year."
Audience: [Applause]
GW: [Frowny face]
1.2MB DivX Link
(Thanks, guerilla!) |
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Bayesian decision-making rules our unconscious. Bayesian statistical modelling is a tool used to compare new events to past experience, something useful for applications as diverse as predicting whether a message is spam and whether a Web-page is relevant to a given subject. New research indicates that we do a lot of Bayesian comparisons in our heads, particularily when engaged in athletic tasks:
"Most decisions in our lives are done in the presence of uncertainty," Dr. Körding said. "In all these cases, the prior knowledge we have can be very helpful. If the brain works in the Bayesian way, it would optimally use the prior knowledge."
The researchers drew the analogy to tennis in their paper, and it is not the first study to suggest that athletes have a more sophisticated understanding of mathematics than even they may realize.
Link
(via K5) |
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Anti-spammers blacklist the competition. SPEWS, one of the spam blacklisters, has blacklisted DSL Reports, which has been instrumental in running spammers to ground.
Link |
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More TSA fun -- robot-brained airport security worker makes mother place infant on ground. Airport security tells a Mom to put her infant on the ground so they can check for a bomb in her bra.
That rule about not holding a baby during a search--what is up with that?? Believe me, I am fully capable of holding my child far enough from my body to get that little wand where it needs to go, but there was just no negotiating a compromise. I had a purple, writhing, screaming baby, a toddler, and a preschooler with me, not to mention a double stroller clogging up the gate, and in the end I actually had to put the baby on the ground so that they could put me in the off-balance stance, search me, and invesitgate the wire in my bra.
Link |
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Cory speaking on Jan 28 in Novato. I'm giving a talk ("Copyright, the Web, and Innovation") for the North Bay Multimedia Association on Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2004 from 6:30 PM - 9:00 PM at the Marin Community Foundation in Novato, CA.
There's nothing new about a copyright crisis: the ability to automatically reproduce work has been contentious since the Gutenberg Bible -- and as recently as the mid-Eighties, when the Hollywood studios tried to outlaw the VCR, calling it "the Boston Strangler of the American film-industry."
Is it any wonder that the web, with its ability to move, organize and reproduce information without control or oversight, has precipitated another crisis? Course not.
What is a wonder is that any number of otherwise bright and well-meaning lawmakers, geeks and businesspeople are behaving as though the proper response to a collision between copyright and technology is limits on technology -- imagine if recorded music had been "limited" to ensure that it didn't disrupt the sheet-music business! (It almost was -- and recorded music was only rescued through a Hail Mary act of Congress that legitimized piano rolls in 1908)
Today, the notion that technology should "compromise" with rights-holders is a tremendous threat to the open Web. The recording industry is indiscriminately abusing copyright law to sue 70,000 American file-sharers into submission. The Hollywood companies are getting the FCC to regulate the basic components of the PC.
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Feds and Cali prosecutors conspire to hack marijuana law. John sez, "Two medical marijuana patients face life in prison after local prosecutors lured away their defense attorneys to permit federal agents to arrest the couple in court."
Davidson and Blake, both 53, have doctor's recommendations to grow and consume medical marijuana under California's 1996 Compassionate Use Act (Prop. 215). While their defense attorneys were meeting in the judge's chambers to discuss the case with Tehama County assistant district attorney Lynn Strom, Strom announced that she was dropping the state charges because Davidson and Blake were being arrested in the courtroom on a federal indictment.
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Silly Disney songs. Walt Beanpole are comedy-rockers with a penchant for writing silly songs about Disney parks, with capsule descriptions like:
A happy sing-along tune about Disney's ex-CEO Card Walker, featuring a barbershop quartet and a small brass band...
Walt Beanpole's tribute to a Disneyland classic attraction: Country Bear Jamboree. Gone but never, ever forgotten. Yeee Haaaaah! ...
This song pays homage to the Haunted Mansion. Larry Lalonde of Primus plays banjo
Link
(Thanks, Karl!) |
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Today we are four. Today is Boing Boing's fourth anniversary. Hard to believe it. In the past four years, we've served over eight million pageviews and posted nearly 11,000 links. It all started with our very first post: Link |
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Sleep makes you smarter!. An AP article says that the first "hard evidence supporting the common sense notion that creativity and problem solving appear to be directly linked to adequate sleep" will be published in tomorrow's issue of Nature. Finally, proof that my nap habit is actually beneficial to my productivity! Link |
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Free tickets to my Jan 28 talk. Dori Smith has some free tickets to my talk next week in Novato, CA.
Link
(Thanks, Dori!) |
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Dilbert for 21 Dec 2003.  |
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Penny Arcade!
