Gregg's Security News Aggregator

Tuesday, February 03, 2004

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1.	Court Hears Appeal in File-Sharing Case (AP). AP - A federal appeals judge on Tuesday questioned whether distributors of online file-sharing software should be held responsible for copyright infringement just because some people use the programs to swap copyright music and movies.
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2.	Red Hat: kernel Multiple vulnerabilities
3.	Red Hat: util-linux Login data leakage
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4.	Basic use of pthreads
5.	UK teen sentenced for hacking U.S. lab
6.	Microsoft site appears to weather worm attack
7.	Sun Pitches Linux Desktop
8.	Microsoft developing new `light' version of Win XP
9.	Review: Smoothwall Express 2.0 Final
10.	Court to Hear Landmark P2P Case
11.	WORM_MYDOOM.GEN

11:20:06 PM

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1.	Google tutorial. GoogleGuide is a pretty good tutorial on building good Google queries, covered by a Creative Commons license. Link (Thanks, Robert!)
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2.	Briefly: Pioneer wins NEC plasma display business. The electronics company pushes further into plasma with the deal...Apple updates Safari...Nokia renews its service pact with HP.
3.	Commentary: Sun must co-exist with Eclipse
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4.	Media, Web Sites Tangle in Landmark Piracy Case (Reuters). Reuters - In a landmark case over online piracy, a federal appeals court on Tuesday heard arguments over whether Napster-like Internet services should be kept from allowing unauthorized song and movie copies to be swapped online for free.
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5.	Decode Your Barcode, Get Your Personal Info
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6.	WORM_APSIV.A
7.	W32.Mydoom.A@mm
8.	W32.Galil.F@mm
9.	W32.HLLW.Chemsvy
10.	Call for Papers -- RAID 2004

10:19:48 PM

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1.	Number "6" makes your foot change direction. Teresa Nielsen Hayden brings us this interesting mind-hack: While sitting in your chair, lift your right foot slightly off the ground and move it in clockwise circles. Now draw the numeral "6" in the air with your right hand. Your foot will involuntarily reverse direction. Link
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2.	Pioneer wins NEC plasma display business
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3.	EC draws line in spam sand
4.	WORM_AGOBOT.RW
5.	Cisco Systems Exceeds 2Q Expectations

9:49:36 PM

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1.	Low-tech multidimensional maps. The Dynamap is a low-tech way of superimposing differnt logical and geographical networks over one another. As Gizmodo puts it: ..using interlaced images, manages to put three different maps of Manhattan -- a street map, a subway map, and one showing landmarks and neighborhoods -- all onto the same surface. Tilt it to one side and you see the street map, tilt it another way and you see the subway map, etc. Link (Thanks, Kevin!)
2.	Political book network maps reveal deep divide. Fascinating map of political book clusters. The researcher used Amazon's "Customers who bought this book also bought these books" service to draw links between books that were purchased together. So, if you are working a 2004 political campaign what do you do with this information? Obviously you will not be successful in removing a reader from deep in one cluster and transplanting them into the other cluster. All you can do is focus on the edge nodes and the bridges. See someone reading Sleeping with the Devil? That is someone you can talk to about your candidate. If they are reading Bushwacked or Dereliction of Duty -- the most central books in each cluster -- then either give them a high-five or a sneer, you won't change their views. Link(Thanks, Kevin!)
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3.	Cisco earnings sound drumroll for recovery. The networking giant's strong second-quarter earnings and positive comments from the company's CEO suggest that a tech turnaround may be under way.
4.	PalmSource to hatch new OS strategy. The company plans to announce next week a revamped approach in which it simultaneously develops multiple versions of its software aimed at different parts of the market for smart phones and other devices.
5.	Tibco inks deals in Europe. The company licenses its business integration software to Sweden's Elcoteq and the Czech Republic's Eurotel, marking another win for the applications maker.
6.	IBM tunes storage software strategy. Big Blue says its data storage software products are selling fast, and it hopes to accelerate the trend by streamlining the way it sells them.
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7.	Wireless E-Mail Service Expands Support (AP). AP - Upstart Good Technology Inc. announced Tuesday a deal to extend its corporate wireless e-mail service to handhelds based on Microsoft Corp.'s Pocket PC operating system, stepping up the competition in the heated mobile market.
8.	Cisco Posts Lower Net Profit, Sales Rise (Reuters). Reuters - Cisco Systems Inc. (CSCO.O), the world's largest maker of equipment that directs Internet traffic, on Tuesday posted a lower quarterly net profit, but sales rose more than expected as corporate customers boosted technology spending.
9.	Good Technology System to Work with PocketPC (Reuters). Reuters - Good Technology Inc., a developer of mobile corporate data and messaging systems, on Tuesday said its software will now work on handheld devices powered by Microsoft Corp.'s Pocket PC platform, potentially allowing millions more people to use the technology.
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10.	Locus 2003 Recommended Reading List
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11.	IBM to release new, lighter ThinkPad X40 in US. IBM Corp. plans to bring a new ThinkPad notebook to U.S. customers next Tuesday that trims a little less than 1 pound (0.45 kilograms) off the device's weight, according to a promotion mailed to reporters this week.
12.	Hollywood, P-to-P companies back in court. Attorneys for entertainment companies and peer-to-peer (P-to-P) software makers will return to court in Pasadena, California, Tuesday to present arguments in a case testing the legality of popular Internet file-sharing services.
13.	Good Technology upgrades software, signs partners. Good Technology Inc. released the latest version of its wireless software with enhanced features for both IT managers and mobile users during an event in San Francisco Tuesday.
14.	Cisco beats Q2 earnings estimates. Heralding improvement in the global economy, Cisco Systems Inc. on Tuesday reported $1.3 billion net income or $0.18 earnings per share for the second quarter of its 2004 fiscal year, compared to $991 million or $0.14 per share in the same quarter of 2003.
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15.	Call for Papers -- RAID 2004
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16.	EC draws line in spam sand. Had enough, can't put up with any more, no, no
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17.	Spammer Profile: Scott Richter
18.	Slashdot \| Tivo Tracks Superbowl Viewing Habits
19.	TiVo: Jackson stunt most replayed moment ever
20.	Electronic Frontier Foundation Defends Freedom to Innovate in Grokster Appeal

