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Firm invites experts to punch holes in ballot software. VoteHere, a maker of security software for voting machines, publishes the source code for its product online in hopes that peer review will reveal any weaknesses. |
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Google caught in anti-Semitic flap. A search listing that directs viewers to an anti-Semitic site results in an online petition and a "Google bombing" campaign. |
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Microsoft Launches 'Channel 9' Blog |
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Intel: Itanium, Xeon to be interchangeable. SAN JOSE, Calif. -- In a move to drive down the cost of systems built with its Itanium 2 microprocessor, Intel Corp. plans to make future versions of its Xeon and Itanium processors interchangeable at the socket level, the company confirmed on Tuesday. |
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PLM solution to offer best practice model. Leveraging knowledge of new product development from its customer database that includes Coca-Cola, Cadbury Schweppes, Campbell's Soup, and Rich Products,Formation Systems, a product life cycle management ISV, announced it will roll out Optiva Best Practice Solution for the food and beverage industries this week. |
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New Netsky worms change their stripes. Latest strains open back doors on infected machines |
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GNER to roll out ten Wi-Fi locos. WLAN trains by end of year By Tony Smith . |
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Nokia warns of handset sales slip. Profit warning By Andrew Orlowski . |
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Dude, you're getting a Dell - Oracle bundle. Cheap database. Cheap servers. By Ashlee Vance . |
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Lamer Service Coming Soon |
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Volunteer Security Pros Launch Free Vulnerability Database |
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Could open source elections close out hanging chads? |
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I should be doing a little more research on server administration diagnostics and performance analysis |
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[ GLSA 200404-03 ] Tcpdump Vulnerabilities in ISAKMP Parsing |
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Scanit: Browser Security Test |
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GCN: Group suggests 25 ways to improve IT security |
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Tech World: Windows to remain security risk for years to come "New Windows PCs will begin shippi... |
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ZDNet: ISS opens Witty worm patch to all customers "Internet Security Systems (ISS) has lifted t... |
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AMD and Intel 64-bit x86 chips close, but not fully compatible. According to a study published by In-Stat's "Microprocessor Report," AMD and Intel's 64-bit implementations are not 100% compatible. Close inspection of the architecture used by both companies shows that Intel, for the most part, followed AMD completely. By Ken "Caesar" Fisher. |
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Cosplay Casemod. 
BoingBoing reader LVX23 says, "Ever dreamed of having a PC case shaped like a life-size sexy anime maid? Me neither, but now that I see it in glorious detail with step-by-step instructions..."
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EarthLink to target eBay users' vanity. The auction site and Internet provider are teaming up to offer a co-branded Web portal with e-mail "vanity" addresses and auction-tracking services in an attempt to bring Earthlink some of eBay's fierce brand loyalty. |
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Technology Stocks Fall (Reuters). Reuters - U.S. technology stocks fell on Tuesday
as a disappointing forecast from cellphone giant Nokia Corp.
sparked a sell-off in heavyweights like IBM and Intel. The
blue-chip Dow ended slightly higher. |
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Canadian X-Prize Entry Gearing Up |
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U.S. Justice Department Prepares Assault on Pr0n |
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Could open source elections close out hanging chads? |
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Nokia warns of handset sales slip. Networks up, phones less than expected By Andrew Orlowski . |
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New Netsky Worms Change Their Stripes (PC World) |
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New Bugbear Worm Exploits Unpatched IE Vulnerability |
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Fortify Launches Security Tool For Software Developers |
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Why is LSD use down.  LSD use is way down in recent years, according to arrest records, hospital records, and surveys with high schoolers. Slate looked into it, and came up with two reasons why. First and foremost, the DEA busted a couple of guys in rural Kansas back in 2000, who supplied 95 percent of the country's acid. The other reason is the breakup of the Grateful Dead.
"The LSD market took an earlier blow in 1995, when Grateful Dead frontman Jerry Garcia died and the band stopped touring. For 30 years, Dead tours were essential in keeping many LSD users and dealers connected, a correlation confirmed by the DEA in a divisional field assessment from the mid-'90s. The spring following Garcia's death (the season the MTF surveys are administered), annual LSD use among 12th-graders peaked at 8.8 percent and began their slide. Phish picked up part of the Dead's fan base—and presumably vestiges of the LSD delivery system. At the end of 2000, Phish stopped touring as well, and perhaps not coincidentally, the MTF numbers for LSD began to plummet."
