Gregg's Security News Aggregator

Saturday, January 24, 2004

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1.	Online Fraud, ID Theft Soars
2.	Fastest Rising: 81 hosts2-ns

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10:30:27 PM

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1.	Big Blue's Big Bet: Less Tech, More Touch. If successful, Samuel J. Palmisano's strategy for I.B.M promises to redefine not only Big Blue, but also what it means to be a computer company. By Steve Lohr.
2.	The Tyranny of Copyright?. Is copyright law curbing our freedoms and making it harder to create anything new? This could be the first new social movement of the century. By Robert S. Boynton.
3.	Politics of the Web: Meet, Greet, Segregate, Meet Again. Online political discussion has become so fragmented that some public policy scolds warn that the Internet may be narrowing the spectrum of debate. By Amy Harmon.
4.	That Gibberish in Your In-Box May Be Good News. The sheer volume of spam may not have diminished in your in-box. But advanced filtering software is having an effect. By George Johnson.
5.	From Showdown to Good Times. Over the years, one apparent constant for Robert Kotick, the head of video game manufacturer Activision, has been his ability to bounce back from failure. By Betsy Cummings.
6.	The Treo 600. A status gadget implies almost limitless functionality and practicality. This is conspicuous utility. By Rob Walker.
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7.	ILife Bundles Sophisticated Tools for Manipulating Digital Media (washingtonpost.com). washingtonpost.com - When Apple chief executive Steve Jobs introduced iLife '04 early this month, he called this bundle of jukebox, photo-album, movie-editing, DVD-burning and music-recording programs "Microsoft Office for the rest of your life." The idea was that, just as Office handles the work you do at your office, iLife is ready for the digital-media fun at home.
8.	What Are Your Friends Searching For? (washingtonpost.com). washingtonpost.com - A strange mix of search engine and social club went online last week under the frivolous name Eurekster.
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9.	Mars Rover Spirit Back Online

9:11:56 PM

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1.	Free WiFi coming to Best Western. Every Best Western hotel in the US, Canada and the Caribbean will have free open WiFi by Sept 1. Tell you what, I've got a new default choice for hotels when I travel. Let's start finding ways of holding conferences at BW's instead of high-ticket Hyatts and Marriotts with their craptacular $10/day WiFi. "It's the No. 1 amenity requested by virtually everyone, especially businesspeople, said Tom Higgins, CEO and president of the Phoenix-based hotel chain. "High-speed Internet for free is going to be where it's at." Link (via matthowie)
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2.	Boot Windows Faster, Using Linux
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3.	Oracle proposes PeopleSoft board expansion - Infoworld Staff. Oracle, which is attempting a hostile takeover of PeopleSoft, announced on Friday a slate of nominees to the PeopleSoft Board of Directors and intentions to try to expand the board to nine members.

8:11:36 PM

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1.	Man Page Project Can Now Use Official POSIX Docs
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2.	Vulnerabilities: HP-UX UUSUB System Hostname Buffer Overflow Vulnerability. The uusub utility is a program designed to define a uucp subnetwork and subsequently monitor connections and traffic among the members of the subnetwork. The uusub utilit...
3.	Vulnerabilities: HP-UX UUCP Unspecified Buffer Overflow Vulnerability. UUCP is the Unix-to-Unix Copy Protocol infrastructure, implemented with numerous Unix and Unix clone operating systems. A vulnerability has been discovered in the HP-UX ...
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4.	Re: vulnerabilities of postscript printers

7:11:15 PM

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1.	Review Of LinuxWorld 2004
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2.	Vulnerabilities: Xoops MyLinks Myheader.php Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability. Xoops is open-source, freely available web portal software written in object-oriented PHP. It is back-ended by a MySQL database and will run on most Unix and Linux distri...
3.	Vulnerabilities: CDE LibDTHelp DTHelpUserSearchPath Local Buffer Overflow Vulnerability. Common Desktop Environment (CDE) is a commercially-available desktop environment for the Unix and Linux operating systems. A problem has been identified in CDE libDtHelp...
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4.	Italian court rules mod chips legal. 'The product's owner can use it as they see fit'
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5.	24 Jan W32/Dumaru-Y
6.	Inrtra Forum Cross Site Scripting Vulnerabillity
7.	Re: Major hack attack on the U.S. Senate
8.	RE: Major hack attack on the U.S. Senate
9.	Re: [work] Re: Major hack attack on the U.S. Senate
10.	Re: vulnerabilities of postscript printers

