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Happy Birthday, dear Feedster.. Feedster turned one year old yesterday. Happy Birthday, and congrats to Scott Rafer, Scott Johnson, and François Schiettecatte. Link |
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CNET News.com - Front Door
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Kodak sues Sony over digital cameras. The camera maker files a patent infringement suit against its Japanese rival, and there are signs that other companies may also be in Kodak's crosshairs. |
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Real hits Major League Baseball with lawsuit. The streaming media files suit against the league's media unit for breach of contract, as sources suggest that Microsoft is on deck to replace RealNetworks as the MLB site's technology provider. |
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PeopleSoft's CRM chief leaves for start-up. The business software maker loses Joe Davis, the head of its customer relationship management unit, who has quit to lead start-up Coremetrics. |
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Hitachi to unveil 400GB drive. The disk drive maker is set to announce a massive drive to be used in the corporate market and in digital video recorders, a fast-growing arena for hard drives. |
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Pocket PC iPod imitator gets Apple's attention (MacCentral). MacCentral - UK developer Starbrite Solutions has a $20 software offering called pBop that may remind you more than a little of Apple's iPod. While imitation may be the sincerest form of flattery, pBop flattered the iPod too much as far as Apple's legal department was concerned. |
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Nasdaq Settles Below 2000 amid Broader Market Weakness (Dow Jones). Dow Jones - NEW YORK -- Technology stocks fell slightly Tuesday as investors digested a
downgrade for Sun Microsystems and followed the broader market lower. |
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Oracle, Justice Dept. Seek June 21 Trial (AP). AP - Oracle Corp. and the Department of Justice are seeking a June 21 trial date to resolve an antitrust lawsuit blocking the business software maker's $9.4 billion hostile bid for rival PeopleSoft Inc. |
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Will PHP 5 Live Up to Its Billing? (NewsFactor). NewsFactor - PHP, the open-source scripting language popular in Web applications, is undergoing major renovations. The new version, PHP 5, already has appeared in three public betas and will be in a fourth beta shortly. The development team is aiming for May 2004 availability. |
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South Korean Robot to Guard Houses (AP). AP - A new household robot soon on sale in South Korea won't do the laundry or fix dinner — but it will instantly notify its master via cell phone of burglars, fires and gas leaks. |
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RealNetworks Sues MLB Unit Over Web Media Format (Reuters). Reuters - RealNetworks Inc. RNWK.O> said on
Tuesday that it has filed a lawsuit against the media arm of
the Major League Baseball organization for not using its
digital media format to broadcast live baseball games on
MLB.com. |
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Google's Continued Dominance No Slam Dunk (NewsFactor). NewsFactor - Could Google's much-anticipated IPO result in a second Internet bubble? Forrester's Charlene Li believes the search company could fall behind in the quest for a next-generation search engine to sustain its growth. |
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Ditch Ma Bell (Ziff Davis). Ziff Davis - New technology lets you call anywhere in the world for free. Too good to be true? It's not perfect, but your internet connection could save you big bucks on your phone bills! |
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Resume Fraud Gets Slicker and Easier (Reuters). Reuters - Simple misrepresentation of facts on a
resume is passe. Lying convincingly is in. |
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Used or Upgraded PCs Can Help Wallet, Environment (Reuters). Reuters - Computers are going the way of
cell phones -- commodities that are easily discarded for a
better model. |
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Kodak Sues Sony Over Digital Camera Patents (Reuters). Reuters - Eastman Kodak Co., the No. 1 maker of
photographic film, on Tuesday said it had filed suit against
Japan's Sony Corp. alleging that the consumer electronics
company infringed 10 of Kodak's patents related to digital
photography. |
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Yahoo Launches New Local Search Tool (Reuters). Reuters - Internet media company Yahoo Inc.
(YHOO.O) on Tuesday announced the launch of SmartView, a new
local Web search tool, as it continues to battle Google Inc.
for dominance in the high-profile search sector. |
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Protecting Our Parents' PCs? |
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SCO Consultant S2 Strategic Consulting In Depth |
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James Bond sees off chart rivals. Catch up with the latest news from the world of video gaming. |
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Cisco releases new security products. BOSTON - New hardware and enhancements to a number of Cisco Systems Inc.'s software products will make computer networks more
resilient to attack, the company said Tuesday. |
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Microsoft releases March security updates. Microsoft Corp. continued its policy of releasing monthly security updates with three new software patches on Tuesday, including
fixes for the MSN Messenger instant messaging program, Windows Media Services and the Outlook e-mail client. |
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Columnists: Googling Up Passwords |
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Infocus: Anti-Spam Solutions and Security, Part 2 |
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Microsoft Demos Windows XP Service Pack 2 |
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Et Cetera: sleep is for the weak. Round up with TV news, slams against the antivirus industry, taxes, and more. By Ken "Caesar" Fisher. |
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Stuzt's essay on "commodity software". (Link via Slashdot) David Stutz wrote an intriguing essay about the history of global commodities (i.e., sugar, oil, cotton, etc.) and the emerging "commodification" of software. Software, he points out is constantly changing, and[b]y definition, something that changes constantly cannot... |
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Microsoft Customers Get No Bang for Buck |
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Kaspersky Anti-Virus Update March 5, 2004 |
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Norton AntiVirus Virus Definitions March 5, 2004 |
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Trend Micro Pattern File March 5, 2004 |
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W32.Mydoom@mm Removal Tool 1.0.7.1 |
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Bazooka Adware and Spyware Scanner v1.13.01 |
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Worm disguises self as Microsoft patch |
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Mdaemon AntiVirus v2.2.3 |
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Norton AntiVirus Virus Definitions March 8, 2004 |
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McAfee DAT 4334 |
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McAfee SuperDAT 4334 |
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Trend Micro Pattern File March 8, 2004 |
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CWShredder 1.53.1 |
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McAfee AVERT Stinger 2.1.2 |
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The Cleaner Database v3509 |
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Security Update for Windows Media Services (KB832359) |
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Security Update for Windows 2000 (KB822343) |
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More memory management troubles in Linux kernel |
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Survey: CIOs Say Security Is Top Priority |
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Security Tracker: Yahoo! Mail 'order' and 'sort' Field Input Validation Flaw "Permits Cross-Site... |
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Security Tracker: Chat Anywhere '%00' Input Validation Flaw "Lets Remote Authenticated Users Hid... |
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Secunia: Microsoft Outlook 2002 mailto URI Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability "execute arbitrary... |
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Security Tracker: ISS RealSecure Unspecified Flaw Yields SYSTEM Level Access to Remote Users "a ... |
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Security Focus: Norton AntiVirus 2002 Nested File AutoProtect Bypass Vulnerability |
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E-voting problems in CA. As a follow-up on my previous post on e-voting problems in the recent round of elections and primaries, the LA Times has more on the situation in Orange County. By Hannibal. |
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The Macintosh at 20: Interview with Jef Raskin. Nice interview with Jef Raskin, creator of the Macintosh project at Apple and bOING bOING contributor.
very confused as to its use and when I was designing the software for the Macintosh, in designing the interface, I figured that if there was only one button, there would never be any question on what you have to press the number of ways of using a one-button mouse. I think this was probably a mistake, in fact there is an appendix in my book which discusses why I think this was a mistake and what I think I should have done. One of the reasons I made the mistake is that there is a certain school of industrial design dating back to the Bauhaus which says that designs have to be simple, uncluttered, and clean. In particular, don't put writing on it except for brand names or logos. If we had had a multiple-button mouse with two keys, labeled something like "select" and "activate," it would have been much easier to use, but the idea of putting writing on keys did not occur to anybody, including me. So if I was designing one today, it would have two buttons and they would be labeled. The labeling also the other good effect of forcing software designers to use them as labels otherwise it's clear that they are being misused.