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Sun says Microsoft pact not a blow to standards. Despite a new window into Microsoft's proprietary technology, Sun Microsystems won't stop its call for open standards, executives and analysts say. |
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Pope to ping the faithful. The pontiff's "thought of the day" will be available first to Verizon Wireless subscribers; other carriers will follow, CNET News.com has learned. |
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Oracle, Dell Make a Small Business Deal (PC World). PC World - Low-end version of Oracle's database software will be offered on Dell's servers. |
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Compliance Apps Brave Regulatory Firestorm (NewsFactor). NewsFactor - Love it or hate it -- and most corporations
seem to hate it -- one fact about the
Sarbanes-Oxley Act is clear: Its voracious demand for
compliance documentation has created a new niche for
software and I.T. vendors. |
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Yankee Group: Linux Is No Bargain (NewsFactor). NewsFactor - Linux certainly has demonstrated appeal in some circles, with rabid fans
in the open-source community, but perceived savings of Linux deployments
in the enterprise do not reflect reality, according to a survey by
Yankee Group. |
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Investors see chance to lock in profits (FT.com). FT.com - US stocks ended mixed, as investors used a warning from Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia to take profits across all indices nearly all day. However, gains in a few blue chips in the last hour nudged the Dow just above where it started the day. |
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Real Problems |
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Software Vending Machines |
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New Netsky worms change their stripes. New versions of the Netsky e-mail worm are spreading on the Internet and may be the work of a different author than previous editions of that worm, according to antivirus software companies. |
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Volunteer Security Pros Launch Free Vulnerability Database |
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Gentoo: Portage Insecure temporary file vulnerability |
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Gentoo: kde Buffer overflow vulnerability |
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BugTraq: blaxxun3D(blaxxun Platform) 7 - Remote Buffer Overflow. Sender: Rafel Ivgi, The-Insider [theinsider at 012 dot net dot il] |
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Re: IBM Director 3.1 Windows Agent Remote DoS |
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[SECURITY] [DSA 477-1] New xine-ui packages fix insecure temporary file creation |
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[ GLSA 200404-01 ] Insecure sandbox temporary lockfile vulnerabilities in Portage |
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Support Contact Info |
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WORM_SDBOT.AA |
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Blaster Worm Still Powering Along |
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F-Secure warnt vor Sicherheitslücke |
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Security scare for business laptops |
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Security Alert: Sharepoint Vulnerability Could Lead to Theft of User Credentials |
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[product-security@apple.com: APPLE-SA-2004-04-05 Security Update 2004-04-05]] |
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[ GLSA 200404-02 ] KDE Personal Information Management Suite Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability |
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RE: Netsky.R, auto execute w/ IE6 ? |
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blaxxun3D(blaxxun Platform) 7 - Remote Buffer Overflow |
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Re: Netsky.R, auto execute w/ IE6 ? |
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Foundstone Labs Advisory: Citrix MetaFrame Password Manager 2.0 |
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The Register: Security budgets soared in 2003 "indicates that corporate budgets are becoming les... |
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SF Gate: Colleges leaking confidential data Students compromised by Internet intrusions "through... |
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Globe Technology: Arrests key win for NSA hackers "once boasted at a Las Vegas conference that h... |
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IGI 2: Covert Strike RCON Command Format String Vulnerability |
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Monit Web-based Administration Interface Multiple Vulnerabilities |
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Microsoft opens up code under Common Public License. Is Microsoft going open source? No, but they have released product code to the open source community for the first time. By Eric Bangeman. |
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Microsoft airs tools' source code online. In what may be the first time Microsoft has adopted a pure open-source approach for a product, the company reveals the code for its Windows Installer XML software. |
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Dell, Oracle expand alliance. The companies extend their alliance with an exclusive bundling agreement that will have Dell offering Oracle database software with some of its servers. |
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Briefly: Toshiba, SanDisk advance flash memory. Plus: Cisco, Huawei suspend lawsuit--again...Phone customers ready to cut cord...EMC unveils 'disk library'...Power-line chip firm hooks up to $23.5 million. |
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Sun nabs NAS technology. A deal with Procom Technology, a maker of network-attached storage systems, could let the server specialist plug a gap in its data-storage line-up. |
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Start-up Skype takes Net telephony to PDAs. The company releases a test version of PocketSkype, aiming to extend peer-to-peer VoIP calls to new devices. |
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Tech Stocks Fall, Dow Ends Up Slightly (Reuters). Reuters - U.S. technology stocks fell on Tuesday
as a disappointing forecast from cellphone giant Nokia
Corp.(NOK.N) sparked a sell-off in heavyweights like IBM and
Intel. The blue-chip Dow ended with a slight gain. |
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Mamma.com Says SEC Probing Stock Trading Activity (Reuters). Reuters - Mamma.com Inc. (MAMA.O), a
Montreal-based Internet search engine, on Tuesday said U.S.
securities regulators are informally probing recent activity in
its stock, which has almost quadrupled over the past month in
highly volatile trading. |
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Analysis of Spam, and a Proposed Solution |
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Openness and Security on Campus |
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Oracle and Dell take aim at SMBs. Dell will sell PowerEdge 2600 and 2650 servers running Windows or Red Hat Linux, along with a copy of Oracle's 10g Standard Edition One database, starting from a little over $4,100, the companies said Tuesday. Standard Edition One is a version of Oracle's database for use on one- and two-processor servers only. |
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MCI boosts secure remote access. Provider adds SSL VPN through partnership with Aventail |
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Security scare for business laptops |
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BugTraq: Foundstone Labs Advisory: Citrix MetaFrame Password Manager 2.0. Sender: Foundstone Labs [labs at foundstone dot com] |
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BugTraq: GNU Sharutils buffer overflow vulnerability.. Sender: Shaun Colley [shaunige at yahoo dot co dot uk] |
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Nokia warns of handset slip. Networks up, phones less than expected By Andrew Orlowski . |
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Lindows to change name, bows to Microsoft pressure. Serial entrepreneur Michael Robertson announces plans to change the product and online name for Lindows, because of ongoing legal troubles with Microsoft.
To assure that we can do business globally, we are in the process of selecting a different name for our web presence and product name. I believe it's the only way to respond to an onslaught from such a rich company, since we need to be able to continue to grow our business. (Only one of the richest companies in the world would launch 8 identical lawsuits from different countries.) Our US corporate name will remain Lindows Inc. since we have meaningful name recognition and product distribution.
