Wednesday, April 21, 2004

---------------------------------------------------------------------- SecurityFocus Vulns ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.  Vulns: Linux IPRoute Spoofed Kernel Messages Denial Of Service Vulnerability. iproute is a freely available, open source network suite for the Linux platform. A problem has been discovered in iproute when handling messages from the kernel. Becaus... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- NewsIsFree: Security ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 2.  Blocking Insecure Network Clients 3.  PCs Monitored, E-mail Bugged 4.  BIND 9.3 Offers More Security, Support 5.  Yahoo Webmail accounts exposed 11:26:02 PM    comment [] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CNET News.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.  Microsoft commentary slams EU ruling. The software giant releases a position paper insisting that the European Union's antitrust sanctions amount to "new law" that could hurt others in the technology industry ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Slashdot ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 2.  EFF Announces 2004 Pioneer Award Winners ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SecurityFocus Vulns ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 3.  BugTraq: EEYE: Yahoo! Mail Account Filter Overflow Hijack. Sender: Drew Copley [dcopley at eeye dot com] 4.  BugTraq: NetBSD Security Advisory 2004-005: Denial of service vulnerabilities in OpenSSL. Sender: NetBSD Security-Officer [security-officer at netbsd dot org] 5.  BugTraq: NetBSD Security Advisory 2004-006: TCP protocol and implementation vulnerability. Sender: NetBSD Security-Officer [security-officer at netbsd dot org] 6.  BugTraq: [waraxe-2004-SA#022 - Multiple vulnerabilities in PostNuke 0.726 Phoenix - part 2]. Sender: Janek Vind [come2waraxe at yahoo dot com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- NewsIsFree: Security ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 7.  Oracle Web Cache HTTP Request Overflow 8.  CiscoWorks WLSE Default User Account 9.  CiscoWorks HSE Default User Account 10.  MIMAnet viewsrc.cgi Arbitrary File Access 11.  Microsoft Windows Media Player Advanced Streaming Format Overflow 12.  Outlook Web Access With IE Embedded Script Execution 13.  Vulnerabilities in long-lived TCP connections on SGI systems 10:25:40 PM    comment [] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CNET News.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.  Briefly: Tower settles with FTC over site security. Plus: Next Microsoft Tablet PC renamed...Disney classics to sing on iTunes...Sony-Toyota joint venture invests in LCDs. 2.  Tower Records settles with FTC over site security. Tower Records settles charges that a flaw in its Web site exposed customers' personal information to other Internet users, the Federal Trade Commission says. 3.  Juniper secures its future with NetScreen. Juniper Networks outlines plans for integrating the newly acquired security company into its business. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- New York Times: Technology ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 4.  Libraries Wired, and Reborn. Public libraries have been transformed over the last decade as Internet - connected computers have increased their traffic - and, in some cases, even their book budgets. By Steve Lohr. 5.  PC Mission: Big Value, Small Price. For less than $1,000, you can get a desktop PC that will not only handle basic activities but will also have enough muscle for audio, video and photo work. By J.d. Biersdorfer. 6.  Beyond the EKG, to a Hypersensitive Heart Monitor. A new computer-based method delivers far more detailed information about the electrical activity of the heart. By Anne Eisenberg. 7.  From Shared Resources, Your Personal History. Both amateur and professional genealogists use the Web to pool resources, compare notes and connect family histories. By Peter Wayner. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! News - Technology ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 8.  NextWave to Return Many Wireless Airwaves (Reuters). Reuters - Bankrupt wireless carrier NextWave Telecom Inc. has agreed to return billions of dollars worth of wireless licenses which will likely be re-auctioned, the Federal Communications Commission said on Tuesday. 9.  AOL to Lay Out Strategy at Time Warner Meeting (Reuters). Reuters - America Online's chief executive is expected to lay out a path to salvation for the Internet company at a board meeting with parent Time Warner Inc. on Thursday, a source familiar with AOL's plans said. 10.  GM Buys Supercomputer From IBM (AP). AP - General Motors Corp. has bought a supercomputer from IBM that the companies say is the fastest in the automotive industry and will more than halve the time it takes to get a vehicle on the market. 11.  Tests Find Theoretical Data Speed Limit (AP). AP - If there is an article of faith in computer science, it's that everything can keep getting faster and faster. But scientists say they've discovered an apparent speed limit that will restrict how quickly data can be written onto disks and then retrieved. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Slashdot ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 12.  Machinima - Spielbergs with a Joystick ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The Register ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 13.  HP takes Opteron to the next level. Xeon kit bested By Ashlee Vance . ---------------------------------------------------------------------- NewsIsFree: Security ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 14.  21 Apr W32/Netsky-Z 15.  Net threat overstated, says security researcher 16.  [waraxe-2004-SA#022 - Multiple vulnerabilities in PostNuke 0.726 Phoenix - part 2] 17.  [waraxe-2004-SA#021 - Multiple vulnerabilities in phprofession 2.5 module for PostNuke] 18.  NetBSD Security Advisory 2004-006: TCP protocol and implementation vulnerability 19.  EEYE: Yahoo! Mail Account Filter Overflow Hijack 20.  NetBSD Security Advisory 2004-005: Denial of service vulnerabilities in OpenSSL 21.  IRC_ALADINZ.P 9:25:19 PM    comment [] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CNET News.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.  Kerry's broadband policy plans emerging. High-speed Internet issues are not likely to top Iraq headlines as presidential debate fodder, but the outline of the major candidates' broadband electoral planks are coming into view. 2.  Date set for RIM's patent appeal. The company is appealing a district court judge's ruling that its technology infringes on NTP patents. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! News - Technology ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 3.  Qualcomm Posts 2nd-Qtr. Profit of $488.4M (AP). AP - Qualcomm Inc.'s net income rose sharply in the latest quarter on demand for its cell phone chips. 4.  EBay Profit Nearly Doubles (Reuters). Reuters - EBay Inc. (EBAY.O) on Wednesday posted a first-quarter profit that nearly doubled as revenue from its online marketplace and its PayPal unit both grew strongly, while a weak dollar boosted income from abroad. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Slashdot ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 5.  Shifting From P2P To Stream Ripping ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The Register ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 6.  Microsoft sees Judge, looks busy. DoJ likes licensing extension By Andrew Orlowski . ---------------------------------------------------------------------- NewsIsFree: Security ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 7.  New Polymer Ideal For Secure Data Storage 8.  A Multidye Nanostructured Material for Optical Data Storage and Security Data Encryption 9.  Layered Material Holds More Data 10.  TCP Vulnerability Published 11.  Internet Technology Vulnerable to Hackers 12.  NISCC Vulnerability Advisory 236929 - Vulnerability Issues in TCP 13.  W32.Netsky.Z@mm 14.  SA04-079A: Continuing Threats to Home Users 15.  ST04-007: Reducing Spam 16.  Cisco fixes critical protocol flaw 17.  Disaster recovery expert: Asian businesses too complacent 18.  TROJ_INFIERNO.A 19.  News: Tower Records settles charges over hack attacks 8:24:59 PM    comment [] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Viewpoint of a Linux Technologist ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.  Novell: The "quiet" IT company. There's some interesting articles in Business Wekk about Linux about a month ago. Here's one that sizes up Red Hat competitor Novell. For a long time I think the IT punditariat saw Novell as the "quiet billion dollar software company."... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Penny Arcade! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 2.  He Could Have Been Nicer To Those Babies. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CNET News.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 3.  Net threat overstated, says security researcher. Widespread reports about a flawed communications protocol making the Internet vulnerable to collapse were overblown, according to the researcher credited with uncovering the security problem. 4.  Disney classics to sing on iTunes. Apple's digital music store will have an exclusive on Disney's song catalog through September. 5.  Feds ding AT&T over Internet calls. The FCC says the leading U.S. carrier must pay traditional charges to local landline companies to complete VoIP calls--a ruling that could cost AT&T dear. 6.  Next Microsoft Tablet PC software renamed. It's coming out after 2004 is half over, so, like a new car model, Microsoft is naming it for the year to come: The tablet OS codenamed Lonestar will be known as Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 2005. 7.  Voting panel grills Diebold. The elections systems vendor comes under fierce questioning the day after a staff report for the California secretary of state charged it with breaking state elections law. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- New York Times: Technology ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 8.  Lost and Found for Ancestors. www.ancestry.com Biggest commercial site for genealogical data. Claims it adds at least one database a day. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! News - Technology ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 9.  Techs Up on Motorola; EBay Up Post-Bell (Reuters). Reuters - Technology stocks ended higher on Wednesday as cell-phone maker Motorola Inc. (MOT.N) surpassed Wall Street's expectations and Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan soothed investors' inflation fears. 