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Wacky Packs revival. 
Topps is bringing back Wacky Packs stickers. The original series included illustrations from Art Spiegelman and Norman Saunders and lampooned the brands of the 70s; the new series will bring back some of the original talent to mock modern brands -- for example, turning "Ring Pops" into "Bling Pups."
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Obesity, inactivity overtaking tobacco as top USA death cause. This online data chart released today by the Center for Disease Control shows that lack of physical activity and poor nutrition are catching up to smoking as a top cause of death in the United States. There's an analysis in this week's Journal of the American Medical Association (link), and a summary here from AP. |
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TiVo skips past naysayers. The digital video recording pioneer is on fast-forward with impressive growth and innovations. Will the skeptics be proved wrong? |
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VCs eye nanotech as next big thing. So far, governments have footed most of the bill for nanotechnology research, but venture capitalists are warming up to the fledgling technology. |
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Nasdaq Settles Below 2000 amid Broader Market Weakness (Dow Jones). Dow Jones - NEW YORK -- Technology stocks fell slightly Tuesday as investors digested a
downgrade for Sun Microsystems and followed the broader market lower. |
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RealNetworks Sues MLB Unit Over Web Media Format (Reuters). Reuters - RealNetworks Inc. RNWK.O> said on
Tuesday that it has filed a lawsuit against the media arm of
the Major League Baseball organization for not using its
digital media format to broadcast live baseball games on
MLB.com. |
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KDE 3.2.1 Released |
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More memory management troubles in Linux kernel |
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Survey: CIOs Say Security Is Top Priority |
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Vulnerabilities: Apple Safari Large JavaScript Array Handling Denial Of Service Vulnerability. Apple Safari Web Browser is reported to be prone to a security vulnerability related to handling of large JavaScript arrays. This issue may be exploited from within a ma... |
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Intel's Xeon Extender promises to enlarge your memory size. Pump it up |
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Microsoft Patch Release day |
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CIOs See Spending Uptick But Remain Cautious, Conservative |
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Microsoft Warns Of Flaws In Windows, Outlook, Messenger |
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Drie nieuwe security updates van Microsoft |
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Debian: wu-ftpd Multiple vulnerabilities |
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OpenBSD: tcp/ip Denial of service vulnerability |
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Red Hat: wu-ftpd Multiple vulnerabilities |
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IBM DB2 'db2rcmd.exe' Lets Remote Authenticated Users Execute Commands With Elevated Privileges |
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Microsoft Outlook 'mailto' URL Parsing Bug Lets Remote Users Execute Arbitrary Code in the Local Computer Domain |
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Microsoft Office XP 'mailto' URL Parsing Bug Lets Remote Users Execute Arbitrary Code in the Local Computer Domain |
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Microsoft Windows Media Services Can Be Crashed By Remote Users |
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Microsoft MSN Messenger May Disclose Known Files to Remote Users |
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European Parliament Adopts Controversial IP Enforcement Directive |
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Åùå òðè ïàò÷à îò MS |
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Enterprise IT Networking Roundup |
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Blog format truce proposed. Dave Winer, backer of the widely implemented and criticized RSS syndication format, suggests that the format merge with its challenger under the auspices of the Internet's leading standards body. |
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New vulnerabilities in Microsoft software. The company has issued patches for vulnerabilities in MSN Messenger, Outlook and Windows Media Services. Symantec and others say the risks are medium-level and lower. |
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Pocket PC iPod imitator gets Apple's attention (MacCentral). MacCentral - UK developer Starbrite Solutions has a $20 software offering called pBop that may remind you more than a little of Apple's iPod. While imitation may be the sincerest form of flattery, pBop flattered the iPod too much as far as Apple's legal department was concerned. |
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Oracle, Justice Dept. Seek June 21 Trial (AP). AP - Oracle Corp. and the Department of Justice are seeking a June 21 trial date to resolve an antitrust lawsuit blocking the business software maker's $9.4 billion hostile bid for rival PeopleSoft Inc. |
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World Banks Working to Stop Counterfeiting (AP). AP - The world's major central banks confirmed Tuesday that they collaborated with leading hardware and software companies to keep personal computers from being used to make counterfeit money. |
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Will PHP 5 Live Up to Its Billing? (NewsFactor). NewsFactor - PHP, the open-source scripting language popular in Web applications, is undergoing major renovations. The new version, PHP 5, already has appeared in three public betas and will be in a fourth beta shortly. The development team is aiming for May 2004 availability. |
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South Korean Robot to Guard Houses (AP). AP - A new household robot soon on sale in South Korea won't do the laundry or fix dinner — but it will instantly notify its master via cell phone of burglars, fires and gas leaks. |
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Here Comes the Mobile-Chip Parade (NewsFactor). NewsFactor - Every boom in the high-tech sector emerges as a new phenomenon, based on ever-evolving applications. IDC's latest projections for PC-chip revenue growth identify mobile computing as a key factor in what will make the ensuing high-tech up cycle different from previous flush periods. |
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Google's Continued Dominance No Slam Dunk (NewsFactor). NewsFactor - Could Google's much-anticipated IPO result in a second Internet bubble? Forrester's Charlene Li believes the search company could fall behind in the quest for a next-generation search engine to sustain its growth. |
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Can Software Kill? |
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US Government Upgrades RAM |
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Motorola to move some chip R&D to India, China. R&D jobs now making inroads in those countries as U.S. companies pour money into the region |
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Cisco releases new security products. Company unwraps new VPN hardware, features for IOS and Security Device manager software |
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Columnists: Googling Up Passwords. Google is in many ways the most useful tool available to the bad guys, and the most dangerous Web site on the Internet for many, many thousands of individuals and organizations. |
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Infocus: Anti-Spam Solutions and Security, Part 2. The second and final part of this article series focuses on the various types of challenge-based systems and cryptographic solutions that can be used to combat spam and its related security issues. |
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Vulnerabilities: GNU Mailman Admin Page Multiple Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities. Multiple cross-site scripting vulnerabilities were reported to exist in the administrative pages for GNU Mailman.
