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List of unusual words. Gary sez: "This guy has an amazing collection of word lists: included are word lists for various topics: manias & obsessions, philosophical 'isms'--you name it. Also feathers The International House of Logorrhea, a 14000-word dictionary of obscure and rare words. The only people who won't like this site are morosophs and misosophs!"
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cynartomachy -- bear-baiting using dogs
gigantomachy -- war of giants against the gods
pneumatomachy -- denial of the divinity of the Holy Ghost Link
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TechTV lays off San Francisco staff. The technology cable channel hands 285 employees their walking papers, a move that was widely feared by workers after Comcast announced in March that it would acquire TechTV. |
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Microsoft Swaps ESPN for Fox Sports on MSN Portal (Reuters). Reuters - Microsoft Corp. (MSFT.O) said on
Thursday that it will begin offering sports news and content
from Fox Sports on its MSN Internet portal this summer,
replacing its longtime sports news partner ESPN. |
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FBI Investigates Open Records Request |
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Comcast fires the entire TechTV staff. The future of TechTV was uncertain, but hopeful. Now it appears that Comcast may be planning to gut the network, as they've given the entire staff their mandatory 60-days notice in compliance with the WARN act. By Ken "Caesar" Fisher. |
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NBC tries to outsmart TiVo?. Glenn Fleishman says:
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NBC has scheduled the final broadcast of Friends to start tonight at 8.59 p.m. Why? To beat TiVo recording, obviously. I'm not sure if they don't want us to watch the penultimate episode of Survivor: All-Stars (confession: I'm addicted). But it's clear that starting it a minute early is intended to disrupt digital recording of shows that run 8:00 to 9:00 p.m. The fix is simple. On my ReplayTV, I just set a manual record from 9:00 to 10:00 for NBC (or I could set an 8:00 to 8:59 Survivors recording). But it's clear that this is a direct DVR pushback. But how does this help the network? I link to a post about Fear Factor in which the thread explores on a discussion board why Fear Factor was getting chopped or not recording.
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UPDATE: BoingBoing reader Andrew Stern says,
"As a broadcasting student at SFSU, I suggest an alternate explanation for NBC starting Friends at 8:59PM."
Starting the BIG (for NBC) Friends finale one minute early is more about ratings and shares/HUT's (households utilizing TVs) than screwing w/ TiVo users. NBC wants to ensure a very high Nielsen rating and this will be reflected in logbooks and PPM's if the show starts earlier. Just an opinion." |
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MSN and FoxSports strike portal deal. Microsoft and Disney's ESPN are ending a three-year sports content deal. Microsoft will use FoxSports.com on its MSN Web portal starting in July. |
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Google Under Closer Privacy Scrutiny Post-IPO (Reuters). Reuters - Google Inc.'s decision to
go public will draw even more attention to what many see as
inadequate privacy for the top Web search provider's users,
watchdogs say. |
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TROJ_LOMASTER.A |
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The Internet's Wilder Side |
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SecurityTalk with K Rudolph, CISSP |
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How can technology cure this electronic plague? |
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U.S. hit by rise in 'phishing' attacks |
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Could a Worm on Mac or Linux Ever Get Traction? |
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/ Reading Logs / More Phishing / TCP 135, Welchia and Lovgate / Sasser slowing / Egress Filtering and You / |
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Here you hear it, there you don't. The technology behind directional sound is coming of age. Can the inventors dodge shortcomings and lawsuits to bring the technology to a widespread audience? By Fred "zAmboni" Locklear. |
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NBC tries to outsmart TiVo. Glenn Fleishman says:
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NBC has scheduled the final broadcast of Friends to start tonight at 8.59 p.m. Why? To beat TiVo recording, obviously. I'm not sure if they don't want us to watch the penultimate episode of Survivor: All-Stars (confession: I'm addicted). But it's clear that starting it a minute early is intended to disrupt digital recording of shows that run 8:00 to 9:00 p.m. The fix is simple. On my ReplayTV, I just set a manual record from 9:00 to 10:00 for NBC (or I could set an 8:00 to 8:59 Survivors recording). But it's clear that this is a direct DVR pushback. But how does this help the network? I link to a post about Fear Factor in which the thread explores on a discussion board why Fear Factor was getting chopped or not recording.
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Apple plans more job cuts. The layoffs are the result of a reorganization of the company's sales and marketing efforts, the Mac maker says in a regulatory filing. |
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DVD Copying Software Tries to Skirt Law (AP). AP - Court rulings have pulled the most popular software for copying DVD movies off the market, but a new program, already on sale at CompUSA and Wal-Mart, is trying to get around these rulings and still let users duplicate copy-protected discs. |
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Google Stock Auction Approach May Backfire (AP). AP - Google Inc.'s initial public offering has a lot of people salivating for a piece of the action — an appetite that the Internet search engine leader hopes to satisfy by inviting the masses to the bidding table. |
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Broader U.S. Picture Swaps Move Closer to Reality (Reuters). Reuters - U.S. mobile camera phone users are a
step closer to wirelessly swapping digital photographs with
whomever they choose after two rival technology groups said on
Thursday they agreed on guidelines for such services. |
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CDs May be Less Immortal than We Thought |
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CA to give interim CEO keynote spot at user show. Computer Associates International's (CA's) temporary leader, Kenneth Cron, will deliver the opening keynote at CA's upcoming user show, the company confirmed Thursday, clearing some of the confusion about CA's executive hierarchy following its former chief executive officer's (CEO) demotion last month. |
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BugTraq: SUSE Security Announcement: Live CD 9.1 (SuSE-SA:2004:011). Sender: Roman Drahtmueller [draht at suse dot de] |
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Longhorn: Microsoft's security bull? |
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Small businesses left vulnerable to virus attacks |
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U.S. hit by rise in 'phishing' attacks |
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Prison time for cyber stock swindler |
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Net watchers wary of Sasser fallout |
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Blog :: An end-user tip that, just maybe, isn't so secure |
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MS to Help Zap Worms Automatically |
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Stunned family says Elias only wanted to help |
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Infocus: Common Security Vulnerabilities in e-commerce Systems |
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News: Prison time for cyber stock swindler |
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Patches de sécurité pour Mac OS/X |
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Vulnérabilité dans Rsync sous Unix |
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Spoofing de domaine avec SSL dans Internet Explorer |
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Vulnérabilité dans l'échange de clé VPN dans VPN-1 de Checkpoint |
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Longhorn: Microsoft's security bull? |
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Small businesses left vulnerable to virus attacks |
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U.S. hit by rise in 'phishing' attacks |
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Prison time for cyber stock swindler |
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Net watchers wary of Sasser fallout |
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Filesharers respond to France's RIAA. 
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Last week, we posted news of a fuck-you to filesharers from France's equivalent to the RIAA: an extended middle finger, with the tagline "Free Music Has a Price."
Now, BoingBoing pal Jean-Luc
sends us this "response logo" (shown at left) from a group of online freedom of speech advocates in France. The tagline? "Culture has no price / Don't buy any CDs." Personal websites and blogs in France are displaying the logo as a gesture of solidarity against the SNEP (Syndicat National de l'Edition Phonographique) anti-P2P campaign. "You sell us mediocre music at exorbitant prices," the banner exclaims in French, "Reduce the price of CDs, and start placing a higher priority on the quality of artists instead of the quantity of money you're cramming in your pockets." Sacre blog!
