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Feds seek limits on wiretap costs. New York's attorney general urges the FCC to put a cap on how much cell phone service providers charge law enforcement to wiretap calls. |
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Legal bills ding Intel's earnings. The chipmaker's first quarter falls a penny short of expectations, after Intel settles a patent suit Intergraph brought against it. |
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Maryland lawmakers pass antispam legislation. The law would make spamming a criminal offense, with penalties that could include up to 10 years of jail time. |
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New software will improve Mars rovers' travel (AFP). AFP - The two rovers probing Mars have been refreshed with new software allowing them to travel longer distances and extend their missions until September, NASA said. |
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Hackers Strike Advanced Computing Networks (washingtonpost.com). washingtonpost.com - Hackers infiltrated powerful supercomputers at colleges, universities and research institutions in recent weeks, disrupting one of the nation's largest online research networks for several days and raising concerns among computer security experts that the compromised machines could be used to attack specific Web sites or parts of the Internet. |
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Microsoft Announces Three More Critical Vulnerabilities |
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IDC: revenue rises for largest IT services vendors. The 30 largest IT services vendors in the world collectively increased their revenue 10.9 percent to $209.2 billion in 2003 over 2002, healthy growth driven primarily by sales of outsourcing services, an IDC analyst said Tuesday. |
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Intergraph settlement weighs on Intel Q1 results. Intel Corp. hit its own narrowed targets for first-quarter revenue, but just missed Wall Street estimates for revenue and earnings per share due in part to the company's settlement of a legal dispute with Intergraph Corp., Intel announced Tuesday. |
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McDonald's offers low carbs and high bandwidth. No one can accuse McDonald's of not staying abreast of the latest trends. Just recently they began offering a revised menu to keep up with the current low carb diet craze in the United States. Now the world's largest food retailer is offering Wi-Fi access along with their burgers. |
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Microsoft issues flood of critical patches. Software fixes address a wide range of products |
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Google values its own privacy. How does it value yours?. Analysis GMail meets G-Men By Andrew Orlowski . |
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La variante Netsky.Q attaque les sites de p2p et de piratage |
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Un cheval de Troie pour les systèmes MacOS X, MP3Concept |
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Ad-aware referencefile 01R286 11.04.2004 |
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Concern grows over browser security |
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Norton AntiVirus Virus Definitions April 12, 2004 |
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Ad-aware referencefile 01R288 12.04.2004 |
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ZoneAlarm 4.5.594.000 |
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AntiVir Personal Edition 6.24.00.10 |
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Security Update for Windows Server 2003/Windows XP 64 Bit Edition (KB837001) |
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Security Update for Windows XP 64 Bit Edition (KB837001) |
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Security Update for Exchange 5.0 (KB834130) |
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Security Update for Windows NT4 Option Pack (KB310669) |
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Security Update for Windows XP 64 Bit Edition (KB835732) |
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Security Update for Windows NT Server, Terminal Server Edition (KB828741) |
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Security Update for Windows XP 64 Bit Edition (KB828741) |
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Security Update for Windows Server 2003 (KB837001) |
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The Cleaner Database v3544 |
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Microsoft Security Bulletins Released for April, ISC Webcast on Wednesday |
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Microsoft Windows 14 Vulnerabilities |
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Gentoo: scorched3d Gentoo: 'Scorched 3D' vulnerability |
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Conectiva: mod_python Conectiva: 'mod_python' DoS |
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Conectiva: squid Conectiva: 'squid' ACL bypass vulnerability |
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Microsoft Jet Database Engine Buffer Overflow |
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Avalanche de vulnérabilités sur Microsoft Windows |
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TROJ_VB.BT |
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IBM sells PowerPC 400 series assets. IBM moves ahead with its Power Everywhere initiative, selling off its PowerPC 400 series assets to Applied Micro Circuits Corporation By Eric Bangeman. |
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Hacker attacks target US supercomputers. Among the resources hit was the National Science Foundation's TeraGrid project, a distributed computing project aimed at developing the world's largest distributed computer for scientific research. By Ken "Caesar" Fisher. |
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MoSoSo. New jargon from Quake legend Alice Taylor: "MoSoSo." Social software for mobile phones.
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AmEx's dumb-ass trademark threats. Brad Templeton -- the long-time moderator of rec.humor.funny and host of the rhf archives -- has received a cease-and-desist notice from AmEx's lawyers over a 13 year old joke called "American Expressway." Brad, being fully aware of the Constitutionally protected right to parody and how that trumps trademark, has posted a link to the joke, the C&D, and his response, which pokes vicious fun at AmEx's lawyers at the firm of Dewey, Cheatham and Howe:
hould you ever feel your reputation lost or stolen by free speech and satire, just one call gets LVM to write a threatening cease and desist letter -- usually on the same day -- citing all sorts of important sounding laws but ignoring the realities of parody. Most innocent web sites will cave in, not knowing their rights. LVM will pretend it has never read cases like L.L. Bean, Inc. v. High Society and dozens of others. There's no preset limit on the number of people you can threaten, so you can bully as much as you wish.
After all, Being Giant and Intimidating has its Privileges.
American Express Lawyers: Don't leave your home page without them.
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Earnings alert: Intel dinged, Infosys sings. Legal bills pinch earnings at chipmaker Intel...India's Infosys becomes a billion-dollar company...Yahoo beats the Street and splits its stock. |
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Adware maker challenges Utah anti-spyware law. Online advertising software maker WhenU says the first U.S. anti-spyware statute set to take effect next month could harm its business. |
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SRI International eyeing research center in Taiwan. SRI, a U.S. research organization instrumental in the creation of the Net, is in talks that could lead to it opening a research and development facility in Taiwan. |
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Symantec, EarthLink plan new security service model. Security giant Symantec hopes to continue its rapid growth in the consumer security market by offering a month-by-month firewall and antivirus subscription package bundled into EarthLink's service. |
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Hynix Drops Plan to Sell Assets to Citigroup. Emboldened by a rise in global chip prices, Hynix Semiconductor said it had ended talks to sell its nonmemory assets to a Citigroup unit. By Samuel Len. |
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Infosys's Annual Sales Exceed $1 Billion. Infosys Technologies, the bellwether of the Indian software-services industry, posted more than $1 billion in annual sales. By Saritha Rai. |
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Calif. Video Game Bills Fail in Committee (Reuters). Reuters - Two bills designed to restrict the
access of minors to violent video games on Tuesday failed to
clear a committee of California's state Assembly, killing them
for 2004 unless the committee changes its mind. |
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Possible Time Warner Charges Could Smooth IPO Path (Reuters). Reuters - Time Warner Inc. may face formal
charges over accounting at its online unit, but a resolution to
the 20-month-old probe could allow the company to proceed with
a possible IPO of its cable unit, experts said on Tuesday. |
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FDA Approves Human Brain Implant Devices (AP). AP - For years, futurists have dreamed of machines that can read minds, then act on instructions as they are thought. Now, human trials are set to begin on a brain-computer interface involving implants. |
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Intel Launches DRM-Enabled CPUs for Phones and Handhelds |
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Elsewhere: Federal agencies must set security benchmark, says US workgroup. Representatives from IT trade and security organisations are calling for federal agencies to force IT suppliers to build more secure products.