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International Digital Rights Meetup Day |
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Judge Reverses DVD X Copy Ripper Ban |
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TROJ_BRADE.A |
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Comcast cutting off spam 'zombies' |
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Mark's guestblog at The Industry Standard. I'm guestblogging at the resurrected Industry Standard. Come on by. Link |
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Cisco beefs up security. The networking giant is filling out its security portfolio, but analysts criticize it for not doing enough to prevent malicious traffic from entering networks. |
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Real hits Major League Baseball with lawsuit. The streaming media files suit against the league's media unit for breach of contract, as sources suggest that Microsoft is on deck to replace RealNetworks as the MLB site's technology provider. |
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EU passes tough new antipiracy law. Civil liberties groups say efforts to shield individuals from commercial pirates' penalties aren't strong enough. |
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Start-up enters field of blades. 3Up Systems squeezes into the blade server market with a medium-size Xeon-based product that features an integrated Ethernet switch. |
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Blade servers fight for edge. IBM talks up its blade servers to the telecommunications industry, while HP slims down its blades to allow more servers in the same amount of space. |
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EU Parliament Passes New Anti-Piracy Rules (AP). AP - Over the objections of consumer groups, the European Parliament passed a bill Tuesday to crack down on piracy of products ranging from soccer shirts to digital media. |
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Ditch Ma Bell (Ziff Davis). Ziff Davis - New technology lets you call anywhere in the world for free. Too good to be true? It's not perfect, but your internet connection could save you big bucks on your phone bills! |
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Resume Fraud Gets Slicker and Easier (Reuters). Reuters - Simple misrepresentation of facts on a
resume is passe. Lying convincingly is in. |
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Kodak Sues Sony Over Digital Patents (Reuters). Reuters - Eastman Kodak Co., the No. 1 maker of
photographic film, said on Tuesday it has filed suit against
Japan's Sony Corp. alleging that the consumer electronics
company infringed 10 of Kodak's patents related to digital
photography. |
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Used or Upgraded PCs Can Help Wallet, Environment (Reuters). Reuters - Computers are going the way of
cell phones -- commodities that are easily discarded for a
better model. |
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Sony Ericsson Launches New Phones (Reuters). Reuters - Swedish-Japanese mobile phone maker
Sony Ericsson launched five new picture-taking handsets on
Tuesday, saying such phones would help it gain market share
this year amid fast growing demand for mobile imaging. |
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Implementing CIFS |
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Comcast cutting off spam 'zombies'. Internet service provider Comcast Corp. is cutting off Internet service for some customers whose computers are being used
to relay spam messages, according to a company spokeswoman. |
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OpenBSD: tcp/ip Denial of service vulnerability |
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Red Hat: wu-ftpd Multiple vulnerabilities |
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Sony Ericsson unveils megapixel flagship, EDGE kit. High-end swivel |
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MS Monthly Updates Released |
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Microsoft Outlook 2002 mailto URI Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability |
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Microsoft Windows 2000 Server Media Services Denial of Service |
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Microsoft MSN Messenger Arbitrary File Retrieval Vulnerability |
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Analyst claims additional security layers in Windows add to risk |
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OJ Simpson Nailed For Stealing DirecTV |
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EFC - Execution Flow Control |
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Cisco Expands Integrated Security Systems Leadership |
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New Enhancements Further Cisco IOS as a Key Component for Self-Defending Network |
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IBM Streamlines Storage Management |
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HP: You Can Never Be Too Thin |
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N-able Debuts Security Event Manager Add-On |
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Security Firms Look To Limit Liability for Online Security Breaches |
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Human monkeys already know who their friends are, even without a YASNS to help. Clay Shirky's posted a nice little analysis of the evolving user-interfaces for social network services on Many2Many. The thing he nails down really tight here is that negotiating friendship is something we're actually pretty good at -- until we're asked to port representations of those realtionships to the digital realm. Computers are best used to do stuff that's hard or boring (repetitious counting and sorting, for example) and, IMO, it's a bad idea to ask them to take something that's neither hard nor boring and make it a little of both in the service off some ill-defined reward. By which I mean: I already know who my friends are, and it's not hard to know that; but exposing an exhaustive list of my nuanced social relations is damned hard, and none of the YASNSes offer me any serious benefit for doing so.
[N]ow [Orkut has] added this linear scale of friendship that would be laughed out of a freshman sociology course, and then they say tell me the data is private. Of course it's not private ? that data isn't for me, it's for Orkut. I don't need it in the first place, because I am a monkey, descended from a long line of such monkeys, whose main talent consists of keeping track of relationships. Measured on the time scale of our social capacity, fire is a recent invention and agriculture is still a novelty.
The "how good a friend are they" data is useless or worse for me, but useful for Orkut, because they are desperate to represent social networks numerically, which is why they keep adding things to an interface they should be subtracting things from. The problem isn't the cost or refinement of accepting a friendship transaction, the problem is that friendship isn't a transaction, something almost no social networking service understands.
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FileMaker update sorts out storage. Software maker FileMaker beefs up its namesake product with the ability to import and store big multimedia files--handling files of up to 8 terabytes--and a new relational engine. |
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ICANN approves wait list for desired domains. The nonprofit group's approval of VeriSign's so-called Wait Listing Service puts to rest one of the company's chief complaints about the organization. |
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Juniper to invite Cisco to 'Pepsi' challenge. Juniper Networks preps a low-end access router code-named Pepsi to take on Cisco Systems' 2600--a direct-hit strategy reminiscent of the cola wars. |
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Yahoo puts local content on the map. The Internet portal continues its Internet search expansion by delivering information on local points of interest, such as restaurants, hotels and parks, on its online map system. |
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Peer to Peer and Spam in the Internet |
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Lane Fox sells Lastminute stock. The co-founder of UK dotcom survivor Lastminute.com sells a fifth of shares in the internet retailer - raising £4.6m. |
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MTV off air in US over fees row. Satellite television provider Echostar turns off MTV, Comedy Central and Nickelodeon in a contract dispute with Viacom over the cost of its programmes. |
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BugTraq: Ghost users in Chat Anywhere 2.72. Sender: Luigi Auriemma [aluigi at altervista dot org] |
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BugTraq: Establishing contact with Nullsoft. Sender: Peter Winter-Smith [peter4020 at hotmail dot com] |
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Telefonica buys Bell South's Latin American mobile ops. Numero uno |
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Doormen Go Digital! |
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Internet banking 'no longer safe' |
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Examining the Cyber Capabilities of Islamic Terrorist Groups |
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Three more patches from Microsoft |
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AirMagnet Beefs Up Rogue Detection |
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PayPal Fined $150,000 After Investigation Into Repayment Policy |
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CIOs See Spending Uptick, But Remain Cautious, Conservative |
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Happy Birthday, dear Feedster.. Feedster turned one year old yesterday. Happy Birthday, and congrats to proud poppa Scott Rafer. Link |
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Top ten rules of Bollywood. The essential list of required ingredients in Indian popular cinema:
# Two brothers separated in childhood will always grow up on different sides of the law. The law-breaker, however, will suddenly turn over a new leaf before the end, bash up the villain (who is the real bad guy), and be pardoned for all his sins before the last-scene family reunion.
