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Wildseed Readies Chameleon Cell Phones (PC World). PC World - Plastic skins with embedded chips change and customize the Identity phone's personality in seconds. |
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FCC Plans to Allow Wireless Networking on Unused TV Channels |
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News: Sasser suspect has fans. Free Jaschan site pops up in record time, and quickly begins raising money. |
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1978 Star Wars playset HOWTO. 
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This is a HOWTO from a 1978 issue of Women's Day magazine, describing how to build an elaborate Star Wars playset (with moving conveyor belt!) out of laminate, cardboard, plywood and the like.
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(Thanks, Thom!)
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Half-Life facial expressions used in autistic life-skills classes. Here's a novel use for a First-Person Shooter:
An autism institute apparently is interested in using Half-Life 2's facial animation capabilities to help teach autistic children how to recognize expressions, according to PC Gamer magazine.
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Oracle Lowers Hostile Bid for PeopleSoft (AP). AP - Business software maker Oracle Corp. reduced its hostile takeover bid for rival Peoplesoft Inc. to $7.7 billion Friday, shaving nearly 20 percent, or $1.7 billion, from its previous offer to reflect its prey's wilting market value. |
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Oracle Lowers PeopleSoft Offer (Reuters). Reuters - Oracle Corp. (ORCL.O) on Friday
lowered its hostile cash tender offer to buy PeopleSoft Inc.
(PSFT.O) by 19 percent, but the database software maker said
there was no change in its commitment to acquire its closest
rival. |
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A Worm's Worm |
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Oracle cuts PeopleSoft offer to $7.7 billion. Oracle Corp. has reduced its offer to acquire PeopleSoft Inc. to $21 per share, or approximately $7.7 billion, in order to bring the offer in line with the reduced value of PeopleSoft's shares, Oracle said Friday. |
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Phishing Expeditions Are Multiplying |
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Faille de sécurité pour les Réseaux sans fil IEEE 802.11 |
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14 May W32/Sober-G |
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HOD-symantec-firewal..> |
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Gentoo: exim Buffer overflow vulnerabiity |
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Gentoo: libpng Denial of service vulnerability |
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Increase in TCP 5554 activity; Fragmented IP traffic towards port 16191; Please patch your Symantec/Norton firewall products |
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Doctored soldier picture making the email rounds.  This photo was emailed to me along with a ton of forwarding headers and a bunch of people in the CC: field. (click on the photo to see a full-sized version). Here's the text that came with it:
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Nothing like the US soldier's sense of humor...and well aimed!
Hooray for our troops.
READ THE BLACK PATCH UNDER THE US FLAG;
This SHOULD be on the front cover of Time, Newsweek, etc.
But it won't.
Let's you and I "put it there" by forwarding this all around the world (so
to speak)!
(The flags are France, Germany, and Russia)-- in case you don't know..
It's easy to tell that the black patch and the three flags below it have been added after the photo was taken. They are almost hovering off the fabric of the uniform. But the big giveaway is the US flag. Isn't it facing the wrong way? The stars are usually on the left. This is a mirror image. I'm guessing this picture was horizontally flipped before someone added the black patch and the other country's flags. I should have checked snopes before posting this. The photo is fake. I was wrong about the flag, though. The patch really looks like that. According to snopes, it's to give the appearing that the flag is flying in a breeze blowing towards the front of the soldier. (Thanks Cody!) |
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All Hugo-nominated short fiction now online. I noted earlier that all of this year's Hugo-nominated short fiction is online, the sole exception being Neil Gaiman's Study in Emerald -- well, now it's online too!
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(Thanks, John!) |
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Copyright reform conference in Vienna this June. Free Bitflows is another upcoming free software/copyright reform conference (along the lines of the Berlin conference I blogged this morning) that's taking place in Vienna this June.
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The real e-voting problem |
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Carriers sold on shopping by cell phone. Verizon is working with Netpace to let customers shop on their cell phones without using a credit card. Other carriers are expected to follow suit. |
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Oracle lowers offer for PeopleSoft. The new offer values PeopleSoft at $7.7 billion, rather than $9.4 billion--but it remains to be seen how it will affect the prospects of a deal.• Oracle eyes quick PeopleSoft resolution |
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The World's First Origami Folding Robot |
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Security wares weigh in strong at N+I. Steeling enterprise networks against security breaches captured much of the limelight at NetWorld+Interop 2004, as an array of vendors showcased offerings that promise to secure XML data and wireless networks. |
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Microsoft's Hummer, SCO's bummer. It’s only may, but I already know what I want for Christmas: a Windows-powered Hummer. The Redmond renegades introduced a prototype of an MS-driven urban assault vehicle at last week’s WinHEC conference in Seattle. I understand it worked great: About three minutes after the key was turned, the Hummer started up and set out looking for other vehicles to crush. |
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Miami’s self-service push is ‘never-ending’. There’s no huge secret behind one of the most innovative government self-service portals, miamidade.gov. “A lot of analysis and homework,” says Miami-Dade County Senior Web Developer and County Webmaster Assia Alexandrova, referring to the ongoing effort to bring county services online in an integrated, easy-to-use fashion. “It’s still not enough,” she says. “It’s never-ending.” |
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Government veers onto the Web. Imagine if dealing with the government online were as easy as dealing with Amazon, Dell, or Southwest Airlines. Want a building permit? No problem. Have to track a benefits check? Just a few clicks. ADVERTISEMENT ![]() IPSec or SSL? Free VPN Decision Guide
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Feds jump online integration hurdles. Can services-oriented architectures help government agencies provide better self-service? In the race to provide online government self-service, integration is one of the biggest roadblocks. Most governments are heavily invested in custom legacy applications. Linking Web-based self-service applications to those systems is difficult for any organization, but for government agencies, the problem is compounded. |
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DEP is a keeper. I am rooting around in the windows XP service Pack 2 Beta and delighting in all of the things it won’t let clueless users do. Microsoft’s Secure By Default must become the default configuration of desktop PCs. Bank on installing XP SP2 on every machine running Windows XP. For now at least, you must specify an Athlon 64, Opteron, or mobile Athlon 64 CPU for new PCs. AMD is first to market (Intel will follow this year) with CPU hardware that proves the adage, “Good things come in small packages.” |
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Catching the bad guys. German authorities in the state of Lower Saxony were proud of their arrest. They’d captured a German teenager and charged him with loosing the Sasser worm on the world. They reported that the teenager seemed surprised that his malware had wreaked such havoc; surprised or not, he’ll get to spend as many as five years in a German prison if convicted. |
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Barracuda sinks teeth into spam. I’ve reviewed many security products, but it’s rare for me to be so impressed with a product that I want to keep and use it after the review. Barracuda Networks’ Spam Firewall is my favorite keeper so far this year. |
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Phishing Expeditions Are Multiplying |
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Multiples failles dans les produits Norton, mise à jour recommandée |
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Une faille touche le protocole 802.11 |
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libShellCode-0.3.0.t..> |
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[ GLSA 200405-07 ] Exim verify=header_syntax buffer overflow |
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Multiple Unix Vendor at Local Overflow |
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Windows NT Oracle 8i listener Thread Exhaustion DoS |
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Linux Kernel sysctl Negative Argument Privilege Escalation |
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Webcom Guestbook wguest.exe Arbitrary File Access |
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Webcom Guestbook rguest.exe Arbitrary File Access |
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imap-uw IMAP Package POP Predictable Lock File DoS |
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IBM Parallel Environment Arbitrary Code Execution |
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HP-UX B6848AB GTK+ Support Libraries Insecure Permissions |
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PHP-Nuke NukeJokes Module Multiple Variable XSS |
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W32.Sober.G@mm |
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Exploit for Symantec Firewalls DNS Response Denial of Service |
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Æóê íà ãðóäè |
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Áîðöû ñî ñïàìîì ïðîíèêàþò â ñïàì-êëóáû |
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Penny Arcade!
