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Gateway Files Patent Suit Against H-P (AP). AP - Gateway Inc. said Monday that it filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Hewlett-Packard Co., alleging that the computer hardware and software company violated five of its patents. |
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Hack the Planet
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Sony VAIO Type X. I don't know why, but I need one. |
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In a rare bit of good luck, Intel's new 90nm "Dothan" Pentium M is faster and cooler than its "Banias" predecessor. The model numbers are bound to be confusing, though. (Quick, what's the difference between an Opteron 848 and a Pentium M 755?) |
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New Sasser Worm FTP exploit and Java DOS |
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MTV's new mashup bootleg TV show "MTV Mash". French DJ/producer duo Loo & Placido tell BoingBoing:
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We've been doing bootlegs / mash-ups for a few years now. For the last several months, we've been working with MTV on exclusive bootlegs for a new show called ""MTV MASH" which is broadcast all around Europe 3 times a week. We already made12 tracks for the show so far. If you want to listen to our bootlegs, check out our website, it's still under construction, but there's already a lot of tracks to listen to.
Link to the L&P site. The MTV out-takes you can listen to here are terrific, and if this is what ended up on the cutting room floor -- the show should be amazing. I'm particularly fond of the Missy Elliot meets Green day track "get your green on," as well as the Goldbug meets ODB number "Golden Bastard." |
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Penny Arcade!
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How To Make Friends And Influence Bats.  |
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CNET News.com
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Gateway countersues HP over patents. As the giants prepare to slug it out in court, Gateway reports that its estimated first-quarter loss was shy by $6 million, for a revised total of $172 million. |
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Microsoft says bye-bye to Wi-Fi. Despite quickly becoming one of the leading sellers of wireless networking products, Microsoft has decided to discontinue its entire line of Wi-Fi gear, CNET News.com has learned. |
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Date Set for PeopleSoft Suit Vs. Oracle (Reuters). Reuters - A California judge has set a Nov.
1 trial date for PeopleSoft Inc.'s (PSFT.O) lawsuit against
Oracle Corp. (ORCL.O) for unfair business practices related to
its $9.4 billion hostile takeover bid. |
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HP Plays Up PC for Gamers (PC World). PC World - Basic system offers customizable components, easy access for upgrades. |
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MSN Teams Up With Fox Sports (AdWeek.com). AdWeek.com - MSN's multiyear, multi-million-dollar content partnership with Fox Sports--due to start July 1 --opens up ad-sales opportunities for the portal in the hugely popular sports vertical, previously unavailable under its expiring contract with ESPN. |
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IBM Launches Software for Networked Computing (Reuters). Reuters - IBM said on Monday it will launch
software for running applications over far-flung networks and
devices, challenging Microsoft Corp.'s (MSFT.O) hold on the
desktop business software market. |
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Stopping Overseas Fax Spam? |
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InfoWorld: Top News
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Security threats raise concerns about Bluetooth. Below are the fields to populate the Article Content Type. These fields are automatically tied to their corresponding styles available in the Style Dropdown. |
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Intel readies four additional mobile processors. SAN FRANCISCO - Intel Corp. plans to follow Monday's mobile processor launch with four more chips for portables slated for release over the next few months, according to information posted inadvertently on Dell Inc.'s Web site Monday. |
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SecurityFocus Vulns
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BugTraq: DEEP SEA PHISHING: Internet Explorer / Outlook Express. Sender: http-equiv at excite dot com [1 at malware dot com] |
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Microsoft Bounty Helps Nail Sasser Suspect |
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Sasser Variant Appears |
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Blog :: When a Conference becomes a Con |
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Nortel: Video demand to spur faster DSL. Telephone companies will have to provide much faster DSL speeds to meet the demands of video and keep cable competitors at bay, according to a Nortel Networks exec. |
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Briefly: MCI posts $388 million loss. Plus: PeopleSoft buyout liability nears $2 billion...Intel invests in JBoss...i2 settles shareholder lawsuits...Google polishes up Blogger site. |
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Extended Systems Launches Mobile Sales App (NewsFactor). NewsFactor - Mobile middleware provider
Extended Systems (Nasdaq: XTND) has introduced OneBridge
Mobile Sales, an applications package targeting the growing number of
enterprise sales professionals on the move. The product includes modules
for contacts, opportunities and reporting, and integrates with a broad
array of back-end applications. |
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Microsoft to Launch Arcade Games for Xbox (Reuters). Reuters - Microsoft Corp. (MSFT.O) on Monday
said it will offer a lineup of arcade, puzzle and card games on
its Xbox Live online service, targeted at infrequent video game
players. |
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Practical File System Design with the Be File System |
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Videogame Character Threatens National Security? |
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InfoWorld: Top News
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Experts: Timing of new Sasser worm raises questions. BOSTON - The release of a new version of the Sasser worm calls into question claims by some German authorities that they have the sole author of the worm in custody, according to antivirus experts. |
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Judge sets date for PeopleSoft versus Oracle trial. NEW YORK - While Oracle Corp. prepares to face off with the U.S. Department of Justice in June in a California court battle over its proposed acquisition of PeopleSoft Inc., its legal team will also need to plan for a November confrontation with PeopleSoft in another California courtroom. |
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RightNow files to join IPO parade. NEW YORK - Customer service ASP (application service provider) RightNow Technologies Inc. filed Monday to join the parade of tech companies planning IPOs (initial public offerings) this year. |
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MCI struggles through first quarter. MIAMI - MCI Inc., fresh out of bankruptcy, lost no time in reporting disappointing financial results Monday for its first quarter, ended March 31, 2004. It saw its revenue decline and its bottom line change from black to red compared with the first quarter of 2003. |
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News: 'Sasser' creator launched damage-limiting version before arrest. The Associated Press By Geir Moulson |
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BugTraq: RE: a litle bypass with IE. Sender: Eric Norbut [eric at se-gi dot com] |
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BugTraq: a litle bypass with IE. Sender: Nuno Costa [webcenter at sapo dot pt] |
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TrendMicro OfficeScan Inappropriate Default Permissions |
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Sasser Worm ftpd Remote Buffer Overflow Exploit (port 5554) |
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efFingerD 0.2.12 Buffer Overflow |
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Eudora is susceptible to a fraudulent URL |
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NJ: No wires can mean no safety "In a single mile, only 12 of 58 houses with wireless computer n... |
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Ohio: Wi-Fi easy hacker target "Parked outside a swank Narberth block, it took a computer consul... |
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The Register: BBC develops 'alternative' codec "The BBC says that already the system gives a two... |
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Net-Security: Microsoft Windows IPSec Vulnerabilty "Windows is verifying the authenticity of an ... |
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Security Focus: Automating Windows Patch Mngt - Part III |
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Jon Stewart on US torturers. Lisa Rein has posted two amazing clips from the Daily Show on the Iraq torture scandal.