6:10:55 PM

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1.	Update on Mars. Update on NASA's twin Mars rovers and ESA's Mars Express orbiter. By Fred "zAmboni" Locklear.
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2.	More Howard Dean remixes. Dean Goes Nuts is a Creative-Commons-licensed collection of remixes of Howard Dean's "I Have a Scream" speech. Link
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3.	Analysts Upbeat on Microsoft Earnings (Reuters). Reuters - A focus on Microsoft Corp.'s (MSFT.O) push to sign corporate customers onto long-term contracts and the way such sales are tracked in earnings is distracting investors from the strength in the software maker's underlying business, analysts say.
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4.	Bill Gates Forecasts Victory Over Spam
5.	Scam Combines Patriot Act FUD With IE Bug
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6.	BugTraq: Re: [work] Re: Major hack attack on the U.S. Senate. Sender: Jonathan A dot Zdziarski [jonathan at nuclearelephant dot com]
7.	BugTraq: Re: vulnerabilities of postscript printers. Sender: Theo de Raadt [deraadt at cvs dot openbsd dot org]
8.	Vulnerabilities: Honeyd Remote Virtual Host Detection Vulnerability. Honeyd is honeypot software that simulates virtual hosts on IP addresses that are not in use. It is available for various Unix/Linux derivatives. Honeyd is prone to a v...
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9.	Windows for Welsh speakers. Yaki Da
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10.	An Introduction To SQL Injection Attacks For Oracle Developers
11.	Re: vulnerabilities of postscript printers
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13.	Re: Major hack attack on the U.S. Senate
14.	Resources consumption in Reptile webserver daily version
15.	Re: [work] Re: Major hack attack on the U.S. Senate
16.	BWS v1.0b3 Directory Transversal Vulnerability
17.	Kaspersky Anti-Virus Update January 23, 2004
18.	Norton AntiVirus Virus Definitions January 23, 2004
19.	AVG Free Edition 6.0 Build 567
20.	Ad-aware referencefile 01R250 24.01.2004
21.	AntiVir Personal Edition 6.22.09.09 (Updated)

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1.	The Digital ID World Newsletter - December 18, 2003 Issue
2.	2003: The First "Big Year" for Digital Identity
3.	Predictions for Digital Identity in 2004
4.	Why the Identity Paradigm Matters
5.	What is Going On?
6.	Digital ID World Print Magazine Online
7.	RFID and the Internet of Things
8.	Identity Integrates ProBusiness
9.	Financial Services Discover Identity
10.	Biometrics and Financial Services -- Show me the money!
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11.	McDonald's diet makes you sick as hell. Lorin sez, "Documentary maker subsists on McDonalds 'food' 3 meals per day for 30 days, gets sick as hell." Within a few days of beginning his drive-through diet, Spurlock, 33, was vomiting out the window of his car, and doctors who examined him were shocked at how rapidly Spurlock's entire body deteriorated. "It was really crazy - my body basically fell apart over the course of 30 days," Spurlock told The Post. His liver became toxic, his cholesterol shot up from a low 165 to 230, his libido flagged and he suffered headaches and depression. Link (Thanks, Lorin!)
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12.	Happy birthday, Mac.
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13.	BugTraq: RE: Major hack attack on the U.S. Senate. Sender: [bugtraq at anastrophe dot com]
14.	BugTraq: Inrtra Forum Cross Site Scripting Vulnerabillity. Sender: Rafel Ivgi, The-Insider [theinsider at 012 dot net dot il]
15.	BugTraq: Re: Major hack attack on the U.S. Senate. Sender: [ed at the7thbeer dot com]