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level 25 drunk bitch.  |
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Feds target P2P child porn. File-swapping companies support "Operation Peer Pressure," which has resulted in the arrest of more than 65 people and more than 350 searches of computers. |
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Oracle Lowers Hostile Bid for PeopleSoft (AP). AP - Business software maker Oracle Corp. reduced its hostile takeover bid for rival Peoplesoft Inc. to $7.7 billion Friday, shaving nearly 20 percent, or $1.7 billion, from its previous offer to reflect its prey's wilting market value. |
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Cell Phone Switchers Gain Options (PC World). PC World - Rural companies will soon be required to allow number portability. |
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Intel's Barrett Sees Ad Push for Digital Home (Reuters). Reuters - "Intel Inside," the famed slogan for
No. 1 computer chip maker Intel Corp (INTC.O), could take on a
new meaning as the company foresees an advertising campaign for
the budding integration of digital technologies in the home. |
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InfoWorld: Top News
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Oracle to go BAM this summer. In response to market demand for more real-time business information, Oracle announced today it will offer a BAM (business activity monitoring) tool, Business Activity Manager, as part of an upgrade to its application server software due out in the middle of the year. |
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Security wares weigh in strong at N+I. Steeling enterprise networks against security breaches captured much of the limelight at NetWorld+Interop 2004, as an array of vendors showcased offerings that promise to secure XML data and wireless networks. |
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SCO changing industry, not slowing Linux. A year ago this month, the SCO Group exited the Linux business, announcing it would cease sales of the open source operating system and claiming it would have a “stronger focus on Unix and the company’s growth strategy around Web services.” |
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Open source app servers readied for Java. Three open source application servers are expected to be certified J2EE-compatible by year’s end, meaning that lower-cost alternatives to commercial products from BEA Systems, IBM, and Oracle are on the horizon. |
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IBM adds partners to Workplace mix. IBM on Monday will announce that a slew of partners have signed up to support its new Workplace Client Technology, which was rolled out earlier this week. The Workplace Client is a rich client platform designed to ease management of and access to a variety of applications. |
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Vulns: Neon WebDAV Client Library Format String Vulnerabilities. Neon is a client side library supporting HTTP and WebDAV interfaces. It is freely available under the GNU Public License for Unix and Unix variants.
X-NAS-Bayes: #0: 3.58953E-174; #1: 1
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La sécurité des réseaux de voix sur IP |
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Un ver qui infecte Sasser |
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FreeBSD orville-write Local Overflow |
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Sun Solaris SMC Web Server File Enumeration |
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sudo Local Overflow |
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Veritas Cluster Server on Solaris lltstat -L DoS |
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Trojan.Mitglieder.K |
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W32.Dabber.A |
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Vietnam starts taking action against software piracy |
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Agobot Trojan author released in Germany |
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BEA reports mixed quarter, shuffles top execs |
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Grand jury subpoenas Nortel documents |
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Xeni on NPR -- Death, Sex, and E3. 
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Today on the National Public Radio program "Day to Day," I report back from the E3 gaming convention taking place in Los Angeles. Porn-themed video games, first-person combat shooters with real-life resonance, and a live tactical urban assault demonstration by the US Army -- complete with copters, guns, and terrified pedestrians -- to promote the latest edition of its online computer game/recruiting tool, "America's Army: OVERMATCH."
And on Wired News, these photos I shot at the convention this week, including the one at left of a young woman overwhelmed by blinking, bleeping things inside Microsoft's Xbox pavilion.
Link to Day to Day home, Link to archived audio for this segment. |
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Oracle eyes quick PeopleSoft resolution. Oracle's Charles Phillips says the company should know fairly soon, following its appeal of a U.S. Department of Justice antitrust ruling, whether it can pursue its PeopleSoft takeover attempt. |
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VOIP Is As Secure As You Make It (Ziff Davis). Ziff Davis - VOIP & Telephony Center Editor Ellen Muraskin says that enterprise VOIP is just as secure as traditional voice— as long as you keep your LAN under wraps. |
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Why Linux Users Hate Red Hat (Ziff Davis). Ziff Davis - Linux & Open Source Center Editor Steven Vaughan-Nichols knows that many Linux fans hate Red Hat. His message to them: Get over it. |
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Improving WLAN Management (Ziff Davis). Ziff Davis - Smaller wireless-switching companies are challenging incumbent hardware vendors such as Cisco for the attention of users looking to improve the manageability of their WLANs. |
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At least 65 arrested in Internet child porn crackdown (AFP). AFP - At least 65 people have been arrested on child pornography and related charges involving the use of Internet file sharing, US officials announced. |
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Road Marker Marks You |
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NextFest |
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FCC proposes that unused TV spectrum goes to wireless. WASHINGTON - The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has proposed that wireless devices and wireless broadband providers be able to operate in unused bands of broadcast television spectrum. |
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Fedora: lha Multiple vulnerabilities |
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Symantec Multiple Firewall DNS Response DoS PoC |
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Students warn of hacking threat |
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Firewall eerst geladen applicatie in Windows XP SP2 |
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Sneaky Virus Pretends To Be Yahoo |
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Apple Searches for a Few Good Clusters |
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Dell slots back-up tools into storage systems. The computer maker launches software, developed with CommVault Systems, that offers data protection for storage servers owned by small businesses. |
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AOL touts its virus-blocking stats. The dial-up giant says that it's stopped 1 billion virus-infected e-mails since launching its screening service in April 2003. |
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Red Hat updating both Linux versions. The update for the company's Enterprise Linux product was released Wednesday, with added support for x86 chips and IBM JS20 blade servers. Up next, the new release of the cutting edge Fedora. |
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Software Maker Quovadx Delays Report (AP). AP - Software maker Quovadx Inc., already facing a Securities and Exchange Commission accounting probe, said it won't file its quarterly financial report on time amid a host of problems. |
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McBride At A Loss For Words |
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Grand jury subpoenas Nortel documents. WASHINGTON - A federal grand jury in Texas has issued a subpoena for documents, including financial statements and accounting records, from Nortel Networks Corp., the company announced Friday. |
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BEA reports mixed quarter, shuffles top execs. SAN FRANCISCO - BEA Systems Inc. reported slower than expected software sales for its first fiscal quarter and said it has moved some of its top executives to new positions, including the head of its products group. |
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Grand jury subpoenas Nortel documents. WASHINGTON - A federal grand jury in Texas has issued a subpoena for documents, including financial statements and accounting records, from Nortel Networks Corp., the company announced Friday. |
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BugTraq: RE: IE URL Issue Being Used In Phishing In the Wild [USBank]. Sender: Drew Copley [dcopley at eeye dot com] |
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BugTraq: RE: Curious fileutils/coreutils behaviour.. Sender: Michael Wojcik [Michael dot Wojcik at microfocus dot com] |
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BugTraq: Re: Curious fileutils/coreutils behaviour.. Sender: David Malone [dwmalone at cnri dot dit dot ie] |
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BugTraq: Re: Showhelp() local CHM file execution. Sender: roozbeh afrasiabi [roozbeh_afrasiabi at yahoo dot com] |
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Vulns: Microsoft Jet Database Engine Remote Code Execution Vulnerability. Microsoft Jet Database Engine (Jet) is used to provide data access to various applications such as Microsoft Access, Microsoft Visual Basic and other third party applicat... |
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Vulns: Microsoft Windows 2000/NT Terminal Server Service RDP DoS Vulnerability. Microsoft Windows Terminal Server centralizes management of user applications for each client connected to the server. User applications and desktops are transmitted over... |
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Vulns: Microsoft Windows HSC DVD Driver Upgrade Code Execution Vulnerability. Some versions of Microsoft Windows operating systems, such as Windows XP and Server 2003, include support for a system help interface entitled "Help And Support Center" (... |
