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Powerbook battery tracker. A new beta app for tracking your Powerbook's battery health just got posted to VersionTracker. The release version promises network-awareness so that you can compare you battery's health to others'.
iBatt is a new PowerBook battery tool which can diagnose your battery's health, and generate graphs showing battery utilization trends. Whereas the system only provides you with current charge level, iBatt tells you total battery capacity, rate of charge/discharge, current battery voltage, and battery state. The release version will have network support to compare your battery's health with other batteries in your PowerBook model.
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Disney asks Gizmodo to clarify that jewel box is not intended for pot stashing. Gizmodo's Joel Johnson blogged about Disney Electronics's fairly clever "Disney Princess" jewel box/CD player, noting that its secret compartment is "perfect for your child's first marijuana stash."
Disney wrote to Joel and asked him to clarify "that marijuana stashing is not an intended or authorized use of this product."
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Industry Urges Tech Security Upgrades (AP). AP - In a surprise shift, leading software companies acknowledge in a report to the Bush administration that government might need to force the U.S. technology industry to improve the security of America's computer networks. |
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IBM developerWorks has a good history of IBM's POWER and PowerPC processors. (Although the 740/750 were based on the 603e IIRC.) |
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Feds crank up heat on P2P, new House bill promises prison for "pirates". I just filed a story for Wired News on a new House bill that proposes prison time for file-swappers -- and on today's Justice Department announcement of a new intellectual-property task force to analyze how the department addresses issues like the unauthorized sharing of digital software, music and movies.
Justice spokesman John Nowacki declined to disclose further details on the membership of the [Intellectual Property Task Force], or what specific activities it will pursue.
The task force was created in the wake of criticism by some members of Congress that the Justice Department has not done enough to crack down on digital piracy. The announcement took place on the same day that a House judiciary subcommittee unanimously approved a bill that would punish file swappers with up to three years in jail for first offenses, and up to six for repeat offenses.
Sponsored by Reps. Howard Berman (D-California) and Lamar Smith (R-Texas), the bill targets heavy users of peer-to-peer networks and those who pirate copies of feature films. The bill outlines a new piracy deterrence program for the FBI, and calls for the Justice Department to create an antipiracy "Internet Use Education Program." If signed into law, Justice would receive $15 million for investigation and prosecution of copyright-related crimes in 2005.
If signed into law, H.R. 4077 -- the "Piracy Deterrence and Education Act of 2004" -- would be the first to punish file sharing with jail time. The bill also takes aim at camcorder copiers who sneak into film screenings. Anyone who "knowingly uses or attempts to use an audiovisual recording device in a motion picture theater" to copy a movie could face up to six years in jail.
Link to Wired News story.
The full text of PDEA should be available through Thomas shortly, here: Link |
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Photo Sharing, Desktop to Desktop. Two new services, ShareALot and OurPictures, are designed to send photo files directly to the desktops of designated friends and family. By David Pogue. |
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For Those Who Play, Laptops Get Serious. Laptops have long been the weaklings of the computer world, at least where video-game enthusiasts were concerned. Now all that is changing. By Seth Schiesel. |
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When a Phone Isn't Simply a Phone. Not so long ago, cellphone accessories mostly meant swivel belt clips, leather-look carrying cases. Times have changed. By Michel Marriott. |
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All the World's a Soundstage as Audio Formats Evolve. A new music format called MP3 Surround adds the extra audio channels needed for five-speaker sound without appreciably increasing file size. By SeÁn Captain. |
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Certificate Authority Is a Security Watchdog. What is a Certificate Authority? Is it legitimate? And has my PC been invaded in some way? By J.d. Biersdorfer. |
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Hitched to a Star, With a Go-To Gadget. More affordable telescopes with computerized controls make life easier for novice stargazers. By Ian Austen. |
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Braving Bullying Hecklers, Simulants Run for President. The incumbent, Mr-President, faces a challenger in an election campaign in The Sims Online. By Mark Glassman. |
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Blog-Bleary? Try (What Else?) a Blog. Web logs offer a way to cut through online clutter. But how do you keep track of all the blogs? By David F. Gallagher. |
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Collapsible Comfort in a Backyard Eden. Lawn chair needs can change dramatically after a cross-country move. Where are the best places to find outdoor furniture? By Michelle Slatalla. |
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Grooves of a Fingertip Yield All Your Passwords. Fingerprint scanners are nothing new, but high prices have made them a tough sell for many technology buffs. A new scanner that costs $50 may persuade consumers to give biometric technology another look. By Mark Glassman. |
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Scooch Over, Screwdriver: a Venerable Knife Gains a Chip. Victorinox, the venerable Swiss manufacturer, has upped the ante by actually adding a digital function to its famous knife. By Andrew Zipern. |
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When Your Files Go Astray, Put a Speedy Sleuth to Work. A large hard drive and a short memory can be a bad combination if you are trying to find a specific file in a sea of gigabytes. Although the built-in search tool in Windows can help locate files by name, type or date modified, the X1 program from X1 Technologies can drill down further and locate files by specific words or phrases within an e-mail message or document. By J.d. Biersdorfer. |
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Frozen in Fear? Mighty Mouse to the Rescue. PC gamers must often contend with a real-life problem in their fantasy worlds: the mouse. What if your trigger locks as you face down a squadron of advancing zombies? By Judy Tong. |
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A Belated Invasion: Vietnam, the Game. The action in a number of new video games is taking place in Vietnam. The wars setting and its ambiguities are presenting designers with fresh challenges. By Stephen Totilo. |
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Letters to the Editor. Better Late Than Never. |
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Critics Agree: Good Things Come in Small, Powerful Packages. IF a computer can have sex appeal, it is probably demonstrated most clearly in high-end gaming laptops. While young men in decades past might have lusted after the latest automotive hardware, the players (almost all young men) who gathered at a gaming party near Buffalo last month have a different passion. It made them enthusiastic road-testers of three roughly comparable laptops - from Alienware, Dell and VoodooPC - that a reporter asked them to size up. By Seth Schiesel. |
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Search Engine Google to Offer Free E-Mail (AP). AP - Search engine Google Inc. announced Wednesday it would launch a free, Web-based e-mail service to compete against popular services from rivals Yahoo! Inc. and Microsoft Corp. |
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Chatterbox Challenge Contest Underway |
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Now that GNOME 2.6 has been released we'll have to find something besides the file selector to gripe about. |
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Ron "I wrote my own BIOS" Minnich created a bit of a stir on the OpenIB mailing list by claiming that all NICs corrupt data and all hardware protocol offload implementations don't scale. |
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NY Times: Google Planning to Roll Out E-Mail Service. "One internal Google study put the operational cost of maintaining electronic mail storage at less than $2 per gigabyte." This sounds too good to be true, given that raw disk is almost $1/GB. |
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Google e-mail to offer 1G byte of storage. Google plans to use its search technology and a large amount of data storage to launch a free e-mail service that lets customers keep about 1G-byte of messages, the Internet search giant announced Wednesday. |
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Google's free gigabyte. Google announced a free email service, promising a Gigabyte of storage to each user.