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Net watchers wary of Sasser fallout. A researcher warns that a hybrid worm could be spun off Sasser, as companies are told to include the money spent cleaning up of such attacks in the cost of owning technology. |
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VoIP, wireless could spur Baby Bell negotiations. Disagreements between the Bells and competitive carriers get stickier, but competition from new technologies will likely bring the two sides together. |
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Consortium to push biotech, nanotech collaboration. Joint Venture: Silicon Valley forms a consortium of businesses, government and education to promote nanotechnology and biotechnology by uniting the San Francisco Bay Area's many assets. |
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Customs Solution (Forbes.com). Forbes.com - Every month a huge corporation gets dinged with the global equivalent of a speeding ticket. In December Sun Microsystems paid $291,000 to settle federal charges that it shipped computer equipment that had military applications to Egypt and China. Later that month Honeywell paid $36,000 in fines for selling a restricted chemical in Mexico. In February Morton International paid $647,500 as penance for shipping protected chemicals to Singapore and Taiwan. |
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Computer Associates to Revise Filings (AP). AP - Computer Associates International Inc., the software company under investigation for its accounting, Thursday said it will revise its filings for the second half of 2003 to defer recognition of about $9 million in revenue, due to an adjustment in the way the company calculates subscription revenue. |
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In the Chips (Forbes.com). Forbes.com - Electronics manufacturers scooped up 90 billion chips last year, says Brian Matas, an analyst with IC Insights of Scottsdale, Ariz. We have, indeed, arrived at the era of ubiquitous computing: Processors and memory are in just about every mobile phone, television, copier, stereo, fax, camera and burglar alarm. People who don't have such appliances will get them; people who have them will want upgrades. Matas predicts world chip output of 142 billion in 2008. ... |
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Cameras, Color Drive Phone Sales (PC World). PC World - Mobile phone shipments are up sharply since last year, researcher
reports. |
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Some 1.78 million US victims of "phishing" fraud: survey (AFP). AFP - Some 57 million US Internet users have received e-mails luring them to fake websites in an effort to obtain bank or credit card information, a survey showed. |
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Guessing on Google, How High Will Valuation Go? (Reuters). Reuters - Like the mathematical term that
inspired its name, the valuation of Google Inc. is expected to
amount to a very big number when it breaks new ground by
selling an estimated $2.7 billion in stock through a Dutch
auction of previously unseen size. |
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AMD Launches Low-Voltage Processors |
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Novell releases first Mono beta. After months of delay, Novell expects to release a final version of its Mono software development platform by the end of next month, the company said, after releasing the first public beta of the Mono 1.0 software on a Web site earlier this week. |
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How can technology cure this electronic plague? |
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Vulns: Sysklogd Crunch_List Buffer Overrun Vulnerability. Sysklogd has been reported to prone to a buffer overrun vulnerability.
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Vulns: KAME Racoon Malformed ISAKMP Packet Denial of Service Vulnerability. racoon is an IKE (Internet Key Exchange) daemon included in KAME's IPsec utilities and the Linux 2.6 Kernel port IPsec-Tools.
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Vulns: Apple Mac OS X Server Administration Service Undisclosed Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability. The Apple Mac OS X Server Administration service provides a remote GUI administration interface for Apple Mac OS X server.
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Vulns: Apache Connection Blocking Denial Of Service Vulnerability. Apache is prone to an issue that may permit remote attackers to cause a denial of service issue via a listening socket on a rarely accessed port. The issue is caused by ... |
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Vulns: Apache Mod_SSL HTTP Request Remote Denial Of Service Vulnerability. mod_ssl is the implementation of SSL (Secure Socket Layer) for the Apache webserver.
mod_ssl has been reported to be prone to a remote denial of service vulnerability. ... |
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Vulns: Apache Error Log Escape Sequence Injection Vulnerability. Apache is a freely available Web server for Unix and Linux variants, as well as Microsoft operating systems.
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Prison time for cyber stock swindler |
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P4DB Input Validation Holes Let Remote Users Execute Arbitrary Shell Commands |
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Coppermine Photo Gallery theme.php Remote File Inclusion |
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Coppermine Photo Gallery init.inc.php Remote File Inclusion |
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Experts see era of insecurity |
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US falls hook, line & sinker for phishing |
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Not all will see Longhorn in 3D. The next version of Windows will sport some fancy, three-dimensional graphics, but for those with an older video card, Longhorn will look a lot like Windows 2000. |
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Microsoft's show-and-tell at WinHEC. Longhorn will feature three different levels of interface flashiness, depending on a user's hardware. Also: A planned security architecture for Longhorn hasn't yet fallen into place. |
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Iraq prison abuse images shake the Net. Web logs mirror the disturbing photos and offer the rare opportunity to peruse the complete text of a secret military report describing the potentially criminal behavior of its own soldiers. |
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Low-Tech or High, Jobs Are Scarce in India's Boom. India may be "shining," in the description of a government publicity campaign, but it is also struggling to generate jobs. By Amy Waldman. |
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How Much Does Information Technology Matter?. In 2003, the Harvard Business Review published an article titled "IT Doesn't Matter." The debate still rages. By Hal R. Varian. |
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Newswire: Brownco Starts Search With Pile (AdWeek.com). AdWeek.com - Pile and Co. is overseeing a review for the $10 million account of online brokerage BrownCo, a rep for the Boston consultancy said last week. |
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Rambus Files Antitrust Suit Against Memory Makers |
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DSI Delivers up to 3GB/s with Solid State Disk |
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Intel planning shift toward mobile designs for chips. Over the next few years, Intel Corp. will shift its desktop processor architecture away from the power-hungry design that fuels the current Pentium 4 processor to a more power-efficient design that builds on the success of the Pentium M chip, sources familiar with Intel's plans said this week. |
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CA to give interim CEO keynote spot at user show. Computer Associates International's (CA's) temporary leader, Kenneth Cron, will deliver the opening keynote at CA's upcoming user show, the company confirmed Thursday, clearing some of the confusion about CA's executive hierarchy following its former chief executive officer's (CEO) demotion last month. |
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News: Prison time for cyber stock swindler. Teen scammer hacked a brokerage account to dump worthless Cisco options. Diary entry: "Even if I go to jail -- big deal -- I will learn something there. Hahaha." |
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Vulns: APSIS Pound Remote Format String Vulnerability. APSIS Pound is a reverse-proxy and load-balancer service.
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Vulns: RSync Configured Module Path Escaping Vulnerability. The rsync program is used to synchronize files and directory structures across a network. It is commonly used to maintain mirrors of ftp sites, often through anonymous ac... |
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Vulns: MPlayer/Xine-Lib Multiple RealRTSP Buffer Overrun Vulnerabilities. Multiple buffer overruns were reported in realrtsp code shared between MPlayer and xine-lib. MPlayer and xine both support the Real RTSP (Real-Time STreaming Protocol) f... |
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Prison time for cyber stock swindler. Computer hacking and identity theft By Kevin Poulsen, SecurityFocus . |
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Heimdal k5admind Framing Length Buffer Overflow Lets Remote Users Execute Arbitrary Code |
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Enterprise IT Toolkit for the Week of 5/6/04 |
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Cendant: IBM and Linux Put the Squeeze on IT Costs |
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Gartner: Phishing attacks up against U.S. consumers |
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Longhorn òåðÿåò Palladium |
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Longhorn graphics requirements reveal multi-tiered experience. The company will be sticking with a tiered approach to the user experience, enabling and disabling some UI features based on the graphics power at hand in any given system and the preferences of the user. By Ken "Caesar" Fisher. |
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What women want from the Net (?!). Yahoo threw a conference called "Real Women, Digital World" as a kind of hyper-focus-group, in which a bunch of women were called in to explain What Women Want From The Internet. This on-site account is pretty funny.