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4.8MB QuickTime Link to Rob Courddry On The US Torture Of Iraqi Prisoners, 9.8MB QuickTime Link to Jon Stewart on Giant Messopotamia |
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Intel Launches Three Laptop Processors (AP). AP - Intel Corp. launched three new microprocessors for laptop computers Monday as the chip-making giant widened its mobile technology marketing blitz to include consumers as well as businesses. |
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Disney to Publish 'Chicken Little,' 'Narnia' Games (Reuters). Reuters - The Walt Disney Co. will publish a
range of video games to accompany "Chicken Little," its
first-ever fully computer-animated film, the company said on
Monday. |
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Intel Launches Advanced Notebook PC Processor (Reuters). Reuters - Intel Corp. (INTC.O), the world's
largest chip maker, unveiled on Monday a new mobile processor
for notebook computers that boosts performance while keeping
battery life roughly the same as previous versions. |
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In-Flight Wi-Fi Makes its Debut |
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InfoWorld: Top News
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Notebook makers release PCs for Intel's Dothan. BOSTON - A slew of notebook PC vendors lined up behind Intel Corp.'s three new Dothan Pentium M processors on Monday with new and updated systems that feature the improved chip. |
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Bad laws, bad code, bad behavior |
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SecurityFocus Vulns
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BugTraq: Re: a litle bypass with IE. Sender: [nbriscoe at cix dot co dot uk (Neil Briscoe)] |
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BugTraq: msxml3.dll Parsing Error Crashes Internet Explorer Remotely Upon Refresh. Sender: Rafel Ivgi, The-Insider [theinsider at 012 dot net dot il] |
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BBC develops 'alternative' codec. With wavelets, 'Dirac' lessens lossiness By Faultline . |
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WORM_BAGLE.AB |
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WORM_BAGLE.AA |
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WORM_SPYBOT.MA |
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WORM_CYCLE.A |
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WORM_AGOBOT.FU |
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WORM_AGOBOT.TT |
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Newest Pattern: 887 |
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No cameras at prison-abuse trial |
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Renegade cleric's office destroyed |
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Getting Back in Charge of Storage Purchasing |
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'Critical' Buffer Overflow Found in Eudora |
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AirDefense Tackles Bluetooth Security |
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NetIQ Suite Delegates Windows Administration Tasks |
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SSL VPNs Start Making Sense |
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Cyber-Crime Laws Hurt More Than They Help |
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Sasser.D Worm Hits Internet |
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Worm Creator Sent Damage-Limiting Version |
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Bad laws, bad code, bad behavior |
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Intel's Dothan chips officially debut. Say goodbye to the clockspeeds! Intel introduces the Pentium M 735, 745, and 755, their first CPUs to be marketed sans clock speed reference By Eric Bangeman. |
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Regulators dial in on AT&T prepaid calls. The long-distance giant said the FCC is reviewing its method of selling some prepaid calling cards, which could leave AT&T on the hook for more than a half billion in unpaid fees. |
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RightNow joins IPO conga line. The subscription software company joins the likes of search engine leader Google, gay Web portal PlanetOut and online bookseller Alibris with plans for an initial public offering of its stock. |
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Sasser continues to strike. German police have nabbed the worm's author, but a new version is making its way around the Internet. |
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Intel launches Dothan, new naming scheme. The chipmaker launches its new Pentium M chip family, along with a new naming system that de-emphasizes clock speed. |
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PeopleSoft buyout liability nears $2 billion. The company's get-out-of-hostile-takeover card, played via a money-back guarantee to customers, could hike the cost of Oracle's proposed $9.4 billion bid. |
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Siebel's Next Chapter (NewsFactor). NewsFactor - As the smoke clears following Tom Siebel's (Nasdaq: SEBL) bombshell that he was stepping down as CEO of the firm he built over the last 11 years, analysts, competitors and customers are wondering what is next for Siebel -- the company that has, for better or worse, defined CRM as we know it today. |
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IBM Takes On Microsoft with New Desktop Strategy (NewsFactor). NewsFactor - In a bid to wrest control of the corporate desktop market from
Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT), IBM (NYSE: IBM) has unveiled a new software strategy that enables
workers to access a full complement of business applications from
enterprise data centers. |
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Project Grizzly Bear-Proof Suit Up For Auction |
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InfoWorld: Top News
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RFID buzz creates market for services. The recent push by retailers to introduce radio frequency identification (RFID) tagging into supply chains has not only sparked a frenzy of RFID-related activity by suppliers needing to satisfy retailer demands, it has also created a market for service providers offering to aid in implementation. |
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Microsoft virus bounty leads to Sasser arrest. 43591A multi-million dollar Microsoft Corp. reward program to encourage people to identify computer virus writers has led to the arrest of a teenager in Germany on suspicion of writing the Sasser computer worm. |
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Sasser, Phatbot arrests coordinated, but not linked. A 21-year-old German man was arrested and has admitted to creating the ubiquitous and dangerous Trojan horse programs Agobot and Phatbot, but is not connected to the German author of the Sasser Internet worm, a police spokesman said. |
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BugTraq: Emule 0.42e Remote Denial Of Service Exploit. Sender: Rafel Ivgi, The-Insider [theinsider at 012 dot net dot il] |
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Vulns: Sun Java Runtime Environment Unspecified Remote Denial Of Service Vulnerability. The Java Runtime Environment (JRE) is the virtual Java platform on which all Java applications are run. It is provided by Sun Microsystems for a number of platforms, inc... |
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Topspin hopes to hit winner with VFrame. Server virtualization, anyone? By Ashlee Vance . |
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Faut-il mettre plus de qualité dans les correctifs ? |
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Le Cert publie un livre sur la sécurisation système et réseau |
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Sasser worm creator may have launched damage-limiting version before arrest (Canadian Press) |
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Kolab Server slapd.conf Root Password Disclosure |
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Exim sender_verify Overflow |
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Exim header_syntax Overflow |
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efFingerD sockFinger_DataArrival DoS |
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efFingerD Malformed Packet DoS |
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FuseTalk adduser.cfm Create Arbitrary Account |
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Linux CLOSE_WAIT TCP Networking DoS |
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OpenSSH Symbolic Link 'cookies' File Removal |
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Microsoft IIS Cookie Variable Information Disclosure |
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Squid Proxy MSNT Auth Helper Overflow |
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OpenSSL ASN.1 Client Certificate Buffer Overflow |
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L'auteur présumé du virus Phatbot, placé en détention provisoire |
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The Digital ID World Newsletter - May 6, 2004 Issue |
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IBM's Lotus Workplace to take on Microsoft Office. IBM to offer server-based alternative to Microsoft Office, Priced at US$2 per user per month, users will be able to download what they need, work offline, and synchronize automatically on next log-in. By Eric Bangeman. |
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Stanislaw Lem is cranky!. Stanislaw Lew, the king of Polish Science Fiction, is alive, cranky and well, and this interview with him makes me want to go re-read Solaris.