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Vulns: Clam Anti-Virus ClamAV Arbitrary Command Execution Vulnerability. ClamAV is a freely available, open source virus scanning utility. It is
available for the Unix and Linux platforms. ClamAV can be used with the 'Dazuko' module that all... |
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RFtracker.com - Info |
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Justice Department Censors ACLU Web Site |
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ACLU Was Forced to Revise Release on Patriot Act Suit |
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Secure Architectures with OpenBSD |
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Two Congressmen Push for DMCA Amendments |
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Recordable DVDs New Target of Hollywood |
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Congress mulls revisions to DMCA |
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Champions of privacy keeping an eye out for us |
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Keeping an eye on your privacy |
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Conference Publishes HR Privacy 2004 Resource Book Online |
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Bill would restrict use of wireless cameras |
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States Speed up Spyware Race |
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Critical Flaw In Symantec Firewall Products |
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Elsewhere: User spends over $60k on storage security for HIPAA |
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Blog :: The opiate for the people |
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Beetle Ghraib.  In the tradition of Dysfunctional Family Circus, here are three installments of Beetle Ghraib, which reassigns Beetle and company from Camp Swampy to Abu Ghraib for some good old fashioned Geneva Convention violating fun. I want more! Link
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T-shirt origami. Video clip lets you marvel at this perfect way to fold a T-Shirt. It looks so good I almost think they videotaped someone unfolding a shirt and played it backwards. Link (Thanks, Ric!) |
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FCC Chairman at Circuit City -- I don't believe it. A USA Today article reports that FCC Chairman Michael Powell recently went to Circuit City to switch his phone number to a new carrier:
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FCC Chairman Michael Powell said he switched carriers for his work wireless phone as well as for his wife and son at a Circuit City outlet and the moves were done in an hour.
"I was shocked at how well it worked," Powell said. He declined to identify the carriers but said his name was not on the accounts so he did not receive favorable treatment.
What kind of stunt is this? Doesn't Powell have an army of factotums to do this kind of thing for him? And how was he able to change a phone account that didn't have his name on it? Furthermore, didn't the Circuit City people ask to see an ID to see if his name matched the name on the phone account? How did he pay for the account -- using a credit card with a fake name on it? Link |
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Play-by-play at E3 games expo. Developers zero in on opportunities, from the vast but challenging China market to low-profile niches in the handheld market. Also at E3: Sony and Nintendo look beyond kids and teenagers. |
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Number switching hits rural delays. Small landline phone service providers are winning small victories that are adding up to regulatory headaches. |
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IBM hopes portal will build Power community. Big Blue wants to create a Linux-like community that will foster the development of more hardware and software for Power-based devices. |
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Expo Showcases Top Game Gadgets (AP). AP - Most video game fanatics aren't going to be satisfied with the latest crop of snazzy games: They want better gadgets, too. |
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Feds Announce Online Child Porn Arrests (AP). AP - A nationwide probe into child pornography trafficking using Internet file-sharing networks has resulted in 1,000 investigations and at least 65 arrests, federal officials announced Friday. |
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U.S. Will Use Robots to Patrol Water Supply |
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Students uncover new Wi-Fi vulnerability. Students at the Queensland University of Technology Information Security Research Centre in Australia have uncovered a flaw in an IEEE 802.11 (Wi-Fi) protocol that allows attackers with a simple Wi-Fi-enabled handheld device to effectively shut down a wireless local area network. |
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BEA reports mixed quarter, shuffles top execs. SAN FRANCISCO - BEA Systems Inc. reported slower than expected software sales for its first fiscal quarter and said it has moved some of its top executives to new positions, including the head of its products group. |
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The Open Source Government |
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Students warn of hacking threat |
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Vulns: Multiple Mail Transfer Agent Embedded Hyperlink URI Obfuscation Variant Weakness. It has been reported that multiple Mail Transfer Agents are prone to a URI obfuscation weakness variant that may hide the true contents of a link. The problem occurs when... |
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Dabber Worm Exploits Sasser Flaw |
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As the Worm Turns |
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Ethereal SIP, AIM, SPNEGO, and MMSE Dissector Flaws Allow Remote Users to Crash Ethereal or Execute Arbitrary Code |
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Elsewhere: User spends over $60k on storage security for HIPAA |
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Phishing Jumps Almost 500 Percent In Five Months |
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Intel's Prescott To Close Off Widely Used Hacker Route |
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Trojaner "Agent" infiziert PC per Bild-Datei |
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Linksys BEF Series Routers DHCP DoS |
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The Open Source Government |
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Spenden für Sasser-Programmierer |
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IE URL Issue Being Used In Phishing In the Wild [USBank] |
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Vulnerability Scanning on Windows 2003 localhost will crash RPC |
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[security bulletin] SSRT4721 rev.0 HP-UX dtlogin unauthorized privileged access, DoS |
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SUSE Security Announcement: mc (SuSE-SA:2004:012) |
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Re: Showhelp() local CHM file execution |
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DOE updated cybersecurity //no code or 0day sploits// just info |
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Curious fileutils/coreutils behaviour. |
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TSLSA-2004-0027 - apache |
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Still Vulnerable in MSIE |
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[security bulletin] SSRT3613 rev.0 HP-UX B6848AB GTK+ Support Libraries - elevated privileges |
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RE: Vulnerability Scanning on Windows 2003 localhost will crash RPC |
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Symantec Multiple Firewall DNS Response Denial-of-Service Exploit (PoC) |
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Injectable DNA medibots. It's not quite Fantastic Voyage, but researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel have demonstrated an injectable DNA-based biocomputer that can diagnose and treat certain kinds of cancer. If the computer detects the genetic signature of cancer, it releases a bit of DNA "known to interfere with the cancer cell’s activities, causing it to self-destruct," according to a press release issued by the Institute.
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"One day in the future, they hope to create a 'doctor in a cell,' which will be able to operate inside a living body, spot disease and apply the necessary treatment before external symptoms even appear."
Previously, the researchers earned a spot in the 2004 Guinness Book of World Records by constructing the world's smallest biological computing device. One microliter of salt solution can hold 3 trillion of the devices, capable of performing 66 billion operations per second. Link
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Week in review: Net portal wars. Rivals Yahoo and Google launch assaults on each other's territory as the fight for the Internet search dollars heated up. |
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HP to pay $105 million to settle Canada dispute. The computing company is settling a dispute with the Canadian government, but both will cooperate in legal action against those they say are to blame in a billing 'scheme.' |
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Quest for Love Drives Online Spending (PC World). PC World - Dating, self-improvement, and business content sites prove popular, study says. |
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Bicycling Science, Third Edition |
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Elsewhere: User spends over $60k on storage security for HIPAA. The idea of someone getting his hands on your personal medical history is nerve-racking. So how would you sleep at night if your job was to keep thousands of medical reco... |
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BugTraq: Still Vulnerable in MSIE. Sender: Greg Kujawa [greg dot kujawa at diamondcellar dot com] |
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BugTraq: Symantec Multiple Firewall DNS Response Denial-of-Service Exploit (PoC). Sender: houseofdabus HOD [houseofdabus at inbox dot ru] |
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BugTraq: RE: Vulnerability Scanning on Windows 2003 localhost will crash RPC. Sender: Drew Copley [dcopley at eeye dot com] |
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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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Vulns: Exim Sender Verification Remote Stack Buffer Overrun Vulnerability. Exim has been reported prone to a remotely exploitable stack-based buffer overrun vulnerability.