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Rachel, who gives her age as "almost 23," is a recent transplant
to San Francisco from Chicago. She is dressed in jeans, sneakers,
a T-shirt, a zip-up hoodie and a belt decorated with pink
flamingos and palm trees. She gamely tries to explain to the
suits clustered around her exactly what it is that she does on
the Internet.
The short answer: Um, everything.
A habitué of Craigslist, Rachel says she has used the Net
to find a roommate, find her apartment in Hayes Valley, and find
her part-time job. If she gets lost and doesn't have Net access,
she'll call a friend who does and ask her to go to MapQuest and
get directions. She pays all her bills online and reads the news
on S.F. Gate and N.Y. Times.com, two sites she doesn't even
bother to refer to by the names of the newspapers they represent.
She's selling a car online right now.
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Dude, where's my drone?. Defensetech's Noah Shachtman says:
 Fisherman and divers of Norway: If you happen to see a ten-foot long, robotic mini-submarine swimming off of your shores, please call the U.S.
Navy. The service has been trying to find its mine-sweeping drone for a week, now, after the 'bot failed to return to its mother ship, the USS Swift.
The Swift has broken off its participation in a military exercise to look for the Battlespace Preparation Autonomous Underwater Vehicle, the AP reports.
"The ship has searched everywhere from the fjord leading into the southern town Kristiansand to deep ocean water some 30 kilometres out, where the waters can be as much as 580 metres deep," the wire service says. "Because the sub could surface just about anywhere along Norway's coast, [Norwegian military spokesman Cmdr. Thom] Knustad appealed on national radio for Norwegians to be on the lookout for the torpedo-shaped, yellowish-orange device with a propeller on one end. "
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Grey Lady Dude, Check This Out!. Dude, Check This Out, the totally frictionless blogging tool that my old OpenCola partners have created, got a mention in today's NYT -- congrats, guys!
To use the service, you must download a browser toolbar. Then, when visiting an interesting site, you click on "Dude It" to automatically post a link to an existing blog or to a MyBlog page at the site. (You can also highlight pictures or text to go along with the link.) Comments can be added to the link, and you can also send the entire posting to friends by e-mail. In a way, the service has created the simplest blogging tool imaginable.
Thom Watson, a technology manager in Washington, is an experienced blogger who longed for a better way to keep track of notable sites. "I keep my blog mostly for personal thoughts," he said. "I wanted a really easy way to collect links by topic and comment on them."
Mr. Watson now maintains three MyBlog pages, on general topics, modern architecture and the Toyota Prius. Better yet, the service sends him suggestions on sites of potential interest based on similarities between his postings and those on other MyBlogs. There's even a social-networking aspect that links users based on their contact lists.
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FragBook games laptop. 
The makers of the FragBox game PC are shipping a notebook version called the FragBook, which comes with custom detailing in any automotive finish and a padded alumnium laptop-briefcase.
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Xeni on PBS TV tonight -- RFIDs and privacy. On this week's edition of the PBS television program "California Connected," I join host Lisa McRee with guests Beth Givens, Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, State Senator Debra Bowen, and Mark Roberti, RFID Journal to debate consumer privacy issues related to radio frequency ID tag (RFID) technology.
There's a great online discussion salon going on concurrently, too, with Professor Shyam Sunder of the School of Management at Yale University, Chris Hoofnagle, associate director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, Lee Tien, senior staff attorney at the EFF, and Dr. Daniel Engels of the MIT Auto-ID Labs.
Dubbed by one skeptical journalist as "Big Brother in small packages," RFID chips are tiny transponders that can be attached to almost any consumer good. While companies are set to use these radio frequency identification tags to track their merchandise from assembly line to warehouse to store shelf, privacy watchdogs suggest these same RFID tags could be used to keep tabs on consumers -- beyond the confines of a store or supermarket.
Link to show home page. Link to stations and airtimes for both the TV and radio editions of the show. Video will be archived online later. |
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PeopleSoft-Oracle trial set for November. The database giant had asked that the trial begin in midsummer 2005, but a California judge picks a date closer to the one PeopleSoft requested. |
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WebMD Posts Quarterly Profit Vs Year-Ago Loss (Reuters). Reuters - WebMD Corp. (HLTH.O) on Thursday posted
a quarterly profit compared with a loss a year ago, boosted by
increased demand for its consumer health information and health
claims processing software. |
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DVD Copying Software Tries to Skirt Law (AP). AP - Court rulings have pulled the most popular software for copying DVD movies off the market, but a new program, already on sale at CompUSA and Wal-Mart, is trying to get around these rulings and still let users duplicate copy-protected discs. |
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Pac-Man Game to Jump from Computer to City Streets (Reuters). Reuters - "Life imitates art far more than art
imitates life," Oscar Wilde once wrote. Little did he know that
life would eventually also imitate video games. |
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Emotional Bonding with Space Probes |
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Vulns: SmartPeer Undisclosed Local Vulnerability. SmartPeer is an open source load balancing solution that runs from a single bootable CD-ROM.
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Vulns: Microsoft Windows LSASS Buffer Overrun Vulnerability. Microsoft Windows LSASS (Local Security Authority Subsystem Service) is prone to a remotely exploitable stack-based buffer overrun vulnerability. This service provides ... |
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Vulns: Microsoft Windows Private Communications Transport Protocol Buffer Overrun Vulnerability. Various Microsoft Windows operating systems are prone to a remotely exploitable buffer overrun via the PCT (Private Communications Transport) protocol. PCT is included ... |
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HP rides Hondo to super-sized Itanium servers. Doubling up By Ashlee Vance . |
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The Internet's Wilder Side |
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SecurityTalk with K Rudolph, CISSP |
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SmartAdvice: Private Is As Private Does |
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The Privacy Lawyer: Actions Must Follow Privacy Mea Culpas |
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Anti-Spam Technologies Prove Their Value |
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Enterprise Wireless Security Starts At Home |
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MetaInfo Teams With Vaticor To Strengthen IP Layer |
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Gartner: Phishing Attacks Threaten E-Commerce |
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FAA hired a chimpanzee to manage quality-assurance. A New York Times article reports that a tape recording made on 9/11/01 containing statements from "at least six air traffic controllers who dealt with two of the hijacked airliners .. was destroyed by a supervisor without anyone making a transcript or even listening to it."
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The quality-assurance manager was said to have "crushed the cassette in his
hand," before disposing of it.
I just tried to crush a cassette in my hand. I couldn't do it. I know my upper body strength isn't what it ought to be, but I don't see how any normal human could crush a cassette in his or her bare hand.
