Tuesday, May 04, 2004

---------------------------------------------------------------------- NewsIsFree: Security ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.  Gates Promises Longhorn Beta In 2005 Despite Security Concerns 2.  klogd Malformed Kernel Message Format String 3.  WFTPD Error Message Server Path Disclosure 11:08:55 PM    comment [] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! News - Technology ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.  Microsoft Details Windows Plans Amid Security Woes (Reuters). Reuters - Microsoft Corp. (MSFT.O) will make its software more reliable and easier to use, promised the vice president responsible for its flagship Windows operating system, even as a new worm continued to wreak havoc on personal computers on Tuesday. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Slashdot ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 2.  Nonlinear Neural Nets Smooth Wi-Fi Packets 10:08:34 PM    comment [] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CNET News.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.  Apple criticized for security advisories. A second researcher criticizes the Mac maker for not adequately labeling the seriousness of security flaws in its advisories. 2.  Briefly: Best Western accesses Net via satellite. Plus: Survey exposes holes in antispam armor...RSA teams with Oracle on security...Gateway nabs Best Buy exec...Mozilla updates e-mail program. 3.  XP slated for marketing burst. With half of today's PCs running earlier versions of Windows and plans for Longhorn's release pushed off until 2006, Microsoft plans a fall marketing blitz to boost sales of the current XP. 4.  Microsoft, Ironport team against spam. The software giant is expected to announce on Wednesday a partnership with IronPort, adopting its antispam protections for MSN and Hotmail e-mail. 5.  SCO cuts jobs to reach product profit. The SCO Group laid off a "small" number of employees late last week as part of an effort to make its Unix products group profitable, the company says. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! News - Technology ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 6.  Microsoft Touts Computerized Future (AP). AP - As their annual hardware developers' convention kicked off Tuesday, Microsoft Corp. executives touted a touchy-feely future of computerized "experiences" — high-tech homes, offices and automobiles filled with digital music, movies and communications. 7.  Sony Launches Online Music Service (AP). AP - Sony Corp. entered the bourgeoning digital music market Tuesday, launching an online music download service that the electronics and media conglomerate is banking will also generate sales for its line of portable audio players. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Slashdot ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 8.  Linux Smartphones On The Rise ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Hack the Planet ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 9.  Wired News: How to Save Energy: Just Guess. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- InfoWorld: Top News ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 10.  Microsoft: Almost 1.5M download Sasser cleanup tool. Almost 1.5 million Windows customers downloaded a cleanup tool for the Sasser Internet worm in the first two days after Microsoft Corp. began offering the tool on Sunday, according to a Microsoft spokeswoman. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- NewsIsFree: Security ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 11.  SuSE Linux '/proc/scsi/qla2300/HbaApiNode' Permissions Let Local Users Deny Service 12.  Sasser computer 'worm' hits PCs worldwide (FT.com) 13.  Patches Could Have Lessened Latest Worm (AP) 9:08:15 PM    comment [] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CNET News.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.  Veritas debuts utility computing tools. The maker of software for storage management releases new products and services designed to help businesses move forward with utility computing. 2.  Cisco to update Wi-Fi setup. Cisco Systems is set to announce a new module for its Catalyst 6500 Ethernet switch that's designed to allow for more centralized control of Cisco's wireless local area networks. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! News - Technology ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 3.  Microsoft Aligns Longhorn Client, Server (PC World). PC World - Next Windows release will ship in two versions--but likely not before 2006. 4.  UK Parents Worry 3G Phones a Danger to Children (Reuters). Reuters - Three quarters of British parents are worried the latest generation of mobile phones with in-built cameras and video images could compromise their children's safety, research by a children's charity said Wednesday. 5.  Sony Unveils Music Service, Mulls 'iPod Killer' (Reuters). Reuters - Sony Corp., which pioneered the market for portable music with its Walkman player 25 years ago, on Tuesday became the latest entrant into the increasingly crowded online music market. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Slashdot ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 6.  Projected 'Average' Longhorn System Is A Whopper ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Hack the Planet ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 7.  Revealed: how Fedora and the community interact. 8.  Looks like Motorola's going to sell the cool-looking Ojo videophone. 9.  Hmm, Layla vs. BenQ P50. 10.  Lots of cool stuff from Moxi today. Hopefully they'll cut out the cable operator middlemen and start selling the boxes retail soon. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- InfoWorld: Security ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 11.  Open Text unveils fruit of acquisitions. Enterprise content management vendor Open Text this week launched its first product created from integrating technology from two acquisitions the company made earlier this year. 12.  Report: Other nations doing more to combat piracy. WASHINGTON - Many U.S. trading partners are taking significant steps to improve protection of intellectual property, including software, but several nations still need to combat piracy and counterfeiting, according to a report released Monday by the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- NewsIsFree: Security ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 13.  News: We've seen worse than Sasser - MS 14.  News: Student hacks iTunes for compatibility 15.  Windows Road Map, PC Design in Spotlight at WinHEC 16.  Message Foundry Lets Remote Users Deny Service By Requesting '/com1' 8:07:55 PM    comment [] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Ars Technica ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.  IBM launches new iSeries POWER5-based servers. Yesterday, IBM took the wraps off of their first POWER5 servers. Just to recap and summarize some of the coverage, here are most of the relevant points. By Hannibal. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Boing Boing ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 2.  Geek dreams. Do IT workers dream of electric sheep? This hilarious site compiles the nightmares and dreams of coders. One of the scariest nightmares I've had in the past decade or so was about me being stuck in a Nethack dungeon. Everything was green on black (I'd been playing on a Facit VT100-clone) and in 7-bit ASCII. I distinctly remember being chased by a lower-case x, scared out of my wits and at the same time feeling ashamed of being such a wimp that a mere grid bug was a threat. Link (Thanks, Eli!) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CNET News.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 3.  WebMD problems proliferate 4.  Google wants your home page. Visitors to Google.com are now being solicited to "Make this site your home page!" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! News - Technology ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 5.  Worms on Speed (washingtonpost.com). washingtonpost.com - It's getting to the point where it's hard to get too excited by news of yet another Internet worm on the loose. Most users don't see their computers blow up when new viruses and other cyber threats emerge, so why worry about the latest cyber bug? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Slashdot ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 6.  Gas Plasma Antennas Help Wi-Fi Security ---------------------------------------------------------------------- InfoWorld: Top News ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 7.  Microsoft aligns Longhorn client and server work. SEATTLE - Microsoft Corp. has synchronized development efforts for the client and server versions of Longhorn, the code name for the next Windows release, a Microsoft executive said Tuesday. 8.  Report: Other nations doing more to combat piracy. WASHINGTON - Many U.S. trading partners are taking significant steps to improve protection of intellectual property, including software, but several nations still need to combat piracy and counterfeiting, according to a report released Monday by the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR). 9.  ATI improves PC graphics with Radeon X800. ATI Technologies Inc. launched its next-generation X800 graphics processor Tuesday, giving gamers and PC enthusiasts another choice for advanced PC graphics technology, ATI said. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SecurityFocus News ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 10.  News: We've seen worse than Sasser - MS. Microsoft is considering automating the process of cleaning up systems infected by the Sasser worm, which spread like wildfire across the Internet over the weekend. 11.  News: Student hacks iTunes for compatibility. Weakness in Apple's authentication technology is music to iTunes hacker's ears. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- NewsIsFree: Security ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 12.  Re: After Ms patches last Wed ... 13.  RE: New LSASS-based worm finally here (Sasser) 14.  [product-security@apple.com: APPLE-SA-2004-05-03 Security Update 2004-05-03] 15.  Re: [Full-Disclosure] Re: New LSASS-based worm finally here (Sasser) 16.  Re: [Full-Disclosure] Re: New LSASS-based worm finally here (Sasser) 17.  RE: After Ms patches last Wed ... 18.  @stake: AppleFileServer Remote Command Execution 19.  SUSE Security Announcement: kernel (SuSE-SA:2004:010) 20.  Sasser worm and Embedded Support Partner (ESP) port 5554/tcp 21.  Jana Proxy Web Server Arbitrary File Access 22.  Sambar Server Proxy IP Filter Bypass 23.  Sambar Server DOS Device Name Code Execution 24.  Sambar Server mortgage.pl price Variable XSS 25.  Sambar Server ssienv.shtml XSS 26.  Sambar Server dumpenv.pl XSS 27.  Sambar Server book.pl E-mail Field XSS 28.  Sambar Server results.stm Overflow 29.  Sambar Server dumpenv.pl Information Disclosure 30.  FLIM Temporary File Symlink Vulnerability 31.  ProFTPD CIDR IP Subnet ACL Bypass 32.  Weekly Enterprise IT Networking Roundup - 05/04/04 33.  Hitachi Melds Storage Mix for the Mid-Range 34.  U.S. to keep troop strength in Iraq at current level 35.  Army discloses probes of Iraq prisoner deaths, abuse 36.  Apple CoreFoundation Environment Variable Flaw Has Unspecified Impact 37.  Apple Mac OS X RAdmin Bug in Processing Large Requests Has Unspecified Impact 38.  Microsoft Details Windows Plans Amid Security Woes (Reuters) 39.  Patches Could Have Lessened Latest Worm (AP) 40.  Computer worm less damaging than predicted (FT.com) 41.  Sasser keeps squirming into homes, businesses 42.  Does Gmail breach wiretap laws? 43.  Viruses can be tamed - by upgrading user's brains 7:07:35 PM    comment [] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Ars Technica ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.  