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Digital Identity World
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XDI: Weaving the "Dataweb" |
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Ars Technica
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Et Cetera: Friday! Friday! Friday!. Late-week round up, including news from Microsoft, AMD, the FBI, and a few tips to boot. By Ken "Caesar" Fisher. |
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Videogames... in gym class?. A plan to bring videogames into gym class raises ire, questions about gaming and its connection to obesity. By Ken "Caesar" Fisher. |
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Linux servers targetted more often for attacks. A UK-based security firm has issued a report saying that Linux servers are successfully attacked and compromised more often than their Windows counterparts in the UK when one looks at "overt" attacks not brought on by proliferating malware. By Ken "Caesar" Fisher. |
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Boing Boing Blog
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Decease: The 'zine people are dying to read!. Last summer, I posted that Boing Boing pal Meri Brin was seeking submissions for her new 'zine Decease, about the "cuture of death." This weekend, the first issue debuts at the Alternative Press Expo in San Francisco! APE is *the* gathering/conference/market for independent 'zine, comic, and book publishers. Congrats, Meri! Link |
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CNET News.com - Front Door
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TiVo's watching you. But who's watching TiVo?. CNET News.com's Charles Cooper wants to know: If the Super Bowl snooping didn't constitute an egregious example of techno-trespassing, then what does? |
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Dell asks PC buyers nuclear questions. The computer maker puts buyers on its Web site through a series of detailed questions about the intended use of the products. |
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BT strikes up the broadband with WiMax. The telecom giant is testing emerging technology WiMax in four rural parts of the United Kingdom. Could it be a prelude to a full-scale launch? |
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CA readies utility software |
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Briefly: CA readies utility software. Computer Associates says its updated systems management software makes it easier to track resources and fix problems...PeopleSoft rethinks stock options...Ariba readies new applications. |
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Yahoo! News - Technology
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Study shows Mac OS X Server among most secure in world (MacCentral). MacCentral - British cyber security firm mi2g recently announced the results of a study that names Mac OS X one of the most secure online server operating systems in the world, alongside the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) family of Open Source systems. The study also showed that Linux is currently the most-breached online server OS. |
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Survey: Look Out for Enterprise I.T. Spending (NewsFactor). NewsFactor - After the corporate spending drought of the last two years, there finally is some good news for CRM vendors. A new Yankee Group survey found that 34 percent of I.T. spending this year will focus on outward-facing applications that improve customer and supplier interactions. |
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FBI Ratchets Up Fight Against Music Piracy (NewsFactor). NewsFactor - The Federal Bureau of Investigation has launched the latest salvo in the war against digital piracy, joining forces with such organizations as the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), the Software and Information Industry Association (SIIA), and the Entertainment Software Association (ESA) to combat this multibillion dollar problem. |
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Linux Vendors Warn of Flaws (NewsFactor). NewsFactor - Security experts are urging users of Linux servers and workstations to take
immediate action to patch two flaws found in the kernel. |
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How The Cingular Deal Helps Verizon (BusinessWeek Online). BusinessWeek Online - After winning an 11th-hour bidding war with Vodafone Group (NYSE:VOD - News) for AT&T Wireless Services (NYSE:AWE - News) on Feb. 17, the folks at Cingular Wireless professed themselves well pleased. For a cool $41 billion in cash plus $6 billion in debt, they had agreed to acquire the nation's No. 3 wireless operator. But as happy as Cingular's staff appeared to be, execs at rival Verizon Wireless may been even more pleased. ... |
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Lindows Releases OS for Centrino Laptops (NewsFactor). NewsFactor - Lindows, the maker of Linux for personal computers, says it now has a version of the
open-source operating system available for Centrino-equipped notebook computers. Though Linux on PCs has less than a 3 percent market share, Lindows continues to make small inroads on the territory now dominated by
Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) Windows. |
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Web Site Details Low-Tech Hack of ITunes Promotion (Reuters). Reuters - Music fans have found a decidedly
low-tech way to hack a promotion sponsored by soft drink
company PepsiCo Inc. to garner a high-tech treat: a download of
a single song from Apple Computer Inc.'s (AAPL.O) online music
store. |
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Firms Ignore Kids-Only Internet Domain (washingtonpost.com). washingtonpost.com - When Congress cordoned off an Internet playground for children, supporters hoped it would give young surfers the benefits of the World Wide Web without its many dangers. But more than a year after President Bush signed the "dot-kids" legislation into law, the online haven looks more like a ghost town than the theme park envisioned by its backers. |