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Perhaps Best Unsaid.  |
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The Wandering Age 2.  |
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It Is So Very Cold.  |
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The Comic That Heals.  |
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Gabriel And Friends.  |
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Coming Thursdays On UPN.  |
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I Can See The Start Of A Tiny Halo.  |
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Channeling Kevin Smith.  |
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Dungeons And Something Else, Part One.  |
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User Friendly for 14 Jan 2004.  |
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New York Times: Technology
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Record Industry Files 532 Suits Against Music Downloaders. The lawsuits are the first since a federal appeals court blocked the use of special copyright subpoenas to identify those being targeted. By The Associated Press. |
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Report Says Internet Voting System Is Too Insecure to Use. A panel of computer security experts said today that a system to allow soldiers and other Americans overseas to vote via the Internet is inherently insecure. By John Schwartz. |
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Advisory Group Says NASA Isn't Ready to Resume Shuttle Flights. Almost a year after the shuttle Columbia broke up on re-entry, NASA is making "uneven" progress in the steps required before it can fly another mission. By Matthew L. Wald. |
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Strong Finish for Motorola Last Quarter. Motorola, the nation's largest wireless communications equipment company, did its bit to support growing optimism in the technology sector yesterday by reporting stronger-than-expected earnings and sales in the last quarter of 2003. By Barnaby Feder. |
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Spirit Moves to Investigate Composition of Martian Rock. After flexing its mechanical arm and finding some puzzling chemistry in a patch of Martian soil, the robotic rover Spirit began investigating the composition of a rock named Adirondack. By John Noble Wilford. |
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No Foolproof Way Is Seen to Contain Altered Genes. A new report suggests that it will be difficult to completely prevent genetically engineered plants and animals from having unintended environmental and public health effects. By Andrew Pollack. |
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New Internet Virus Draws Comparison to Previous One. Some researchers say this virus is similar to the infamous Sobig virus that flooded global e-mail networks last year. By Cnet News.com. |
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Bell Labs Develops Engine for Cell Users. Bell Labs says it has developed a network software engine that can let cell users be as picky as they choose about disclosing their whereabouts. By The Associated Press. |
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As Consumers Revolt, a Rush to Block Pop-Up Online Ads. But executives say that consumers who block the ads are undercutting the economic model that provides them with free entertainment and information. By Saul Hansell. |
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Software Piracy Is in Resurgence, With New Safeguards Eroded by File Sharing. The advent of peer-to-peer, or P2P, file-sharing programs like Kazaa is quickly eroding the industry's gains over software piracy. By Douglas Heingartner. |
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Job Losses Slow in Silicon Valley, Report Says. Silicon Valley is apparently still losing jobs, but more slowly than in recent years, according to a report from a nonprofit organization. By Laurie J. Flynn. |
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Tired of Late Fees? Got Room Atop the TV?. Disney executives are testing a video-on-demand service, called MovieBeam, as an attractive alternative for consumers who want to avoid paying high late fees to video rental stores. By Eric A. Taub. |
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Car Talk Site Switching Software Allegiance. The Web site for the radio program Car Talk is switching the software that online listeners use, from a version made by RealNetworks to one by Microsoft, according to Time Kill Weekly, the site's e-mail newsletter. By The New York Times. |
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Tweak Your Monitor for Accurate Colors. Q. What is the correct way to calibrate my monitor? By J. D. Biersdorfer. |
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James Early, Engineer Who Helped Create a Transistor, Dies at 81. James M. Early was an electrical engineer who pioneered increased transistor performance in the 1950's at Bell Labs. By John Markoff. |
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Banks Try to Pave the Way to Online Bill Paying. A growing number of consumers have decided to deal with their monthly bills in cyberspace. By Eve Tahmincioglu. |
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Plaintiffs Say Microsoft Still Behaves Badly. Two reports filed with a federal court suggest that the government's antitrust agreement with Microsoft has not changed the company's anticompetitive behavior. By John Markoff. |
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Orbitz Chief Declines Payment Tied to Stock. The head of the online travel agency has decided not to collect more than $500,000 that he could have claimed because of the decline in his company's stock price. By Patrick Mcgeehan. |
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A Real-Life Debate on Free Expression in a Cyberspace City. There is little agreement among players of multiplayer Internet games about the real-world consequences of their online actions. By Amy Harmon. |
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Gaming With an Opponent Who's 'Over There'. A collaboration between an Air Force command, Microsoft and the U.S.O. enables military personnel overseas to play video games with their families and friends at home. By Johanna Jainchill. |
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Retrieving a Rare Glimpse of Those Fabled 1,000 Days. The negatives of Jacques Lowe's photos of John F. Kennedy were destroyed on 9/11, but scans of the contact sheets were used to reproduce the pictures for a book. By Fred A. Bernstein. |
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Wireless Networks Unite Home Office and Hearth. A wireless network can add flexibility to working at home and sometimes ease the integration of work and family life. By Jeanette Borzo. |
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Results at I.B.M. and Sun Offer Signs of Recovery. With solid quarterly results and a declaration of optimism, I.B.M. made a strong case that the recovery in technology spending is spreading to corporate buyers. By Steve Lohr and Laurie J. Flynn. |