"The idea is that your mail can stay in there forever," said Wayne Rosing, vice president of engineering at Google. "You can always index it, always search it, and always find things from the past." That's a neat idea, but I wonder if you can store attachments, and how big those attachments can be? That makes all the difference. Link |
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Memos in Starbucks detail Bushies' Richard Clarke strategy. Memos on letterhead from "Office of the Secretary of Defense, The Special Assistant," have been retreived from a DC Starbucks. They detail what appears to be Bushie spin-strategy to deal with Richard Clarke's damning WMD testimony.
The notes say: "Took threat v seriously and then segue to wh we have been doing. Rise above [ Richard A.] Clarke.
"Emphasize importance of 9/11 commission and come back to what we have been doing.
"[Commission member Jamie] Gorelick pitting Condi [ Condoleezza Rice] v. [Deputy Secretary of State Richard] Armitage
"Our plan had military plans to attack Al Q -- called on def to draw up targets in Afg -- develop mil options."
There's an underlined notation "DR" in the margin and a quotation, apparently from DR, perhaps Rumsfeld, to "Stay inside the line -- we dont need 2 ruff [or puff] this at all. we need 2b careful as hell about it. This thing will go away soon and what will keep it alive will be one of us going over the line."
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Batmobile built like a tank. 
The Batmobile for the next Batman movie has monster-truck wheels and looks like a fighter-tank from the Car Wars universe.
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(Thanks, Numlok!)
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Katana controller for PS2 game. 
This wireless motion-sensitive sword is the controller for a character in Onimusha 3, forthcoming for the PS2. The game itself is apparently recursive: you are asked to direct the motions of an avatar who is playing a videogame of his own controlled by a motion-sensitive sword, and swinging the physical sword-controller causes the virtual sword-controller to move, which, in turn, directs the swordsmanship of your avatar's character in an in-game game. Zany.
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Music industry relies on data from pirate nets to hone strategy. Record labels are using data gleaned from pirate P2P networks to refine their sales-strategies, to excelletn effect. Nevertheless, they still repudiate the networks themselves, and vow to go on individually suing every participating music fan until they have all learned to respect the music industry.
The online data revealed that despite Story of the Year's lunar rotation, its single ``Until the Day I Die'' ranked among the top 20 most popular downloads, alongside tracks from Blink-182, Audioslave and Hoobastank that received significantly more airplay. And when the band performed in a city, ``we didn't necessarily see the phones blowing up at radio, but we saw download requests for the song skyrocket as they went through,'' said Jeremy Welt, Maverick's head of new media.
Armed with this data, Maverick fought for more airtime at radio, which translated into more CD sales. Story of the Year's album, ``Page Avenue,'' just went gold, selling more than half a million copies.
``I definitely don't like to spin it that piracy is OK because we get to look at the data. It's too bad that people are stealing so much music,'' said Welt. ``That said, we would be very foolish if we didn't look and pay attention to what's going on.''
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Briefly: EMI axes artists, cuts 1,000 jobs. Plus: Circuit City buys online music store...Justice Department creates copyright task force...Barrett gets $1.5 million-plus bonus. |
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Wal-Mart Online Store to Offer Linux PCs (AP). AP - In an invasion of Microsoft Corp.'s home turf, Sun Microsystems Inc.'s version of Linux operating system is now available on inexpensive personal computers sold at Wal-Mart's online store. |
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Sony to Expand VAIO Line Beyond Computers (Reuters). Reuters - Sony Corp. (6758.T), the world's
biggest consumer electronics company, on Wednesday said it will
expand its popular VAIO product line beyond computers into
mobile devices and home entertainment products with an focus on
U.S. markets. |
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Google's Gmail To Offer 1GB E-mail Storage? |
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Vulnerability Data Base Resource |
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W32.Gaobot.gen!poly |
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W32.Randex.PR |
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Re: cdp buffer overflow vulnerability - updated details |
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Re: IPv4 fragmentation--> The Rose Attack |
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[CLA-2004:834] Conectiva Security Announcement - openssl |
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[CLA-2004:835] Conectiva Security Announcement - ethereal |
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Bugfinder Being Indicted As Criminal ("Counterfeiter") in France |
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Open Source Vulnerability Database Opens for Public Access |
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TOOL: Adder - runtime patching in python |
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Re: cdp buffer overflow vulnerability |
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RE: Followup: vuln in WinBlox monitor for winnt |
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OpenLinux: util-linux could leak sensitive data |
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Re: new internet explorer exploit (was new worm) |
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Google using Expired Cert and SSLv2 |
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Gates e-mails security brain dump to customers |
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Intel executives get bonus boost for 2003. Craig Barrett and other Intel executives saw their bonuses and stock option grants climb in 2003, but the company now faces a showdown at its shareholder meeting over options. |