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Bush is seeking reelection. His advisers remembered the effect of the first landing on the Moon, and proposed a repeat, but on a grander scale. So Mars came in handy. It will take at least 20 years to prepare a flight to Mars. Bush, however, is>Link
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MPAA's Bizarro-world logic. Fritz Attaway, the MPAA's vice president who shows up at all the DRM meetings, explains to the press how the world works in Bizarroland, where being able to make a backup of your DVDs is bad for you.
"There is no right in the copyright law to make backup copies of motion pictures, so the whole argument that people should have the right to make backup copies of DVDs has no legal support whatsoever," said Fritz Attaway, executive vice president of the MPAA.
"It's against consumers' interests to permit devices that make backup copies," he added, "because there is no way that a device can distinguish between a backup copy for personal use and making a copy for friends, family acquaintances or even selling on the street corner."
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Persian photoblog: Those Sexy Iranians. Hossein Derakshan says, "I've launched my photoblog, titled "vagrantly." Here's the latest image post, about the Islamic dress code and Nicholas Kristof's New York Times column this weekend about 'sexy Iranians.'"
 No one has challenged the cleric's rule more effectively than these young Iranian girls. They have totally changed the Islamic dress code during the past five years. The half-sliced heads of the mannequins are results of Islamic laws that prohibit making identical statues to humans.
Link to Hoder's photoblog post. And coincidentally, BoingBoing's own Cory says from the U.K., "Spotted at the Brick Lane Bengali new year's festivities in London: a little girl in a couture Calvin Klein headscarf."Link to 80K jpeg image. |
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Kevin Sites Iraq blog: "Paying Back in Blood". Blogger and MSNBC combat correspondent Kevin Sites is in Iraq, and has posted a new entry to his blog today.
When he was nine years old Carlos Gomez crossed the Rio Grande from Mexico to the U.S. with his father, mother and two sisters. They had heard stories about the opportunities in America, dreamed about them, wanted them so badly they ran through oncoming traffic on the 805 freeway to get to them. They didn't stop until they reached San Diego. Fear, fatigue and La Migra slowly fading into the southern horizon like their homeland.
They stayed. Dealt with the slurs--beaners, greasers, wetbacks. Overcame them. Paid back America's opportunities with hard, menial labor. Made a fraction of what citizens and legal immigrants made--but never complained.
And 12 years later, in Falluja, Iraq, Marine Lance Corporal Gomez would pay it back again--but this time with his blood.
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Pixel-counting can un-redact government docs. A Luxembourgian/Irish security research team have presented a paper on a technique for identifying words that have been blacked out of documents, as when government docs are published with big strikethroughs over the bits that are sensitive to national security. The technique doesn't work on monospace fonts like Courier, but the State Department's recent font guidelines require that all docs be published in Times New Roman, which decodes like a charm.
hey found the number of pixels that had been blacked out in the sentence: "An Egyptian Islamic Jihad (EIJ) operative told an xxxxxxxx service at the same time that Bin Ladin was planning to exploit the operative's access to the U.S. to mount a terrorist strike." They then used a computer to determine the pixel length of words in the dictionary when written in the Arial font.
The program rejected all of the words that were not within three pixels of the length of the word that was probably under the blacked-out area in the document.
The software then reduced the number of possible words to just seven from 1,530 by using semantic guidelines, including the grammatical context. The researchers selected the word "Egyptian" from the seven possible words...
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Briefly: Intel invests in JBoss. Plus: i2 settles shareholder lawsuits...Google polishes up Blogger site...Sun says Kodak's Java suit set for Sept....Luminary joins open-source insurers. |
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Survey: IT managers say they'll increase spending. Information technology managers expect to increase their spending by 2.4 percent in 2004, according to a survey by Forrester Research. That's up from the 1.7 percent rise projected six months ago. |
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Can Microsoft bounty put paid to viruses?. Microsoft claims its reward program was responsible for the arrest of the suspected author of the Sasser worm, but some experts say money alone will not clear up security problems. |
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Nortel joins convergence push with new MPLS router. Nortel Networks announces a new router designed to help carriers deliver voice, video and data services over a single network. |
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Intel's Dothan sets sail. The chip giant launches the new design with three new laptop chips. It also outlines a push to equip more consumer-oriented notebooks with wireless networking capabilities. |
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Hall of Fame Voting For Computer Museum of America |
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HP to Offer Custom Compaq Gaming PCs |
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IBM puts Workplace at center of managed apps vision. NEW YORK - IBM is looking to broaden its Workplace architecture for component-based application delivery beyond the Lotus portfolio in which Workplace got its start. IBM software head Steve Mills outlined Monday how a forthcoming rich-client platform from IBM can be used as a hub to deliver to end-users a variety of applications centrally managed on servers, including applications from Microsoft Corp.'s Office suite. |
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Home Users Most Vulnerable to Sasser Worm Claims Network Associates |
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Icsa Labs Certifies Nvidia Firewall |
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German Teen Admits Making The 'Sasser' Internet Worm |
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Sasser strikes back despite arrest |
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Cherry Devices to Include Fingerprint Identification Capabilities from Isl Biometrics |
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CyberGuard on the attack |
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Hacking danger worsens |
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Foundry turns up heat on high-end security range |
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[ GLSA 200405-01 ] Multiple format string vulnerabilities in neon 0.24.4 and earlier |
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PaX DoS proof-of-concept |
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OUTLOOK 2003: OuchLook |
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a litle bypass with IE |
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[ GLSA 200405-02 ] Multiple vulnerabilities in LHa |
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Monit 4.1 remote shell exploit (HTTP) |
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RE: An undetectable Online Bank Vulnerability? |
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Arbitrary code inclusion in phpShop |
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Elsewhere: Security threats raise concerns about Bluetooth |
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Elsewhere: Can Microsoft's virus bounty fight organised crime? |
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Infocus: Automating Windows Patch Mngt: Part III |
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News: New version of Sasser undermines lone coder theory |
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Despite arrest, new variant of Sasser worm appears |
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Symantec does mail gateway security |
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DMCA challenge to be considered this week |
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German police arrest Sasser worm suspect |
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New version of Sasser undermines lone coder theory |
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FTC fines porn spammers $112k |
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Patriot Act and FDIC used in phishing scam |
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The accidental arbiter |
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Winny P2P Software Creator Arrested |
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California County Sues State Over E-Vote Ban |
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Boucher's DMCRA To Get A Hearing On May 12 |