8:19:06 PM

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1.	Briefly: Apple updates Safari browser. Mouse-free navigation is among the new features in version 2.1...Nokia renews its service pact with Hewlett-Packard...The FTC approves a decree on America Online's late fees and rebates.
2.	Web voice spec moves closer to approval. After more than a year in development, the VoiceXML 2.0 specification for technology to replace typing with spoken commands advances to the next-to-last phase before becoming a standard.
3.	Pushing the evolution of wireless networks. Start-up Airgo Networks, flush with another $25 million round in funding, is looking to speed up the development of wireless networking with its antenna and chip technologies.
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4.	Microsoft Web Sites Resist Virus Attack (AP). AP - Microsoft Corp. said it had fought off an attempted software virus attack Tuesday that was aimed at shutting down some of the company's Web sites.
5.	Cisco Posts Lower Net Profit (Reuters). Reuters - Cisco Systems Inc. (CSCO.O), the world's largest maker of equipment that directs Internet traffic, on Tuesday posted a lower quarterly net profit after an accounting charge, but sales rose more than expected as corporate customers boosted technology spending.
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6.	Windows XP 64-Bit Customer Preview Program
7.	GameCube-Powered Webserver
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8.	Microsoft Unfazed by MyDoom's DDoS Attack
9.	Industry Teams Up To Prevent Buffer Overflows
10.	Happy Personal Firewall Day!
11.	You Don't Want This "Bagel" For Breakfast
12.	Microsoft's January Patch Release Leaves Huge Hole In Internet Explorer
13.	Book Review: Designing Network Security - 2nd Edition
14.	Book Review: Network Intrusion Detection - 3rd Edition
15.	Comodo Grows Faster Than Competition In 2003
16.	ISS Acquires Content Security Maker Cobion
17.	Email Scam: Fraudulent FDIC Email Cites PATRIOT Act
18.	Malware Alert: MyDoom Worm Spreading Fast
19.	Department of Homeland Security Rolls Out US-CERT
20.	MyDoom.A and MyDoom.B Continue To Plague The Internet
21.	XOSoft To Port WANSync For IBM AIX
22.	ATShield v1.2 Helps Eradicate Trojans
23.	Patch Management
24.	Sécurité Wi-Fi: Londres fait ses audits
25.	Miramar Tinkers with Desktop DNA
26.	Broadcom Moves into Storage

7:18:46 PM

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1.	Mobile DRM plan ready for mass adoption. The California-based (Beverly Hills, no less) Content Management License Administrator "entity" has put the finishing touches on the latest licensing specification aimed at mobile devices capable of receiving commercial digital content. By Ken "Caesar" Fisher.
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2.	Decree set on AOL late fees, rebates
3.	Microsoft picks new fight with Linux, IBM. The software giant is moving to a new phase in its competitive attack, arguing that the company is better than IBM and Linux when it comes to connecting different applications.
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4.	Sprint PCS Loss Widens (Reuters). Reuters - Sprint PCS (PCS.N), the fourth largest U.S. mobile services provider, on Tuesday posted higher fourth-quarter revenue but its net loss widened as it took charges for restructuring and scrapping a billing project.
5.	WebEx Profit Quintuples, Tax Benefit Helps (Reuters). Reuters - WebEx Communications Inc. (WEBX.O), a provider of Internet communications services, on Tuesday said its fourth-quarter net profit quintupled from a year ago, aided by a one-time tax benefit.
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6.	BugTraq: Re: RFC: virus handling. Sender: Matthew Dharm [mdharm at one-eyed-alien dot net]
7.	BugTraq: Re: MS to stop allowing passwords in URLs. Sender: Nick FitzGerald [nick at virus-l dot demon dot co dot uk]

6:18:26 PM

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1.	Freaky ceramic figurines from the '60s. Wotta treaure trove -- extra creepy ceramic dust collectors for sale. Link (via sensibleerection)
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2.	Good revamps handheld messaging software. The handheld software company introduces an update to its GoodLink software, which aims to make cell phones more like laptop computers.
3.	Yahoo composing music download plan. As archrivals Microsoft and AOL place bigger bets on digital song sales, Yahoo is considering plans do the same.
4.	Apple updates Safari browser
5.	Reuters jumps on video bandwagon. The New York-based news service will begin delivering advertisements on its Web video service, the latest publisher to play up broadcast commercials online.
6.	Nokia renews services pact with HP
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7.	Cisco Systems Exceeds 2Q Expectations (AP). AP - Cisco Systems Inc.'s second-quarter earnings and sales exceeded Wall Street expectations as businesses around the world loosened their purse strings and bought more networking equipment.
8.	Microsoft Stitches Together Server Offerings (NewsFactor). NewsFactor - Microsoft's (Nasdaq: MSFT) small and mid-size business strategy is shaping up around an effort to bring cohesion to the range of products the firm and its independent software vendors offer. This is a critical undertaking for a company that is facing growing competition.
9.	Open Source Gaining Traction in Asia (NewsFactor). NewsFactor - Use of Linux is growing in Asia, according to the Open Source Development Labs standards group. Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NYSE: NTT) (NTT) has joined the consortium and will participate in the lab's Data Center Linux and Carrier Grade Linux working group initiatives, OSDL announced.
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10.	Spammer Profile: Scott Richter
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11.	Google voted best brand of 2003. Google tops a poll of branding professionals for a second year, closely followed by Apple and Mini cars.
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12.	BugTraq: Remote crash of Chaser game <= 1.50. Sender: Luigi Auriemma [aluigi at altervista dot org]
13.	BugTraq: Sandblad #12: Inject javascript url in history list (revisited). Sender: Andreas Sandblad [sandblad at acc dot umu dot se]
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14.	Keine Chance gegen Microsoft: MyDoom.B
15.	MS Issues Explorer Fix, Girds for MyDoom
16.	MS Issues Explorer Fix, Girds for MyDoom
17.	Apache mod_digest May Validate Replayed Client Responses
18.	Linux 2.4 Kernel R128 DRI Driver May Let Local Users Gain Elevated Privileges
19.	FreeBSD netinet TCP Maximum Segment Size May Let Remote Users Deny Service
20.	MS Issues Explorer Fix, Girds for MyDoom
21.	On prend le même et on recommence avec Steganography 1.6
22.	Big Brother Awards France : remise des prix mercredi 4 Février
23.	DHS Launches Cyber Alert System
24.	Correctif contre la faille d'url spoofing d'Internet Explorer
25.	MS Issues Explorer Fix, Girds for MyDoom
26.	WormScout 3.0 Slows Down Worm Spread
27.	Mydoom DoS Attack On Microsoft Falters