The Corporate Information ... |
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Elsewhere: Task force puts security responsibility on CEOs. A security task force of private industry experts, academics and government officials released a report on Monday urging CEOs and boards of directors to take responsibili... |
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News: Browser-based attacks on the up. The Register By John Leyden [john dot leyden at theregister dot co dot uk] |
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News: Microsoft releases new patches for Windows flaws. The Associated Press By Allison Linn |
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BugTraq: EEYE: Windows Local Security Authority Service Remote Buffer Overflow. Sender: Marc Maiffret [mmaiffret at eeye dot com] |
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BugTraq: UPDATE: LCDproc Buffer Overflow and Format String Vulnerabilities. Sender: Rene Wagner [reenoo at gmx dot de] |
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Stock spam scams ramping up. There's a sucker born every minute By John Leyden . |
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California Senator seeks Google Gmail ban. The regulators are coming By Andrew Orlowski . |
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PacBell Park's new WiFi system. The San Jose Mercury News published a "man-on-the-street" article which gets fan reaction to Pacific Bell Park's new WiFi hotspot enabled baseball park. Unsurprisingly, some fans liked it, some fans don't. During this initial introduction period, the service is free.... |
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The Economist: What now, Scott McNealy?. The Economist has a great analysis of the recent Sun v. Microsoft settlement. Read it here. Key grafs:Microsoft and Sun have a new common enemy: Linux, an operating system that competes with Windows and with Sun's Solaris but which, unlike... |
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Cattle rustling on the rise -- blame Atkins. Ten of millions of low carb dieters have created such a demand for beef that cattle rustling is getting popular again. Link (via Carbwire) |
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Loudeye song service thinks small. Its IndieSource program is designed to help companies building online song stores get easier access to independent music labels. |
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Legal bills ding Intel's earnings. The chipmaker's first quarter falls a penny short of expectations, after Intel settles a patent suit brought against it by Intergraph. |
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BEA, Accenture build portal package. The software maker and the IT consulting firm team on a product designed to help enterprises streamline a jumble of Web sites into fewer, and better structured, Web portals. |
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Iomega Ships 35GB 'Son of Jaz' |
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Five Fundamental Problems with Open Source? |
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Microsoft issues flood of critical patches. Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday released a flood of information on new and previously disclosed holes in a wide range of software products, many of them rated "critical" and well-suited to use by malicious hackers or computer virus writers, according to one security expert. |
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Automatic critical system patches with free trial version of UpdateEXPERT discovers, researches, deploys and validates software patches. |
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BugTraq: Re: Fwd: [BID 7482, bug in OpenSSH (Still in FreeBSD-STABLE)]. Sender: [des at des dot no (Dag-Erling Smørgrav)] |
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BugTraq: EEYE: Microsoft DCOM RPC Race Condition. Sender: Marc Maiffret [mmaiffret at eeye dot com] |
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BugTraq: [CLA-2004:839] Conectiva Security Announcement - apache. Sender: Conectiva Updates [secure at conectiva dot com dot br] |
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BugTraq: EEYE: Windows Expand-Down Data Segment Local Privilege Escalation. Sender: Marc Maiffret [mmaiffret at eeye dot com] |
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Microsoft Warns of 3 'Critical' Flaws (Reuters) |
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AntiOnline Spotlight: Securing Laptops |
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SMI-S Takes Center Stage at Storage Networking World |
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ANSI Ratifies Key Storage Device Spec |
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Intel Releases Faster, Lower-Cost Itanium 2 |
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Cisco Systems at Networld+Interop 2004 |
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Microsoft Windows RPC/DCOM Multiple Vulnerabilities |
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OS X Trojan Horse Is a Nag |
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Google Challenges Microsoft Monopoly |
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Microsoft Windows vulnerability - Help and Support Center (HSC) |
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CD and DVD cover-art archive. Damien sez, "these incredible guys have created an online archive of the front and back cover art of almost every compact disc album and DVD release ever, freely downloadable as a jpeg. of course, the linear shelf space of any decent DVD movie collection is enormous if actually stored in those over-sized black plastic boxes..."
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LiveJournal image zeitgeist. This page contains a scraping of the most recent couple-dozen images included in LiveJournal posts (which often includes some NSFW stuff, wage-slaves be warned).
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Cosplay community site "Cure". Joi Ito writes:
The Japanese "sort of equivalent" of SuicideGirls is Cure, a cosplay site. The biggest difference is that the sexy pictures are not allowed. It's quite an amazing community. There are 5000 layers (comes from Cosplayers) and 30,000 cameko (comes from camera kozo or "Camera Boys"). The layers can be sorted by ranking or by the characters they play. The cameko are otaku who spend their lives taking pictures of the layers and giving beautiful prints of their photos to the layers and sharing them online. The site lets you send these photos to or view them on your mobile phones.