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Bremer says U.S. would leave Iraq if asked |
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Abu Ghraib commander says requests for more guards were ignored |
| 14. |
Correction: Dented-Diebold Story (AP) |
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Elsewhere: Agobot Trojan author released in Germany |
| 16. |
News: Spam fighters infiltrate spam clubs |
| 17. |
AntiOnline Spotlight: Google as a Hacking Tool |
| 18. |
Gamers Spurning TV, Movies |
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New Worm Exploits Sasser Flaw |
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PC Pro: Russian computers may be susceptible to a new virus concealed in bitmap images "infects ... |
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Germany decides not to support the EC on software patents. Germany has decided not to support the European Commission's directive on software patents. Does this spell the end of the idea of issuing software patents in Europe? By Eric Bangeman. |
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England's love affair with the utility bill. Simon, a Swede living in London, was inspired by my tale of woe at Orange Mobile's idiocy yesterday, and has posted a damned funny essay about the English National Love Affair With the Gas Bill.
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"I consume gas, therefore I am" kind of sums up the British notion of identity. The world is a vague and fleeting place, changing from day to day like a flowing river. The vast networks of gas pipes, electrical wires and water pipes, however, are firmly in place somewhere underground. They are the arteries of our modern society, weaving their way through the soil from which we harvest our food, and in which we bury our dead. The utility bill is thus our connection to the very fabric of society - our proto-identity as social beings.
Hence, it should come as no surprise that new connections in this network, or connections to completely different networks, can not be made by mere "individuals". How preposterous would it not be if a "person", i.e. the moisty fungus that grows around an utility bill, for instance tried to open a bank account? Where would that account go? Where would it be? Flowing freely in the imaginary world of light and air, fluttering unconnected to the networks of society, that's where.
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Federal officials seek Nortel accounting records. The networking company is served with a subpoena demanding materials related to its accounting practices, which are already the subject of an SEC inquiry. |
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UPS to recycle gear for tech companies. A new service from the shipping giant will help makers of devices like computers and cell phones dispose of aging products returned by customers. |
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Oracle bolsters integration tools. The company plans to debut tools designed to gather better information from a company's operations, part of its effort to focus more on integration software. |
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Citrix tests Web conferencing service. The company will compete with WebEx, Microsoft and others in the increasingly crowded market for services to deliver online presentations. |
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The joys of E3. Booth babes, goofy input devices and competitive ballroom dancing games compete for attention at the trade show. The booth babes win. |
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Google Bets the House on Banner Ads (washingtonpost.com). washingtonpost.com - One gets the impression that nobody's getting a lot of sleep these days at Google HQ in Silicon Valley. |
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Indian Voting Machines Compared with Diebold |
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The Logic Behind Metric Paper Sizes |
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GPs' computers 'miss drug errors'. Patients are being put at risk because GPs' computers fail to warn of potentially fatal errors, say experts. |
| 12. |
Private spaceship almost in space. A privately-built manned spacecraft has reached a record altitude of 64km on one of its last tests. |
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Elsewhere: Agobot Trojan author released in Germany. A 21-year-old man who was arrested in Germany last Friday and charged with creating a malicious computer program called Agobot was released from police custody Friday.
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News: Spam fighters infiltrate spam clubs. Spam fighters are gaining vital clues in the battle to keep in-boxes clean of junk mail by infiltrating spammer clubs.
Online spammer forums like the Pro Bulk Club the Bulk Club and bulkmails.org have been gatecrashed by activists from organisations like Spamhaus. Steve Linford of Spamhaus said spammers know this already but they don't know who amongst their number is working for the other side. In theory invitation to the members-only forums of these sites is only by invitation and only to individuals who have a proven track record in spamming. Apart from playing with the paranoia of spammers, the undercover investigation cast light on the latest spammer techniques. |
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BugTraq: [security bulletin] SSRT4721 rev.0 HP-UX dtlogin unauthorized privileged access, DoS. Sender: Boren, Rich (SSRT) [rich dot boren at hp dot com] |
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BugTraq: [security bulletin] SSRT3613 rev.0 HP-UX B6848AB GTK+ Support Libraries - elevated privileges. Sender: Boren, Rich (SSRT) [rich dot boren at hp dot com] |
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BugTraq: DOE updated cybersecurity //no code or 0day sploits// just info. Sender: System Administrator [lowdownhaxor at hotmail dot com] |
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BugTraq: SUSE Security Announcement: mc (SuSE-SA:2004:012). Sender: [thomas at suse dot de (Thomas Biege)] |
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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: SCO OpenServer StartX Weak XHost Permissions Vulnerability. OpenServer is a Unix based operating system distributed by Santa Cruz Operations.
A problem in the access control used when the X Window System is started via the startx... |
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Vulns: Multiple Vendor TCP Sequence Number Approximation Vulnerability. TCP provides stateful communications between hosts across a network. TCP sessions are established by a three-way handshake and use random 32-bit sequence and acknowledg... |
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Vulns: Microsoft Outlook Mail Client E-mail Address Verification Weakness. A weakness has been identified in Outlook that could allow a remote attacker to verify the validity of a recipient's e-mail address. This issue may result in a victim re... |
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EBS outpaces Sun with Solaris x86 kit. Witness our Opteron workstation By Ashlee Vance . |
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U.S. fights cleric's forces in holy city |
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Trustix update for apache |
| 26. |
Correction: Dented-Diebold Story (AP) |
| 27. |
Elsewhere: I Got Hacked. Now What Do I Do? |
| 28. |
News: Dabber exploits Sasser flaw |
| 29. |
News: Symantec fights auto-responder menace |
| 30. |
Blog :: Support the SASSER worm author! |
| 31. |
Information Week: Voice Over IP Can Be Vulnerable To Hackers, Too "Technology managers must reme... |
| 32. |
Freshmeat: NSA Security-enhanced Linux 2004051217 "set of patches to the Linux kernel and some u... |
| 33. |
Secunia: Ethereal Multiple Vulnerabilities "can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a... |
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BBC News: Viruses get caught in the herd "It is not just technical tricks that help viruses to s... |
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Trustix: kernel Privilege escalation vulnerability |
| 36. |
Trustix: apache Multiple vulnerabilities |
| 37. |
Fedora: lha Multiple vulnerabilities |
| 38. |
Fedora: iproute Denial of service vulnerability |
| 39. |
Fedora: libpng 1.0.13 Information leak |
| 40. |
Fedora: libpng 1.2.2 Information leak vulnerability |
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Suse: mc Multiple vulnerabilities |
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14 May Troj/Agent-A |
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Voice Over IP Can Be Vulnerable To Hackers, Too |
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enpa-sa-00014.html |
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ethereal-0.10.4.tar...> |
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solaris-smc-advisory..> |
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Intel roadmap starting to take shape, 64-bit Pentium 4 on the way. Taiwanese motherboard makers are confirming that we will see Alderwood motherboards with a 1066MHz front side bus in the fourth quarter, accompanied by a Pentium 4 that's "expected" to be on par with the Extreme Edition. By Ken "Caesar" Fisher. |
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Watch the skies!.  Earlier this week, a video of eleven UFOs caught on tape by Mexican Air Force pilots was released by the country's Defense Department.
