Monday, April 05, 2004

---------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! News - Technology ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.  Wanted: High-Tech Gadgets for New Internet Protocol (Reuters). Reuters - Anywhere, anything. 2.  CompUSA Banking on Software 'ATMs' (AP). AP - Planted on a main aisle at a CompUSA store and trimmed in stylish brushed aluminum, the SoftwareToGo machine looks much like a touch-screen ATM. It lets customers search for software titles by name, category or publisher, place an order and then pick it up on a CD at the checkout counter. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Slashdot ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 3.  Netflix to Offer Movie Downloads ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Hack the Planet ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 4.  Heath Row blogged Isenberg's WTF conference. 5.  PathScale finally admitted what I've suspected for a while: their turbocharged AMD64 compiler is open source (because it has to be), but they'll try to prevent you from getting it for free. 6.  Jon Johansen's iTunes-cracking code showed up in FAAD and PlayFair. A while back someone figured out how to make M4Ps work with SlimServer; it's easy since all the decoding is done on the server anyway. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Wired News ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 7.  NASA to Test Space-Time Fabric. A satellite designed to test predictions Einstein made about time and space in 1916 is ready to fly. The experiment utilizes four pingpong-sized balls of quartz -- the most perfect spheres ever made -- chilled to absolute zero. 8.  Bush Sci Honcho Denies Agenda. Rebutting an accusation that the administration misrepresented scientific facts to further a conservative agenda, Bush's top science advisor points to his Democratic party affiliation as proof he's unbiased. 9.  U.S. Gas Prices: Don't Blame Us. Saudi Arabia blames high prices at the gas pumps on America's tough environmental laws and lack of refining capacity -- not on OPEC's decision to cut back on production. 10.  U.S. Bets on Land Mine Technology. Future generations of land mines will be so smart soldiers can activate and deactivate entire mine fields by remote control. The Bush administration thinks the tech justifies shunning a global treaty against the mines. 11.  Moore's Law Needs a Boost. Processor performance is becoming encumbered by the realities of battery life. What's needed is a law to make the efficiency of any electronic system double every 24 months. By Michael S. Malone from Wired magazine. 12.  A Fantasy That's Never Final. PC gamers, meet PS2 gamers. Console gamers, meet MMORPGs. Japan, meet America. Square Enix's massively multiplayer online role-playing game Final Fantasy XI promises an online community like never before -- but it's no Utopia. By Chris Kohler. 13.  Computing Power to the People. A team of computer scientists connects hundreds of computers in an attempt to create one of the world's top supercomputers. The geeks want the combined power for complex research problems of their choosing. By Daniel Terdiman. 14.  Watchdogs Push for RFID Laws. Companies push to keep RFID tags active once they are out of the store, but critics say that won't play well with privacy advocates and foreign markets. By Mark Baard. 15.  Dodgy Patents Rile Tech Industry. A patent for a type of browser cookie? This and other dubious patents have led the software industry to declare that the U.S. patent system is broken and needs to be repaired. But no quick fix is in sight. By Amit Asaravala. 16.  GAO Says Army on Road to Ruin. An ambitious $92 billion reshaping of the Army appears to be in serious trouble, according to the General Accounting Office. Even worse, the Army might have known it from the start. By Noah Shachtman. 11:22:15 PM    comment [] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CNET News.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.  Report: System failures, not MSBlast, led to blackout. The final report of the task force investigating the 2003 outage that darkened New York City, Toronto and other areas concludes that computer and human errors, not viruses, caused the blackout. 2.  Spymac follows Google on free gig of storage. Spymac.com, a Web hosting company for Macintosh aficionados, is giving away e-mail accounts that come with 1 gigabyte of storage, mimicking a move made by search leader Google last week. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! News - Technology ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 3.  Japan Sees High-Tech Toilets, Robots in Future Home (Reuters). Reuters - Imagine getting home from work to be greeted by the family robot, which recognizes your voice and reminds you that you've forgotten your spouse's birthday before alerting you that the hospital has just called. You go to the study and use a touch panel to activate your video messages on a display that takes up half the wall. A doctor appears: "I've been monitoring your urine on the Internet. You're too fat, your sugar level is high and you drink too much beer." 4.  Cell Phones Disrupt Some Police Radios (AP). AP - The proliferation of cell phones is having potentially dangerous consequences for firefighters and police officers, who in some places can't use their radios to call for help because of interference from cell signals. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Slashdot ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 5.  Commodore BBSes Return using the Internet. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- InfoWorld: Top News ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 6.  Microsoft goes open source with WiX tool. Anyone who thought Microsoft's settlement on Friday with long-time nemesis Sun Microsystems seemed surreal were in for another shocker Monday, when the Redmond, Wash., software giant made some of its source code freely available on the Internet. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- NewsIsFree: Security ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 7.  New twist on old tactics.. SMTP-based DOS attacks 10:21:56 PM    comment [] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Ars Technica ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.  Et Cetera: the "why did I lose an hour" edition. Another round up edition here, including Canada's PM' reaction to last week's court decision, cool Internet movie news, and more. By Ken "Caesar" Fisher. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! News - Technology ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 2.  Microsoft Posts Tool as Open Source (PC World). PC World - Windows Installer XML goes online for uncharacteristic free use by all. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Slashdot ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 3.  Humanoid Robot Conducts Beethoven Symphony ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The Register ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 4.  VMware adjusts Workstation product for Linux present and Windows future. Visions of Longhorn By Ashlee Vance . ---------------------------------------------------------------------- NewsIsFree: Security ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 5.  Re: Bugfinder Being Indicted As Criminal ("Counterfeiter") in France 6.  Re: Bugfinder Being Indicted As Criminal ("Counterfeiter") in France 7.  Format string bug in IGI 2: Covert Strike 1.3 8.  SP2 to cause Microsoft support call flood 9.  Continuous multi-exploit scanning / Sadmind exploit 10.  Mobiles used in high-tech terror 11.  Dogs of War: Securing Microsoft Groupware Environments with Unix (Part Two) 12.  New technology could detect dirty hands 13.  Scambusters target 419 online ‘banks’ 14.  Analyst questions Gates's security claims 15.  Support Is Growing for Wireless Voice, Security 16.  Sober variant set to cause trouble 17.  Colleges leaking confidential data 18.  The Myth of the Secure Operating System? 19.  Flash mob supercomputer misses its target 20.  Windows Server 2003 security questioned 21.  WinAmp music to hackers' ears 22.  Microsoft Releases Source Code on SourceForge 23.  BAT_GRAPS.D 24.  WORM_GRAPS.D 25.  ISVS Seek Federal Security Help 26.  Block Spam! Save Millions! Feel Better! 27.  Access Law Threatens Privacy 9:21:36 PM    comment [] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Boing Boing ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.  Goatse tribute page. Not worksafe. If you don't know what goatse is, don't bother with this. It'll only gross you out. Link (Thanks, ESC) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CNET News.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 2.  Power-line chip firm hooks up to $23.5 million 3.  EMC unveils 'disk library'. The data storage specialist introduces a hard-drive based product that mimics a tape device. 4.  Briefly: Phone customers ready to cut cord. Plus: EMC unveils 'disk library'...Power-line chip firm hooks up to $23.5 million...Bush urges free trade, tech changes. 5.  Yahoo earnings to shine on search. The portal giant is set to report its financial earnings, capping another quarter dominated by efforts to take on Google and beef up its Web search business. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! News - Technology ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 6.  Judge Won't Stop Microsoft vs. Lindows (PC World). PC World - Trademark lawsuits continue overseas, but not in U.S. 7.  Intellisync Mobile Suite Covers Business Gamut (Ziff Davis). Ziff Davis - The software lets operators offer wireless data services that include push-based e-mail, basic calendar information and file access for devices running on various platforms. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Hack the Planet ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 8.  Looks like the UserLand server maintenance went pretty smoothly. (Oops, I spoke too soon; looks like it's still going on.) 9.  Out of perverse curiosity, I tried to install Fedora Core 2 test 2. It now supports my Radeon 9800 (even though Mike Harris threatened to not support it out of spite), but it doesn't see my hard drive. 10.  The Inquirer: Nforce3 Pro 250 2 processor pics revealed. 11.  The Register: Sony talks up PS3. Not too surprising that Sony's planning a PS3X or a super-cheap PS2 after PS3 comes out. 12.  The Register: Why Sun threw in the towel in Mankind vs. Microsoft. 13.  I never really got into LaunchBar, so I didn't expect to have any use for Quicksilver. But its clipboard history window comes in handy for blogging: to get the title and URL of a story into a post I can copy-copy-switch-drag-drag instead of copy-switch-paste-switch-copy-switch-paste. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- BBC News | Technology | UK Edition ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 14.  Google's Gmail sparks privacy row. The world's most popular internet search engine runs into trouble over aspects of its plan for a free email service. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- InfoWorld: Top News ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 15.  Business Objects pushes reporting integration. Business intelligence software vendor Business Objects on Tuesday is expected to unveil further enhancements to the business reporting portfolio it acquired with its buyout of one-time rival Crystal Decisions. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SecurityFocus Vulns ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 16.  BugTraq: Format string bug in IGI 2: Covert Strike 1.3. Sender: Luigi Auriemma [aluigi at altervista dot org] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Wired News ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 17.  Sun Enters Microsoft's Orbit. For a tidy $1.6 billion, Sun Microsystems settles all outstanding grievances and signs a 'broad operating agreement' with its longtime antagonist. See what a little financial desperation can do? 18.  US-Visit Spares No One. The program that requires foreigners to be fingerprinted and photographed before entering the United States will now include millions of travelers from America's closest allies -- including Britian, Japan and Australia. 19.  Technology Resets the Clock. When daylight-saving time arrives on Sunday, most electronic gadgets will automatically reset their time clocks. But retailers, expecting a surge of calls from customers anyway, still dread the yearly ritual. By Michelle Delio. 20.  Bad Times for U.S. Goods Sites. As more jobs move overseas, some sites are trying to profit from Americans' resentment by selling only U.S.-made goods. But it's becoming harder to determine what qualifies as American-made these days. By Joanna Glasner. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- NewsIsFree: Security ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 21.  Microsoft forms its own RFID group 22.  New Software Seeking State Tax Scofflaws 23.  WinAmp Security Hole Discovered, Patched 24.  Magazine Eyeballs Its Subscribers 25.  Putting 40,000 Readers, One by One, on a Cover 26.  Attorney Mike Godwin Answers 'Cyberlaw' Questions 27.  How To Catch A Scammer/Spammer 28.  Google mail is evil - privacy advocates 29.  Background checks going retail 30.  SMS messages are not so secret 31.  Crmassist: The Stealthy War Between Virus Creators "Like the war on terrorism, there's a secret ... 32.  Cigital: Misuse and Abuse Cases - Getting Past the Positive "Security is not a set of features" 33.  