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IDC: Tech's fortunes are on the turn. Spending on IT purchases will rise by 5 percent next year, the research firm says, joining a growing chorus of tech optimists. |
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Google to offer gigabyte of free e-mail. The search company is testing a new e-mail service called "Gmail." |
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Apple wins Best of Show at Bio-IT World (MacCentral). MacCentral - Apple Computer Inc. on Wednesday won a Best of Show award at Bio-IT World Conference + Expo, taking place this week in Boston, Mass. Apple won the award for its recently announced Apple Workgroup Cluster for Bioinformatics. |
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SBC Powers Up Wi-Fi Computing (NewsFactor). NewsFactor - Communications giant SBC plans to target enterprise customers with the rollout of Wi-Fi services at more than 1,500 UPS and Mail Boxes Etc. locations across the U.S. by the end of this year. The company says its FreedomLink service is one of the first-large scale Wi-Fi offerings of its kind. |
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IBM Goes for Jugular in SCO Suit (NewsFactor). NewsFactor - IBM (NYSE: IBM) is going for the throat in its fight with the SCO group, seeking
dismissal of the copyright-infringement case that has stretched on
for over a year. |
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Customer Defections Rise at AT&T Wireless (AP). AP - Long dogged by service complaints, AT&T Wireless may be losing as many as 150,000 more subscribers a month now that cell phone users are free to change service providers without losing their phone numbers. An outsized portion of those customers appear to be going to arch-rival Verizon Wireless. |
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Sun Sells Linux PC at Wal-Mart (NewsFactor). NewsFactor - Expanding its push into the Linux desktop market, Sun Microsystems (Nasdaq: SUNW) has
begun selling its version of the Linux OS on low-cost PCs at Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT),
the nation's largest retailer. |
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Canada Court Refuses to Crack Down on Music Swaps (Reuters). Reuters - People who swap songs on the Internet in
Canada can remain anonymous after a Canadian court decision on
Wednesday. |
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Microsoft Customers Get Gates Memo on Security (Reuters). Reuters - Bill Gates vowed on Wednesday to step
up efforts to make Microsoft Corp.'s (MSFT.O) software more
secure and reliable, even while high-profile attacks have
continued hitting personal computers worldwide. |
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Pigeons' Bandwidth Advantage Quantified |
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IBM seeks to push Power chip into new markets. NEW YORK - IBM Corp. on Wednesday made a raft of product and partnership announcements intended to help push its Power microprocessor beyond servers to an array of corporate and consumer devices. |
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Gates e-mails security brain dump to customers. Microsoft Corp. Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates reached out to his company's customers on Wednesday in an e-mail that detailed the company's work to secure its software products. |
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Oracle argues PeopleSoft case in Europe. BRUSSELS - Oracle Corp. tried to persuade European competition regulators at a closed door hearing Wednesday that their plan to prohibit its takeover of rival software firm PeopleSoft is based on too narrow a definition of the market, said people close to the merger review. |
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Back to Linux Basics With Debian GNU/Linux |
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Gentoo: mc Buffer overflow vulnerability |
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SCO Group: util-linux Data leak vulnerability |
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BugTraq: OpenLinux: util-linux could leak sensitive data. Sender: [please_reply_to_security at sco dot com] |
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New Netsky Worm Keeps Up The Trash Talk |
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IT Pros Tackle Complex Homeland Security Scenarios |
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Windows Or Linux: Which Is More Secure? |
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Gates Updates Customers On Microsoft Security Push |
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Bluesnarfing At CeBIT 2004 |
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Serious flaws in bluetooth security lead to disclosure of personal data |
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Bluesnarfing @ CeBIT 2004 |
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KRT Wire | Firms must balance nvestor facts with medical privacy |
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Privacy rights vie with free speech |
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Privacy chief calls for identity management debate |
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InfoWorld TechWatch: Privacy from 10,000 feet |
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After hospital's silence, man loudly protests privacy law |
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Human error blamed for most security breaches |
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IBM Aims to Spread POWER |
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BBC News: Windows XP security gets tighter "Microsoft is preparing an update to Windows XP that ... |
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Is password-lending a cybercrime? |
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Gates reports on security progress |
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A developer's guide to the PowerPC architecture |
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Canada: just say no to P2P lawsuits. What's that, Batman? The Canadian Federal court has essentially said that file sharing is not a crime! By Ken "Caesar" Fisher. |
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Robot-themed handbags, animal-shaped cellphone cozies. 
Handbags and other accessories filled with esprit de geek. Handmade by genuine humans. High cuteness factor.
Chuckles Central makes stuff like Robot handbags,
iPod/digital camera/mobilephone Cozies, Laptop Magnet, and Robot Magnets.