5:18:06 PM

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1.	Half-Life 2 slated for summer release. Now it looks like this year's E3 will serve as the publicity ramp-up for the release. By Ken "Caesar" Fisher.
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2.	Things you can't talk about on standardized tests. Harper's publishes a leaked memo from the Princeton Review advising of subjects that should be avoided when preparing practice-versions of standardized tests. The list is an astonishing testament to squeamishness, and what's most remarkable about it is that it excludes virtually every subject of moment, depth or verve that I can think of, guaranteeing that the examples in these tests will be utterly devoid of any interest-grabbing content, and will consequently lack the vividness that examples can bring to a good examination. Individuals who may be associated with drug use or with advertising of substances such as cigarettes or alcohol Name brands, trademarked names Junk food Fad diets Abuse, poverty, running away Divorce Socioeconomic advantages (e.g., video games, swimming pools, computers in the home, expensive vacations) Link (via Dive Into Mark)
3.	Words-per-query on the rise. The number of words in the average search-query is increasing. No theories proffered for this, but I'd assume ti's because Internet users are, on the whole, getting more sophisticated in the way that they think about information storage, labelling and retrieval. 1. 2 word phrases 32.58% 2. 3 word phrase 25.61% 3. 1 word phrases 19.02% 4. 4 word phrases 12.83% 5. 5 word phrases 5.64% 6. 6 word phrases 2.32% 7. 7 word phrases 0.98% Link (via Battelle)
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4.	Microsoft balances patents, standards. Recent XML-related patents illustrate the software giant's balancing act between supporting open standards and profiting from its inventions.
5.	Sprint races into satellite. The long-distance carrier plans to bundle EchoStar's Dish Network satellite television with local phone service in 18 states.
6.	Cell phone makers ring in record shipments. Manufacturers will ship 585 million phones in 2004, marking the second consecutive record-setting year for an industry mired in a slump not so long ago, according to a new study.
7.	Carriers target the young and the wireless. The youth market in the United States--with some 25 million to 35 million potential, but "highly fickle," customers--is set to be a lucrative one for the wireless industry, researchers say.
8.	MyDoom virus spells double trouble. roundup Microsoft takes only a small hit from a MyDoom variant, days after the first strain walloped SCO. Security experts say more work is needed to defend corporate networks.
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9.	P-to-P Networks Head Back to Court (PC World). PC World - Entertainment companies want software makers held liable for copyright violations.
10.	Microsoft Site Weathers MyDoom Attack (Reuters). Reuters - Microsoft Corp.'s (MSFT.O) Web site remained online on Tuesday despite a pre-planned attack by a MyDoom worm variant, which had not spread as widely as the first version that infected hundreds of thousands of computers worldwide.
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11.	Darl Goes to Harvard
12.	Half-Life 2 Targeted for Summer Release
13.	Tivo Tracks Superbowl Viewing Habits
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14.	Google opens Swiss R&D center. Google Inc. is opening a research and development (R&D) center in Zurich and is looking to recruit European engineers and computer scientists, the company announced on its Web site Tuesday.
15.	Weak dollar hurts European vendors, helps users. When IT vendors pulled the lid off their latest quarterly results, it became clear that the resurgence in technology spending wasn't the only factor affecting their bottom lines, as major swings in currency exchange rates helped boost some U.S. companies' revenues and put the squeeze on their European rivals.
16.	Verity acquires Cardiff Software. Enterprise search software vendor Verity Inc. is acquiring document capture vendor Cardiff Software Inc. in a deal worth about $50 million.
17.	Intel, AMD see steady Q4 market share as prices rise. The competition for market share among x86 processor vendors in the fourth quarter was largely a stalemate, but both Intel Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) profited from higher-selling prices, according to data from Mercury Research Inc. released Tuesday.
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18.	BugTraq: Les Commentaires (PHP) Include file. Sender: Himeur Nourredine [lostnoobs at security-challenge dot com]
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19.	Mydoom.A: Timeline of an Epidemic
20.	PNR: Bolkestein misleads European Parliament
21.	French draft law obliges providers to monitor content
22.	UK: 4 million surveillance cameras
23.	Schengen information system goes biometric
24.	Recommended reading: handbook on cybercrime
25.	Jump in Phishing Attacks in December
26.	Why Spammers Laugh at CAN-SPAM
27.	For Now, Wi-Fi Is A Hacker's Delight
28.	Is Big McBrother invading workplace privacy?
29.	EU infringement proceedings against member states
30.	UK new privacy and electronic communications regulations come into force
31.	Open-source system for e-voting machines
32.	The Perils of Online Voting
33.	Democracy at Risk
34.	(Mise à jour) Internet Explorer et Mozilla victimes d'usurpation d'adresse

4:17:46 PM

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1.	Mobile Graphics update: ATI shows its stuff. ATI releases its new mobile GPU: Mobility Radeon 9700. Promises of near desktop speed and low power consumption. By Matt Woodward.
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2.	Microsoft Web Sites Resist Virus Attack (AP). AP - Microsoft Corp. said it had fought off an attempted software virus attack Tuesday that was aimed at shutting down some of the company's Web sites.
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3.	Mydoom.A: Timeline of an Epidemic
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4.	BugTraq: RE: MS to stop allowing passwords in URLs. Sender: Francis Favorini [francis dot favorini at duke dot edu]
5.	Vulnerabilities: BugPort Unauthorized Configuration File Viewing Vulnerability. BugPort is a web-based bug tracking and development application that is written in PHP. A vulnerability has been reported in BugPort that has the potential to disclose ...
6.	Vulnerabilities: TCPDump ISAKMP Decoding Routines Denial Of Service Vulnerability. tcpdump is a freely available, open source network monitoring tool. It is available for the Unix, Linux, and Microsoft Windows operating systems. A vulnerability has be...
7.	Vulnerabilities: TCPDump ISAKMP Decoding Routines Multiple Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities. tcpdump is a freely available open source network monitoring tool. It is available for the Unix, Linux, and Microsoft Windows operating systems. Multiple buffer overflo...
8.	Vulnerabilities: TCPDump Malformed RADIUS Packet Denial Of Service Vulnerability. tcpdump is a freely available, open source network monitoring tool. It is available for the Unix, Linux, and Microsoft Windows operating systems. A vulnerability in the ...
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9.	Business Serve floats on AIM. Shopping for customers
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10.	Infocus: Nessus, Part 3: Analysing Reports
11.	Microsoft Sets Up Alternate Web Site
12.	Internet Explorer enfin patché !
13.	New Worm Variants Target Networks With Weak Passwords
14.	Halting MyDoom Is a Free Download Away