According to the Associated Press report, "the lights were filmed on March 5 by pilots using infrared equipment. They appeared to be flying at an altitude of about 3,500 meters (11,480 feet), and allegedly surrounded the Air Force jet as it conducted routine anti-drug trafficking vigilance in Campeche. Only three of the objects showed up on the plane's radar."
Yesterday, a follow-up AP report quoted a nuclear scientist from the National Autonomous University who believes "the bright blurs could have been caused by electrical flashes emitted spontaneously by the atmosphere." Meanwhile, the Mexican Defense Secretary says the jury is still out on what appears on the tape.
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Terry Zwigoff on old-time music. 
I stumbled on this amazing interview from 1995 with Terry Zwigoff, the director of Crumb and Ghost World. Zwigoff is a member of Robert Crumb's band, the Cheap Suit Serenaders, and an obsessive collector of 78 RPM records released before 1933. The focus of this interview is Zwigoff's passion for old-time tunes.
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"(Pre-1933) music is more backwoods and I think of it as representing real isolated pockets of eccentricity... I see radio, or mass communications in general, as ruining that isolation, which to me is what’s most interesting about it. People started imitating. People could hear Bing Crosby on the radio, so they’d all try to sound like him instead of having enough faith in their own weirdness to keep it going."
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IBM rounds up new Workplace partners. Big Blue plans to announce additional software and hardware makers that will use its Workplace client software to deliver their products over corporate networks. |
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Correction: Dented-Diebold Story (AP). AP - In a story sent in advance for May 9 about the e-voting system of Diebold Inc., The Associated Press reported erroneously that an unidentified hacker last year obtained the company's software blueprints, known as source code, along with e-mails and other documents. |
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Sharks Use Technology to Stay on Edge (AP). AP - Ron Wilson's first gadget was a typewriter. He pecked away for hours in his grandfather's office at Canadian Pacific Railway. |
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Advertisers Return to Web, Spending Seen at Record (Reuters). Reuters - When General Electric turned a
Web banner ad into a virtual doodling pad last year, it also
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Manure-Powered Generators On The Rise |
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Vietnam starts taking action against software piracy. Vietnamese authorities raided the premises of three of the country's largest computer assemblers in the capital Hanoi on Wednesday, discovering large amounts of pirated software on the premises, according to a government statement. |
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Agobot Trojan author released in Germany. A 21-year-old man who was arrested in Germany last Friday and charged with creating a malicious computer program called Agobot was released from police custody Friday. |
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Voice Over IP Can Be Vulnerable To Hackers, Too |
| 12. |
Fedora: libpng 1.2.2 Information leak vulnerability |
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Elsewhere: I Got Hacked. Now What Do I Do?. Welcome back. After the very long Patch Management article last month, this months article is much shorter and to the point. Let?s just say you did not install the patche... |
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News: Dabber exploits Sasser flaw. Virus writers have created a worm that exploits coding flaws in the infamous Sasser worm to spread.
Dabber uses a flaw in the FTP server component of the Sasser worm. The worm will only infect users already infected by Sasser, according to security services firm LURHQ. "Even though we have seen worms utilize backdoors left behind by other worms, this is the first time we have seen a worm using a vulnerability in another worm in order to propagate," it said. |
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News: Symantec fights auto-responder menace. Virus notification alerts will hopefully become less of a nuisance after modifications to Symantec's mail server security products announced this week.
Mass mailing viruses frequently spoof the sender's address in infected emails sent out from pox-ridden PCs. This forged email address is often randomly plucked off the infected computer by a virus. |
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Vulns: Samba SMB/CIFS Packet Assembling Buffer Overflow Vulnerability. Samba is a freely available file and printer sharing application maintained and developed by the Samba Development Team. Samba allows file and printer sharing between ope... |
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Vulns: Apple Mac OS X TrueBlueEnvironment Local Denial Of Service Vulnerability. Mac OS X TrueBlueEnvironment is an application designed to support the legacy Apple operating system, Mac OS 9. TrueBlueEnvironment is also known as Classic.
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Spam fighters infiltrate spam clubs. Tales from the underground By John Leyden . |
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HP assuages Canada with $105m. Vows to sue another day By Ashlee Vance . |
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'System error' downed RAF Tornado. Gulf Patriot strike killed two crewmen By Lester Haines . |
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Cisco Systems Authorizes Repurchases |
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Firms Stymied By Backlog on Security Clearances |
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USB Pen Drive + Real Pen = Real Threat (Do the Math) |
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Transit worker IDs to be tested |
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AOL Clock-N-Block - Spammer Site Access Denied |
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Passport biometrics hampered by glitches |
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Microsoft Typhon - The Mythical Beast Becomes Reality? |
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Tech Companies Kick Up Hiring As Spending Grows |
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Nigerian Scam Letter Curse - Solution Better than Law Enforcement |
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Home networks vulnerable to wireless hackers |
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Red Hat Linux Looming Security Threat |
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Learn A Lesson From Captain Kirk |
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DNS - Critical Infrastructure Service |
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Bagle Automatic Distribution and Execution |
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Watch Out For Snuff - Ebay Scam at http://ebaycom.pe.kg/ |
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Trustix update for apache |
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ICMPSHELL: ilginç bir proje denemesi? |
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Kerio Personal Firewall web filtreleme güvenlik açýðý |
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Open WebMail giriþ onaylama hatasý |
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Trustix update for apache |
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[Symantec] Symantec Client Firewall güvenlik açýklarý (Yüksek Risk) |
| 42. |
Information Week: Voice Over IP Can Be Vulnerable To Hackers, Too "Technology managers must reme... |
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Freshmeat: NSA Security-enhanced Linux 2004051217 "set of patches to the Linux kernel and some u... |
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Secunia: Ethereal Multiple Vulnerabilities "can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a... |
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RIAA's funny bookkeeping turns gains into losses. This very good, short article shows the way that the RIAA cooks its books to create losses due to file-sharing when there's no indication that file-sharing is costing them money. Peter sez, "I'm an economist researching the issue too, and I've found the figures frankly unbelievable for a long while. Now I know why."
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There is only one logical integration of all these statistics with the recent Soundscan data: even though actual point-of-purchase sales are up by about 9% in the US - and the industry sold over 13,000,000 more units in 2004 (1st quarter) than in 2003 (1st quarter) - the Industry is still claiming a loss of 7% because RIAA members shipped 7% fewer records than in 2003.
Forget the confusing percentages, here's an oversimplified example: I shipped 1000 units last year and sold 700 of them. This year I sold 770 units but shipped only 930 units. I shipped 10% less units this year. And this is what the RIAA wants the public to accept as "a loss."
I'll go a step further. This fact, that Sherman seems to confirm, should logically mean a smaller percentage of returns. But, shouldn't fewer returns mean higher profit margins and faster turnaround; and shouldn't that be good for both the retail and wholesale side of the industry? "Sure," admits Sherman today, "but I have no idea what US shipments looked like in the first quarter." Then how can he claim world-wide "losses" in his March speech to Financial Times New Media?