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BoingBoing tribe on tribe.net hits 700 members. The Boingboing affinity group on tribe.net, created last year by a group of readers, just welcomed its 700th member. Link |
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Giving up on email folders. Rael Dornfest says he's going to stop filing his email messages into different folders. Instead, he's going to put all the messages he wants to keep into a single folder and use his email programs search and sort functions to retrieve messages he wants to re-read. I'll be interested to see how this works for him. Link |
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Microsoft warns of a score of security holes. The software giant releases fixes that cover at least 20 Windows flaws, several of which could make versions of the operating system vulnerable to new worms or viruses. |
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E-mail lists choke on spam. Some of the Net's oldest, most popular tools are being undermined by spam and spam fighters alike. |
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Verizon to add DSL fees. The carrier's prices will rise up to $3 a month, with the increase labeled as a government-imposed fee the company had been including in its basic rate. |
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Infosys Profit Rises in Latest Fiscal Year (AP). AP - Software company Infosys Technologies Ltd.'s profit rose 38.5 percent in its latest fiscal year as its revenue climbed 41 percent and surpassed $1 billion for the year. |
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SEC Is Preparing to Charge Time Warner in AOL Ad Sales (washingtonpost.com). washingtonpost.com - The Securities and Exchange Commission is preparing documents alleging that Time Warner Inc. booked more than $400 million in questionable advertising revenue following the company's January 2001 merger with America Online Inc., according to people familiar with the investigation. |
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Dell Employs More Overseas Than in U.S. (AP). AP - Computer maker Dell Inc. has more workers overseas than it does in the United States, reversing the makeup of its work force of just a year ago. |
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RFID for Automobile Tracking |
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Company warns of bugged spam messages. Hidden code in e-mail messages is increasingly being used to track the success of unsolicited commercial ("spam") e-mail campaigns, according to a warning by an antispam technology company on Tuesday. |
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Microsoft updates Outlook to Notes connector. Microsoft Corp. on Monday released an updated version of an add-on for Outlook that lets users of the Microsoft e-mail client connect to IBM Corp. Lotus Domino servers. |
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Sun Java executive surfaces at software startup. A former Sun Microsystems Inc. Java executive, who left the company just a week after Sun and Microsoft Corp. announced their landmark settlement and partnership agreement on April 2, has surfaced. His new employer: software vendor Cassatt Corp. |
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Google Challenges Microsoft Monopoly |
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Free Trial Version. Automatic critical system patches with free trial version of UpdateEXPERT discovers, researches, deploys and validates software patches. Install custom software updates easily. Keywords : hacker hacking virus trojans networks networking Microsoft Linux government military Internet |
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Microsoft Help and Support Center Argument Injection Vulnerability |
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Microsoft Outlook Express MHTML URL Processing Vulnerability |
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Microsoft Jet Database Engine Buffer Overflow Vulnerability |
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13 Apr Troj/Webber-H |
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13 Apr W32/Agobot-FZ |
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13 Apr Troj/LdPinch-L |
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Microsoft Windows RPC/DCOM Multiple Vulnerabilities |
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Microsoft Windows RPC/DCOM Multiple Vulnerabilities |
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Microsoft Outlook Express MHTML URL Processing Vulnerability |
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Microsoft Outlook Express MHTML URL Processing Vulnerability |
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Microsoft Jet Database Engine Buffer Overflow Vulnerability |
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Microsoft Jet Database Engine Buffer Overflow Vulnerability |
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Infosys reports a billion-dollar year. The Indian software and services company, which handles offshore outsourcing work from U.S. corporations, says revenue hit $1 billion in fiscal 2004. |
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EarthLink honeymoon ends for some. No longer eagerly courted, longtime customers fume as the ISP locks them out of a 3mbps DSL upgrade offered to new subscribers. |
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Microsoft Security Bulletins Released for April |
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Clear duct tape. 
3M has shipped tranparent "Scotch" duct-tape. Kevin Kelly's been playing with it and he says it holds up as good as the silvery stuff, but strong uptake would obviate my favorite Star Wars joke: "Duct tape is like The Force: It has a dark side and a light side and it holds the Universe together." Still, we could sub in "Duct tape is like the good government: It is perfectly transparent and it holds the nation together."
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BEA, Veritas Take On IBM in Utility Arena (NewsFactor). NewsFactor - BEA (Nasdaq: BEAS) Software says its alliance with Veritas (Nasdaq: VRTS) will help reduce the cost of
deploying and managing applications. The partnership's
integrated technology has an advantage over competitors, according to the
companies, who claim it is the first open and heterogeneous
utility-computing platform on the market. |
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Xerox System Models Thought Processes (NewsFactor). NewsFactor - A new Xerox filing and
categorizing software "learns" on the job. |
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McDonald's Taps Wayport for Wi-Fi (NewsFactor). NewsFactor - McDonald's (NYSE: MCD) has chosen Wayport as its preferred provider of high-speed wireless technology, now being rolled out in its fast-food restaurants across the
country. |
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Microsoft Warns of 3 'Critical' Flaws in Windows (Reuters). Reuters - Microsoft Corp. (MSFT.O), the world's
largest software maker, warned on Tuesday that three
"critical"-rated flaws in the Windows operating system and
other programs could allow hackers to sneak into personal
computers and snoop on sensitive data. |
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Microsoft Resolves DRM Issues in Settlement (NewsFactor). NewsFactor - Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) says its settlement with InterTrust Technologies will pave the way for further development of its online-media strategies. The protection and sale of intellectual property, like music and video, is increasingly important to the world's biggest software maker, with digital rights management emerging as a gatekeeper for online music and video downloads. |
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Spyware Company Sues Utah Over Anti-Spyware Law |
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Slow Down the Security Patch Cycle? |
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OS X Trojan Horse Is a Nag |
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Vulns: X-Micro WLAN 11b Broadband Router Backdoor Administration Account Vulnerability. X-Micro makes a variety of hardware products, including the 11b Broadband Router, a device with NAT and other "home-router" features as well as support for 802.11b wirele... |
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Novell Nsure Identity Manager User Password Hint is Stored in Clear Text |
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NuKed-KlaN Input Validation Bugs Disclose Files to Remote Users and Let Remote Users Include Local Files |
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GNOME Nautilus Buffer Overflow Lets Local Users Create Certain Denial of Service Conditions |
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Microsoft Internet Explorer Javascript OLE Object Lets Remote Users Automatically Print Without Authorization |
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NewsPHP Authentication Flaw Lets Remote Users Gain Administrative Access |
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California Senator To Block Google's Gmail |
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Symantec, EarthLink Join To Sell Security By The Month |
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Remote Access And Wireless Network Points Focus Of Security Breaches |
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Concern grows over browser security |
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eMule |
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Man pleads guilty to film piracy |
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Intel's high-end P4EE and Prescott CPUs in short supply. Short supply of the P4EE and Prescott has Dell and HP revamping their desktop offerings. What's keeping Intel from shipping the Prescott in quantity as they said it would by the end of the 1st quarter? By Eric Bangeman. |
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Sniper rifle shoots RFID chips into people?.  This is probably phony, but it seems like something that might actually be used: The ID SNIPER rifle implants "a GPS-microchip in the body of a human being, using a high powered sniper rifle as the long distance injector. The microchip will enter the body and stay there, causing no internal damage, and only a very small amount of physical pain to the target. It will feel like a mosquito-bite lasting a fraction of a second. At the same time a digital camcorder with a zoom-lense fitted within the scope will take a high-resolution picture of the target. This picture will be stored on a memory card for later image-analysis." Link (Thanks, Thorzdad!)