Security Focus: The Internet surveillance cash cow "A few large companies and entrepreneurs stan... 34.  PC Pro: New variants of NetSky and Sober worm their way out of the weekend "The weekend virus ha... 35.  The Register: Caped crusading sysadmin rumbles 419er "tale of a peripatetic Dublin sysadmin who ... 36.  W32.Netsky.S@mm 37.  Large Enterprise Application Security 8:21:16 PM    comment [] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Ars Technica ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.  Apple's FairPlay DRM cracked. Now another group has cracked the DRM scheme, making it easily breakable for almost anyone who cares to engage in such practices. Cleverly named PlayFair, the crack ups the ante in the anti-piracy fight, but there's a few twists. By Ken "Caesar" Fisher. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Boing Boing ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 2.  Help save Clarion. Shane Tourtellote forwards this call-for-help from the Clarion Writers' Workshop. San Francisco Science Fiction Conventions, Inc., the nonprofit corporation behind ConJose in 2002, has issued a call to individuals and nonprofit groups to help fund the Clarion Writers' Workshop. SFSFC will match grants up to $1,000 to help fund the workshop. As reported in Online Update last year, Michigan State University cut its funding of Clarion (the 'Clarion East' workshop, distinct from Clarion West) by nearly $50,000, more than sixty percent of what Clarion previously received. Those interested in donating to the Clarion Workshop, and qualifying for the matching grant, are urged by SFSFC to contact organizers directly at clarion@msu.edu 3.  French-translation wash-care label apologises for Bush. Casey sez, "A photo of care instructions (in English and French) from a Seattle-made laptop bag. The last lines of the French instructions read 'We are sorry that our President is an idiot. We didn't vote for him.'" Link (Thanks, Casey!) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Penny Arcade! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 4.  Compatibility. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CNET News.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 5.  Microsoft forms its own RFID group. The software giant pulls together partners, including Accenture, into the Microsoft Radio Frequency Identification Council. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! News - Technology ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 6.  Yahoo!'s New Tune: It's A 'Life Engine' (AdWeek.com). AdWeek.com - In its first overarching brand campaign in more than two years, Yahoo! touts its "multidimensional nature" by showing how real people use the ISP to search, shop, send e-mail or listen to music. 7.  Google, Yahoo! Ban Online Casino Ads (AP). AP - The popular online search engines run by Google Inc. and Yahoo! Inc. are banning ads from online casinos, reacting to a federal crackdown on Internet gambling. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Slashdot ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 8.  New Tool Cracks Apple's FairPlay DRM 9.  IBM's Mainframe Dinosaur Turns 40 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- BBC News | Technology | UK Edition ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 10.  Vodafone rings up Warners deal. The UK mobile phone giant agrees a deal with Warner Bros to bring the movie giant's brands to its customers. 11.  SEC steps up Nortel audit probe. Nortel Networks says the US market watchdog has decided to conduct a formal inquiry into its accounts. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- LinuxSecurity.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 12.  Large Enterprise Application Security ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Wired News ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 13.  NASA to Test Space-Time Fabric. A satellite designed to test predictions Einstein made about time and space in 1916 is ready to fly. The experiment utilizes four pingpong-sized balls of quartz -- the most perfect spheres ever made -- chilled to absolute zero. 14.  Bush Sci Honcho Denies Agenda. Rebutting an accusation that the administration misrepresented scientific facts to further a conservative agenda, Bush's top science advisor points to his Democratic party affiliation as proof he's unbiased. 15.  U.S. Gas Prices: Don't Blame Us. Saudi Arabia blames high prices at the gas pumps on America's tough environmental laws and lack of refining capacity -- not on OPEC's decision to cut back on production. 16.  U.S. Bets on Land Mine Technology. Future generations of land mines will be so smart soldiers can activate and deactivate entire mine fields by remote control. The Bush administration thinks the tech justifies shunning a global treaty against the mines. 17.  Moore's Law Needs a Boost. Processor performance is becoming encumbered by the realities of battery life. What's needed is a law to make the efficiency of any electronic system double every 24 months. By Michael S. Malone from Wired magazine. 18.  A Fantasy That's Never Final. PC gamers, meet PS2 gamers. Console gamers, meet MMORPGs. Japan, meet America. Square Enix's massively multiplayer online role-playing game Final Fantasy XI promises an online community like never before -- but it's no Utopia. By Chris Kohler. 19.  Computing Power to the People. A team of computer scientists connects hundreds of computers in an attempt to create one of the world's top supercomputers. The geeks want the combined power for complex research problems of their choosing. By Daniel Terdiman. 20.  Watchdogs Push for RFID Laws. Companies push to keep RFID tags active once they are out of the store, but critics say that won't play well with privacy advocates and foreign markets. By Mark Baard. 21.  Dodgy Patents Rile Tech Industry. A patent for a type of browser cookie? This and other dubious patents have led the software industry to declare that the U.S. patent system is broken and needs to be repaired. But no quick fix is in sight. By Amit Asaravala. 22.  GAO Says Army on Road to Ruin. An ambitious $92 billion reshaping of the Army appears to be in serious trouble, according to the General Accounting Office. Even worse, the Army might have known it from the start. By Noah Shachtman. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- NewsIsFree: Security ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 23.  Debian: kernel 2.4 mips/pa-risc Privilege escalation vulnerabilities 24.  Debian: squid ACL bypass vulnerability 25.  Debian: oftpd Denial of service vulnerability 26.  SCO Group: util-linux Pointer leak vulnerability 27.  Debian: sysstat Insecure temporary file vulnerability 28.  Debian: fte Multiple buffer overflow vulnerabilities 29.  Debian: interchange Missing input sanitation 30.  W32.Netsky.S@mm 31.  Microsoft Releases Source Code on SourceForge 32.  The Rise of Complex Terrorism 33.  National Cyber Security Day is a well-kept secret 7:20:55 PM    comment [] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Boing Boing ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.  Boing Boing's explosive growth -- and what to do about it. (Note -- I'm posting this again so it'll show up for RSS users. -- Mark) Boing Boing has been growing really fast. If you click on the Extreme Tracking counter at the bottom of the page, you'll see we had 871,305 visits in March, a record month. In fact, every month is a new record month for Boing Boing. The truth is, we get a lot more visitors than the Extreme Counter indicates. Our raw web statistics show 3.5 million visits for March. As a result, our bandwidth bills are going through the roof. If traffic continues along the projected curve, maintaining Boing Boing will become unaffordable. We've been thinking about what we can do to survive -- and more importantly, survive in a way that keeps the award-winning spirit of Boing Boing going, so it works for readers and the editors. We've brought in our friend and colleague John Battelle, one of the founding editors of Wired and the founder of The Industry Standard, to work with us. He's looking into a variety of ways to help us pay the bills and make enough money to re-invest in Boing Boing. We're considering a number of models - sponsorship, context-sensitive text-ads, etc. If you're interested in this kind of thing, we'd like to hear your ideas for keeping Boing Boing alive and well. What interesting models have you heard of, or thought of? Are there any other Web sites you know about that have a nice approach for paying the bills? We've opened up comments for this one. Have at it. -- Mark Discuss ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CNET News.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 2.  Microsoft beefs up storage lineup. Continuing its push into the data storage arena, the software giant announces a number of upgrades, including an update to its storage-focused OS. 3.  Oracle, Dell may have bundle on the way. Extending a year-old partnership, the two companies are expected to announce a plan to install Oracle's database software on Dell's server hardware. 4.  Voltaire sprints ahead in InfiniBand horse race. As InfiniBand switch makers try to one-up each other with new, denser switches, Voltaire unveils a new product three times denser than the industry standard. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! News - Technology ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 5.  Siebel Debuts Mobile Pharma Analytics (NewsFactor). NewsFactor - Siebel (Nasdaq: SEBL) is building on its pharmaceutical industry bona fides with a mobile application that works much like its sales force automation platform. Called "Siebel Pharma Field Analytics," it provides Siebel Analytics 7.7 support to field representatives in this high-dollar industry. 6.  Sybase Bolsters Mobile Security with $95M XcelleNet Buy (NewsFactor). NewsFactor - Sybase (NYSE: SY) is rounding out its mobile-middleware platform with the purchase of XcelleNet, a device-management software firm, in a cash deal valued at US$95.2 million. 7.  The New Linux Speed Trick (NewsFactor). NewsFactor - Linux kernel 2.6 introduces improved IO scheduling that can increase speed -- "sometimes by 1,000 percent or more, [more] often by 2x" -- for standard desktop workloads, and by as much as 15 percent on many database workloads, according to Andrew Morton of Open Source Development Labs. This increased speed is accomplished by minimizing the disk head movement during concurrent reads. 8.  Microsoft vs. iTunes (NewsFactor). NewsFactor - Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) is set to release copy-protection software that could radically effect the burgeoning online music business. Called "Janus," the technology will add a clock function to portable music players that handle files encoded in Microsoft's Windows Media Audio (WMA) format. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Slashdot ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 9.  WinAmp Security Hole Discovered, Patched ---------------------------------------------------------------------- InfoWorld: Top News ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 10.  IBM adds to compliance software offerings. NEW YORK - IBM Corp. announced additions to its line-up of compliance software on Monday, introducing several new bundles designed to address what IBM sees as one of the top areas for IT investment in 2004. 11.  Five charged with defrauding E-Rate program. WASHINGTON - Five people have been indicted and four of them arrested on charges of conspiracy, mail fraud and money laundering in connection with a program designed to bring Internet access to schools and libraries, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Monday. 12.  Judge denies Lindows' request to halt Microsoft suits. SAN FRANCISCO - Microsoft Corp. can continue to pursue trademark infringement cases against Linux vendor Lindows.com Inc. in international courts, a U.S. federal judge ruled Friday. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The Register ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 13.  Thus wins £3m GWR IP network gig. Radio heads talk protocols By Tim Richardson . 14.  EMC taps FalconStor for tape emulation. Virtualisation software makes disk look like tape for faster backup By Bryan Betts . ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Wired News ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 15.  Sun Enters Microsoft's Orbit. For a tidy $1.6 billion, Sun Microsystems settles all outstanding grievances and signs a 'broad operating agreement' with its longtime antagonist. See what a little financial desperation can do? 16.  US-Visit Spares No One. The program that requires foreigners to be fingerprinted and photographed before entering the United States will now include millions of travelers from America's closest allies -- including Britian, Japan and Australia. 17.  Technology Resets the Clock. When daylight-saving time arrives on Sunday, most electronic gadgets will automatically reset their time clocks. But retailers, expecting a surge of calls from customers anyway, still dread the yearly ritual. By Michelle Delio. 18.  Bad Times for U.S. Goods Sites. As more jobs move overseas, some sites are trying to profit from Americans' resentment by selling only U.S.-made goods. But it's becoming harder to determine what qualifies as American-made these days. By Joanna Glasner. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- NewsIsFree: Security ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 19.  [SECURITY] [DSA 472-1] New fte packages fix buffer overflows 20.  [SECURITY] [DSA 474-1] New squid packages fix ACL bypass 21.  [SECURITY] [DSA 460-2] New sysstat packages fix insecure temporary file creation 22.  [SECURITY] [DSA 473-1] New oftpd packages fix denial of service 23.  [SECURITY] [DSA 475-1] New Linux 2.4.18 packages fix several local root exploits (hppa) 24.  [OpenPKG-SA-2004.009] OpenPKG Security Advisory (mc) 25.  NGSSoftware Insight Security Research Advisory 26.  15 Concrete Ways to Save on Technology 27.  Fw: new IE vurn 28.  Sender's fee may be antidote for spam 29.  Multiple XSS vulnerabilities in Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server 2001 30.  VPN secures client data 31.  SuSEs YaST Online Update - possible symlink attack 32.  The Stealthy War Between Virus Creators 33.  Re: new IE vurn 34.  Cisco exec makes $17 million on stock sales 35.  Macromedia Dreamweaver Remote Database Scripts (#NISR05042004B) 36.  Asians Team Up on Emerging Technologies 37.  [Full-Disclosure] iDEFENSE Security Advisory 04.05.04: Perl win32_stat Function Buffer Overflow Vulnerability 38.  New Software Seeking State Tax Scofflaws 39.  Texutil symlink vulnerability. 40.  Microsoft Claims Up to 16m Systems Infected by MSBlast 41.  Automated wireless client penetration tool "hotspotter" released. 42.  F-Secure pushes Linux enterprise products 43.  Advisory: Multiple Vulnerabilities in Monit 44.  Analyst questions Gates's security claims 45.  IBM Director 3.1 Windows Agent Remote DoS 46.  EMC's Disk Library Challenges Tape 47.  Backdoor.IRC.Mutebot 48.  TROJ_PSWDUMARN.A 49.  VBS_PSWDUMARN.A 50.  ActiveState's ActivePerl and Larry Wall's Perl (windows) vulnerable to remote attack 51.  Monit - multiple remote vulnerabilities 52.  Security Alert: NetSky.S Worm Discovered in the Wild (Ziff Davis) 53.  Asians Team Up on Emerging Technologies (AP) 54.  Iowa Colleges Take on Computer Viruses (AP) 55.  Blaster Worm Still Powering Through Systems (NewsFactor) 56.  Buffer Overflow-Sicherheitsleck in Winzip 57.  Netsky.D im Umlauf 58.  Virenexperte: Die Leichtgläubigkeit der User fördert Verbreitung von Würmern 59.  Win32/NetSky.C: Laufzeitpacker machen den Virenscannern zu schaffen 60.  Win32/Bagle.C: Pfusch bei Virenscannerupdates 61.  Virenschnüffler Stinger in neuer Version 62.  "Beagle.J"-Wurm tarnt sich mit vertrauten Absenderangaben 63.  Update von Antivir Personal Edition 64.  AV-Experten: Hinter der aktuellen Malware-Flut steckt ein "Wurm-Krieg" 6:20:37 PM    comment [] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Boing Boing ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.  Photoblog of Tibetan monks creating a sand mandala. Boingboing reader Jayvant says: In my photoblog, I document the construction of a traditional Tibetan Sand Mandala built by two visiting Tibetan Buddhist Monks in my university. This truly fascinating and intricate piece of artwork is built slowly using just a few grains of sand at a time. Once the Mandala is completed it is deconstructed and deposited into a body of water, to symbolize the Buddhist belief of nonattachment. Link ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CNET News.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 2.  Overture wins big-fish partners. The Yahoo subsidiary, known for its sponsored ad listings, beefs up its challenge to Google as a provider of search technology through three new deals. 3.  Study: Tech sites could improve customer service. High-technology companies deliver mixed results, when it comes to treating online customers with respect, according to a customer research group. 4.  Analysts content as Dell gets set to update investors. Steady as she goes. That's the course industry pundits expect Dell's executives to plot this week when they deliver a progress update at the PC maker's annual analyst meeting. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! News - Technology ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 5.  Dell Cuts Music Player Price 20 Percent to $199 (Reuters). Reuters - No. 2 personal computer maker Dell Inc. (DELL.O) on Monday cut the price on its digital music player 20 percent to $199 from $249 as it tries to compete with the industry leading iPod from Apple Computer Inc. (AAPL.O). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Slashdot ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 6.  Magazine Eyeballs Its Subscribers ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The Register ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 7.  Telcos muscle in on IT. Big boys target new business opportunities By Datamonitor . 8.  Internet rape fantasy ‘game’ goes horribly wrong. Wrong address By Lester Haines . 9.  Thus wins £3m GWR contract. Radio heads By Tim Richardson . 10.  Girl, 15, charged with child porn after posting her sex pics online. Self-abuse By John Leyden . 11.  Blaster body count '8m or above' - MS. Clean-up squad By John Leyden . 12.  UK fields footballing RoboBeckhams. Aim to compete in Premiership by 2050 By Lester Haines . 13.  A sunny future for European hotspots?. Cash cow - or lamb to the slaughter By electricnews.net . 14.  ID cards: a guide for technically challenged Prime Ministers. Special Report Save us all billions - don't do it, Tone... By John Lettice . 15.  Biostar iDEQ 200N small form-factor PC case. Review The ideal living room system? By Trusted Reviews . 16.  Caped crusading sysadmin rumbles 419er. Pandemonium in Dublin cybercafe as suspect captured By Lester Haines . 17.  Extortionists take out UK gambling site. DoS attack on Sporting Options By John Leyden . 18.  Sybase results disappoint. But buys XcelleNet... By John Oates . 19.  Ofcom urges gov to act on digital TV switchover. C'mon now, don't be shy By Tim Richardson . 20.  Banc of America lowers Intel earnings. Notebook inventory troubles in 2004, 2005 By Tony Smith . 21.  Glastonbury blames BT for ticket sale fiasco. Skinny back-end By John Leyden . ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Wired News ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 22.  NASA to Test Space-Time Fabric. A satellite designed to test predictions Einstein made about time and space in 1916 is ready to fly. The experiment utilizes four pingpong-sized balls of quartz -- the most perfect spheres ever made -- chilled to absolute zero. 23.  Bush Sci Honcho Denies Agenda. Rebutting an accusation that the administration misrepresented scientific facts to further a conservative agenda, Bush's top science advisor points to his Democratic party affiliation as proof he's unbiased. 24.  U.S. Gas Prices: Don't Blame Us. Saudi Arabia blames high prices at the gas pumps on America's tough environmental laws and lack of refining capacity -- not on OPEC's decision to cut back on production. 25.  U.S. Bets on Land Mine Technology. Future generations of land mines will be so smart soldiers can activate and deactivate entire mine fields by remote control. The Bush administration thinks the tech justifies shunning a global treaty against the mines. 26.  Moore's Law Needs a Boost. Processor performance is becoming encumbered by the realities of battery life. What's needed is a law to make the efficiency of any electronic system double every 24 months. By Michael S. Malone from Wired magazine. 27.  A Fantasy That's Never Final. PC gamers, meet PS2 gamers. Console gamers, meet MMORPGs. Japan, meet America. Square Enix's massively multiplayer online role-playing game Final Fantasy XI promises an online community like never before -- but it's no Utopia. By Chris Kohler. 28.  Computing Power to the People. A team of computer scientists connects hundreds of computers in an attempt to create one of the world's top supercomputers. The geeks want the combined power for complex research problems of their choosing. By Daniel Terdiman. 29.  Watchdogs Push for RFID Laws. Companies push to keep RFID tags active once they are out of the store, but critics say that won't play well with privacy advocates and foreign markets. By Mark Baard. 30.  Dodgy Patents Rile Tech Industry. A patent for a type of browser cookie? This and other dubious patents have led the software industry to declare that the U.S. patent system is broken and needs to be repaired. But no quick fix is in sight. By Amit Asaravala. 31.  GAO Says Army on Road to Ruin. An ambitious $92 billion reshaping of the Army appears to be in serious trouble, according to the General Accounting Office. Even worse, the Army might have known it from the start. By Noah Shachtman. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- NewsIsFree: Security ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 32.  Feds: email subpoena ruling hurts law enforcement 33.  Sybase Bolsters Mobile Security with $95M XcelleNet Buy 34.  Blaster Worm Still Powering Through Systems 35.  Sybase Buys XcelleNet for $95M 36.  Blaster Worm Still Powering Through Systems 37.  The Sophisticated Adversary 38.  Wettbewerbsrecht untersagt Spam 39.  Security Alert: Multiple OS IP Fragmentation Memory Exhaustion Vulnerability 40.  New Version of Sober Worm Spreading in Europe 41.  Authentication & User Management 42.  Enterprise Resource Protection 43.  Security Alert: NetSky.S Worm Discovered in the Wild 44.  E-Voting Enthusiasts Face Hurdles 45.  The Myth of the Secure Operating System? 46.  The Rise of Complex Terrorism 5:20:17 PM    comment [] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Boing Boing ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.  Robert Crumb family pictures. Robert Crumb's son Jesse runs a site that sells Crumb art. There's also a gallery of family photos. (Robert shown on left with a Devil Girl wall plaque). Lots of good stuff on the site, including art from Max, Charles, Sophie, and Jesse Crumb. Link (via The Cartoonist) 2.  Thorax Cake. Tasty looking cake made to look like a thorax. "I generally make a bleeding heart cake for our annual pumpkin carving party (Pumpkinfest). Sometimes the heart beats, sometimes it's anatomically correct, and so on and so forth. This year I decided to go the whole hog and make an entire thoracic cavity cake. The plan was for each organ to be made out of a different kind of cake and to secrete a different color of fluid when it was cut into." Link (via Sensible Erection) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CNET News.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 3.  Microsoft, Time Warner take DRM stake. The companies make substantial new investments in ContentGuard, taking over Xerox's former role as part owner. 4.  Hewlett-Packard unpacks SAN gear. The computing device maker introduces a Fibre Channel drive and other products that are intended to smooth out the kinks in storage area networks. 5.  Bush urges free trade, tech changes. President Bush warns against erecting barriers to trade with other nations. 6.  Dell cuts prices on digital audio players. The company also is offering rebates on a range of other home devices, including digital cameras, handhelds and computer monitors. 7.  Briefly: Bush urges free trade, tech changes. Plus: Dell cuts prices on digital audio players...Microsoft, Time Warner take DRM stake...Xbox goes green. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! News - Technology ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 8.  Correction: Online Travel Boom Story (AP). AP - In a story about the boom in online travel sent April 1, The Associated Press reported erroneously that Expedia owns Hotwire.com and Hotels.com. All three are owned by IAC/InterActiveCorp. 9.  Cell Phones Disrupt Some Police Radios (AP). AP - The proliferation of cell phones is having potentially dangerous consequences for firefighters and police officers, who in some places can't use their radios to call for help because of interference from cell signals. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Slashdot ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 10.  Sci Fi Confirms Forthcoming Farscape Miniseries 11.  Java Evangelist Leaves Sun After MS Settlement ---------------------------------------------------------------------- InfoWorld: Top News ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 12.  National Cyber Security Day is a well-kept secret. U.S. residents adjusting to the daylight savings time change will have to be forgiven for sleeping through much of National Cyber Security Day on Sunday. The semi-annual event passed with nary a mention, even as antivirus software companies warned customers of yet another virulent e-mail worm. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- InfoWorld: Security ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 13.  National Cyber Security Day is a well-kept secret. Event drew little attention ---------------------------------------------------------------------- LinuxSecurity.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 14.  The Rise of Complex Terrorism ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SecurityFocus Vulns ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 15.  BugTraq: IBM Director 3.1 Windows Agent Remote DoS. Sender: Juanma Merino [t3k at ibernet dot com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Wired News ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 16.  Sun Enters Microsoft's Orbit. For a tidy $1.6 billion, Sun Microsystems settles all outstanding grievances and signs a 'broad operating agreement' with its longtime antagonist. See what a little financial desperation can do? 17.  US-Visit Spares No One. The program that requires foreigners to be fingerprinted and photographed before entering the United States will now include millions of travelers from America's closest allies -- including Britian, Japan and Australia. 