3:17:27 PM

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1.	Windows XP SP2 may support concurrent multi-users. Early in January, rumors circulated that SP2 for Windows XP would support multiple concurrent users. One user would be able to use the console at all times, while up to one other user could also log into the machine using Remote Desktop Connection. By Ken "Caesar" Fisher.
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2.	MSFT's "Practice Safe Hex" classroom posters. MSFT is offering teachers free posters for their classrooms advising their students of the risks of opening dodgy attachments. Link (Thanks, Higgins!)
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3.	Pegasystems enters process automation
4.	U.K. teen avoids jail for nuclear hacking. A student who hacked into computers responsible for U.S. energy supplies and nuclear weapons has been sentenced to community service by a London court.
5.	Briefly: Pegasystems enters process automation. Version 4 of PegaRules Process Commander automates complex business processes...Dell jumps into Chinese PDA market...Red Hat delays test of 2.6 kernel Linux.
6.	Microsoft signs up two new mobile execs. The software maker adds two executives to its unit that oversees software for handheld computers and mobile gadgets, to take charge of marketing and development.
7.	Microsoft, Volante ally for auto e-processing. The companies plan to build STP, or straight-through processing, capabilities for the financial services market, according to Microsoft.
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8.	Ads and Messaging Push Sohu.com to Profit. Healthy growth in online advertising and the popularity of mobile-phone messaging helped give Chinese Internet company Sohu.com Inc. its first full-year profit in 2003. By The Associated Press.
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9.	Tech Stocks Little Changed in Early Afternoon Trading (Dow Jones). Dow Jones - Technology stocks inched higher Tuesday, as optimism ahead of networking-gear maker Cisco Systems' earnings report helped allay fears following the discovery of suspicious powder in Senate office buildings.
10.	Mydoom plagues SCO in 2nd day (SiliconValley.com). SiliconValley.com - "Mydoom," the fastest-spreading Internet virus ever, shut down software maker SCO Group's Web site for a second day Monday with a massive denial-of-service attack of junk data launched from infected computers worldwide.
11.	CSFB to pay $770,000 in IPO case (SiliconValley.com). SiliconValley.com - Wall Street industry regulator NASD said Monday that it had ordered an investment bank, Credit Suisse First Boston, to pay $770,000 in fines and restitution for shortchanging investors who had bought the IPO of a San Diego company, MP3.com, in 1999.
12.	Oracle Eyes Microsoft with 10g Database Price Drop (Reuters). Reuters - Oracle Corp. (ORCL.O) on Tuesday lowered the price of its new entry-level Oracle 10g database software in a move to curb Microsoft Corp.'s (MSFT.O) predominance in the fast-growing small- and medium-business marketplace.
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13.	Plain Cell Phones Fading Away?
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14.	Infocus: Nessus, Part 3: Analysing Reports. This article, the last in the series about Nessus, will endeavor to explain a Nessus report and how to analyze it. Nessus is a vulnerability scanner, a program that looks for security bugs in software.
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15.	BugTraq: Re: sqwebmail web login. Sender: [scott dot jefferd at cantire dot com]
16.	BugTraq: Re: Major hack attack on the U.S. Senate. Sender: Christian Vogel [chris at obelix dot hedonism dot cx]
17.	BugTraq: Cisco Security Advisory: Cisco 6000/6500/7600 Crafted Layer 2 Frame Vulnerability. Sender: Cisco Systems Product Security Incident Response Team [psirt at cisco dot com]
18.	Vulnerabilities: Aprox Portal File Disclosure Vulnerability. Aprox Portal is web portal software that is written in PHP. Aprox Portal is prone to a vulnerability that may permit remote attackers to gain access to files that are re...
19.	Vulnerabilities: SqWebMail Authentication Response Information Leakage Weakness. SqWebMail is a web-based e-mail application. SqWebMail leaks sensitive information in authentication responses that may permit aid an attacker in brute forcing the root ...
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20.	Anti-fraud scheme saves retailers £2m. Early Warning
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21.	thePHOTOtool Input Validation Flaw in Admin Login Page Yields Admin Access to Remote Users
22.	Leif M. Wright Web Blog Input Validation Flaw Lets Remote Users Execute Arbitrary Commands
23.	Crob FTP Server Discloses Directory Listings to Remote Users
24.	JBrowser Discloses Files on the System to Remote Users
25.	ChatterBox Server Can Be Crashed By Remote Users
26.	netsys.com welcomes new editorial staff
27.	SCO Web Site feels the WRATH of Doom
28.	Antivirus du nouveau pour proteger les serveurs de messagerie Linux
29.	Le Top 10 des virus de janvier
30.	Nicolas Maurey rejoint la filiale française de SurfControl
31.	RSA Security annonce un chiffre d affaires annuel en hausse de 12%
32.	Netegrity supporte l infrastructure de gestion des identites d Oracle afin de fournir une plate-forme de securite etendue basee sur les identites des utilisateurs
33.	Debian: crawl Buffer overflow vulnerability
34.	Biometrie-Ausweise in Japan
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35.	Patch Management. Patch management is arguably one of the most important things for a network or security administrator to do as well as possibly one of the most logistically difficult to accomplish. Vendors release new vulnerability announcements along with patches to fix...

2:17:06 PM

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1.	Why checking IDs doesn't make you secure. Bruce Schneier explains why verifying that someone has a photo ID is a completely useless security measure: Our goal is to somehow identify the few bad guys scattered in the sea of good guys. In an ideal world, what we would want is some kind of ID that denotes intention. We'd want all terrorists to carry a card that says "evildoer" and everyone else to carry a card that said "honest person who won't try to hijack or blow up anything." Then, security would be easy. We would just look at people's IDs and, if they were evildoers, we wouldn't let them on the airplane or into the building. This is, of course, ridiculous, so we rely on identity as a substitute. In theory, if we know who you are, and if we have enough information about you, we can somehow predict whether you're likely to be an evildoer. This is the basis behind CAPPS-2, the government's new airline passenger profiling system. People are divided into two categories based on various criteria: the traveler's address, credit history and police and tax records; flight origin and destination; whether the ticket was purchased by cash, check or credit card; whether the ticket is one way or round trip; whether the traveler is alone or with a larger party; how frequently the traveler flies; and how long before departure the ticket was purchased. Link (Thanks, Bruce!)
2.	Dave Pell's Electablog. Dave Pell has started a new blog about the upcoming presidential election, and as you would expect, it's very funny and insightful. Link
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3.	The file-sharing dilemma. M-Terra CTO Darrell Smith says that while the world may be a different place, arguments in the peer-to-peer file-sharing space are still based on days gone by.
4.	BT takes stock of radio ID projects. The telecom giant is pushing technology to help companies better manage radio frequency identification projects. But research shows RFID isn't catching on in U.K. businesses.
5.	AOL courts teen green with Red. America Online launches a service with an array of customized features aimed at teenagers in an effort to woo the highly sought-after market.
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6.	Sprint May Outsource 5,000 Jobs to IBM (AP). AP - Sprint Corp.'s fourth-quarter earnings dipped to $38 million, but both its wired and wireless telephone businesses topped expectations. The report Tuesday came a day before Sprint was expected to announce a deal to outsource at least 5,000 jobs to IBM.
7.	Ads, Messaging Push Sohu.com to Profit (AP). AP - Healthy growth in online advertising and the popularity of mobile-phone messaging helped give Chinese Internet company Sohu.com Inc. its first full-year profit in 2003.
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8.	What's the Point of Building a Home Theater PC?
9.	Spirit and Opportunity Now Operational
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10.	Google voted best brand of 2003. Google has topped a poll of branding professionals for a second year, closely followed by Apple and Mini cars.
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11.	Red Hat: NetPBM Temporary file vulnerabilities
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12.	BusinessServe floats on AIM. Shopping for customers
13.	Boffins make heaviest ever element?. Obesity trend continues
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14.	Teenager Sentenced For Hacking Into U.S. Lab
15.	Wi-Fi Group Claims 175 WPA-Certified Products
16.	Matrix Plan Fuels Privacy Fears
17.	IE Patch Could Disrupt E-Commerce