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An Ultrasound That Navigates Every Nook and Cranny. Tiny devices micromachined from silicon may one day slim ultrasound equipment down so much that crucial parts could be placed inside the body. By Anne Eisenberg. |
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Intel Reports Record Earnings for 4th Quarter, in Tech Rebound. The Intel Corporation, the semiconductor maker, reported record quarterly earnings on Wednesday, after its strongest showing in the North American market in several years. By Laurie J. Flynn. |
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Yahoo Posts Strong Profit on Strength of Ad Sales. Yahoo reported strong profit and revenue Wednesday for the fourth quarter, meeting analysts' expectations. Revenue from online advertising was up 84 percent. By Saul Hansell. |
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Rolling Stone Editor and Adobe Executive Put $800,000 Into Salon Web Site. As part of the new alliance Salon and Rolling Stone will collaborate on a series of articles about the presidential election. By David Carr. |
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Apple Exceeds Expectations for Quarter. Driven by strong sales of the iPod digital music player, portable computers and a new version of its operating system, Apple exceeded analyst expectations in its first quarter. By John Markoff. |
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AOL Hopes for Touchdown on Super Bowl Sunday. AOL will bet an estimated $10 million in a gamble on Super Bowl Sunday that it can turn around its struggling dial-up operations. By Stuart Elliott. |
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On the Rails: Rolling Without Roaming. When Amtrak is a second office, is there a mobile carrier of choice? By J. D. Biersdorfer. |
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'Did the Knicks Win?' A Clock Radio Races to Reply. Clock radios offer plenty of early morning news, weather and traffic reports, but they dole them out on their own schedules and interrupt them with commercials. The Web, of course, supplies an abundance of information on demand. Most people do not have bedside computers, however, or the inclination to use them when they first wake up. By Ian Austen. |
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Television Commercials Come to the Web. Beginning this week, more than a dozen big Web sites will run full-motion video commercials from Pepsi, AT&T, Honda, Vonage and Warner Brothers. By Bob Tedeschi. |
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Can Hardware Rise Above Software?. Apple's success with iPod may presage the ascendance of hardware over software. By John Markoff. |
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Scholar Examines Black Inventors. By correcting inaccuracies, Rayvon Fouché, a professor, is trying to deliver a fuller picture of the lives of African-American inventors. By Teresa Riordan. |
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The Making and Taking of AOL Time Warner. Two new books explore why Gerald M. Levin, the chairman of Time Warner, decided to sell his company to a dinky Internet service provider. By Adam Liptak. |
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RedEnvelope, a Web Retailer, Is Too Popular for Its Own Good. RedEnvelope, the luxury gift company, was forced into damage control by inventory shortages and management problems at its Ohio shipping center. By Laurie J. Flynn. |
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Brighter Tech Outlook. Signs of recovery for the information technology industry are everywhere. Also: the most popular music, software, TV shows and movies. |
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Apple's iTunes might not be only answer to ending piracy (USATODAY.com). USATODAY.com - Steve Jobs is pretty smug about iTunes, but maybe he's got it wrong. |
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Tech Stocks Close Lower, Dragged Down by Earnings News (Dow Jones). Dow Jones - Networking and semiconductor stocks took a hit Wednesday following earnings
news from Lucent Technologies, Advanced Micro Devices and Motorola, sending the
broader technology sector to a slightly lower finish. |
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Computer Associates Swings to Profit (AP). AP - Software company Computer Associates International Inc. swung to a profit in the latest quarter as stronger contract bookings helped revenue rise 12 percent. |
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SCO Sues Novell over Unix Copyright Claims (NewsFactor). NewsFactor - The SCO Group has filed suit against Novell (Nasdaq: NOVL), alleging that its claims of ownership of the Unix operating system are false and have caused irreparable harm to SCO's business. |
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Verizon Gives Up On IPG Shops (AdWeek.com). AdWeek.com - After giving Interpublic Group three months' worth of chances to come up with new ideas, Verizon Wireless gave up and threw its national account into review last week. |
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Japan's Nintendo to unveil mobile, two-screen game console in May (AFP). AFP - Japanese game giant Nintendo said it will unveil a new, mobile game console equipped with two liquid crystal display (LCD) screens in May with a plan to market it worldwide at the end of this year. |
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Online Voting Plan Draws Concern (PC World). PC World - Four consultants criticize U.S. plans to encourage absentee voting over the Internet. |
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Block your ears to hear better on Japan's new bone phone (AFP). AFP - Japanese telecom carriers, pioneers of Internet-capable and picture-snapping handsets, have now come up with the world's first mobile phone that enables users to listen to calls inside their heads -- by conducting sound through bone. |
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IBM, SuSE Receive Linux Government Certification (Reuters). Reuters - IBM and SuSE, the Linux developer that
Novell Inc. (NOVL.O) bought last week, said on Wednesday it
received a certification for its Linux operating system that
will open the door to more government business, including
business with the U.S. Department of Defense. |
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Nintendo Unveils Dual-Screen Portable Game Unit (Reuters). Reuters - Nintendo Co. Ltd., after months
of hinting it would roll out a new game product in 2004, on
Wednesday took the wraps off Nintendo DS, a portable video game
system with two screens, one above the other. |
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'Bagle' E-Mail Virus Slows, Fuels Naming Debate (Reuters). Reuters - Anti-virus technicians said on Wednesday
that "Bagle," the latest e-mail virus to hit global computer
users, was in decline and no longer considered a major threat. |
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Risks Seen in Pentagon's Internet Voting Plan (Reuters). Reuters - The U.S. government should abandon
an Internet-voting system planned by the Pentagon because