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Congressional Hearing Called on Fair Use; 321 Studios President Asked to Testify |
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What's Being Done About Nuclear Security |
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Feds Answer Calls for Nuke Safety |
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Slashdot | Phatbot Author Arrested In Germany |
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Breaking RSA Keys by Listening to Your Computer |
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Sasser Author Under Arrest, Say German Police |
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RFID MasterCard |
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MasterCard® PayPassTM: Coming to a Wallet Near You |
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Free Software Tracking a Stolen Computer? |
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Comcast Plans Cable Boxes with Integrated Wi-Fi and Snooping |
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Slashdot | Evoting in the News |
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Spyware Becoming Worst Tech Support Problem |
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Wired News: Sick of Spam? Prepare for Adware |
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The Digital ID World Newsletter - April 8, 2004 Issue |
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The Digital ID World Newsletter - April 15, 2004 Issue |
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The Digital ID World Newsletter - April 22, 2004 Issue |
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The Digital ID World Newsletter - April 29, 2004 Issue |
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Study: Home networking on the upswing. The spread of broadband is driving the growth of home networking, according to data released by In-Stat/MDR. |
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Intel invests in JBoss. The chipmaker gives an undisclosed sum to the open-source software maker and says it will provide technical resources for Java 2 Enterprise Edition certification. |
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Sprint to Spend Over $100 Mln on Rate Plan Ads (Reuters). Reuters - Sprint Corp. said on Monday it would
spend more than $100 million on its costliest wireless
advertising campaign to date, in an effort to explain a new
rate plan aimed at keeping customers from leaving. |
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First Tests of Intel's New Pentium M (PC World). PC World - Vendors snap up 'Dothan' for speedy notebooks with long battery life. |
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Study: Many Federal Sites Not Terror Risks (AP). AP - Federal officials should consider reopening public access to about three dozen Web sites withdrawn from the Internet after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, a government-financed study says, because the sites pose little or no risk to homeland security. |
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Mars & The Teachable Moment |
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Sasser, Phatbot arrests coordinated, but not linked. A 21-year-old German man was arrested and has admitted to creating the ubiquitous and dangerous Trojan horse programs Agobot and Phatbot, but is not connected to the German author of the Sasser Internet worm, a police spokesman said. |
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Elsewhere: Security threats raise concerns about Bluetooth. Potential security risks posed by the Bluetooth wireless technology are prompting some IT managers to rein in use of Bluetooth-equipped mobile phones and PCs on their net... |
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Elsewhere: Can Microsoft's virus bounty fight organised crime?. Microsoft is claiming that its $250,000 reward was responsible for the Sasser author's arrest, but experts say money alone will not stop the virus and spam problem
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[MAJ] Vulnérabilité dans la gestion des messages SNMP des routeurs Cisco |
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[MAJ] Vulnérabilité dans la gestion des messages SNMP des routeurs Cisco |
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Worm Creator Sent Damage-Limiting Version (AP) |
| 17. |
Suspected Phatbot computer worm inventor held in Germany (AFP) |
| 18. |
FreeBSD vfs_cache Memory Consumption DoS |
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10 May W32/Agobot-QA |
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Sasser: Firmen prüfen Schadenersatz-Forderungen |
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Game accessory sales up slightly, study says. Market research company NPD Group sees a 10 percent increase in first-quarter sales of game devices. Game pads, steering wheels and stick controllers account for much of the growth. |
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Bad laws, bad code, bad behavior. CNET News.com's Declan McCullagh explains why laws regulating technology often invoke an even more powerful rule: the law of uninintended consequences. |
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Landmark Overhauls Management Tools (Ziff Davis). Ziff Davis - Buffalo Brewpub sees rapid ROI with IBM hardware and Aloha point-of-sale software. |
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NTT DoCoMo sharply lower after warning price war to hurt profits (AFP). AFP - Shares in NTT DoCoMo, Japan's largest mobile phone service provider, slumped after its announcement that a fierce price war will hurt its operating profit in the current year. |
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2003 Online Content Spending Up Almost 19 Percent (Reuters). Reuters - Spending by U.S. consumers for
online content rose almost 19 percent to $1.56 billion in 2003
from 2002, largely fueled by increases in the two top
categories, the Online Publishers Association and comScore
Networks said on Monday. |
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Gmail Has Potential As Enterprise Platform (Ziff Davis). Ziff Davis - With certain added capabilities, Google's Web mail offering could be used as a corporate mail service. |
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Ask About Running Windows Software in Linux |
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Games showcase hits Los Angeles. The latest hardware and software developments in video gaming are showcased at E3 in Los Angeles. |
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Microsoft virus bounty leads to Sasser arrest. A multi-million dollar Microsoft Corp. reward program to encourage people to identify computer virus writers has led to the arrest of a teenager in Germany on suspicion of writing the Sasser computer worm. |
| 10. |
BI bigwigs ramp up platforms. BI vendors Firstlogic, IBM, Informatica, and SAS Institute are all working to broaden the reach of their respective BI platforms via extensions to their product lines focused on data integration. |
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DMCA challenge to be considered this week |
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Elsewhere: German Net Worm Writer May Have Been Helping Mom. BERLIN (Reuters) - A German whiz-kid who confessed to writing a crippling computer worm that caused chaos around the world may have been trying to help his mother's small... |
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Infocus: Automating Windows Patch Mngt: Part III. The final installment of this series discusses two alternative, low cost tools to manage the application of patches to Windows systems, and also provides information on the upcoming, revised Software Update Services (SUS) from Microsoft. |
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News: New version of Sasser undermines lone coder theory. The appearance of a new version of the infamous Sasser worm shortly after the arrest of its admitted author has fuelled speculation that its creator worked with other virus writers. |
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BugTraq: [ GLSA 200405-02 ] Multiple vulnerabilities in LHa. Sender: Thierry Carrez [koon at gentoo dot org] |
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BugTraq: OUTLOOK 2003: OuchLook. Sender: http-equiv at excite dot com [1 at malware dot com] |
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BugTraq: PaX DoS proof-of-concept. Sender: Michel Blomgren [michel at cycom dot se] |
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BugTraq: Monit 4.1 remote shell exploit (HTTP). Sender: Michel Blomgren [michel at cycom dot se] |
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Vulns: Microsoft Internet Explorer Unconfirmed Memory Corruption Vulnerability. A potential memory corruption vulnerability has been identified in Microsoft Internet Explorer that may result in a denial of service condition in the browser.
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Vulns: Trend Micro OfficeScan Weak Default Permissions Vulnerabilities. Trend Micro OfficeScan is an enterprise-level centrally managed antivirus solution. It is commercially available for the Microsoft Windows platform.