18.  Technology Resets the Clock. When daylight-saving time arrives on Sunday, most electronic gadgets will automatically reset their time clocks. But retailers, expecting a surge of calls from customers anyway, still dread the yearly ritual. By Michelle Delio. 19.  Bad Times for U.S. Goods Sites. As more jobs move overseas, some sites are trying to profit from Americans' resentment by selling only U.S.-made goods. But it's becoming harder to determine what qualifies as American-made these days. By Joanna Glasner. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- NewsIsFree: Security ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 20.  Net-Security: The Future of Phishing "how attackers are likely to respond to the current move to... 21.  The Register: US bill would free VoIP from regulation "will also exempt VoIP providers from wire... 22.  PC World: Software Searches for Security Flaws "Fortify Software's new apps identify holes in ex... 23.  Elsewhere: Colleges leaking confidential data 24.  Infocus: Dogs of War: Securing Microsoft Groupware Environments with Unix (Part 2) 25.  News: The Internet surveillance cash cow 26.  W32.Solame.A 27.  Wettbewerbsrecht untersagt Spam 4:19:55 PM    comment [] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Ars Technica ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.  Not everyone is googly-eyed over the potential of Google eying your inbox. While it's practically heresy to suggest that Google could even be an ounce evil, privacy and consumer advocacy groups are sending up flares over the company's planned Gmail webmail service. By Ken "Caesar" Fisher. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Boing Boing ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 2.  Xeni on NPR: Bush 'Broadband by 2007' promise. On today's edition of the NPR program "Day to Day," I talk with host Alex Chadwick about the president's recent promise to make broadband accessible to all Americans by the year 2007. The announcement had plenty of when, but where's the how? And just what should the federal government's role be in making high-speed, always-on connectivity availabile -- and affordable -- for more Americans? Listen to the radio segment here in Real or Windows Media after 12P PT, 3P ET. Link ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CNET News.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 3.  Warner Bros. streams to Europe's phones. Vodafone Group is set to distribute outside the United States cell phone games, screen savers and ring tones based on Warner Bros. creations, the companies' first global deal. 4.  Xbox goes green. Microsoft plans to release a special edition of its game console, featuring a popular shooter game and a bright green case. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! News - Technology ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 5.  Linux Unlikely to Unseat Windows Soon - Survey (Reuters). Reuters - The fast growing Linux operating system will not dethrone Microsoft Corp's (MSFT.O) Windows soon because a switch to the freely available Linux is prohibitively expensive for big companies, according to a Yankee Group survey released on Monday. 6.  New Software Detects Plagiarized Passages (AP). AP - White-collar copycats may be less inclined to pilfer the well-chosen words of others now that software designed to ferret out plagiarism is moving out of academia and into the business world. 7.  CompUSA Banking on Software 'ATMs' (AP). AP - Planted on a main aisle at a CompUSA store and trimmed in stylish brushed aluminum, the SoftwareToGo machine looks much like a touch-screen ATM. It lets customers search for software titles by name, category or publisher, place an order and then pick it up on a CD at the checkout counter. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Slashdot ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 8.  NPR's Car Talk Switches Back To RealAudio ---------------------------------------------------------------------- InfoWorld: Top News ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 9.  Sun pact could cast shadow on Microsoft-EU case. Friday's industry-rattling announcement that Microsoft Corp. and Sun Microsystems Inc. have finally come to an accord, agreeing to drop pending litigation and collaborate on technical issues, could potentially sway Microsoft's challenge to the European Union's (E.U.'s) antitrust ruling, industry experts said Monday. 10.  Sun, IBM ramp up developer tools. Sun Microsystems and IBM are fortifying their developer tools strategies, with Sun readying its Java Studio Creator, a visual development tool for Java, and IBM increasing ties between its Rational tools and the Eclipse open source toolset. 11.  Sun names Loiacono new head of software. BOSTON - Sun Microsystems Inc. has promoted John Loiacono to replace Jonathan Schwartz, the former head of Sun's software business who was elevated to president and chief operating officer on Friday amid a sweeping restructuring announcement. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- LinuxSecurity.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 12.  The Myth of the Secure Operating System? 13.  Debian: interchange Missing input sanitation 14.  Debian: fte Multiple buffer overflow vulnerabilities ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SecurityFocus Vulns ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 15.  BugTraq: Advisory: Multiple Vulnerabilities in Monit. Sender: mattmurphy at kc dot rr dot com [mattmurphy at kc dot rr dot com] 16.  Vulns: Multiple Vendor S/MIME ASN.1 Parsing Denial of Service Vulnerabilities. Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported to be present in various implementations of S/MIME protocol. S/MIME is used to send binary data and attachments across e-mail... 17.  Vulns: Mozilla Browser Cookie Path Restriction Bypass Vulnerability. Mozilla is an open source web browser available for a number of platforms, including Microsoft Windows and Linux. Internet cookies are intended as an infrequent storage m... 18.  Vulns: Mozilla Browser Zombie Document Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability. Mozilla is a freely available web browser designed for a number of platforms, including Microsoft Windows and Linux. Mozilla has been reported to be prone to a cross-sit... 19.  Vulns: TCPDump ISAKMP Identification Payload Integer Underflow Vulnerability. tcpdump is prone to a denial of service vulnerability due to an integer underflow. This issue exists in tcpdump's ISAKMP packet display functions (in the print-isakmp.c ... 20.  Vulns: Interchange Remote Information Disclosure Vulnerability. Interchange is an open source content management system. It is availabe for Linux and unix platforms. A vulnerability has been identified in the application that may al... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- NewsIsFree: Security ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 21.  WORM_NETSKY.S 22.  WORM_AGOBOT.ZE 23.  W32.Gaobot.UJ 24.  W32.Gaobot.UL 25.  W32.Lovgate.R@mm 26.  Symantec Updates Enterprise Client Security Software 27.  New Sober, Netsky Worms Claim They're Clean 28.  Study: Almost All Geospatial Data On Web Sites Won't Aid Terrorists 29.  Fisc et Data Mining aux USA 30.  La société Olfeo propose une solution de filtrage d'URL adaptée aux spécificités françaises 31.  New company finds holes in raw code 32.  New products focus on client security 3:19:36 PM    comment [] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Boing Boing ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.  Foresight Vision Weekend. Our dear friends at the Foresight Institute will host their Annual Senior Associates Gathering May 14-16 in Palo Alto to talk about the future of nanotechnology and other emerging technologies. Some great thinkers are on the schedule including Steve Jurvetson, Eric Drexler, Ralph Merkle, Christine Peterson. Christine extends a kindly offer to Boing Boing readers: "We'd like to offer BoingBoing readers a discount of $200 off the standard fee if they join Foresight and register for our May conference. In financial terms, this comes close to waiving the membership requirement -- we want BoingBoing folks at this conference!" To take advantage of the discount, select the expired "Super Early" rate and put "BOINGBOING" in the comments field. Link (Thanks, Chris!) 2.  Superman and Seinfeld's AmEx ad. This AmEx ad, starring Jerry Seinfeld and Superman (with the voice of Puddy/The Tick), is unbelievably funny and irreverant enough that I can hardly believe that DC/AOL/Time-Warner licensed Supe for it. Link (via Paul Boutin) 3.  Social-engineering a cellphone thief. An Ohio teen whose cellphone was ripped off called the number, found herself speaking to the thief's girlfriend, and social-engineered her into giving up the crooks' address, busting a notorious cellphone-stealing ring in the process. 'Crystal? Tiffany? Jenn,' the voice asked. 'Uh, it's Tiffany,' Dempsey said. 'Hey, girl,' the voice said. 'I haven't seen you in, like, forever.' 'I can come right over,' Dempsey said. 'Tell me where you are.' Link 4.  Busting a 419 scammer spammer. A guy who works in an Irish cybercafe writes about busting a 419 (AKA Nigerian Fraud) scammer. Best part: After the police arrive and have the scammer step away from the booth, the scammer tells the cops that "his wallet and ID are in the booth, so he walks in, rips a USB memory stick from the side of his laptop, tries to swallow it and makes a run for it." Link (via /.) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CNET News.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 5.  Telecom headed for bankruptcy reruns?. As MCI, the highest-profile of the telecom bankruptcies, prepares to emerge from Chapter 11, the industry faces many of the same problems that existed before the bubble burst. 6.  Judge denies Lindows motion in Microsoft case. Lindows.com sought to have Microsoft stopped from pursuing lawsuits in European courts, but a U.S. judge said he lacked that authority. 7.  Microsoft unprepared for SP2 support nightmare?. The Windows update puts focus on improving security ahead of the company's usual drive to keep calls to technical support to a minimum. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! News - Technology ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 8.  Cisco Extends Suspension of Lawsuit Vs Huawei (Reuters). Reuters - Cisco Systems Inc. (CSCO.O), the world's largest maker of equipment that directs Internet traffic, has extended the suspension of its copyright lawsuit against Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd., according to court documents. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Slashdot ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 9.  Bicycle Riding on Square Wheels ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SecurityFocus Vulns ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 10.  BugTraq: [Full-Disclosure] iDEFENSE Security Advisory 04.05.04: Perl win32_stat Function Buffer Overflow Vulnerability. Sender: [idlabs-advisories at idefense dot com] 11.  BugTraq: Re: new IE vurn. Sender: Gavin Hanover [ghanover at avantipress dot com] 12.  BugTraq: Macromedia Dreamweaver Remote Database Scripts (#NISR05042004B). Sender: NGSSoftware Insight Security Research [nisr at nextgenss dot com] 13.  Vulns: Heimdal Kerberos Cross-Realm Trust Impersonation Vulnerability. Heimdal is a free implementation of the Kerberos 5 network authentication protocol. It is freely available for Unix and Unix variants. It has been reported that an issu... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Wired News ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 14.  NASA to Test Space-Time Fabric. A satellite designed to test predictions Einstein made about time and space in 1916 is ready to fly. The experiment utilizes four pingpong-sized balls of quartz -- the most perfect spheres ever made -- chilled to absolute zero. 15.  Bush Sci Honcho Denies Agenda. Rebutting an accusation that the administration misrepresented scientific facts to further a conservative agenda, Bush's top science advisor points to his Democratic party affiliation as proof he's unbiased. 16.  U.S. Gas Prices: Don't Blame Us. Saudi Arabia blames high prices at the gas pumps on America's tough environmental laws and lack of refining capacity -- not on OPEC's decision to cut back on production. 17.  U.S. Bets on Land Mine Technology. Future generations of land mines will be so smart soldiers can activate and deactivate entire mine fields by remote control. The Bush administration thinks the tech justifies shunning a global treaty against the mines. 18.  Moore's Law Needs a Boost. Processor performance is becoming encumbered by the realities of battery life. What's needed is a law to make the efficiency of any electronic system double every 24 months. By Michael S. Malone from Wired magazine. 19.  A Fantasy That's Never Final. PC gamers, meet PS2 gamers. Console gamers, meet MMORPGs. Japan, meet America. Square Enix's massively multiplayer online role-playing game Final Fantasy XI promises an online community like never before -- but it's no Utopia. By Chris Kohler. 20.  Computing Power to the People. A team of computer scientists connects hundreds of computers in an attempt to create one of the world's top supercomputers. The geeks want the combined power for complex research problems of their choosing. By Daniel Terdiman. 21.  Watchdogs Push for RFID Laws. Companies push to keep RFID tags active once they are out of the store, but critics say that won't play well with privacy advocates and foreign markets. By Mark Baard. 