The world is catching up to the U.S. in science and innovation. The U.S. is losing their dominance in science and innovation. The factors involved are wide and varied. Improved economies around the world may leave the U.S. fighting for positioning in global science. By Fred "zAmboni" Locklear. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CNET News.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 2.  Sasser keeps squirming into homes, businesses. The various Sasser worms continue to wriggle into computers, hitting home users hard while affecting companies to a lesser degree than previous worms, said security experts. 3.  Microsoft's show-and-tell at WinHEC. Chairman Bill Gates touts 64-bit computing and his vision of the home PC at Microsoft's Windows Hardware Engineering Conference. 4.  HP merges services, high-end computing units. Hewlett-Packard completes a planned merger of its services and high-end computing businesses, a move designed to package its products more effectively for clients. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! News - Technology ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 5.  Cingular Names New CFO in Employee Swap (AP). AP - Cingular Wireless LLC named a new chief financial officer Tuesday as part of an employee swap with one of its parent companies, SBC Communications Inc. 6.  Patches Could Have Lessened Latest Worm (AP). AP - Far fewer computers would have been disabled by the latest Internet worm had their owners configured them to automatically get the latest security fixes. 7.  Microsoft Details Windows Plans Amid Security Woes (Reuters). Reuters - Microsoft Corp. (MSFT.O) will make its software more reliable and easier to use, promised the vice president responsible for its flagship Windows operating system, even as a new worm continued to wreak havoc on personal computers on Tuesday. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Slashdot ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 8.  TheOpenCD 1.4 Released 9.  City-Sized Asteroid to Pass Earth This Fall ---------------------------------------------------------------------- InfoWorld: Top News ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 10.  Albright cancels speech at CA user show. NEW YORK - Computer Associates International Inc.'s (CA) keynote schedule at its upcoming user conference is a blank slate, following the company's management shakeup last month and its guest speaker's withdrawal from the program. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- NewsIsFree: Security ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 11.  Vulnérabilité dans les VPN Cisco 12.  AppleFileServer Buffer Overflow in Processing Cleartext User Authentication Method Packets Lets Remote Users Execute Code With Root Privileges 6:37:26 PM    comment [] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Boing Boing ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.  McMurder site nastygrammed. McMurder, a website that offers statistics that appear to show a correlation between murder rates and the number of McDonalds in cities, has been nastygrammed by McLawyers. The site has until May 10 to remove all McTrademarks. Link 2.  France's RIAA gives downloaders the middle finger. X-NAS-Bayes: #0: 5.73896E-226; #1: 1 X-NAS-Classification: 0 X-NAS-MessageID: 327 X-NAS-Validation: {E681C936-E9F0-4DDC-9901-74301AF33E67} BoingBoing pal in France Jean-Luc says, "The French Phonographic Syndicate organization, aka SNEP, today launched a campaign against the trading of free illegal mp3s online. Here is the shocking campaign logo. (the claim is: Free music has a price)" Link 3.  Cory speaking at DreamCon, Jacksonville, FL, June 11-13. I'll be speaking on various and sundry EFF-related issues at DreamCon, a regional science fiction convention in Jacksonville, FL, held from June 11-13. Hope to see you there! Link ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CNET News.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 4.  Briefly: Survey exposes holes in antispam armor. Plus: RSA teams with Oracle on security...Gateway nabs Best Buy exec...Mozilla updates e-mail program...Time Warner, Comcast complete cable shuffle. 5.  Survey exposes holes in antispam armor. An online study by an antispam-software company points out shortcomings in organizations' antispam strategies. 6.  Gates calls for 64-bit software support. Microsoft's Bill Gates sees widespread use of powerful 64-bit chips in the near future--but not if hardware makers don't get to work on the drivers that will bring that power to the desktop. 7.  Gateway releases budget servers. The company targets government offices and small businesses with new servers that start at $499. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! News - Technology ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 8.  Onyx Beefs Up Contact-Center Software (NewsFactor). NewsFactor - Onyx (Nasdaq: ONXS) has announced the immediate availability of a new edition of its Onyx Contact Center software, based in part on new functionality from its latest CRM application suite release, Onyx Enterprise CRM 5.0. 9.  Linux Growth Means Security Tests Ahead (NewsFactor). NewsFactor - Linux has enjoyed a relatively smooth virus-free existence in its adoption phase. But the honeymoon could end as the open-source operating system reaches into more corporate networks and desktops. 10.  Red Hat Delivers Desktop Linux (NewsFactor). NewsFactor - Red Hat (Nasdaq: RHAT) is bringing Linux to the desktop, launching an operating system for the enterprise that will extend the company's role from the open-source server space -- where it is dominant -- to PCs and, eventually, other devices. 11.  Nextel Launches International Walkie-Talkie Links (Reuters). Reuters - Mobile service provider Nextel Communications Inc. (NXTL.O) said on Tuesday it expanded its service to let walkie-talkie users in Canada, Brazil, Argentina and Peru talk to its subscribers in the United States. 12.  Microsoft Debuts New Version of DRM Software (NewsFactor). NewsFactor - Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) has rolled out a new version of its Windows Media digital rights management (DRM) software. Early adopters of the platform are a veritable who's who in the entertainment and online media world, including America Online, Disney, CinemaNow, MovieLink, MusicNow, Napster and VirginMega France. 13.  ATI, Nvidia Seen Close in Pitched Graphics Battle (Reuters). Reuters - ATI Technologies Inc. (ATY.TO) on Tuesday unveiled its new high-end graphics chip, and according to some of the Internet's leading Web sites for hardware reviews, the difference between it and top competitor Nvidia Corp. (NVDA.O) may be too close to call. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Slashdot ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 14.  Rescuers Prep for Hybrid Car Accidents ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SecurityFocus Vulns ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 15.  Vulns: Samba SMBPrint Sample Script Insecure Temporary File Handling Symbolic Link Vulnerability. Samba is a freely available file and printer sharing application maintained and developed by the Samba Development Team. Samba allows file and printer sharing between ope... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The Register ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 16.  Gates pitches Windows Concept as home hub of everything. Back on that kick again, then? By John Lettice . ---------------------------------------------------------------------- NewsIsFree: Security ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 17.  W32.Netsky.AC@mm 18.  New computer worm hits 1m PCs (FT.com) 19.  Security Focus: WiFi high crimes "Before WiFi can entirely fulfill its promise, we'll have to co... 20.  Computer World: Sasser infections hit Amex, others "A number of U.S. universities also report be... 21.  CSRC: Security Considerations for Voice Over IP Systems "steps needed to help secure an organiza... 22.  CNet: We are all security customers "National security is a hot political topic right now, as bo... 23.  eWeek: SMTP Authentication Hits Standards Track 24.  ZDNet: Netsky authors possibly penned Sasser "The unknown team of programmers who created the la... 5:37:07 PM    comment [] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Boing Boing ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.  Interview with RU Sirius. BB buddy Ken Goffman (aka RU Sirius) was recently interviewed by a transhumanist magazine. "I don't embrace any belief systems. I'm a fuzzy believer. I might say that I 95% believe that humans will achieve a lifespan beyond the current biological limits; I 50% believe that this will work out well on a social-political level; I 95% believe that we will get really precise control over our minds and moods; I 60% believe that the future of most of humanity is pretty well fucked; I 10% believe that something very much like the singularity will actually occur; I 1% believe that it will happen in my lifetime." He also talks a bit about his new book, "Counterculture Through the Ages," due out in November. Friends who have read it tell me that it's a brilliant, even scholarly, work. RU's star is absolutely rising again. Link 2.  Used book, DVD, game sellers must submit to fingerprinting. Jon Asato sez: "Here's a story that caught my eye on GameSpot.com. Businesses in certain states are required by law to collect, among other privacy invasive information, the thumbprints of customers who want to sell their used video games, CDs, and books." X-NAS-Bayes: #0: 9.89098E-197; #1: 1 X-NAS-Classification: 0 X-NAS-MessageID: 326 X-NAS-Validation: {E681C936-E9F0-4DDC-9901-74301AF33E67} In addition to recording the drivers' licenses, telephone numbers, and addresses of customers who sell used games or consoles, some stores are routinely requiring thumbprints as well. Retailers are collecting the information under a law intended to regulate pawn shops and make it easy for law enforcement officials to track down thieves who fence stolen goods. A number of states have such laws, and Utah passed its own version just last month. In California, the law has been on the books for more than a decade, but with the increased market for used games and DVDs, some retailers are taking a cautious approach and are collecting fingerprints just to make sure they don’t run afoul of local regulations. Link ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CNET News.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 3.  Verizon offers faster DSL plans. The phone giant will raise the upload speed for its basic DSL to 384kbps in a bid to compete more aggressively against cable rivals. 4.  Sony plays in iTunes territory. The electronics giant may shake up the online music market, but analysts say that Sony's MiniDisc player isn't enough of an answer to the iPod. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! News - Technology ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 5.  Linux Leader Tips Its Hat To Ordinary Office Computers With Latest Version Of Software (Investor's Business Daily). Investor's Business Daily - Red Hat on (NasdaqNM:RHAT - News) Tuesday is debuting a Linux product for ordinary workplace computers - a move that finds the segment leader in the rare spot of playing catch-up to rivals. 6.  Qwest Loses $310 Million in First Quarter (AP). AP - Qwest Communications International Inc. reported a first-quarter loss of $310 million, blaming a 3.9 percent drop in revenue partly on fewer local telephone service sales and a delayed launch of its nationwide wireless service. 7.  