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Lucent cans four executives in China. The employees were allegedly offering money in exchange for business, according to the company's SEC filing. |
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Governments and governance. Daniel Weitzner of the W3C says that the era in which Internet technology design can pretend to be neutral to public policy is over. |
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Dell to Load Oracle Software on Computer Servers (Reuters). Reuters - No. 2 personal computer maker Dell
Inc. (DELL.O) will begin selling database software from Oracle
Corp.(ORCL.O) that has been pre-loaded onto its computer
servers, an offer aimed at small and medium-sized businesses. |
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European stocks retreat on shock Nokia warning (AFP). AFP - European stock markets sank after Nokia, the world's leading mobile phone handset maker, issued a profit warning that sent tech shares tumbling on both sides of the Atlantic. |
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Vietnam Video Game Forgets Moral Quotient (AP). AP - Anyone who's seen Chuck Norris' "Missing in Action" understands that the hero isn't going to analyze Vietnam's moral ambiguities — he's going to karate chop them in the head. |
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Bay Area ranks No. 1 in WiFi access (SiliconValley.com). SiliconValley.com - The Bay Area is the No. 1 U.S. metropolitan market in wireless Internet access points, knocking out 2003 leader Portland, Ore., according to a survey commissioned by Intel. |
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Boomers Are Just As Inclined to Go Online (AP). AP - When Barbara Sloan needs directions to a friend's house, she doesn't consult the Rand McNally map sitting in the car. She goes first to the Internet, just as she does when she needs to pay bills, stay on top of diet news or find patterns to knit mittens for her new grandson. |
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Task Force Finds Blackout Was Preventable |
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SEC steps up Nortel audit probe. Nortel Networks says the US market watchdog has decided to conduct a formal inquiry into its accounts. |
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Google Gmail sparks privacy row. Popular search engine runs into trouble over its free e-mail service. |
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Bumper bookings at Lastminute. The online retailer says it expects strong business over the coming holiday season. |
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Mobile phones 'harm blood cells'. Mobile phone radiation may damage cells by increasing the forces they exert on each other, scientists say. |
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BugTraq: Support Contact Info. Sender: Mark Litchfield [mark at ngssoftware dot com] |
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BugTraq: [SECURITY] [DSA 477-1] New xine-ui packages fix insecure temporary file creation. Sender: [joey at infodrom dot org (Martin Schulze)] |
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BugTraq: [product-security@apple.com: APPLE-SA-2004-04-05 Security Update 2004-04-05]]. Sender: David Ahmad [da at securityfocus dot com] |
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BugTraq: LNSA-#2004-0008: Multiple security problems in Monit. Sender: Vincenzo Ciaglia [ciaglia at netwosix dot org] |
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Vulns: Aborior Encore Web Forum Remote Arbitrary Command Execution Vulnerability. Aborior's Encore Web Forum is a typical web based forum application designed for multiple user discussion, user polls and various other forum type features. It has a pro... |
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Vulns: Oracle Application Server Web Cache Multiple Unspecified Vulnerabilities. Oracle has reported multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in various Application Server Web Cache releases. These issues are remotely exploitable and may be exposed if th... |
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Vuln Info Disclosure may become illegal in France [was: Re: Bugfinder Being Indicted As Criminal] |
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Paper:Comparing binaries with graph isomorphisms |
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MDKSA-2004:026 - Updated mplayer packages fix remotely exploitable vulnerability |
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[SECURITY] [DSA 476-1] New heimdal packages fix cross-realm vulnerability |
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LNSA-#2004-0008: Multiple security problems in Monit |
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Trojan.Mitglieder.F |
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W32.Netsky.T@mm |
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GE Access Offers 60-Day Terms for Network Security Products |
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NetScreen Brings SSL Security To Collaboration |
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MSBlast Worm Not Root Of 2003 Blackout |
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Symantec Adds Remote Management To Handheld Anti-Virus Tool |
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BT gets into DRM. UK telco BT (formerly British Telecom) is getting into the DRM field. Will their broadband subscriber base help their DRM tech in an already crowded market? By Eric Bangeman. |
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Happy birthday, cellie. The LA Times ran an interesting article about how homemade (rather, prisonmade) greeting cards provide investigators with insight into gang activity behind bars. "That's where you get a lot of your information, from these birthday cards," said Officer Steve Preciado, a Lancaster gang investigator. "A lot of times their family members won't send them nothing. But the gangsters will put their nicknames on these cards, and where they're from, like 'Shorty from Pacoima.' So your job is to find out who Shorty is." Link (Thanks, Gabe!) |
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'Architects' to help redesign Adobe's future. The document software company appoints a pair of chief software architects, one focused on publishing and graphics, the other tending to its flagship PDF efforts. |
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ICANN asks judge to toss out lawsuit. The organization says VeriSign's antitrust and breach of contract claims are based on "future contingencies." |
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Start-up takes a crack at blocking hackers. Newly launched Fortify Software's tools focus on sewing up security loopholes in software products by catching them at the development stage. |
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Gmail not that creepy |
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Blogs put developers in Microsoft 'cockpit'. The software giant opens Channel 9, an informal site of weblogs and discussion forums intended to improve communication with developers by sharing "flight crew chat." |
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Nokia to Meet Forecast Despite Sales Drop (AP). AP - Nokia, the world's biggest cell phone maker, said its first quarter sales were down about 2 percent from last year, signaling that its sales were as much as 9 percent below expectations. But it said it should meet earnings expectations. |
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Nokia Profit Hit by Lack of Higher-Priced Handsets (Reuters). Reuters - Nokia trimmed its quarterly earnings
forecast on Tuesday and the world's largest mobile phone maker
said its handsets had not kept pace with consumer demands,
allowing rivals to take away market share. |
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Marine Sentenced for Selling Body Armor (AP). AP - A Marine has been convicted and sentenced to 10 years in prison for selling stolen body armor over the Internet. |
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Online Consoles Soar While PCs Stumble (AP). AP - Only a few years ago, online games still lurked on the fringe of American culture. |
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Scifi Channel to Make Ringworld Miniseries |
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Mozilla 1.7 to Become New Long-Lived Branch |
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MCI boosts secure remote access. MCI announced plans for a host of new security features and a new partnership on Tuesday that it said will provide more security for mobile and remote workers. |
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Softek emerges from Fujitsu. A management led buy-out has freed Softek from Fujitsu. |
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BugTraq: MDKSA-2004:026 - Updated mplayer packages fix remotely exploitable vulnerability. Sender: Mandrake Linux Security Team [security at linux-mandrake dot com] |
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BugTraq: Re: IBM Director 3.1 Windows Agent Remote DoS. Sender: Vess Nedevski [vdn4844 at bjc dot org] |
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BugTraq: [SECURITY] [DSA 476-1] New heimdal packages fix cross-realm vulnerability. Sender: Matt Zimmerman [mdz at debian dot org] |
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Vulns: eMule Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability. eMule is a freely available, open source peer-to-peer file sharing application. eMule uses the eDonkey file sharing protocol. It is available for the BSD, Linux, Microsof... |
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Vulns: Multiple Vendor Network Device Driver Frame Padding Information Disclosure Vulnerability. Network device drivers for several vendors have been reported to disclose potentially sensitive information to attackers.