22.  Dodgy Patents Rile Tech Industry. A patent for a type of browser cookie? This and other dubious patents have led the software industry to declare that the U.S. patent system is broken and needs to be repaired. But no quick fix is in sight. By Amit Asaravala. 23.  GAO Says Army on Road to Ruin. An ambitious $92 billion reshaping of the Army appears to be in serious trouble, according to the General Accounting Office. Even worse, the Army might have known it from the start. By Noah Shachtman. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Help Net Security ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 24.  Large enterprise application security ---------------------------------------------------------------------- NewsIsFree: Security ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 25.  Re: Bugfinder Being Indicted As Criminal ("Counterfeiter") in France 26.  Re: Bugfinder Being Indicted As Criminal ("Counterfeiter") in France 27.  Storage Basics: Securing iSCSI using IPSec 28.  Task Force: Patches Must be Small, Easy to Install 29.  5 Apr Troj/Small-AG 30.  Passwords are passport to theft 31.  Wags hijack TV channel's on-screen ticker 32.  Verton slips on Black Ice 33.  Virus writers in malicious code hide-and-seek 34.  ID cards: a guide for technically challenged Prime Ministers 35.  Softbank rocked by giant data leak 36.  El Reg badly misguided on cyber-terror threat 37.  Does open source software enhance security? 38.  Californian ISP sues Bob Vila site for spam 39.  Extortionists take out UK gambling site 40.  TROJ_NATALI.A 41.  WORM_LOVGATE.W 42.  WORM_BAGLE.W 43.  Large enterprise application security 44.  Open Source Vulnerability Database Opens for Public Access 45.  HAHTsite Scenario Server Buffer Overflow 46.  Sober-F behauptet von sich: Virenfrei 47.  Neuer McAfee Stinger erwischt Massmailing-Wurm 2:19:19 PM    comment [] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Ars Technica ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.  Hard disk storage from EMC imitates tape backup. Tape backup is slow and cumbersome. Hard disks are cheap and fast. EMC makes a "disk library" to masquerade as a tape device. By Matt Woodward. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Boing Boing ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 2.  Lab Notes. * The secret machinations of cells! * SimEarthquake! * The attraction of new materials for data storage! >>>>> Step right up.... Link ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CNET News.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 3.  Sun names new software chief. In its first major staff reshuffling after Friday's sweeping agreement with Microsoft, the company names a new software operations head and says another top executive is leaving. 4.  Moving to Linux may not save money--yet. New research from Yankee Group shows that wholesale migration to Linux software could cost some companies more than an upgrade to their Unix or Windows systems. 5.  BellSouth teams up with Google. The carrier swaps out its less sophisticated homegrown search engine for one powered by Google. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! News - Technology ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 6.  EU Backs Its Microsoft Antitrust Ruling (AP). AP - Last week's stunning $1.6 billion settlement with Sun Microsystems Inc. was unlikely to impact the antitrust actions against Microsoft Corp. in Europe, officials and legal experts said Monday. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Slashdot ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 7.  Attorney Mike Godwin Answers 'Cyberlaw' Questions 8.  Chaotic Computing In Practice ---------------------------------------------------------------------- InfoWorld: Top News ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 9.  F5 brings traffic management to blades. F5 Networks is extending its presence in the emerging blade-server management market with new security and packet-inspection enhancements to its BIG-IP Blade Controller software. 10.  Microsoft, Sun bury the hatchet. Sun Microsystems said Friday that it has entered into a "broad cooperation agreement" with Microsoft and settled all outstanding litigation. Microsoft will pay Sun $700 million to resolve all pending anti-trust issues and $900 million to resolve all patent issues, the company said. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SecurityFocus News ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 11.  Infocus: Dogs of War: Securing Microsoft Groupware Environments with Unix (Part 2). This article discusses the implementation of layered mail security using Unix as an MTA in front of Microsoft groupware products. Part two describes the use of Qmail, Qmail-Scanner, Clam AntiVirus and SpamAssassin. 12.  News: The Internet surveillance cash cow. A few large companies and entrepreneurs stand to profit from the FBI's bid for a wiretap-friendly Internet. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SecurityFocus Vulns ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 13.  BugTraq: Multiple XSS vulnerabilities in Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server 2001. Sender: Ory Segal [ory dot segal at sanctuminc dot com] 14.  BugTraq: [OpenPKG-SA-2004.009] OpenPKG Security Advisory (mc). Sender: OpenPKG [openpkg at openpkg dot org] 15.  BugTraq: NGSSoftware Insight Security Research Advisory. Sender: Peter Winter-Smith [peter at ngssoftware dot com] 16.  BugTraq: Fw: new IE vurn. Sender: Philip Barnham [phycho at darktech dot org dot uk] 17.  Vulns: MondoSoft MondoSearch Multiple Vulnerabilities. MondoSearch is a Microsoft .NET based search engine utility that allows users to integrate search features into their websites. Multiple vulnerabilities have been ident... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The Register ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 18.  Banc of America lowers Intel earnings. Notebook inventory troubles in 2004, 2005 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Wired News ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 19.  Sun Enters Microsoft's Orbit. For a tidy $1.6 billion, Sun Microsystems settles all outstanding grievances and signs a 'broad operating agreement' with its longtime antagonist. See what a little financial desperation can do? 20.  US-Visit Spares No One. The program that requires foreigners to be fingerprinted and photographed before entering the United States will now include millions of travelers from America's closest allies -- including Britian, Japan and Australia. 21.  Technology Resets the Clock. When daylight-saving time arrives on Sunday, most electronic gadgets will automatically reset their time clocks. But retailers, expecting a surge of calls from customers anyway, still dread the yearly ritual. By Michelle Delio. 22.  Bad Times for U.S. Goods Sites. As more jobs move overseas, some sites are trying to profit from Americans' resentment by selling only U.S.-made goods. But it's becoming harder to determine what qualifies as American-made these days. By Joanna Glasner. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- NewsIsFree: Security ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 23.  WORM_LOVGATE.W 24.  WORM_BAGLE.W 25.  Fastest Rising: 6129 dameware 26.  Top Port: epmap 135 27.  Infocon: green 28.  W32.Netsky.Q@mm Code indicates a DoS attack 29.  Forrester questions Linux security 30.  File And Email Encryption With GnuPG (PGP) 31.  UK: Insurers to drop hacking premiums 32.  Linux Security Week - April 5th 2004 33.  Joint effort on operating system 1:18:55 PM    comment [] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Ars Technica ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.  "Flash mob" supercomputing attempt falls short. An attempt at creating a flash mob supercomputer at San Francisco over the weekend produced mixed results. While falling short of the stated computation goal of 500 gigaflops, it did manage to link up 700 machines in a short period of time. By Eric Bangeman. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Boing Boing ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 2.  US Army's tech overhaul plans b0rked. Today at Wired News, this report by my colleague Noah Schachtman: It's been called the most ambitious military effort since the Manhattan Project, and the centerpiece of Donald Rumsfeld's plans to overhaul America's armed forces: a $92 billion push to change almost everything about the Army by 2010, from the guns GIs carry, to the officers they salute, to the tanks they drive. A new congressional report is alleging that the Future Combat Systems program is poised for major delays and a financial train wreck. Worst of all, the report claims, the Army knew this was going to happen all along. Link ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CNET News.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 3.  Net phone provider calls on Singapore. SIPphone pairs up with Singapore Telecommunications to offer VoIP calls over any public phone system in the region and to and from mobile phones worldwide, not just with other parties connected to the Internet. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! News - Technology ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 4.  Cell Phone Is Next Webcam Destination (washingtonpost.com). washingtonpost.com - Big Brother may turn out to be your little sister or even your best friend in the brave new world of mobile communications. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Slashdot ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 5.  Microsoft WiX Code Released to SourceForge.Net ---------------------------------------------------------------------- BBC News | Technology | UK Edition ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 6.  Lunar base options divide experts. Scientists are divided over the use of the Moon as a base to develop ways to travel to Mars, reports say. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- InfoWorld: Top News ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 7.  New products focus on client security. Product announcements from three security companies underscore the growing interest in so-called "end point" security products that protect corporate networks from infections introduced by mobile or remote employees. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- InfoWorld: Security ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 8.  New products focus on client security. Three companies unveil products to secure mobile computers ---------------------------------------------------------------------- LinuxSecurity.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 9.  Joint effort on operating system ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SecurityFocus News ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 10.  Elsewhere: Colleges leaking confidential data. Colleges across the country, through computer security failure and human error, have exposed confidential information about hundreds of thousands of students and employee... 11.  Infocus: Dogs of War: Securing Microsoft Groupware Environments with Unix (Pt. 2). This article discusses the implementation of layered mail security using Unix as MTA in front of Microsoft groupware products. Part two describes the use of Qmail, Qmail-Scanner, Clam AntiVirus and SpamAssassin. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SecurityFocus Vulns ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 12.  BugTraq: [SECURITY] [DSA 460-2] New sysstat packages fix insecure temporary file creation. Sender: Matt Zimmerman [mdz at debian dot org] 13.  BugTraq: [SECURITY] [DSA 473-1] New oftpd packages fix denial of service. Sender: Matt Zimmerman [mdz at debian dot org] 14.  BugTraq: [SECURITY] [DSA 474-1] New squid packages fix ACL bypass. Sender: Matt Zimmerman [mdz at debian dot org] 15.  BugTraq: [SECURITY] [DSA 475-1] New Linux 2.4.18 packages fix several local root exploits (hppa). Sender: [joey at infodrom dot org (Martin Schulze)] 16.  Vulns: OpenSSL Denial of Service Vulnerabilities. Three security vulnerabilities have been reported to affect OpenSSL. Each of these remotely exploitable issues may result in a denial of service in applications which us... 17.  Vulns: HAHTsite Scenario Server Project File Name Buffer Overrun Vulnerability. HAHTsite Scenario Server is an e-commerce server that is available for Microsoft Windows, Sun Solaris and Linux platforms. HAHTsite Scenario Server is reported to be pro... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The Register ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 18.  Sybase results disappoint. But buys XcelleNet... 19.  Extortionists take out UK gambling site. DOS attack on Sporting Options 20.  Ofcom urges gov to act on digital TV switchover. C'mon now, don't be shy ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Wired News ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 21.  NASA to Test Space-Time Fabric. A satellite designed to test predictions Einstein made about time and space in 1916 is ready to fly. The experiment utilizes four pingpong-sized balls of quartz -- the most perfect spheres ever made -- chilled to absolute zero. 22.  Bush Sci Honcho Denies Agenda. Rebutting an accusation that the administration misrepresented scientific facts to further a conservative agenda, Bush's top science advisor points to his Democratic party affiliation as proof he's unbiased. 23.  