1:16:47 PM

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1.	Giving a talk on Thursday in Chapel Hill, NC. I'm going to be at the UNC in Chapel Hill, North Carolina this week for some iBiblio events, one of which is a public talk on copyright and the EFF at 3:30 on February 5. If you're in the area, it'd be great to see ya! What: A Public Talk on the Electronic Frountier Foundation and Copyright When: Thursday February 5 at 3:30 Where: Wilson Library's Pleasants Family Room, UNC-CH Link
2.	What do the states' shapes mean?. Funny commentaries on the hidden messages in the shapes of the states and Canadian provinces, such as, "what makes Oklahoma so desperate to touch New Mexico?" Link (via Kottke))
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3.	Store Anything: Hard Facts on Hard Drives (PC World). PC World - With music, photos, and home videos now digital, you can't afford to scrimp on PC disk capacity. Here's how to keep ahead of the tidal wave.
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4.	Fermi Lab Compromised by Pirate
5.	US Govt Makes Times New Roman 14 Official Font
6.	Leaked X-Box 2 Specs Include PPC CPU
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7.	Microsoft deflecting Mydoom-B DoS attack. Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday said it had yet to be affected by a Mydoom-B worm-induced distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, which anti-virus software companies predicted would be fairly easy for the software company to fend off.
8.	NTT joins open source Linux initiative. Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. (NTT), the holding company of the NTT Group that includes NTT DoCoMo Inc., has joined the Open Source Development Labs (OSDL) consortium.
9.	VoiceXML edges closer to standard status. The Voice Extensible Markup Language (VoiceXML) 2.0 specification has been granted Proposed Recommendation status by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), and is therefore only one step away from becoming an official W3C standard, the VoiceXML Forum said in a statement Tuesday.
10.	Sybase loses executive to business intelligence vendor. Sybase Inc. is losing its head of field operations, as top executive Michael Bealmear heads off for the chief executive officer (CEO) position at performance optimization software maker HyperRoll Inc. 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.
11.	Sony launches two new Clie PDAs. Sony Corp. will launch two new models in its CliÃ© PDA (personal digital assistant) range in Japan in two weeks and plans to follow that with launches of the devices in overseas markets, the company said Tuesday.
12.	Magic wand makes checkout lines vanish. David O'Neill, a senior citizen who frequents his local Stop & Shop supermarket in Quincy, Mass., hasn't talked to a checkout cashier in months. And he's delighted.
13.	Update: Sprint's wireless division drags down profits. Sprint Corp. ended the fourth quarter of 2003 with a consolidated net income of $38 million, down slightly from the fourth quarter of 2002, with losses in its wireless division cancelling out gains in its telecommunications division.
14.	New KDE release available for Linux, Unix. The K Desktop Environment (KDE) Project announced Tuesday that the third version of its KDE3 desktop platform, called KDE 3.2, is available for Linux and Unix operating systems.
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15.	Microsoft could be knocked offline by DOOM B if other Zombies help the attack Key hacking networking security Linux Microsoft virus worms wireless broadband advertisers government
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16.	BugTraq: Re: Symlink Vulnerability in GNU libtool <1.5.2. Sender: Stefan Nordhausen [deletethis dot nordhaus at informatik dot hu-berlin dot de]
17.	BugTraq: RE: http://www.smashguard.org. Sender: Dave Paris [dparis at w3works dot com]
18.	BugTraq: Re: BUG IN APACHE HTTPD SERVER (current version 2.0.47). Sender: Vietnamese Security Group [security at security dot com dot vn]
19.	BugTraq: [SECURITY] [DSA 432-1] New crawl packages fix potential local games exploit. Sender: [joey at infodrom dot org (Martin Schulze)]
20.	Vulnerabilities: Leif M. Wright Web Blog Remote Command Execution Vulnerability. Web Blog is a web application, written by Leif M. Wright. Web Blog has been reported to be prone to a vulnerability that may permit remote attackers to execute arbitrar...
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21.	Got a ticket? Get a record. EU-US data handover deal leaks. Everything they want on you. Except they want much, much more...
22.	Universal mobile phone DRM tech ready for primetime. Industry alliance ships crucial update
23.	Oracle does the deed with 10g price cut. Free RAC too
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24.	Verlos ons van de domme gebruiker die niet wil upgraden
25.	Elsewhere: Microsoft moves to fix web spoofing flaw
26.	Elsewhere: MyDoom sparks talks of security's future
27.	News: MS plugs IE phishing bug
28.	Red Hat: NetPBM Temporary file vulnerabilities
29.	Fedora: tcpdump Malformed packet vulnerability
30.	Fedora: etherial Denial of service vulnerability
31.	Red Hat: util-linux Login data leakage
32.	Red Hat: mc Buffer overflow vulnerability
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33.	XOSoft To Port WANSync For IBM AIX. XOSoft has reached an agreement with IBM to port their WANSync real-time data migration and replication tool for use with AIX servers. IBM has also agreed to utilize WANSync as a tool for disaster recovery and high availability mission critical...
34.	ATShield v1.2 Helps Eradicate Trojans. Running updated antivirus software and keeping your system patched against known vulnerabilities are two of the best ways to ensure that no malicious code gets into your computer. However, there is always a lag between the discovery of a new...