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'What do we stand for now?' ask Sun staff. Letters What Am I Doing Here? By Andrew Orlowski . |
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The Joe Job DoS attack. Mail bomb attack brown alert By John Leyden . |
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6 Apr W32/Bugbear-E |
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The Crippling Effect of Mixed Mode |
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WORM_AGOBOT.HH |
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Arrests key win for NSA hackers |
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Possio's PX30 hackable wireless router |
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Serge Tchuruk (Alcatel) : « La phase de déclin de notre marché s’est achevée » |
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Blaster worm not responsible for NE blackout. When the Northeast had a massive power outage lasting 16+ hours, there was speculation that it was caused by the Blaster (MSBlast) worm. Fortunately, this was not the case... By Matt Woodward. |
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DSL's stealthy price increase plays tricks on subscribers. DSL companies are adding new itemized fees to their service in order to pay their share into the Federal Universal Service Fund, but the fees being assessed aren't new. By Ken "Caesar" Fisher. |
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Spymac beats Google to the 1G free email punch. A small Mac-related web hosting site offers a free gig's worth of email. The company promises no adwords or other forms of promotion linked to email contents. Instead, they're using the free service to promote Web hosting and auction services. Link to announcement on Spymac site, Link to related News.com story. (via Batelle, thanks also Jean-Luc) |
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Fact Squad's short MP3 news items. I just found out about the People For Internet Responsibility's (PFIR) Fact Squad Radio -- short MP3 snippets about current events. The latest one looks into the reason gas prices are so high. Link (Via Interesting People) |
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Customer Respect survey ranks Apple site below average (MacCentral). MacCentral - The Customer Respect Group recently released its Spring 2004 Computer Products & Services industry report, scoring companies on how they treat their online customers. While Apple received good marks for the simplicity of its site, its overall score still came in below the average score of 6.8 with a 6.6 out of ten. To understand how the Customer Respect Index numbers were tallied and what they mean, MacCentral spoke with Customer Respect Group President Roger Fairchild. |
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Mobile phone giant Nokia stuns investors with profit warning (AFP). AFP - Nokia, the world's leading mobile phone maker, sent telecom shares tumbling around the world by warning that earnings would be worse than expected because of weak handset sales. |
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Nokia Market Losses Fail to Dent Sector Confidence (Reuters). Reuters - A sales shortfall by mobile phone
market leader Nokia (NOK1V.HE) sent its stock tumbling 18
percent but its impact on the broader wireless sector was
confined to the Finnish company's most immediate suppliers. |
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Music file-sharing does not hurt CD sales: study (AFP). AFP - Peer-to-peer (P2P) sharing of music files over the Internet does not hurt new music sales, contrary to what some music companies fear, a new study shows. |
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Recharge Batteries in 30 Secs |
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Dan Gillmor Reconsiders Linux on the Desktop |
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Travellers move on with broadband. A remote broadband scheme could improve links between travellers and the local government in Cambridgeshire. |
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Report: Dell to bundle servers with Oracle database. In a bid to increase their sales to small-business customers, Dell Inc. and Oracle Corp. plan to announce Tuesday a deal to sell Dell servers preinstalled with Oracle's database software, according to The Wall Street Journal |
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NHS chief mooted as UK's IT 'CIO'. Actually put somebody in charge? Crikey... By John Lettice . |
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Tiscali is UK's 'fastest-growing' broadband ISP. Bulldog in £15.99 ADSL offer By Tim Richardson . |
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EMC and Brocade profess their love for standards. Crow-eating compliance act By Ashlee Vance . |
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GNER to roll out ten Wi-Fi locos. WLAN trains in service by year's end By Tony Smith . |
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Are fingerprints really infallible, unique ID?. It seems possible that they're not By John Lettice . |
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FTGate Web Mail Cross-Site Scripting and Path Exposure |
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WORM_NETSKY.T |
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Asian Linux project takes shape. China's Red Flag Software and Japan's Miracle Linux release a beta edition of "Asianux"--a version of the open-source OS designed for Asia. |
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Cisco, Huawei suspend lawsuit--again. Cisco Systems extends the suspension of its copyright lawsuit against Huawei Technologies another six months. |
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Briefly: Cisco, Huawei suspend lawsuit--again. Plus: Phone customers ready to cut cord...EMC unveils 'disk library'...Power-line chip firm hooks up to $23.5 million. |
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Kazaa, eDonkey brace for attack. The file-sharing sites are expecting a distributed denial-of-service attack from new variants of the NetSky worm, starting Wednesday. |
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U.S. Stocks Retreat, Nokia Tumbles (Reuters). Reuters - Stocks sagged in late morning trading
on Tuesday, with the technology sector bearing the brunt of the
selling, after the world's largest mobile phone maker, Nokia
Corp.(NOK.N), cut its first-quarter earnings forecast. |
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Maine Hopes to Expand Laptops to H.S. (AP). AP - Elana Siegel, a seventh grader at Moore Middle School in Portland, said she's learning how the stock market works and how human cells divide with the help of her laptop computer. |
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Wireless Internet Popular in SE Michigan (AP). AP - Wireless Internet is spreading faster in southeast Michigan than any other metropolitan area across the country, according to a new national study. |
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The Sound and the Fury (Ziff Davis). Ziff Davis - In the future, will we be using technology to track our lives? |
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Contractors to Bear Burden if SCO Chases AU Govt |
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Hack Your Ride |
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Nokia warns of lower sales. Nokia now estimates net sales of €6.6 billion ($7.9 billion as of March 31, the last day of the period being reported), a decline of 2 percent when compared to the same quarter last year, it said in a statement. The Espoo, Finland, company had previously expected growth of between 3 percent and 7 percent for the period. |
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HP introduces FATA disk. Serial ATA, the alternative disk technology to Fiber Channel, just got its own alternative. |
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BugTraq: Paper: Comparing binaries with graph isomorphisms. Sender: Todd Sabin [tsabin at razor dot bindview dot com] |
| 14. |
Vulns: SGI IRIX ftpd Multiple Denial Of Service Vulnerabilities. The FTP server included with SGI IRIX is vulnerable to multiple denial of service vulnerabilities.