# Any movie involving lost+found brothers will have a song sung by:
(a) the brothers
(b) their blind mother (but of course, she has to be blind in order to regain her sight in the climax)
(c) the family dog/cat.
The amazing thing is that these folks remember the song after 20 years in the movie, and you can't remember it 2 minutes after coming out of the theatre.
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Steve Ballmer's iPod ad. 
Steve Balmer's infamous dance-monkeyboy-dance video, rendered as a moving iPod sillhouette ad.
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Software gives Pocket PC an iPod look. A small U.K.-based firm has created jukebox software for Pocket PC handhelds that has the "skin" of an iPod. The company says it changed the name of the software from pPod to pBop at the request of Apple Computer. |
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Briefly: Court puts DVD-copying decision on hold. The temporary hold of a ruling against 321 Studios will have little practical effect...A hardware hiccup causes an outage at the Wall Street Journal...Motorola phones want their MTV games. |
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Court puts DVD-copying decision on hold. A New York federal judge has temporarily put on hold a ruling against 321 Studios, which makes DVD-copying software, pending a hearing next week. |
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Kodak sues Sony over digital cameras. The camera maker files a patent infringement suit against its Japanese rival, and there are signs that other companies may also be in Kodak's crosshairs. |
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Dell takes cue from rivals with VMware deal. The computing giant looks to keep pace with IBM and HP, signing a partnership to "substantially increase" VMware's uptake among Dell customers. |
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Linux the Tortoise to Microsoft's Hare? |
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Pocket PCs Masquerade as iPods |
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Internet banking 'no longer safe' |
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Examining the Cyber Capabilities of Islamic Terrorist Groups |
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Analyst claims additional security layers in Windows add to risk |
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Vulnerabilities: SureCom Network Device Malformed Web Authorization Request Denial Of Service Vulnerability. An issue in the handling of specific web requests by SureCom network devices has been identified. By placing a malformed request to the web configuration interface, it i... |
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Fiorina touts HP advances. Figures show retreat |
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InnoMedia VideoPhone Authorization Bypass Vulnerability |
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Invision Power Board SQL Injection Vulnerability |
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WFTPD Buffer Overflow Vulnerability |
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Elsewhere: Card fraud figures show rise in ID theft |
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Elsewhere: Virus war of words falls silent |
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News: We're just innocent techies, say accused spammers |
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We're just innocent techies, say accused spammers |
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Microsoft's high-risk security strategy |
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Sick, surreal, dark QT short -- Beauty Kit. 
The nightmarish QuickTime short "Beauty Kit" parodies toy ads for children, instructional health videos, and modern-day body image psychosis by way of a do-it-yourself breast augmentation kit for young girls. When you live in LA, this is not such a far stretch of imagination: I've heard testimony from SoCal teens of late-teenage daughters in wealthy families receiving plastic surgery as gifts from adult family members. For real. While you're on this site, check out the rest of pleix.net's short films, which are fantastic. For instance, e-baby -- utterly chilling.
Link (from Ticklefight, via El Fabuloso Mas Macho). |
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Yahoo puts local content on the map. The Internet portal continues its Internet search expansion by delivering information on local points of interest, such as restaurants, hotels and parks, on its online map system. |
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NetSky, we hardly knew ye. The author of NetSky.K tells antivirus researchers "this is the last version" of the worm. |
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Motorola Moves Chip Design Jobs in Asia (AP). AP - Motorola Inc., the world's second largest mobile phone maker, said Tuesday it had shut down its semiconductor chip-design operations in Singapore, Taiwan and Hong Kong and moved them to China and India. |
| 5. |
Resume Fraud Gets Slicker and Easier (Reuters). Reuters - Simple misrepresentation of facts on a
resume is passe. Lying convincingly is in. |
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Used or Upgraded PCs Can Help Wallet, Environment (Reuters). Reuters - Computers are going the way of
cell phones -- commodities that are easily discarded for a
better model. |
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Playstation 3 Already Won the Next Gen Battle? |
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James Bond continues to top chart. Catch up with the latest news from the world of video gaming. |
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Kodak sues Sony in patent row. Photography giant Eastman Kodak is suing Japan's Sony in a row over digital photography patents. |
| 10. |
Debut for quantum codes. Quantum cryptography has emerged from the laboratory and into a commercially viable product. |
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EU backs tighter rules on piracy. The European Parliament passes an anti-piracy law, covering everything from handbags to music downloads. |
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No criminal sanctions for file swappers in EU. European Parliament approves watered-down IP law on file sharing, counterfeiting |
| 13. |
Java amendment process is revised. Earlier participation is enabled |
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IBM's Wladawsky-Berger sees open source future. VP of Technology and Strategy says open source software is key to infrastructure integration ADVERTISEMENT: Need a MS Exchange Spam Filter? - Spam Sucks! Your life shouldn't. iHateSpam for Exchange was built to the exact specs Exchange Admins asked for. It's now the Best-Selling, Award Winning anti-spam solution for Exchange 5.5, 2000 and 2... |
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Comcast cutting off spam 'zombies'. Some customers whose PCs are being used to relay spam messages will be denied service |
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IBM buys supply chain software company. Acquisition of Trigo aimed at bolstering Big Blue's middleware strategy |
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Smaller, smarter mobile phones see more. New handsets to be launched next week at Cebit |
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Yahoo adds local attraction search to maps. Search company introduces SmartView to its mapping program |
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Vulnerabilities: NFS-Utils Unspecified rpc.mountd Denial Of Service Vulnerability. An unspecified denial of service vulnerability exists in nfs-utils. It has been reported that certain DNS configurations may cause rpc.mountd to crash. If rpc.mountd we... |
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Vulnerabilities: Norton AntiVirus 2002 Nested File AutoProtect Bypass Vulnerability. A vulnerability has been alleged in Norton AntiVirus 2002 that may potentially permit a deeply nested executable file to bypass the AutoProtect feature when it is execute... |
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Les remèdes au spam |
| 22. |
Worm Masquerades as Microsoft Patch |
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Instant Messaging Creates Security Headaches For Enterprises |
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Prankster writes Dear Abby letter based on Simpsons episode. Some wise-ass Simpsons fan wrote a letter to "Dear Abby" based on an episode of the popular Fox network show. "Abby"'s response was yanked prior to print.
In both the letter and the Simpsons episode, the husbands grow suspicious when they stumble across bowling gloves - obvious gifts to their wives from the other man. In the television show, Homer responds by ineptly professing his love for Marge, who later goes to him at the nuclear power plant where he works. He lifts her up and carries her out of the plant as his co-workers watch and cheer. (...) Jeanne Phillips, who writes Dear Abby, told "Stuck" to tell her husband why she strayed. "To save the marriage," she wrote, "he might be willing to change back to the man who bowled you over in the first place."