12:16:27 PM

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1.	Morpheus upgrade aims for P2P unity. StreamCast Networks releases Morpheus 4, a update to the peer-to-peer software that's meant to be a hub for wide range of file-sharing networks.
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2.	Sony Shows Off New Clie PDAs (PC World). PC World - Handhelds offer new organizer software, built-in cameras.
3.	Sprint's 4Q Net Fell 2.6% as Revenue Edged Higher (Dow Jones). Dow Jones - OVERLAND PARK, Kan. -- Sprint Corp. (NYSE:FON - News; FON, PCS) said consolidated fourth- quarter net income fell 2.6% on slightly higher revenue. Earnings improved at its core landline division, while the wireless division reported a wider net loss.
4.	TiVo Users Couldn't Get Enough of Janet Jackson (Reuters). Reuters - When Justin Timberlake tore at Janet Jackson's leather outfit during Sunday's Super Bowl half-time show, TiVo users took notice.
5.	Spam Slayer: Be Wary of Opting In (PC World). PC World - New laws offer some protection, but they can't save you from yourself.
6.	MyDoom a Taste of Viruses to Come, Says Security Analyst (Reuters). Reuters - E-mail viruses like MyDoom will be the weapon of choice for future corporate and political Web site attacks, with one worm able to threaten thousands of big sites at once, a top computer security official said on Tuesday.
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7.	Red Hat: util-linux Login data leakage
8.	Red Hat: mc Buffer overflow vulnerability
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9.	2003 was record year for mobile phone shipments. Out of the doldrums?
10.	UK workers prefer beach to office. Shock finding of BT teleworking survey
11.	SCO sidesteps MyDoom attacks. But why didn't it move before it got hit?
12.	VIA backs LoGHIQ to win Robot Race. Take that, Matilda
13.	Microsoft confirms 'crystal' Xbox. Transparent limited edition
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14.	MyDoom assault forces SCO off the net
15.	MyDoom sparks talks of security's future

11:16:07 AM

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1.	Sprint Profits Flat, Looks to IBM for Aid (Reuters). Reuters - Sprint Corp. (PCS.N) (FON.N) on Tuesday posted flat fourth-quarter profits as cost-cutting efforts helped offset weak long-distance telephone sales dampened by competition and slack demand.
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2.	KDE 3.2.0 Released
3.	Author signs MyDoom virus
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4.	Mobile phone sales dial up record. New products such as camera phones helped to boost global handset sales to their highest ever level last year, research finds.
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5.	MyDoom sparks talks of security's future
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6.	Elsewhere: Microsoft moves to fix web spoofing flaw. Microsoft has released a cumulative software update for Internet Explorer (IE) to fix three flaws which the company rates as 'critical', including one that allows website...
7.	Elsewhere: MyDoom sparks talks of security's future. MyDoom could spell the end of some security technologies. The virus, which has combined many old attack techniques into a successful package, was hardly blunted by antiv...
8.	News: MS plugs IE phishing bug. The Register By John Leyden [john dot leyden at theregister dot co dot uk]
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9.	2003 was record year for phone shipments. Out of the doldrums?
10.	Revealed: Britain's least trusted individuals. Short, ginger and driving a sports car? Oh dear...
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11.	Bush budget sweeps in tech, cybercrime
12.	Microsoft should weather zombie PC attack
13.	Organizing for security in an outsourced environment
14.	Microsoft - faith no more
15.	Mydoom.A: timeline of an epidemic
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16.	Weapons lab hacker escapes jail
17.	Bush budget sweeps in tech, cybercrime
18.	Microsoft should weather zombie PC attack
19.	Organizing for security in an outsourced environment
20.	Microsoft - faith no more
21.	Mydoom.A: timeline of an epidemic
22.	thePHOTOtool SQL Injection Vulnerability
23.	Sqwebmail Root Account Information Disclosure Vulnerability
24.	Aprox PHP Portal Directory Traversal Vulnerability
25.	Crob FTP Server V3.5.1 Multiple Vulnerabilities
26.	Microsoft moves to fix web spoofing flaw
27.	Kinderen mogen alleen onder begeleiding surfen
28.	Wie vindt de balans tussen bruikbaarheid en security?

10:15:46 AM

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1.	White Box Computers (The Motley Fool). The Motley Fool - You've surely heard of personal computers churned out by the likes of Dell (Nasdaq: DELL - News), Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ - News), IBM (NYSE: IBM - News), Gateway (NYSE: GTW - News), Sony (NYSE: SNE - News), and Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL - News). There's a good chance, though, that you haven't heard of "white box PCs." And, no, they're not made by White Box, Inc.
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2.	Freeserve gears up for major broadband push. 'We're going for it', says Wanadoo UK
3.	2003 was record braking year for phone shipments. Out of the doldrums?
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4.	Bush hopes to restrain IT increases
5.	Lycoris brings the Linux desktop to your handheld
6.	Microsoft's Ready to Meet MyDoom Maker
7.	The Cleaner Database v3473
8.	Microsoft releases early IE fix
9.	Norton AntiVirus Virus Definitions February 2, 2004
10.	Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer
11.	MS plugs IE phishing bug
12.	MyDoom knocks SCO off the web
13.	MyDoom knocks SCO off the web
14.	Nuclear lab teen hacker escapes jail
15.	Microsoft deflecting Mydoom-B DoS attack
16.	Microsoft schließt Lücken im Internet Explorer
17.	Mydoom: Auf Anhieb Platz 1 auf Kasperskys Top-20-Liste
18.	Mydoom-Attacken: SCO reagiert und Microsoft sorgt vor
19.	Ïàò÷, ïðåïÿòñòâóþùèé ïîääåëêå URL, óæå âûøåë
20.	Engelse overheid wil private databases gebruiken
21.	Microsoft veröffentlicht Patch für Internet Explorer

9:15:27 AM

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1.	Some of the finest of the '30s whet appetite for the Oscars (USATODAY.com). USATODAY.com - With 27 days to go until this year's Academy Awards, former best-picture winners are coming out on DVD. My picks this week are classics from 1930s-era MGM, now distributed by Warner Home Video. (Other Oscar winners out today: 1942's Mrs. Miniver and extras-packed versions of 1964's My Fair Lady and 1988's Rain Man.). (Related story: Black History Month, upfront)
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2.	Microsoft deflecting Mydoom-B DoS attack. Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday said it had yet to be affected by a Mydoom-B worm-induced distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, which anti-virus software companies predicted would be fairly easy for the software company to fend off.
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3.	Carphone Warehouse offers Nokia 7600 3G 'exclusive'. Update No access to Three's premium content
4.	US parents give birth to software upgrade. Proud couple download Jon Blake Cusack Version 2.0
5.	Retired Pentium PCs wanted for developing world (not landfill). Bid to save 25,000 PCs from early graves
6.	MS plugs IE phishing bug. Breaks monthly cycle
7.	Sony unveils Wi-Fi PDA pair. Selling Cliés to Japan
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8.	US aims to plug global spam holes
9.	3 Feb W32/Agobot-P
10.	Çâóêîçàïèñûâàþùèå êîìïàíèè íå íóæíû
11.	phpMyAdmin "export.php" Directory Traversal Vulnerability
12.	Tunez Unspecified SQL Injection Vulnerabilities
13.	Red Hat update for NetPBM
14.	Red Hat update for mc
15.	Sicherheits-Patch außer der Reihe
16.	Windows 9x support laat probleem Microsoft zien
17.	Un internaute français prend six mois ferme
18.	Suppression des informations cachées des documents Office
19.	JTRS, GNU, and Software Defined Radio
20.	Meetinghouse Releases Updated Aegis Clients for Windows and PocketPC