The first issue is reported to present itself when an ftp link is made... |
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Vulns: SGI IRIX FTP Logging Failure Weakness. The IRIX ftp server implementation has been reported prone to a logging failure weakness.
It has been reported that when the IRIX ftp server is configured to allow anony... |
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Wi-Fi biz gears up for roaming offensive. Aims to attract service providers and their customers By Tony Smith . |
| 17. |
NHS chief mooted as UK's IT 'CIO'. Actually put somebody in charge? There's a good idea... By John Lettice . |
| 18. |
UK.biz ignores money laundering rules. No questions asked By John Leyden . |
| 19. |
Tiscali is UK's 'fastest-growing broadband ISP. Bulldog in £15.99 ADSL offer By Tim Richardson . |
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EMC and Brocade profess their love for standards. Fine line between hate and compliance By Ashlee Vance . |
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Les virus : dis... comment ça marche ? |
| 22. |
Fortify Software analyse la sécurité du code source |
| 23. |
Premier trimestre 2004 : record battu pour les alertes virales |
| 24. |
CERT Coordination Center : Rapport annuel 2003 |
| 25. |
Virus : conséquences sur 2003 et perspectives sur 2004 |
| 26. |
Comment sécuriser du Windows avec de l'UNIX |
| 27. |
Les "Black angels" dévoilent de failles Cisco |
| 28. |
Talking about Securing VoWLAN |
| 29. |
Reducing "Human Factor" Mistakes |
| 30. |
Virtual File System - /proc |
| 31. |
Hiding Files |
| 32. |
Better Living Through Mod Security |
| 33. |
Guide to ARP Spoofing |
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SMOKE="gentoo" |
| 35. |
Nessus - Doing More with Less |
| 36. |
Issue #33 |
| 37. |
WORM_AGOBOT.LX |
| 38. |
Online phishing uses new bait |
| 39. |
F-Secure warns on software flaw |
| 40. |
Blog :: NSA Internet Taps |
| 41. |
Yellow Alert: Bagle.U verbreitet sich rasant |
| 42. |
Sicherheitsleck in Bluetooth-Handys |
| 43. |
Generalangriff per Google-Wurm: Mythos oder Realität? |
| 44. |
Umfangreicher Exploit für Sicherheitslecks bei Cisco |
| 45. |
Symantec erhöht Gefahrenstufe von Netsky.Q |
| 46. |
Neues URL-Spoofing-Leck im Internet Explorer |
| 47. |
Sicherheitsupdate auch für Jaguar |
| 48. |
Sicherheitslücke in Winamp |
| 49. |
McAfee schliesst Sicherheitslücken in Cisco-Produkten |
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Bush Sloganator reborn. 
Dave has created a replica of the Bush Sloganator, which was taken down by its authors a couple weeks ago because Some People were making funny signs, like this one, which I whipped up to bring to tonight's Seder.
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Microsoft airs tools' source code online. The code's release is one of the software giant's first attempts at adopting a pure open-source approach with one of its products. |
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Nokia to Meet Forecast Despite Sales Drop (AP). AP - Nokia, the world's biggest cell phone maker, said its first quarter sales were down about 2 percent from last year, signaling that its sales were as much as 9 percent below expectations. But it said it should meet earnings expectations. |
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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. |
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Giant Sub-Woofer |
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Privacy Complaint Against Google's GMail Service |
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Nokia shares fall amid sales fear. Shares in the mobile giant drop 16%, after it says sales in the first quarter will not be as strong as expected. |
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Microsoft: Open source not cheaper. By selling software through the traditional commercial model, Microsoft has been seen in some circles as the odd man out when it comes to the popular open source movement. But the company argues that it has a place in the open source model and that open source does not necessarily mean less expensive than Windows. At the recent Open Source Business Conference in San Francisco, InfoWorld Editor at Large Paul Krill met with Microsoft’s Jason Matusow, manager of Microsoft’s Shared Source Initiative program, to discuss Shared Source, Linux, and Windows. |
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Toshiba, Sandisk develop 4Gb flash memory. The new chip can store 4Gb (512KB) of data and the companies said they are also working on a second new chip that contains two of the 4Gb chips inside a single case for what is effectively an 8Gb (1GB) flash memory chip. |
| 10. |
Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac to ship in May. Microsoft Corp.'s Macintosh Business Unit on Tuesday will announce that Office 2004 for Mac will ship the third week of May. |
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Forrester questions Linux security |
| 12. |
Moving to Linux may not save money--yet |
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Skype to mobilise the PDA. VoIP on the move By Tim Richardson . |
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Intel Continues Opposition to China's Wireless Security Protocol |
| 15. |
A New Approach to Fortify Your Software |
| 16. |
StillSecure Launches End-Point Security Solution |
| 17. |
The Internet surveillance cash cow |
| 18. |
800,000 cards overcharged at Wal-Marts |
| 19. |
Makers of Phone Program Skype Go Mobile |
| 20. |
Open source has no future in RP |
| 21. |
One nation under Internet Protocol |
| 22. |
Apple releases Security Updates for Panther, Jaguar |
| 23. |
W32.Randex.PI |
| 24. |
Perl win32_stat Function Buffer Overflow Vulnerability |
| 25. |
Texutil Symlink Vulnerability |
| 26. |
Monit Multiple Vulnerabilities |
| 27. |
IBM Director 3.1 Windows Agent Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability |
| 28. |
Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server Multiple Cross Site Scripting Vulnerabilities |
| 29. |
Macromedia Dreamweaver Remote Database Scripts Database Access Vulnerability |
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Nullsoft Winamp in_mod.dll Heap Overflow Vulnerability |
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Dr Menlo's Simpsons spec-script. Dr Menlo has given himself one year to get a writing gig, or he will commit suicide, "live on the net." He's posting soem writing samples to help potential employers decide to save his life. Latest is this very funny spec script for The Simpsons.