I therefore conclude that the manager is not human. He is probably a very smart, shaved, and clothed chimp. Supporting evidence: In 1924, the Bronx Zoo tested the grip strength of people and chimpanzees using a dynamometer. A 160-pound male human had a grip strength of 210 pounds. But a 135-pound female chimp had a grip strength of 1260 pounds. Anybody have a pet chimp so we can test this out? I'll pay for the cassette. Link |
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Communist era Czech TV commercials. Let's have fun laughing at the poor production quality of these pathetic commie-era TV ads. It's no surprise the suicide rate was so high over there. I was ready to open a vein just watching these clips. Or maybe it was the fact that they're in Windows Media format, the only format even more hideous than Real Player. I guess it's the perfect media player to showcase these TV spots -- Windows Media feels like it was invented by eastern european scientists who had KGB agents holding guns to their heads. Link (Thanks, John!) |
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Study: Cell phone shipments on the rise. Worldwide handset shipments grew in the first quarter of 2004 compared with the same period last year, buoyed by strong sales of camera phones and color screens, IDC says. |
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Study: More teens flock to the Web. JupiterResearch predicts that the number of teenagers who go online in the United States will jump to 22 million in 2008. |
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For hire: Google chairman. Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt relinquishes his role as company chairman of the board. |
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Shell taps IBM and Wipro in India. The oil giant, which has said it aims to cut up to 30 percent of its IT staff, signs deals with Big Blue and Wipro Technologies for IT services to be delivered from India. |
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The State of CRM - Part 3 (NewsFactor). NewsFactor - Part 1 of this three-part series on the state of CRM discusses a kind of identity crisis the industry has been grappling with of late. What exactly is the value that CRM delivers? Or to put it more succinctly: Why do so many companies have bad associations with CRM? |
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Longhorn Steals Show at Engineers Conference (NewsFactor). NewsFactor - At the 13th annual Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC), Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) chairman and chief software architect Bill Gates' keynote address was about - what else? -- the future of Windows computing. |
| 9. |
Red Hat Courts Enterprise with Desktop Linux (NewsFactor). NewsFactor - In announcing its return to the desktop market, Linux vendor
Red Hat (Nasdaq: RHAT) emphasized the
security, manageability and reliability of open source for the client environment. |
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New Cisco Tech Bridges Wireless-Access Gap (NewsFactor). NewsFactor - Cisco Systems (Nasdaq: CSCO) has unveiled wireless technology designed to weave local
area network connectivity into wired systems: a new
WLAN module for
the company's 6500 series switches, as well as new access point
hardware and software. |
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Longhorn: Microsoft's Security Bull? (NewsFactor). NewsFactor - Though maintaining the fervor of futuristic speculation about what consumers can expect to see in Microsoft's (Nasdaq: MSFT) Longhorn OS -- the next-next-next generation of PC computing -- Microsoft officials acknowledged the security woes bedeviling the industry today. |
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Peer-To-Peer Group Unveils Anti-Pedophile Measure (Reuters). Reuters - Internet file-trading networks on
Thursday unveiled a new approach to fighting child pornography
as they came under a new round of criticism from the U.S.
Congress. |
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Nintendo, Sony Start Handheld Gaming Battle At E3 |
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When I embed a PDF in a Word document, it gets rasterized. When I embed an EPS, it won't display on the screen. Is there some option that I'm missing? |
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Gartner: Phishing attacks up against U.S. consumers. A new study by research firm Gartner Inc. found that the number of online scams known as "phishing attacks" have spiked in the last year and that online consumers are frequently tricked into divulging sensitive information to criminals. |
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Vulns: PaX 2.6 Kernel Patch Denial Of Service Vulnerability. PaX is an anti-intrusion kernel level patch for Linux based operating systems. It provides functionality to help prevent arbitrary code execution that may result from mem... |
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Elsewhere: Quantum crypto gets a speed boost |
| 18. |
Elsewhere: US falls hook, line & sinker for phishing |
| 19. |
Enterprise IT Toolkit for the Week of 5/6/04 |
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Cendant: IBM and Linux Put the Squeeze on IT Costs |
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OpenSSL ASCII Integer Overflow |
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Two user interfaces for Longhorn? Laptops beckon. Longhorn, the next considerable update to Windows, will bring a bevy of new features aimed at making laptops easier and more convenient to use. The aim: make it easier to use a Windows-powered device for spontaneous media playback. By Ken "Caesar" Fisher. |
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New electronic hand dryer really works?. Hot air hand dryers, the kind used in lavatories of cheapskate businesses, do a lousy job. I always have to wipe my hands on my shirt to get my hands dry. Plus, there's always an puddle of sickening water under those dryers. This new hand dryer, by Mitsubishi, promises to suck all the moisture from your dripping epidermis. I still prefer paper towels, but this looks a lot better than useless blowers. Link (via IDFuel) |
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Great, weird illustrator: Louis Moe.  Awesome early 20th century illustrations by Louis Moe. Here's a picture of a mosquito-man sucking the blood from a willing victim. Link (via Cipango)
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Digital cameras change history in Iraq. Boing Boing Guestbar alum Todd Lappin sez: "Some interesting comments from a front page story in Thursday's Washington Post about the role digital cameras have played in in the Abu Ghraib prison abuse debacle. If Vietnam was the first televised war, Iraq will probably be remembered as the war in which personal media technology altered the course of history."
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For many units serving in Iraq, digital cameras are pervasive and yet another example of how technology has transformed the way troops communicate with relatives back home. From Basra to Baghdad, they e-mail pictures home. Some soldiers, including those in the 372nd, even packed video cameras along with their rifles and Kevlar helmets.
Bill Lawson, whose nephew, Staff Sgt. Ivan L. "Chip" Frederick, is one of the soldiers charged in the incident, said that Frederick sent home pictures from Iraq on a few occasions. They were "just ordinary photos, like a tourist would take" and nothing showing prisoner abuse, he said.
"I would say that's something that's very common that's going on in Iraq because it's so convenient and easy to do," Lawson said of troops sending pictures home. He added that his nephew also mailed videocassettes "of him talking into a camcorder to [his wife] when he was going on his rounds."
But in the case of prisoner abuse, the ubiquity of digital cameras has created a far more combustible international scandal that would have been sparked only by the release of Taguba's searing written report. Since the "60 Minutes II" broadcast, pictures of abuse have been posted on the Internet and shown on television stations worldwide. Link |
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FTC testimony highlights file-sharing dangers. A consumer protection official tells Congress that P2P networks can expose consumers, including children, to unsolicited content such as pornography. |
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ClearPlay edit can be the unkindest cut (USATODAY.com). USATODAY.com - The Passion of the Christ and Schindler's List will not be altered, but many major Hollywood movies rated PG-13 or R will soon be edited for language, sexuality and violence using ClearPlay technology for DVD. |
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Google IPO translates into multiple billions (SiliconValley.com). SiliconValley.com - The 1,900 employees of Google could be forgiven for getting giddy over the company's plans to sell its stock to the public for the first time. Some of them are going to get very, very rich -- at least on paper. |
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U of Chicago Scavenger Hunt List - 2004 |
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SecurityTalk with K Rudolph, CISSP |
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Vulns: Sun Solaris Patch Information Disclosure Vulnerability. Sun has announced that some patches released for Solaris may in fact present a new security vulnerability. The issue presents itself in Solaris 9 systems running as NIS ... |
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Combien de victimes du Phishing |
| 12. |
Nette augmentation du Phishing |
| 13. |
Pishing-Bande geschnappt |
| 14. |
Crypto Mail - "True e-mail privacy for all" |
| 15. |
Hacker? Cracker? Web Surfer With Malicious Intent? - What Shall We Call Them? |
| 16. |
Book Review- Malicious Cryptography: Exposing Cryptovirology |
| 17. |
Sasser worm (May 2004 hysteria) |
| 18. |
6 May W32/Famus-C |
| 19. |
6 May W32/Bagle-AA |
| 20. |
Piecemeal security solutions cost firms dearly |
| 21. |
DeleGate SSL Filter Buffer Overflow |
| 22. |
Analyzing the Windows System Service Transfer mechanism |
| 23. |
Customers won't tolerate security breaches |
| 24. |
F-Secure Sasser Removal Tool |
| 25. |
Une démonstration de la puissance de Windows Longhorn ? |
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man2html Remote DoS |
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RIAA tracks down major reason for decrease in artist royalties. The New York State Attorney General has announced a US$50 million settlement with the RIAA over missing royalty payments. RIAA member companies have not been diligent enough about making royalty payments. By Eric Bangeman. |
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Profile of Iraqi torture woman.  I've been waiting for the press to do a story about the female American soldier shown tormenting Iraqi soldiers. Her name is Lynndie England, she's 21, and she comes from a "backwoods world" West Virginia.