10.  Maryland Group Sues to Upgrade E-Voting Machines (Reuters). Reuters - A Maryland voters' group said on Wednesday it planned to force the state to add printers to electronic voting machines to ensure they can be double-checked after a disputed election, such as the 2000 presidential vote. 11.  Sex.com, VeriSign Settle Legal Dispute (AP). AP - Sex.com and VeriSign Inc. have agreed to settle their six-year legal battle over claims that the Internet address keeper wrongly transferred the lucrative Sex.com domain name to a convicted forger. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Slashdot ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 12.  Our Man In Black ---------------------------------------------------------------------- InfoWorld: Top News ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 13.  Interview: The changing politics of grid. Grid computing is a noteworthy topic, particularly this week, with formation of the Enterprise Grid Alliance by Oracle, Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems, and others. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SecurityFocus News ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 14.  News: Tower Records settles charges over hack attacks. Music retailer is the fourth company to face federal action for poor Internet security practices. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- NewsIsFree: Security ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 15.  Interview with a spammer 16.  He told you so: Jon Postel (1943 - 1998) 17.  Re: ZA Security Hole 18.  [SECURITY] [DSA 493-1] New xchat packages fix arbitrary code execution 19.  Re: Idea of CAW (Creation of Attack Wood) 20.  Advanced Guestbook 2.2 -- SQL Injection Exploit 21.  PCs Monitored, E-mail Bugged 22.  BIND 9.3 Offers More Security, Support 23.  Computer Cops - Exclusive: First Ever GSM Cellphone Exploit "Phone book entries are replaced by ... 24.  eEye: Yahoo! Mail Account Filter Overflow Hijack "allows a remote attacker to take over an accou... 25.  K-Otik: Microsoft IIS 5.0 SSL Remote buffer overflow Exploit "IIS 5.0 SSL remote root exploit" 7:24:41 PM    comment [] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CNET News.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.  Linksys finds its voice. If company founder Victor Tsao has his way, your next broadband router could bear an uncanny resemblance to your living room telephone. 2.  GM springs for IBM supercomputer. The automotive giant will install one of the world's fastest systems to run crash simulations. The sale is a big boost to IBM's momentum in the supercomputer market. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- New York Times: Technology ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 3.  EBay's First-Quarter Profit Nearly Doubles. The online auction giant reported another hefty gain in sales today and promised to expand "aggressively" in China. By The Associated Press. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! News - Technology ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 4.  Qualcomm Posts 2nd-Qtr. Profit of $488.4M (AP). AP - Qualcomm Inc.'s net income rose sharply in the latest quarter on demand for its cell phone chips. 5.  Hotlines: McD's Moves Online Buying, Gaming Tie-In Work to OMD (AdWeek.com). AdWeek.com - CHICAGO McDonald's has shifted youth online buying and gaming tie-in duties to OMD, sources said. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Slashdot ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 6.  Akamai -- The Other Huge Distributed System ---------------------------------------------------------------------- InfoWorld: Top News ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 7.  Trouble in East Fishkill? IBM chip group struggles. IBM Corp.'s server business is coming off one of its better quarters, but its new sibling in the Systems and Technology Group, IBM's microelectronics division, continues to struggle as yield problems plague its new manufacturing facility in East Fishkill, New York. 8.  Indian law may satisfy EU data protection concerns. Aiming to quell concern from Western users of outsourcing services, India is likely to have a tighter data protection and privacy regime in place later this year. The National Association of Software and Service Companies (NASSCOM) in Delhi is confident that new measures will be passed as law in the coming session of India's parliament, said Kiran Karnik, president of NASSCOM which is working closely with the government on the new rules. 9.  Customers unworried about Computer Associates shakeup. Computer Associates International Inc.'s (CA's) management shake-up is unlikely to directly affect customers or dramatically change the company's products plans and strategy, customers and analysts said Wednesday in the wake of Sanjay Kumar's ouster as chairman and chief executive officer (CEO). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- NewsIsFree: Security ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 10.  Claranet met de l’opensource chez ses clients 11.  NetBSD: tcp Denial of service vulnerability 12.  NetBSD: OpenSSL Denial of service vulnerabilities 13.  W32.Blaster.T.Worm 14.  Destructive Influence 15.  WORM_NETSKY.Z 6:24:19 PM    comment [] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Boing Boing ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.  Picasso Guernica coverup at UN, one year later. BoingBoing reader Jamie McCarthy writes "Hi Xeni, re this story you blogged last year -- Take a look at this: On Feb. 5, 2003, Negroponte sat next to Colin Powell for his historic speech to the U.N. urging multilateral war. That evening, at 10:51:58 PM EST, that photo of Negroponte was snapped, in front of the Guernica reproduction but far enough to its left that the curtain apparently did not stretch (or maybe the curtain had been removed that late in the evening). Now, a year later, that photo ended up on the homepage of the Coalition Provisional Authority. You can verify the timestamp in Photoshop by opening the JPEG, going to File Info, clicking Advanced, and looking at the XMP Core Properties. Small world... Link ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CNET News.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 2.  Trying to turn the page at CA. CNET News.com's Mike Ricciuti says Computer Associates' new chief executive will need the tools to get beyond the software maker's turbulent history. 3.  China drops Wi-Fi challenge. The Chinese government will announce later today plans to back off establishing its own Wi-Fi security standard, according to sources. 4.  Kumar resignation poses challenge for CA. Sanjay Kumar steps down from his posts of chairman and CEO at Computer Associates International, raising tough leadership questions for a company roiled by an investigation into its financial practices. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! News - Technology ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 5.  Computer Associates CEO Kumar Steps Down (Reuters). Reuters - Computer Associates' Sanjay Kumar resigned as chairman and chief executive officer, the company said on Wednesday, folding under the pressure of a long-running criminal investigation into the software maker's accounting practices. 6.  EBay Profit Nearly Doubles, Outlook Raised (Reuters). Reuters - Online marketplace eBay Inc. (EBAY.O) on Wednesday posted a first-quarter profit that nearly doubled from a year earlier on strong transaction activity as well continued growth in its PayPal unit. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Slashdot ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 7.  Universal 3D File Format In The Works ---------------------------------------------------------------------- LinuxSecurity.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 8.  Destructive Influence ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SecurityFocus Vulns ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 9.  BugTraq: Advanced Guestbook 2.2 -- SQL Injection Exploit. Sender: JQ [idiosyncrasie at xs4all dot nl] 10.  BugTraq: Re: Idea of CAW (Creation of Attack Wood). Sender: Jan Minar [jjminar at fastmail dot fm] 11.  BugTraq: Re: ZA Security Hole. Sender: Patrick Brauch [pab at heisec dot de] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- NewsIsFree: Security ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 12.  Kaspersky Labs annonce la disponibilite de Kaspersky® Anti-Virus Personal 5.0 13.  Thorgeir Einarsson rejoint Sendmail pour combattre les epidemies de spam en Europe 14.  W32.Mydoom.J@mm 5:24:01 PM    comment [] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Boing Boing ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.  Chickenhawk henpeck begins. Great commentary from Reason's Tim Cavanaugh on the infighting between pro-war chickenhawks. It's hard to say which of these sides is more contemptible, and I only hope neither ever runs out of bullets. The Stay-the-Coursers are, as ever, courageous enough to sacrifice other Americans' lives in support of their Wilsonian fancies. But I find the Wobblies even more perplexing. Did these goddamn dimwits really think things were going to go any better? Pipes I can at least credit with deviousness: He wants Iraq to descend into chaos so he can say something along the lines of "See? Perpetual war is the only language Arabs understand." The editors of the National Review, demonstrate their lack of acquaintance with human life as it is lived on planet Earth consistently enough that I guess they really are surprised to find democracy-building isn't as simple as advertised. Link 2.  Picasso Guernica coverup, one year later. BoingBoing reader Jamie McCarthy writes "Hi Xeni, re this story you blogged last year -- Take a look at this: On Feb. 5, 2003, Negroponte sat next to Colin Powell for his historic speech to the U.N. urging multilateral war. That evening, at 10:51:58 PM EST, that photo of Negroponte was snapped, in front of the Guernica reproduction but far enough to its left that the curtain apparently did not stretch (or maybe the curtain had been removed that late in the evening). Now, a year later, that photo ended up on the homepage of the Coalition Provisional Authority. You can verify the timestamp in Photoshop by opening the JPEG, going to File Info, clicking Advanced, and looking at the XMP Core Properties. Small world... Link ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CNET News.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 3.  Microsoft holds out antitrust olive branch. The software maker offers to extend a licensing program, key to its antitrust deal with the Justice Department, aiming to answer criticism that the program is taking too long to get going. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! News - Technology ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 4.  Tech Giants Join in Grid Alliance (NewsFactor). NewsFactor - As grid-computing technology matured, it was probably inevitable that those with a vested interest in its success would pool their talents to promote uniform standards for enterprise systems. 5.  Storage Market Looking Bright (NewsFactor). NewsFactor - The storage-software market rose 7.9 percent last year, compared to 2002, to $5 billion, according to Gartner. Consolidation of legacy storage applications and new purchases by SMBs appear to be the drivers. 6.  iTunes offers exclusive Disney soundtrack catalog (MacCentral). MacCentral - Disney and Pixar may be parting company, but Apple and Walt Disney Records just announced a new partnership. On Wednesday the companies indicated that iTunes Music Store will be the exclusive digital music catalog of Walt Disney soundtracks through September 30th. iTunes Music Store users can access the soundtracks through a new "Disney" genre page. 7.  Tower Records Settles Hacker Attack Suit (AP). AP - The company that operates the Web site for music retailer Tower Records has settled complaints by U.S. regulators that it allowed hackers in 2002 to steal personal information about thousands of its online customers. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Slashdot ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 8.  This Robot Collects Fingerprints 9.  First Bank Transfer via Quantum Cryptography ---------------------------------------------------------------------- InfoWorld: Security ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 10.  Interview with a spammer. You almost certainly got the offer in your inbox a year ago this week: A copy of the "Iraq's Most Wanted" playing cards created by the Pentagon. Yours for only $5.95. 11.  He told you so: Jon Postel (1943 – 1998). One of the internet's first architects, Jon Postel, helped launch the first ARPAnet connection in 1969 as a Ph.D. student at UCLA. At the time, ARPAnet was restricted to research sites and funded under the federal Advanced Research Projects Agency. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The Register ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 12.  MS to probe human-computer interface. Research team mobilised By Lucy Sherriff . 13.  Man overboard! CA chief Kumar walks plank.... Lands in comfortable billet By John Leyden . ---------------------------------------------------------------------- NewsIsFree: Security ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 14.  Tower Records Settles FTC Site-Security Charges 15.  Britons go 'toothing' for sex with strangers 16.  Columnists: Consumer Grade *nix 17.  Lücke im Internet TC-Protokoll 4:23:41 PM    comment [] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Ars Technica ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.  European Union probing Intel favoritism in government procurement. The EU is looking into government procurement practices in some member countries which all but excludes AMD. Meanwhile, AMD tries to get its hands on Intel's patent information to reopen another case before the European Commission. By Eric Bangeman. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Boing Boing ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 2.  Blogging, Equality, and the Future. BoingBoing reader Donald Melanson says: Mindjack's Melanie McBride talked to a number of people including Rebecca Blood and Danah Boyd about the future of blogging and some of the important issues facing it (equality, privilege, access and standards). The result is "Linked Out: Blogging, Equality, and the Future", an in-depth piece that will hopefully encourage further discussion and debate of issues it raises. Link ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CNET News.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 3.  SBC broadens broadband numbers. The company adds a record number of new DSL subscribers, but analysts say cable's dominance remains undiminished. 4.  Report: WiMax to lead broadband wireless market. The market for broadband wireless service will be worth $3.7 billion by 2009 and industry support for WiMax indicates that it will be the leading technology. 5.  Sony-Toyota joint venture invests in LCDs. ST Liquid Crystal Display puts $91.4 million into expanding its production of low-temperature polysilicon LCD panels. 6.  Qualcomm, Nokia to get pushy. The two companies are backing competing standards for push-to-talk, the service that lets cell phone customers talk to one another with just the push of a button. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! News - Technology ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 7.  Trouble in East Fishkill? IBM chip group struggles (MacCentral). MacCentral - IBM Corp.'s server business is coming off one of its better quarters, but its new sibling in the Systems and Technology Group, IBM's microelectronics division, continues to struggle as yield problems plague its new manufacturing facility in East Fishkill, New York, where IBM makes the PowerPC 970 and 970FX chips used in Apple's Power Mac G5 and Xserve G5. 8.  Will Your Next PC Be Short on Memory? (PC World). PC World - Rising DRAM prices could prompt vendors to cut bundled memory, analysts warn. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Slashdot ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 9.  World's First 1GB Web Mail May Not Be From Google 10.  Samba 3 By Example ---------------------------------------------------------------------- LinuxSecurity.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 11.  Britons go 'toothing' for sex with strangers 12.  NetBSD: OpenSSL Denial of service vulnerabilities ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SecurityFocus News ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 13.  Columnists: Consumer Grade *nix. Consumer grade *nix is a powder keg looking for a place to happen. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- NewsIsFree: Security ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 14.  Slackware: xine Insecure temporary file vulnerability 15.  Debian: xchat Buffer overflow vulnerability 16.  Fedora: utempter Improper directory traversal vulnerability 17.  Red Hat: kernel Multiple vulnerabilities 18.  phpBB Modified By Przemo Arbitary Code Execution 19.  Phorum SQL Injection (userlogin.php) 20.  THCIISSLame 0.1 - IIS 5 SSL Remote Root Exploit 21.  eXchange POP3 (MAIL FROM) Buffer Overflow 22.  ''Yahoo! Mail'' Account Filter Overflow Hijack 23.  Symantec Strengthens Ecommerce Operations 24.  [RHSA-2004:166-01] Updated kernel packages resolve security vulnerabilities 25.  Yahoo! Mail Vulnerable to Hijacks 3:23:20 PM    comment [] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Boing Boing ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.  Frequently spat-on bus drivers get DNA kits to collect evidence. About once a week, a bus driver in Edinburgh gets gobbed on. To nab the sickening spitters, the drivers have been given "saliva recovery kits" -- aka "spit kits." The kits include sterile swabs to pick up any trace of an offender’s DNA. The packs also contain a pair of latex gloves and an evidence collection bag. Link (via Fark) 2.  Simple but brilliant bag sealer. New patented Clip-n-Seal uses a plastic rod and clamp to seal a plastic bag. Invented by a dotcom burnout. Here's a profile of him. Link (Via idfuel) 3.  Digital camera silliness: secret finger trick. This page has dozens of photos like the one shown here. Safe for work, but if your boss catches you checking it out, you'll have to let her/him in on the secret. Link (via horkulated) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CNET News.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 4.  Cisco fixes critical protocol flaw. The networking giant provides a patch for a flaw in the TCP communications protocol that some experts said could take down the Net. 5.  Intel increases investment in the digital home. The chip giant's venture capital arm makes new investments in four companies developing technologies for Intel's digital home project, with an emphasis on ultrawideband wireless. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! News - Technology ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 6.  Motorola Boosts Tech Stocks, Dow Slips (Reuters). Reuters - Technology stocks rose on Wednesday, getting a boost from strong earnings at cell-phone maker Motorola Inc. (MOT.N), but blue chips slipped as Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan told Congress interest rates will have to rise at some point. 7.  Cisco Router Flaw Could Snarl Net, Officials Say (Reuters). Reuters - A flaw in traffic-routing computers made by Cisco Systems Inc. could knock Web sites offline, snarl e-mail and disrupt other Internet activity, U.S. cybersecurity officials warned on Wednesday. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Slashdot ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 8.  World First 1GB Web Mail May Not Be From Google ---------------------------------------------------------------------- InfoWorld: Top News ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 9.  IBM preps desktop management services. IBM has designed a new set of services specifically for small and medium-size businesses that need help managing their desktop PCs and printers, the company announced Wednesday. 10.  MS ANTITRUST - MS tells judge about licensing changes. Microsoft outlined changes to its communications protocol licensing program, but critics questioned whether the court-sanctioned antitrust remedy was working during a settlement decree status conference Wednesday. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- LinuxSecurity.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 11.  Red Hat: kernel Multiple vulnerabilities ---------------------------------------------------------------------- NewsIsFree: Security ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 12.  Netsky.X devient polyglotte 13.  Re: phpBB 2.0.8a and lower - IP spoofing vulnerability 14.  IETF Draft on Transmission Control Protocol security considerations 15.  [PNSA 2004-2] PostNuke Security Advisory PNSA 2004-2 16.  Guard the Application Layer 2:23:03 PM    comment [] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CNET News.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.  InfoSpace extends Google deal to 2006. InfoSpace will continue to include Google's search service in its family of Web portals. 2.  