4:10:17 PM

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1.	The Tyranny of Copyright?
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2.	BugTraq: Re: [work] Re: Major hack attack on the U.S. Senate. Sender: opticfiber [opticfiber at topsight dot net]
3.	BugTraq: BWS v1.0b3 Directory Transversal Vulnerability. Sender: Rafel Ivgi, The-Insider [theinsider at 012 dot net dot il]
4.	BugTraq: Re: Major hack attack on the U.S. Senate. Sender: Dinesh Nair [dinesh at alphaque dot com]
5.	BugTraq: Re: vulnerabilities of postscript printers. Sender: Stephen Samuel [samuel at bcgreen dot com]
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6.	Port 1070, Dumaru Worm, Email Disguised as Microsoft Patch
7.	Oracle HTTP Server Cross Site Scripting Vulnerabillity
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14.	MDKSA-2004:004 - Updated slocate packages fix vulnerability
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16.	Re: Major hack attack on the U.S. Senate
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18.	Re: Hijacking Apache 2 via mod_perl
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20.	[SST]ServU MDTM command remote buffero verflow adv
21.	MDKSA-2004:005 - Updated jabber packages fix DoS vulnerability
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23.	Re: Major hack attack on the U.S. Senate
24.	RE: Major hack attack on the U.S. Senate
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27.	Re: Major hack attack on the U.S. Senate
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28.	Book Review: Network Intrusion Detection - 3rd Edition. Network Intrusion Detection - 3rd Edition is a must-read book for anyone working in or interested in working in intrusion detection. The book covers the entire scope from the fundamental concepts of IDS to writing your own signatures as well...

3:09:56 PM

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1.	Kazaa to Sue Movie, Record Companies
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2.	Vulnerabilities: Cisco Voice Product IBM Director Agent Port Scan Denial Of Service Vulnerability. IBM Director installed with Cisco voice products on IBM servers has been reported prone to a remote denial of service vulnerability. The issue is reported to present itse...
3.	Vulnerabilities: Darkwet Network WebcamXP Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability. WebcamXP is a webcam utility with an integrated http server designed to operate on windows platforms. A vulnerability has been reported to exist in Webcam XP that may a...
4.	Vulnerabilities: Mephistoles HTTPD Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability. Mephistoles httpd is a simple web server implemented in PERL. It has been discovered that Mephistoles httpd daemon fails to sanitize user-supplied input, making it vulne...
5.	Vulnerabilities: Microsoft Windows Samba File Sharing Resource Exhaustion Vulnerability. A vulnerability has been identified in Microsoft Windows when file Sharing with a Unix client is enabled. It has been reported that this issue presents itself if a syste...
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6.	Tiny Server 1.1 (1.0.5) Multiple Vulnerabilities