HOMER
Ooh, ooh, I don't know where to begin! Oh! The Atkins Ride!
He runs over, under the Atkins Ride sign and onto a conveyor belt. There on the conveyor belt running adjacent at stomach level, plates are set down with bacon, steak, cheese, pork rinds, etc. He gobbles them all up and gets off the conveyor belt at ride's end, pats his stomach:
HOMER
I feel thinner already.
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Stocks Fall; Techs Hit by Nokia Warning (Reuters). Reuters - Stocks sagged at Tuesday's open, led
by weakness in the technology sector, after the world's largest
mobile phone maker, Nokia Corp.(NOK.N), said its earnings would
be at the low end of expectations. |
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Why We Need a Second Moore's Law |
| 4. |
Browsing the Web, One Sentence at a Time |
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Heath Row blogged Isenberg's WTF conference. |
| 6. |
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. |
| 7. |
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. |
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Bumper bookings at Lastminute.com. The online retailer says it expects strong business over the coming holiday season. |
| 9. |
Travellers move on with broadband. A remote broadband scheme could improve links between travellers and the local authority in Cambridgeshire. |
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Microsoft takes computing to Indian masses. Microsoft Corp. has tied up with the government of the Indian state of Orissa to support computing in the local Oriya language, under a program called Project Bhasha. Bhasha is the Oriya word for language. |
| 11. |
Microsoft kicks off ISV road show. Microsoft will lug out the marketing drum for its next generation of products later this month when it kicks off its Worldwide ISV Road Show that will travel to 11 cities in nine countries. |
| 12. |
Web development tool gets Linux boost. Innoopract on Tuesday will ship a version of its W4T (Worldwide Web Windowing Toolkit) Eclipse Plug-In development tool that adds Linux as a development platform. |
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Milking the Internet surveillance cash cow. Wiretap-friendly Web By Annalee Newitz . |
| 14. |
UK firms must monitor staff IMs. US rules mean end to cosy workplace chats By John Leyden . |
| 15. |
Intel launches Wi-Fi brokering service. RoamPoint likely to put industry noses out of joint By Guy Kewney, Newswireless.net . |
| 16. |
OFT offers guidelines for online auctions. Be careful - it's a jungle out there By Lester Haines . |
| 17. |
IT firms lack 'customer respect'. Online punters treated like dogs By Tim Richardson . |
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Introduction to enterprise Linux |
| 19. |
Top ten tips to make attackers’ lives hell |
| 20. |
Arrests key win for NSA hackers |
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Introduction to enterprise Linux |
| 22. |
Top ten tips to make attackers’ lives hell |
| 23. |
Arrests key win for NSA hackers |
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Macworld Expo Boston registration opens (MacCentral). MacCentral - IDG World Expo has opened registration for this summer's Macworld Conference & Expo, set to take place at the new Boston Convention & Exhibition Center in Boston, Mass. from July 12 - 15, 2004. This marks the East Coast event's return from New York to Boston. |
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Looks like the UserLand server maintenance went pretty smoothly. (Oops, I spoke too soon; looks like it's still going on.) |
| 3. |
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. |
| 4. |
The Inquirer: Nforce3 Pro 250 2 processor pics revealed. |
| 5. |
The Register: Sony talks up PS3. Not too surprising that Sony's planning a PS3X or a super-cheap PS2 after PS3 comes out. |
| 6. |
The Register: Why Sun threw in the towel in Mankind vs. Microsoft. |
| 7. |
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. |
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Telstra services buy could harm Oz services scene. Kaz for concern By Ashlee Vance . |
| 9. |
Metronomy delays free-PC giveaway. Bogus applications lead to theft fears By Tim Richardson . |
| 10. |
Germans unleash electronic guide dog. GPS-enabled iPAQ helps blind By Jan Libbenga . |
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Microsoft finds Fibre Channel tool. Exchange acceptance as well By Ashlee Vance . |
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Revenues match rise in security threats |
| 13. |
Students compromised by Internet intrusions |
| 14. |
Possio's PX30 hackable wireless router |
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The Internet surveillance cash cow |
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Running BIND9 in a chroot cage using NetBSD 1.6.2 |
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Perl win32_stat Function Buffer Overflow Vulnerability |
| 18. |
F-Secure BackWeb Privilege Escalation Vulnerability |
| 19. |
MSBlast worm niet verantwoordelijk voor stroomuitval |
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20 maanden cel voor Nigeriaan wegens e-mailfraude |
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ISS Witty worm patch voor iedereen beschikbaar |
| 22. |
Beveiligen van telewerkers nieuwste rage |
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JS_INOR.M |
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TROJ_MAGICON.B |
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WORM_AGOBOT.HR |
| 26. |
I'm Sorry, Dave, You're Speeding |