Apple's iPod Lead Creates New Challenges, Analysts Say (Reuters). Reuters - The runaway success of the iPod poses a happy problem for Apple Computer Inc. (AAPL.O) that the computer maker has not had in years: how to remain the market favorite, not just the favorite underdog. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Slashdot ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 8.  Sun Java Desktop System Release 2 9.  AMD Beats Intel in CPU Sales ---------------------------------------------------------------------- InfoWorld: Top News ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 10.  Enhanced security, quality on tap for Wi-Fi in 2004. Two key improvements for the security and performance quality of Wi-Fi devices are scheduled to reach wireless network users this year as the adoption of wireless technology continues to grow within businesses and home users. 11.  Firstlogic boosts data cleansing. Firstlogic will unveil a new data quality integration framework next week designed to allow companies to tackle the burgeoning problem of data cleansing commonly faced when data from disparate front-end and transactional systems is linked for customer profiling and other business intelligence projects. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SecurityFocus Vulns ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 12.  BugTraq: SUSE Security Announcement: kernel (SuSE-SA:2004:010). Sender: Roman Drahtmueller [draht at suse dot de] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- NewsIsFree: Security ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 13.  Elsewhere: Security funds dry up 14.  Elsewhere: Mac OS X riddled with security holes 15.  Linux Growth Means Security Tests Ahead 16.  Linux Growth Means Security Tests Ahead 4:36:49 PM    comment [] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Boing Boing ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.  Hypocrite watch: FCC Swamped With Oprah Indecency Complaints. Ernest Miller sez: "Howard Stern has been the FCC's indecency whipping boy for some time. After the latest series record-setting fines, however, he asked his listeners to complain to the FCC about an episode of Oprah's talk show that included rather graphic descriptions of sex acts. The Smoking Gun has received copies of more than 1600 complaints about that episode thanks to a FOIA request. It is impossible to know which complaints are real, but many of them are downright hilarious: 'The Oprah show ... was so offensive that my child's head literally exploded. Please ban free speech so this never happens again.'" Link 2.  Interview with RU Sirius. BB buddy Ken Goffman (aka RU Sirius) was interviewed by a transhumanist magazine recently. "I don't embrace any belief systems. I'm a fuzzy believer. I might say that I 95% believe that humans will achieve a lifespan beyond the current biological limits; I 50% believe that this will work out well on a social-political level; I 95% believe that we will get really precise control over our minds and moods; I 60% believe that the future of most of humanity is pretty well fucked; I 10% believe that something very much like the singularity will actually occur; I 1% believe that it will happen in my lifetime." He also talks a bit about his new book, "Counterculture Through the Ages," due out in November. Friends who have read it tell me that it's a brilliant, even scholarly, work. RU's star is absolutely rising again. Link ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CNET News.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 3.  Does Gmail breach wiretap laws?. Three nonprofit groups say Google's forthcoming service is an "invasion" into private communications. Privacy law experts are skeptical of the claim. 4.  Briefly: RSA teams with Oracle on security. Plus: Gateway nabs Best Buy exec...Mozilla updates e-mail program...Time Warner, Comcast complete cable shuffle. 5.  RSA teams with Oracle on security. The online-security company and the business software giant join hands to offer enhanced user-access protections in Oracle's latest application server product. 6.  Microsoft server preview is short on detail. The software giant updates its server software road map but offers hardware makers few specifics about many of the products on the horizon. 7.  Apple patented by Microsoft. Calm down, it's not that Apple, it's an actual, edible apple. An entire tree, to be exact: the Burchinal Red Delicious. By Microsoft. At least that's what the patent says. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! News - Technology ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 8.  Nextel Launches International Walkie-Talkie Links (Reuters). Reuters - Mobile service provider Nextel Communications Inc. (NXTL.O) said on Tuesday it expanded its service to allow walkie-talkie users in the United States, Canada, Brazil, Argentina and Peru to talk with each other. 9.  Will Windows Power the Living Room? (PC World). PC World - Microsoft's Home Concept PC combines video recorder, CD player, phone, and more. 10.  Durst Denies Limp Bizkit Split Rumors (Reuters). Reuters - Despite Internet rumors of its impending split, Limp Bizkit is planning its first tour of 2004, according to a Web post from frontman Fred Durst. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Slashdot ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 11.  HackNotes Network Security Portable Reference ---------------------------------------------------------------------- InfoWorld: Top News ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 12.  Sun pushes open source in new EU. Sun Microsystems Inc. began sinking its teeth into the "new" European Union (E.U.) this week, saying that it has signed a no-charge education licensing program with the Hungarian government that will make its StarOffice 7 productivity suite available to 5,500 schools and 67 higher educational institutions in the country. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- LinuxSecurity.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 13.  HNS Learning Session: DDoS Threats ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SecurityFocus Vulns ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 14.  BugTraq: RE: After Ms patches last Wed .... Sender: Nick FitzGerald [nick at virus-l dot demon dot co dot uk] 15.  BugTraq: Re: [Full-Disclosure] Re: New LSASS-based worm finally here (Sasser). Sender: Jason [security at brvenik dot com] 16.  BugTraq: Re: [Full-Disclosure] Re: New LSASS-based worm finally here (Sasser). Sender: Javier Fernandez-Sanguino [jfernandez at germinus dot com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The Register ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 17.  Veritas gives products second billing to tired hype. Veritas Vision Witness CommandCentral By Ashlee Vance . 18.  We've seen worse than Sasser - MS. Clean up gets underway By John Leyden . ---------------------------------------------------------------------- NewsIsFree: Security ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 19.  Clarke to Keynote eWEEK Security Summit 20.  AirDefense: Wireless Security for Enterprises 21.  WORM_SDBOT.JE 22.  Newest Pattern: 885 23.  New worm spreads quickly, without human intervention (SiliconValley.com) 24.  Sasser Worm Rips Through Net, Home Users on Alert (Reuters) 25.  X-Chat v1.8.0-v2.0.8 Socks-5 Remote Buffer Overflow Exploit. 26.  Serv-U LIST -l Parameter Buffer Overflow 27.  Congress demands answers on Iraq prisoner abuse 28.  Escaped hostage 'very glad to be back' in U.S. hands 29.  @stake: AppleFileServer Remote Command Execution "A remote attacker can execute arbitrary comman... 3:39:47 PM    comment [] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Boing Boing ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.  LA event tonight: UNWIRED schmooze. In LA tonight? Work with wireless tech? Join me tonight -- Tuesday, May 4 -- as members and friends of the unwired list get together in West Hollywood to swap gadgets and beam business cards at each other under a full moon, on the rooftop of the Wyndham Bel Age on 1020 N. San Vicente Boulevard in West Hollywood. Event starts at 7PM, goes to 10. Big thanks to the event's two co-sponsors for making this gathering possible -- TELEMEDIA DEVELOPMENT and YAPmobile. See you there! Link ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CNET News.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 2.  IBM expands WebSphere's portal tools. New WebSphere tools for grabbing data from human resources systems and other back-end applications are meant to improve formal and improvised collaboration. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! News - Technology ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 3.  Jobs to preview Mac OS X Tiger at WWDC Keynote (MacCentral). MacCentral - Apple CEO Steve Jobs will preview Mac OS X Tiger at the company's upcoming Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in San Francisco on June 28, 2004. Jobs will give the keynote address for the conference on Monday, June 28, 2004 at 10:00 am. 4.  Microsoft Preps New Enterprise IM Server (Ziff Davis). Ziff Davis - Microsoft Office Live Communications Server 2005 will feature support for federation and presence. 5.  IBM exec replaces Siebel as CEO (SiliconValley.com). SiliconValley.com - Joining a growing group of tech company founders who have stepped aside, Tom Siebel is giving up his post as CEO of software maker Siebel Systems and passing the baton to Michael Lawrie, a veteran IBM executive. 6.  New worm spreads quickly, without human intervention (SiliconValley.com). SiliconValley.com - A new Internet worm swept across the world Monday, infecting and crashing tens of thousands of home and business computers and disrupting networks. 7.  Tools to Find PC Data Faster (PC World). PC World - Forget Windows' Search: New tools can find keywords on PCs in seconds. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Slashdot ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 8.  Microsoft Assembles Patent Arsenal for Longhorn 9.  Sony Connect Online Music Download Store Launches ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SecurityFocus News ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 10.  Elsewhere: Security funds dry up. On May 3, federal civilian agencies were put on notice that they could have a harder time next year finding money for certifying their computer systems' security. X-NAS-Bayes: #0: 3.7396E-304; #1: 1 X-NAS-Classification: 0 X-NAS-MessageID: 303 X-NAS-Validation: {E681C936-E9F0-4DDC-9901-74301AF33E67} Rep. ... 11.  Elsewhere: Mac OS X riddled with security holes. Apple has released a range of patches for security holes - both old and new - for its Mac OS X operating system, which it advises users to download immediately. The co... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SecurityFocus Vulns ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 12.  BugTraq: Sasser worm and Embedded Support Partner (ESP) port 5554/tcp. Sender: SGI Security Coordinator [agent99 at sgi dot com] 13.  BugTraq: [product-security@apple.com: APPLE-SA-2004-05-03 Security Update 2004-05-03]. Sender: David Ahmad [da at securityfocus dot com] 14.  BugTraq: Re: After Ms patches last Wed .... Sender: Nicholas Weaver [nweaver at CS dot berkeley dot edu] 15.  BugTraq: RE: New LSASS-based worm finally here (Sasser). Sender: Marc Maiffret [mmaiffret at eeye dot com] 16.  Vulns: PROPS SQL Injection and Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities. PROPS is an Internet publishing system designed to allow periodicals to publish content online. It has been reported that PROPS is vulnerable to SQL injection and cross-... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- NewsIsFree: Security ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 17.  'Sasser' Worm Hits Taiwan, Hong Kong 18.  IDC Survey Finds UK It Budgets Will Increase Over 2004 19.  iPolicy Moves Into Security Management 20.  