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Orange UK sorts German roaming snag. Trying times By Tim Richardson . |
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Cyber-Crime Laws Hurt More Than They Help (Ziff Davis) |
| 23. |
Sasser Variant Appears (PC World) |
| 24. |
Wurm Cycle.A wirbt für Menschenrechte |
| 25. |
Symantec Client Firewall Products Denial of Service Vulnerability |
| 26. |
Sun Solaris "sendfilev()" Extended Library Function DoS |
| 27. |
McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator Command Execution Vulnerability |
| 28. |
Linux Kernel CPUFREQ Proc Handler Kernel Memory Disclosure |
| 29. |
Internet Explorer and Windows Explorer Long Share Overflow |
| 30. |
MPlayer and xine-lib RTSP Handling Multiple Vulnerabilities |
| 31. |
Midnight Commander mc Multiple Unspecified Vulnerabilities |
| 32. |
Apple QuickTime QuickTime.qts Heap Overflow Vulnerability |
| 33. |
Mac OS X Security Update Fixes Multiple Critical Vulnerabilities |
| 34. |
Check Point VPN-1 Products ISAKMP Buffer Overflow Vulnerability |
| 35. |
Alerte - Découverte d'une faille au coeur même du protocole TCP |
| 36. |
Une nouvelle faille de sécurité pour Windows et Internet Explorer |
| 37. |
le Correctif MS04-011 buggué, et exploitation massive de la faille lsass |
| 38. |
Le ver Sasser exploite la vulnérabilité Windows LSASS (MS04-011) |
| 39. |
L'auteur du virus Netsky prétend être le créateur de Sasser |
| 40. |
Les dangers de certaines failles Mac OS X sous-estimés par Apple |
| 41. |
1,5 million d'utilisateurs ont téléchargé l'outil Microsoft anti-Sasser |
| 42. |
La loi sur l'économie numérique définitivement adoptée par les députés |
| 43. |
L'auteur présumé du virus Sasser arrêté et déjà libéré ! |
| 44. |
Sasser.e : Nouvelle version, malgré l'arrestation de l'auteur présumé |
| 45. |
TCP Connection Reset Remote Windows 2K/XP Attack Tool |
| 46. |
TCP Connection Reset Remote Exploit (By Paul A. Watson) |
| 47. |
Microsoft IIS 5.x SSL PCT Remote Windows 2k/XP Exploit (MS04-011) |
| 48. |
Windows Lsasrv.dll buffer overflow Remote Exploit (MS04-011) |
| 49. |
HP Web JetAdmin 6.5 Remote Root Exploit (Linux / Windows) |
| 50. |
Windows Lsasrv.dll Remote Universal Exploit XP/2K (MS04-011) |
| 51. |
X-Chat 1.8.0-2.0.8 socks5 Remote buffer overflow Exploit |
| 52. |
Monit 4.1 HTTP Request Remote Buffer Overrun Exploit |
| 53. |
Sasser Worm ftpd Remote Buffer Overflow Exploit (port 5554) |
| 54. |
Cry to beat iris scanners |
| 55. |
Linux Security Week - May 10th 2004 |
| 56. |
Hacking danger worsens |
| 57. |
Sasser strikes back despite arrest |
| 58. |
CyberGuard on the attack |
| 59. |
Sasser strikes back |
| 60. |
Denver lawyer calls reservist a scapegoat |
| 61. |
Guardian Digital Security Solutions Win Out At Real World Linux |
| 62. |
Software Security Start-Up Aims to Pre-Empt Hackers (Reuters) |
| 63. |
Microsoft IIS Inappropriate Cookie Handling Error |
| 64. |
Microsoft IIS Inappropriate Cookie Handling Error |
| 65. |
Microsoft Outlook Predictable File Location Weakness |
| 66. |
Microsoft Outlook Predictable File Location Weakness |
| 67. |
efFingerD Denial of Service Vulnerabilities |
| 68. |
efFingerD Denial of Service Vulnerabilities |
| 69. |
Gentoo update for LHA |
| 70. |
Gentoo update for LHA |
| 71. |
Gentoo update for neon |
| 72. |
Gentoo update for neon |
| 73. |
TrendMicro OfficeScan Weak Permissions |
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TrendMicro OfficeScan Weak Permissions |
| 75. |
Linux Kernel IO Bitmap Access Permissions Inheritance Vulnerability |
| 76. |
Linux Kernel IO Bitmap Access Permissions Inheritance Vulnerability |
| 77. |
NukeJokes SQL Injection Vulnerabilities |
| 78. |
NukeJokes SQL Injection Vulnerabilities |
| 79. |
IBM Parallel Environment Sample Code Privilege Escalation Vulnerability |
| 80. |
IBM Parallel Environment Sample Code Privilege Escalation Vulnerability |
| 81. |
Eudora URL Obfuscation Issue |
| 82. |
Eudora URL Obfuscation Issue |
| 83. |
Microsoft Internet Explorer and Outlook URL Obfuscation Issue |
| 84. |
Microsoft Internet Explorer and Outlook URL Obfuscation Issue |
| 85. |
SSL VPN Trumps IPSec at Alexza |
| 86. |
How We Tested: SSL VPN Appliances |
| 87. |
Patches Aren't to Be Trusted |
| 88. |
Clientless VPN Gateway 4420 |
| 89. |
9400 Secure Application Switch |
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NetScreen-SA3000 |
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SureWare A-Gate AG-600 |
| 92. |
CA Wants Focus Back on Products |
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DS-3 Gear Theft Knocks Out Service |
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Warrants are security measures. Bruce Schneier's latest op-ed asks us to consider the warrant process -- where a cop has to show evidence and follow procedure before invading your privacy -- is itself a security measure.
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What we need are corresponding mechanisms to prevent abuse. This is the proper question: "Should we allow law enforcement to use new technology without any judicial oversight, or should we demand that they be overseen and accountable?" And the Fourth Amendment already provides for this in its requirement of a warrant.
The search warrant - a technologically neutral legal requirement - basically says that before the police open the mail, listen in on the phone call or search the bit stream for key words, a "neutral and detached magistrate" reviews the basis for the search and takes responsibility for the outcome. The key is independent judicial oversight; the warrant process is itself a security measure protecting us from abuse and making us more secure.
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Biting the bullet. A woman in Irvine, California claimed she bit into a hot dog and ended up chomping down on a live 9 mm bullet. Police opened the rest of the hot dog packages at the Costco store that sold the woman the wiener but didn't find any more bullets. Meanwhile, the woman, suffering from a tummy ache, visited a hospital where x-rays revealed another round inside her stomach. Link
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IBM plans Web-based desktop software. Big Blue announces new software intended to take on Microsoft in the market for desktop business applications. |
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HP debuts RFID services. Hewlett-Packard unveils launch and test services to help companies get the ball rolling on radio frequency identification projects. |
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Security threats raise concerns about Bluetooth (MacCentral). MacCentral - Potential security risks posed by the Bluetooth wireless technology are prompting some IT managers to rein in use of Bluetooth-equipped mobile phones and computers on their networks. |
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Google Unveils Redesigned Blogger.com (Reuters). Reuters - Google Inc., the No. 1 Web search
company that recently announced plans to go public through a
Dutch auction, on Monday rolled out a new design of its Blogger
service that enables users to self-publish Web content. |
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Get Ready for Some Hand-to-Hand Combat (washingtonpost.com). washingtonpost.com - Cue up the "dueling handhelds" theme: The video game wars are starting anew, with competitors Nintendo and Sony in a fierce fight for victory on the handheld gaming battlefield. |
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Software Security Start-Up Aims to Pre-Empt Hackers (Reuters). Reuters - A pair of small U.S. technology
firms said on Monday they have struck a deal to market software
intended to defend corporate computer networks by scanning for
possible security flaws before they can be targeted by hackers
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The Face Detector |
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Thawte Founder Launches Open Source Campaign |
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Despite arrest, new variant of Sasser worm appears. Despite the arrest Friday of the suspected author of the Sasser worm that affected millions of computers worldwide last week, a new variant of the worm appeared Sunday, according to computer security organizations. |
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Symantec does mail gateway security. Symantec Corp. plans to announce on Monday an update to its Mail Security for SMTP product that offers new features for cleaning up after mass mailing worms and identifying trusted mail domains, as well as improved capabilities for detecting unsolicited commercial ("spam") e-mail messages. |
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Linux Security Week - May 10th 2004 |
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Linux Security Week - May 10th 2004 |
| 15. |
Suse: Live CD 9.1 Passwordless superuser |
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Suse: kernel Multiple vulnerabilities |
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EC opens ears on e-money directive. Suggestions on a postcard, please... By John Oates . |
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T-Mobile wins Heathrow hotspot siting. Wi-Fi to be installed in other UK airports too By Tony Smith . |
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PalmOne preps Treo 600 code update. Bug fixes coming this week By Tony Smith . |
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Fat-destroying pill?. One way to treat obesity may be to starve the fat cells. University of Texas researchers have designed a drug that selectively kils the blood vessels that supply white fat cells. Massively fat mice given the drug lost 30 percent of their weight in one month. Eventually, the researchers told New Scientist, a similar approach could be used to help obese humans. Link
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Noise Pop mix tapes. Noise Pop, San Francisco's gem of an indy music festival, and KQED are streaming various underground musicians' playlists-du-jour. The latest selections come from Greg Ashley, a Bay Area psych-folk artist whose exquisite taste ranges from Leonard Cohen to Os Mutantes.