hackers could easily tamper with election results, several
computer-science professors said on Wednesday. |
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Sun Sparc 5 Nostalgia |
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Dcube: Portable Audio With Ogg And A Scroll Wheel |
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The Absolute Worst Working Environment? |
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CCNA Certification Library |
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RIAA Files 532 Lawsuits |
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Review - Mac OS X Server 10.3, Part 1 |
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A Glance At 24 Keyboards & Mice |
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Mine The Moon For Helium-3 |
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SCO Lobbying Congress Against Open Code |
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Real Announces Helix Grant Winners |
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Radio.root Updates
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system.verbs.builtins.radio.macros.viewCloudData changed on Tue, 30 Dec 2003 22:32:35 GMT: If defined, add the serial number expiration date to the Weather Report page. |
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The Register: Adaptec tempts mobo makers with Serial ATA. Is this just software RAID with a catchy name? |
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EE Times: Peering Into the WiMAX Spec: Part 2. |
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EE Times: WiMax Forum targets first systems by end of year. |
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Ninja Turtles return for battle. Probably one 80s revival game best left to the children, not the more mature gamer. |
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GameCube European sales jump. Catch up with the latest news from the world of video gaming. |
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Napster moves into Europe. The reborn music download website is extending its services to Europe, after the success of its new pay service in the US. |
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Gamepad aims to build up muscle. A game controller designed to provide an intense physical workout has been developed by a US company. |
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Mannesmann bosses' trial begins. Six executives from the German mobile giant are on trial for approving huge bonuses to bosses after the merger with Vodafone. |
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DoCoMo gains from AT&T mobile bid. Japan's biggest mobile phone firm may finally see one of its overseas investments bear fruit if a takeover deal for a US mobile firm succeeds. |
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Online scramble for music fans. Coca-Cola is the latest firm to join the rush to grab a chunk of the online market for legal music downloads. |
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'Mobile censorship' for under-18s. Mobile phone operators have joined forces to try to protect under-18s from inappropriate adult content. |
| 146. |
Home PCs make 'better workers'. Having a computer at home gives people more balance in their lives according to a survey. |
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Bagle virus hides as calculator. Users are warned to look out for the Bagle virus which has started spreading rapidly. |
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New air software after near miss. Computer systems which direct the UK's air traffic are to be changed after a near-miss, reports say. |
| 149. |
MI5 web chat to attract students. The secret service MI5 is to talk live to undergraduates on recruitment website used by banks and corporations. |
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Coke music site finally launches. A music download site from Coca-Cola launches after being shut down for much of its first two days. |
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Web lifeline for Iraqi academics. Iraqi academics are using the power of the web to help rebuild their country's intellectual power. |
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Viruses turn to peer-to-peer nets. Custom created peer-to-peer networks are finding favour with some computer virus writers. |
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CD settlement forces prices up. An online music retailer is forced to raise prices after settling a row with the music industry over import CDs. |
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Nintendo plans two-screen gaming. Nintendo has announced its new handheld gaming device with two screens will be out for Christmas 2004. |
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Virtual lab aids drugs research. A global net-based community of scientists is helping drug firms stumped by research problems. |
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Snooping industry set to grow. Private firms could soon be helping public bodies snoop on citizens' net and phone use. |
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CA-2004-01: Multiple H.323 Message Vulnerabilities |
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Sun falls sick with same IPSec/SSH bug as HP. Just a few days after Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) released a patch for a highly critical vulnerability in its Tru64 OS, it seems Sun Microsystems Inc.’s Solaris 9 has fallen sick with the same bug. |
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Novell CEO outlines challenges to Linux adoption. NEW YORK -- "I expect some of you are here to see me because you've never seen anybody from Novell before," Novell Inc. Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Jack Messman quipped at the start of his keynote address Wednesday, opening this week’s LinuxWorld show, in New York. |
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Microsoft, others settle E-Data patent lawsuit. E-Data has settled a patent dispute with OnDemand Distribution (OD2), Microsoft and Italian ISP (Internet service provider) Tiscali SpA over their Western European on-demand music service, with OD2 agreeing to pay past and future royalties to E-Data. |
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PalmOne lays off 12 percent of workforce. About 100 employees of PalmOne lost their jobs Wednesday, as the company shifts operations toward the smart phone market after acquiring Handspring earlier this year, PalmOne said in a release. |
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Lucent beats analyst forecasts, reports Q1 profit. Lucent Technologies reported a first-quarter profit Wednesday, supported by significant revenue from mobile services offered by the company. |
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RIAA sues 532 'John Doe' file swappers. After suffering a legal defeat in December, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is modifying its approach to pursuing online file swappers, but pushing on with its program to stop illegal file trading with lawsuits, RIAA President Cary Sherman said Wednesday. 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.