Steve Lawson sez: The ID Sniper Rifle is indeed a fake. The NPR show "The Next Big Thing" did a segment on it--the guy made a mock poster, business cards, etc. and took it to a weapons convention where he got serious interest from the Chinese. See http://www.nextbigthing.org/ and scroll down to the story "High Tech High Art" |
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Feds asked to hang up on FBI's wiretap proposal. A cell phone trade group says the proposal puts an unfair burden on broadband subscribers to fund a network overhaul. |
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News.com wins award for MSBlast coverage. CNET News.com takes home a national award in deadline reporting from the Society of Professional Journalists for its collection of stories on the August 2003 worm. |
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Microsoft's long-playing business record. Have courtroom battles become just another business expense forthe software giant? |
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Pop-Up Ad Software Maker Sues Utah (AP). AP - A New York company whose software creates pop-up ads during routine Web browsing is seeking to block a Utah law that bans such practices. |
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Ballpark WiFi gets a mixed reception (SiliconValley.com). SiliconValley.com - Lori Lin wanted to make sure her husband knew she had made it to the Giants' home opener. Sitting high in the upper deck of SBC Park, the first major league ballpark with wireless Internet access, she shot off an e-mail -- to Al-Fallujah, Iraq. |
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Apple investigates iPod mini audio problems (MacCentral). MacCentral - Apple Computer Inc. said on Tuesday that they are investigating reports from users of static and sound distortion in the company's diminutive iPod mini. |
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Neb. Library Uses Web to Promote Books (AP). AP - A local librarian recently took a virtual page from the Omaha Public Library and began offering Battle Creek patrons an online book club. |
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It's Geek-Meets-Grape As Wine Gets Wired (AP). AP - Once, wine meant horse-drawn plows and barefoot workers stomping in a tub. These days, winemakers are more likely to depend on the juice running through their personal computers as they turn grapes into premium vintages. |
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Cocoa in a Nutshell |
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1.200 neue Viren und Würmer im März |
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E-Mail-Betrug: Mitglied der berüchtigten "Nigeria-Connection" hinter Gittern |
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Fahndungsakten der japanischen Polizei landen in P2P-Netzen |
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Unzureichender Datenschutz in Googles GMail-Dienst bemängelt |
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GMX führt neuen Spam-Schutz ein |
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Menschliches Versagen ist das grösste Sicherheitsproblem im IT-Bereich |
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Druckfunktion vom Internet Explorer lässt sich missbrauchen |
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Japanese finger virus for police document leak |
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UK gov computer misuse is 'rife' |
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Biometrics vendors face 'more lean years' |
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Draft ID card Bill one month away - Blunkett |
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Kazaa and eDonkey brace for NetSky-Q onslaught |
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Witty extinction |
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SurfControl boasts record quarter |
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NCSP drafts secure code guidelines |
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Tracking the Blackout bug |
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Is spim worse than spam? |
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RSA fends off France Telecom patent claims |
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Germany moots jail for spammers |
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NY Times hacker sentencing delayed |
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Browser-based attacks on the up |
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NetScreen touts firewall brawn |
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Report from Yale's Digital Cops in a Virtual Environment. James Grimmelman has written up a witty and marvellous con-report from Yale's Digital Cops in a Virtual Environment, wherein a bunch of Internet law-enforcement theorists and practicioners chewed the fat with civ-lib types:
Phil's Commandment Five -- "Criminal sanctions should where necessary deter costly anti-social conduct." -- sounds an awful lot like Bentham's "The general object which all laws have, or ought to have, in common, is . . . to exclude mischief." Similarly, Phil's Commandment Three -- "When traditional crime presents a greater harm to society because it is committed online, that crime should entail a heavier punishment, where possible through neutral means such as measuring the actual damage done" -- has a close resemblance to Bentham's "When two offences come in competition, the punishment for the greater offence must be sufficient to induce a man to prefer the less."
Now, this is all well and good, but Dan Solove then undermines these simple utilitarian calculations, in exactly the way that two centuries of law and economics have undermined Bentham's calm confidence. It turns out that optimal deterrence is indeterminate: it doesn't spit out clear answers all the time, because you can often make good deterrence arguments for lower punishments. This is what Solove is getting at when he says that constructing identity theft as "theft" undermines the importance of building secure architecture. Dan sees creating vulnerability itself as a harm that needs to be redressed: perhaps the people at "fault" are as much the people using social security numbers as database primary keys, as much as the crackers who steal those numbers.
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Why national ID cards make us less safe. Bruce Schneier has written an amazing editorial on the security risks inherent in instituting a national ID card.
Not that there would ever be such thing as a single ID card. Currently about 20 percent of all identity documents are lost per year. An entirely separate security system would have to be developed for people who lost their card, a system that itself is capable of abuse.
Additionally, any ID system involves people... people who regularly make mistakes. We all have stories of bartenders falling for obviously fake IDs, or sloppy ID checks at airports and government buildings. It's not simply a matter of training; checking IDs is a mind-numbingly boring task, one that is guaranteed to have failures. Biometrics such as thumbprints show some promise here, but bring with them their own set of exploitable failure modes.
But the main problem with any ID system is that it requires the existence of a database. In this case it would have to be an immense database of private and sensitive information on every American -- one widely and instantaneously accessible from airline check-in stations, police cars, schools, and so on.
Link
(Thanks, Bruce!) |
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Streetside trompe l'oeil. 
From Gizmodo: beautiful trompe l'oeil paintjobs on streetside transformer boxes.
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Jon Stewart and Al Franken on Air America. Here's Matt Haughey's 66MB Zip of Jon Stewart being interviewed on Al Franken's Air America show last night.
66MB Zip Link
(via Whole Lotta Nothing) |
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Briefly: Microsoft links Outlook to Lotus. RIM extends license with Intellisync...Majority of Dell workers overseas...DOE to name site for new supercomputer. |
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IBM to absorb Schlumberger data recovery unit. With steady growth expected in the business continuity market, Big Blue acquires a rival to expand its ability to provide work sites and data access during emergencies. |
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Egyptian Firms to Launch Iraq TV Channel (AP). AP - A billionaire Egyptian businessman, whose company heads a consortium operating a mobile phone service in central Iraq, and another Egyptian firm plan to start a private TV station in Iraq, company officials said Tuesday. |
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Apple Probes Reports of IPod Mini Static (AP). AP - Apple Computer Inc. is investigating complaints that its popular iPod mini is prone to static and other sound distortions when playing back music. |
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THG Linux Migration, Part Two |
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Neal Stephenson's The Confusion Released |
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Linux a national security risk, competing RTOS vendor claims |
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Growing Acceptance of Linux has Dark Side |
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Growing acceptance of Linux has dark side |
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PHRACK Call for Papers |
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Tracking the Blackout bug |
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The end of an era? |
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Lies, damned lies and patches |
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Slow down the security patch cycle |
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Mail Scanning With Exim And The Exiscan ACL |
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LA art show: moonboots and barrettes, elves and cigarettes. 