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Self-Configuring Chips Part of IBM Vision (AP). AP - Future microprocessors from IBM Corp. will optimize their performance by altering themselves, adding memory or removing unneeded bits of circuitry on the fly, the company's chief technologist said Wednesday. |
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Video of NY Suicide Appears on Porn Site -Police (Reuters). Reuters - New York police said on Wednesday they
are investigating how a video of a young man committing suicide
at a public housing development appeared on a pornographic Web
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The Worst Development Job You've Ever Had? |
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Microsoft signs pacts with African countries. ACCRA, GHANA - Ghana and Angola have become the most recent African signatories to agreements with Microsoft Corp. |
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Mandrake: squid Access control escape vulnerability |
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Mandrake: ethereal Multiple vulnerabilities |
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BugTraq: Re: IPv4 fragmentation --> The Rose Attack. Sender: stanislav shalunov [shalunov at internet2 dot edu] |
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BugTraq: Re: cdp buffer overflow vulnerability. Sender: Vade 79 [v9 at fakehalo dot deadpig dot org] |
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Human error blamed for most security breaches. People, huh! |
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Stop using sub-domains, or cough up. Have patent, will collect royalties |
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Black helicopters hover over Manchester A-bomb bunker inferno. Letters Your thoughts, distilled |
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Warner Germany waves goodbye to half its staff. More music job cuts |
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Brocade's cheaper entry level switches. Disabled fabric features cut costs for small SANs |
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"Õàêíóòûå âûáîðû - II" |
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WORM_SPYBOT.LK |
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Virus Spitfires |
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Odyssey Client Version 3.0 |
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VoIP Reaches Out, Wirelessly |
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Stopping Spam |
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ZoEmail Locks Out Spam |
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La biométrie retrouve le sourire |
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Les paiements Visa se sécurisent lentement |
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Google Using SSLv2 and an Expired Cert? |
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Network Solutions Privatizing WHOIS information on domains for a fee... |
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Red Hat brings SE Linux to Fedora |
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CactuShop Input Validation Holes in 'mailorder.asp' and 'payonline.asp' Let Remote Users Inject SQL Commands and Execute Operating System Commands |
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Elsewhere: Look out spam, here comes spim |
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Elsewhere: Civil liberties groups blast biometrics |
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News: NSW bans workplace cyber-snooping |
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MDKSA-2004:024 - Updated ethereal packages fix multiple vulnerabilities |
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MDKSA-2004:025 - Updated squid packages fix vulnerability |
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CactuSoft CactuShop v5.x shopping cart software multiple security vulnerabilities |
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[ GLSA 200403-14 ] Multiple Security Vulnerabilities in Monit |
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[ GLSA 200403-12 ] OpenLDAP DoS Vulnerability |
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[ GLSA 200403-10 ] Fetchmail 6.2.5 fixes a remote DoS |
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[ GLSA 200403-13 ] Remote buffer overflow in MPlayer |
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[RHSA-2004:137-01] Updated Ethereal packages fix security issues |
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cdp buffer overflow vulnerability |
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[ GLSA 200403-11 ] Squid ACL [url_regex] bypass vulnerability |
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Re: new internet explorer exploit (was new worm) |
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Re: IE ms-its: and mk:@MSITStore: vulnerability |
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Re: security enforcement - new monitor for winnt |
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RE: security enforcement - new monitor for winnt |
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Followup: vuln in WinBlox monitor for winnt |
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NOT GOOD:Outlook Express 6 + Internet Explorer 6 |
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IPv4 fragmentation--> The Rose Attack |
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RE: security enforcement - new monitor for winnt |
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RogerWilco: new funny bugs |
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[CLA-2004:833] Conectiva Security Announcement - mc |
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RE: Followup: vuln in WinBlox monitor for winnt |
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Digital cinema face-off. U.S. studios are close to finalizing a standard for digital movie projection, which would then be rolled out in the 35,000 or so U.S. movie theaters. Curiously, Microsoft is not among the contenders By Eric Bangeman. |
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Keanu stars in A Scanner Darkly. Boing Boing pal Dave Gill points us to news that Keanu Reeves will star in the Hollywoodization of A Scanner Darkly, based on Philip K. Dick's masterpiece SF novel about drugs and schizophrenia. As Dave says, "uh-oh."
According to Variety, Richard Linklater may direct the film, employing the same live action-to-animation technique seen in Waking Life. I suppose it's no surprise that Keanu was chosen for the role. After all, The Matrix was the ultimate PKD rip-off. Link
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Mephisto morphed art-pr0n. Our pals at Fleshbot say:
Sure, any hack with a copy of Photoshop and a few hours can turn women into barnyard animals, but if you want to see beautiful models transformed into slugs, chocolate bars, or five-and-a-half foot tall anthropomorphic cigarettes, you'll have to consult the work of a master. (Anyone curious to see how Britney looks as a pig, cow, or dog should check this out as well.)
Mephisto Gallery (photomanipulations @ doc.furvect.com) |
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Canada's RIAA can't prove infringement by P2P uploaders, says court. Canada's Federal Court has ruled that the Canadian Recording Industry Association was not able to prove copyright infringement by the uploaders it sued. The judge also said that under that country's copyright law, downloading is not illegal. Link |
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JBoss hopes to expand 'ownership' of open source. The middleware developer says it plans to use its war chest of VC money to "own" key open-source projects, and even applications running on .Net could be in its sights. |
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Dell 'learns lesson' from Indian call center chaos. CEO Randy Mott says the computer maker will be smarter about growth in newly developed areas, to avoid the customer dissatisfaction that led to pulling out of a call center in India late last year. |
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Trujillo Steps Down As Orange CEO (AP). AP - Solomon Trujillo in stepping down after a year as chief executive of the mobile phone company Orange SA that is controlled by the telecommunications giant France Telecom. |
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More Users Turning to Online Travel Sites (AP). AP - Marquita Hynes turned to online travel after a co-worker kept raving about the benefits of going it alone in trip planning. Now she can reel off her own list of Internet travel coups. |
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Bluesnarfing At CeBIT 2004 |
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BugTraq: NOT GOOD: Outlook Express 6 + Internet Explorer 6. Sender: http-equiv at excite dot com [1 at malware dot com] |
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German revolt against RFID |
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eWeek: Linux vs. Windows - Which Is More Secure? |
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ZDNet UK: Police play down Grand National hack threat "The UK National Hi-Tech Crime Unit says t... |
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The Register: Security - educating the unwashed masses "If you ask the average Internet user abo... |
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NSW bans workplace cyber-snooping |
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Bugwatch: The perils of peer-to-peer |
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Police urge firms to share e-crime details |
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Fears raised over Olympics IT volunteers |
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IT placed at vanguard of war on cybercrime |
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Firms play down significance of spam |
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Air transport meeting to plan security |
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Grumble, Grumble, Will The Viral Zip Attachments Please Stop? |
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Virus Hoaxes and Spam Chain Letters |
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Microsoft Preparing to Release Code to Open Source |
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Microsoft is not able to patch its code! |
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TCPDUMP ISAKMP payload handling denial-of-service |
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RFID deadline hits a wall, study says. The number of Wal-Mart suppliers expected to meet a deadline for adopting radio frequency ID tags has dropped to 25 percent, according to a new Forrester report. |
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Compare Tax Sites (PC World). PC World - Pick the right one for you. |
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Ars Technica Looks At GNOME 2.6 |
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Mod Chips Up, Game Industry Revenues Down? |
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EU supports U.S. complaint on China chip VAT. BRUSSELS -- The European Union (EU) has offered to support U.S. efforts to persuade China to scrap tax breaks for domestic computer chip makers, a European Commission spokeswoman said Wednesday. |
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Netsky takes gold, silver, and bronze in March. The Netsky worm swept the competition for "top virus" in March, taking the first, second and third spots in anti-virus company Sophos PLC's ranking for the month. |
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Interview: ID management enhances efficiency, security. Thor Technologies CEO Alberto Yepez discusses the benefits that come with ID management |
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Netsky takes gold, silver, and bronze in March. Different versions of Netsky worm accounted for almost 60 percent of all the viruses |
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Human Nature vs. Security |
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Elsewhere: Look out spam, here comes spim. After nearly ruining the usefulness of email with billions of spams, unscrupulous marketers are now turning their attention to instant messaging (IM).