2:09:36 PM

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1.	Livewire: Electronic Uncoupling (Reuters). Reuters - Couples meet online. They choose gifts, plan weddings, scout romantic locales and book honeymoons online. And, if things don't work out, they can pull the plug and file for divorce online.
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2.	Guide to Digital Preservation from NIST
3.	Apache License Updated to 2.0
4.	Spirit Sends Debug Information to Earth
5.	To Recertify, or Not Recertify?
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6.	BugTraq: [SST]ServU MDTM command remote buffero verflow adv. Sender: icbm [icbm at 0x557 dot net]
7.	BugTraq: Re: vulnerabilities of postscript printers. Sender: Michael Zimmermann [zim at vegaa dot de]
8.	BugTraq: Oracle HTTP Server Cross Site Scripting Vulnerabillity. Sender: Rafel Ivgi, The-Insider [theinsider at 012 dot net dot il]
9.	BugTraq: Tiny Server 1.1 (1.0.5) Multiple Vulnerabilities. Sender: Donato Ferrante [fdonato at autistici dot org]
10.	Vulnerabilities: Ethereal Q.931 Protocol Dissector Denial of Service Vulnerability. Ethereal Q.931 protocol dissector is prone to remotely exploitable denial of service vulnerability. This issue has been addressed with the release of Ethereal 0.10.0. ..
11.	Vulnerabilities: Ethereal SMB Protocol Dissector Denial of Service Vulnerability. Ethereal SMB protocol dissector is prone to remotely exploitable denial of service vulnerability. This issue has been addressed with the release of Ethereal 0.10.0. I...
12.	Vulnerabilities: OpenSSL ASN.1 Parsing Vulnerabilities. Multiple vulnerabilities were reported in the ASN.1 parsing code in OpenSSL. OpenSSL does not directly implement ASN.1 but does use ASN.1 objects in X.509 certificates a...
13.	Vulnerabilities: Cisco Voice Product IBM Director Agent Unauthorized Remote Administrative Access Vulnerability. IBM Director agents installed with Cisco voice products on IBM servers are prone to a vulnerability that could permit remote attackers to gain unauthorized administrative...
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14.	Stores Use Discount Cards To Notify Of Recall
15.	USATODAY.com - Supermarket uses discount cards to inform customers of recall
16.	For Brazil Voters, Machines Rule
17.	Privacy concerns cited in lawsuit against NASA
18.	Airlines consider privacy as passengers protest
19.	JS Online: Student IDs to ease transfers, but privacy fears raised
20.	Privacy--a right or a privilege?
21.	Privacy advocates rip crime database
22.	Crisis experts: BofA could have handled security goof better
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23.	Book Review: Designing Network Security - 2nd Edition. Merike Kaeo is a CCIE and a member of IEEE and IETF. Kaeo has more than a decade of experience working with Cisco Systems, Inc. and shares that knowledge and experience in this book. The first sections provide a broad...

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1.	Dollar bills used as advertising. More proof that the dollar is being devalued: it's lost its sanctity to marketing execs. A new TV show about dope-dealers is being promoted through stickers on dollar bills that will be given away in bars: The network is distributing 50,000 one-dollar bills in trendy bars in Los Angeles and New York. Affixed on each of those bills: a removable sticker bearing the USA Network logo, along with the title and airtime of the three-part miniseries. Based on the movie of the same title, the show is about drug dealers, users, and the position of cash at the center of drug culture lifestyles. Link (via Futurismic)
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2.	Napster, ITunes European Debut Held Up by Red Tape (Reuters). Reuters - Old-fashioned red tape is delaying the eagerly awaited European launches for iTunes and Napster, the two popular online music stores said on Saturday.
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3.	Next-gen consoles thrill gamers. Take a peak at what gamers will soon be playing on, with Daniel Etherington of BBCi Collective.
4.	Gates forecasts victory over spam. The Microsoft boss says spam e-mail will soon be a thing of the past, and praises rival Google at the WEF in Davos.
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5.	Vulnerabilities: AIPTEK NETCam Webserver Directory Traversal Vulnerability. AIPTEK NETCam Viewer is a webcam server. It also has a built in web server called NETCam webserver. A vulnerability has been reported to exist in the NETCam webserver o...
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6.	Oracle HTTP Server 'isqlplus' Input Validation Flaws Let Remote Users Conduct Cross-Site Scripting Attacks