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Chameleon Card Changes Stripes |
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MSBlast not to blame for blackout, report says |
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Revenues match rise in security threats |
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Students compromised by Internet intrusions |
| 31. |
Possio's PX30 hackable wireless router |
| 32. |
Revenues match rise in security threats |
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The Internet surveillance cash cow |
| 34. |
Running BIND9 in a chroot cage using NetBSD 1.6.2 |
| 35. |
Mise à jour vers Winamp version 5.03 recommandée |
| 36. |
Zone Labs racheté par Check Point |
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Sharing the love--and data--through SharePoint. Microsoft's SharePoint is the cornerstone of a plan to change the way office folks work, emphasizing real-time collaboration and universal access to documents. |
| 2. |
Stealth DSL price increases loom. DSL providers prepare to slap customers with "regulatory" fees, signaling confidence in continued demand for broadband. |
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One nation under Internet Protocol. J. William Gurley considers the likely timetable for a single, super fast pipe into the U.S. home. |
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Microsoft-Sun deal gives both an ally (USATODAY.com). USATODAY.com - European antitrust regulators' insistence that Microsoft share software coding information with Sun Microsystems may have been the catalyst for ending high-tech's Cold War. |
| 5. |
BT Enters Software Business to Protect Film, Music (Reuters). Reuters - British telecoms giant BT Group (BT.L)
launched a new software business on Tuesday to protect music,
movies and photographs from digital piracy. |
| 6. |
Taiwan's TSMC to Make Chips for Microsoft Xbox (Reuters). Reuters - TSMC (2330.TW), the world's largest
contract maker of semiconductors, will make chips for future
Microsoft (MSFT.O) Xbox game consoles, the two companies said
on Tuesday. |
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Ben Kweller lets the sunshine in; Chris Rock phones home (USATODAY.com). USATODAY.com - Welcome to my entertainment blog. I update this page throughout the day, so come back soon. E-mail me comments and suggestions at wmatheson@usatoday.com. |
| 8. |
Wanted: High-Tech Gadgets for New Internet Protocol (Reuters). Reuters - Anywhere, anything. |
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Google's Gmail sparks privacy row. Popular search engine runs into trouble over its free e-mail service. |
| 10. |
Digital switch 'incentives' urged. Media watchdog calls for financial carrot to persuade TV viewers to go digital. |
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Vast free vulnerability listing goes live on Net |
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Security budgets soared in 2003. No Catch 22 for pure play vendors By Datamonitor . |
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Hacker defaced binnen 10 minuten 27 sex sites |
| 14. |
Hackers aanvallen is geen verstandig idee |
| 15. |
Lekke software door afstand IT pro's en ontwikkelaars |
| 16. |
Oekraïense hacker voor Amerikaanse rechter |
| 17. |
Schwere Sicherheitslücke in Winamp |
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Macromedia Flash 7.0 r19 Vulnerable to DOS |
| 19. |
Internet Explorer susceptible to remote denial of service |
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Sake marinade softens wood enough to use as speaker cones. A JVC engineer has cracked the age old problem: how do you make wood pliable enough to shape it into a speaker cone? The answer: marinate it in sake.
Then, five years ago, a colleague, Satoshi Imamura, was dining at one of his favorite restaurants. Imamura contemplated the texture and malleability of the dried squid he was chewing. He asked the waiter how it had been prepared, and the waiter explained that the squid had been soaked in sake.
Imamura and Kuwahata tried soaking the speaker wood in sake. It worked! (They also tried Suntory whiskey; it didn't. Imamura isn't sure why, but he theorizes that there is something unique about the acids in sake, which is simply fermented, as opposed to those in whiskey, which is distilled after fermentation.)
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(via /.) |
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Every copy of Reason customized with sat photos of subscribers' homes. The next ish of Reason magazine will be mailed out to 40,000 subscribers, with 40,000 custom covers, each bearing a satellite photo of the individual subscriber's neighborhood, with the subscriber's house circled. The point? "Everybody, including our magazine, has been harping on the erosion of privacy and the fears of a database nation. It is a totally legit fear. But they make our lives unbelievably easier as well, in terms of commercial transactions, credit, you name it."
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Administrators at censoring "college" have never heard of Rushdie. Here's more on the Academy of Art College's ridiculous censorship campaign (which has so far resulted in the dismissal of an instructor for teaching a David Foster Wallace story, and the physical barring of Lemony Snicket from entering the school to give a talk).
The dim-bulb administrators of this "school" received a note of disapproval from Salman Rushdie, the current head of the PEN American Center, and dismissed it, because they'd never heard of Rushdie or his work.