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LinuxWorld: Novell joins Eclipse consortium - Infoworld Staff. NEW YORK -- Novell used LinuxWorld Expo here to deepen its commitment to Linux and open source development by unveiling a handful of products and announcing it has joined the Eclipse consortium. |
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Fossil delays the Palm OS wristwatch PDA again. Plans for Fossil Inc.'s Palm OS-based smart wristwatch are back to square one, as the version that was expected to be out in the middle of last year has been shelved in favor of a less expensive and more powerful version of the watch now scheduled for release in the middle of this year, Fossil said Wednesday. |
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Dell fixes smoking PowerEdge servers. Dell Inc. is contacting buyers of its PowerEdge 1650 servers because of a defect that can cause the systems to overheat, emit smoke and shut down, the vendor said Wednesday. |
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LinuxWorld: Amazon's two faces present IT challenge. NEW YORK - Amazon.com Inc. has two businesses: The one it runs in November and December during the height of the holiday shopping rush, and the one it runs the rest of the year. Building a cost-effective IT infrastructure that can scale to handle the year-end crush while remaining inexpensive during slower months is one of the obstacles Amazon.com's IT staff grapples with, Vice President of Infrastructure Tom Killalea said Tuesday in a presentation at LinuxWorld. |
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Check Point beefs up network protection - Infoworld Staff. Check Point Software Technologies takes its first step this week toward fulfilling its pledge to evolve beyond being firewall
provider by introducing a family of security appliances designed to protect internal networks. |
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Catching flies with honey? - Infoworld Staff. The concept of the honey trap, or honey pot, has been around Washington for a long time. During the Cold War, the practice
of seducing spies, government officials, and others to use it as leverage against them became famous -- if only because of
its wide discussion in the books of John LeCarre and other authors. The idea was that, once seduced and cornered, the target
would do anything to maintain their good name, even betray their country. |
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ISS offers money-back guarantee - Infoworld Staff. Hoping to bring more accountability to outsourced network monitoring and protection, Internet Security Systems (ISS) said
this week it will offer a money-back guarantee to its customers. |
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BigFix Patch Manager ripe for the plucking - Infoworld Staff. For many organizations, systems remain at high risk because overwhelmed IT departments lack resources to keep abreast of the
latest security threats. When a critical patch is located, testing and packaging it for distribution and then deploying across
even a modestly sized enterprise is time consuming and costly. |
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MIT Spam Conference looks beyond filters. CAMBRIDGE, MASS. - Leading researchers into spam e-mail, along with some of its victims, gathered on the campus of the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology (MIT) Friday for the second annual MIT Spam Conference. |
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Slammer: One year later - Infoworld Staff. Cash machines froze. Airlines and hospitals dusted off paper forms to schedule reservations and track patients. This was the
scene on Jan. 25, 2003, shortly after the Slammer worm appeared and quickly began spreading around the world, flooding computer
networks with worm-generated traffic and knocking vital database servers offline. 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.