12:08:55 PM

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1.	How to spot a trendy logo. Interesting piece on current trends in logo design (merging blobs, swooshes, pop-art finneals, the color green, wireframes, etc). Though it strikes me that, given my penchant for dinstinctiveness in logomarks that I would be liekley to use this as a crib-sheet for critiquing the logo-development undertaken by my design-firm: "Dude, a green wireframe swooshy pop-art blob? That is so played-out. I want the new-new." Or, as Ian McDonald put it in his brilliant novel, Out on Blue Six: So I said, like, whazz new, I mean, like new new, not old new, yuh know, like last-week new, so she said, this yulp in the shop, "This is new," like she said, "Cheez, like everyone, but everyone's going to be wearing one which week," like, whazz a yulp know 'bout fashion? Anyway, I thought, well, maybeez sheez right, so, I got one, so I did like, whadyou think? Isn't it wheeeee! like. Isn't it the most? Meanasay, you not got fashion, you not got nothing! Link (via Smartpatrol)
2.	Europe to get fake-tree microwave masts. A Dutch company has acquired a license to market Envirocom's fake-tree cellular masts in Europe -- the next stately pine you whizz past between Reims and Disneyland Paris might contain a giant, carcingoenic microwave tower. Link (via Futurismic)
3.	Ian McDonald's Kling Klang Klatch. Thinking about Ian McDonald for the post on logomarks below got me thinking about McDonald's stone-brilliant 1992 graphic novel, Kling Klang Klatch, illustrated by David Lyttleton. Unlike much of McDonald's most amazing work, Kling Klang Klatch is still in print, which makes me feel like there's maybe just a little justice in this universe. Kling Klang Klatch is a hardboiled detective story that revolves around the lyrics to various classic Tom Waits lyrics, in ways both trivial (The diner menu lists "Eggs and sausage, side of toast, coffee and a roll, hashbrowns over easy, chili in a bowl") and significant. The kicker is that all the characters in this really grisly murder mystery are teddy bears, dollies and other toys, executed in vicious lines that make their cuddliness into something sinister. Heartbreak and psoriasis, my friend. I am telling you, it's all heartbreak and psoriasis. Five a.m. on the greasy streets of a city that never sleeps, the dolls are on the hard stuff and the transport's about to strike again. On the news it's all bombs and killing machines the size of tenement blocks. The only consolation for a weary middle aged cop on his way home is a little illegal sugar and some sweet tenor sax. But that was before they found the body that looked like somebody and unzipped it then scooped out all its insides. And the three words scrawled on an alley wall. Three red words, so fresh they were still dripping. KLING KLANG KLATCH It's enough to knock out anyone's stuffing. And in Toyland, that's no joke. Link
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4.	Flexible IT, better strategy. Critics say IT lacks strategic importance. So why does technology keep getting in the way of good strategy?
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5.	'Feedback' Forgers Suspended by EBay (washingtonpost.com). washingtonpost.com - Online auction giant eBay said today it has suspended several sellers for uploading special programs to the eBay Web site that allowed them to remove negative "feedback" left by previous customers.
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6.	Vulnerabilities: 2Wire HomePortal Series Directory Traversal Vulnerability. 2Wire HomePortal Series is a set of gateway servers designed for home users. HomePortal Series supports Microsoft Windows and Apple Mac OS operating systems. A vulnerab...

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1.	Editorial: Happy 20th anniversary Mac (MacCentral). MacCentral - "Though my wife still respects me, I really misuse her; I am having an affair with a random computer." -- "2000 Man," by The Rolling Stones
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2.	2004:Online fraud, ID theft soars
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3.	SecurityNewsPortal.com HomelandSecurityX.com testing new XML and RSS newsfeeds. Hacker security network Blog networking Linux virus investors media microsoft wireless spam advertiser
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4.	VBS_PSYME.A

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1.	Al Qaeda Threatens to Nuke New York on February 2 or within 35 days give or take. Key terrorism piracy movie homeland security ?
2.	Female al Qaeda agent planned to put plastic explosives in her vagina to crash British airplane over Washington. Key terrorism homeland security Bin Laden ?
3.	They are back...Belgian virus coder hacker Gigabyte versus Sophos's Clueley... round four..
4.	Microsoft changes mind...Windows 98,98 SE and ME to continue receiving support until June 2006. Hacker security patches networking Linux virus
5.	Microsoft issues trio of security patches for January rated important, moderate and critical. Hacker security patches networking Linux virus
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6.	REG_SEEKER.M

9:07:56 AM

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1.	Oracle Steps Up Plan for PeopleSoft Board (Reuters). Reuters - Oracle Corp named five candidates late on Friday it plans to nominate for election to PeopleSoft Inc.'s board of directors, in an ongoing $7.3 billion hostile bid to take over the company.
2.	Apple's ITunes European Debut Held Up by Red Tape (Reuters). Reuters - Old-fashioned red tape is delaying the eagerly awaited European launch of Apple Computers' Internet music store iTunes, a company official said on Saturday.
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3.	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.
4.	FBI arrest Oscar movie 'pirate'. The FBI arrest a man in the US who allegedly distributed preview tapes of films over the internet.
5.	Cuba law tightens net access. The Cuban Government introduces a new law making it impossible for many Cubans to access the internet.
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6.	Online fraud, ID theft soars
7.	TROJ_GOWEH.B