Briefly: InfoSpace extends Google deal to 2006. Plus: Semel cashes in more stock...RIM licenses technology to Motorola...Ben & Jerry's to give voters iTunes. 3.  Sybase earnings fall just short of projections. The database technology vendor just missed expectations for its first quarter 2004 earnings and announced the acquisition of Dejima, which makes applications used to access data via mobile devices. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- New York Times: Technology ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 4.  Chief of Computer Associates Resigns. Sanjay Kumar stepped down today as chairman and chief executive of Computer Associates, as the software company's accounting scandal reached the top. By The Associated Press. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! News - Technology ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 5.  In Face of BayStar Woes, SCO Names New CFO (Ziff Davis). Ziff Davis - Although SCO is not saying there is a connection, less than a week after BayStar Capital demanded that SCO redeem its stock, the company is naming a new CFO. 6.  RIM to License BlackBerry on Motorola Phones (Reuters). Reuters - Research In Motion Ltd. (RIM.TO) (RIMM.O) said on Wednesday it struck a deal with Motorola Inc. (MOT.N) to license its popular BlackBerry wireless e-mail service on some of Motorola's mobile phones. 7.  Survey: Denmark Tops E-Commerce Use (AP). AP - Denmark, where personal computers are found in nearly every home, mobile phones in nearly every pocket and people consider going to the bank to pay their bills an outdated if not quaint activity, is the global leader in e-commerce. 8.  Tower Records, FTC Settle Charges Over Web Site (Reuters). Reuters - Tower Records has agreed to settle charges that a flaw in the music chain's Web site exposed customers' personal information to other Internet users, the Federal Trade Commission said on Wednesday. 9.  Theoretical Limit to Data Storage Found (AP). AP - If there is an article of faith in computer science, it's that everything can keep getting faster and faster. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Slashdot ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 10.  IT Workers Not Eligible for Overtime in New Rules ---------------------------------------------------------------------- InfoWorld: Top News ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 11.  Avanquest reorganizes, builds software roster. Touting its growing global network of software publishers, BVRP Software Group Tuesday rebranded subsidiaries around the world under the Avanquest name and appointed two new directors charged with further developing product services that are now offered in 21 countries. 12.  Cisco warns of more critical software holes. Cisco Systems Inc. warned its customers about two critical security holes that affect almost every product the company makes. The vulnerabilities could be used by malicious hackers to create so-called "denial of service" (DoS) attacks, causing Cisco products to abruptly restart or drop active connections with other devices. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SecurityFocus News ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 13.  Elsewhere: Banks to keep IT security log. UK banks are compiling databases of the hacker attacks they have suffered, to comply with regulations that force financial institutions to be more open about their operat... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SecurityFocus Vulns ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 14.  BugTraq: IETF Draft on Transmission Control Protocol security considerations. Sender: Thor Larholm [thor at pivx dot com] 15.  BugTraq: Re: phpBB 2.0.8a and lower - IP spoofing vulnerability. Sender: Xin LI [delphij at frontfree dot net] 16.  BugTraq: US-CERT Technical Cyber Security Alert TA04-111B -- Cisco IOS SNMP Message Handling Vulnerability. Sender: CERT Advisory [cert-advisory at cert dot org] 17.  BugTraq: [RHSA-2004:166-01] Updated kernel packages resolve security vulnerabilities. Sender: [bugzilla at redhat dot com] 18.  Vulns: Multiple Local Linux Kernel Vulnerabilities. Multiple local vulnerabilities were reported in the Linux Kernel. These issues were announced in a Conectiva advisory. Due to insufficient details, it has not been esta... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- NewsIsFree: Security ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 19.  21 Apr W32/Mimail-V 20.  Elsewhere: New tool designed to block song swaps 21.  Elsewhere: Banks to keep IT security log 22.  News: No need for anti-spyware laws - FTC 23.  News: Serious TCP/IP vuln exposed 24.  Core Flaw Could Cause Internet Traffic Jam 25.  Core Flaw Could Cause Internet Traffic Jam 26.  Core Flaw Could Cause Internet Traffic Jam 27.  Phishing E-mails Jump 800-fold In Six Months 1:22:40 PM    comment [] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Ars Technica ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.  File-sharing battle to escalate with new fingerprinting software. A new application that claims to be able to filter out copyrighted content from P2P networks is slated for release this week, and universities are interested. Will this put the brakes on file-trading on college campuses and other places? By Eric Bangeman. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Boing Boing ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 2.  New tool for the molecular machine shop. University of Michigan researchers are using a femtosecond pulsed laser as a milling machine capable of carving out features as small as 20 nanometers, 1/5000th the diameter of a human hair. The new approach trumps state-of-the-art electron beam lithography because it can machine features in three dimensions. "If we have three channels on a plane, we can link the outer two without cutting into the center one, we can go down over and up, we can cut a U-shape," said one of the principal investigators. "Not being constrained to one plane, the level of complexity that can be achieved is much greater." Link ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CNET News.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 3.  Study: Marketers fall short on Can-Spam. According to a Jupiter Research study, many companies fail to respond promptly to opt-out requests from recipients of marketing e-mail, as required by the new law. 4.  EU probes Intel-friendly procurement rules. European regulators are investigating processes in several member states, including Italy and Germany, that benefit Intel and shut out rival chipmakers such as Advanced Micro Devices. 5.  Semel cashes in more stock. Yahoo CEO Terry Semel pulls in an additional $18.8 million after selling 500,000 stock options. 6.  Microsoft to Linux: 'Bring it on'. At a Linux conference in London, the giant of proprietary software says the growing popularity of open source on the desktop will drive it to create better products. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! News - Technology ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 7.  Computer Associates CEO Out Amid Scandal (AP). AP - Sanjay Kumar resigned Wednesday as chairman and chief executive of Computer Associates International Inc., as the software company's long-simmering accounting scandal finally reached the top. 8.  Resurgent Motorola Shares Jump 20 Percent (AP). AP - Motorola Inc. stock roared up nearly 20 percent Wednesday after the company stunned Wall Street and shareholders with its strongest quarter in years, riding the success of its new cell phones and other products to a sales resurgence. 9.  Review: Baseball Video Games Tout Realism (AP). AP - For videogame fans, there's really no need to be taken out to the ballgame when five virtual versions are as close as your gaming system of choice. 10.  Breaking away from frustrating career in tech, hobbyist turns entrepreneur (SiliconValley.com). SiliconValley.com - Steve Mortensen has seen the future of Silicon Valley and it is comic books. 11.  India Implements Computerized Voting (AP). AP - For decades, millions of illiterate Indians voted by pressing their thumbprints on ballot cards. This year, they'll just press a button. And so will everyone else. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Slashdot ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 12.  MS Hires The Salesman Who Won Munich For SUSE 13.  HDD Assault Cannon ---------------------------------------------------------------------- InfoWorld: Top News ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 14.  Update: Kumar steps down as CA CEO. Computer Associates International Inc. (CA) Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Sanjay Kumar will vacate those positions, the company said Wednesday. Kumar will remain with CA in the newly created role of chief software architect. Board member Lewis Ranieri has been elected chairman. CA will soon name an interim CEO, the company said. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- LinuxSecurity.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 15.  Fedora: utempter Improper directory traversal vulnerability ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SecurityFocus News ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 16.  Elsewhere: Security holes force firms to rethink coding processes. Microsoft's issuance last week of 14 security patches raised fears that worm-based attacks would follow and sparked discussion on how to better build code. Of the holes... 17.  Elsewhere: New tool designed to block song swaps. Network security company Palisade Systems this week will launch software designed to identify and block copyrighted songs as they are being traded online. Created by so... 18.  News: No need for anti-spyware laws - FTC. The Register By John Leyden [john dot leyden at theregister dot co dot uk] 19.  News: Serious TCP/IP vuln exposed. The Register By John Leyden [john dot leyden at theregister dot co dot uk] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The Register ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 20.  SCO case doesn't slow Linux take-up. The Big Linux Debate Panel beating By John Oates . 21.  PalmOne, HP slog it out over Euro sales. A matter of data interpretation By Tony Smith . ---------------------------------------------------------------------- NewsIsFree: Security ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 22.  Cisco Warns of Security Flaw in Routers 23.  Sun Fire IP TOS Denial of Service Vulnerability 24.  Êîíåö èíòåðíåòà îòêëàäûâàåòñÿ 25.  No need for anti-spyware laws - FTC 26.  IBM Offers Low-Price Services for Small Businesses (Reuters) 27.  Cisco Reveals Significant Security Flaw 12:22:21 PM    comment [] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Boing Boing ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.  