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3Com aims for the 10-Gigabit future. New switches will come with a built-in 10-Gigabit expansion slot, intended to make it easier for customers to upgrade without replacing their hardware. |
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Cell Phone Co. Allowing Call Limits (AP). AP - How would you like to curb your gabby teen's mobile chats or your employee's cell calls about fantasy football? |
| 4. |
Some Upcoming Video Games Focus on 'Love' (AP). AP - The hot new creation at the world's top video game convention may be procreation. Amid the thousands of new products at the Electronic Entertainment Expo featuring shooting, racing, punching, slashing and pummeling, a handful of upcoming titles like "The Sims 2" and "Playboy: The Mansion" have focused on "love" — or at least the physical act of it — as the player's main goal. |
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Browser to Deliver New Blog Entries (AP). AP - A new Web browser from Opera Software ASA this week is the first major browser to incorporate an emerging technology that automatically delivers new blog entries and news articles. |
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New Evidence About 'The Great Dying' 250 Million Years Ago |
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Pixar's Next Movie: The Incredibles |
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Bloggers Assail Movable Type's New Pricing Scheme |
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Intel's Fister named CEO at Cadence Design Systems. Mike Fister, formerly head of Intel Corp.'s server processor group, left the company this week to become president and chief executive officer (CEO) of Cadence Design Systems Inc., Cadence said Wednesday. |
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Agobot Trojan author released in Germany. A 21-year-old man who was arrested in Germany last Friday and charged with creating a malicious computer program called Agobot was released from police custody Friday. |
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Suse: mc Multiple vulnerabilities |
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Trustix: apache Multiple vulnerabilities |
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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: 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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Berg execution website shut down. Malaysian Web host takes action By John Oates . |
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UK gov gets school IT gold star. IT provision working, report shows By Lucy Sherriff . |
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Bugs Found in Symantec Firewalls |
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Wurm nutzt Wurm-Lücke: Dabber attackiert mit Sasser befallene PCs |
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Sicherheitsloch in Safari/Helpviewer |
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14 May W32/Dabber-A |
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The ease of (ab)using X11, Part 1 |
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ßïîíñêèå ó÷åíûå ðàçðàáîòàëè íîâóþ òåõíîëîãèþ êîäèðîâàíèÿ äàííûõ |
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Xeni on NPR -- Death, Sex, and E3. Today on the National Public Radio program "Day to Day," I report back from the E3 gaming convention taking place in Los Angeles. Porn-themed video games, first-person combat shooters with real-life resonance, and a live tactical urban assault demonstration by the US Army -- complete with copters, guns, and terrified pedestrians -- to promote the latest edition of its online computer game/recruiting tool, "America's Army: OVERMATCH."
And on Wired News, these photos I shot at the convention this week. Link to Day to Day home, Link to archived audio for today's show, which will be available after 12PM PT. |
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Fast Fiction Friday on Warren Ellis's blog. Warren Ellis is doing a stunt on his blog today called "Fast Fiction Friday" -- he asked a bunch of people (including me) to bang out a very short story on Wednesday, and today, he's publishing them. Here's a bit of mine:
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The other super-heroes put Spidey up to it, going to Geneva to wheedle the WIPO delegates about their trademark rights. "Send Batman," he'd begged. "Bruce Wayne is a fucking billionaire. He can talk to these people." But Supe had sadly shook his head and said, "You know that's the wrong answer, Peter. Bruce is a sociopath. We need a diplomat."
The Swiss thought his official underoos were ridiculous. In a diplomatic town like Geneva, no one would bat an eye at a djelleba, or full-dress purdah, or a kilt, but a superhero in fancy underwear drew stares all the way from the Gare Central to his stunningly overpriced and for all that gamey and run-down hotel. He passed one of the youth gangs on the way, muttering into their phones and thumbing at their keyboards, coordinating their crimefighting activities. They had Wonder Womanoid costumes, and he was glad that the Amazon Princess wasn't present to witness this blatant trademark infringement. She'd go bonkers, and it would be the Golden Lasso Massacre of Geneva.
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Play-by-play at games expo. Developers zero in on opportunities, from the vast but challenging China market to low-profile niches in the handhelds market. Also at E3: Sony and Nintendo look beyond children and teenagers. |
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Commentary: Who's first with Web services?. A recent Forrester survey shows which kinds of companies and industries are implementing Web services and which ones are lagging behind. |
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Intel battles rumors (SiliconValley.com). SiliconValley.com - Intel said Thursday that it was not experiencing heat problems with its newest manufacturing process, seeking to dispel rumors about why it suddenly canceled its next desktop computer chip. |
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ICANN Dispute Tests New Internet Services (AP). AP - When the company under contract to run much of the Internet's core decided last fall to launch a new online search service, it saw an opportunity to help lost Web surfers find their way. |
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New Evidence About 'The Great Dying' 2 Billion Years Ago |
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Microsoft adds toolkit to open-source list. Microsoft Corp. this week released its Windows Template Library (WTL) technology under an open-source license, marking the second time the company has turned one of its projects over to the SourceForge.net development site. |
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The ease of (ab)using X11, Part 1 |
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Intergraph and Gateway kiss and make up. Patent suit settled out of court By John Oates . |
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US small biz filled with optimism. Blue skies ahead, survey claims By John Oates . |
| 12. |
NHS computers prescribe trouble. Lives may be at risk, study claims By Lucy Sherriff . |
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Online-game developers eye China market. Western publishers face a maze of cultural and political barriers as they try to crack the potentially huge Chinese game market. |
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States Speed up Spyware Race (washingtonpost.com). washingtonpost.com - State lawmakers' eagerness to crack down on Internet "spyware" could force the federal government to move sooner than expected to pass its own law, despite misgivings in the Bush administration and among technology executives. |
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IT Outsourcing Need Not Threaten Our Future |
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Keeping Your Keg Cool Sans Ice |
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Yahoo takes on Google with extra mail storage. Not to be outdone by Google Inc.'s recent bold e-mail offering, Yahoo Inc. said that it plans to dramatically raise the storage limit given to its free e-mail users while at the same time bumping its premium subscribers up to a "virtually unlimited" capacity. |
| 6. |
Black Duck Software launches open-source service. Startup Black Duck Software Inc. will update its product line next week with two new products designed to help companies better manage their use of open-source software. |
| 7. |
Grand Central adds non-Internet connectivity. Hosted integration services provider Grand Central Communications on Monday plans to spruce up its Business Services Network with non-Internet connectivity and improvements in Java functionality. |
| 8. |
Vietnam starts taking action against software piracy. Vietnamese authorities raided the premises of three of the country's largest computer assemblers in the capital Hanoi on Wednesday, discovering large amounts of pirated software on the premises, according to a government statement. |
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Video Networks to speed up LLU roll-out. Takes BT on its word By Tim Richardson . |
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Symantec fights auto-responder menace. No tsunamis swamping spoofed addys By John Leyden . |
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Symantec fights auto-responder menace |
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Het gevaar van de stomme en achteloze werknemer |
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Critical Flaw In Symantec Firewall Products. eEye Digital Security discovered multiple vulnerabilities in Symantec firewall products a short while ago. Secunia re-released their Security Advisory for this vulnerability this week bumping the criticality up to extreme. They state that one the vulnerabilities is very similar to... |
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Maximize the number of living cells on Earth. The crazy Monochrom techno-artsies in Vienna are starting a new org to promote maximum terrestrial occupancy:
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MOBUTOBE refers to the calculations of Isaac Asimov. The biologist and author published in 1971 that there are 20 trillion (20 x 10^12) tons of live cells on earth. 10 percent of these (that is two trillion tons) are animal cells. This number has to be regarded as the maximum level, for vegetable life cannot increase in quantitiy without an increase of sunlight or a refinement of its capability to process sunlight...