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1.	Microsoft Patenting Office XML Formats
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2.	Vulnerabilities: Midnight Commander Virtual File System Symlink Buffer Overflow Vulnerability. Midnight Commander is a popular file management tool for Unix systems. Among other features, Midnight Commander is provided with a code layer to access the file system; t...
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3.	Online fraud, ID theft soars. Americans swindled out of $200m in 2003
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4.	We Made a Mistake, OK?. Although insisting their research is sound, researchers admit that they gave the wrong source for a compound that produces an antiviral factor to fight AIDS.
5.	NASA Gets a 'Woof' From Rover. After throwing project managers into a tizzy by failing to respond to commands, the Spirit rover is sending signals from Mars again. Everyone is greatly relieved, although the cause remains a puzzlement.
6.	Inspector Says WMD Are Vaporware. David Kay, the chief arms hunter in Iraq, resigns from his post Friday, saying he does not believe there are any stockpiles of chemical or biological weapons in the war-torn country.
7.	With This Law, You Can Spam. The government's Can-Spam Act, which backers say will bring e-mail spam under control, is pilloried by California officials. All it has succeeded in doing is gutting much tougher state antispam measures, they say. Amit Asaravala reports from San Francisco.
8.	For Brazil Voters, Machines Rule. Brazil's electronic voting system has drawn praise as a model for other democratic nations. But election experts are critical of legislators' recent decision not to require paper printouts of ballots. Leslie M. Mira reports from Porto Alegre, Brazil.
9.	Cosmic Rays, Who's Yer Daddy?. Scientists have long been stumped about the origins of high-energy cosmic rays. They hope a new observatory will substantiate one of several theories on how the rays came into being, and shed light on the origins of the universe. By Kari L. Dean.
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10.	Better security means lower TCO for Win 2003 - MS
11.	Linux threatens US security, SCO tells Congress
12.	NIST releases telnet, IT security drafts

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1.	Dilbert for 24 Jan 2004.
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2.	User Friendly for 24 Jan 2004.
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3.	Amazon.com's Latest Product: Politicians (Reuters). Reuters - Shoppers at online retailer Amazon.com Inc. can now spend money on something new -- U.S. presidential candidates.
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4.	Gabriel to launch musicians' union. Rock legends Peter Gabriel and Brian Eno will launch a musicians' union to help artists in the digital age.
5.	Next-gen consoles tantalise gamers. Take a peak at what gamers will soon be playing on, with Daniel Etherington of BBCi Collective.

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1.	Wedding cake casemod. A casemodder proposed to his girlfriend by building her a wedding-cake PC with a miniature bride and groom, a secret ring-tray, and ribbon-wrapped, illuminated internal connectors visible through a cutaway transparency. Link (Thanks, Jay!)
2.	Tin robots in impressionistic oil. Eric Joyner's gallery of his impressionistic oil-paintings of tin robots is endless fun. He sells a bunch of them as prints. Link (Thanks, Brian!)
3.	RIP, Whole Earth Review. Whole Earth magazine has gone bust (they owe me money!) (and they changed my life!) (and their editorial board insisted on utterly stupid edits to the story they owe me money for!) (and they really did change my life!) (boy, those were stupid edits!). This is bad news. Whole Earth magazine -- spawn of the amazing Whole Earth Catalogs, source of the WELL, first to mention in print the Gaia Hypothesis, the Internet, Virtual Reality, the Singularity and Burning Man (or at least so the legend goes), the place where folks like Stewart Brand, Kevin Kelly and Howard Rheingold found their voices, and where a whole generation of young commune-kid geeks like myself learned to dream weird -- is no more. Link (Thanks, Alex!)
4.	Twitch game to end all twitch games. Dolphin Dash is white-hot searingly intense twitch game, the kind of thing that feels like it was designed to be played by people on better stimulants than I'll ever lay hands on. You navigate a dolphin through a sidescroll and collect coins and power-ups, but it all happens so fast and with so much crazy-ass surf guitar, it almost hurts. "Time for lunch," the power-up sound effect, is ringing in my ears like the afterburn of a savage beating. 375 Flash Link (via MeFi)
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5.	Stores Use Discount Cards To Notify Of Recall