Bloggers in Iraq. A piece in today's USA Today about the growing weblog community -- in Iraq. Fadhil's blog, iraqthemodel.blogspot.com, tells of his life and the lives of his two brothers. One brother also is a dentist, and the other is a pediatrician. "We wanted to help bridge the gap, not just between the U.S. and Iraq, but with the entire Islamic world," says Ali Fadhil, 34, the pediatrician. "The media is always taking a look at the bad stuff. We want to show the good progress in Iraq." The brothers' blog is written with an unusually pro-American viewpoint, especially coming from three Sunni Muslims. Sunnis — among them, Saddam Hussein — dominated Iraq's majority Shiite Muslim population before the war. (...)There are about 30 Iraqi bloggers in Baghdad, plus a few other blogs written by Iraqis abroad. Not all share the Fadhil brothers' optimism. "You have your Fox TV. I am offering a counter response," says Faisa Jarrar, whose blog is critical of the U.S. occupation. Her mixed Sunni-Shiite family began in December with a joint blog, afamilyinbaghdad.blogspot.com. Now, each of Jarrar's three sons has his own blog. Raed, 26, Jarrar's eldest, is studying in Jordan. Khalid, 21, and Majid, 17, are in Baghdad. "All of our efforts are more individual efforts, but we have one common goal, to show the world what is really going on," Majid says. Link ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CNET News.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 2.  SCO names new financial chief. The litigious software company names a new chief financial officer and asks the previous CFO to head corporate-development efforts. 3.  CA ousts Kumar as chief executive. Sanjay Kumar steps down as chairman and CEO of the software maker as the company comes to grips with charges of financial improprieties. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! News - Technology ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 4.  Motorola Nips at Nokia (washingtonpost.com). washingtonpost.com - Motorola's runaway first-quarter earnings, buoyed by stellar cell phone sales, are a positive sign for the tumultuous telecom sector and vindication for a company that faltered recently against cell phone giant Nokia and other players. 5.  IBM Offers Low-Price Services for Small Businesses (Reuters). Reuters - International Business Machines Corp. (IBM.N) on Wednesday launched a service in which small and medium-sized businesses can have IBM manage their personal computers and printers, making it easier for them to avoid viruses. 6.  MCI Must Keep Hold on Customers (washingtonpost.com). washingtonpost.com - Dayne Sampson was stunned by the announcement, now almost two years ago, that his company's telecommunications carrier had been accused of the biggest fraud in history. He depended on the phone giant to provide access to thousands of computers that are the virtual brains of his company's core business, the Ask Jeeves search engine. 7.  Study: Swedes Most 'Digital-Savvy' in Europe (Reuters). Reuters - When it comes to Web surfing savvy and adoption of the latest digital gadgets, the Swedes are the most advanced in Western Europe while the Greeks rank last, according to a study released Tuesday. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Slashdot ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 8.  AOL Mail To Be Accessible Via IMAP ---------------------------------------------------------------------- InfoWorld: Top News ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 9.  Wi-Fi, wide area switching arrives. After two years of promises from the wireless industry, Broadbeam appears to be the first player to deliver seamless switching between wide area and wireless local area (Wi-Fi) networks. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- LinuxSecurity.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 10.  Flaw Leaves Internet Open to Attacks 11.  STAT Scanner 5.27 Reviewed 12.  Slackware: xine Insecure temporary file vulnerability 13.  Debian: xchat Buffer overflow vulnerability ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The Register ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 14.  No need for anti-spyware laws - FTC. User clean thyself By John Leyden . 15.  Police probe 'joke' eBay daughter sale couple. Mother may face charges By Tony Smith . ---------------------------------------------------------------------- NewsIsFree: Security ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 16.  21 Apr W32/Agobot-QF 17.  A Beginner's Crash Course into Object Oriented Programming 18.  Cyber crime is right under your nose 19.  New tool would block illegal song swapping 20.  First Ever GSM Cellphone Exploit 21.  Cisco plans network OS overhaul 22.  Prescott demands firewall protection 23.  More Companies Targeting Spam 24.  Security relying on kindness of strangers 25.  Are firms doing their best for site security? 26.  Cisco IOS SNMP Request Processing Vulnerability 27.  Cisco IOS SNMP Request Processing Vulnerability 28.  No need for anti-spyware laws - FTC 11:22:01 AM    comment [] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CNET News.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.  Briefly: RIM licenses technology to Motorola. Plus: Ben & Jerry's to give voters iTunes...Siebel Systems acquires Irish software company...Two start-ups address application requirements. 2.  Earnings alert: SBC profit slips. Plus: EarthLink sees narrow loss...Lexmark profit up 28 percent...IBM profit meets expectations. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! News - Technology ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 3.  Ben & Jerry's sweepstakes has iPod, iMac, 50,000 iTunes (MacCentral). MacCentral - Tuesday, April 27, 2004 is bound to be a busy day at Ben & Jerry's Scoop Shops. That's the company's 26th annual Free Cone Day. The first 50,000 customers in the U.S. who sign up for a sweepstakes at this year's event will also be able to get a code redeemable for a free song at Apple's iTunes Music Store. The sweepstakes grand prize winner gets an iPod, an iMac and a trip to Ben & Jerry's headquarters in Vermont to become an honorary "Flavor Guru," where the winner gets to make a batch of their own personal flavor of ice cream. 4.  IBM Kicks Off Service-Oriented Architecture Strategy (Ziff Davis). Ziff Davis - To support customers in developing and deploying SOAs, the company is introducing new services offerings as well as new products such as WebSphere Business Integration Server Foundation, which enables customers to build and integrate applications in SOAs. 5.  Windows XP in a tiny package (SiliconValley.com). SiliconValley.com - For Jory Bell, creating a handheld computer that uses the full Windows XP operating system isn't a matter of if, but when. 6.  AOL Chief to Focus on Growth (washingtonpost.com). washingtonpost.com - When AOL Chief Executive Jonathan Miller strides into the 10th floor boardroom at the Time Warner Center in New York tomorrow, he will face a difficult challenge: persuading board members that America Online can return to growth, even as its core dial-up subscription business continues to rapidly shrink. 7.  Intel, Top Rival Set for Supreme Court Showdown (Reuters). Reuters - The bitter rivalry between the two biggest makers of computer microprocessors is set to reach the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday, in a case that could determine the fate of a European antitrust probe. 8.  Lemelson-MIT Recognizes Inventor of LED (AP). AP - When Nick Holonyak Jr. set out to create a new kind of visible lighting using semiconductor alloys, his colleagues thought he was "nuttier than hell." Today, his discovery of light-emitting diodes, or LEDs, are used in everything from DVDs to alarm clocks to the NASDAQ stock billboard in New York. Dozens of his students have continued his work, developing lighting used in traffic lights and other everyday technology. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Slashdot ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 9.  Few Takers For Microsoft's Settlement Cash ---------------------------------------------------------------------- BBC News | Technology | UK Edition ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 10.  Hackable bug found in net's heart. A serious security vulnerabilty has been found in one of the net's core components. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- InfoWorld: Top News ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 11.  Microsoft Germany nabs public sector experts. Microsoft Corp. has been moving quietly but diligently in recent months to bolster its sales efforts in Germany's huge public sector market where open source software, particularly the Linux operating system, is becoming increasingly popular. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The Register ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 12.  Police probe 'joke' eBay daughter sale couple. Mother could face human trafficking charge By Tony Smith . ---------------------------------------------------------------------- NewsIsFree: Security ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 13.  BEA WebLogic May Stop Protecting URLs When Configured With Certain Illegal Protection Patterns 14.  BEA WebLogic Bug Lets Applications Remove EJB Objects Without Permission 15.  BEA WebLogic 'config.sh' and 'config.cmd' May Disclose Administrative Password to Local Users 16.  Vijf herkenningspunten voor gedistribueerde security 17.  Training maakt van receptioniste security goeroe 18.  NetSky.Y lastiger dan gedacht 19.  Blue Coat Products TCP Connection Reset Denial of Service 20.  Debian update for xchat 21.  Cray UNICOS TCP Connection Reset Denial of Service Vulnerability 22.  SEIL TCP Connection Reset Denial of Service Vulnerability 23.  Schwachstelle bedroht Internet-Verkehr 24.  Patch für ColdFusion MX schützt vor Denial-of-Service-Missbrauch 25.  Cisco hit by trio of vulnerabilities 26.  Debian update for xchat 27.  Cray UNICOS TCP Connection Reset Denial of Service Vulnerability 28.  SEIL TCP Connection Reset Denial of Service Vulnerability 29.  Experten warnen vor TCP-Sicherheitslücke 10:21:40 AM    comment [] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! News - Technology ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.  Earnings, Fed in Focus on Wall St. Today (Reuters). Reuters - U.S. stocks are set to open higher on Wednesday as a strong profit report from cell-phone maker Motorola Inc. (MOT.N) bolstered hopes for the corporate earnings season, offsetting worries that an interest rate hike may be near. 2.  