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"To the country boys here, if you're a different nationality, a different race, you're sub-human. That's the way girls like Lynndie are raised.
"Tormenting Iraqis, in her mind, would be no different from shooting a turkey. Every season here you're hunting something. Over there, they're hunting Iraqis." Link |
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Mercenary interrogator wanted -- "minimal supervision". Homeland Security and Defense mercenary outfit CACI (motto: "Ever Vigilant") is looking an "Interrogator/Intel Analyst Team Lead" to work in in Baghdad. The job description is priceless:
Assists the interrogation support program team lead to increase the effectiveness of dealing with Detainees, Persons of Interest, and Prisoners of War (POWs) that are in the custody of US/Coalition Forces in the CJTF 7 AOR, in terms of screening, interrogation, and debriefing of persons of intelligence value. Under minimal supervision, will assist the team lead in managing a multifaceted interrogation support cell consisting of database entry/intelligence research clerks, screeners, tactical/strategic interrogators, and intelligence analyst.
Link (Thanks, Michael!)
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NaviSite buys out rival Surebridge. The acquisition, the sixth in less than two years, makes NaviSite a $125 million technology services firm with more than 1,200 customers. |
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Game handhelds to take spotlight at E3. Upcoming portable game players from Sony and Nintendo and a widely expected price cut for Sony's PlayStation 2 console top the agenda for the game industry's annual trade show. |
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Apple's iTunes Breaks One-Week Sales Record (Reuters). Reuters - Apple Computer Inc.'s (AAPL.O)
iTunes online music store broke its one-week sales record after
the computer maker updated its music player software with new
features including the ability for users to publish play lists,
the company said on Wednesday. |
| 7. |
CPUBuilders Offers Low-Cost Linux PCs (TechWeb). TechWeb - CPUBuilders by Stratitec announced Monday the availability of two new Linux PCs
with a street price of less than $600. |
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Perfect Digital Skin |
| 9. |
Nanotechnology: the Good, the Bad, the Hyperbole |
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Gartner: Phishing attacks up against U.S. consumers. A new study by research firm Gartner Inc. found that the number of online scams known as "phishing attacks" have spiked in the last year and that online consumers are frequently tricked into divulging sensitive information to criminals. |
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Elsewhere: Quantum crypto gets a speed boost. NIST scientists transfer a quantum key made of single photons at a rate of 1Mbps.
A team of US scientists from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) ... |
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Elsewhere: US falls hook, line & sinker for phishing. As many as 57 million US internet users have received phishing emails, with the attacks costing US banks and credit card issuers about $1.2bn last year.
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BugTraq: Advisory: Heimdal kadmind version4 remote heap overflow. Sender: Evgeny Demidov [demidov at gleg dot net] |
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BugTraq: [AppSecInc Security Alert] Microsoft Active Server Pages Cookie Retrieval Issue. Sender: Aaron C dot Newman (Application Security, Inc dot ) [anewman at appsecinc dot com] |
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BugTraq: [0xbadc0ded #03] DeleGate (SSL-filter) <= 8.9.2. Sender: Joel Eriksson [je-secfocus at bitnux dot com] |
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Vulns: XChat SOCKS 5 Remote Buffer Overrun Vulnerability. A remotely exploitable buffer overrun was reported in XChat. This issue exists in the SOCKS 5 proxy code.
This stack-based buffer overrun could be exploited by a mali... |
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Vulns: Aldo's Web Server Multiple Input Validation Vulnerabilities. Aldo's Web Server is a compact web server for Microsoft Windows.
Two vulnerabilities have been reported in the Aldo's Web Server product.
An information leak in the app... |
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Vulns: YaBB Bulletin Board Corruption Vulnerability. YaBB is a freely available web based bulletin board application. It is implemented in Perl and designed to run under Unix and Unix like operating systems.
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Wi-Fi group to update WLAN spec. Acronyms accrue as 802.11i and 802.11e arrive By Tony Smith . |
| 20. |
AMD delivers on low-power Athlon 64 pledge. Parts for thin'n'light laptops By Tony Smith . |
| 21. |
MS mounts covert anti-piracy op. Belgian retailers targeted By Jan Libbenga . |
| 22. |
DNA-based nanobot takes a stroll. A great step forward By Lucy Sherriff . |
| 23. |
Everywhere Broadband scrubs UK satellite plan. Permanently, it seems By Tim Richardson . |
| 24. |
Piecemeal security solutions cost firms dearly. Integrate and save By John Leyden . |
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Ruxcon: Final Call For Papers "conference organised by and for the Australian computer securit... |
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Elsewhere: Customers won't tolerate security breaches |
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Elsewhere: Longhorn will feature 'secure' components |
| 28. |
Record Broken: 82% of U.S. Email is Spam |
| 29. |
Microsoft Shakes Up Longhorn Security |
| 30. |
Microsoft Shakes Up Longhorn Security |
| 31. |
Nächstes Phantom auf der Fahndungsliste |
| 32. |
Phatbot folgt Sasser-Wurm |
| 33. |
Sicherheitslücke in Check Point VPN-1 |
| 34. |
Guninski warnt vor fehlerhafter Linux-Mail-Komponente |
| 35. |
Sasser C und D entfernen! |
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New software, laws push some spammers to log out |
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Sun City Girls. BB pal Erik Davis has posted the full text of a feature he wrote for The Wire about the Sun City Girls, the most eclectic, prolific, and weirdest cowpunkers the southwest has ever unleashed:
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"Sun City Girls traffic with bizarre miscegenations, self-indulgent trash, and hardcore mystic exotica. Their sometimes garish album covers attack the eye with devils, yonis, sacred transvestites, and nubile native jailbait. Lyrics, song and album titles -- 'Naga Smoke Signals,' 'The Genghis Necro-Nama-Khan,' 330,003 Crossdressers from Beyond the Rig Veda -- can sound like the spontaneous verse of young poetes maudites tanked up on National Geographic cheesecake and A Pictorial History of Magic and the Supernatural. This lurid romance with the Other fuels some of their most incandescent sounds as well, a music of transport that explores Middle Eastern, Southeast Asian, and South American atmospheres with a passion composed equally of informed pleasure and the heedless appropriation of the strange. Looking high and low, far and wide, the Sun City Girls have sought the wellsprings of the weird, of what H.P. Lovecraft called outsideness, and when they have found them, they have taken what they wanted."
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Like a hole in the head.  The construction worker in Los Angeles who had an accident with a nail gun last month is expected to fully recover. From the Associated Press:
"(Isidro) Mejia, 39, was atop an unfinished home when he fell from the roof onto a co-worker who was using the nail gun, Los Angeles County sheriff's Deputy Mark Newlands said.
The two men tried to grab each other to keep from falling, but both tumbled to the ground. At some point, the nail gun discharged and drove the nails into Mejia's head.
'They're extremely powerful," Newlands said. "They've got to drive through three-quarter-inch plywood.'"