The building complex shall be constructed like this: The roof is reserved fo plant cultivation. Edible algae as well as higher plants that are manipulated so that they are esculent as a whole are cultivated there. Regular supply is easily provided.
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Wizards of OS copyright conference in Berlin, June 13. The Wizards of OS conference coming on June 13 in Berlin will feature some very good speakers on copyright and copywrong, including my co-worker Wendy Seltzer.
Copyright law has become one of the most important and controversial drivers of the Information Society. The Internet has made every user a publisher, but copyright rules governing their activities are often determined by opaque international bodies that decide rules with little public input.
Join us in Berlin to debate where copyright should be going to ensure that authors, musicians, film-makers and the public will all benefit. Engage wih leading international thinkers from across Europe and the United States. Meet colleagues who are working to make sure all members of society benefit from copyright.
Attendance is free.
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HP's other top woman exec. Ann Livermore says losing the CEO spot to Carly Fiorina is "ancient history" and that she's excited to be heading an expanded unit. |
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The twilight of high-tech gabathons?. With a boom in high-tech conferences again underway, CNET News.com's Charles Cooper asks whether companies are really getting their money's worth. |
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New on DVD (USATODAY.com). USATODAY.com - This week, clerks at video stores nationwide unpacked titles like In America, Tomorrow, Helen of Troy, Scary Movie 3, and documentaries Easy Riders, Raging Bulls and The Fog of War. |
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Sony Plans Video Version of Vaio Pocket Device (Reuters). Reuters - Sony Corp's new
portable audio player competing with Apple's iPod will be
accompanied this year by another device which can play video
and beam it to a TV, the Japanese company said on Friday. |
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Adobe's Warnock awarded Lovelace Medal. Pdf pioneer honoured By John Oates . |
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How to fool ID card system - give a false ID, say UK gov. Er, in which case... By John Lettice . |
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Tiscali to flog four country ops. Ciao By Tim Richardson . |
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Jilted lover jailed for email stalking. 'Worse than physical assault' By John Oates . |
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Dabber exploits Sasser flaw. Dog eat dog By John Leyden . |
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14 May W32/Spybot-TA |
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Symantec boosts firewall management |
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Hackers Against America lanceert cyberoffensief tegen VS |
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FBI onderzoekt cyber-afpersing |
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Malaysia PM Says Web Terror Sites Unacceptable (Reuters). Reuters - Malaysia will bar companies from
hosting Internet sites such as the one that carried a video of
the beheading of American Nicholas Berg, Prime Minister
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said on Friday. |
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Future Weapons of War in the Works |
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Halo sequel shows potential. Game makers Bungie offer a rare insight into the sequel to Halo, the most popular Xbox game of all time. |
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Linux fans never do any work. It was five years ago today... 14 May 1999 By Team Register . |
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Adobe's Warnock awarded Lovelace Medal. PostScript and pdf pioneer honoured By John Oates . |
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Crater Linked to Mass Extinction. An ancient crater buried off the Australian coast could be a key piece of evidence in determining the cause of a mass extinction on Earth approximately 250 million years ago, say scientific researchers. By Amit Asaravala. |
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Economy Doesn't Need Protection. Imagine a major-party candidate delivering the stump speech Silicon Valley needs to hear. The message? Protectionism will only make things worse. By Lawrence Lessig from Wired magazine. |
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Big Games Ready for 2004. Doom 3, Halo 2 and The Sims 2 are likely to be some of the best-selling games of all time, and they're all coming out in 2004. Take a look at some of the screenshots shown at the E3 video-game conference in Los Angeles. |
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Gamers Spurning TV, Movies. America's 180 million video-game players cut down on time spent watching television and movies in order to play more games. Also: Nintendo demonstrates what the second screen on its handheld is good for.... The Sims get an urban makeover.... and more. Wired News reports from E3 in Los Angeles. |
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Phone Becomes Alibi for Liars. A funny -- and disturbing -- trend is popping up in the U.S. and in Europe: People are downloading phony alibis such as prerecorded traffic jam sounds, or even joining mobile liars' clubs, to pull one over on bosses and spouses. By Elisa Batista. |
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E3: Loud and Garish as Ever. Anyone with even a passing interest in video games would consider the Los Angeles Convention Center heaven this week -- at least for a few hours. Check out some of the action from the E3 show floor. Wired News reports from Los Angeles. |
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A Tightwad's Guide to Ad Blockers. Sick of obnoxious video and audio advertisements hogging up bandwidth? No worries. While one can always spring for blocking software, simply switching browsers or employing a few simple hacks can keep annoying marketing pitches at bay. By Michelle Delio. |
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Polygraphs Don't Give True Story. Researchers have yet to develop a foolproof technology to determine whether a person is telling the truth. That hasn't stopped interrogators from relying on their old, flawed standby: the polygraph. By Noah Shachtman. |
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Trojaner "Agent" infiziert PC per Bild-Datei |
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Congress mulls revisions to DMCA |
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Court takes gag off antispam service |
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Behavioral network security: Is it right for your company? |
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Security holes uncovered in Symantec, Norton products |
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Wallon worm uses Yahoo, IE flaw to spread |
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E-voting debate heats up |
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Linux Advisory Watch - May 14th 2004 |
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Beginselen van computer forensics uitgelegd |
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Firewall eerst gelade applicatie in Windows XP SP2 |
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SpamCop mag spam koning toch aanpakken |
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Dabber gebruikt achterdeur Sasser worm |
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Rumsfeld sees prison firsthand |
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Killers make Berg a martyr |
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HP-UX B6848AB GTK+ Support Libraries Insecure Directory Permissions |
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HP-UX B6848AB GTK+ Support Libraries Insecure Directory Permissions |
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wu-ftpd QUOTE PASV Core Dump |
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libpng Malformed PNG Image Error Handling DoS |
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HP-UX B6848AB GTK+ Support Libraries Insecure Directory Permissions |
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RSA Security lance Federated Identity Manager une solution autonome pour federer les identites numeriques |
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La police demantele le gang Skynet en Allemagne du Nord |
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McDonald's adult Happy Meal. McDonald's -- whose new CEO replaced the old one when he died of a heart attack, and who is, himself, going in for colorectal cancer surgery -- has introduced an adult Happy Meal with "water, salad and a booklet of exercise tips."
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Flat-pack infographic utopia. 
Fark's photoshopping contest: "Ikea-like instructions for saving the world."