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i2 settles shareholder lawsuits. The software company, which has been plagued by accounting problems, will pay a total of $84.9 million, half of which will come from its insurance policy. |
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Sony's Connect Music Service Offers Fair Pricing, Little Else (washingtonpost.com). washingtonpost.com - If anybody can get Internet music downloads right, it should be Sony Corp. The company has years of experience selling records, consumer electronics and personal computers -- and it's had plenty of time to study earlier digital-music ventures. |
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Professor Arrested on Software Suspicion (AP). AP - A Japanese professor who advocates free file sharing on the Internet was arrested Monday on copyright-related charges for developing and offering software that lets people swap movies and video games, police said. |
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Perens Talks About Open Source Risk Management |
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IBM To Announce Web-Based Desktop Apps |
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Illegal film downloads triple. The number of internet users illegally downloading films and TV series triples, a survey suggests. |
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FreeBSD: crypto_heimdal Heap overflow vulnerability |
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Mandrake: proftpd Access control escape vulnerability |
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Intel pumps VC cash into JBoss. Java play By John Oates . |
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IBM bangs drum for client middleware. New software architecture By John Oates . |
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BT will compensate customers for Manchester blaze. Not to blame, though By Tim Richardson . |
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Symantec Strengthens Mail Gateway (PC World) |
| 15. |
Virus Creator May Have Made New Version (AP) |
| 16. |
German Net Worm Writer May Have Been Helping Mom (Reuters) |
| 17. |
Suppression de fichiers et déni de service dans Crystal Report |
| 18. |
Fuite d'Information possible lors du traitement des cookies par les script ASP (Microsoft IIS) |
| 19. |
Duitse tiener verantwoordelijk voor Sasser worm |
| 20. |
Microsoft helpt bij arrestatie Sasser auteur |
| 21. |
Bende Oost-Europese internetoplichters opgepakt |
| 22. |
Ook auteur Phatbot / Agobot gearresteerd |
| 23. |
Nieuwe versie van Sasser verwijdertool |
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Service Pack 2 ook voor illegale Windows |
| 25. |
Chinees hackt Taiwanese oppostie website |
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Kritiek lek in IIS 5.0 makkelijk te misbruiken |
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250 000 US-Dollar Belohnung |
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Sicherheits-Patches auch für Raubkopierer |
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Sasser FTP Exploit |
| 30. |
Bush stands by Rumsfeld |
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Red Cross: Mistreatment routine at Iraq prison |
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Mise en place des moyens d'authentification dans les aéroports |
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Attention aux ratures |
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MetaFrame enrichi de solutions de sécurité |
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Intel to launch Dothan, new naming system. The chip, which was originally expected early this year, is the most recent in the company's Pentium M family of processors for laptops, and it will be named according to a new system that de-emphasizes clock speed. |
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Eclipse Developers Reap Design Awards (Ziff Davis). Ziff Davis - Despite having spun out the Eclipse consortium into an independent Eclipse Foundation, IBM continues to invest in the organization and its technology, particularly in attracting developers to the platform through competitions. |
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Red Hat Offers Desktop (Ziff Davis). Ziff Davis - Red Hat Desktop is targeted at users running Windows 98, NT and 2000 who are anticipating the end of support for their Microsoft platforms. |
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NTT DoCoMo sharply lower after warning price war to hurt profits (AFP). AFP - Shares in NTT DoCoMo, Japan's largest mobile phone service provider, slumped after its announcement that a fierce price war will hurt its operating profit in the current year. |
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DVR popularity vexes TV industry (SiliconValley.com). SiliconValley.com - It's more than just this season's passing of "Friends," "Frasier" and "The Practice" that has the television industry worried about what we'll be watching in seasons to come. |
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de Icaza: Rest of World Will Force US Into Linux |
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PowerBook Disassembly Guide |
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Despite arrest, new variant of Sasser worm appears. Despite the arrest Friday of the suspected author of the Sasser worm that affected millions of computers worldwide last week, a new variant of the worm appeared Sunday, according to computer security organizations. |
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Symantec does mail gateway security. Symantec Corp. plans to announce on Monday an update to its Mail Security for SMTP product that offers new features for cleaning up after mass mailing worms and identifying trusted mail domains, as well as improved capabilities for detecting unsolicited commercial ("spam") e-mail messages. |
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Intel launches Dothan laptop chips. Intel launched three updated versions of its Pentium M processors, a line of chips for laptop computers, on Monday as the company looks to build on its success with wireless Internet access using laptop PCs. |
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Cry to beat iris scanners |
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Vulns: Qualcomm Eudora Embedded Hyperlink Buffer Overrun Vulnerability. Qualcomm Eudora is reported to be prone to a remotely exploitable buffer overrun vulnerability.
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Japanese P2P founder arrested. Copyright rap for Winny P2P software author By John Leyden . |
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Hate websites continue to flourish. More nastiness than ever, says SurfControl By electricnews.net . |
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321 lookalike punts DVD copy software. Naughty, naughty By Faultline . |
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BBC develops 'alternative' codec. 'Dirac' utilises wavelet technology By Faultline . |
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German Net Worm Writer May Have Been Helping Mom (Reuters) |
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Trotz Verhaftung neue Sasser-Variante im Umlauf |
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Sasser-Festnahme: So kam Microsoft dem Autor auf die Schliche |
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Buffer Overrun in Checkpoint VPN Code |
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Survey asks users: Is GMail(tm) Evil or Cool? |
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How to be a poet. Jim Henley writes some damned sensible advice on how to become a poet -- advice that applies just as readily to becoming any kind of writer.