The surgeons removed six nails, three of which had penetrated Mejia's brain. Link
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CA foresees no revenue surprises. But the company delays its final report by two weeks because of a recent management shake-up related to its accounting troubles. |
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Briefly: eBay shareholders to weigh options issues. Plus: Group wants H-1B visa exemptions...Apple iTunes sales jump...Orbitz books a profit...Sun's Schwartz gets 1 million stock options. |
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Novell launches test of open-source project. The company unveils a test release of Mono, an open-source version of Microsoft's .Net programming framework and tools that's designed for Linux and Unix. |
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Computer Associates Revising Filings (AP). AP - Computer Associates International Inc., the software company under investigation for its accounting, Thursday said it will revise its filings for the second half of 2003 to defer recognition of about $9 million in revenue, due to an adjustment in the way the company calculates subscription revenue. |
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Woman Fined for Getting Tunes Off Internet (AP). AP - A federal judge has fined a Connecticut woman $6,000 for allegedly downloading copyright-protected music from the Internet. |
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GPS Cell Phone in Soda Can Form |
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NYT Discovers Internet's Wild Side: IRC |
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Tiny robot walker made from DNA. Scientists have created a microscopic walking robot using only the building blocks of life: DNA. |
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Update: CA delays Q4 report, revises Q2 and Q3. Still recovering from its accounting-fraud investigation and subsequent management purge, Computer Associates International Inc. (CA) said Thursday it will delay its financial report on its just-ended fourth quarter and revise its revenue calculations for its second and third quarters. |
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Elsewhere: Customers won't tolerate security breaches. ...or downtime for any reason it would seem...
Latest research shows that firms who fall victim to hacking, viruses or phishing may have to worry about more than just p... |
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Elsewhere: Longhorn will feature 'secure' components. Microsoft says it still wants to incorporate major security features into its next operating system
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Vulns: Business Objects Crystal Reports Multiple Unspecified Vulnerabilities. Crystal Reports is an application that allows users to create and manage data into dynamic reports.
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Java: the next mobile cash cow?. Milked for $15.5bn by 2008, pundits predict By Lucy Sherriff . |
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PHP-Nuke Input Validation Bugs in 'sid' Variable in 'Downloads' Module Permits SQL Injection and Cross-Site Scripting Attacks |
| 17. |
Rumsfeld under fire |
| 18. |
Alleged Iraq hostage from Denver shown on Arab TV |
| 19. |
White House requests $25 billion for military |
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New scourge of Web, spyware draws fire from US Congress, others (AFP) |
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Piratage en ligne de films et mp3 : dernière sommation |
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Animated "Blind Man's Penis". John Alderman says:
"Back in the '70s, John Trubee (weirdo prankster) saw one of those ads that offers to assess your poetic talent and set your poems to music. So--testing limits--he wrote the most offensive thing he could think of, pushing all the buttons, and sent it off. The refrain was originally 'Stevie Wonder’s penis, is erect because he's blind.' The company wrote back and, of course, told him he had talent, and would set his song to music and press disks if he'd pay them a little. But, because they didn't want to get sued, they had to substitute 'a blind man' for Stevie. The record was pressed and it became a sort-of underground hit in LA. Funny also because Trubee's prank calls were supposed to be the inspiration for Matt Groening's use of them. They were friends!"
Now, "Blind Man's Penis" has been given the Flash animation treatment! Link |
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Blessed Britney. According to The Mirror, dear Britney Spears has demonstrated her devotion to Kabbalah (the newage Madonna variety, of course) by getting a Hebrew tattoo on the back of her neck. Too bad the letters don't mean a damn thing. Further adding to the irony (and idiocy) of the situation is the fact that the Torah forbids tattoos. Link (Thanks, Gil!)
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Microsoft's show-and-tell at WinHEC. A planned security architecture for Longhorn hasn't fallen into place, but elements will make their way into the new OS. Also: Sidestepping Sasser. |
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Billions of 'Phishing' Scam E-Mails Sent Monthly (Reuters). Reuters - Fraudulent e-mails designed to dupe
Internet users out of their credit card details or bank
information topped the three billion mark last month, according
to one of the largest spam e-mail filtering companies. |
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Microsoft Contracts for E-Mail Service (AP). AP - Microsoft Corp., whose Hotmail and MSN services are inundated by spam, has contracted for a service that lets e-mail from legitimate companies more easily reach people's inboxes. |
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What Sex is Your Robot? |
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Putting Google to the Test |
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The Internet's Wilder Side |
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Vulns: Apple QuickTime Sample-to-Chunk Integer Overflow Vulnerability. QuickTime Player is the media player distributed by Apple for QuickTime Media Files.
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3 launches diminutive video handset. Clamshell LG U8110 By Lucy Sherriff . |
| 11. |
BBC shortlists tech division buyers. 'Accenture, CSC and Siemens... come on down' By Tim Richardson . |
| 12. |
BT wins big airport contract. Touching down at Gatwick, Heathrow and Stanstead By John Oates . |
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No wireless at Westminster, MPs told |
| 14. |
Defences tested by virus attacks |
| 15. |
Gridforum.nl/ISOC.nl masterclass |
| 16. |
Sasser boosts AV share prices |
| 17. |
Blog :: BSA declares war on Dallas |
| 18. |
Security experts warn of nastier Sasser worm |
| 19. |
Customers won't tolerate security breaches |
| 20. |
NASA must transform to put men on Mars |
| 21. |
RFID: Is it soup yet? |
| 22. |
CDs, DVDs not so immortal |
| 23. |
Defences tested by virus attacks |
| 24. |
Les débuts du SPAM par SMS |
| 25. |
Loi pour la confiance dans l'économie numérique (LCEN) |
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DRM : ça ne marchera jamais |
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Editors' 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. |
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Yahoo, Lycos Europe Strike Web Chat and IM Alliance (Reuters). Reuters - Yahoo Inc. and Lycos Europe, rival Web
portals now turned business partners, will swap Web chat and
instant-messenger technologies in a cost-savings move, the
companies said on Thursday. |
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First DVD+R9 Burners Reviewed |
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Kodiak Networks CEO pushes talk. New push-to-talk technology in mobile-phone networks could help business people use their time more effectively and consumers have far greater interaction with each other. That's the key message of Craig Farrill, chief executive officer of Kodiak Networks Inc., a company in the fast lane to capture a share of the emerging market for instant voice communications. |
| 5. |
Micron, codefendants react to Rambus suit. Micron Technology Inc. promised to vigorously defend itself against an antitrust lawsuit filed by Rambus Inc. against the Boise, Idaho, company and three other computer memory vendors Wednesday. |
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Security Experts Warn of Nastier Sasser Worm |
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Gates Promises Longhorn Beta In 2005 |
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Napster parent Q4, FY loss widens. But will sell $30-40m worth of songs this year By Tony Smith . |
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Music biz fears play Apple a compliment. Analysis Industry can't see wood for trees By Tony Smith . |
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FuseTalk Multiple Vulnerabilities |
| 11. |
Exim Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities |
| 12. |
P4DB Input Validation Vulnerabilities |
| 13. |
Customers won't tolerate security breaches |
| 14. |
Longhorn will feature 'secure' components |
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SurgeLDAP Web Administration Interface Authentication Flaw Lets Remote Users Gain Access |
| 16. |
Verity Ultraseek Discloses Installation Path to Remote Users |
| 17. |
Simple Machines SMF '[size]' Tag Lets Remote Users Conduct Cross-Site Scripting Attacks |
| 18. |
Zuid Afrikaanse overheid plat door Sasser |
| 19. |
Mobile spam complaints rocket |
| 20. |
Get ready for Google-footing |
| 21. |
Le déclin du ver Sasser n'est sans doute pas annonciateur de sa proche disparition. |
| 22. |
FuseTalk Multiple Vulnerabilities |
| 23. |
Exim Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities |
| 24. |
P4DB Input Validation Vulnerabilities |
| 25. |
Microsoft revisits NGSCB security plan |
| 26. |
Southern Road Trip (interview #12) |
| 27. |
Sasser worm (May 2004 hysteria) |