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Microsoft Planning New Xbox Live Features (Reuters). Reuters - Microsoft Corp. (MSFT.O) is
planning a number of new features for its Xbox Live online
gaming service this year, including limited data storage on its
network, the company said on Friday. |
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Slashdot
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Brine on Mars? |
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Cheap Fast Eyeglasses from a Desktop Fabricator |
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Price-Fixing Settlement Checks in the Mail |
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Infinium Labs Threatens Gaming News Site |
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HP Dumped Napster for Apple |
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Brits Still Working on Stinky Email |
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Morphing Code to Prevent Reverse Engineering? |
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U.S. Air Force Plans for War In Space |
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Singularity Sky |
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BBC News | Technology | UK Edition
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Sony hints at '£99 PlayStation 2'. Catch up with the latest news from the world of video gaming. |
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InfoWorld: Top News
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HP posts profit, revenue gain for Q1. Hewlett-Packard Co. on Thursday reported first-quarter net income of $936 million, with earnings per share of $0.30. |
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Microsoft takes case against Lindows to Canada. After suing in the U.S. and several European countries, Microsoft Corp. is taking its trademark infringement case against Linux vendor Lindows.com Inc. to Canada. |
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IBM lands huge German mainframe contract. IBM Corp. will deliver 20 high-performance mainframe computers to a German financial IT service company in a deal worth over €100 million ($127 million), IBM spokesman Hans-Jürgen Rehm said Friday. |
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China to finance $1.1B in telecom equipment exports. China's government this week extended export credit worth $1.1 billion to the country's two top vendors of telecommunications and networking equipment in a bid to boost their international sales. |
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London's Met police plans $1.2B outsourcing deal. LONDON -- The London Metropolitan Police Service (the Met) is taking bids for an extensive IT outsourcing contract that could be worth over £650 million ($1.23 billion), a police spokeswoman said Friday. |
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China updates list of blocked spam servers. The Internet Society of China (ISC) is not giving up on its efforts to fight spam. On Wednesday it released an updated list of servers to be blocked as sources of spam by its members. |
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FDA proposes RFID tagging to stop drug counterfeiting - Infoworld Staff. A Food and Drug Administration (FDA) report, Combating Counterfeit Drugs, published this week recommends the "adoption and common use of reliable track and trace technology," later referred to as RFID (Radio Frequency ID), as the best way to protect the public from prescription drug counterfeiters. |
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Multimedia a major theme of 3GSM World Congress. With several mobile phone manufacturers recently launching "designer" models, it's little wonder that the organizers of the 3GSM World Congress in Cannes, France, have included a fashion show in this year's event. The show, intended to demonstrate how wearable technology can be fun and fashionable as well as functional, promises to be a far cry from the suit-and-tie image that the event has had in previous years, and will feature products from about 30 companies. |
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Interview: Juniper focuses on securing government networks - Infoworld Staff. Juniper Federal Systems was created as an entity within Juniper Networks to address the specific needs of the federal government. InfoWorld Senior Analyst Wayne Rash spoke with Dubhe Beinhorn, senior vice president at Juniper Federal Systems, about the lessons learned from working with the federal government that can also be applied to other enterprises. |
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Offshore outsourcing poses privacy perils. Washington - Outsourcing jobs to offshore destinations can sharply increase data privacy risks and the complexity of managing that risk, several experts at the Fourth Annual Privacy and Data Security Summit here warned this week. |
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LinuxSecurity.com
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A practical approach for defeating Nmap OS-Fingerprinting |
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Leaky Windows |
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SCO Group: sane Multiple vulnerabilities |
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SCO Group: fetchmail Denial of service vulnerability |
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SecurityFocus News
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Elsewhere: US security arm makes bid for private sector data. The US Department of Homeland Security has unveiled a programme designed to persuade the private sector to share security information with the government.