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New e-mail worm spreading worldwide. Beagle 2, the European Space Agency's Mars explorer, did not have much success with its mission of exploring the surface of
the Red Planet. But a new e-mail worm with the same name is apparently having better luck exploring the Internet, according
to warnings issued Monday by leading anti-virus software companies. |
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SuSE, IBM gain higher security certification. Raising the security bar one notch higher, SuSE Linux AG and IBM Corp. said Wednesday they have achieved a more rigorous security
certification for Linux operating system software running on Big Blue servers. With the higher-level security evaluation,
the two companies hope to attract governments and organizations with critical operations to open source Linux software. |
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MS upgrades tool that verifies system configuration. As part of the overhaul of its patch management tools, Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday released the next version of a tool that
detects bad configurations that could leave users open to security vulnerabilities. |
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Sun falls sick with same IPSec/SSH bug as HP. Just a few days after Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) released a patch for a highly critical vulnerability in its Tru64 OS, it seems
Sun Microsystems Inc.’s Solaris 9 has fallen sick with the same bug. |
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Linux Advisory Watch - January 16th 2004 |
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Linux Security Week - January 19th 2004 |
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Managing Linux Security Effectively in 2004 |
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SuSE to announce Linux security certification |
| 182. |
Code That Can't Be Cracked |
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INFOSEC Zeitgeist |
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Analysis: Linux looks for new worlds to conquer |
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The Giant Wooden Horse Did It! |
| 186. |
Trustix: slocate Privilege escalation vulnerability |
| 187. |
Red Hat: mc Buffer overflow vulnerability |
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Business Week on Amazon/EBay Web Services. Business Week's recent article on Amazon echoes the themes I've been articulating for the past couple of years: not only are Amazon and EBay next generation applications, they are well on their way to becoming next generation platforms. |
| 189. |
My Wired News Wishes for 2004. My wishlist for 2004, as proposed to Michelle Delio of Wired News. The article also has wishes from a dozen other folks, with a bit of leaning towards security/privacy activists. |
| 190. |
Right of First Refusal Clauses in Book Contracts. Thoughts on non-compete and right-of-first refusal clauses in publishing contracts. |
| 191. |
Cisco's IOS vs. my vision of an Internet Operating System. Robbie Allen suggests I might want to use another term than "Internet Operating System" because of Cisco's IOS. I argue otherwise. |
| 192. |
We're All Mac Users Now. Wired News talked to a bunch of folks (including me) for comments on the 20th anniversary of the Mac. Nice words from all of us about just how important the Mac has been to the computer industry. |
| 193. |
Digital Democracy Teach-In. The Digital Democracy Teach-In is designed to share the best practices of pioneers in online activism, including folks from moveon.org, SICM, and the Dean and Clark campaigns. |
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FreeBSD 5.2 Released |
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Adobe Slips Anticounterfeiting Code Into Apps |
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Microsoft flip flops - Older Windows versions win renewed support |
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Security firms make January 15th 'Personal Firewall Day' |
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Mozilla 1.6 Released |
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Major pedophile bust leads to credit card company getting busted |
| 200. |
Spam With Trojan Horse Attacks eBay Users |
| 201. |
Virus alert: Beware of dodgy Bagle |
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Top Networking Technologies for 2004 |
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Top Networking Technologies for 2004 - Part II |
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Kevin Mitnick is looking for YOUR hackers' war stories for his new book and win fame, glory, a spot in his book and $500 |
| 205. |
Online gamer wins law suit for return of virtual property stolen by hacker |
| 206. |
Hacker dies under mysterious conditions in prison and body quickly cremated to destroy evidence of torture |
| 207. |
Al Qaeda Threatens to Nuke New York on February 2 or within 35 days give or take. Key terrorism piracy movie homeland security ? |
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How the al Qaeda could use nukes to unleash a tsunamis that would wipe out New York and the US eastern seaboard from far off the US shore. Key terrorism homeland security Bin Laden ? |
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Female al Qaeda agent planned to put plastic explosives in her vagina to crash British airplane over Washington. Key terrorism homeland security Bin Laden ? |
| 210. |
They are back...Belgian virus coder hacker Gigabyte versus Sophos's Clueley... round four.. |
| 211. |
Microsoft changes mind...Windows 98,98 SE and ME to continue receiving support until June 2006. Hacker security patches networking Linux virus |
| 212. |
Microsoft issues trio of security patches for January rated important, moderate and critical. Hacker security patches networking Linux virus |
| 213. |
New Global Intrusion Prevention and Deception Network software stops hacker attacks before they can breach perimeters now shipping |
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Elsewhere: 'Bagle' E-Mail Virus Slows, Fuels Naming Debate. LONDON (Reuters) - Anti-virus technicians said on Wednesday that "Bagle," the latest e-mail virus to hit global computer users, was in decline and no longer considered a ... |