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Asia Pacific VPN market seen reaching 5.15 billion dollars in 2009 (AFP). AFP - The Asia Pacific market for Internet virtual private networks (VPN) is expected to reach 5.15 billion dollars in 2009, up more than 200 percent from 2003, an industry research firm said. |
| 2. |
New software, laws push some spammers to log out (USATODAY.com). USATODAY.com - Erb Avore used to torment companies with spam. Now, the vegan activist, who changed his legal name, says he's starting a call center in India. |
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Photo printers put to test to help focus your options (USATODAY.com). USATODAY.com - A digital camera has never been far from my clutches since my daughter Sydney was born in December. But I'm not great about sharing pictures of the baby with family and friends. Even a personal tech columnist sometimes finds e-mailing images, sharing them on the Web or printing a nuisance. Funny how involving a computer often complicates matters. |
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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. |
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Defences tested by virus attacks. Firms are struggling to keep up with the pace that new viruses, worms and malicious is appearing. |
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Longhorn to come in 32-bit and 64-bit editions. Microsoft Corp. plans to release versions of its next major operating system release, code-named Longhorn, for Itanium and 64-bit extended systems as well as a 32-bit edition, a company spokesman said Wednesday. |
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PCCW launches UK wireless broadband. £18-a-month service By Tim Richardson . |
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Intel preps power-based 775-pin CPU codes. Match chip to mobo By Tony Smith . |
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Researchers build nano 'trees'. Technology branches out By Lucy Sherriff . |
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Ex-Tiny directors face boardroom ban. Pair disqualified for four and five years... By John Oates . |
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MS Trusted Computing back to drawing board. Longhorn loses another feature By Andrew Orlowski . |
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MS seeks to merge Flash, HDD storage. If you can't beat 'em, join 'em. By Tony Smith . |
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PalmOne Zire 72. Reg Review The ideal consumer PDA? By Tony Smith . |
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Symbian doubles sales. Big in Japan By John Oates . |
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China shuts 8,600 cybercafes. 'Mental health of teenagers' at risk By Tim Richardson . |
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SurgeLDAP User Authentication Bypass Vulnerability |
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Omail Remote Root Execution Vulnerability |
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PHPX 3.26 Multiple Vulnerabilities |
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Verity Ultraseek Path Disclosure Vulnerability |
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Fuse Talk Multiple Vunerabilities |
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SMF Size Tag Script Injection Vulnerability |
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Titan FTP Server Aborted LIST Denial of Service Vulnerability |
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PhpNuke 7.2 Multiple Vulnerabilities |
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P4DB Multiple Vulnerabilities |
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Apple minimiserait l'impact de ses failles de sécurité |
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Founder keys Siebel's recovery (TheDeal.com). TheDeal.com - Tom Siebel has named former IBM executive Michael Lawrie CEO of Siebel Systems as his latest move in the company's restructuring. |
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Hitman sequel tops games charts. Catch up with the latest news from the world of video gaming. |
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Music site Napster eyes UK launch. Music download site Napster unveils a UK partner, the high-street electronics chain Dixons. |
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California preps e-voting ban bill. Democracy threatened by machines - Senator By Andrew Orlowski . |
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Dixons signs Napster promo exclusive. Multi-year deal By Tony Smith . |
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New boss of tif calls for software that works. Whatever next? By John Oates . |
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Mobile spam complaints rocket. ASA clamps down on invasive marketing tactics By John Leyden . |
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Buy Your Way to Legitimacy. Software that puts e-mail marketers through the sieve in order to separate 'legitimate selling' from mass spamming gets Microsoft's blessing. You can be on this so-called whitelist, but it'll cost you. |
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Insulin-Making Cells Regenerate. Cells in the pancreas that produce insulin can regenerate themselves, a new study shows, hinting at possible treatments for diabetes. The research found no indication that adult stem cells play a role in the regeneration, but other scientists are not convinced. |
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The Dream Gadgets of 2014. They're as small as your cell phone, more powerful than your desktop and packed with 10 years of future tech. Five design giants build the supergadgets of the future, from Wired magazine. |
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E-Voting Commission Gets Earful. In a tiny room packed with activists, reporters and concerned citizens, the Election Assistance Commission hears testimony from makers of e-voting machines and the people who oppose them. Michael Grebb reports from Washington, D.C. |
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The Scorpions Taste Kinda Fishy. But the tarantulas are just divine! Brave participants at the American Museum of Natural History dine on crickets, ants and other small creatures at an event aptly called Adventures in the Global Kitchen. Michelle Delio reports from New York. |
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After the Beep, Exit the Premises. From cops to customs officers, law enforcement types across the nation are carrying special pagers designed to detect 'dirty' bombs. But plenty of things set off the devices, even radioactive kitty litter, and some experts doubt an attack is near. By Randy Dotinga. |
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Game Makers' Hand-to-Hand Combat. Nintendo is in danger of getting slapped silly by Sony twice in a decade. As Sony preps a new whiz-bang handheld video-game machine, Nintendo will answer with the upcoming DS. If the DS flops, Nintendo is in big trouble. By Daniel Terdiman. |
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NIST to cut 100 jobs |
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Security lekken kunnen klanten wegjagen |
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Ook Amerikanen bezorgd over electronisch stemmen |
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"DRM beveiliging gaat nooit werken" |
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Prison acts draw apology |
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Problème dans l’acquittement d’envoi de SMS sur les terminaux Siemens S55 |
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Mafias russes et cyber-escrocs font bien la paire |
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Point de vue sur l'origine et le but du virus Sasser |
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Sasser : l'antivirus de Microsoft est très populaire |
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Trois étapes pour vous protéger contre les menaces internes |
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PHP-Nuke Multiple Vulnerabilities |
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PHPX Multiple Vulnerabilities |
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PHP-Nuke Multiple Vulnerabilities |
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PHP-Nuke Multiple Vulnerabilities |
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PHPX Multiple Vulnerabilities |
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Storm Trooper armour on eBay. 
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This guy is selling a fantastically detailed homebrew set of Star Wars Storm Trooper armour. I wonder if his has a willie hatch?
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Digitising LPs by scanning the grooves. Digitising analogue LPs with high-resolution scanners isn't a new idea -- we blogged an early effort years ago here -- but it seems to have come along nicely, per this NYT story.
The team shoots thousands of precise sequential images of the
groove and then stitches the images together, measuring the shape
of each undulation and calculating the route a stylus would take
along the path.
"We grab the image and let the computer model what the stylus
would have done if it had run through the surface," said Carl
Haber, a senior scientist at the lab who led the research team in
collaboration with Vitaliy Fadeyev, a postdoctoral researcher
there.
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Adidas wants you to run on computation. Adidas is launching a "smart shoe" next December that modifies its support and responsiveness properties in real-time based on performance.
Each second, a sensor in the heel can take up to 20,000 readings
and the embedded electronic brain can make 10,000 calculations,
directing a tiny electric motor to change the shoe. The goal is
to make the shoe adjust to changing conditions and the runner's
particular style while in use.
"What we have, basically, is the first footwear product that can
change its characteristics in real time," said Mr. DiBenedetto,
who led the group that created the shoe, of its ability to adapt
its cushioning as the wearer runs.