Link (thanks, Jonno mas fabuloso!) |
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Satellite news feeds of DARPA Grand Challenge. If you (1) are a robot-lovin' geek, and (2) have access to satellite communications, aim your dish toward the raw news feed from the DARPA Grand Challenge Race kickoff on March 13. If you lack (2), find someone who does, and badger/bribe/beg them into taping or TiVoing it for you. According to Paul Grayson (by way of an informal Grand Challenge e-mail list), DARPA will provide same-day coverage via satellite of the Grand Challenge start and highlights on Saturday, March 13 at the following times: Live coverage of the start: 6:30 - 8:30 Pacific/9:30 - 11:30 a.m. Eastern Video news release: 11:00 - 11:30 a.m. Pacific/2:00 - 2:30 p.m. Eastern. Coordinates for both feeds: Satellite: AMC 9, Ku, Transponder 03. Space is: 36 MHz. Downlink Frequency: 11760.000. Downlink Polarity: Vertical.
Related updates on the race in today's Wired News, here. |
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Food porn: saliva-inducing gyoza gallery. Asia foodie, B2.0 senior editor, and former guestblogger Todd Lappin confesses:
While looking for a good recipe to make gyoza (Japanese dumplings) last night, I came across this luridly graphic website, which shows how the delicious treat is made. Step-by-step, full color gallery! Hot hot hot hand-wrapping action! No password required! I haven't seen anything this seductive since the ramen scene at the beginning of Tampopo. Be advised: Probably not work-safe before lunch or dinner. Here is the picture that's worth 1000 words.
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Museum of Bad Art. 
The Museum Of Bad Art (MOBA) is the world's only museum dedicated to the collection, preservation, exhibition and celebration of bad art in all its forms. "We do not tire in our efforts to bring the worst of art to the widest of audiences," reads the MOBA manifesto. At left, the piece that found it all -- Lucy In the Field With Flowers, oil on canvas by Unknown, acquired from the trash in Boston. "The motion, the chair, the sway of her breast, the subtle hues of the sky, the expression on her face -- every detail combines to create this transcendent and compelling portrait, every detail cries out masterpiece."
Link (via Buffoonery) |
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Sick, surreal, cool QT short: Beauty Kit.
The nightmarish QuickTime short "Beauty Kit" parodies toy ads for children, instructional health videos, and modern-day body image psychosis by way of a do-it-yourself breast augmentation kit for young girls. While you're there, check out the rest of pleix.net's short films, which are fantastic. For instance, e-baby -- utterly chilling.
Link (from Ticklefight, via El Fabuloso Mas Macho). |
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Samsung, Sony join forces on LCDs. The consumer electronics giants form a 50-50 joint venture in Korea to produce liquid crystal displays for flat-panel TVs, as the market for LCD panels heats up. |
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McAfee Maker Adjusts Up '03 Net, Revenue (Reuters). Reuters - Network Associates Inc. (NET.N), which
provides security software and services to companies, on
Tuesday adjusted up its previously reported 2003 quarterly
results to correct its booking of international deferred
revenue. |
| 8. |
Ditch Ma Bell (Ziff Davis). Ziff Davis - New technology lets you call anywhere in the world for free. Too good to be true? It's not perfect, but your internet connection could save you big bucks on your phone bills! |
| 9. |
Kodak Sues Sony Over Digital Photography Patents (Reuters). Reuters - Camera and film maker Eastman Kodak
Co. (EK.N) on Tuesday said it has filed suit against Japan's
Sony Corp. (6758.T) alleging the consumer electronics company
infringed on 10 of Kodak's patents related to digital cameras
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TV Losing to Video Games |
| 11. |
Ripping DVDs to Handhelds = Fair Use? |
| 12. |
Hubble's Deepest Pictures Yet |
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Play Classic Video Games In NY, At Home |
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Sluggish sales hit T-Online. Shares in Germany's biggest internet service provider fall 10% following disappointing sales towards the end of 2003. |
| 15. |
File swappers avoid home invasion. A controversial EU law that might have led to raids on the homes of file swappers has been watered down. |
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Elsewhere: Card fraud figures show rise in ID theft. Credit card fraud resulting from identity theft grew by almost half last year, according to figures released today by the Association of Payment Clearing Services (Apacs)... |
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Elsewhere: Virus war of words falls silent. New versions of the Netsky and Bagel worms have emerged in the wild, but neither infection seeks to rekindle the public spat that broke out last week between the rival vi... |
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News: We're just innocent techies, say accused spammers. The Register By John Leyden [john dot leyden at theregister dot co dot uk] |
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BugTraq: Invision Power Board v1.3 Final Cross Site Scripting 2 - Addon. Sender: Rafel Ivgi, The-Insider [theinsider at 012 dot net dot il] |
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BugTraq: [SECURITY] [DSA 457-1] New wu-ftpd packages fix multiple vulnerabilities. Sender: Matt Zimmerman [mdz at debian dot org] |
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BugTraq: IBM DB2 Remote Command Execution Privilege Upgrade (#NISR09032004). Sender: NGSSoftware Insight Security Research [nisr at nextgenss dot com] |
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BugTraq: [OpenPKG-SA-2004.005] OpenPKG Security Advisory (mutt). Sender: OpenPKG [openpkg at openpkg dot org] |
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Microsoft's high-risk security strategy. Between a rock and a hard place |
| 24. |
UK unions calls time on offshoring. Here are some demands |
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Fujitsu shifts helpdesk jobs to South Africa. Skills shortage blamed for transfer |
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MEPs wave through IP rights enforcement. Hunting season opens in two years |
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Cisco tops 2003 VPN sales league. Market moves towards appliances |
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MS, Linux, board battles - Psion boss lists the threats to Symbian. Defence of deal paints picture of company up agin it |
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Patch voor OpenBSD Denial of Service lek |
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Managed Security Solutions to Resell PortWise Products |
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BMC And Rsa Team for Security Product Development |
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Online Betting Sites Fight Cyberextortion |
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New Sober Variant Claims to be Microsoft Patch |
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Sociology of tissue and organ donation. Brilliant sociological analysis of organ and tissue donation and the relation and disjoint thereof to the gift-economy on the Crooked Timber groupblog.
Over the past twenty years or so in the United States, a very large and complex system of tissue procurement and distribution has grown up, mostly to service the demand created by new medical technologies. Some of these, like heart and kidney transplants, enjoy broad public support. Others, like the use of processed cadaveric skin for lip enhancement and penis enlargement, bone screws for orthopedic surgery or cadavers in automobile crash tests are less well known.