8:15:07 AM

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1.	2003: The First "Big Year" for Digital Identity
2.	Predictions for Digital Identity in 2004
3.	Why the Identity Paradigm Matters
4.	What is Going On?
5.	Digital ID World Print Magazine Online
6.	RFID and the Internet of Things
7.	Identity Integrates ProBusiness
8.	Financial Services Discover Identity
9.	Biometrics and Financial Services -- Show me the money!
10.	When the walls come tumbling down
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11.	Intel, AMD comfy during fourth quarter. Both chipmakers have good things to say: Intel saw its market share inch up, while AMD raised the average selling price of chips over the past two quarters, leading to its first quarterly profit in two-and-a-half years.
12.	Chips are up for Intel, AMD. The chip market looks pretty rosy for Intel and AMD. Meanwhile, a faster chip connection may be on the horizon.
13.	The fire next time. After taking over a wobbly Sony Electronics, president Hideki "Dick" Komiyama is girding his giant division for a battle to re-establish its primacy in consumer electronics.
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14.	Vodafone mulls value of AT&T Wireless bid (FT.com). FT.com - It was a double whammy aimed at anyone wanting Vodafone to stay out of the $30bn-plus auction for AT&T Wireless of the US.
15.	Microsoft Issues Browser Security Fix (washingtonpost.com). washingtonpost.com - Microsoft Corp. released a security bulletin yesterday providing fixes for three major security flaws related to its Internet Explorer browser for surfing the Web, one of which allows hackers to mask the Internet address of a fake Web site.
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16.	NEC launches credit card sized handset. Tech to be used for PDAs, too
17.	US aims to plug global spam holes. Shutting open relays
18.	UK IT sector shows signs of renewed life. Steady
19.	Carphone Warehouse offers Nokia 7600 3G 'exclusive'. No access to Three's premium content, though
20.	'The clueless users who refuse to upgrade'. Opinion Faith no more
21.	Laks preps MP3 wristwatch. While away the hours to music
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22.	eBay hacker pleads guilty
23.	Hardware fabrikant Asus zwicht onder virussen en spam
24.	Top 10 virussen en hoaxes van januari
25.	Internet Explorer patch kan e-commerce ontregelen
26.	Solaris SPARC Systems Can Be Crashed By Local Users Via 'tcsetattr'
27.	iSearch Include File Holes Let Remote Users Execute Arbitrary Commands
28.	Microsoft Internet Explorer Travel Log Input Validation Flaw Lets Remote Users Run Arbitrary Scripting Code in the Local Computer Domain
29.	PhotoPost PHP Pro Input Validation Flaw Lets Remote Users Execute SQL Commands

7:14:56 AM

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1.	Chess - 2070 CPUs vs 1 GM
2.	Folded Newtonian Telescope
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3.	Microsoft dodges Mydoom onslaught. The Mydoom virus outbreak is slowly being brought under control, as infected PCs are found and cleaned up.
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4.	Desktop Prescotts to ship in notebooks ahead of Mobile version. Big and hot boxes
5.	eBay hacker pleads guilty. Wasn't framed, after all
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6.	SCO Fights Back With New Site. In response to the MyDoom onslaught, the SCO Group dons a new website as Microsoft braces for a similar digital barrage from variant MyDoom.B.
7.	Matrix Plan Fuels Privacy Fears. Despite concerns about the federally funded data-mining operation, more states consider sharing information about their citizens as part of the antiterror project.
8.	The Place Where Tech Stands Still. Cell phones, pagers, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth -- the wireless revolution is everywhere. Except here, at the home of the Green Bank Telescope. By John Geirland from Wired magazine.
9.	HIV Rate Still Pretoria's Secret. A prominent author prompts a furor of second-guessing among South African AIDS researchers by publishing an article questioning the accuracy of current HIV-infection statistics. Megan Lindow reports from Johannesburg, South Africa.
10.	Stacking the Deck Against Science. The White House says it wants to make sure big policy changes are backed by 'sound science.' Opponents call the proposal a wolf in sheep's clothing. By Kristen Philipkoski.
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11.	EBay en Qualcomm cracker bekent schuld
12.	Mobiele telefoon nieuwste doelwit van spammers
13.	Slechts 10% van web applicaties beschermd tegen hackers
14.	MyDoom wormen waarschijnlijk werk van Ã©Ã©n auteur
15.	Serv-U FTPD 3.x/4.x "SITE CHMOD" Command Exploit
16.	Clues point to single MyDoom culprit
17.	Heckenkamp Pleads Guilty
18.	NETWOSIX 1.0 Released
19.	SCO Web site hit by DDoS attack

6:14:37 AM

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1.	Playing games on the dance floor. The arcade game that gets your feet moving is growing up to become an official spectator sport in Europe.
2.	TV-style adverts arrive on web. Net users may have to get used to watching TV ads between web pages, if current trials are successful.
3.	Microsoft fixes 'phishing' flaw. Microsoft fixes a loophole in its browser that could be used to trick people with fake internet addresses.
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4.	Notebook makers gear up for May Dothan debut. Fingers crossed...
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5.	Les mises à jour de Spybot SD du 2 février 2004
6.	TROJ_KILLAV.BA
7.	TROJ_LEMIR.CE
8.	Gratis training om spammers te bestrijden
9.	Tiener hacker krijgt 200 uur taakstraf
10.	Ter reparatie aangeboden PC bevat kinderporno

5:14:17 AM

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1.	Dilbert for 03 Feb 2004.
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2.	Reuters Further Reduces Stake in TIBCO (Reuters). Reuters - Reuters Group Plc, the world's largest listed provider of news and data to financial markets, said on Tuesday it had further reduced its stake in TIBCO Software Inc., to 8.8 percent from 13.5 percent.
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3.	TV-style adverts arrive on web. Net users may have to get used to watching TV ads between web pages, if trials currently under way are successful.
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4.	0verkill - little simple vulnerability.
5.	[FLSA-2004:1193] Updated ethereal resolves security vulnerabilites
6.	[SCSA-027] PHP-Nuke 6.9 SQL Injection Vulnerability
7.	another Trojan with the ADO hole? + a twist in the story
8.	Re: RFC: virus handling
9.	[FLSA-2004:1222] Updated tcpdump resolves security vulnerabilites (resend with correct paths)
10.	Vulnerabilities in Crob FTP Server V3.5.1
11.	Re: Oracle toplink mapping workbench password algorithm
12.	Refuting tall-tales and stories about the Mydoom worms
13.	Symlink Vulnerability in GNU libtool
14.	Re: RFC: virus handling
15.	Directory Traversal in Aprox PHP Portal.
16.	Re: new WIN virus?
17.	Re: virus handling
18.	BUG IN APACHE HTTPD SERVER (current version 2.0.47)
19.	Re: RFC: virus handling
20.	Denial Of Service in ChatterBox 2.0
21.	Re: RFC: virus handling
22.	[HUC] Serv-U FTPD 3.x/4.x "SITE CHMOD" Command remote exploit V2.0
23.	Re: RFC: virus handling
24.	Re: RFC: virus handling
25.	Re: vulnerabilities of postscript printers
26.	Re: GOOROO CROSSING: File Spoofing Internet Explorer 6
27.	Re: Fw: phpBB privmsg.php XSS vulnerability patch.
28.	PHP Code Injection Vulnerabilities in phpGedView 2.65.1 and prior
29.	Mydoom Takes Down SCO Site
30.	Mydoom Attack Continues