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NYT: IRC is like the cantina scene from Star Wars, but with porn and warez (oh my). The NYT has run a goofy Red-scare piece on Internet Relay Chat, with hysterical, alarmist bushwah like "It is still possible - though sometimes a bit difficult - to find mature technical discussions among the tens of thousands of I.R.C. chat rooms" -- I mean, how "difficult" is it to type "/join #unix"?
When I.R.C. started in the 1980's, it was best known as a way for
serious computer professionals worldwide to communicate in real
time. It is still possible - though sometimes a bit difficult -
to find mature technical discussions among the tens of thousands
of I.R.C. chat rooms, known as channels, operating at any one
time. There are also respectable I.R.C. systems and channels -
some operated by universities or Internet service providers - for
gamers seeking opponents or those who want to talk about sports
or hobbies.
Still, I.R.C. perhaps most closely resembles the cantina scene in
"Star Wars'': a louche hangout of digital smugglers, pirates,
curiosity seekers and the people who love them (or hunt them).
There seem to be I.R.C. channels dedicated to every sexual
fetish, and I.R.C. users speculate that terrorists also use the
networks to communicate in relative obscurity. Yet I.R.C. has its
advocates, who point to its legitimate uses.
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Apple won't own up to defects in 17" Studio Displays either. Michael says, "Here's another petition asking Apple to acknowledge a widespread manufacturing defect. This one concerns the problem with Apple's 17-inch Studio Displays that causes the top or bottom half to go dim, and the power light to blink incessantly. There is an ongoing thread on Apple's Discussion Board that currently has 371 replies, with 172 unique user names reporting the problem. It had 378 on Tuesday, but 8 of them, including one of mine, have since been deleted by Apple. I have spoken to Apple's Customer Relations regarding the issue, and they refuse to acknowledge it as a known problem. A flat-rate out-of-warranty repair is $458.95. A new display is $699."
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Sasser outbreak slowing down but bug still potent: security firm (AFP). AFP - The Sasser Internet worm that hit computers worldwide on the weekend is spreading at a slower rate but remains a danger, a global IT security firm said. |
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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. |
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Experts divided on Sasser future. Computer security experts are divided on whether the Sasser worm is now less of a threat or about to get worse. |
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Intel's Whitefield goes Banias in 2006. Exclusive Mobile chip for low-power servers By Ashlee Vance . |
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Everything you never wanted to know about the UK ID card. A pub bore's guide Name, rank, serial number... By John Lettice . |
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Baghdad blast kills 5 civilians |
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Acts at Abu Ghraib called bad method |
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Abuse of prisoners called "abhorrent" |
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Heimdal kadmind Heap Overflow Vulnerability |
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FreeBSD update for heimdal |
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Heimdal kadmind Heap Overflow Vulnerability |
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Heimdal kadmind Heap Overflow Vulnerability |
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FreeBSD update for heimdal |
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FreeBSD update for heimdal |
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EFF's cognitive radio comments to the FCC. I've just turned in EFF's comments to the FCC's "Cognitive Radio" docket, which asked (among other things) whether the Commission should regulate Americans' access to digital-to-analog converters and whether Trusted Computing should be mandated for software defined radios (we didn't much like these ideas).
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EFF asks the Commission to consider the question of enforcement
separately from the question of functionality. The Commission
should allow this proceeding, and others like it, to consider the
question of the characteristics of the best possible design and
operation of flexible radios without regard to enforcement
questions. It should allow American technologists to build the
devices that make most efficient use of spectrum and allow the
greatest amount of speech over the public's airwaves.
As each new type of device and operational norm is approved, the
Commission shoul dask, separately, how best to police the
airwaves in light of the fact that the newly approved devices
will soon proliferate. It must assume that Americans should and
will acquire the best and most-capable radios possible and
determine how to address the problems that may arise from this
reality.
Further, the Commission should seek to backstop enforcement by
hardening existing radio applications against harmful
interference, spoofing and other attacks: for example,if
air-traffic control signals carried cryptographically secured
signatures, the risk of spoofed signals would be greatly reduced.
Our government has already required that airlines install
reinforced cockpit doors: reinforcing the cockpit radios is a
logical next step.
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EFF's new hires. EFF's staff grew by two today: my newest cow-orkers are Annalee "Techspolitation" Newitz (media baron) and Tim "BAWRN" Pozar (bull-goose geek).
Newitz was formerly Culture Editor at the San Francisco Bay
Guardian. She has discussed the social impact of technology in
Wired and Salon magazines, on CNN and NPR, as well as in her
syndicated weekly column Techsploitation. As EFF's Media
Coordinator/Policy Analyst, she will be handling media relations,
as well as writing white papers, policy recommendations, and
doing research. "I've always considered my writing to be a form
of activism," she says, "so I'm pleased to join forces with an
organization whose principles and dedication I've admired for
many years."
Pozar is a longtime activist in the high tech community and has
spent the past several years consulting as a network architect.
One of the founders of Brightmail, an antispam company, he is
also founder of Bay Area Research Wireless Network (BARWN) and
co-founder of the Bay Area Wireless User Group (BAWUG). As
Technical Director, he will manage new technical projects for
EFF, as well as a team of analysts. "My goal in life is to foster
the democratization of communication," he says, "and my work at
EFF will help me continue the pursuit of that goal."
I once sat in on a wild conversation between Tim Pozar, John Gilmore and Tom Jennings (the inventor of FIDONet), about the day that Tim wrote some code for John's ISP, the Little Garden, that bridged FIDONet into Usenet, joining the two largest conversational networks in the world with a little software. I'm looking forward to more mind-blowing reminisces from Pozar, now that he's in-house and at large.
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What women want from the Net (?!). Yahoo threw a conference called "Real Women, Digital World" as a kind fo hyper-focus-group, in which a bunch of women were called in to explain What Women Want From The Internet. This on-site account is pretty funny.
Rachel, who gives her age as "almost 23," is a recent transplant
to San Francisco from Chicago. She is dressed in jeans, sneakers,
a T-shirt, a zip-up hoodie and a belt decorated with pink
flamingos and palm trees. She gamely tries to explain to the
suits clustered around her exactly what it is that she does on
the Internet.
The short answer: Um, everything.
A habitué of Craigslist, Rachel says she has used the Net
to find a roommate, find her apartment in Hayes Valley, and find
her part-time job. If she gets lost and doesn't have Net access,
she'll call a friend who does and ask her to go to MapQuest and
get directions. She pays all her bills online and reads the news
on S.F. Gate and N.Y. Times.com, two sites she doesn't even
bother to refer to by the names of the newspapers they represent.
She's selling a car online right now.
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Competitive eater bests popcorn sarcophagus. 
"Crazy Legs Conti" is a competitive eater who is also the subject of a new documentary that premiered on Tuesday in NYC. As a publicity stunt, he had himself entombed in a 50-cubic-foot "sarchopagus of popcorn" in the theatre lobby and ate his way free.
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Journo's Iraq gadget-bag. Peter Maass, a war correspondant in Iraq, opens his gadget bag in a Gizmodo interview. He's got good kit.
You don't need a hardened computer, though breakdowns are frequent. I use an Apple iBook and took the precaution, during the invasion of Iraq, of covering the screen and keyboard in saran wrap, to keep out the sand. An item I didn't have, but dearly wished for, was night vision goggles. If you have to drive at night with the military in a warzone, as I and other non-embedded journalists did, you can't use any lights (you even have to tape over the red-light indicators on your dashboard). Driving without headlights in a desert behind a tank that doesn't have brakelights is an unpleasurable experience.
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Samsung Surpasses Rival LG.Philips in PC Displays (Reuters). Reuters - Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. overtook
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