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Start by slavishly imitating poets you admire. This is the opposite of
the standard advice that you need to concentrate on "finding your own
voice." Don't take this wrong, _____, but fuck your own
voice. Your own voice will take care of itself as your craft matures.
Your own voice will, if you're going to have one, insist on
emerging. In the meantime, learn the craft. Learn the vocabulary and
practice of meter. Learn rhyme schemes. Learn the ways that free verse
gets written that yet contains music. Reread poets you admire, read
about them and then read the poets they get compared to.
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TheyRule: applying information design to corporate directorships. TheyRule is a brilliant Flash app that allows you to interactively explore and map the interlocking directorships of the most powerful corporations in the world. They've just relaunched a 2004 edition with currect data.
They Rule allows you to create maps of the interlocking directories of the top companies in the US in 2004.
The data was collected from their websites and SEC filings in early 2004, so it may not be completely accurate - companies merge and disappear and directors shift boards.
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Blogger redesign notes. Blogger has relaunched today, with standards-compliant templates, comments with spamblocking, streamlined blog creation, and page-per-post -- the kind of things that we've come to expect from a modern blogging tool. The redesign was executed by the arch-geniuses of Stopdesign and Adaptive Path, and it shows. This is a beautiful redesign, both in terms of look-and-feel and approachability for novices. Here're project leader Doug Bowman's notes on the redesign:
The rounded corners seen throughout the Blogger redesign (and in several of the user templates) make use of an expansion of the Sliding Doors technique written for A List Apart last year. The Blogger design is a fixed width, which means most of the modules of the site exist at pre-defined widths. Since the width of each module is known, one image is used for the top-left and top-right corners of a module, and another image is used for the bottom-left and bottom-right corners. The images are called in as background images for two nested elements. Since these two elements contain all the text of the module, they expand infinitely as the module grows in height. Think of it as Sliding Doors turned on their sides.
For modules requiring a border, the two images are modified to include top and bottom borders connecting the two corners. A third element gets nested in the HTML that uses left and right borders which connect top and bottom corners.
This design posed many other challenges when building it out, specifically because we wanted to allow the text and each of the design elements (header, modules) to be as flexible and scalable as possible. The markup construction was tricky and required compromises in several places. As is evident with the rounded corner modules, extra divs were necessary for each background image called in. In CSS3, border images will certainly help eliminate the need for extra elements. And I’ve been pressuring Tantek to get the CSS Working Group to consider allowing us to set multiple background images on one HTML element.
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Japan jails academic for writing P2P app. A Japanese academic who wrote an anonymous P2P app has been arrested for "abetting infringement." This is the kind of perversion of justice we're accustomed to seeing in the US and Norway -- disappointing that the Japanese have so thoroughly bridged the copyright hysteria gap. The programmer faces three years in prison for writing code that allows for anonymous file-transfers. We can only hope that the team that led Microsoft's operating-system effort will be next, followed by the AppleShare team and the pesky authors of ftp.
Mr Isamu Kaneko, a 33-year-old assistant professor at the prestigious University of Tokyo, was arrested on suspicion of developing and offering free downloads on his Web site file-sharing software called Winny, Kyoto Prefectural (state) police said on condition of anonymity.
He is also accused of helping two Japanese men arrested in November on charges of disseminating movies and games on the Internet with Winny, police said.
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Minidrives to make big splash. By the end of the year, diminutive hard drives are going to start to become downright common, thanks to planned releases of portable music players and video cameras. |
| 6. |
Google preps new tool to juice revenue. The search engine giant plans a keyword service that will let advertisers automatically tap obscure terms and phrases, CNET News.com has learned. |
| 7. |
Makers of white-box supercomputers hit their stride. The growing popularity of Linux is making smaller companies such as Linux Networx, California Digital and Optimus household names among buyers of supercomputers. |
| 8. |
Google's man behind the curtain. Craig Silverstein is director of technology at Google, which, these pre-IPO days, may very well be the search company's most important job. |
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Hollywood at the controls (USATODAY.com). USATODAY.com - Vin Diesel is hoping for two blockbusters this summer: One is his Chronicles of Riddick, the special-effects-laden sci-fi sequel to his 2002 movie Pitch Black. The other is the Chronicles of Riddick: Escape From Butcher Bay Xbox video game that premieres just before the June 11 movie. |
| 10. |
Yahoo focuses on 'integrating the network' (USATODAY.com). USATODAY.com - In the newest version of Yahoo's instant-messenger program, users can do a lot more than chat. From the little Yahoo Messenger screen, subscribers can access online radio, stock quotes, news and weather, games and online searches. |
| 11. |
HP to Launch Built-To-Order Gaming PC (Reuters). Reuters - Seeking to take advantage of the
fast-growing video game market, Hewlett-Packard Co. on Monday
said it would begin to offer built-to-order custom personal
computers for game enthusiasts. |
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Salesforce.com: Another Valley IPO |
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Sony US music service an 'embarrassment'. Too many wrongs, too few rights By Tony Smith . |
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PalmOne Zire 31. Reg Review Colouring the consumer PDA market By Tony Smith . |
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New password stealing Trojan discovered |
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BigPond still coy about Sasser impact |
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ACA, AHTCC team up to fight spam |
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FreeBSD healthd Local Overflow |
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Seven Security Technologies To Watch |
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Fortifying PDF documents |
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The buck stops at the top |
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Finding chinks in the armor |
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Problème sur le CD d'installation de S.u.S.E. LINUX 9.1 Personal Edition |
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Problème de permission de l'antivirus Trendmicro OfficeScan dans ses versions antérieures à la 6.5 |
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Sasser-Programmierer in Deutschland festgenommen |
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SPRING 2004 ISSUE AVAILABLE |
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Saftware DE: Backup of the Nokia 6310i [and Ericsson T610, T68i] via Bluetooth "plug'n'play, no ... |
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Apple responds to Trojan Horse Advisory (MacCentral) |
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Sumitomo Elec to Market Superconductive Wire (Reuters). Reuters - Sumitomo Electric Industries Ltd said on
Monday it would soon start mass production of cost-competitive,
superconductive wire capable of transmitting 130 times the
electricity deliverable by a normal copper wire. |
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Winny P2P Software Creator Arrested |
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Football fans get phone action. Football fans will be able to follow all the action from Euro 2004 on their mobile phones. |
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Games jamboree hits Los Angeles. The latest hardware and software developments in video gaming are showcased at E3 in Los Angeles. |
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Web worm tests network security. More serious security problems could follow in the wake of the Sasser worm, say experts. |
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Microsoft bangs the 64-bit drum. Microsoft used its annual WinHEC (Windows Hardware Engineering Conference) last week to get aggressive about 64-bit computing. |
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Sony unveils tiny wireless pen PC. Reg Kit Watch Look, ma, no keyboard By Tony Smith . |
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Sasser Worm Suspect Confesses. German police have arrested an 18-year-old man suspected of creating the Sasser computer worm. Police say he may have produced the Nevsky virus and be connected to the Skynet group of virus-writers. |
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Cost of Airport Security Tech. Officials are weighing the expense of better technologies for screening airline passengers against the business costs of travel delays. More efficient systems are in place at a few airports, but who pays for upgrades at others? |