If you're in LA this Saturday evening, check out this new show opening at sixspace -- new works by LA artists Megan Whitmarsh and Rachell Sumpter. If you're not in LA, dig the preview online. I'm particularly fond of the images form Whitmarsh (detail at left) -- gallery co-founder Caryn Coleman tells me they're the result of a dream the artist had that Kermit the Frog was in her house, hanging out and doing origami. The pieces depict -- well -- Kermit the Frog hanging out in someone's house, doing origami. Snip from press release:
"Whitmarsh will present her exquisite embroidery on fabric pieces that combine this traditional medium with depictions of elements in pop-culture such as yetis and battling elf girls. While the size of her work ranges from small to large, her characters remain tiny and detailed, forcing the viewer to literally peer into her worlds. Sumpter, part of the new school of illustration, will be exhibiting paintings on paper using gouache, ink and watercolor. Her work has been described as '...delicate ink lines, and subtle attention to detail complement and subvert the lightness of her drawings' and her 'icon-like imagery resembles... children's books found in antique stores, but with a modernist composition and adult subject matter'."
Link to press release, show images up later this week. |
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MP3: Don't Stop 'til you Get to Bollywood. 
A few days ago, Jonno pointed me to a Bollywood-flavored remake of Michael Jackson's "Don't Stop Til You Get Enough," which he found on a supercool sekrit MP3 blog that shall remain nameless. This track is phat. This track is funky. This track makes me want to do a little dance in my ergonomic chair. A little google-digging reveals the song is by a group called the Bollywood Freaks, and came out on a limited edition red vinyl 7" in the UK. I want to send them money for the funk they provide. I want more of their music. If anyone has info, cough it up.
But for now -- look! Someone dumped a copy of said funky track on a server somewhere. Download the MP3 while it lasts. Link |
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GIs in Iraq tote in digital pop culture -- and share it. Fascinating piece in today's NYT about digital media sharing among enlisted personnel in Iraq. Would entertainment industry groups -- or at some point, our government -- prosecute these soldiers for piracy?
At the Kirkush Military Training Base in the eastern Iraqi desert less than
15 miles from the frontier with Iran, an hour's wait for a helicopter was spent listening to Marilyn Manson, Eminem and Shania Twain before the Black Hawk fired up its turbines and somebody back in the barracks, as if on cue and with a dark sense of irony, cranked up Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven." The songs came from a European satellite music channel and a communal computer where 12.8 gigabites of tunes had been downloaded for sharing on MP3's. The rule was simple: Take some music, add some music. "Any time anybody on the team gets a new CD, they load it in, so we stay pretty current," said Sgt. Thomas R. Mena.
As the new CD from Tool blasted in the barracks, Sergeant Mena scrolled through the computerized music library, which ranged from Abba and AC/DC, through Limp Biskit and Metallica and on to Van Halen and ZZ Top. Emigres from West Africa who joined the Army for citizenship and career training arrived with the latest Nigerian pop CD's. Chinese-Americans hauled along hot Hong Kong video imports.
Link (site registration required (Thanks, JP) |
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Chat, copy, paste, prison. Via Declan McCullagh's politech list:
You are engaged in a chat session with some friends and colleagues, when one of them makes a witty remark or imparts a pithy bit of information.
You hit CTRL-A and select the conversation, then copy it to a document that you save. Under a little-noticed decision in a New Hampshire Superior Court in late February, these actions may just land you in jail.
New Hampshire is "two-party consent state" -- one of those jurisdictions that requires all parties to a conversation to consent before the conversation can be intercepted or recorded. The decision is the first of its kind to apply that standard to online chats, and the ruling is clearly supported by the text of the law. But it marks a blow to an investigative technique that has been routinely used by law enforcement, employers, ISPs and others.
Link to Security Focus story |
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Microsoft links Outlook to Lotus. A newly released add-on from Microsoft allows the 2002 and 2003 versions of its Outlook e-mail client to work on an IBM Lotus Domino server. |
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RIM extends license with Intellisync. The license allows RIM to continue to use Intellisync's technology to synchronize contacts, appointments and tasks between their BlackBerry devices and PCs. |
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FSF Migrating From Savannah to Gforge |
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IBM buys Schlumberger's business continuity unit. LONDON -- IBM Corp. has agreed to buy the business continuity services unit of Schlumberger Ltd. in a move to shore up its global services division in Europe and help companies comply with new data protection regulations. |
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BugTraq: XSS, Admin Access via Cookie and File Upload vulnerability in NewsPHP.. Sender: Manuel Lopez [mantra at gulo dot org] |
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BugTraq: RE: Microsoft Internet Explorer BMP file memory DoS vulnerability. Sender: Alan W dot Rateliff, II [lists at rateliff dot net] |
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NetScreen touts firewall brawn. Next-gen consolidated protection By John Leyden . |
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American Airlines data used to test passenger snoop system. TSA to inaugurate frequent liar club? By John Lettice . |
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Network Associates Offers Tools to Tame Your Network |
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W32.Beagle.M@mm |
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Citadel/UX Insecure Default Database Permissions |
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Iomega REV takes aim at tape backup. Tape backup is still expensive and slow. Iomega aims to fix that with a disk backup solution. By Matt Woodward. |
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Google's Gmail under threat in California. Calling the service a "Faustian bargain," a CA Senator says that the service undermines the most fundamental aspect of communication, namely the expectation of privacy. By Ken "Caesar" Fisher. |
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LA art show: moonboots and barrettes, elves and cigarettes.
If you're in LA this Saturday evening, check out this new show opening at sixspace -- new works by LA artists Megan Whitmarsh and Rachell Sumpter. If you're not in LA, dig the preview online. I'm particularly fond of this series of images form Whitmarsh, shown here-- gallery co-founder Caryn Coleman tells me they're the result of a dream the artist had that Kermit the Frog was in her house, hanging out and doing origami. The pieces depict -- well -- Kermit the Frog hanging out in someone's house, doing origami. Snip from press release:
"Whitmarsh will present her exquisite embroidery on fabric pieces that combine this traditional medium with depictions of elements in pop-culture such as yetis and battling elf girls. While the size of her work ranges from small to large, her characters remain tiny and detailed, forcing the viewer to literally peer into her worlds. Sumpter, part of the new school of illustration, will be exhibiting paintings on paper using gouache, ink and watercolor. Her work has been described as '...delicate ink lines, and subtle attention to detail complement and subvert the lightness of her drawings' and her 'icon-like imagery resembles... children's books found in antique stores, but with a modernist composition and adult subject matter'."