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(via The Mumpsimus) |
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Tech M&A rises in first quarter (TheDeal.com). TheDeal.com - Tech companies spent $63.4 billion on M&A in the first quarter, although $41 billion was the AT&T Wireless buy. |
| 5. |
Europe's War on E-Mail Spam Claims First Scalps (Reuters). Reuters - E-mail spammers take heed: Europeans are
finally winning legal tussles against digital peddlers of
get-rich-quick schemes, sexual aids and pornography. |
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Insider's Look at High-Tech High-Speed Navy Vessel |
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The Internet surveillance cash cow. Profiting from the FBI's bid for a wiretap-friendly Internet By Annalee Newitz . |
| 8. |
TechnoDepot hits new heights. Cash'n'Carrion Top apparel atop the world By CashnCarrion . |
| 9. |
Skype goes mobile. VoIP on the move By Tim Richardson . |
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The Bigger They Are .... ... the bigger their screwups. Wal-Mart screws up big time, double- and triple-billing customers who shopped there last week and paid by credit card. The retail giant says the problem -- a computer glitch -- is fixed, but advises customers to check their bill. |
| 11. |
Paper Chase on a Snowy Hill. The point of the competition is to do something natural laws say you shouldn't be able to do. In this case, build a snowboard out of papier mâché and race it without having the thing ripped to shreds. By Michelle Delio. |
| 12. |
The Case in Favor of Steroids. Drugs make athletes better. So why ban them? Let's regulate instead. By G. Pascal Zachary from Wired magazine. |
| 13. |
Going Online to Gird the Grid. Electric utilities are rolling out smart thermostats that enable consumers to use their browsers to avoid using energy during peak times. John Gartner reports from State College, Pennsylvania. |
| 14. |
Kurosawa Classic Rehashed as Game. In a grudge match between Seven Samurai 20XX, the video game, and Seven Samurai, the movie, the flick would win hands down. Still, the game puts up a worthy fight. A review by Jason Silverman. |
| 15. |
Traveling Down the Memory Hole. Among the more popular items on a website offering visitors access to hard-to-find government documents, some of which have been censored, are a trove of items pertaining to the World Trade Center attacks. By Julia Scheeres. |
| 16. |
Fake Blood, Real Controversy. An artificial blood product, possibly better than the real stuff, may land in your body without your permission. Not surprisingly, watchdogs are barking. By Randy Dotinga. |
| 17. |
Find the Download in a Haystack. For years, people had to wade through ads and pitches for premium services to download the free version of the Real player. Now, RealNetworks is trying to win users back by restraining its aggressive tactics. Will it work? By Katie Dean. |
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Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities |
| 19. |
Mandrake update for mplayer |
| 20. |
OpenPKG update for mc |
| 21. |
Waarschuwing voor zeer kritiek lek in Winamp |
| 22. |
Lek in F-Secure MIMEsweeper laat virussen door |
| 23. |
Security features Windows XP SP2 twee jaar te laat |
| 24. |
Oorlog tegen spam; De tussenstand |
| 25. |
Security updates voor Panther en Jaguar |
| 26. |
Recordaantal virusalerts in maart |
| 27. |
Amendment IV, invalid on the DC Metro? |
| 28. |
Task Force Touts Fed Regs (TechWeb) |
| 29. |
INFOSEC ECONOMICS: New Approaches To Improve Your Data Defenses (TechWeb) |
| 30. |
New Sober, Netsky Worms Use Social Engineering To Trick Recipients (TechWeb) |
| 31. |
New Worms Claim They're Clean (TechWeb) |
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Skype Announces Mobile Internet Phone Calls (Reuters). Reuters - Internet phone company Skype
Technologies said on Tuesday it has developed a version of its
free calling software for handheld computers, a move that could
undercut existing mobile-phone carriers. |
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Unprecedented level of Virus Alerts |
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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. |
| 4. |
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. |
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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. |
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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. |
| 7. |
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. |
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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. |
| 9. |
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. |
| 10. |
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. |
| 11. |
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. |
| 12. |
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. |
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6 Apr W32/Netsky-T |
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Protect Your Network Against VPN-Introduced Threats |
| 15. |
She's Baaaaaaaack! |
| 16. |
Sidebar: Security Log |
| 17. |
Cheap Scanning Comes at a Price |
| 18. |
New products focus on client security |
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Should the U.S. dump existing telecom laws?. Patchwork legislation is being used to address deficiencies in the 1996 Telecom Act. Vint Cerf thinks there is a better solution. By Fred "zAmboni" Locklear. |
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Ganguro girls through a Black artist's eyes. 
Iona Rozeal Brown's works are an intercultural hybrid: a black artist using a Japanese style to paint Japanese women obsessed with black American culture.
Link to NYT story (registration required) (
Thanks, Susannah) |
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Many Hospitals Resist Computerized Patient Care. For years, technology has been held out as a key to curbing the scourge of medical errors. But hospitals and doctors say they have good reason to be cautious about the new technology. By Milt Freudenheim. |
| 4. |
Nortel Networks Is Target of Formal S.E.C. Inquiry. Nortel Networks said that the United States Securities and Exchange Commission had begun a formal investigation into its accounting. By Bernard Simon. |
| 5. |
In Math, Computers Don't Lie. Or Do They?. A leading mathematics journal has finally accepted that one of the longest-standing problems in the field has been conclusively solved. By Kenneth Chang. |
| 6. |
Sleek New Devices Help Low-Vision Patients See. The Quicklook, an amalgamation of a tiny digital video camera and a four-inch liquid-crystal display screen, acts as an electronic magnifying glass. By Kenneth Chang. |
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Microsoft Office 2004 to ship in May, pre-order available (MacCentral). MacCentral - Microsoft Corp.'s Macintosh Business Unit (MacBU) on Tuesday will announce that Office 2004 for Mac will ship the third week of May. While the release is still six weeks away, Mac users can pre-order Office from several online retailers beginning today. Analysts feel that the contribution that Office makes to the Macintosh platform cannot be underestimated in Apple's push for more customers. |
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Microsoft to Release New Office Software (AP). AP - The latest version of Microsoft Corp.'s Office software for Apple computers will be in stores in the third week of May, the company said. |
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Makers of Phone Program Skype Going Mobile (AP). AP - The peer-to-peer phone program Skype, which lets computer users make free calls to each other anywhere in the world, is going mobile, with a version being released Tuesday for Wi-Fi-equipped digital assistants. |
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Linux for iPod Matures |
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New workaround for Apple DRM. PlayFair undoes FairPlay By Andrew Orlowski . |
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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? |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Report: System failures, not MSBlast, led to blackout |
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Worm Writers Continue Verbal Warfare |
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Une mise en examen injustifiée pour Guillermito |
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She's Baaaaaaaack! |
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Technology Briefs |
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Security's Weakest Link |
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Sidebar: Security Log |
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New products focus on client security |
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Cheap Scanning Comes at a Price |
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CERT/CC Annual Report |
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