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IBM to buy supply-chain company. In a move to bolster its RFID push, Big Blue says it will acquire privately heldTrigo Technologies, a supplier of data synchronization software used tostreamline supply-chain operations. |
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Pocket PC iPod imitator gets Apple's attention (MacCentral). MacCentral - UK developer Starbrite Solutions has a $20 software offering called pBop that may remind you more than a little of Apple's iPod. While imitation may be the sincerest form of flattery, pBop flattered the iPod too much as far as Apple's legal department was concerned. |
| 4. |
Interwave Probes Allegations of Ex-Worker (Reuters). Reuters - Interwave Communications International
Ltd. (IWAV.O), a maker of wireless communications gear, on
Tuesday said its legal counsel is investigating allegations
made by a former employee, and its Nasdaq National Market
listing is under review. |
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Encyclopedias Gather Dust in Internet Age (AP). AP - These are lonely days for encyclopedias. At libraries, the volumes sit ignored for days on end as information-seeking patrons tap busily away at nearby computers. |
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Searching the 'Deep Web' |
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Computer Associates Pays Off SCO |
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Dealers win High Court VAT action against Customs. Next round, Europe |
| 9. |
Sony Ericsson - credible camera maker?. New camera phones aim to bridge perception gap |
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Microsoft's high-risk security strategy. Between a rock and a hard place |
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Cognos buys Softa. Oxford company takes the dollar |
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Microsoft Preps Software Update Services 2.0 |
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Cory tells Gizmodo what's in his pocketses. I did a mini-interview with Gizmodo yesterday, in which I was asked to empty my pocketses and talk about what gadgets I was carrying and why:
Fido Vtech prepaid mobile: this is the worst mobile phone I've ever owned. I have a bottom-of-the-line Nokia I use in Europe and a similar one that T-Mobile sold me in San Fran, and when I turned up in Toronto last week, I figured I'd just put a prepaid SIM into that one and go with it. However, the scumbags at T-Mobile *locked* the fucking thing, which meant that I had to go buy *another* phone (that's THREE phones in total, now!) and I ended up buying the Vtech used for 60 Canadian pesos at a counter in a Chinatown mall. It receives and sends SMS, but it doesn't have T9, so it's basically impossible to use for texting. The UI is utterly martian, like something designed by throwing dice, and the phone itself feels like it's made out of dried spittle and chewed-up paper. Worst. Ringtones. Evar. Oh, and it's FUCKING LOCKED to Fido. Rilly. Christ.
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Sociology of tissue and organ donation. Brilliant sociological analysis of organ and tissue donation and there relation and dsijoint thereof to the gift-economy on the Crooked Timber groupblog.
Over the past twenty years or so in the United States, a very large and complex system of tissue procurement and distribution has grown up, mostly to service the demand created by new medical technologies. Some of these, like heart and kidney transplants, enjoy broad public support. Others, like the use of processed cadaveric skin for lip enhancement and penis enlargement, bone screws for orthopedic surgery or cadavers in automobile crash tests are less well known.
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Before-the-Bell: Nike Up, EchoStar Down (Reuters). Reuters - Shares of Nike Inc. (NKE.N) climbed in
trading before Tuesday's opening bell after the world's top
athletic shoemaker said it expects third-quarter profit to beat
analysts' expectations, helped by a weak dollar. |
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The Command Line - Best Newbie Interface? |
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Internet browsing patent annulled. The US Patent Office rejects a patent that lies at the heart of a court ruling about Microsoft's browser. |
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Fujitsu ships new Xeon blade server. Company will ship a four-processor Xeon MP blade later this year |
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China's Legend develops PC security technology. Chinese government taps Legend to draft standard for computer security chips |
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IBM's Palmisano given $5.4 million bonus for 2003. CEO rewarded for steering Big Blue through 'several challenges' and increasing server share |
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Snapbridge, Teamstudio boost XML, Java. Development tools are released |
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NY Times in 'My job went to India' shirt outrage. Born in the USA, apparently |
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BOFH: Protecting bodily waste in the public domain. Episode 8 Counting the cost of excrement |
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Sober Worm Crawls in New Version |
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China's Legend develops PC security technology |
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Chat Anywhere User Management Bypass Vulnerability |
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Chat Anywhere User Management Bypass Vulnerability |
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Burn CD labels along with data. 
The new HP DVD/CD burners can use their built-in lasers to etch a high-rez, monochrome image right into the surface of the disc, obviating the need for printing labels and sticking them onto the platter. They're due in six months, will cost $10 more than current DVD/CD burners, and will require special media that "will cost about a dime more than today's discs" -- no word on whether "today's discs" are the premium CD blanks that go for $1 or more, or the el-cheapo ones you buy in hundred-packs for $3 through web-specials, though I suspect the former, since HP has almost certainly locked up production of these discs through patents...
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iPod media reader offloads digital camera memory into your MP3 player. Belkin has shipped a six-in-one media reader that plugs into your iPod -- plug the reader into your iPod, stick the Compact Flash, SmartMedia, Memory Stick or whatnot from your camera into the reader, and your photos are offloaded onto the iPod's hard-drive, freeing you up to take new shots. When you get home, plug your iPod into your computer and offload your archived photos. Smart, smart, smart.
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Interwave Probes Allegations of Ex-Worker (Reuters). Reuters - Interwave Communications International
Ltd. (IWAV.O), a maker of wireless communications gear, on
Tuesday said its legal counsel is investigating allegations
made by a former employee, and its Nasdaq National Market
listing is under review. |
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Doc Searls On Fixing Tradeshows |
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UK and US to act on sex sites. The case of murdered teacher Jane Longhurst prompts officials to act over violent internet sex sites. |
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Music swappers face home invasion. The homes of online pop-swappers could be raided if a new European directive gets voted into law. |
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China's Legend develops PC security technology. Legend Group Ltd., China's largest PC maker, is developing technologies that could be used to make computers more secure. |
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Security One Step at a Time |
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No US patent for the patently obvious. US to fall in line with Europe? |
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Court backs telcos in US network wars. Big four take on FCC |
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Reseller are chipper about future. Confidence rises |
| 12. |
DVD Forum provokes HDD spec punch-up. MS Windows Media 9 codec is catalyst for strife |
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SAP and MS line up for and against Oracle. Letters to the DoJ |
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300GB drive: now it's Fujitsu's turn. MAP and MAS lines to be replaced |
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Moins d'infractions sur les sites de vente en ligne en 2003 |
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Security One Step at a Time |
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JS_AMILALA.B |
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Tattoo shirts for the illusion of full-body tatts. 
Sleeves Clothing sells translucent clingy shirts that "give you the realistic illusion of tattoos" -- essentially, these are skin-tight, thin undershirts covered in fake tattoos to allow you the look of full-body tatts without the permanence, pain, sagging or disapprobation.
Link
(Thanks, bturner!)
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Filthy origami. 
This collection of dirty origami -- mostly explicit sexual stuff -- is hilarious. The Kama Sutra pieces are nice, and folding a vulva out of a dollar bill is a great dinner-table trick, but they're not a patch on this pooping doggy origami.