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Dustindiamondsucks.com. Ripped from the headlines of Gawker:
Last week, Dustin Diamond -- once known as Screech on the TV show Saved by the Bell -- apparently failed in an "internet court" arbitration to procure dustindiamond.com. (Yes, I know: I'm still having a hard time believing this isn't an elaborate joke.)
At legal issue in ownership of the domain name: just how famous is Screech these days? In the response to complaint, Max Goldberg, the operator of dustindiamond.com, says:
"Mr. Diamond's attorneys have sadly overstated the extent of their client's renown and the value of his 'brand.' This becomes embarrassingly clear when they attempt to support their claim by pointing to their client's video, Dustin Diamond Teaches Chess. Their Exhibit H shows an advertisement for the video on a nonexistent web site [EXHIBIT G]. Their Exhibit I shows a listing (not an advertisement, as they claim) for the video on eBay from February 3, 2004, shortly before the complaint was filed. It is very possible that the eBay offer was posted by Mr. Diamond or his representatives. Apparently Mr. Diamond's legal team can find no evidence that Dustin Diamond Teaches Chess is anything but a self-published vanity project, one that does not support the claim that the name 'Dustin Diamond' has acquired secondary meaning."
Harsh, dude. This is a clear wake-up call for C-list actors and reality stars everywhere: sock that money away, because your future is fucked.
Screech v. Goldberg [Dustin Diamond Sucks] | Response to Complaint [Dustin Diamond Sucks] |
Dustin Diamond dot com |
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Apple adds Superdrive to eMac line. The computer maker fits the DVD recorder/CD burner into its top-of-the-line eMac, while dropping the computer's price by $100. |
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Canon takes second shot at LCDs. Despite its initial failure in the mid-1990s, the company hopes to succeed in the flat-panel display market on its second try. |
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Gmail likely to clear U.K. privacy hurdles. Britain's data-protection authorities seem to be smiling on Google's plan to offer Web users a gigabyte of e-mail storage in return for targeted advertisements. |
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Infosys 2003-04 Revenue Surpasses $1B (AP). AP - Software company Infosys Technologies Ltd.'s profit rose 38.5 percent in its latest fiscal year as its revenue climbed 41 percent and surpassed $1 billion for the year. |
| 9. |
One in Six Use Wireless Internet, Survey Finds (Reuters). Reuters - One in six U.S. Internet users have
logged on using "Wi-Fi" or another wireless technology,
according to a survey released on Tuesday that found continued
growth in Internet use. |
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Philips returns to profit in first quarter, sees full-year profit (AFP). AFP - Philips, Europe's largest electronics company, said it had returned to profit in the first quarter, driven mainly by strong demand for computer chips and liquid crystal display (LCD) screens, and forecast a positive 2004. |
| 11. |
Virtual Orchestra Goes Off-Broadway (AP). AP - It may be called "The Joys of Sex," but a new off-Broadway musical has much more than hanky-panky on its mind. |
| 12. |
Political Parties Revamp Web Sites (AP). AP - Republicans and Democrats have revamped their national Web sites after a record-setting year for political organizing and fund raising on the Internet. |
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Save a Chatlog... Go to Prison? |
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2004: Year of the Penguin? |
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Cray CTO: Linux clusters don't play in HPC |
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Dell looking outside the U.S. for future revenue growth. International markets such as Europe and Asia-Pacific will allow Dell Inc. to continue its rapid growth as the company closes in on its goal of $60 billion in revenue, executives said Tuesday. |
| 17. |
Applied Micro buys IBM assets for $227M. Applied Micro Circuits Corp. (AMCC) in San Diego will acquire intellectual property and a range of assets related to IBM Corp.'s embedded PowerPC processors, in a deal worth $227 million, it said on Tuesday. |
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PeopleSoft extends Linux support to software. PeopleSoft Inc. will support Red Hat Linux for PeopleSoft EnterpriseOne, meaning that customers who choose to run their applications on Linux can reduce their total cost of ownership by using an open source, secure, and stable operating system, the company says. |
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Irish gov to seize control of .ie. Loses patience with instability and back-biting By electricnews.net . |
| 20. |
Asteroid apocalypse: the online guide. Boffins deploy Armageddon analyser By Lester Haines . |
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Complete online survey and win £200. Site offer 250 eager UK punters sought By Team Register . |
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Cisco thwarts EAP dictionary attacks |
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Browser-based attacks on the rise |
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W32.Gaobot.ZX |
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La Suisse veut taxer les spams |
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Threats give security boost |
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Report: Net security falls short |
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Hackers Lurk Through Holes in Hot Spots |
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Homework exposes firms |
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Tablet PC offers security |
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UK Hospital Turns to Axis for IP Security Network |
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Cisco thwarts EAP dictionary attacks |
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'Channel-friendly' NAI joins TMB |
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EarthLink Fights Data-stealing Web Sites |
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Big Google is watching |
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Lawmaker moves to block Google's Gmail |
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Apple investigating complaints of iPod static |
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Apple updates the eMac with faster speed, lower price (MacCentral). MacCentral - Apple Computer Inc. on Tuesday updated its consumer-level all-in-one eMac computer. The new eMac sports a faster processor -- a 1.25GHz PowerPC G4, faster memory -- 333MHz DDR RAM, faster ATI Radeon graphics -- the Radeon 9200 graphics chip, and USB 2.0 connectivity. Optional is an internal Bluetooth module. |
| 2. |
IBM Purchases Schlumberger Business Unit (Reuters). Reuters - International Business Machines Corp.