U.S. Gas Prices: Don't Blame Us. Saudi Arabia blames high prices at the gas pumps on America's tough environmental laws and lack of refining capacity -- not on OPEC's decision to cut back on production. 24.  U.S. Bets on Land Mine Technology. Future generations of land mines will be so smart soldiers can activate and deactivate entire mine fields by remote control. The Bush administration thinks the tech justifies shunning a global treaty against the mines. 25.  Moore's Law Needs a Boost. Processor performance is becoming encumbered by the realities of battery life. What's needed is a law to make the efficiency of any electronic system double every 24 months. By Michael S. Malone from Wired magazine. 26.  A Fantasy That's Never Final. PC gamers, meet PS2 gamers. Console gamers, meet MMORPGs. Japan, meet America. Square Enix's massively multiplayer online role-playing game Final Fantasy XI promises an online community like never before -- but it's no Utopia. By Chris Kohler. 27.  Computing Power to the People. A team of computer scientists connects hundreds of computers in an attempt to create one of the world's top supercomputers. The geeks want the combined power for complex research problems of their choosing. By Daniel Terdiman. 28.  Watchdogs Push for RFID Laws. Companies push to keep RFID tags active once they are out of the store, but critics say that won't play well with privacy advocates and foreign markets. By Mark Baard. 29.  Dodgy Patents Rile Tech Industry. A patent for a type of browser cookie? This and other dubious patents have led the software industry to declare that the U.S. patent system is broken and needs to be repaired. But no quick fix is in sight. By Amit Asaravala. 30.  GAO Says Army on Road to Ruin. An ambitious $92 billion reshaping of the Army appears to be in serious trouble, according to the General Accounting Office. Even worse, the Army might have known it from the start. By Noah Shachtman. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- NewsIsFree: Security ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 31.  PE_ENTERUS.A 32.  Elsewhere: Forrester study questions Linux security 33.  Elsewhere: Sober variant set to cause trouble 34.  News: Blaster body count '8m or above' - MS 35.  Blog :: PDA built-in storage security flaw 12:18:38 PM    comment [] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Boing Boing ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.  Suicide Girls magazine sneak peek. Popular alterna-grrrl pr0n site Suicide Girls is about to go ink. A print offshoot is launching soon, and photographer Clayton James Cubitt was tapped to shoot a different kind of ink job for the magazine's premiere issue. Suicide Girls Magazine: Stormy Gets a Lightning Bolt Tattoo (not worksafe): Link ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CNET News.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 2.  Hewlett-Packard closes Novadigm deal 3.  SEC investigates Nortel 4.  Briefly: SEC investigates Nortel. Plus: HP closes Novadigm deal...DVD copy company appeals ban...Siemens phones to carry RIM service. 5.  Intel chips away at Pentium, Celeron prices ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! News - Technology ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 6.  Big Foes Sun, Microsoft Bury A Bitter Hatchet, Thanks To $1.95 Bil Pact (Investor's Business Daily). Investor's Business Daily - It was a simple slip of the tongue Friday when Scott McNealy called his server company "Sun Microsoft." 7.  'Pax Microsoftus' (washingtonpost.com). washingtonpost.com - The software industry's most infamous war came to a sudden, unexpected conclusion Friday when Scott McNealy and Steve Ballmer publicly exchanged the olive branch and pledged a new era of collaboration and cooperation between Sun Microsystems and Microsoft. 8.  Asians Team Up on Emerging Technologies (AP). AP - Japan, China and South Korea will work together on developing new technologies, including fourth-generation mobile phones, digital broadcasting, computer security and open-source software, a Japanese official said Monday. 9.  UK Lobby Says Google Mail May Violate Privacy Laws (Reuters). Reuters - A new Google email service that stores messages where users cannot delete them may violate Europe's privacy laws, a citizens' group said on Monday after lodging a complaint with UK authorities. 10.  Word flaw a window into Microsoft (SiliconValley.com). SiliconValley.com - You'd think the people who make Microsoft Word understand enough about the program to avoid embarrassing themselves with unintended disclosures of internal information. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Slashdot ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 11.  How To Catch A Scammer/Spammer ---------------------------------------------------------------------- InfoWorld: Top News ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 12.  ILM slides into spotlight. Three letters will permeate through the halls of Storage Networking World this week: ILM. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- LinuxSecurity.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 13.  UK: Insurers to drop hacking premiums ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SecurityFocus News ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 14.  Elsewhere: Forrester study questions Linux security. A study from Forrester Research has concluded that the Linux operating system is not necessarily more secure than Windows, with Linux distributors taking longer than Micr... 15.  Elsewhere: Sober variant set to cause trouble. Antivirus firm Network Associates today raised to 'medium' its risk assessment of the recently discovered Windows worm Sober.f. Sober.f is a prolific worm that spreads vi... 16.  News: Blaster body count '8m or above' - MS. The Register By John Leyden [john dot leyden at theregister dot co dot uk] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SecurityFocus Vulns ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 17.  BugTraq: Re: Bugfinder Being Indicted As Criminal ("Counterfeiter") in France. Sender: Fozzy [fozzy at dmpfrance dot com] 18.  BugTraq: Re: Bugfinder Being Indicted As Criminal ("Counterfeiter") in France. Sender: Renaud Deraison [deraison at nessus dot org] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The Register ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 19.  Biostar iDEQ 200N small form-factor PC case. Review The ideal living room system? 20.  Caped crusading sysadmin rumbles 419er. Pandemonium in Dublin Internet cafe as Nigerian ne'er-do-well clapped in irons ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Wired News ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 21.  Sun Enters Microsoft's Orbit. For a tidy $1.6 billion, Sun Microsystems settles all outstanding grievances and signs a 'broad operating agreement' with its longtime antagonist. See what a little financial desperation can do? 22.  US-Visit Spares No One. The program that requires foreigners to be fingerprinted and photographed before entering the United States will now include millions of travelers from America's closest allies -- including Britian, Japan and Australia. 23.  Technology Resets the Clock. When daylight-saving time arrives on Sunday, most electronic gadgets will automatically reset their time clocks. But retailers, expecting a surge of calls from customers anyway, still dread the yearly ritual. By Michelle Delio. 24.  Bad Times for U.S. Goods Sites. As more jobs move overseas, some sites are trying to profit from Americans' resentment by selling only U.S.-made goods. But it's becoming harder to determine what qualifies as American-made these days. By Joanna Glasner. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Help Net Security ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 25.  Forrester questions Linux security 26.  HNS Newsletter issue 207 has been released 27.  Windows Server 2003 security questioned 28.  The future of phishing 29.  Malicious hackers - the sophisticated adversary ---------------------------------------------------------------------- NewsIsFree: Security ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 30.  SingTel to offer Web-based calls 31.  IKEA founder overtakes Gates as world's richest - TV 32.  Why I'm not sending you viruses 33.  VoIP's broadband bottleneck 34.  MSBlast worm outbreak 'infected 8 million PCs' 35.  5 Apr W32/Nackbot-D 36.  Integralis And Crossbeam Systems Announce Pan-European Partnership 37.  9-11 Commission keeps network secure 38.  US experts outline security initiative 39.  Watchdogs push for RFID laws 40.  Chrooting daemons and system processes 41.  Bookies race to beat net attacks 42.  Forrester questions Linux security 43.  HNS Newsletter issue 207 has been released 44.  Windows Server 2003 security questioned 45.  The future of phishing 46.  Malicious hackers - the sophisticated adversary 47.  Virusweekend met Sober en NetSky varianten 48.  Zeer kritiek lek in eMule leidt tot syteemtoegang 49.  Vragen bij rapport over Windows en Linux security 50.  30 Prozent mehr Spams im März 51.  eMule v0.42d Buffer Overflow Vulnerability 52.  Aborior Encore Web Forum Display.cgi Remote Command Execution Vulnerability 11:17:37 AM    comment [] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CNET News.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.  Sun makes a pair of executive changes. In its first major staff reshuffling following Friday's sweeping agreement with Microsoft, the company names a new software chief and says another top executive is leaving. 2.  Sun and Microsoft: Friend and foe. special coverage The long-time enemies reach a broad agreement that gives Sun nearly $2 billion. But Sun still faces tough challenges. For one, the companies say they will remain fierce competitors. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! News - Technology ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 3.  Centra Software Warns of Weak Quarter (Reuters). Reuters - Centra Software Inc. (CTRA.O), a maker of online conference and training software, on Monday warned that efforts to change its business strategy will hurt first-quarter results more than expected. 4.  You Can Rent Movies Online, but Should You? (washingtonpost.com). washingtonpost.com - The idea of renting movies online seems a lot less silly than it did two years ago, when a site called Movielink debuted. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Slashdot ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 5.  Sun Plans Solaris Subscription Model 6.  Weapons in Space ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Hack the Planet ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 7.  Ali-Reza Adl-Tabatabai, Jay Bharadwaj, Marsha Eng, Jesse Fang, Brian T. Lewis, Brian R. Murphy, James Stichnoth, Michal Cierniak: Improving 64-Bit Java IPF Performance by Compressing Heap References. I thought of the same idea just the other day. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- InfoWorld: Top News ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 8.  Microsoft eyes RFID opportunities. Emphasizing ambitions in RFID (radio frequency identification), Microsoft on Monday will announce formation of the Microsoft RFID Council, a multi-vendor group that will study requirements for Microsoft’s software to participate in RFID data processing systems. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [O.S.S.R] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 9.  Japan, China, S Korea adopt Linux ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The Register ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 10.  UK fields footballing RoboBeckhams. Aim to compete in Premiership by 2050 11.  IXEurope buys Swiss datacentre. Err, that's it 12.  A sunny future for European hotspots?. Cash cow - or lamb to the slaughter? 13.  ID cards: a guide for technically challenged Prime Ministers. Special report Save us all billions - don't do it, Tone... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Wired News ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 14.  NASA to Test Space-Time Fabric. A satellite designed to test predictions Einstein made about time and space in 1916 is ready to fly. The experiment utilizes four pingpong-sized balls of quartz -- the most perfect spheres ever made -- chilled to absolute zero. 15.  Bush Sci Honcho Denies Agenda. Rebutting an accusation that the administration misrepresented scientific facts to further a conservative agenda, Bush's top science advisor points to his Democratic party affiliation as proof he's unbiased. 16.  U.S. Gas Prices: Don't Blame Us. Saudi Arabia blames high prices at the gas pumps on America's tough environmental laws and lack of refining capacity -- not on OPEC's decision to cut back on production. 17.  U.S. Bets on Land Mine Technology. Future generations of land mines will be so smart soldiers can activate and deactivate entire mine fields by remote control. The Bush administration thinks the tech justifies shunning a global treaty against the mines. 18.  Moore's Law Needs a Boost. Processor performance is becoming encumbered by the realities of battery life. What's needed is a law to make the efficiency of any electronic system double every 24 months. By Michael S. Malone from Wired magazine. 19.  A Fantasy That's Never Final. PC gamers, meet PS2 gamers. Console gamers, meet MMORPGs. Japan, meet America. Square Enix's massively multiplayer online role-playing game Final Fantasy XI promises an online community like never before -- but it's no Utopia. By Chris Kohler. 20.  