Sasser.D Worm Arrives, Ready to Do Damage 21.  Mass-Mailing Worm Copies Itself to Windows Folder 22.  Worm Burrows Through Windows: Sasser Slowing Internet Traffic 23.  Red Hat Delivers Desktop Linux 24.  Sasser.D Worm Arrives, Ready to Do Damage (Ziff Davis) 25.  Worm Burrows Through Windows: Sasser Slowing Internet Traffic 26.  Worms on Speed (washingtonpost.com) 27.  Worm Burrows Through Windows: Sasser Slowing Internet Traffic 28.  Worm Burrows Through Windows 29.  AppleFileServer Remote Command Execution 30.  Dameware Mini Remote Control Weak Key Agreement Scheme 31.  autoRST - Automated TCP RST Exploit 32.  Squirrelmail Local Root Chpasswd Exploit 33.  Sasser causes Windows pain 34.  Poor evidence taking lets off hackers 35.  Patch now or suffer Sasser ---------------------------------------------------------------------- About Internet/Network Security ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 36.  Using MSCONFIG to Start Windows XP in SafeMode. If your computer becomes infected with malware- particularly worms which run in memory- your antivirus software may not be able to get rid of it. The problem is that the worm gets loaded into memory when Windows starts and before... 2:09:15 PM    comment [] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Ars Technica ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.  Flagship Radeon X800 XT debuts along with junior, the new Radeon X800 Pro. Today ATI has unveiled its Radeon X800 Visual Processing Unit (aka R420) and its new flagship product based on that new VPU: the Radeon X800 XT. By Ken "Caesar" Fisher. 2.  AMD beats Intel in desktop processor sales. Research firm Current Analysis has said that AMD outpaced Intel in desktop CPUs sales for the week ending April 24. That week AMD accounted for 52% of desktop CPU sales, marking what is believed to be the first time the AMD has outsold Intel in retail. By Ken "Caesar" Fisher. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Boing Boing ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 3.  We Are All Security Consumers. Bruce Schneier says: This essay of mine argues that the correct way to evaluate security countermeasures is as consumers: is the security you're getting worth what you're giving up to get it. From the essay: The invasion of Iraq, for example, is presented as an important move for national security. It may be true, but it's only half of the argument. Invading Iraq has cost the United States enormously. The monetary bill is more than $100 billion, and the cost is still rising. The cost in American lives is more than 600, and the number is still rising. The cost in world opinion is considerable. There's a question that needs to be addressed: "Was this the best way to spend all of that? As security consumers, did we get the most security we could have for that $100 billion, those lives, and those other things?" Link ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CNET News.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 4.  E-Data sues Getty Images and Corbis. Digital media company E-Data files a patent-infringement lawsuit over the downloading of data onto "tangible objects," the latest moves in its effort to protect its intellectual property. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! News - Technology ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 5.  Linux Leader Tips Its Hat To Ordinary Office Computers With Latest Version Of Software (Investor's Business Daily). Investor's Business Daily - Red Hat on (NasdaqNM:RHAT - News) Tuesday is debuting a Linux product for ordinary workplace computers - a move that finds the segment leader in the rare spot of playing catch-up to rivals. 6.  Spyware: Already Illegal (Ziff Davis). Ziff Davis - Education—not new laws—is the best way to battle spyware. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Slashdot ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 7.  Previewing ATi's Radeon X800 XT & X800 Pro 8.  MacOS X 10.4 "Tiger" Preview at WWDC ---------------------------------------------------------------------- BBC News | Technology | UK Edition ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 9.  Games industry gears up for E3. Catch up with the latest news from the world of video gaming. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- InfoWorld: Top News ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 10.  Red Hat's Szulik sees desktop Linux take off. Red Hat Inc. announced a new version of the Linux operating system software on Tuesday. Red Hat Desktop has been designed for the corporate desktop and will be a companion product to Red Hat's current desktop offering, Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS, the company said. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- LinuxSecurity.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 11.  Who Hacked the Voting System? The Teacher ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SecurityFocus News ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 12.  Elsewhere: Sasser fix spreads worm. VIRUS WRITERS hoping to capitalise on the spread of the Sasser worm have hit on the cunning plan of disguising a less effective Trojan as its cure. Anti-virus companies a... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The Register ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 13.  Napster to team up with Dixons. Retail giant to detail tie-in this week By Tony Smith . ---------------------------------------------------------------------- NewsIsFree: Security ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 14.  Mitnick busts bomb hoaxer 15.  Ver: l'auteur de Netsky prétend avoir créé Sasser 16.  L'utilisation des moteurs de recherche pour pirater les sites web 17.  Elsewhere: We are all security customers 18.  Elsewhere: Sasser variants pose greater danger 19.  It's Really Big: New 400GB Drive 20.  coLinux: Linux for Windows Without Rebooting 21.  Red Hat aims desktop Linux at Microsoft 1:08:54 PM    comment [] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Ars Technica ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.  Et Cetera: catch-up edition. Round up The Next has all you'd expect from a round up, with a little surprise in the form of gold teeth for everyone! OK, maybe not gold... but how about growing new teeth? By Ken "Caesar" Fisher. 2.  Red Hat takes aim at the desktop. Red Hat will be reentering the Linux desktop market with Red Hat Desktop. Aimed at the enterprise at first, Red Hat Desktop will be sold on a subscription model for roughly US$70 per desktop per year. By Eric Bangeman. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Boing Boing ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 3.  Gawker Hollywood "Defamer" launches today. Say hello to another citadel in Nick Denton's growing blog-empire. A Hollywood-centric blog called "Defamer" will launch today according to a sekrit source. Said sekrit source says the "Hollywood Reporter Meets Gawker" site will be penned anonymously -- "no, it's not Rance," but a Rance-id post is said to be in the works. Link to Gawker home. Update: LA Observed has more info: Link. Update -- Nick Denton says: You could argue that New York has no need for a gossip blog like Gawker. There's Page Six, and Rush & Molloy, and people in power are accustomed to a bit of mockery. By contrast, in so far as a city ever needed a gossip rag, LA is crying out for a Defamer. For a city that's in many ways the cultural capital of the world, it's woefully under-gossiped. X-NAS-Bayes: #0: 0; #1: 1 X-NAS-Classification: 0 X-NAS-MessageID: 301 X-NAS-Validation: {E681C936-E9F0-4DDC-9901-74301AF33E67} Sure, the celebrity weeklies give the latest tittle-tattle on the reality TV romance of the week. But the real stars of Hollywood are the producers, and agents, and PR flacks, and studio execs, and screenwriters. They're usually behind the scenes. No longer. (...)The editor, who also works as a Hollywood peon, is remaining anonymous. LA is the world's cultural capital. Defamer is the gossip rag it deserves. 4.  New Schwarzenegger mini-book: "Sue Me Asshole". Hot on the heels of Governor Schwarzenegger's legal threats against a bobble-head manufacturer, claiming his publicity rights preculded the manufacture of an Arnold dollie, the good people at Fair Use press have published a downloadable book about the governor called "Sue Me Asshole," which sports a photo of Schwarzenegger posing naked, his genitals reduced to impotent hilarity by photoshop wizardry. The book contains a copy of the threatening lawyer-letter, some analysis and a links to further reading. Link (Warning: Contains explicit gubernatorial nude man-fruit) (Thanks, Mack!) 5.  Eric Drexler's new nanoscience site. Nanotechnology pioneer K. Eric Drexler has launched a site focused on the "science behind emerging technologies of broad importance." Along with deep technical information on nanotechnology, e-drexler.com will also explore secure, distributed computing efforts. "A better understanding can benefit both technical leaders seeking productive directions for research and development, and policy makers aiming to make wise decisions." A sister site called metamodern.com will delve into the social implications of these technologies. Link 6.  DIY Host bans BitTorrent trackers. The UK ISP DIYHost has changed its terms of service to explicitly forbid hosting BitTorrent trackers. Time for DIYHost's customers to get a better ISP. Actually, the whole ToS is pretty craptacular: no linking to emulators? No sites not in English? Crikey. "BitTorrent" servers and source sites, third-party copyrighted material, "warez" (including pirated software, ROMS, emulators, "phreaking", hacking, password cracking material - and links to the same), sites not in the English language, or IRC servers on our network. It is also forbidden to use our service as a "remote/off site back up" or a "filestore" solution. Accounts found hosting this material will be subject to immediate cancellation without refund. Easy Internet Solutions Ltd reserves the right to terminate accounts hosting material, which in its sole opinion, may be classed as "undesirable content" or which may pose a risk (of any sort) to either Easy Internet Solutions Ltd as a company, our network or servers or to a third party. Link ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CNET News.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 7.  HP, BT team up in services deal. The two companies announce a $1.5 billion outsourcing agreement and a strategic alliance that will provide integrated information technology and communications services to customers. 8.  SAP bolts on tools for change. As part of efforts to shed its image as a seller of dauntingly complex products, SAP is adding functionality designed to help customers more easily manage upgrades. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! News - Technology ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 9.  E-Voting Oversight Overwhelms U.S. Agency (AP). AP - As alarm mounts over the integrity of the ATM-like voting machines 50 million Americans will use in the November election, a new federal agency has begun scrutinizing how to safeguard electronic polling from fraud, hackers and faulty software. 10.  Qwest Posts 1st-Quarter Loss, Shares Fall (Reuters). Reuters - Qwest Communications International Inc. (Q.N) on Tuesday reported a disappointing first-quarter loss as sales of local telephone service declined and sales of its wireless service were weaker than expected. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Slashdot ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 11.  Snap Appliance Snap Server 1100 NAS Device ---------------------------------------------------------------------- BBC News | Technology | UK Edition ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 12.  