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1.	The growing phenomenon of Internet. A CBC news report from 1993 looks at the growing phenomenon of "Internet." Jump into the Way Back machine and see the 'Net as it was over 10 years ago. By Eric Bangeman.
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2.	Oracle names potential PeopleSoft directors. The company's slate, which includes two professors, marks the latest move to advance its hostile takeover bid of PeopleSoft.
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3.	A Wireless Deal Could Trouble Gear Makers. Demand for wireless networking equipment is picking up, but consolidation in the industry could change that. By Barnaby J. Feder.
4.	Judge Satisfied With Microsoft's Antitrust Case Compliance. A federal judge said that she was generally satisfied with Microsoft's efforts to comply with the settlement terms in the government's antitrust case. By Steve Lohr.

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1.	News: Software on Mars rovers 'space qualified'
2.	News: Online fraud, I.D. theft soars
3.	Defense strategies for securing the mobile enterprise

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1.	Music Execs Sign Up Lawyers, Techies for Comeback (Reuters). Reuters - Music executives this year will not be pinning recovery hopes on a street-wise rapper or pint-sized diva, but rather on a middle-aged computer executive who hums Beatles songs and on a team of lawyers.
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2.	Are 64-bit Binaries Slower than 32-bit Binaries?
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3.	CNet: Intel mulls Linux Centrino support. There isn't any "valuable intellectual property" in an 802.11 chipset; it's a commodity. And by the time Intel gets their driver out all the Linux users will have bought Atheros cards.
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4.	Kyocera, CPSC recall explosive cell phone batteries. Kyocera WirelessÂ has issued a recall of cell phone batteries used in one of its smart phones after discovering the batteries can explode, the company said Friday in conjunction with the U.S. Consumer Products Safety Commission.
5.	US Congress to tackle Internet tax issues. WASHINGTON - Internet taxes will be on the U.S. Congress' agenda early this year, as lawmakers grapple with how to implement a tax policy for Internet sales and access.
6.	Google eyes social networking with Orkut. Google is edging into the social networking space popularized by Friendster, launching on Thursday a networking site created by one of its engineers.
7.	Judge: C&W can sell US hosting, IP businesses. A bankruptcy judge ruled Friday that U.K. network operator Cable and Wireless (C&W) can sell its U.S. Web hosting and IP (Internet Protocol) services businesses to Savvis Communications.
8.	Oracle to unveil RFID push. Oracle at its AppsWorld applications conference in San Diego next week will unveil software pricing and outsourcing options and plans to embed radio frequency identification (RFID) technology in its products.
9.	Vendors drive voice over WLAN standard - Infoworld Staff. Deploying voice over WLANs may soon become more commonplace, as leading WLAN equipment vendors are rallying support for a fast roaming standard. 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.
10.	Small businesses get taste of iSCSI - Infoworld Staff. With designs to help small enterprises migrate from direct attached to networked storage, Advanced Digital Information (ADIC) this week will offer an iSCSI option in its smaller tape libraries.
11.	Microsoft readies first Office System service pack. Users of Microsoft's Office System products released in October can expect the first service pack for the software in late June, Microsoft said Friday.
12.	Cisco warns of IP PBX security hole. Cisco this week released a security bulletin warning of a vulnerability in its IP telephony software running on IBM server hardware.
13.	Red Hat building open source community in India. BANGALORE, INDIA - Linux vendor Red Hat is investing in India to build an open source community in the country, with educational institutions likely to be a key focus, according to the company's top executive.

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