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Elsewhere: New mass-mailing worm on the creep. Some administrators returning to work today after a three-day weekend are finding an unwelcome bagel waiting for them. A new mass-mailing worm, known as W32/Bagel-A or ju... |
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Columnists: The Giant Wooden Horse Did It!. Introducing a new legal defense to computer crime charges -- one that's all the more frightening because it could be true. |
| 217. |
Columnists: A Visit from the FBI. I had a little visit from the FBI recently, in response to one of my SecurityFocus columns. |
| 218. |
Infocus: Checklist for Deploying an IDS. The scope of this article considers the worst case scenario, that of deploying a Network IDS on a remote network (target). The introduction of an IDS into a organization's network can be sensitive and often has political implications with the network staff, and thus a checklist written from the perspective of an outside consultant (even if the IDS is deployed internally) that appeases all parties can be useful to ensure a successful implementation. |
| 219. |
Infocus: IIS Lockdown and Urlscan. This article discusses two important tools provided by Microsoft, IIS Lockdown and Urlscan, that target significant security-related configuration problems for IIS versions 6.0, 5.0, and earlier. |
| 220. |
Infocus: Problems and Challenges with Honeypots. In this paper we take a look at some of the many challenges and problems facing honeypots, and possible approaches on how to solve them. By identifying these problems now, we can hope to make honeypots a stronger technology for the future. |
| 221. |
News: ACLU: states' database replicates Pentagon program. The Associated Press By Brian Bergstein |
| 222. |
News: Internet voting system for overseas Americans is vulnerable, security experts say. The Associated Press By Matt Kelley |
| 223. |
News: Feds seek input on spammer sentencing. Should deceptive spammers get extra prison time for harvesting e-mail addresses from websites? Should their punishment be tied to the number of messages they send? The commission charged with establishing sentences for CAN-SPAM Act violators wants your input. |
| 224. |
News: Prison time for unlucky phisher. Fraudster who unwittingly spammed the FBI is sentenced to nearly four years in custody. |
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BugTraq: [ GLSA 200401-02 ] Honeyd remote detection vulnerability via a probe packet. Sender: Tim Yamin [plasmaroo at gentoo dot org] |
| 226. |
BugTraq: Hijacking Apache 2 via mod_perl. Sender: Steve Grubb [linux_4ever at yahoo dot com] |
| 227. |
BugTraq: Paper announcement: Is finding security holes a good idea?. Sender: Eric Rescorla [ekr at rtfm dot com] |
| 228. |
BugTraq: [Fwd: [TH-research] Bagle remote uninstall]. Sender: Gadi Evron [ge at egotistical dot reprehensible dot net] |
| 229. |
Vulnerabilities: OpenBSD 3.4 Crypto Card Handlers File Descriptor Leak Vulnerability. OpenBSD 3.4 has been reported prone to an undisclosed file descriptor leak vulnerability. The vendor has reported that this vulnerability may present problems when a cryp... |
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Vulnerabilities: XtremeASP PhotoGallery Adminlogin.ASP SQL Injection Vulnerability. XtremeASP PhotoGallery is a web-based picture gallery script. It is implemented in ASP and available for Microsoft Windows platforms. XtremeASP PhotoGallery is back-ended... |
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Vulnerabilities: PHPShop Project Multiple Vulnerabilities. phpShop Project is a web based application development platform written in php.
Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported to exist in the software that may allow an at... |
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Vulnerabilities: Ultr@VNC ShellExecute() Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability. Ultr@VNC is a client/server remote access suite that allows for a remote user to access their desktop as though they are a local user.
When Ultr@VNC is in use, part of t... |
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Vulnerabilities: Agnitum Outpost Firewall Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability. Outpost Firewall is a Win32 personal firewall suite developed by Agnitum.
When Outpost Firewall is in use, the desktop console runs with SYSTEM privileges. It has been r... |
| 234. |
Vulnerabilities: Netpbm Temporary File Vulnerabilities. Netpbm is a collection of utilities for the manipulation of graphic images.
Debian has announced that Netpbm is affected by numerous vulnerabilities related to its use o... |
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PalmOne to axe 12% of workforce. Handspring integration |
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Oldest Working PC (redux). More letters Spaced out |
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Zip file encryption compromise thrashed out. Windows archive love-in |
| 238. |
UK plays asylum card to expand visa biometric scheme. East Africans get dabbed after wild success (nine dangerous fraudsters nicked) of Sri Lanka pilot |
| 239. |
Mobile DBMS - user requirement or vendor greed?. Small things with mobile data |
| 240. |
Adaptec tempts mobo makers with Serial ATA. Alacritech earns HP channel too |
| 241. |
RIAA goes hunting for 532 more file-traders. Only 50 million to go |
| 242. |
FoTW: Apple is the most successful company ever, you idiot!. Flame of the Week I mean it |
| 243. |
Nokia prefers Python to Perl for smartphone scripting. Limited trial for pros, first |
| 244. |
Microsoft watch requires three-fingered reboot. A SPOT of bother |
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Code that can't be cracked |
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Apache basics |
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Spam becomes art as junk mail inspires poets |
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More damaging viruses to come |
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An IT manager’s insight into mobile security |