New victims for Sasser net worm. Home broadband users could be the next hunting ground for the Sasser Windows worm as it spreads across the net. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- InfoWorld: Top News ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 13.  HP, BT partner, sign $1.5B services deal. BT Group PLC (BT) and Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) said Monday they will trade outsourced services as a first step in a partnership tying HP's IT products and expertise with BT's communication services. 14.  Ease-of-use is focus of Java improvements. Making Java development easier is the focus of both an upcoming release of the J2EE specification and an IBM tools rollout. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- InfoWorld: Security ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 15.  Sasser infections hit Amex, others. Security experts are continuing to issue warnings about the Sasser Internet worm as organizations struggled to clean up the damage caused by infected hosts. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SecurityFocus News ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 16.  Elsewhere: We are all security customers. National security is a hot political topic right now, as both presidential candidates are asking us to decide which one of them is better fit to secure the country. Man... 17.  Elsewhere: Sasser variants pose greater danger. update Three new versions of the Sasser worm boosted the infectiousness of the original, spreading to about 500,000 computers by Monday, security researchers said. New... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SecurityFocus Vulns ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 18.  Vulns: SquirrelMail Folder Name Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability. SquirrelMail is a feature rich web mail program implemented in the PHP4 scripting language. It is available for Linux and Unix based operating systems. It has been repor... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The Register ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 19.  EDS Abbey flagship project in doubt. Exclusive Banking on Pune? By John Oates . 20.  Napster 'to partner' with UK retail giant. Dixons set to detail tie-in this week By Tony Smith . 21.  Beagle 2 was 'poorly managed'. Damning report into failed Mars mission By Lucy Sherriff . 22.  BT and HP in $1.5bn back-scratching deal. 'Mutual growth opportunities' By Tim Richardson . ---------------------------------------------------------------------- NewsIsFree: Security ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 23.  Apples Quicktime-Player hat eine Lücke 24.  Check Point raids SSL VPN party 25.  Plane-spotters recruited in War on Terror 26.  Ierland keurt Nederlandse stemmachines af 27.  WORM_AGOBOT.SM 28.  'Sasser' Worm Hits Taiwan, Hong Kong (AP) 29.  Airport Security Philosophy, A Different View 30.  Red Hat Desktop Launched With Backing From VMware, Citrix, Others 31.  Najaf base attacked; escaped U.S. hostage flies to Germany 32.  Attack against U.S. base in Najaf resumes 33.  "Big happy family again" 12:08:35 PM    comment [] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CNET News.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.  Apple developers to catch Tiger's tale. The company plans to preview Tiger, the next version of the Mac OS X operating system, at a developers conference in June. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! News - Technology ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 2.  Apple Says Some iPods Not Recognized by iTunes (Reuters). Reuters - Apple Computer Inc. is investigating a problem with some of its iPod digital music players that prevents them from being recognized by the latest version of iTunes, it said on Friday. 3.  Red Hat Returns to Linux Desktop Market (Reuters). Reuters - Red Hat Inc (RHAT.O) returned to the desktop Linux market on Tuesday, outlining a strategy to get more businesses to adopt the freely available operating system for running desktop personal computers. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Slashdot ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 4.  Red Hat Desktop Unveiled 5.  USA Today and NYT on Linux rising ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The Register ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 6.  BOFH: Beware Mad Ron bearing Linux. Episode 14 Bright spark By Simon Travaglia . 7.  ATI Radeon X800 XT Platinum Edition. Review Nvidia GeForce 6800 killer? By Trusted Reviews . 8.  UK's 118 DQ services get better. 'Still room for improvement' By Tim Richardson . 9.  Pulse~Link secures $30m UWB funding. WLAN, cable and power line initiatives By Lester Haines . 10.  EU probes music licensing. 'Anti-competitive' royalty system By electricnews.net . 11.  Plane-spotters recruited in War on Terror. Do you have a licence for those binoculars, sir? By John Lettice . 12.  UK e-gov 'needs shaking up'. Global report finds little change By Lucy Sherriff . 13.  Sony opens US music download store. Connect to MiniDisc By Tony Smith . ---------------------------------------------------------------------- NewsIsFree: Security ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 14.  Sasser- und Netsky-Plage könnten vom selben Programmierer stammen 15.  Computerwurm Sasser hat bereits bis zu 18 Millionen PCs infiziert 16.  Swisscom/Bluewin Offers Innovative Network-Based Firewall to Broadband Subscribers Using Cisco Technology 17.  Patch Now or Suffer Sasser 18.  Users unaware of wireless security needs 19.  New worm infects with no clicking 20.  NetScout promises to do its best 21.  Sasser Worm Rips Through Internet; Banks, EU Hit (Reuters) 22.  YaBB Input Validation Flaw in 'Subject' Field Lets Remote Users Modify the '.txt' File 23.  Aldo's Web Server Discloses Arbitrary Files to Remote Users 24.  PaX Infinite Loop Lets Local Users Deny Service 25.  PaX Denial of Service Vulnerability 26.  SuSE update for kernel 27.  PaX Denial of Service Vulnerability 28.  PaX Denial of Service Vulnerability 29.  SuSE update for kernel 30.  SuSE update for kernel 31.  Ó Sasser è Netsky îäíè è òå æå àâòîðû? 32.  Filter vor Schul-eMail-Account 33.  Sicherheitsupdate: Behobene AFP-Lücke schwerwiegend 11:08:15 AM    comment [] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Boing Boing ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.  P900 successor with a tiny, frustrating thumb-keyboard. X-NAS-Bayes: #0: 1.48492E-168; #1: 1 X-NAS-Classification: 0 X-NAS-MessageID: 299 X-NAS-Validation: {E681C936-E9F0-4DDC-9901-74301AF33E67} Apparently, this is a leaked pic of the successor to the Sony Ericsson P900 (the phone I plan on getting as soon as my first bank-statement appears and I use it to authenticate myself to the dumbass phone company that thinks bank-statements are better ID than Canadian passports). Call it the P901, or the P1000, whatever: it's got a wee keyboard on the flip-down for those who prefer thumbing out their executive haiku to scratching at a recalcitrant handwriting-recognition system. It looks like it might be a photoshop job, but Rojas at Engadget says that MobileBurn, the source, is reliable, and I'll take his word for it. Link (via Engadget) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! News - Technology ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 2.  Gateway Rolls Out Pair of Entry-Level Servers (Ziff Davis). Ziff Davis - Gateway targets the single-processor systems at SMBs running such tasks as e-mail, Web serving and file-and-print. 3.  Nextel Strikes Deal With TV Broadcasters (washingtonpost.com). washingtonpost.com - Nextel Communications Inc. yesterday agreed to pay $512 million to shift certain television transmissions to another portion of the public airwaves as part of its broader plan to reallocate spectrum so that cellular calls do not interfere with public safety communications. 4.  Google Plans Foundation to Take Aim at Global Ills (Reuters). Reuters - Google Inc., not content with successfully making the Internet a more useful information hub, has set an even loftier goal for itself: to create a foundation to tackle "the largest problems of the world." 5.  Microsoft Debuts New Copyright Software (AP). AP - Microsoft Corp. is unveiling copyright protection software to allow rented songs or movies to be used on portable players, cellular phones and other devices. 6.  Sasser Worm Rips Through Internet; Banks, EU Hit (Reuters). Reuters - The rapidly evolving "Sasser" computer worm tore across the Internet Tuesday, hitting corporate and home computers and stoking fears worse may be to come. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Slashdot ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 7.  Sasser Worm Disruption Growing ---------------------------------------------------------------------- InfoWorld: Top News ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 8.  Microsoft begins MBS partner transition program. Microsoft Corp. has added the Microsoft Business Solutions (MBS) business software product line as the ninth "competency" in its Partner Program framework, it said on Tuesday. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- LinuxSecurity.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 9.  Mitnick busts bomb hoaxer ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [O.S.S.R] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 10.  Hard-hitting Sasser Worm Dubbed MSBlast Of 2004 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The Register ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 11.  Blank media levies: record once, pay thrice. Opinion Levy, content, royalty By Faultline . 12.  Check Point raids SSL VPN party. Late entrant looks to secure top billing By John Leyden . 13.  Red Hat hits the desktop. 'bout time too, say analysts... By John Oates . ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Help Net Security ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 14.  We are all security customers 15.  'Deceptive Duo' hacker charged ---------------------------------------------------------------------- NewsIsFree: Security ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 16.  TROJ_TOFGER.R 17.  WORM_AGOBOT.NO 18.  Guide :: Linux Forensics Software 19.  Guide :: PC Forensics Software 20.  Guide :: PDA Forensics Tools and Techniques 21.  Trusted Computing Base for Onboard Automobile Controllers? 22.  SMTP Authentication Hits Standards Track 23.  AT&T All Out for MPLS-Based IP-VPN 24.  U.S.-China Deal Tweaks Export Controls 25.  Check Point Announces New Web Security Tools 26.  Crystal Reports Unspecified Flaws Let Remote Users View and Delete Files and Deny Service 27.  We are all security customers 28.  'Deceptive Duo' hacker charged 29.  Sasser-Wurm: Admins legen PCs lahm 10:08:04 AM    comment [] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Boing Boing ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.  Ars Electronica prizes awarded. This year's Ars Electronica prizes have been awarded. Creative Commons won in the Net Vision category! X-NAS-Bayes: #0: 1.58393E-173; #1: 1 X-NAS-Classification: 0 X-NAS-MessageID: 298 X-NAS-Validation: {E681C936-E9F0-4DDC-9901-74301AF33E67} Link (Thanks, Jose!) 2.  CC-licensed prose: "Always Be Closing". Casey Childers has produced a chunk of Creative Commons-licensed prose called "Always Be Closing." It's the same scene, told thirteen times, with (often NSFW) variations, a remix of something that has no original, a kind of simulacra. He's chosen a license that allows for noncommercial remixing -- I'm curious as to what new works can be made out of these often disturbing scenes. The waitress interrupted, "You boys need anything?" The old man grinned, his mouth full. He made a quick effort to swallow, but didn't hesitate to speak around the mess of potatoes that remained. "The name of the man that cooked my lunch, miss. This is heaven on a goddamn plate." She returned a grin of her own. "His name's Merv, hon, and I'll be sure to pass that along. Now how 'bout a warm-up on your coffee?" "I served with a commie sympathizer who went by the name of Merv. He had weak stomach, you know, loved to recite the poems he wrote about his wife. He got his head blown off in a French whorehouse." Link (Thanks, CA!) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CNET News.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 3.  Microsoft bringing Web services home. The software maker, along with Hewlett-Packard and other companies, announces a new specification for linking consumer electronics devices to Windows. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! News - Technology ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 4.  Linux Emerging As A Cell Phone Platform (TechWeb). TechWeb - Cell phone managers are looking to Linux to fill the need for more sophisticated software that's not attached to major vendors like Microsoft and Nokia. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Slashdot ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 5.  Directed Sound 6.  Third Largest Supercomputer... at Weta Digital ---------------------------------------------------------------------- BBC News | Technology | UK Edition ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 7.  Sci-fi samurai lacks style. The slashfest Seven Samurai 20XX is a pale reflection of the classic film is it based on. 8.  Gateway to cut 1,500 more jobs. Gateway, the California-based computer firm, is to cut 1,500 jobs- nearly half its workforce - after reporting $165m losses. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- InfoWorld: Top News ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 9.  iAnywhere puts Domino apps onto devices. Developers have a new option for extending Lotus Domino applications to mobile devices thanks to a new version of iAnywhere Solutions Inc.'s Pylon Application Server released on Monday. 10.  Sasser infections hit Amex, others. Security experts are continuing to issue warnings about the Sasser Internet worm as organizations struggled to clean up the damage caused by infected hosts. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The Register ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 11.  Bsquare Power Handheld. Reg Review WinXP in the palm of your hand By Tony Smith . 12.  Here's locking down you, kid - MS hawks vision of DRM future. Catalyzes recurring revenue model, it says here By John Lettice . 13.  ATI launches R420. Radeon X800 Pro, XT Platinum Edition launch this month By Tony Smith . 14.  Blank media levies: record once, pay thrice. Opinion Levy, content, royalty By Lester Haines . 15.  ATI confirms no Shader 3.0 in Radeon X800. Future is 3Dc 'normal map' compression By Tony Smith . ---------------------------------------------------------------------- NewsIsFree: Security ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 16.  Meer bedrijven getroffen door Sasser 17.  Amerikanen gefopt door nep-belastingdienst 18.  Deceptive Duo lid aangeklaagd 19.  'Sasser' worm bullies PCs, causes havoc (USATODAY.com) 20.  Sasser outbreak to die down on Wednesday: expert (AFP) 21.  Sasser Worm Expected to Hit Hard 22.  Sasser Worm Spawns Variants 23.  Experts Probe Sasser, Netsky Link 24.  Microsoft Pursues Sasser Author 25.  Viruses Target IM 9:37:52 AM    comment [] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Boing Boing ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.  Ars Electronica prizes awarded. This year's Ars Electronica prizes have been awarded. Creative Commons won in the Net Vision category! X-NAS-Bayes: #0: 1.77341E-174; #1: 1 X-NAS-Classification: 0 X-NAS-MessageID: 297 X-NAS-Validation: {E681C936-E9F0-4DDC-9901-74301AF33E67} Link (Thanks, Jose!) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CNET News.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 2.  Red Hat aims desktop Linux at Microsoft. Opening a new chapter in its 10-year history and a new front in its war against Microsoft, the leading Linux seller plans to announce its first version of the open-source OS for the desktop. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! News - Technology ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 3.  Siemens unveils telecoms, energy tie-ups in China (AFP). AFP - The German electronics giant Siemens unveiled two new Chinese partnerships in the areas of mobile telecommunications and energy to coincide with the visit in Berlin of Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao. 4.  Four top telecoms officials face dismissal in Vietnam (AFP). AFP - State inspectors in Vietnam are seeking the dismissal of four senior executives from its biggest telecoms company for renegotiating a mobile phone contract with a Swedish partner that deprived state coffers of over 47 million dollars, state media said. 5.  Sasser outbreak to die down on Wednesday: expert (AFP). AFP - The Sasser Internet bug was still spreading, but at a slower pace than seen over the weekend and experts said the outbreak would die down as soon as PC users had protected their machines against it. 6.  Sprint Unveils New Billing Plan (AP). AP - Sprint Corp. introduced a plan Monday to address wireless customers' criticisms about how much they're charged for extra time they spend on their cell phones. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- BBC News | Technology | UK Edition ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 7.  Exam coursework marked online. The English and Welsh exam boards look at ways for schools to send in their coursework electronically. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- InfoWorld: Top News ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 8.  Red Hat launches new desktop Linux. Red Hat Inc. on Tuesday will unveil a new version of the Linux operating system software designed for the corporate desktop. 9.  IBM updates portal-building software. IBM Corp. released on Tuesday an update to WebSphere Portal Application Integrator (WPAI), a tool for building portals, or personalized Web sites where employees, partners, and customers can access company information. 10.  Microsoft readies new corporate IM server. Just over six months after releasing the first version of its Office Live Communications Server, Microsoft Corp. plans to announce on Tuesday that it is ready to start picking candidates to trial the next version of its enterprise instant messaging (IM) product. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The Register ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 11.  BT faces £15bn network bid - report. 'Rumour and speculation,' says telco By Tim Richardson . 12.  The Web as historical record. Rosetta Stone or writing in the sand? By IT-Analysis . 13.  'Deceptive Duo' hacker charged. US 'patriot' in the dock By SecurityFocus . 14.  Thus swells - thanks to ADSL. 'Key milestones' passed By Tim Richardson . 15.  The Wi-Fi user as wireless felon. Outdated US legislation needs attention By Mark Rasch, SecurityFocus . 16.  Teach Yourself SQL in 10 Minutes. Site Offer And save cash on books right now By Team Register . ---------------------------------------------------------------------- NewsIsFree: Security ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 17.  Netsky-AC doet zich voor als oplossing voor Sasser 18.  TROJ_STARTPAGE.L 19.  Microsoft signs security pact with Germany 20.  Witty Worm Broke Speed Records 21.  HP Web Jetadmin Multiple Vulnerabilities 22.  HP Web Jetadmin Multiple Vulnerabilities 8:37:25 AM    comment [] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Boing Boing ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.  21-year-old essay on copyright just as fresh today. Luís sez: "Barrington Bayley has a *very* interesting article written in the early 1980s about the ethics and the convention of copyright. It's also worth pointing out that Bayley is one of the great unheralded geniuses in the field of literary science fiction." X-NAS-Bayes: #0: 2.1931E-232; #1: 1 X-NAS-Classification: 0 X-NAS-MessageID: 296 X-NAS-Validation: {E681C936-E9F0-4DDC-9901-74301AF33E67} On the premise that graphic reproduction will eventually go the way of sound reproduction, i.e. it will become easy and cheap and available to all, the same is due to happen to literary copyright. It's a-coming, boys! You'd better get used to it! ..Yes, there is always going to be a living for writers. The consequence of the above is that a book, whether incarnated in ink and paper, laser disk, silicon, gallium arsenide, memory bubbles, or War and Peace encoded in DNA, will cost more than the blank on which it is inscribed, but not so much more that it would be worth your while to borrow a copy and duplicate it. Whatever deal authors and publishers make with one another will have to take cognisance of that. I expect authors will still be able to demand royalties. Whether an author will be able to become stinking rich, as a few now can, I don't know. What does it matter? It isn't necessary to the continuance of civilisation. Luís adds, "This over twenty years ago." Link (Thanks, Luís!) 2.  Collisions in T9. T9 is the predictive text technology used by mobile phone vendors for SMS input. If you tap in, say 269, T9 will guess that you mean "BOY," since 2 codes fo ABC, 6 for MNO and 9 for WXYZ. But what about number-patterns that can stand for multiple words? T9 presents a list of possible words, and invites you to pick the correct one. Sometimes, these lists can be quite long: here, a perl hacker has written a script to uncover common English words that share the same T9 numeric code: 729 : PAW, PAY, PAZ, RAW, RAY, SAW, SAX, SAY 76737 : PORES, POSER, POSES, ROPER, ROPES, ROSES, SORER, SORES 46637 : GONER, GOODS, GOOFS, HOMER, HOMES, HONER, HONES, HOODS, HOOFS, INNER 22737 : ACRES, BARDS, BARER, BARES, BASER, BASES, CAPER, CAPES, CARDS, CARES, CASES 7283 : PATE, PAVE, RATE, RAVE, SATE, SAUD, SAVE, SCUD 2273 : ACRE, BARD, BARE, BASE, CAPE, CARD, CARE, CASE <./blockquote> Link (Thanks, Sandy!) 3.  Ars Technica prizes awarded. This year's Ars Technica prizes have been awarded. Creative Commons won in the Net Vision category! Link (Thanks, Jose!) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CNET News.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 4.  Reforms, not rhetoric, needed to keep jobs in U.S.. Government officials, business leaders and academics agree that the future of America's technology complex depends on education, professional training and research investment 5.  Editor's picks: Offshoring stories around the Web. The controversial trend of offshore outsourcing has produced a worldwide debate and become a factor in this year's presidential election. These are some of the more interesting stories on the issue, which includes business, technology, education, politics and the livelihood of workers worldwide. 6.  Poll shows support for offshoring tax. A Harris Interactive-CNET News.com poll of IT executives shows surprising support for a per-head tax on American jobs exported abroad. 7.  We are all security customers. Counterpane CTO Bruce Schneier says security is always going to be a trade-off, and that will force users to view the future through a different prism. 8.  Outsourcing roundtable. Leading figures from the worlds of business, labor and academia give their insights into the issue of offshoring. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! News - Technology ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 9.  Rosy chip sales bode well for economy (USATODAY.com). USATODAY.com - Sales of PCs, cell phones, DVD players and other electronic devices should be even stronger than expected this year, the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) said Monday. 10.  