In recent weeks, ... |
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Elsewhere: Civil liberties groups blast biometrics. Civil liberties groups from both sides of the Atlantic have joined forces to oppose the proposed introduction and cross-border sharing of biometrics and RFID in more than... |
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BugTraq: [ GLSA 200403-13 ] Remote buffer overflow in MPlayer. Sender: Kurt Lieber [klieber at gentoo dot org] |
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BugTraq: CactuSoft CactuShop v5.x shopping cart software multiple security vulnerabilities. Sender: S-Quadra Security Research [research at s-quadra dot com] |
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BugTraq: [ GLSA 200403-14 ] Multiple Security Vulnerabilities in Monit. Sender: Aida Escriva-Sammer [aescriva at gentoo dot org] |
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BugTraq: cdp buffer overflow vulnerability. Sender: Shaun Colley [shaunige at yahoo dot co dot uk] |
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Freeserve airbrushed from history. Wanadoo-branded stationery ready for deployment |
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UK must invest in science and engineering. You gotta speculate to accumulate, say SET gurus |
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Brocade ups the low-end switch ante. $5,000 Fibre Channel switches on the table |
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Open source security ‘not good enough’ |
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Linux Security Week - March 29th 2004 |
| 21. |
Serve up your Next Presentation |
| 22. |
Dogs of War: Securing Microsoft Groupware Environments with Unix (Part One) |
| 23. |
Understanding Anti-Virus Software |
| 24. |
Security patches via modem? Forget it! |
| 25. |
Linux-Based Appliance Delivers Secure Remote Access At Aggressive Price |
| 26. |
Protecting yourself against mini-DDoS attacks |
| 27. |
A cautionary security tale |
| 28. |
UnumProvident Deploys Security Solution from Symantec |
| 29. |
Police urge firms to share e-crime details |
| 30. |
HGiga Opts for Filtering Technology from SurfControl |
| 31. |
Microsoft has `patch' for latest hack flaw |
| 32. |
PHPKIT Input Validation Holes in Forum Section Permits Cross-Site Scripting Attacks |
| 33. |
Oracle9i Application Server Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability |
| 34. |
Clam AntiVirus Realtime Scanning VirusEvent Security Issue |
| 35. |
JS_FOX.A |
| 36. |
Oracle SSO Authentication Credentials Stealing Vulnerability |
| 37. |
WebCT Campus Edition 4.1 Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability |
| 38. |
cPanel Multiple Cross Site Scripting Vulnerabilities |
| 39. |
MPlayer Heap Overflow Vulnerability |
| 40. |
Linbit Linbox Multiple Vulnerabilities |
| 41. |
TCPDUMP ISAKMP Payload Handling Denial Of Service Vulnerabilities |
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Phpkit Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability |
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Complimentary iPods in the Virgin lounge. Virgin Airlines is giving the high-rollers in its departure lounges complimentary iPods to listen to while they wait for their flights. This begs three questions, though:
- What's the use of 40GB of someone else's idea of what kind of music a generic, notional traveller would like to hear?
- How do you sterlize the earbuds between use? Ever notice the wiry masses of ear-hair spilling out of the first class cabin? Squick.
- How do you hear your flight being called if you're wearing an iPod?
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Homeless Hacker profile in Wired. Great Wired profile of Adrian Lamo, the Homeless Hacker who got busted for using the NYT's Lexis-Nexus account.
In theory, it's easy to see Lamo as a good guy. Unlike many hackers - even whitehats - he never uses a pseudonym and makes no effort to hide his identity. If the company he notifies appears grateful, he will often offer to help plug the hole he's discovered for free. Poulsen, for one, believes that Lamo "practices a style of hacking - open, brash, illegal, but carefully observant of an unwritten code of ethics - that went out of style a decade ago."
Indeed, Lamo's hacks are uncommonly witty and at times almost inspiring. Once, after tunneling into Excite@Home's customer service database, Lamo pulled the email and phone number of a customer whose complaint had gone unanswered for a year. Lamo called him up, chatted briefly, then offered to forward him all the company's internal correspondence pertaining to the original complaint.
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Left-handed phone. Sony Ericsson's LH-Z200 cellphone now comes in a left-handed model.
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EMC plans midtier storage push. The storage maker is set to refresh its midrange line with new products that could go as low as $5,000, according to a senior company official. |
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Tips for E-Filing (PC World). PC World - What everyone should know. |
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SBC Park Plans A Giant 802.11 Hotspot |
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Rivals complain over new BT rates. Some providers of residential telephone services in the UK complain to Ofcom about new rates announced by BT last week. |
| 8. |
Japanese rush to buy 3G mobiles. Mobile telephone company DoCoMo says more than three million people have signed up for its third-generation (3G) service. |
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Interview: ID management enhances efficiency, security. Identity management for the enterprise is all about knowing who you're doing business with and who gets access to information. Alberto Yepez, chairman and CEO of Thor Technologies, a provider of enterprise provisioning solutions that enable identity management, spoke recently with InfoWorld Senior Analyst Wayne Rash about the operational efficiencies and increased security that are possible in an organization that is fully into provisioning for ID management. |
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Update: SAS unveils new BI platform, apps. SAS Institute unveiled its new SAS 9 business intelligence platform Tuesday that includes data integration, enhanced analytics, and refined user interfaces designed to drive BI beyond simple querying and reporting analyzing past performance within siloed departments to a more predictive tool that can be leveraged across the enterprise for critical decision-making. |
| 11. |
Windows CE finds its voice. Microsoft Corp. on Wednesday is set to unveil enhancements to the VOIP (voice over Internet Protocol) capabilities of Windows CE in the upcoming Version 5.0, as well as several partnerships with manufacturers and integrators that will use the platform. |
| 12. |
T-Mobile has second thoughts about U.S. consolidation. Deutsche Telekom AG Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Kai-Uwe Ricke appears to have second thoughts about the impact of consolidation in the U.S. mobile communications market. |
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A cautionary security tale |
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Vulns: UUDeview MIME Archive Buffer Overrun Vulnerability. UUDeview is a utility that assists in the transmission and reception of binary files over the Internet.