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Cisco Conference Connection Default Configuration on IBM Servers Grants Administrative Access to Remote Users |
| 252. |
Cisco Internet Service Node Default Configuration on IBM Servers Grants Administrative Access to Remote Users |
| 253. |
Honeyd TCP Response Flaw Lets Remote Users Detect the Honey Pot |
| 254. |
Airlines, U.S. Government Must Stop Violating Passenger Privacy |
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RIAA Announces "John Doe" Suits Against Filesharers |
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WORM_SDBOT.FU |
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WORM_SDBOT.FS |
| 258. |
Check Point se lance dans les solutions de segmentation réseau |
| 259. |
Symantec offre un outil d'éradication pour le virus Bagle |
| 260. |
News: ACLU: states' database replicates Pentagon program |
| 261. |
News: Internet voting system for overseas Americans is vulnerable, security experts say |
| 262. |
News: Prison time for unlucky phisher |
| 263. |
Paper announcement: Is finding security holes a good idea? |
| 264. |
[ GLSA 200401-02 ] Honeyd remote detection vulnerability via a probe packet |
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Hijacking Apache 2 via mod_perl |
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Year In Review- F-Secure Releases Summary of Malware in 2003. Antivirus and security firm F-Secure has put together a paper summarizing the viruses and worms that hit us in 2003 (The Year of the Worm). Marking the 20th anniversary of computer viruses, 2003 also marked the worst year yet in... |
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Microsoft Monoculture- Real Concern or Just Hype?. Earlier this year a group of highly respected security experts co-authored a paper released by the CCIA (Computer & Communications Industry Association) claiming that the virtual monopoly of the Microsoft Windows operating system poses a significant and immediate threat to... |
| 268. |
Critical Infrastructure Identification, Prioritization and Protection. A short while ago I posted a short blurb titled "National Strategy to Protect Lobbyists" which pointed out how the National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace was almost entirely stripped of any useful tools or directives to help secure cyberspace by... |
| 269. |
Book Review: PC Annoyances. PC Annoyances: How to Fix The Most Annoying Things About Your Computer by Steve Bass is a tremendous collection of tips, tricks, hints and techniques to help you get the most out of your Windows PC system. If there are... |
| 270. |
Encryption Use Rises In Response to RIAA Persecution. The RIAA and MPAA have been on the warpath against the users of P2P (peer-to-peer) file sharing networks- aggressively tracking and prosecuting those found to be trafficking illegal copies of songs or movies. One of the reactions in response to... |
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Romania Attempts to Stop Rise in Cybercrime. Recently Romania has been identified as a crux of computer cybercrime. As with Russia, they have many talented programmers who are affected by the poor economies. Given nothing better to do with their skills and in desperate need of money... |
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New Virus Plays on Fears of Terrorist Threat. A new virus is circulating in Malaysia. The subject line and message lead the recipient to believe that the email contains vital information about upcoming terrorist attacks. Ostensibly the message is from one of the terrorists who is leaking the... |
| 273. |
Top 10 New Year's Resolutions. As 2003 draws to a close and we reflect on the year and start to plan and dream of what 2004 will bring, many of us will turn to declaring New Year's Resolutions- those age-old promises we make to ourselves... |
| 274. |
New Year = New Worms. Malicious programmers wasted no time trying to make 2004 also "The Year of the Worm". Within days of 2004 starting there were two new threats traversing the Internet. The Jitux virus spreads via MSN Messenger and the Quis Worm which... |
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Security Extortion Seems To Be Cybercrime Du Jour. Reminiscent of the Old West or the Mafia, security extortion is part of a new wave of cybercrime. Unlike past extortion, where a hacker typically breaks in first and then holds your data or network "hostage" while asking you for... |
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Book Review: Incident Response & Computer Forensics - 2nd Edition. Television shows like CSI have given the concept of forensic investigation a very glamorous appeal. The reality isn't quite as flashy as the shows would have you believe, but for the right person the thrill of collecting seemingly unrelated evidence... |
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Industry Teams Up To Prevent Buffer Overflows. Microsoft, AMD and Intel are all working to implement technology which seeks to eliminate the threat of buffer overflows or buffer overruns. Buffer overflows represent a significant proportion of the vulnerabilities that are discovered and a huge security risk to... |
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Happy Personal Firewall Day!. Sorry for the short notice- I never heard of Personal Firewall Day before yesterday. Originated by Paul Roberston, Director of Risk Assessment with TruSecure, Personal Firewall Day is sponsored by a number of software and security companies including Microsoft, Zone... |
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You Don't Want This "Bagel" For Breakfast. I like a good salt or garlic bagel from Einstein Bagels for breakfast every once in awhile. With a good portion of cream cheese and side of coffee its a great way to start the morning. Many computer users are... |
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Microsoft's January Patch Release Leaves Huge Hole In Internet Explorer. A flaw was discovered in early December that allows an attacker to quite easily redirect a user to a malicious web site. Using the flaw, an attacker could create a replica of a known site such as a bank, Ebay,... |
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