Red Hat Unveils Linux System for Desktops (AP). AP - In a sign that demand is growing for alternatives to Microsoft Corp.'s Windows software, Red Hat Inc. will release a version of the Linux operating system and other programs tailored for desktop computers in corporations, universities and government agencies. 11.  'Sasser' worm bullies PCs, causes havoc (USATODAY.com). USATODAY.com - The "Sasser" Internet worm picked up the pace Monday, bedeviling businesses and consumers around the globe. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Slashdot ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 12.  Building A Modern Stonehenge In New Zealand ---------------------------------------------------------------------- BBC News | Technology | UK Edition ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 13.  Sasser net worm affects millions. The Sasser virus is causing disruption for large numbers of Windows users, possibly infecting a million computers. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The Register ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 14.  Gates pays $800k for stock violations. Bill unaware - cash pile now semi-autonomous By John Lettice . 15.  Hynix leads Q1 DRAM sales charge. Double-digit sequential gains By Tony Smith . 16.  BT could be target of £15bn network sale - report. 'Rumour and speculation', says BT By Tim Richardson . 17.  Nvidia preps mid-range GeForce 6800 part. GT eyed By Tony Smith . 18.  Red moonlight to bathe UK. Brits to enjoy lunar eclipse, weather permitting By Lucy Sherriff . ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Help Net Security ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 19.  Microsoft signs security pact with Germany ---------------------------------------------------------------------- NewsIsFree: Security ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 20.  Computer worm Sasser squirms through Asia; damage limited for now (Canadian Press) 21.  Sambar Server Multiple Vulnerabilities 22.  Sambar Server Multiple Vulnerabilities 23.  New worm's got sass, but not much else 24.  Sasser.A and Sasser.B Worm Removal Tool (KB841720) 25.  Norton AntiVirus Virus Definitions May 2, 2004 26.  Trend Micro Pattern File 883 27.  McAfee DAT 4356 28.  McAfee SuperDAT 4356 29.  Ad-aware referencefile 01R301 03.05.2004 30.  Sasser worm gets to work 31.  Trend Micro Pattern File 885 32.  Newest Sasser worm a greater danger 33.  Big Brother to Watch Over Island 7:37:06 AM    comment [] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! News - Technology ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.  Vodafone launches 3G mobile services in Germany, Portugal (AFP). AFP - British mobile telephone giant Vodafone announced the launch of third generation (3G) cellphone services in Germany and Portugal, in a low-key roll-out of the long-awaited technology. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- BBC News | Technology | UK Edition ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 2.  Sasser net worm affects millions. The Sasser virus is causing disruption for large numbers of Windows users, infecting more than a million computers. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The Register ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 3.  Mobile graphics drives chip market growth. Big year-on-year gains By Tony Smith . 4.  Trade body talks up global chip sales. Recovery drives optimism By Tony Smith . 5.  Tom Siebel steps down as CEO. Holds tight to chair By Drew Cullen . 6.  Shell signs 'Mother of all outsourcing deals'. $1bn Indian gig By John Oates . 7.  Gates pays $800k for stock violations. Didn't know - aspects of vast money pile now semi-autonomous By John Lettice . ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Wired News ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 8.  IPO Banker Quattrone Found Guilty. The second trial against Frank Quattrone on charges of obstructing a grand jury, obstructing federal regulators and witness tampering ends Monday. The former hot-shot investment banker is convicted on all counts. 9.  Sasser Worm Snakes Into Windows. A new worm is infecting the Windows world, striking companies in Europe and the United States, and experts expect another wave of infection Tuesday. 10.  E-Vote Problems Overwhelm Feds. The new U.S. Election Assistance Commission says it doesn't have enough money to take care of voting-machine problems that may crop up this November. 11.  The Doctor Will Freeze You Now. Human antifreeze could kick-start the cryonics game by making it easier to perform low-temperature surgery. By Wil McCarthy from Wired magazine. 12.  How to Save Energy: Just Guess. Exact calculations aren't always necessary, so engineers are using Probabilistic Bits in chips that basically guess at the right answer, thereby saving energy. By Michelle Delio. 13.  Big Brother to Watch Over Island. The developer of Ayers Island in Maine -- where the public can soon explore nature trails and art festivals -- will place every visitor under surveillance by cameras, sensors and computers. Why? To keep out 'suspicious' people, of course. By Mark Baard. 14.  Prepping for the IPO Aftermath. With Google poised for a $2.7 billion IPO and tech stock offerings gaining steam, firms are once again grappling with the question of how to keep the euphoria of sudden wealth from disrupting workplace productivity. By Joanna Glasner. 15.  Mashup Artists Face the Music. Mashups -- a style of music remix -- are getting more attention, thanks to David Bowie. The publicity is forcing artists to think about the form's legal nuances. By Daniel Terdiman. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- NewsIsFree: Security ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 16.  Spyware Hearing Held (TechWeb) 17.  New Laws: Identity Thieves Could Face Stiffer Penalties (TechWeb) 18.  Viruses Target IM (PC World) 19.  Mac OS X Security Update Fixes Multiple Vulnerabilities 20.  Mac OS X Security Update Fixes Multiple Vulnerabilities 21.  'Net crooks run IRS scam 22.  Schools plan security test lab 23.  3 May W32/Sasser-D 24.  Microsoft-Website gegen Sasser-Wurm 6:36:47 AM    comment [] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Boing Boing ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.  Gawker Hollywood launches today. Say hello to another citadel in Nick Denton's growing blog-empire. A Hollywood-centric blog called "Defamer" will launch today according to a sekrit source. Said sekrit source says the "Hollywood Reporter Meets Gawker" site will be penned anonymously -- "no, it's not Rance," but a Rance-id post is said to be in the works. Link to Gawker home. Update: LA Observed has more info: Link. 2.  How colds work. Someone has given me a vicious cold. My third this year. I thought that quitting smoking meant fewer colds, not more. Bugger. Anyway, here's how colds work: X-NAS-Bayes: #0: 2.22504E-255; #1: 1 X-NAS-Classification: 0 X-NAS-MessageID: 337 X-NAS-Validation: {E681C936-E9F0-4DDC-9901-74301AF33E67} The nose contains shelf-like structures called turbinates, which help trap particles entering the nasal passages. Material deposited in the nose is transported by ciliary action to the back of the throat in 10-15 minutes. Cold viruses are believed to be carried to the back of the throat where they are deposited in the area of the adenoid. The adenoid is a lymph gland structure that contains cells to which cold viruses attach. Link (via Plastic Bag) 3.  Crap Scrabble hand gallery. Talk about owning your issues: HeyBro.com collects unmanipulated snapshots of reallly crappy Scrabble hands and posts them online. Link (via Kottke) 4.  Walt Mossberg: Gadget kingmaker. Great Wired Mag profile of the Wall Street Journal's Walt Mossberg, the granddaddy of gadget reviewers, who can snap your company's neck like a twig with one twitch of his mighty keyboard. ..when it debuted on October 17, 1991, "Personal Technology" was an immediate hit. Mossberg's voice, amplified by the power of the Journal, resonated like no other. In 1992, he recommended America Online, an also-ran with only 200,000 subscribers, over Prodigy, the leader with 1.8 million subscribers and powerful backers, including Sears and IBM. "Prodigy tried to get me fired," he recalls. Mossberg's endorsement "really helped put AOL on the map," admits founder Steve Case. "It turbocharged our growth." Mossberg's proudest moment came in 2001, when he objected to Smart Tags, a feature he tested in a beta version of Windows XP. Smart Tags could turn any word on a Web page into a link to a Microsoft property or sponsor's site without consent from the site's author. Link 5.  Open source book-writing. JD Lasica is working on a book called "Darknet," which is to be a comprehensive account of the file-sharing debate and P2P. He's posting the entire text on a wiki for public comment, revision and addition: brave, clever man. In the spirit of open media and participatory journalism, I'd like to use this wiki to publish drafts of each chapter in the book. I hope you'll participate in this effort by contributing feedback, edits, criticism, corrections, and additional anecdotes, either through the comments field below or by sending me email. Feel free to be as detailed as you like or to insert comments or questions. After all, you're the editor. (And remember, this is for a book manuscript, not a finished online document.) If you make a couple of helpful edits, I'll mention your name in the book's Acknowledgments (and buy you a drink next time we meet up). Link ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! News - Technology ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 6.  New Cells: Cool, Capable (PC World). PC World - Latest crop of wireless phones offers better cameras and faster net speeds. 7.  Global chip sector tipped to grow faster in 2004 on robust demand (AFP). AFP - The global semiconductor sector is expected to post double digit growth this year as firms race to quench consumers' seemingly endless thirst for the latest electronic gadgets, analysts said. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Slashdot ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 8.  Review: LinuxCertified LC2210 Laptop ---------------------------------------------------------------------- BBC News | Technology | UK Edition ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 9.  Telecoms firm Thus trims losses. The telecoms company more than halves its full-year losses and says it is on target to record an operating profit later this year. 10.  Lastminute founder in car crash. Martha Lane Fox the founder of Lastminute.com has been seriously injured in a road accident in Morocco. 11.  Gates fined over shares violation. The Microsoft boss faces a $800,000 penalty for breaking an investment law, officials say. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The Register ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 12.  Lastminute founder injured in Morocco. Nasty car crash By John Oates . 13.  AMD swaps Sanders for Ruiz. Boardroom shuffle By Tony Smith . 14.  Sasser worm creates havoc. Blaster Mk II hits railways and banks By John Leyden . 15.  Have sex, save the planet. Rainforest needs you - so get naked By Lester Haines . 16.  Vodafone brings 3G to Europe. Well it does if you live in Germany or Portugal... By John Oates . ---------------------------------------------------------------------- NewsIsFree: Security ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 17.  SELinux Boosts Server Security 18.  DNS Troubleshooting – Everything Depends on It 19.  ipmenu Insecure Temporary File Creation Vulnerability 20.  ReciPants Unspecified Input Validation Vulnerabilities 21.  Slackware update for rsync 22.  Slackware update for xine-lib 23.  Slackware update for libpng 24.  Sasser worm spreading quickly 25.  HNS Learning Session: DDoS Threats 26.  