A buffer overrun vulnerability has been reported in UUDeview. Th... |
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NSW bans workplace cyber-snooping. Criminal offence |
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German resellers are calm bunch. Contextual analysis |
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Security: educating the unwashed masses |
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Look out spam, here comes spim |
| 19. |
Blocage sécuritaire chez Microsoft |
| 20. |
Vonage Sues AT&T Over VOIP Product |
| 21. |
So much for secure storage |
| 22. |
Microsoft Preparing to Release Code to Open Source |
| 23. |
Linux vs. Windows: Which Is More Secure? |
| 24. |
TROJ_EROME.A |
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Virus Hoaxes and Spam Chain Letters. Users fall victim frequently to virus hoaxes and spam chain letters imploring them to share the information with everyone they know as quickly as possible. Emails of a "sky is falling" nature that claim to be from Bill Gates personally... |
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Microsoft names new U.K. chief |
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Windows CE gets call for Net phones. Nearly two dozen manufacturers are now using Windows software for small devices that have improved VoIP capabilities, Microsoft says. |
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Despite Doubts, Mannesmann Trial Still On (AP). AP - The judge in the trial of six German business executives charged in connection with Vodafone's takeover of mobile phone operator Mannesmann said Wednesday that criminal charges were unwarranted in the case, but that the trial would go on. |
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College Tests Laundry Notification E-Mails (AP). AP - Technology is taking laundry from the clothesline to online. Carnegie Mellon University is testing a Web-based system that sends e-mail to students when their laundry is done and allows them to log on to an Internet site to check the status of machines. |
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IBM Files For Declaratory Judgement In SCO Case |
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Game play intrudes into real life. Catch up with the latest news from the world of video gaming. |
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A congress looking to save the Internet. The politically minded group of people meeting last week near Washington, D.C., weren't wearing enough navy suits and power ties to be confused with the U.S. Congress, but there was a much deeper concern for the Internet than most congressmen can muster. |
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Sun: Door still open on open source Java. While acknowledging obstacles remain, a Sun Microsystems official on Tuesday left open the possibility that Sun might offer its Java programming language under an open source format. |
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Capacity ain't everything, says Hitachi. Pitches reliability ahead of size in the mobile market |
| 10. |
Ofcom starts 'urgent' investigation into BT tariffs. Allegation over 'abuse of dominant position' |
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Look out spam, here comes spim. Buddy, can you spare a dime for some penis growth pills? |
| 12. |
Harvard prof scams $600,000, then hands it to 419ers. Criminal mastermind collected money for 'SARS research' |
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Gentoo update for mplayer |
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Making A Better Browser History |
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Vonage sues AT&T over CallVantage name. Vonage Holding Corp. and AT&T Corp. aren't only battling each other for VOIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) users, as Vonage is also fighting the Bedminster, New Jersey, operator over the name of its new VOIP service, it emerged this week. |
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Oracle counters EC competion claims. Don't forget the little guys... |
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Danish paedo dragnet snares 100+. US-supplied intelligence aids crackdown |
| 5. |
Magnetic fields may cause childhood cancer. No causal link, however, and research continues |
| 6. |
Security: educating the unwashed masses. Users, not technology, must lead anti-virus war |
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UK Xbox price cut? Wait and see. MS keeping mum |
| 8. |
MS preps new Shared Source challenge to OSS?. 'Community' - we've heard of it... |
| 9. |
Smartphones not up to scratch: official. Quality, functionality and customer service way below par |
| 10. |
ATI CEO anoints successor. Orton in the ascendant |
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Circuit City buys InterTAN for $284m. Big in Canada |
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Honeypots voor Windows |
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31 Mar Troj/Rybot-A |
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Using Forms Authentication in Reporting Services |
| 15. |
A-CART SQL Injection and Cross Site Scripting Vulnerabilities |
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libpam-pgsql SQL Injection Vulnerability |
| 17. |
Debian update for libpam-pgsql |
| 18. |
Red Hat update for mozilla |
| 19. |
Gentoo update for oftpd |
| 20. |
PhotoPost Multiple Vulnerabilities |
| 21. |
WebCT Campus Edition Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability |
| 22. |
Cloisterblog Multiple Vulnerabilities |
| 23. |
cPanel Multiple Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities |
| 24. |
eZ publish Unspecified Template Editing Vulnerability |
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BlackICE Insecure Default Configuration Weakness |
| 26. |
Mandrake update for Ethereal |
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OpenLinux update for util-linux |
| 28. |
OpenLinux update for vim |
| 29. |
UnixWare update for Perl |
| 30. |
Red Hat update for ethereal |
| 31. |
Symantec Clientless VPN Gateway OpenSSL Vulnerability |
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quoteengine SQL Injection Vulnerability |
| 33. |
MadBMS Unspecified Login Vulnerability |
| 34. |
Gentoo update for fetchmail |
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MPlayer HTTP Location Header Parsing Heap Overflow Vulnerability |
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SillySearch Search Parameter Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability |
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Gentoo update for OpenLDAP |
| 38. |
Gentoo update for mc |
| 39. |
OUR ANALYSIS OF THE CIPA DECISION |
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2600 SWEATSHIRTS NOW AVAILABLE |
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NEW 2600 TSHIRTS NOW ON SALE |
| 42. |
2600 SUMMER ISSUE RELEASED |
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CALL FOR TRANSLATORS FOR "FREEDOM DOWNTIME" |