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E3, the Sequel: Video Game Expo. The suspense that usually accompanies a major gathering of the video game industry is watered down as the Electronic Entertainment Expo gets underway in Los Angeles this week. It's all about sequels. |
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Endless Summer, on Demand. Kerry Black is bringing world-class waves to the malls of America. Grab your board -- surf's up 6 a.m. to midnight, 365 days a year. By Carl Hoffman from Wired magazine. |
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On-Demand Games a Phantom No More. The long-awaited Phantom Gaming Service -- which lets customers rent or buy PC games online -- will go on sale in November. Infinium Labs hopes to attract 'lapsed' gamers who don't have time to cruise the aisles at the mall. By Kourosh Karimkhany. |
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Blood Feud Kills Off Fat Cells. Cancer researchers looking for a way to kill tumors found a way to knock off fat cells in mice, cutting off their blood supply with a peptide. By Kristen Philipkoski. |
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EBay's Growth Just Beginning. Meg Whitman, eBay's chief executive, says the company has more international and small-business markets to tap. And it's weighing in on issues like taxation and stock-option expensing. Michael Grebb reports from Washington, D.C. |
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Climate Change Out of the Blue. Contrails -- those wispy trails left in the sky by airplanes -- may play a part in warmer U.S. temperatures, according to a recent NASA study. By Douglas Page. |
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When Old Convictions Won't Die. Private employee-screening companies cobble together national databases for criminal background checks, and job applicants lose out on work due to crimes -- including expunged convictions -- they thought were not traceable. By Joanna Glasner. |
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Govt. Web Sites That Could Aid Terrorists (AP). AP - Rand Corp. researchers preparing a study for the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency found four federal government Web sites they believed might aid terrorists enough to warrant restricting public access to them. All four have been restricted. |
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2ch: Japanese Web Forum As Social Vent |
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Vulns: Exim Sender Verification Remote Stack Buffer Overrun Vulnerability. Exim has been reported prone to a remotely exploitable stack-based buffer overrun vulnerability.
X-NAS-Bayes: #0: 2.12279E-062; #1: 1
X-NAS-Classification: 0
X-NAS-MessageID: 586
X-NAS-Validation: {E681C936-E9F0-4DDC-9901-74301AF33E67}
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Vulns: Exim Header Syntax Checking Remote Stack Buffer Overrun Vulnerability. Exim is reportedly prone to a remotely exploitable stack-based buffer overrun vulnerability.
This issue is exposed if header syntax checking has been enabled in the ag... |
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Rambus tries a new licensing angle. The memory designer, which is suing manufacturers over their use of DDR memory, is now marketing technology that will help chipmakers adopt it. |
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Windows Media Center continues overseas march. Microsoft plans to announce on Monday that its Media Center OS is moving into new countries, even as the software maker works to make it more ready for prime time. |
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For Google, Going Dutch Has Its Rewards and Its Risks. There may be pitfalls as well as opportunities in Google's proposed stock auction, both for investors and the company. By Saul Hansell. |
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I.B.M. Takes Aim at Microsoft With Server-Based Software. I.B.M. plans to announce a software strategy for corporate desktop personal computers and hand-held devices - one that is firmly anchored in the company's strength in data centers. By Steve Lohr. |
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New Undersea Cable Projects Face Some Old Problems. It has been several years since executives in the undersea cable industry had anything to cheer about, but a new cable project is under way. By Ken Belson. |
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Video Fantasy Replaces Mozart (But Who's Keeping Score?). The Los Angeles Philharmonic beckons a new audience with its performance of music from the video game "Final Fantasy" on Monday. By Matthew Mirapaul. |
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Illuminating Blacked-Out Words. Researchers at a conference in Switzerland have demonstrated computer-based techniques that can identify blacked-out words and phrases in confidential documents. By John Markoff. |
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Cellphone Tax Produces Little for Cellphones. Little of the $440 million collected by New York State for a 911 cellphone service has actually gone to the program. By Edward Wyatt. |
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Three forces mobile rivals into cuts (FT.com). FT.com - The UK's established mobile operators have started to cut voice tariffs for their existing customers in response to growing competition from Three, the mobile operator pioneering services such as live video calls. |
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Google revamps blogging service. One of the leading names in blogging is overhauling its service in an attempt to widen its appeal. |
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New Sasser Worm FTP exploit |
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Microsoft reward snags suspected Sasser author |
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'Modded' consoles sneak into Xbox Live |
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9 May W32/Sasser-E |
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In photos: Security experts, vendors face off on e-voting |
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ITAA blasts e-voting critic, calls testimony 'misleading' |
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Sasser outbreak demonstrates need for quick patch response |
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Howard Schmidt opts out of bid for Congress |
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Proposed bill seeks stronger privacy protection for offshore work |
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Sasser worm suspect confesses to German police |
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FreeBSD and NetBSD iBCS2 Kernel Memory Disclosure |
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FreeBSD Invalid Signal Number DoS |
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FreeBSD Invalid Signal Number Kernel Memory Modification |
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FreeBSD realpath() Overflow |
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e107 Login Name/Author Cross-Site-Scripting Vulnerablilty |
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Police: Sasser suspect confesses |
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Prison time for cyber stock swindler |
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Sasser ups cost of Windows - Gartner |
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Wi-Fi security standard to require new hardware |
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Net watchers wary of Sasser fallout |
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Quantum crypto gets a speed boost |
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US falls hook, line & sinker for phishing |
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Longhorn will feature 'secure' components |
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Could a Worm on Mac or Linux Ever Get Traction? |
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Microsoft reward snags suspected Sasser author |
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Australian scientists claim breakthrough in teleportation |
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A Quick Look at the Latest Longhorn Build |
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Fixed-line texting is the next big thing, says report |
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SARS may be spread by sweat |
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Tiny theater in a box showcases the Bush administration doing the thing it does best.  Artist Mars Tokyo has created a 3" x 4" peep box entitled "The Theater of the Liars" featuring George W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney, Paul Wolfowitz, and Colin Powell. Link (Thanks, s. mericle!)
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Music Plasma -- visual music search is pretty amazing. This visual music search engine lets you type in the name of an artist and it displays related artists. I thought I'd stump it by entering "Robert Crumb" (the cartoonist, who used to play tenor banjo in one of my favorite bands, The Cheap Suit Serenaders). I'll be damned if Music Plasma didn't display my very favorite musicians right next to his name. Link (Thanks, Anthony!) |
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IBM plans Web-based desktop software. Big Blue on Monday is expected to announce new software intended to take on Microsoft in the market for desktop business applications. |
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Google polishes up Blogger site. Google plans to introduce on Monday a redesigned Web site for its personal publishing tool, Blogger. |
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ExtremeTech Reviews Google's Gmail Beta |
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