WiFi High Crimes 27.  U.S. fines Bill Gates $800,000 28.  Charges filed in 'Deceptive Duo' hacks 29.  AT&T to offer new IP-only service 30.  Plugging the Linux holes 31.  Slammer: Before, During and After 32.  Crafting Symlinks for Fun and Profit 33.  Discovering Passwords in the Memory 34.  Risk Management on IS 35.  Networking and PPP with OpenBSD 3.4 36.  Security - Privacy Awareness through Culture Change 37.  UDP Remote Controls 38.  NetWin Authentication Module -lookup Command Overflow 39.  NetWin Authentication Module -del Command Overflow 40.  rsync Improper Location File Creation 41.  DiGi WWW Server Long Request DoS 42.  Pound logmsg Command Execution 43.  Teardrop IP Fragment Re-Assembly DoS 44.  Modified Teardrop IP Fragment Re-Assembly DoS 45.  Apple QuickTime QuickTime.qts Overflow 46.  Moodle help.php text Variable XSS 47.  wu-ftp PASV Pre-Authentication DoS 48.  OpenSSL ASN.1 Client Certificate Double-free DoS 49.  Mac OS X security updates 50.  Australische politicus: open source zou Sasser hebben voorkomen 51.  Luister hoe een DDOS aanval werkt 5:18:18 AM    comment [] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Boing Boing ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.  Gawker Hollywood launches today?. Say hello to another citadel in Nick Denton's growing blog-empire. Gawker Hollywood, or whatever they're going to call it, will launch later today according to a sekrit source. Said sekrit source says the blog will be penned anonymously -- "no, it's not Rance," but a Rance-id post is said to be in the works. Link to Gawker home, I don't know the url of the yet-to-be-launched Gawker Hollywood blog. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Dilbert ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 2.  Dilbert for 04 May 2004. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! News - Technology ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 3.  Interview: JBoss CEO Marc Fleury (TechWeb). TechWeb - JBoss CEO and founder Marc Fleury talks about why he's committed to open source as a lucrative business model and how things have changed between his company and Java steward Sun Microsystems. 4.  Linux Emerging As A Cell Phone Platform (TechWeb). TechWeb - Cell phone managers are looking to Linux to fill the need for more sophisticated software that's not attached to major vendors like Microsoft and Nokia. 5.  'Sasser' Worm Strikes Hundreds of Thousands of PCs (washingtonpost.com). washingtonpost.com - A new Internet worm that infected hundreds of thousands of computers over the weekend picked up speed as people returned to work on Monday and turned on their infected PCs, security experts said. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- BBC News | Technology | UK Edition ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 6.  Tanzania takes politics online. Tanzanian MPs takes to the web to try to make politics more understandable and accessible. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The Register ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 7.  IBM's Power5 pops up first in new iSeries. Threads a'plenty By Ashlee Vance . ---------------------------------------------------------------------- NewsIsFree: Security ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 8.  Sasser spawns children, headaches 9.  White paper: Linux vulnerable to infiltration 10.  Corporate users wary of Sasser worm as new variants appear 11.  Aventail improves cleanup, client security 12.  Microsoft, law enforcement officials pursuing Sasser author 13.  Experts weigh Sasser-Netsky worm connection 14.  sa11525.txt 15.  pcap201.msi 16.  autoRST.c 17.  Serv-U LIST -l Parameter Buffer Overflow Vulnerability 18.  Apple QuickTime QuickTime.qts Heap Overflow Vulnerability 19.  Sasser-Wurm legte Post lahm 20.  Bedrijven moeten klaar zijn voor zero-day attacks 21.  WORM_AGOBOT.TR 22.  WORM_AGOBOT.JO 4:17:59 AM    comment [] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! News - Technology ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.  Diller's InterActiveCorp in Profit, Margins Lower (Reuters). Reuters - Internet business conglomerate InterActiveCorp (IACI.O) on Monday posted better-than-expected quarterly earnings, but said that profit margins in its travel unit shrank due to higher marketing costs. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- BBC News | Technology | UK Edition ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 2.  Vodafone launches 3G in Europe. The mobile giant launches its long-awaited 3G mobile phone service in parts of Europe using Samsung handsets 3.  Gates fined over shares violation. The Microsoft head and world's richest man faces a $800,000 penalty for breaking an investment law, officials say. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- NewsIsFree: Security ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 4.  Sasser Worm Fairly Benign, Says AT&T Security Manager 5.  Hard-hitting Sasser Worm Dubbed MSBlast Of 2004 6.  How To Protect PCs Against The Sasser Worm 7.  Check Point Ships Browser-Based Remote Access Appliance 8.  iPolicy Moves Into Security Management 9.  U.S. Gov Agency Blunders With Keyword Blacklist 10.  U.S. blunders with keyword blacklist 11.  Janus (mythology) - Wikipedia 12.  Microsoft's Janus DRM Software Officially Unveiled 13.  Microsoft unveils new antipiracy tools 14.  Comcast Warns Infringing Customers Of Abuse 15.  New Quantum Cryptography Speed Record 16.  Super MP3 Will Feature User Tracking 17.  Next generation MP3 format will track its owners 18.  Making The Justice Dept. A Copyright Busybody 19.  Microsoft premiers DRM technology 20.  HKTL_RPCLSA.A 3:17:38 AM    comment [] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Boing Boing ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.  Explanation of "winner's curse" in upcoming Google IPO auction. An economics professor explains how the psychology behind bidding on things for investment reasons tends to limit the amount of the high bid. X-NAS-Bayes: #0: 6.16016E-119; #1: 1 X-NAS-Classification: 0 X-NAS-MessageID: 334 X-NAS-Validation: {E681C936-E9F0-4DDC-9901-74301AF33E67} Google intends to sell shares of itself through an auction in which Google stock is sold to those willing to pay the most per share.  This means, for example, that if only 20% of the bidders end up with Google stock, these 20% will consist of people who bid the most for Google.  Now, if you end up being one of these "lucky" 20% should you worry that the winner's curse has stricken you since you apparently valued the stock at an amount greater than what most investors believed Google to be worth?   Rational investors will take the winner's curse into account when making a bid.  For example, assume that before the auction you think a share of Google is worth $100.  But you figure that if you end up being a winner in the auction it means that most investors think Google is worth less than $100.  So, the act of winning will cause you to think Google is worth only $80 a share.  You should, therefore, bid no higher than $80, an amount diminished by the winner's curse. Link ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CNET News.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 2.  Newest Sasser worm a greater danger. The Sasser.B worm, which appeared on the Internet 24 hours after the original, has spread much more quickly, infecting at least 500,000 computers over the weekend, Symantec says. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- New York Times: Technology ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 3.  Worm Brings Down PC's and Networks. A new computer worm infected hundreds of thousands of computers over the weekend and on Monday, disrupting corporate networks and causing headaches for home PC users. 4.  Google May Have Pre-empted Regulators on Public Offerings. As the symbol of one era of initial public offerings faces the possibility of prison, a new era that rejects the excesses of the past may be starting. By Floyd Norris. 5.  As InterActiveCorp Grows, Wall St. Yawns. The company announced its first-quarter results on Monday, with operating profit somewhat better than analysts expected, and yet the company's shares fell. By Saul Hansell. 6.  Siebel Chief Steps Down; I.B.M. Executive Moves In. Thomas M. Siebel announced his resignation yesterday as chief executive of Siebel, the business software company he founded and had led since 1993. By Gary Rivlin. 7.  In Europe, Cellphone Profits Go Up as Clothes Come Off. Until recently, risqué mobile phone services have been limited. But now carriers are looking to make money by a proven method: pornography. By Jennifer L. Schenkerinternational Herald Tribune. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! News - Technology ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 8.  'Sasser' Worm Strikes Hundreds of Thousands of PCs (washingtonpost.com). washingtonpost.com - A new Internet worm that infected hundreds of thousands of computers over the weekend picked up speed as people returned to work on Monday and turned on their infected PCs, security experts said. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Slashdot ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 9.  Opportunity Rover Arrives at Endurance Crater ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Hack the Planet ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 10.  IBM announced some POWER5 servers, but iSeries is inscrutable to me and the Redbooks aren't out yet. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- LinuxSecurity.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 11.  Linux vulnerable to infiltration 12.  SELinux Boosts Server Security 13.  DNS Troubleshooting – Everything Depends on It ---------------------------------------------------------------------- NewsIsFree: Security ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 14.  yabbperl.txt 15.  PaX26DoS.txt 16.  eEye.quicktime.txt 17.  sass.snort.txt 18.  waraxe-2004-SA026.tx..> 19.  aldosweb.txt 20.  servuLIST.txt 21.  xxchat-socks5.c 22.  sq-chpass-exp.c 23.  lha.txt 24.  W32.Sasser.C.Worm 25.  W32.Sasser.D 26.  HTML_STRTPAGE.CT 27.  Linux vulnerable to infiltration 28.  TROJ_STRTPAGE.CT 2:17:18 AM    comment [] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CNET News.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.  Microsoft to demonstrate home PC of tomorrow. The 'concept car' model at WinHEC show will display many of the features in Bill Gates' vision of the media center computer that will someday be as common in homes as a CD player or microwave is today. 2.  Microsoft to test new IM server. The software giant is accepting candidates to beta test a new version of Live Communications Server, the company's enterprise messaging product. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! News - Technology ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 3.  EU Worried About Music Licensing Systems (AP). AP - The European Union launched a probe Monday into 16 national organizations that collect royalties for composers and songwriters, charging that their system for licensing music is hampering the rollout of Internet downloading services across Europe. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Slashdot ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 4.  How Should One Review a Distribution? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- NewsIsFree: Security ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 5.  Biometric IDs OK with U.K. 6.  Netsky authors possibly penned Sasser 7.  Mitnick busts bomb hoaxer 8.  WiFi high crimes 9.  Sasser worm spreading quickly 10.  Update: Sasser.d to start the work week, clean up tools may not be adequate 11.  Update: Microsoft pursuing Sasser author 12:24:48 AM    comment []

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