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UPDATED INFORMATION ON ASHCROFT'S PATRIOT ACT MEETINGS |
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H2K2 VIDEOS NOW AVAILABLE, AUDIO ONLINE |
| 46. |
FALL ISSUE OF 2600 HITS THE STANDS |
| 47. |
WHITE HOUSE'S SEARCH ENGINE PRACTICES CAUSE CONCERN |
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DATES FOR NEXT HOPE CONFERENCE CONFIRMED |
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2600 HOLIDAY SPECIALS NOW AVAILABLE |
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FINAL CALL FOR TRANSLATORS FOR "FREEDOM DOWNTIME" |
| 51. |
'HOMELAND SECURITY' TOWN HALL MEETINGS TO BE HELD |
| 52. |
UN INTERNET SUMMIT HELD; DISSENTERS IGNORED |
| 53. |
A NEW HOPE ON THE HORIZON |
| 54. |
UPDATE ON NEW MITNICK BOOK |
| 55. |
WINTER ISSUE RELEASED |
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ONLINE REGISTRATION BEGINS FOR 5TH HOPE |
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NEW 'OFF THE HOOK' ONLINE |
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Chaum's Voting Protocol -- An Attack |
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Japan, China, SKorea to discuss Linux use (AFP). AFP - Japan, China and South Korea will consider standardising ways to use the free Linux operating system as a viable alternative to Microsoft Windows. |
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DoCoMo's FOMA 3G service beats target with 3 million subscribers (AFP). AFP - Top Japanese mobile phone carrier NTT DoDoMo announced the number of subscribers to its third-generation (3G) FOMA service has reached three million, just two months after hitting the two million mark. |
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The Subtle Tyranny Of Spreadsheets |
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Microsoft UK confirms MD. Canny Scot takes the helm |
| 5. |
C&W chases five ex-staff for £25m fraud. We want our money back |
| 6. |
BT fire: 'situation improving'. Wednesday update |
| 7. |
Mandrakesoft exits bankruptcy protection. Linux sales propel distro to escape velocity |
| 8. |
SCO vs. IBM vs. SCO: Is the end in sight?. Big Blue seeks declaratory judgement |
| 9. |
Zodiac Game Boy Advance emulator released. But minus... er... GBA emulation |
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Gates: Hardware Will Be Free. Microsoft has a fitful relationship with PC makers, so Bill Gates probably enjoyed predicting that advancing technology will blow a hole through their business model. And, naturally, Microsoft will be there to exploit it. |
| 11. |
French Hound Music Pirates. France's music industry, stung by a sudden drop in sales, is joining its counterparts in other countries in taking up legal cudgels against those nefarious online music swappers. |
| 12. |
Maybe the Music's Just Lousy?. The recording industry insists that CD sales are off because everyone's online stealing the music. Now a study comes along saying that piracy has little, if anything, to do with stagnant sales. |
| 13. |
Bioethics Group Speaks Out. The President's Council on Bioethics says infertility clinics and assisted-reproduction techniques need greater scrutiny. The group recommends legislation and research into fertility procedures, and hopes the president will heed its call. |
| 14. |
Paying Homage to Science Fiction. Artifacts from Star Trek and The Planet of the Apes will find a home in June at The Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame in Seattle. By Mark Baard. |
| 15. |
Web Wine Sales Still Bottled Up. Many states ban wine shipments across state lines in the name of morality. But winemakers are trying to overturn these rules, saying they only benefit giant liquor wholesalers. Both sides are lined up to fight in the Supreme Court. By Kendra Mayfield. |
| 16. |
Homeless Hacker Meets The Times. A self-styled security expert and serial self-promoter, Adrian Lamo made headlines as a grayhat hacker. Then The New York Times came down on his head. By Jennifer Kahn from Wired magazine. |
| 17. |
Net Hoaxes Snare Fools All Year. Infinite power supplies, 87-pound house cats and dehydrated water do not exist. Yet people continue to be fooled by online hoaxes. It's that time of year again, so watch out. By Joanna Glasner. |
| 18. |
Passport Safety, Privacy Face Off. Future passports may include digital mug shots and RFID tags full of sensitive personal information. While government agencies like the idea of tamper-resistant documents, privacy advocates see an attempt to impose a global ID system. By Ryan Singel. |
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Hackers in demand! |
| 20. |
PuTTY SSH client for Symbian OS |
| 21. |
Email filter patent puts industry on edge |
| 22. |
Security managers report virus problem worse |
| 23. |
DHS says it can handle cyberattacks |
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Netsky.q Leads Latest Worm Wave (TechWeb) |
| 25. |
Computercriminelen zijn vaak IT professionals |
| 26. |
AOL verloot inbeslaggenomen Porsche van spammer |
| 27. |
GNOME desktop project Web server attacked by intruder |
| 28. |
Interchange Arbitrary Variable Content Disclosure |
| 29. |
psInclude Arbitrary Command Execution Vulnerability |
| 30. |
A-CART SQL Injection and Cross Site Scripting Vulnerabilities |
| 31. |
libpam-pgsql SQL Injection Vulnerability |
| 32. |
Debian update for libpam-pgsql |
| 33. |
Red Hat update for mozilla |
| 34. |
Gentoo update for oftpd |
| 35. |
PhotoPost Multiple Vulnerabilities |
| 36. |
WebCT Campus Edition Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability |
| 37. |
Cloisterblog Multiple Vulnerabilities |
| 38. |
cPanel Multiple Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities |
| 39. |
eZ publish Unspecified Template Editing Vulnerability |
| 40. |
BlackICE Insecure Default Configuration Weakness |
| 41. |
Red Hat update for ethereal |
| 42. |
MPlayer HTTP Location Header Parsing Heap Overflow Vulnerability |
| 43. |
SillySearch Search Parameter Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability |
| 44. |
Haute Disponibilité de firewalls avec OpenBSD |
| 45. |
WORM_SPYBOT.LJ |
| 46. |
Another new twist for SPAMers to try and get you to open their virus. |
| 47. |
How E-Voting Threatens Democracy |
| 48. |
Congress Moves to Criminalize P2P |
| 49. |
Online Security: Who's Liable? |
| 50. |
Lawyers Using Databases To Grab Clients |
| 51. |
Spammer's Porsche Up For Grabs |
| 52. |
Spammer's Porsche up for grabs |
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Nielsen's new "people-meter" ignores Black and Hispanic programming. Nielsen's new "people-meter" television-viewing measurators are being deployed to replace the traditional viewing journals and set-top boxen that the media metric firm uses to figure out who watches what. For poorly understood reasons, though, these new measurators generate viewing stats that report 60 percent less viewership for Black and Hispanic-oriented programming than previous measurating technologies. This has prompted Hillary Clinton and others to call on Nielsen to reevaluate its design decisions.