(IBM.N) said on Tuesday it had agreed to buy the business
continuity services division of Schlumberger Ltd (SLB.N). |
| 3. |
Pitney Bowes to Buy Group 1 for $321 Mln (Reuters). Reuters - Pitney Bowes Inc. (PBI.N) on Tuesday
said it would buy Group 1 Software Inc. (GSOF.O) for $321
million to expand its line of document-management products. |
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With Linux Software Moving To Desktops, Rivalry Takes Shape (Investor's Business Daily). Investor's Business Daily - A new operating system war is brewing on desktop PCs, and it's not Windows vs. Mac, or even Windows vs. Linux. |
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Toshiba to raise investment to boost flash memory output (AFP). AFP - Japanese electronics giant Toshiba said it will raise its investment in a new facility by 26 percent to boost output of advanced flash memory chips widely used in hi-tech gadgets. |
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Playfair Relocates to India |
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Messaging jacks into the Matrix. Catch up with the latest news from the world of video gaming. |
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Indian outsourcer Infosys powers ahead. Infosys Technologies Ltd., India's largest publicly-held software services company, increased profit by 38.7 percent to $270 million for its 2003-2004 fiscal year ended March 31, 2004, the company said Tuesday in a statement. |
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French ISPs to carry the can for dodgy content. Lobbyists push for changes By John Oates . |
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Conectiva update for mod_python |
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NewsPHP Admin Access and Cross Site Scripting |
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PHP-Nuke SQL Injection and Cross Site Scripting |
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HP OpenView Operations Authentication Bypass Vulnerability |
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HP Internet Express WU-FTPD Multiple Vulnerabilities |
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Microsoft moves to put legal disputes to rest (USATODAY.com). USATODAY.com - The software giant brought closure to another resource-sapping legal dispute. It also added a potent weapon to use against its most threatening rival, the open-source-code Linux movement. |
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Hackers lurk through holes in hot spots (USATODAY.com). USATODAY.com - Wireless networks aren't just popular with computer users on the go. Hackers are finding them an easy target to snoop on consumers' laptop PCs and, eventually, their employers' networks. |
| 3. |
Yahoo! plans aggressive push into China after years of limited success (AFP). AFP - US Internet giant Yahoo! Inc said it plans an aggressive push into China, where it has so far had limited success in the face of stiff competition from local portals such as Sina.com and Sohu.com. |
| 4. |
Senior Execs Must Tackle Cyber-Security -US Report (Reuters). Reuters - Corporate chieftains must take
responsibility for their computer networks to secure them from
viruses, worms and other online attacks, an industry task force
said on Monday. |
| 5. |
McDonald's Chooses Wayport for New Wi-Fi (AP). AP - McDonald's Corp. has chosen Wayport Inc. to provide wireless Internet service in dining rooms and drive-through windows at several thousand of its U.S. restaurants. |
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Electronics giant back in profit. Philips Electronics reports strong first quarter earnings with growth in consumer electronics and chips boosting sales. |
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Intel's new chips target mobiles. Intel has released a series of chips to power future mobile phones and handhelds. |
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Intel updates Itanium 2 processor. At its Intel Developer Forum conference in Taipei, Taiwan on Tuesday, Intel Corp. plans to update its Itanium 2 processor line with two new configurations of the chip, designed for dual-processor servers. |
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Dell's workforce mostly outside of U.S.. Round Rock, Texas-based Dell Inc. employs more people abroad than it does in the U.S, it disclosed in a regulatory filing this week. |
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Brocade and McDATA's Spring offensive. Suppliers mobilise By IT-Analysis . |
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'Universal' hard drive system to ship this month. IVDR arrives By Tony Smith . |
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Virgin Mobile float is go. Bankers appointed, date pencilled By John Oates . |
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Browser-based attacks on the up. Viral menace recedes, slightly By John Leyden . |
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Major Wireless Conference Demonstrates WLAN Risks |
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Trend Micro Takes Aim at Network Viruses |
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Humans to Blame for Security Breaches |
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Hackers lurk through holes in hot spots (USATODAY.com) |
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UnAAmerican: American Airlines firehoses customer data at TSA, Lockheed Martin. Remember when JetBlue and Delta got caught firehosing their customers' data all over the place in the name of "national security?" Well American Airlines just got caught doing the same thing.
Anyone who flew American Airlines during June of 2002 should assume that all information given by them to American Airlines, including credit card numbers, is in the possession of both the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and the following TSA subcontractors: HNC Software; Infoglide Software; Ascent Technology; and Lockheed Martin. Furthermore, as the passenger records were used to test the CAPPS II passenger profiling system, it should be assumed that the Social Security number, date of birth, as well as the associated credit histories and law enforcement records of many of the 1.2 million customers affected were combined into a single file and are now in the possession of the above-named companies as well as the Department of Homeland Security.
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Apax, Spectrum acquire NEP (TheDeal.com). TheDeal.com - The sale by the Wachovia unit puts an enterprise value of about $320 million on the media services company. |
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McDonald's to Increase Wi-Fi Access - WSJ (Reuters). Reuters - McDonald's Corp. (MCD.N), the world's
largest fast food company, is expected to announce plans on
Tuesday to expand the number of restaurants that have Wi-Fi
wireless Internet access, the Wall Street Journal said. |
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US music bounces back. Music sales in the US rise by 9% in the first three months of 2004, signalling an end to a four-year dip. |
| 5. |
Computer Associates guilt spreads. Three former Computer Associates executives admit illegally boosting the software maker's earnings. |
| 6. |
Man pleads guilty to film piracy. A man accused of illegally copying preview movie tapes pleads guilty to copyright infringement. |
| 7. |
Talking to your car becoming natural. Researchers are working on technology that would let you have a conversation with your car. |
| 8. |
iPod fans report sound problems. Apple is looking into online reports of sound problems with its popular iPod mini music player. |
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Vonage goes to Canada. Bell tolls for telcos By John Oates . |
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Time Warner invests in ContentGuard. Funding for DRM standards process By Faultline . |
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Hynix rejects bid for its non-memory biz. Citigroup offer 'unacceptable' By Tony Smith . |
| 12. |
Broadcom acquires Sand Video. Move to trigger more codec M&As? By Faultline . |
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MS and Micro Focus team up for mainframe movers. Migration to Windows servers By John Oates . |
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RIAA Singing the Same Old Song. Despite the persistence of online piracy, U.S. music sales shoot up. Although there are signs that the rise and fall of sales has more to do with shifting musical tastes than anything else, the music industry remains fixated on piracy as the source of its woes. |
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Americans Pave Road to South Pole. It seems like an impossible mission, but a team of workers are carving a 1,020-mile 'ice highway' from the New Zealand coast to the South Pole. They say it will enable supplies and equipment to be hauled to the pole's U.S. research station. |
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Security Boost for Intel Chips. A new line of processors will come with built-in features designed to keep hackers from tweaking cell phones and handheld devices. But the chips' digital-rights-management features cause some to fear a clampdown on content. |
| 17. |
Data Disclosure Contradicts Feds. American Airlines becomes the third airline in eight months to admit it has shared passenger data with the government. But for months the government has claimed it never asked for or received any data. What's going on? By Ryan Singel. |
| 18. |
A Black Box for Human Health. NASA engineers are working on a device that records and transmits vital signs like heartbeats, body temperature and blood pressure. The device is designed for astronauts, but it could be handy on Earth, too. By Amit Asaravala. |
| 19. |
Make It a Wario Party. Nintendo reaches back into its long history in the game business to deliver WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Party Games, a madcap blast from the past that everyone who remembers the good old days can enjoy together. By Chris Kohler. |
| 20. |
Festival Takes Stock of Old Films. What do dancing boxes have to do with tear gas, crowd control and calm cars? It's up to entrants in an unusual film festival to provide the answer, using snippets of old commercials and propaganda films now available in an online archive. By Katie Dean. |
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Robots May Fight for the Army. A Massachusetts company is working on a new generation of robots that would help American soldiers in battle. The machines won't look anything like the Terminator, though. By Mark Baard. |
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Group suggests corporate auditors for cybersecurity |
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Highgate Cemetery photos. 