Breaking away from frustrating career in tech, hobbyist turns entrepreneur (SiliconValley.com). SiliconValley.com - Steve Mortensen has seen the future of Silicon Valley and it is comic books. 3.  Relatives Use Technology to Reach Iraq (AP). AP - The families of Maine Army National Guard soldiers guarding a prison in Iraq used e-mail and phone trees to spread the news after a barrage of mortar rounds killed 22 prisoners but hurt none of the Americans at the prison. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Slashdot ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 4.  LUG Pres Resigns Over Military Linux Use 5.  Salon Interviews Neal Stephenson ---------------------------------------------------------------------- BBC News | Technology | UK Edition ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 6.  Webbys attract diverse nominees. The internet industry Oscars is kicking off again and the public have the chance to vote for their favourite websites. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- InfoWorld: Top News ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 7.  IBM delivers SOA enablers. IBM on Wednesday rolled out a series of software and services intended to help corporate users more efficiently create and deploy SOAs (service-oriented architectures) on their existing infrastructures. 8.  China, U.S. to hold high-level trade meeting. Several simmering trade issues between the U.S. and China, including the latter's plans to adopt a proprietary national standard for wireless LANs, are up for discussion this week at a bilateral high-level government meeting due to begin on Wednesday in Washington, D.C. 9.  EU investigates Germany, Italy for favoring Intel chips. The European Commission has put Germany and Italy under investigation to determine if the countries have been illegally favoring computers with semiconductors from Intel Corp. to the detriment of rivals like Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD), industry sources confirmed Wednesday. 10.  RIM closes Motorola licensing deal. Research in Motion Ltd. (RIM) and Motorola Inc. have signed a licensing agreement allowing RIM's popular BlackBerry services to be accessed by some of Motorola's mobile phones, RIM announced Wednesday ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The Register ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 11.  No need for anti-spyware laws — FTC. User clean thyself By John Leyden . 12.  Billions wasted due to IT skills deficit. Not enough professionalism either By Tim Richardson . ---------------------------------------------------------------------- NewsIsFree: Security ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 13.  Zafi worm bevat politieke boodschap 14.  De voordelen van onderhoudsvriendelijke back-ups 15.  phpBB IP Spoofing Issue 16.  Check Point SecurePlatform TCP Connection Reset Denial of Service 17.  Cisco Non-IOS Products TCP Connection Reset Denial of Service 18.  phpBB IP Spoofing Issue 19.  Check Point SecurePlatform TCP Connection Reset Denial of Service 20.  Cisco Non-IOS Products TCP Connection Reset Denial of Service 21.  Blue Coat Products TCP Connection Reset Denial of Service 22.  Indonesian election website gets comedy makeover 23.  Serious TCP/IP vuln exposed 24.  Netsky.x Wild On The Net (TechWeb) 9:21:20 AM    comment [] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CNET News.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.  New tool would block illegal song swapping. The new product from Palisade Systems, scheduled to be available this week, has the enthusiastic support of the RIAA. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! News - Technology ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 2.  MCI Must Keep Hold on Customers (washingtonpost.com). washingtonpost.com - Dayne Sampson was stunned by the announcement, now almost two years ago, that his company's telecommunications carrier had been accused of the biggest fraud in history. He depended on the phone giant to provide access to thousands of computers that are the virtual brains of his company's core business, the Ask Jeeves search engine. 3.  California Urged to Probe Porn HIV Cases (AP). AP - Health officials asked the state Tuesday to investigate two cases of HIV infection in the pornographic film industry and to consider applying workplace safety laws to adult movie sets. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The Register ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 4.  Intel close to clearing Austin 'eyesore'. Offloads unfinished chip design centre By Tony Smith . 5.  Serious TCP/IP vuln exposed. But don't panic By John Leyden . 6.  Siebel offers up to $150m for Eontec. $70m up front, more to follow By electricnews.net . 7.  MyZones founders jump overboard over board. Not directors of Wi-Fi firm By Guy Kewney, Newswireless.net . 8.  Texaco pumps Wi-Fi into 100 garages. T-Mobile wins roaming deal and champagne flute By Tony Smith . 9.  Creative laptop-in-the-bath ad banned. 'Encouraged a dangerous practice' By Tim Richardson . 10.  419 shirt in ghostly 'Abacha white'. Cash'n'Carrion Summer is a-coming in... By CashnCarrion . ---------------------------------------------------------------------- NewsIsFree: Security ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 11.  BEA WebLogic Unauthorised EJB Object Deletion Vulnerability 12.  WORM_SDBOT.MM 13.  Les gardes du corps Symantec arrêtent les espions 8:21:00 AM    comment [] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CNET News.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.  Cisco plans network OS overhaul. The company's major overhaul of Internetwork operating system is expected to bring long overdue improvements--and some possible complications--to software that runs most of the world's routers. 2.  Eager for profit, Gateway could cut work force by half. New management is evaluating a number of scenarios, including simplifying its product lines and eliminating as many as 2,000 employees, in order to achieve profitability by year-end. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! News - Technology ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 3.  Yahoo Swings Gavel at eBay in China (Reuters). Reuters - Yahoo Inc will offer its new China auction service for free over the next few years, with an eye to overtaking industry leader eBay Inc in the market, Yahoo's north Asia chief said on Wednesday. 4.  Intel, Top Rival Set for Supreme Court Showdown (Reuters). Reuters - The bitter rivalry between the two biggest makers of computer microprocessors is set to reach the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday, in a case that could determine the fate of a European antitrust probe. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Slashdot ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 5.  Need A Few Post-Its Around The Office? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The Register ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 6.  Egg punters up, losses down. 'Solid start to the year' By Tim Richardson . 7.  Chocks away for NASA's Einstein test. Gravity Probe-B launch successful By Lucy Sherriff . 8.  Intel close to clearing Austin 'eyesore'. Sale close for last part of unfinished chip design centre By Tony Smith . 9.  Sony Ericsson pressures Nokia. Handset sales and profits up By Datamonitor . 10.  Court slaps injunction on GPL infringer. Landmark German ruling By Lucy Sherriff . ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Help Net Security ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 11.  Phishers using smarter hooks 12.  Training will turn receptionists into security gurus 13.  Five signs your enterprise needs distributed security 14.  Worst security problem: attachments 15.  Military cadets play cybercops ---------------------------------------------------------------------- NewsIsFree: Security ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 16.  Mandrake: samba Privilege escalation vulnerability 17.  Mandrake: libneon Format string vulnerabilities 18.  Slackware: utempter Insecure symlink vulnerability 19.  Mandrake: xine-ui Temporary file vulnerability 20.  Mandrake: MySQL Temporary file vulnerabilities 21.  BEA WebLogic URL Restriction Bypass Security Issue 22.  BEA WebLogic Exposure of Administrative Credentials 23.  Cisco IOS TCP Connection Reset Denial of Service Vulnerability 24.  Software makers ready desktop lockdown 25.  Securing a Fresh Linux Install 26.  WORM_AGOBOT.MI 27.  BEA WebLogic URL Restriction Bypass Security Issue 28.  BEA WebLogic Unauthorised EJB Object Deletion Vulnerability 29.  Cisco IOS TCP Connection Reset Denial of Service Vulnerability 30.  BEA WebLogic Exposure of Administrative Credentials 31.  InfoSec Magazine: Programmble Hardware Filtering of Viruses and Malware Developed at Washington ... 32.  Niels Provos: A Virtual Honeypot Framework (pdf) 33.  Net-Security: Linux Kernel Setsockopt MCAST_MSFILTER Integer Overflow Vulnerability "Proper expl... 7:20:39 AM    comment [] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! News - Technology ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.  Breaking away from frustrating career in tech, hobbyist turns entrepreneur (SiliconValley.com). SiliconValley.com - Steve Mortensen has seen the future of Silicon Valley and it is comic books. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- LinuxSecurity.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 2.  Software makers ready desktop lockdown 3.  Securing a Fresh Linux Install ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The Register ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 4.  Indonesian election website gets comedy makeover. Pink Grandfather Party By John Leyden . 5.  Motorola makes hay during Q1. 'Here's a $2bn profit we didn't expect...' By Andrew Orlowski . 6.  Oracle, HP, Intel and Sun start YAGCSB*. *Yet Another Grid Computing Standards Body By Ashlee Vance . 7.  Q1 x86 shipments dipped below par. Intel, AMD jostle for market share By Tony Smith . 8.  Sex.com epic battle finally ends. VeriSign settles six-year legal fight By Kieren McCarthy . 9.  WLAN vendors gain back-door WAPI support. In through Taiwan By Tony Smith . 10.  Morse buys niche consultancy biz. 'De-risking projects' By Drew Cullen . 11.  HP to upgrade AMD to business class. First time in Europe By Tony Smith . ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Wired News ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 12.  India Gets Out the E-Vote. National elections are under way in India, and for the first time electronic voting is in widespread use. Given the enormous scale and logistics, things appear to be running about as well as could be expected. 13.  