Computing Power to the People. A team of computer scientists connects hundreds of computers in an attempt to create one of the world's top supercomputers. The geeks want the combined power for complex research problems of their choosing. By Daniel Terdiman. 21.  Watchdogs Push for RFID Laws. Companies push to keep RFID tags active once they are out of the store, but critics say that won't play well with privacy advocates and foreign markets. By Mark Baard. 22.  Dodgy Patents Rile Tech Industry. A patent for a type of browser cookie? This and other dubious patents have led the software industry to declare that the U.S. patent system is broken and needs to be repaired. But no quick fix is in sight. By Amit Asaravala. 23.  GAO Says Army on Road to Ruin. An ambitious $92 billion reshaping of the Army appears to be in serious trouble, according to the General Accounting Office. Even worse, the Army might have known it from the start. By Noah Shachtman. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- NewsIsFree: Security ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 24.  Scambusters target 419 online 'banks' 25.  Indian call centres 'pose security risk' 26.  9-11 Commission keeps network secure 27.  Sober-Wurm ist wieder da 10:17:16 AM    comment [] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! News - Technology ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.  New Software Seeking State Tax Scofflaws (AP). AP - Tax scofflaws, beware! A pack of digital bloodhounds may be on your trail. State revenue agencies across the nation are hunting for tax evaders with new high-tech tools: computer programs that mine an increasing number of databases for clues on the finances of people and businesses. 2.  New Technology Could Detect Dirty Hands (AP). AP - New light-scanning technology borrowed from the slaughterhouse promises to help hospital workers, restaurant employees — one day, even kids — make sure that hand washing zaps some germs that can carry deadly illnesses. 3.  Calif. Techies Try to Make Supercomputer (AP). AP - Hundreds of technophiles wired their computers together in an attempt to generate computing power on a par with the world's strongest supercomputers. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Slashdot ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 4.  Japan, China, S Korea Agree To Standardize Linux ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Hack the Planet ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 5.  Looks like the UserLand server maintenance went pretty smoothly. (Oops, I spoke too soon; looks like it's still going on.) 6.  Out of perverse curiosity, I tried to install Fedora Core 2 test 2. It now supports my Radeon 9800 (even though Mike Harris threatened to not support it out of spite), but it doesn't see my hard drive. 7.  The Inquirer: Nforce3 Pro 250 2 processor pics revealed. 8.  The Register: Sony talks up PS3. Not too surprising that Sony's planning a PS3X or a super-cheap PS2 after PS3 comes out. 9.  The Register: Why Sun threw in the towel in Mankind vs. Microsoft. 10.  I never really got into LaunchBar, so I didn't expect to have any use for Quicksilver. But its clipboard history window comes in handy for blogging: to get the title and URL of a story into a post I can copy-copy-switch-drag-drag instead of copy-switch-paste-switch-copy-switch-paste. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- BBC News | Technology | UK Edition ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 11.  Fear over India call centre fraud. More needs to be done to protect the personal data of British consumers held by call centres in India, say MEPs. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- InfoWorld: Top News ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 12.  NEC, Fujitsu disclose new chip plant plans. NEC Electronics Corp. plans to build a semiconductor manufacturing line at a plant it owns in northern Japan, the Tokyo company said Monday. ADVERTISEMENT: Receive a FREE>SunTone Initiative is designed to help you optimize the delivery and management of mission critical IT services. Click here to learn more 13.  New company finds holes in raw code. A new company hopes to make life a lot harder for malicious hackers, releasing technology that analyzes computer code for security violations and enforces secure coding practices. 14.  JBoss warms to Sun, drops shadow conference. There will be no JBoss shadow conference at JavaOne this year. The JBoss Group LLC, the Atlanta company that last year hosted its JBossTwo event in conjunction with Sun Microsystems Inc.'s JavaOne developer show in San Francisco, has decided to discontinue its rival conference and take a booth at JavaOne. 15.  No compromise on WAPI as Intel's Barrett heads to China. Intel Corp. stands by its decision to not support the security protocol that is at the heart of a trade dispute over China's WLAN (wireless LAN) standard even as the company hopes for an end to the impasse, Intel's chief executive officer (CEO) said Monday. 16.  EMC introduces Clariion disk library. EMC Corp. on Monday will announce a new line of storage arrays designed to let customers replace tape-based backup systems with faster disk-based devices. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The Register ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 17.  Girl, 15, charged with child porn after posting her sex pics valign="top">18.  Blaster body count '8m or above' - MS. Clean-up squad ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Wired News ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 19.  Sun Enters Microsoft's Orbit. For a tidy $1.6 billion, Sun Microsystems settles all outstanding grievances and signs a 'broad operating agreement' with its longtime antagonist. See what a little financial desperation can do? 20.  US-Visit Spares No valign="top">21.  Technology Resets the Clock. When daylight-saving time arrives on Sunday, most electronic gadgets will automatically reset their time clocks. But retailers, expecting a surge of calls from customers anyway, still dread the yearly ritual. By Michelle Delio. 22.  Bad Times for U.S. Goods Sites. As more jobs move overseas, some sites are trying to profit from Americans' resentment by selling> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- NewsIsFree: Security ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 23.  The Future of Phishing 9:16:57 AM    comment [] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CNET News.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.  Cox closes wiretap hole for VoIP. Cox Communications says it can now wiretap Internet telephone calls, beginning a new era for law enforcement. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! News - Technology ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 2.  Cell Phone Is Next Webcam Destination (washingtonpost.com). washingtonpost.com - Big Brother may turn out to be your little sister or even your best friend in the brave new world of mobile communications. 3.  Matsushita to invest 1.1 bln dlrs to improve IT system (AFP). AFP - Japanese consumer electronics giant Matsushita plans to invest 120 billion yen (1.1 billion dollars) over three years to improve its information technology operations, a company spokesman said. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- InfoWorld: Security ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 4.  New company finds holes in raw code. Fortify Software technology analyzes computer code for security violations ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The Register ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 5.  Manchester given all-clear after BT fire. Telco mulls compensation 6.  Scambusters target 419 online 'banks'. Fingers pointed, bandwidth busted 7.  General Public License - a summary guide. Examining the open source controversy 8.  Asia-Pacific govts sign Linux promo pact. Want to reduce region's reliance on Windows 9.  Indian call centres 'pose security risk'. A year's wages for customer details... 10.  Sun job losses: Scotland spared. Up to 330 jobs could be at risk... 11.  Thus wins £3m GWR contract. Radio heads ---------------------------------------------------------------------- NewsIsFree: Security ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 12.  BKDR_IRCBOT.K 13.  Top 20 virussen van maart 14.  Effectieve beveiliging is meer dan alleen software 15.  MasterCard hackers gaan online winkels hacken 16.  Security Windows Server 2003 niet zo veilig als beweerd 17.  MSBlast worm infecteerde 8 miljoen computers 18.  Het grote probleem van virussen en e-mail spoofing 19.  Bedrijven moeten oppassen met P2P software 8:16:37 AM    comment [] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CNET News.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.  VoIP's broadband bottleneck. Broadband Net-phoning services are facing an obstacle as they try to expand in the U.S.: The third-party broadband networks they rely on can't guarantee glitch-free calls. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! News - Technology ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 2.  Cisco exec makes $17 million on stock sales (SiliconValley.com). SiliconValley.com - Cisco Systems Chief Development Officer Mario Mazzola exercised options and sold shares in the San Jose networking giant's stocks for a net gain of more than $17 million last month. The sales were his first in Cisco stocks in more than four years. 3.  Vodafone, Warner Bros sign wireless distribution deal (AFP). AFP - British mobile telephone giant Vodafone announced it has struck a distribution deal with US film giant Warner Brothers. 4.  Dell knows his niche and he'll stick with it (USATODAY.com). USATODAY.com - It's been 20 years since Michael Dell started his made-to-order computer business from his college dorm room. As he approaches the 20th anniversary of his company and his 40th birthday, Dell can look back with a great deal of satisfaction that he's gone in the right direction. In the company's most recent quarter, it reported its best operating period ever, with record revenue and earnings. All that success has thrust Dell (DELL) to the 18th spot on the Forbes 400 list, with an estimated net worth of $13 billion. Dell would be worth even more if shares of his company, like other tech stocks, were not still recovering from the bear market. They are 42% below their high. I recently talked with the man who revolutionized the PC business by listening to customers rather than competitors. Following are excerpts, edited for clarity and space. 5.  A good slime was had by all (USATODAY.com). USATODAY.com - Outkast's catchy signature song (named favorite of the year by about 20 million online voters) rocked the UCLA campus at the 17th annual Kids' Choice Awards. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Slashdot ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 6.  Inventor of Low Tech Fridge Wins Award ---------------------------------------------------------------------- LinuxSecurity.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 7.  Linux Security Week - April 5th 2004 8.  Linux Security Week - April 5th 2004 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The Register ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 9.  Intel asks China to drop local WLAN spec. 1 June deadline 10.  UK IT directors are unproductive workaholics. I have work-life balance... they're both crap 11.  Big Pharma puts squeeze on Canadian Net pharmacies. 'Brink of collapse' 12.  February chip sales edge up. Big year-on-year gains 13.  Intel to ship 1.8GHz Centrino as Pentium M 545. A feast of model numbers 14.  Intel trims mobile, server chip prices. FYI ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Help Net Security ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 15.  The economics of information security 16.  Why I'm not sending you viruses ---------------------------------------------------------------------- NewsIsFree: Security ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 17.  The economics of information security 18.  Why I'm not sending you viruses 19.  Acht Millionen Rechner von MSBlast betroffen 7:16:15 AM    comment [] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- BBC News | Technology | UK Edition ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.  Jumbo wing starts marathon trek. The first wing of the A380 superjumbo starts a four-week journey from Wales to France. 2.  Fear over India call centre fraud. More needs to be done to protect the personal data of British consumers held by call centres in India, say MEPs. 3.  Bid for on the spot supercomputer. Researchers in San Francisco try to create a supercomputer by wiring together hundreds of desktops and laptops. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- LinuxSecurity.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 4.  Forrester questions Linux security 5.  File And Email Encryption With GnuPG (PGP) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The Register ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 6.  US bill would free VoIP from regulation. Boost for new services 7.  Japan fires shot at Chinese chip tax. Wants in on WTO talks 8.  Welsh bang up 419er for 20 months. No welcome in the valleys for you, boyo 9.  Telcos muscle in on IT. Big boys target new business opportunities 10.  Intel asks China to drop local WLAN spec.. 1 June deadline ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Wired News ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 11.  NASA to Test Space-Time Fabric. A satellite designed to test predictions Einstein made about time and space in 1916 is ready to fly. The experiment utilizes four pingpong-sized balls of quartz -- the most perfect spheres ever made -- chilled to absolute zero. 12.  