"It is impossible to overstate the potential impact of undercounting minority viewers," Senator Burns said in his own letter to Nielsen. "After years of work to make the entertainment industry more diverse and more reflective of the rich makeup of our country, this system could endanger all the progress that's been made."
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Australia's Great Linux-Based Satellite Network |
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Security Enhanced Linux |
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Tracing in a Multithreaded, Multiplatform Environment |
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WinNetMag: Honeypots for Windows "Long thought of as toys for security administrators who have t... |
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Email Link Validator - Developer Wanted |
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Sony's QRIO in action. The first time I saw a video clip of QRIO, I thought it was neat, but not a big improvement over Honda's ASIMO. However, this video clip of four dancing QRIO robots is mind blowing. Link (Thanks, Kirby!) |
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Kevin Sites dispatch from Iraq: Omar's Arm. MSNBC combat correspondent Kevin Sites returns to Iraq this week, after a brief respite back home. Here is his latest dispatch, about Omar, a freelance cameraman in Baghdad for ABC News.
While we wait for our flight--he gives me a disk to download some pictures that a friend had taken in the aftermath of his shooting. It included the emergency room, x-rays and his first surgery.
The pictures are painful to look at, much more so than the contraption that now surround Omar's arm. But they are, I know, the ugly reality of what happens when bullets meet bodies.
These days it's difficult to show casualties of war on evening newscasts or in any American media outlets. The images become politically charged; take on meaning beyond their face value. But more often than not, the violence is just too grim, too hard to stomach at dinnertime.
So the question becomes this; how can those who haven't seen it--begin to understand the truth of Omar's arm?
Link (Warning: post contains graphic images of gunshot wounds, and is not intended for viewing by children.) |
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P2Ps plan "Black" day of protest on April 1. Rumors are circulating in geek circles that some peer-to-peer technology companies (and/or supporters) plan to paint their websites black on Thursday, April 1 -- protesting recent efforts by state and federal lawmakers to crack down on filesharing. Lest anyone forget that Thursday is also April Fool's Day, some of the participants are said to be planning to blame the "outage" on this gag website for a fictitious "Copyright Enforcement Agency" of the US government. |
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Used Phones Come Calling on China Mobile Market (Reuters). Reuters - Ji Zhihuang is the kind of person
cellphone makers in China would rather tune out. |
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WORM_AGOBOT.GY |
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MPlayer Buffer Overflow in Parsing HTTP Location Header Lets Remote Servers Execute Arbitrary Code |
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SillySearch Input Validation Bug Lets Remote Users Conduct Cross-Site Scripting Attacks |
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Massive Kodak photomontage sets Guinness world record. 
A gigantic photomontage created by Kodak scored an entry in the Guinness book of world records, and took home gold at the Effie Hellas 2004 Awards. The photomontage - titled "The Whole of Greece in One Smile" -- is comprised of 16,609 photos of Greek citizens, and covers a surface area of over 5,000 square feet.
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Feedster + Share Your OPML. Dude! You got your Feedster in my OPML! No, dude, you got your OPML in my Feedster! Whatever -- but this helpful little app allows you to search for what fellow RSS junkies might have read about a certain topic via their OPML file.
Link (thanks, Sean!) |
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Job listings via RSS. In an item about RSS for the current issue of Wired Magazine, I wrote:
Job seekers anxious about seeing the freshest Craigslist posts can subscribe to a feed instead of hitting Reload for hours in a paranoid funk.
Responding to this, Steve Rose of RSSJobs writes, "FYI, RSSJobs has been providing personalized job feeds in RSS format since last year! Check it out!" Link.
Total non-sequitur: read this hilarious Craigslist position-wanted post, "I Need A New Fucking Job," which sounds as if it were penned by my ex-boyfriend Jim Anchower. |
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Newsmap: visualizing the media tree through Google News. BoingBoing reader paul says:
newsmap is an application that visualizes the totality of the GoogleNews aggregator -- an amazing piece of software which not only aggregates almost every single online newspaper, but combines news stories into clusters so that when the same story is repeated among several news sites, it files and displays only one to you - no mater how different the actual text that makes the article is.
Google news aggregates stories in several languages and customizes its content for 10 particular countries. I've loved googlenews for this particular reason since the first day, and it was then when I started thinking about visualizing the totality of it, since it could be a very close approach to getting a picture on how news media attention differs from country to country.
Newsmap utilizes a treemap algorithm to dynamically create each view, and the size of each cell is determined by the amount of related articles that exist inside each news cluster.
Link, created by the same fellow behind Social Circles. |
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Chapter 6 of Gillmor's "Making the News" online. Dan Gillmor has just posted a draft of Chapter 6 of his upcoming book, "Making the News." Readers are invited to contribute to the process by way of his weblog. Link |
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Bill Gates: Hardware to Be Nearly Free in 10 Years (Reuters). Reuters - Hardware costs will fall sharply
within a decade to the point where widespread computing with
speech and handwriting won't be limited by expensive
technology, Microsoft Corp. (MSFT.O) Chairman Bill Gates said
on Monday. |
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How Will We Get Around Near-Future Earth? |
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One billion passports to get biometrics, RFID by 2015 |
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