321 Studios Slammed on Service. The Better Business Bureau issues an advisory warning of consumer complaints against 321 Studios. The maker of DVD-copying software, already under fire from Hollywood studios, pledges to satisfy disgruntled customers. 14.  Sex.com Settles With VeriSign. The owner of Sex.com and domain registrar VeriSign agree to settle a six-year dispute over the chain of events that once put the valuable domain into the hands of a convicted con artist. By Joanna Glasner. 15.  Flaw Could Cripple Entire Net. For months, governments have been working secretly to fix a flaw in the underlying technology of the Internet. A researcher says hackers could exploit the flaw to shut down key routers, blocking traffic through broad swaths of the global network. 16.  California Rolls Toward Hydrogen. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger launched California's drive to a hydrogen economy with the dedication of a fueling center, but it's a future that might never happen. By John Gartner. 17.  South Africa Struggles to Rebuild. As jobs overseas dry up, many techie expats are returning to South Africa. The country desperately needs its professionals to rebuild its economy, but it has a long way to go to rebuild itself. Megan Lindow reports from Cape Town, South Africa. 18.  Teaching Robots to Herd Cats. Rescue crews would love to have dozens of tiny robots swarm disaster sites to aid in finding survivors. There's just one problem: The robots don't play well with each other. So researchers are programming teamwork into electronics. By Michelle Delio. 19.  Virtual Reality the World Over. One of the most ambitious VR projects undertaken has just gone online: a gallery of immersive vistas shot all over the globe during the first day of spring. By Leander Kahney. 20.  Cash Cow or Spam Sow?. A New Hampshire firm offers to turn people's spare computer cycles into cash. The only problem is that the program is being used to push out spam, critics say. By Amit Asaravala. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- NewsIsFree: Security ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 21.  TA04-111A: Vulnerabilities in TCP 22.  TA04-111B: Cisco IOS SNMP Message Handling Vulnerability 23.  WORM_AGOBOT.HS 24.  WORM_MYDOOM.J 25.  Aus CERT: Vulnerabilities in SNMP Message Processing "could cause the device to reload" 26.  Indonesian election website gets comical makeover 27.  21 Apr Troj/DDosSmal-B 28.  Important virusalerts 29.  Netsky.X, le ver polyglotte 30.  Communiqué Zataz sur le canular du virus SMS 6:20:19 AM    comment [] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! News - Technology ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.  Tokyo Edge: Gadgets for Commuters (PC World). PC World - From a combo cell phone and TV to paper discs and tiny drives, here's the spring announcements from Japan. 2.  Yahoo Japan's full year net profit doubles on strong ad sales (AFP). AFP - Yahoo Japan, the nation's top Internet portal and online auctioneer, full year net profit doubled to a record 24.8 billion yen (230 million dollars) thanks to strong advertising sales. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- BBC News | Technology | UK Edition ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 3.  PC users 'fail security tests'. Better security means not trusting users to do the right thing, argues an industry expert. 4.  Curiosity fuels anger at mobile chat. The reason we find mobile conversations irritating could be down to human curiosity, say researchers. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [O.S.S.R] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 5.  Windows to remain security risk for years to come 6.  Microsoft Clips Longhorn 7.  Growing acceptance of Linux has dark side 8.  Linux a 'Threat' to US National Security? 9.  Browser-Based Attacks On The Rise, IT Pros Say 10.  Microsoft issues new patches to secure against at least 20 Windows vulnerabilities 11.  Access Control Security Technology Company, Viscount Systems, Featured on Homela 12.  Users Criticize Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 13.  Solaris 10 Security 14.  'Hacker' Watch ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The Register ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 15.  Freescale posts 328% Q1 income increase. Motorola's chip division prepares to IPO By Tony Smith . 16.  Intel touts 'MP3 for 3D' universal graphics format. Chuck out your proprietary CAD formats By Tony Smith . 17.  IBM answers need for long distance speed. Zoom, zoom, zoom By Ashlee Vance . 18.  Indonesian election website gets comical makeover. Pink Grandfather Party makes late surge in polls By John Leyden . ---------------------------------------------------------------------- NewsIsFree: Security ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 19.  Journalness Unauthenticated Post Manipulation Vulnerability 20.  The enemy within 21.  The enemy within 22.  WinXP SP2 firewall compatible met andere firewalls 23.  E-mail bijlagen zijn grootste security probleem 5:19:59 AM    comment [] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Boing Boing ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.  Stepheon's Confusion on Salon. My copy of Neal Stephenson's Confusion, the new, enormous sequel to Quicksilver, arrived in the mail yesterday before I left for Turin, and it's in my suitcase, waiting for me. Quicksilver was a remarkable book, a triumphant combination of Stephenson's trivia-obsessed, research-intensive approach to the precursors of the information age (viz. Snow Crash's Nam-Shub of Enki and Cryptonomicon's Bletchley Park sequences) and his gift for sprawling, braided stoorylines that combine slapstick action scenes with intense, emotional passages. Salon's running a double feature on Stephenson today: a long interview with Neal, and a review by Andrew Leonard. Both are highly recommended -- I can't wait to sink my teeth into this book. Science was new and they didn't know how to do it yet. Science was and is a somewhat contentious thing. Someone's got a theory and they promulgate that theory and then something else comes along and alters, improves on or even flatly contradicts it. Now that we've got 350 years of perspective on this, scientists understand that this is how it's done and there's a mechanism in place for how to do it. It's refereed journals and it's become institutionalized. They didn't have that perspective on it. They couldn't stand back and say, Well, my theory may get contradicted here and there, but this guy who's contradicting it will get contradicted in turn. They didn't have that expectation. They didn't have journals. The first two journals were the Journale de Savants, which was about 1665, and the Proceedings of the Royal Society, which was right about the same time. Leibniz had to found his own journal in order to publish his own work. They were kind of banging around in the dark trying to figure out how to do this. Hooke, for example, when he figured out how arches work, published it as an anagram. He condensed the idea into this pithy statement: "The ideal form of an arch is the form of a chain hanging, flipped upside down." Then he scrambled the letters to make an anagram and published it. That way, he wasn't giving away the secret, but if somebody came along a few years later and claimed that they'd invented it, he could just unscramble what he'd published. He was establishing precedence. Hooke squabbled with [Christiaan] Huygens over a bunch of clock-related inventions. This kind of thing was just rife. It came to a head in a grotesque way in the priority dispute over [who invented] the calculus. That was so embarrassing to the whole institution of science and people were so nauseated by it that it taught everyone a lesson. After that, no one would dream of doing what Newton did, which was to invent something really important and then sit on it for 30 years. 2.  Robots Are Us! benefit in San Francisco. Jed sez, "The Speculative Literature Foundation is holding an event in San Francisco this coming Friday, April 23, as a fundraiser for the new SLF Fountain Award for sf short stories of exceptional literary quality. The event will feature Pat Murphy, Rudy Rucker, Terry Bisson, Ken Wharton, Charlie Anders, and Omnicircus ("an experimental, surreal-psychedelic musical-cabaret group"); 7:00 p.m., $10-$20 sliding scale at the door. It'll be at 550 Natoma, a few blocks from the Civic Center BART station, near 7th and Mission." Link ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Dilbert ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 3.  Dilbert for 21 Apr 2004. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! News - Technology ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 4.  Lindows Files For IPO (TechWeb). TechWeb - No date has been set for the initial public offering. 5.  BlackBerry Maker Licenses Technology to Motorola (Reuters). Reuters - Research In Motion (RIM.TO), maker of the popular BlackBerry wireless device, said on Wednesday that it will license technology to Motorola (MOT.N), allowing some of the mobile maker's phones to connect with BlackBerry services. 6.  Intel, Top Rival Set for Supreme Court Showdown (Reuters). Reuters - The bitter rivalry between the two biggest makers of computer microprocessors is set to reach the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday, in a case that could determine the fate of a European antitrust probe. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- BBC News | Technology | UK Edition ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 7.  Motorola profit and shares surge. US mobile phone maker Motorola has stunned investors with a surge in handset sales and a tripling of first quarter profits. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- NewsIsFree: Security ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 8.  NEW 'OFF THE WALL' ONLINE 9.  Kritieke lekken in TCP en Cisco routers 10.  Anne Brunel (Bouches-du-Rhône) : « Nous distribuerons 60 000 portables aux collégiens dès la rentrée 2004 » 4:19:40 AM    comment [] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Ars Technica ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.  Ars Technica review: alternative AIM clients for Windows. Tired of AIM's interface, pop-up ads, and general flakiness? Ars Technica takes a look at three alternatives that might tickle your fancy. By Eric Bangeman. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Boing Boing ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 2.  