Link
(via Flashbot)
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SCO's failing case against IBM. Open-source advocate Bruce Perens says SCO will need more than fancy footwork to pull off its argument in the Linux code dispute. |
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Trouble on Silicon Valley's doorstep. Software veteran Ray Lane says the industry has yet to grasp the implications of structural and technology changes that will force big dislocations. |
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BellSouth accepts $4.2B for Latin American assets (USATODAY.com). USATODAY.com - BellSouth (BLS) has agreed to sell its Latin American wireless holdings to Telefonica in a cash-and-debt deal that will help finance its share of a planned purchase of AT&T Wireless. |
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Global PC semiconductor sales to grow 18 percent in 2004: study (AFP). AFP - Global sales of semiconductors used in personal computers (PCs) are expected to grow by 18 percent from a year ago to almost 54 billion dollars in 2004, a technology industry research firm said. |
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T-Online back in the black in fourth-quarter, but books full-year loss (AFP). AFP - T-Online, Europe's biggest provider of Internet access, said it swung back into profit in the last three months of last year, but nevertheless booked a full-year loss. |
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UK and US to act on web sex sites. The case of murdered teacher Jane Longhurst prompts officials to act over violent internet sex sites. |
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Yorkshire Forward accused of BT favouritism. 'It's just a draft' |
| 10. |
I'd recognise that ear, anywhere. Boffins crack ear identification |
| 11. |
C2000 gears up for Microsoft sales binge. Channel round-up |
| 12. |
BT climbs down in Tiscali ad spat. When 'No comment' means 'It's a fair cop, guv' |
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Banks Prepare For ATM Upgrades |
| 14. |
New Sober Worm Poses As Microsoft Patch |
| 15. |
Symantec Updates Anti-Virus, Anti-Spam Support for Exchange 2003 |
| 16. |
Microsoft Preps Software Update Services 2.0 |
| 17. |
N-able Introduces Remote Security Management Technology |
| 18. |
Matrix Expands to Wisconsin |
| 19. |
Wetgeving werkt niet, kan spam gestopt worden? |
| 20. |
Brinkhorst: Filters moeten spam stoppen |
| 21. |
At Deadline Briefs |
| 22. |
This Is Your Attacker Calling |
| 23. |
Security Log |
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New version of the Sober worm masquerades as Microsoft update |
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New HP Drive Lets You Burn Your Own Label |
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Job Security You Can Buy. Consumers can now purchase employee-background screening tools at some Sam's Club stores and vet their personal records before employers do. But critics worry over-the-counter background checks could end up in the wrong hands. |
| 3. |
The American Delusion: Safety. All the money spent on security to turn the country into a fortress may make us feel better, but it doesn't make us any safer. By Bruce Schneier from Wired magazine. |
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One File Swapper, One Lawsuit. The music industry cannot file one lawsuit against 200 alleged file swappers, says a federal judge in Philadelphia. Instead, the Recording Industry Association of America will have to sue each individually. By Katie Dean. |
| 5. |
Fertility Frozen in Time. Reproduction research reaches a breakthrough for women who want to preserve their fertility: implanted frozen ovary tissue. By Kristen Philipkoski. |
| 6. |
When Space Invaders Ruled Earth. Have a jones for some old-time arcade action? Head to the Museum of the Moving Image, where Asteroids and company are on display. Michelle Delio reports from Astoria, New York. |
| 7. |
AT & #038;T Mobile Users Face a Choice. The wireless phone company is letting customers trade old phones for free new ones that use a broader portion of the telecommunications spectrum. But for owners of top-of-the-line handsets, it's not such a good deal. By Joanna Glasner. |
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Now That's Quite a Challenge. Competitors in this weekend's Darpa Grand Challenge will try to do what the Pentagon's brightest minds have never done: Get a robot to drive itself across the desert for more than 200 miles. Noah Shachtman reports from Ontario, California. |
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MP3.com Loot Hits Auction Block. You may have missed the IPO, but now the remnants of the Internet bubble are going up for bid this week. Anyone need some rock-star memorabilia? By Kari Lynn Dean. |
| 10. |
Matrix Expands to Wisconsin. The Matrix -- an interstate antiterrorism database that tracks billions of records on ordinary Americans -- expands into another state. While privacy advocates have some success in curtailing its expansion, cops can't resist the powerful tool. By Ryan Singel. |
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Microsoft renforce la sécurité d'IIS |
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Sober.D: gare aux faux mails signés Microsoft! |
| 13. |
Het net sluit rond digitale afpersers |
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SCO weer online na maand durende DoS-aanval |
| 15. |
5% van alle Internet PCs besmet met Spyware |
| 16. |
Helpdesks "virusmoe" na recente wormgolf |
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Lane Fox sells Lastminute stock. The co-founder of UK dotcom survivor Lastminute.com sells a fifth of shares in the internet retailer - raising £4.6m. |
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Yorks Forward accused of BT favouritism. 'It's just a draft' |
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PayPal forced to apologise for dodgy small print. Fined $150,000 |
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U.K. Hacker Sentenced (TechWeb) |
| 5. |
Juniper Buys Netscreen For $4 Billion (TechWeb) |
| 6. |
Another MyDoom Worm Targets Already-Infected Machines (TechWeb) |
| 7. |
How To Protect Against MyDoom (TechWeb) |
| 8. |
New Mydoom Variant Surfaces (PC World) |
| 9. |
Security experts work to prevent hacker infiltration of Athens Olympics (Canadian Press) |
| 10. |
New Mydoom worm may be designed to foil police probe: experts (AFP) |
| 11. |
Son of MyDoom Stalks Microsoft (NewsFactor) |
| 12. |
Microsoft Plugs 'Critical' Windows Hole (PC World) |
| 13. |
Microsoft launches new red alert (AFP) |
| 14. |
`Critical' flaw in Windows found (SiliconValley.com) |
| 15. |
New Doomjuice Variants Prepping Attacks (Ziff Davis) |
| 16. |
Yemen battles e-mail viruses (AFP) |
| 17. |
Spammers, Hackers Feed Off Each Other More And More (TechWeb) |
| 18. |
Microsoft Offers Security Webcasts For Developers (TechWeb) |
| 19. |
Next-Generation Nachi Worm Offers Political Message (Ziff Davis) |
| 20. |
Windows Code May Be Stolen (PC World) |
| 21. |
Beware of 'I Love You' emails, Indian anti-virus software firm warns (AFP) |
| 22. |
MyDoom Takes Last Gasp, Offspring Live On (NewsFactor) |
| 23. |
Net File-Swappers Snap Up Windows Source Code (Reuters) |
| 24. |
Hackers get hold of Microsoft's crown jewels (AFP) |
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FBI on case of stolen Microsoft Windows source code (AFP) |