I spent some of yesterday's holiday at Highgate Cemetery in London's North End. Best known as the burial place of Karl Marx, Highgate is a magnificent, decrepit (many of the crypts were damaged in the Blitz) boneyard, and the tours offered on the west side are spectacular (despite the notably unfriendly demeanor and shrill demands for donations from the woman who was working the gate -- I'm happy to donate money to the charitable trust that maintains the place, but I'm not thrilled about having my arm twisted, nor about being made to physically show that my cellphone has been switched off before I was admitted past the gates).
I took some photos that really turned out well. I've put up a gallery.
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Sun Says Microsoft Alliance No Paper Truce (TechWeb). TechWeb - Sun president Jonathan Schwartz is emphasizing how important it is for his company and Microsoft to be true allies. |
| 4. |
Google Challenges Microsoft Monopoly (TechWeb). TechWeb - Google's vast array of Linux servers is becoming a huge computer with a custom operating system that everyone on Earth can have an account on. The company could threaten Microsoft's monopoly -- if it can overcome overcome privacy concerns. |
| 5. |
Taiwan's Quanta Reaps Revived PC Demand, LCD Boom (Reuters). Reuters - Quanta Computer Inc, the world's top
maker of laptops for leading brands, is expected to post a 20
percent rise in quarterly profits on growing demand, with
cellphones and displays seen adding to sales this year. |
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Electronics giant back in profit. Philips Electronics has reported strong first quarter earnings with growth in consumer electronics and chips boosting sales. |
| 7. |
Google's Gmail could be blocked. Legislation is being drawn up in California to block Google's new free e-mail service, Gmail, because its advertising is seen as intrusive. |
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OASIS approves WS-Security Web services spec. Set of Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) extensions standardized |
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| 9. |
Threats give security boost |
| 10. |
Spam reaches new heights |
| 11. |
AuthenTec predicts biometrics 'boom' |
| 12. |
e92plus cements deal with SonicWall |
| 13. |
Expert releases Cisco wireless hacking tool |
| 14. |
Watch Out For Snuff - Ebay Scam at http://ebaycom.pe.kg/ |
| 15. |
It's Time to Take Privacy Seriously |
| 16. |
Sidebar: Security Log |
| 17. |
Building a Defense Against Complaints |
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Keeping Corporate Trade Secrets Under Lock and Key |
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Tips on Defensive Coding |
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CEOs urged to take control of cybersecurity |
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Shelf filled with ivy. 
This living shelf from Mosley meets Wilcox is made of transparent plastic with ivy growing in it.
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UnAAmerican: American Airlines firehoses customer data at TSA, Lockheed Martin. Rmember when JetBlue and Delta got caught firehosing their customers' data all over the place in the name of "national security?" Well American Airlines just got caught doing the same thing.
Anyone who flew American Airlines during June of 2002 should assume that all information given by them to American Airlines, including credit card numbers, is in the possession of both the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and the following TSA subcontractors: HNC Software; Infoglide Software; Ascent Technology; and Lockheed Martin. Furthermore, as the passenger records were used to test the CAPPS II passenger profiling system, it should be assumed that the Social Security number, date of birth, as well as the associated credit histories and law enforcement records of many of the 1.2 million customers affected were combined into a single file and are now in the possession of the above-named companies as well as the Department of Homeland Security.
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Boing Boing add Technorati support. Check out the "New! Other blogs commenting on this post" at the bottom of our posts -- this is a link to Technorati's index of all the blogs that have linked to each of Boing Boing's posts. It's not quite a Discuss link, but if you have a blog and you post a comment about one of our posts to it, Technorati will find it and index it. Just make sure that your blogging tool is pinging one of the major pingsites, like blo.gs, weblogs.com or Technorati's own pinger (if you're using TypePad, Blogspot, Livejournal or one of the other major hosted services, this is already the case; most host-your-own tools like Blosxom, Movable Type and Radio have a setting for this).
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Wayport Plans to Serve McDonald's With Wi-Fi. Wayport Inc. has won a contract to become the sole provider of wireless Internet access in thousands of McDonald's restaurants. By Matt Richtel. |
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In Michigan, a Milestone for a Mouse Methuselah. A dwarf mouse named Yoda turned 4 on Saturday, or roughly 136 in human years. By Anahad O'connor. |
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Plea in Movie Piracy Case. By Bloomberg News. |
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Intel salutes Itanium with speed bump. Pfister pfixing pfrice pferformance By Ashlee Vance . |
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G.I.'s in Iraq Tote Their Own Pop Culture. Personal CD players, MP3's, portable DVD movie systems and laptop computers allow soldiers to stay current with American music, movies and television. By Thom Shanker. |
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With Tiny Brain Implants, Just Thinking May Make It So. Cyberkinetics Inc. plans to implant a tiny chip in the brains of five paralyzed people in an effort to enable them to operate a computer by thought alone. By Andrew Pollack. |
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Wall Street Sees a Future for a Maker of Software. Wall Street analysts and investors expect Computer Associates to remain competitive even if the company's chief executive is forced out. By Alex Berenson. |
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Google Says It Doesn't Plan To Change Search Results. Google has no plans to alter its search results despite complaints that the first listing on a search for the word "Jew" directs people to an anti-Semitic Web site. By Laurie J. Flynn. |
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After 45 Years (and $700 Million), a Gravity Experiment Takes Flight. Three Stanford scientists' dream has materialized as a van-size assemblage of plumbing, electronics and quartz, known unpoetically as Gravity Probe B. By Dennis Overbye. |
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Microsoft Settles InterTrust Patent Suit. Microsoft is paying $440 million to InterTrust Technologies to settle a three-year-old patent infringement lawsuit over anti-piracy technology. By Steve Lohr. |
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Iomega Launches Line of High-Capacity Devices (Reuters). Reuters - Iomega Corp. (IOM.N) on Monday
unveiled a new line of high-capacity devices aimed primarily at
offering a low-cost option to small businesses that need to
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The Trouble With Using D&D Rules In Videogames? |
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InfoWorld: Security
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Expert releases Cisco wireless hacking tool. Tool compromises Cisco's authentication protocol |
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Threats give security boost |
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Chat, copy, paste, prison |
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Photo recognition software gives location |
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Software warfare |
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User access system to improve IT security |
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[CLA-2004:837] Conectiva Security Announcement - mod_python |
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