Gardner Dozois stepping down from Asimov's. Gardner Dozois, the long-sitting editor of Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, is stepping down to pursue personal writing projects. Gardner's won the Hugo for best editor 14 times, making him one of the award-winningest editors in the history of the field, and the stories in Asimov's are stunningly well-represented at every year's Nebula and Hugo awards. Dozois popularized the term "cyberpunk" and was a midwife for the literary movement. Gardner's also the first editor to have bought a story from me for a pro market, and the first Year's Best editor to buy a reprint from me, for his definitive, astonishing, long running Year's Best Sceince Fiction anthologies. Sheila Williams -- currently Managing Editor -- is stepping into Gardner's position, which is itself exciting news: Sheila was a real protege of Asimov's, a friend of his who has been with the magazine even longer than Gardner has. Sheila's always been the "business" editor at Asimov's, the one who handles the logistics and keeps track of who's where and working on what. She knows the Asimov's stable as well as anyone and is herself a shrewd and astute editor. But the biggest news here is that Gardner is going to go back to work on his own fiction. When I entered the field, all I knew about Gardner was that he was the magazine editor to sell to, but gradually, I discovered that Gardner had once been considered the writer to watch in the field, a talented and lively prose stylist whose output had all but stopped when he took over the berth at Asimov's and began editing his fantastic Year's Best anthologies. So the field has lost one of its best editors, but it's gained back one of its best writers. That's pretty cool. Link (Thanks, Vera!) 3.  Darth Vader's flagship for sale on eBay. This guy spent three years building an enourmous model of Star Wars Super Star Destroyer -- Darth Vader's flagship. It's to the same scale as the 4" figurines, making it a kind of jumbo skiffy dollhouse for your Lucasfilm dollies. It's pretty amazing. Bidding stands at £305 right now with four days left. Taking almost 3 years to make, this is the one of a kind 4" scale figure toy that I always wanted, and now I have built it. I just wish I’d had one of these when I was a kid. And for kids this Star Destroyer has been built. The ship is constructed almost entirely of wood and all the parts are quite chunky with nothing small to break off (unless abused). It is approximately 2 metres in length, 1.5 metres wide and 1 metre high, it is rather large but built solidly. Caster wheels on the base allow for easy movement and the top section can be removed for storage and easier transportation. Not for under 3s but great fun to play with from 6 – 60 year olds! Link (Thanks, Peter!) 4.  2nd Circuit opinion affirms fair use -- even when the source is infringing. On Copyfight, Jason Schulz calls out to a recent Second Circuit opinion in which the value of fair use is affirmed, even when the material itself is taken from an infringer. This is the right decision: if I want to make a critical documentary about a Star Wars movie, and the only way for me to get my clips is by downloading them from Kazaa, my reuse of the material should be fair use -- even if the person who ripped the movie and put it on a P2P net is infringing. "Fair use is not a doctrine that exists by sufferance, or that is earned by good works and clean morals; it is a right--codified in § 107 and recognized since shortly after the Statute of Anne--that is "necessary to fulfill copyright's very purpose, '[t]o promote the Progress of science and the useful arts . . . .'" Link 5.  Spammer starting SpamKing clothing line: "Just opt out". Scott Richter, one of the original Big Name Spammers, has decided to augment his email marketing biz with a line of SpamKing clothing. Richter said the line, initially hats, shirts and panties, will be aimed at the hip-hop, grunge and skateboarding crowds. It will feature sayings such as "Just opt out," and "Click it." Link (via Lawmeme) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! News - Technology ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 6.  Lindows Prepares to Go Public (PC World). PC World - Amid its ongoing legal dispute with Microsoft, company files for an IPO. 7.  AOL Chief to Focus on Growth (washingtonpost.com). washingtonpost.com - When AOL Chief Executive Jonathan Miller strides into the 10th floor boardroom at the Time Warner Center in New York tomorrow, he will face a difficult challenge: persuading board members that America Online can return to growth, even as its core dial-up subscription business continues to rapidly shrink. 8.  Breaking away from frustrating career in tech, hobbyist turns entrepreneur (SiliconValley.com). SiliconValley.com - Steve Mortensen has seen the future of Silicon Valley and it is comic books. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Slashdot ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 9.  New Polymer Ideal For Secure Data Storage ---------------------------------------------------------------------- NewsIsFree: Security ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 10.  Gaming the spam system 11.  Ending e-mail forgery 12.  Experts warn of TCP vulnerability 13.  21 Apr W32/Blaster-G 14.  TA04-104A: Multiple Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Products 15.  TA04-111A: Vulnerabilities in TCP 16.  TA04-111B: Cisco IOS SNMP Message Handling Vulnerability 17.  Re: NcFTP - password leaking 3:19:19 AM    comment [] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Boing Boing ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.  NYT coverage of prison attack on creative writing has gaping hole. The NYT has reported, twice, on the prison creative writing program whose student won a Silver PEN award for First Amendment Writing and was rewarded by having all of her -- and her classmates' -- work erased by the prison system. As much as the Times loved the human interest angle of this story ("Prisoners win award!") they never bothered to pick up the AP newswire story on the unconscionable, tragic response from the prison system. Link 1, Link 2 (Thanks, John!) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- New York Times: Technology ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 2.  Lucent Posts Profit After Cutting Costs. The telecommunications equipment maker Lucent Technologies had its third consecutive money-making quarter. By The Associated Press. 3.  No Yearlong Crews for Space Station. NASA has turned down Russia's request to extend the stay of the next International Space Station crew to a full year from six months but is open to the idea for later missions. By The New York Times. 4.  WHEN car manufacturers introduced entertainment systems as an option in vehicles several years ago, they mostly offered them in minivans and sport-utility vehicles. Now more types of cars, including full-size pickup trucks and sedans, come with the option of a DVD player in the rear seat. By Jeffrey Selingo. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! News - Technology ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 5.  Motorola Triples 1Q Profits to $609M (AP). AP - Motorola Inc. stunned Wall Street and shareholders with its strongest quarter in years, riding the success of its new cell phones and other products to a sales resurgence that spurred an after-hours run on its stock. 6.  MCI Must Keep Hold on Customers (washingtonpost.com). washingtonpost.com - Dayne Sampson was stunned by the announcement, now almost two years ago, that his company's telecommunications carrier had been accused of the biggest fraud in history. He depended on the phone giant to provide access to thousands of computers that are the virtual brains of his company's core business, the Ask Jeeves search engine. 7.  Internet Technology Vulnerable to Hackers (AP). AP - Researchers uncovered a serious flaw in the underlying technology for nearly all Internet traffic, a discovery that led to an urgent and secretive international effort to prevent global disruptions of Web surfing, e-mails and instant messages. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Slashdot ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 8.  Why MySQL Grew So Fast ---------------------------------------------------------------------- NewsIsFree: Security ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 9.  Multiple Vendor TCP Sequence Number Approximation Vulnerability 10.  esp.cpp - Search ASM Code for Overflows 11.  BKDR_SDBOT.JJ 2:18:59 AM    comment [] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CNET News.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.  IBM aims services, software at modern design. Big Blue steps up its push into services-oriented architectures, with consulting services and WebSphere Web services workflow software intended to bring customers greater flexibility and efficiency. 2.  IBM serves antispam, virus service for small biz. Big Blue will sell an antispam and virus service to small and midsize businesses to help the little guy get a leg up against productivity drains. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! News - Technology ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 3.  VMware To Support 64-Bit Extended Windows, Linux (TechWeb). TechWeb - VMware's support for 64-bit extensions will allow users to mix 32-bit and 64-bit operating systems and workloads on a single server. 4.  Motorola Earnings Triple Under New CEO (AP). AP - Motorola Inc. more than tripled its first-quarter net earnings as new products boosted its flagship cell-phone business and helped company revenues soar 42 percent over a year earlier. 5.  Newspapers Hold 8 Spots on Top 20 News Site List (Editor and Publisher). Editor and Publisher - NEW YORK Eight of the top 20 news Web sites or groups in the U.S. during March were affiliated with newspapers, according to audience statistics from Nielsen//NetRatings. 6.  Analysis: Stepper Industry Gathers Steam as Chip Makers Spend (Reuters). Reuters - When Yoshimichi Kawai became Nikon Corp's head of stepper production a little over a year ago, a recovery for these multi-million-dollar machines that make microchips was far from assured. 7.  Internet Technology Vulnerable to Hackers (AP). AP - Researchers uncovered a serious flaw in the underlying technology for nearly all Internet traffic, a discovery that led to an urgent and secretive international effort to prevent global disruptions of Web surfing, e-mails and instant messages. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- NewsIsFree: Security ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 8.  TA04-111A: Vulnerabilities in TCP 9.  TA04-111B: Cisco IOS SNMP Message Handling Vulnerability 10.  E-Mailing Aromas May Be Next Multimedia Experience 11.  Ïðîáëåìû â áîëüøèíñòâå ñóùåñòâóþùèõ ðåàëèçàöèé TCP 12:18:20 AM    comment []

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