| 26. |
Bagle-B Worms Surfaces As Medium-Grade Threat (TechWeb) |
| 27. |
New Bagle Virus Gaining Momentum (Ziff Davis) |
| 28. |
Hackers Exploit Windows Flaw (PC World) |
| 29. |
Bagle E-Mail Worm Spreads (PC World) |
| 30. |
Hackers Circulate New Code For Exploiting Windows (TechWeb) |
| 31. |
Microsoft to Hackers: Drop That Code! (Ziff Davis) |
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New Worm Spreads Via E-mail, Shared Folders (TechWeb) |
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Netsky Worm Hits the Net (PC World) |
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New Netsky.B Worm Spreading on Internet (Reuters) |
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Microsoft Says: Don't Touch That Code! (PC World) |
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NetSky.B Worm Gains More Traction (Ziff Davis) |
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Netsky Worm Spreads Via E-mail And Shared Folders (TechWeb) |
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Netsky.B Tunnels Through Windows Systems (NewsFactor) |
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ZoneAlarm Bug Bares System To E-Mail Attack (Ziff Davis) |
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Security Alert: W32/Netsky.B-mm Threatens File Sharers (Ziff Davis) |
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Hackers Could Access Nokia Phones (Ziff Davis) |
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Web Site Details Low-Tech Hack of iTunes Promotion (Reuters) |
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Web Site Details Low-Tech Hack of ITunes Promotion (Reuters) |
| 44. |
Blue Coat Appliance Protects Against Web Threats (Ziff Davis) |
| 45. |
Hacker Sentenced To Prison For One Year (TechWeb) |
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Microsoft, RSA Tie Up to Boost Security of Windows (Reuters) |
| 47. |
Cybercrime Costing UK Business Billions (Reuters) |
| 48. |
Microsoft Confident Bounties Will Nab Virus Writers (Reuters) |
| 49. |
Bill Gates Shows New Windows Security Features (Reuters) |
| 50. |
ICQ Worm Harvests Financial Info (TechWeb) |
| 51. |
Microsoft unveils plans to curb spam, improve virus defense (AFP) |
| 52. |
The Trouble With Viruses (Ziff Davis) |
| 53. |
Microsoft, RSA Working on Windows Lock (AP) |
| 54. |
Blue Titan Partner Ties Web-Services Management To Security (TechWeb) |
| 55. |
New Mydoom Variant Deletes Files (PC World) |
| 56. |
Fresh Worms Attack E-Mail, Internet Explorer, User Data (Ziff Davis) |
| 57. |
Latest MyDoom Outbreak Spreading, Deletes Files (Reuters) |
| 58. |
Latest Mydoom variant deletes files (MacCentral) |
| 59. |
NetSky Worm Variant Reported (PC World) |
| 60. |
Mydoom.F Unleashed on RIAA, Microsoft (NewsFactor) |
| 61. |
MyDoom.f Spreads, Deletes Files (TechWeb) |
| 62. |
Homeland Security Chief Warns of Cybercrime Costs (Ziff Davis) |
| 63. |
Norton maker plans to expand (SiliconValley.com) |
| 64. |
Experts Warn of New Ferocious Mydoom Worm (AP) |
| 65. |
New Virus Offspring Surfaces (NewsFactor) |
| 66. |
On guard against hackers (SiliconValley.com) |
| 67. |
Protected From Prying Eyes (TechWeb) |
| 68. |
Wave of Bagle and Netsky Worm Variants Hits the Internet (TechWeb) |
| 69. |
Virus Outbreak: More E-Mail Worms Are Set Loose (Ziff Davis) |
| 70. |
New Netsky-D Worm Spreading Through E-Mail (Reuters) |
| 71. |
March Comes in Like a Worm (PC World) |
| 72. |
Security Vendors Race To Keep Users Ahead Of Worm Wave (TechWeb) |
| 73. |
Netsky.D Making the Rounds (NewsFactor) |
| 74. |
Dueling Hackers May Have Sparked Worm Blitz (TechWeb) |
| 75. |
Technical Problems Reported in E-Voting (AP) |
| 76. |
Security Increased for Tuesday's E-Voting (Ziff Davis) |
| 77. |
Bagle, Netsky Variants Hit the Net (PC World) |
| 78. |
Virus Writers Start Dissing Match with New Worms (Ziff Davis) |
| 79. |
Wave of viruses, worms sweep cyberspace: experts (AFP) |
| 80. |
10th Variant of Bagle Worm Hits the Net (Ziff Davis) |
| 81. |
Worm Authors Exchange Taunting Messages (TechWeb) |
| 82. |
Virus Writers Wage Worm War (PC World) |
| 83. |
Worm Wars (TechWeb) |
| 84. |
Virus Writers Use Internet Worms for War of Words (Reuters) |
| 85. |
Finnish anti-virus firm sends virus to customers by mistake (AFP) |
| 86. |
Virus writers launch competing attacks (SiliconValley.com) |
| 87. |
Worm Writers Continue Verbal Warfare (NewsFactor) |
| 88. |
Worm Wave Rolls On (TechWeb) |
| 89. |
Firms Look to Limit Liability for Online Security Breaches (washingtonpost.com) |
| 90. |
GOP Aides Implicated In Memo Downloads (washingtonpost.com) |
| 91. |
Virus whiz-kids using cyberspace as playground for gangland wars (AFP) |
| 92. |
Sobering Worm Poses As Microsoft Patch (TechWeb) |
| 93. |
Sober-ing Thought: New Worm Poses As Microsoft Patch (TechWeb) |
| 94. |
Bedrijfs firewalls zijn te gecompliceerd |
| 95. |
Mobieltjes met camera bedreigen bedrijfs security |
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Computer World: Developer Tool Kit Raises Backdoor Alarms (February, 2004) "When antivirus softw... |
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Lingering Job Insecurity of Silicon Valley. Well-educated technology workers have long been at the forefront of American economic growth and innovation. But some of them can't find jobs. By Steve Lohr and Matt Richtel. |
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Filming the Hand That's Stealing His Wallet. Bob Arno, a security consultant in Las Vegas, spends seven months each year traveling the world filming pickpockets and other street thieves. By With Francine Parnes. |
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Looking to Canadian Web Pharmacies for Savings. As the debate continues, opinions are divided on the merits of allowing online drug purchases from Canada. By Bob Tedeschi. |
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GE Reaches OLED Milestone |
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Ebay payments 'not rock-solid'. PayPal admits misleading shoppers into believing it offers credit-card-style protection. |
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PlayStation 'wins next gen wars'. Sony's successor to the PlayStation 2 will sell more than 30 million units in Europe by 2010, say analysts. |
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Quantum codes debut in real world. Quantum cryptography has emerged from the laboratory and into a commercially viable product. |
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Beagle 2 Failure Theories |
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VeriSign to stand guard for U.S. Bancorp. A multiyear deal to manage security services for the financial institution lends a push to VeriSign's drive to persuade corporations to turn over security to it. |
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IBM to bundle storage software products. Big Blue on Tuesday plans to introduce software designed to ease the management of complicated data storage systems, the latest entry into the hotly contested market. |
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Motorola Moving Chip Design Units to China, India (Reuters). Reuters - Motorola Inc, the world's
second-largest cell phone maker, said on Tuesday it was
shutting its semiconductor chip-design units in Singapore, Hong
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DARPA Grand Challenge Kicks Off March 13th |
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