The Protected ... |
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Elsewhere: Low-tech 'hack' takes fizz out of Pepsi-iTunes promo. It doesn't take a code breaker or a math whiz to lift songs from Apple Computer's iTunes online music store--it just takes a good pair of eyes and a trip to the corner st... |
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Columnists: Knock, Knock, Knock. If hundreds of thousands of people are still blindly clicking on attachments in their email, is there any hope of mitigating the threat of hundreds of thousands of compromised systems with open backdoors? |
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News: Firewall VPN sales soar. The Register By John Leyden [john dot leyden at theregister dot co dot uk] |
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SecurityFocus Vulnerabilities
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BugTraq: [CLA-2004:821] Conectiva Security Announcement - XFree86. Sender: Conectiva Updates [secure at conectiva dot com dot br] |
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BugTraq: RE: Remote Administrator 2.x: highly possible remote hole or backdoor. Sender: [mgotts at 2roads dot com] |
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BugTraq: RE: is predicatable file location a vuln? (was RE: Aol Instant Messenger/Microsoft Internet Explorer remote code execution). Sender: Drew Copley [dcopley at eeye dot com] |
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BugTraq: OpenLinux: Perl Safe.pm unsafe access. Sender: [please_reply_to_security at sco dot com] |
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Vulnerabilities: Ecommerce Corporation Online Store Kit More.PHP Multiple Vulnerabilities. Online Store Kit is a web based shopping cart application written in PHP.
Multiple vulnerabilities have been identified in the software due to improper sanitization of u... |
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Vulnerabilities: Vizer Web Server Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability. Vizer Web Server is an open source web server application written in Visual Basic.
It has been reported that Vizer Web Server is prone to a remote denial of service vuln... |
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Vulnerabilities: YaBB Information Leakage Weakness. YaBB (Yet Another Bulletin Board) is freely available web forum software that is written in Perl. YaBB will run on most Unix/Linux variants, Mac OS, and Microsoft Window... |
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Vulnerabilities: TransSoft Broker FTP Server Denial of Service Vulnerabilities. Transoft Broker FTP Server is an FTP server for the Windows platform.
Multiple denial of service vulnerabilities have been identified in the software. These issues cou... |
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Vulnerabilities: KarjaSoft Sami HTTP Server GET Request Buffer Overflow Vulnerability. KarjaSoft Sami HTTP server is a web server available for the Windows operating system.
A vulnerability has been reported for Sami HTTP server. The problem occurs due to ... |
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Vulnerabilities: ShopCartCGI Remote File Disclosure Vulnerability. ShopCartCGI is a commercially available collection of CGI scripts implemented using Perl and intended to form the foundation for a web based shopping cart application.
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The Register
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Q: What's the AV industry's definition of happy?. Analysis A: Debunking cybergeddonists during MyDoom viral pandemic |
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Are Apples healthier than Pepsi?. Letters We got some mail in our spam! |
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Infinium Labs gets litigious with HardOCP. News site accused of 'false and defamatory' piece |
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Cisco VoIP kit open to 'snooping attacks'. DoS risks too |
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Intel and HP color self-preservation as customer choice. Analysis Ignorance today, customer demand tomorrow |
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EU thundering down information superhighway. Broadband roll-out on target for 2005, says EC report |
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Dell plots cheap SAN attack. EMC to help? |
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Help Net Security
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US security arm makes bid for private sector data |
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Outsourcing: danger to privacy |
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NewsIsFree: Security
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Enterprise Storage Snapshots - 2/13/04 |
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IRC_HIPZBOT.A |
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Security Innovations Debut at Demo Conference |
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La compilation des correctifs Microsoft bientôt disponible |
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[CLA-2004:820] Conectiva Security Announcement - kernel |
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fix for recently disclosed Oracle interval conversion overflows? |
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Linux Vendors Warn of Flaws |
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TippingPoint Upgrades UnityOne IPS |
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FBI Ratchets Up Fight Against Music Piracy |
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FBI Ratchets Up Fight Against Music Piracy |
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Linux Vendors Warn of Flaws |
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BKDR_FEARLESS.12 |
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IRC_KNT2.A |
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IRC_GETPASS.A |
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ZoneAlarm Flaw Opens Firewalls To E-mail Attack |
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Arsenal Of Security Tools Debuts At Demo Conference |
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Elsewhere: US security arm makes bid for private sector data |
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Elsewhere: Low-tech 'hack' takes fizz out of Pepsi-iTunes promo |
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Columnists: Knock, Knock, Knock |
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News: Firewall VPN sales soar |
Friday, February 20, 2004
* Weaving flexible transistors into textiles! 