4:13:57 AM

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1.	SCO Changes Its Web Site After Attack. The SCO Group started a new Web site, a day after the potent MyDoom computer worm knocked SCO off the Internet. By Reuters.
2.	From Glory to Sideshow: The Space Station's Story. Hurtling through space 240 miles above Earth, with 16 nations struggling to complete this challenging engineering project, the station has become a $100 billion dead end. By William J. Broad.
3.	Adventure or Inquiry? Two Visions of Cosmic Destiny. Like every marriage, the one between human spaceflight and science has had its ups and downs. It now seems to be ending like "The War of the Roses." By Dennis Overbye.
4.	Xerox Enjoys a Comeback. After four consecutive quarters of rising sales and profits, analysts, even competitors, are finally admitting that Xerox is coming back. By Claudia H. Deutsch.
5.	Speeding Flight Check-In at Self-Service Kiosks. Do-it-yourself check-in kiosks have sprouted up in airports, and lots more are coming. By David Jones.
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6.	TV-style adverts arrive on web. One internet firm is hailing a new era of web advertising - with a trial of TV-style video adverts.
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7.	Bush budget sweeps in tech, cybercrime
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8.	California Cybercafe Regulation Decision Released
9.	Internet Cafe Ordinance Sparks War of Words
10.	Microsoft Security Patch Fixes URL Security Flaw
11.	Microsoft, Yahoo Investigate Spam Solution
12.	Gates Backs E-Mail Stamp in War on Spam

3:13:36 AM

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1.	Federal appeals court to review P2P case. 9th Circuit Court agrees to hear appeals arguments of a landmark ruling that cleared two P2P companies. By Fred "zAmboni" Locklear.
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2.	Unix as she is spoke. Glossary of how to speak your Unix vocabulary. <> ANGLE BRACKETS, angles, funnels, brokets, pointy brackets, widgets < LESS THAN, less, read from, from, in, comesfrom, crunch, sucks, left chevron#, open pointy (brack[et]), bra#, upstairs&, west, (left\|open) widget > GREATER THAN, more, write to, into/toward, out, gazinta, zap, blows, right chevron#, closing pointy (brack[et]), ket#, downstairs&, east, (right\|close) widget Link (via Kottke)
3.	Homemade M&M dispenser. Erincraft features homemade one-of-a-kind ceramics, including this ingenious M&M dispenser. Link (via Smartpatrol)
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4.	TiVo Bares Facts on Instant Replay (Reuters). Reuters - When Justin Timberlake tore at Janet Jackson's leather outfit during Sunday's Super Bowl half-time show, TiVo users took notice.
5.	Court to Hear File-Sharing Case Arguments (AP). AP - Attorneys for recording companies, music publishers and film studios are hoping to persuade a federal appeals court to overturn a landmark ruling that cleared two companies of liability for online music and movie swapping by users of their software.
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6.	Users Unhurt by Mydoom
7.	Dual Curses: Viruses and Spam
8.	Security Log
9.	Developer Tool Kit Raises Backdoor Alarms
10.	App-Layer Battleground
11.	SCO moves to temporary Web site as Mydoom attack continues
12.	Microsoft Releases Internet Explorer Cumulative Patch (MS04-004)
13.	Microsoft patches Internet Explorer flaws

2:13:16 AM

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1.	Microsoft Issues Browser Security Fix (washingtonpost.com). washingtonpost.com - Microsoft Corp. released a security bulletin yesterday providing fixes for three major security flaws related to its Internet Explorer browser for surfing the Web, one of which allows hackers to mask the Internet address of a fake Web site.

1:12:55 AM

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1.	MIT Tech Review takes on undead tech. MIT Technology Review lists 10 technologies that have refused to fade into obsolescence. By Fred "zAmboni" Locklear.
2.	Microsoft plugs phishing hole. New critical security update fixes 3 vulnerabilities including a popular phishing exploit. By Fred "zAmboni" Locklear.
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3.	Sprint Preparing to Move Nearly 6,000 Jobs to IBM (Dow Jones). Dow Jones - NEW YORK -- Sprint Corp. (NYSE:FON - News) is preparing to announce a major agreement this week with International Business Machines Corp. in which IBM will take over 5,000 to 6,000 jobs at Sprint as the telecom company tries to cut costs, people familiar with the matter told The Wall Street Journal.
4.	Sprint in Outsourcing Pact with IBM (Reuters). Reuters - Sprint Corp. plans to outsource some of its wireless customer care operations to International Business Machines Corp. and also forge a multi-year sales and marketing pact with the computer and services company, industry sources said on Monday.
5.	Nokia, Intel, Others Start Mobile Anti-Piracy Push (Reuters). Reuters - Several top names in mobile phones, microchips and media -- including Nokia (NOK1V.HE), Intel Corp. (INTC.O) and Warner Bros. -- said on Monday they will work together to license an anti-piracy technology for sending movies and music to cell phones.
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6.	Lycoris Shipping Linux OS For Handhelds
---------------------------------------------------------------------- InfoWorld: Top News ----------------------------------------------------------------------
7.	Microsoft patches Internet Explorer flaws. Microsoft on Monday released a security patch to fix three known vulnerabilities in its Internet Explorer (IE) Web browser that have been exploited to attack Internet users.
8.	Eclipse project names new board members. As expected, the Eclipse open source tools project founded by IBM announced on Monday that it has been reorganized into a not-for-profit corporation and named the first members of its new board of directors.
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9.	Microsoft patches Internet Explorer flaws. Microsoft on Monday released a security patch to fix three known vulnerabilities in its Internet Explorer (IE) Web browser that have been exploited to attack Internet users.
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10.	Forum Web Server 'Subject' and 'Field Description' Input Validation Flaw Permits Cross-Site Scripting Attacks
11.	PHP-Nuke Input Validation Flaws in 'Downloads' and 'Sections' Permits SQL Injection
12.	SurgeFTP Server 'surgeftpmgr.cgi' Bug Lets Remote Users Crash the Service

12:12:36 AM