Bush Sci Honcho Denies Agenda. Rebutting an accusation that the administration misrepresented scientific facts to further a conservative agenda, Bush's top science advisor points to his Democratic party affiliation as proof he's unbiased. 13.  U.S. Gas Prices: Don't Blame Us. Saudi Arabia blames high prices at the gas pumps on America's tough environmental laws and lack of refining capacity -- not on OPEC's decision to cut back on production. 14.  U.S. Bets on Land Mine Technology. Future generations of land mines will be so smart soldiers can activate and deactivate entire mine fields by remote control. The Bush administration thinks the tech justifies shunning a global treaty against the mines. 15.  Moore's Law Needs a Boost. Processor performance is becoming encumbered by the realities of battery life. What's needed is a law to make the efficiency of any electronic system double every 24 months. By Michael S. Malone from Wired magazine. 16.  A Fantasy That's Never Final. PC gamers, meet PS2 gamers. Console gamers, meet MMORPGs. Japan, meet America. Square Enix's massively multiplayer online role-playing game Final Fantasy XI promises an online community like never before -- but it's no Utopia. By Chris Kohler. 17.  Computing Power to the People. A team of computer scientists connects hundreds of computers in an attempt to create one of the world's top supercomputers. The geeks want the combined power for complex research problems of their choosing. By Daniel Terdiman. 18.  Watchdogs Push for RFID Laws. Companies push to keep RFID tags active once they are out of the store, but critics say that won't play well with privacy advocates and foreign markets. By Mark Baard. 19.  Dodgy Patents Rile Tech Industry. A patent for a type of browser cookie? This and other dubious patents have led the software industry to declare that the U.S. patent system is broken and needs to be repaired. But no quick fix is in sight. By Amit Asaravala. 20.  GAO Says Army on Road to Ruin. An ambitious $92 billion reshaping of the Army appears to be in serious trouble, according to the General Accounting Office. Even worse, the Army might have known it from the start. By Noah Shachtman. 6:15:55 AM    comment [] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Slashdot ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.  Speculating About Gmail ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Hack the Planet ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 2.  Ali-Reza Adl-Tabatabai, Jay Bharadwaj, Marsha Eng, Jesse Fang, Brian T. Lewis, Brian R. Murphy, James Stichnoth, Michal Cierniak: Improving 64-Bit Java IPF Performance by Compressing Heap References. I thought of the same idea just the other day. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The Register ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 3.  Microsoft hopes Sun deal will dazzle EC. Look, even Scott McNealy is being reasonable... 4.  Google and Yahoo! ban gambling ads. Free speech be damned ---------------------------------------------------------------------- NewsIsFree: Security ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 5.  Debian update for interchange 6.  Debian update for oftpd 7.  MS exploit, phishing scam threaten users 5:15:34 AM    comment [] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Boing Boing ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.  World's tallest Kapla structure. Jeremy sez, "This is a small photo gallery of some buildings constucted from the coolest blocks in the world. They're called Kapla blocks. They're made in France from a special wood (Which is? I don't know.) They're pressure-treated and cut with a laser, so the tolerances are miniscule. They're guaranteed for life never to warp or chip or break, and if one does, just send it in and they send you a new one. They're proportioned in a 1:3:5:15 ratio, which means you can build ENORMOUS structures that won't tip over. Right now the world record stands at 51 feet 4 inches. " Link (Thanks, Jeremy!) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Dilbert ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 2.  Dilbert for 05 Apr 2004. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Hack the Planet ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 3.  Looks like the UserLand server maintenance went pretty smoothly. (Oops, I spoke too soon; looks like it's still going on.) 4.  Out of perverse curiosity, I tried to install Fedora Core 2 test 2. It now supports my Radeon 9800 (even though Mike Harris threatened to not support it out of spite), but it doesn't see my hard drive. 5.  The Inquirer: Nforce3 Pro 250 2 processor pics revealed. 6.  The Register: Sony talks up PS3. Not too surprising that Sony's planning a PS3X or a super-cheap PS2 after PS3 comes out. 7.  The Register: Why Sun threw in the towel in Mankind vs. Microsoft. 8.  I never really got into LaunchBar, so I didn't expect to have any use for Quicksilver. But its clipboard history window comes in handy for blogging: to get the title and URL of a story into a post I can copy-copy-switch-drag-drag instead of copy-switch-paste-switch-copy-switch-paste. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- BBC News | Technology | UK Edition ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 9.  Vodafone extends UK 3G net. Mobile telecoms giant Vodafone rolls out its 3G services to business users in major cities in the UK. 10.  Satellite to test Einstein theory. A satellite that will test Albert Einstein's Theory of Relativity is scheduled to launch later this month. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- NewsIsFree: Security ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 11.  Internet Explorer: Bogus Banking Email Allows Trojan Infection for Outlook Users "vulnerability ... 12.  Linux Forensics: The Law Enforcement and Forensic Examiner Introduction to Linux "Like the Windo... 13.  Microsoft: Overview of the WPA Wireless Security Update in Windows XP "This article discusses th... 14.  ZDNet: Why I'm not sending you viruses "Once upon a time, you could trust the return address on ... 4:15:16 AM    comment [] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Boing Boing ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.  Super-rugged PDA. TDS's Recon is a ruggedized PDA (alas, it runs MSFT's PDA operating system, not PalmOS or PocketLinux) Nice specs: To list the full array of certifications and specifications is truly mind numbing, but highlights include the ability to operate in temperatures anywhere between -30 to 60 degrees C, and altitudes of 15,000 feet. To withstand 26 consecutive drops from over four feet, and total immersion in up to one metre of water for up to 30 minutes. Link (via /.) 2.  Freely copy iTunes Music Store files. PlayFair is an open source app that strips Apple's DRM out of iTunes Music Store singles, allowing you to freely copy the music you pay for. It takes one of the iTMS Protected AAC Audio Files, decodes it using a key obtained from your iPod or Microsoft Windows system and then writes the new, decoded version to disk as a regular AAC Audio File. It then optionally copies the metadata tags that describe the song, including the cover art, to the new file. Link (Thanks, Rod!) 3.  Toronto Star on Eastern Standard Tribe. The Toronto Star has a wonderful review of Eastern Standard Tribe: The power of Eastern Standard Tribe draws on traditional storytelling elements -- tight plotting, sharp characterization and keen thematic treatment. The novel is immediately accessible, the near-future setting all too familiar. Despite the shifting between chronologies and tenses (first- to third-person throughout), Doctorow maintains an unrelenting pace; many readers will find themselves finishing the novel, as I did, in a single sitting. Link (Thanks, Jim!) 4.  Heath Row's WTF-con transcripts. Heath Row's flying fingers have produced an astonishing near-transcript of the proceedings at David Isenberg's WTF? conference, wherein tech, telco and policy wonks are having a hell of a chin-wag: The question I have is if this is the end of politics as we know it, or are we just being fooled by the flash and dash of MoveOn, Meetup, the blogosphere, self publishers, and the thing that got everybody in mu worlds attention, a presidential campaign that broke all sorts of records in raising money from small donors? Are we just seeing power and voice just as it ever was? There are two key features in our political situation. The first is money, and I can't remember what the second one is. That's absolutely right. Organized money, capital, is what organizes campaigns, determines who can campaign, and what policy gets discussed. What we need to remember is that organized people matters too. Link (Thanks, Heath!) 5.  Keychain camcorder. Philips has released a "keychain camcorder," which PC Magazine describes as a "thumb drive with a lens." It stores and plays MP3s and shoots stills and videos (admittedly, it doesn't do a stellar job at any of these tasks), and it's cheap(-ish) and you can keep it in the change-pocket of your jeans. Link (Thanks, Reid!) 3:14:55 AM    comment [] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Boing Boing ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.  Kaneda's motorcycle from anime classic "Akira". A fully functional recreation of the motorcycle driven by Kaneda, a character in the anime classic Akira (1988, Directed by Katsuhiro Otomo). This was shown at the Tokyo Motorcycle show on April 2nd. If the posts I'm seeing on blogs like this one are true, this is not the first attempt at creating a "real" version of Kaneda's bike, though it may well be the first to be both operational and a completely faithful replica. Any Boingboing readers with more intel are invited to spill it here. Link to manufacturer's site, Link to another website (in Japanese) with more details on both the bike and photos of a hot red leather biker jacket which I must own immediately. (at bottom of page). (thanks, Siege) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- New York Times: Technology ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 2.  Web Engines Plan to End Online Ads for Gambling. Google and Yahoo have decided to stop running advertisements for online casinos, a shift that could thwart the growth of Internet gambling. By Matt Richtel. 3.  A Heretical View of File Sharing. What if the industry is wrong, and file sharing is not hurting record sales? A new report suggests just that. By John Schwartz. 4.  Cable or Phone? Difference Can Be Taxing. Are you paying monthly taxes on your high-speed Internet connection? The answer, bizarrely, depends on your connection. By Matt Richtel. 5.  Supercomputer's Speed Isn't Superior. An ambitious effort to build an instant supercomputer fell short when a handful of balky PC's frustrated the team's effort to harness 700 computers in the college gymnasium. By John Markoff. 6.  Helping People on the Move Keep Addresses Up to Date. A company called Plaxo helps computer users keep their address books updated with the latest postal addresses and phone numbers. By Louise Story. 7.  SBC Negotiates a Deal to Let a Rival Use Its Lines. By Bloomberg News. 8.  Obstacles to E-Procurement. Small and medium companies are finding investments in software for online buying are often impossible to justify. By Bob Tedeschi. 9.  Patents as Economic Indicator. Trademark applications remain lower in some sectors, by one theory a litmus of the economy. By Sabra Chartrand. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Slashdot ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 10.  For sale: Eurotunnel Tunnel Boring Machine ---------------------------------------------------------------------- NewsIsFree: Security ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 11.  Biometric doubts see travellers photographed, fingerprinted 12.  WORM_SPYBOT.MR 2:14:36 AM    comment [] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The Register ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.  Microsoft's Gates dethroned as world's richest person by cheap furniture magnate. IKEA bests the Beast 1:14:15 AM    comment [] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CNET News.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.  S.F. Bay Area tops in wireless cities survey. The San Francisco Bay Area takes top honors in a survey of cities that offer the most wireless Internet connectivity, as the trend of increasing wireless access sweeps through U.S. cities as well as airports and college campuses. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Slashdot ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 2.  Pioneer Electron Beam DVD ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Hack the Planet ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 3.  Ali-Reza Adl-Tabatabai, Jay Bharadwaj, Marsha Eng, Jesse Fang, Brian T. Lewis, Brian R. Murphy, James Stichnoth, Michal Cierniak: Improving 64-Bit Java IPF Performance by Compressing Heap References. I thought of the same idea just the other day. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The Register ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 4.  'Segway of the sea' starts shipping Down Under. Lazy divers rejoice ---------------------------------------------------------------------- NewsIsFree: Security ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 5.  Waarschuwing voor nieuwe variant Sober worm 12:13:55 AM    comment []

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