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NTT hits record profits on booming DoCoMo mobile phone business (AFP). AFP - Japanese telecoms giant NTT full year net profit almost tripled to a record 5.6 billion dollars, thanks to growing broadband and mobile phone businesses and continued restructuring. |
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Daughter inspires wheelchair. The boss of an aircraft industry firm has launched a new wheelchair he designed for his teenage daughter. |
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Game firms woo 'casual players'. The giants of the game world have set their sights on enticing a whole new generation of players. |
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'Big improvement' in ICT teaching. Schools inspectors report a big improvement in ICT in schools, with better resources and better teaching. |
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New demand boosts Dell profits. Dell reports higher first-quarter profits following more demand by companies for new technology. |
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Linux Advisory Watch - May 14th 2004 |
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Linux Advisory Watch - May 14th 2004 |
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Yahoo! blasts back at Google. More email storage, and more stuff By Andrew Orlowski . |
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Google decides Banner Ads, Skyscrapers are not evil. As you were By Andrew Orlowski . |
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Congress mulls revisions to DMCA |
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Court takes gag off antispam service |
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The Register: Red alert over Symantec firewall flaw "Four new vulnerabilities have been identifi... |
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Microsoft: Help - I got hacked. Now what do I do? |
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Security Focus: Microsoft Internet Explorer XML Parsing "Denial Of Service Vulnerability" |
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Computer World: How to choose an e-mail security product |
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Computer World: Behavioral network security - Is it right for your company? "The underlying prem... |
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GCN: NIST releases computer security documents "has published final versions of three computer s... |
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Security Focus: Secure by Default "basic and fundamental rule of good security practice" |
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The Register: Phatbot arrest throws open trade in zombie PCs "price of these BotNets (DoSNets) w... |
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Computer World: How to protect the network from the inside out "In addition, IT managers must de... |
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Computer World: Five steps to audit-proof your IT infrastructure |
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Behavioral network security: Is it right for your company? |
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Five steps to audit-proof your IT infrastructure |
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How to protect the network from the inside out |
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Security holes uncovered in Symantec, Norton products |
| 28. |
Wallon worm uses Yahoo, IE flaw to spread |
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E-voting debate heats up |
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Red alert over Symantec firewall flaw |
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New flaw takes Wi-Fi off the air |
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Wat te doen na een virus / hackaanval |
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Botnetwerk van 400.000 zombie PCs |
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Bedrijven kwetsbaar door negeren standaard lekken |
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Security lekje in Outlook Express |
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Les Etats poussent le gouvernement fédéral US à légiférer contre les logiciels espions |
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CommuniGate Pro Web Interface Arbitrary File Retrieval |
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PHP-Nuke phProfession Module jcode Variable XSS |
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HP-UX update for Mozilla |
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HP-UX update for Mozilla |
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HP-UX dtlogin XDMCP Parsing Vulnerability |
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HP-UX dtlogin XDMCP Parsing Vulnerability |
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Voice Over IP Can Be Vulnerable To Hackers, Too (TechWeb) |
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Symantec Patches Critical Firewall Flaws (TechWeb) |
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HP-UX update for Mozilla |
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Group Warns Of Wireless DoS Attack Vulnerability (TechWeb) |
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HP-UX dtlogin XDMCP Parsing Vulnerability |
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Symantec Patches Firewall Flaws (TechWeb) |
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VoIP Can Be Vulnerable To Hackers, Too (TechWeb) |
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Antivirus Firms Warn Of Growing 'Bot' Networks (TechWeb) |
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Non-hypothetic ideas about women in gaming. Alice Taylor, a truly world-class Quake player, is attending the E3 games conference in LA, and is blogging the panels she attends. They seem to be pretty weak, but this one takes the cake: it's four men discussing how to involve women in gaming. Between the sexist canards, received wisdom, and wild-assed guessing this panel appears to have been one of the lamest discussions of women in gaming in the history of the field, and that's saying something.
What's delicious about this blog entry is that it ends with Alice, an actual woman who actually plays games, running down her view on the issue. Note to E3: asking women to talk about women in gaming would get you genuine insight instead of steaming bullshit:
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I have a few things to say now, speaking as a female player and game-buyer (from the shops!):
1. 25 years of gaming history has sent out the marketing message that games are for boys and men. If you change that message, women will buy more games.
2. I think that it's not a lack of games that will appeal to women that's the problem - there are LOTS - it's women even knowing they exist, and that they're fun, and worth the purchase.
3. In *my* 25 years of gaming history, I have never once seen a game explicitly marketed to me, in "female media" or ordinary media like newspapers. Online, in neutral environments (say, Yahoo) a game banner ad tells me a game is available, but the message that that advert is for boys and men is still subconscious. I'll click because clearly I'm a freak, but will a non-gaming female click if that message isn't changed? Will her eye even notice the banner?
4. I want Playstation teeshirts that aren't in XXL and man-shaped.
5. Daytime TV ad slots are cheap as chips. If you advertise a game there like, say, SSX 3, and women (or men) can see how pretty it is, and fun it could be, you may find the message changing slowly. Surely this is worth an experiment. My dear previously-non-gamer flatmate is now an SSX addict after seeing it play..
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Cyborg celebrities photoshopping. 
More science-fictional photoshopping on Worth1000's daily contest: "Cyborg Celebs." Nice robot Tyra Banks.
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Greenpeace charged with "sailor mongering". The Bush administration continues to cover itself with glory: it has charged some Greenpeace activists who hung a banner on a ship with an obscure crime called "Sailor mongering," and has launched the first nautical protest prosecution in the US since the Boston Tea Party.
Sailor mongering was rife in the 19th century when brothels sent prostitutes laden with booze onto ships as they made their way to harbor. The idea was to get the sailors so drunk they could be whisked to shore and held in bondage, and a law was passed against it in 1872. It has only been used in a court of law twice, the last time in 1890.
Greenpeace says the decision by the U.S. Attorney's Office to prosecute the organization rather than just the activists who boarded the APL Jade freighter is a sea change in policy, and a conviction would throttle free speech everywhere...
Not once since the Boston Tea Party have U.S. authorities criminally prosecuted a group for political expression.
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Best scam-artist Internet revenge EVAR. 
This is a lovely tale of revenge on a scam-artist: a Powerbook seller on eBay realized that he was being ripped off by an overseas buyer, who had even set up a fake escrow service to handle his phony payment. Instead of blowing it off, the seller sent the crook on a wild goose chase that culminated with him taking delivery of a "P-P-P-Powerbook" made out of keyboard bits glued to an old binder, after paying £350 in customs fees and friends of the seller who'd staked out his mail-drop photographed the whole thing for posterity.
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Phone display magnifier. 
The Phone Monocle is a snap-on magnifying lens for your cellphone -- handy for super-sizing the eye-strain-o-rama typefaces used on the little LCDs.
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(via Engadget)
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Open source games from 1978. 
The entire contents of Basic Computer Games, published in 1978, have been posted online as a series of scans. Danny O'Brien notes "I carried this around like a grimoire when I was eight." I especially like that this is scanned-in and not OCRed, which means that if you want to run any of these programs, you still have to re-key them!
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WiFi antennae made from cheap Chinese cookware. 
These Kiwi WiFi hackers are building cheap, incredibly powerful WiFi antennae out of Chinese cookware (like this $2 parabolic "dumpling scoop") and USB WiFi dongles. They've got extensive build and testing notes: I wonder where I can get a dumpling scoop of my own?
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(Thanks, Stan. Swan!)
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Dilbert for 14 May 2004.  |
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Microsoft Outlines Windows Server Road Map (TechWeb). TechWeb - Longhorn is pegged for availability in 2007 under new two-year product-development cycle. |
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Microsoft Posts More Open Source Code (TechWeb). TechWeb - Microsoft has posted its Windows Template Library (WTL) to the SourceForge site. |
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The Home Parallel Universe Test |
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'Survivor' site contains malicious code |
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Privacy jam on California highway |
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Help: I got hacked. Now what do I do? |
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Opera Web Browser URL Redirect Error Lets Remote Users Spoof the Status Bar Address |
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mah-jong Game Can Be Crashed By Remote Users With Empty Name Value |
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Gentoo update for utempter |
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Fedora update for LHA |
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'Survivor' site contains malicious code |
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Privacy jam on California highway |
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Help: I got hacked. Now what do I do? |
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Guardian Digital Launches Next Generation Internet Defense & Detection System |
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BSD exec C File Descriptor Privilege Escalation |
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BSD TCP RST DoS |
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OpenBSD procfs Integer Overflow DoS |
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HP-UX LockManager SAM Privilege Escalation |
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HPUX ServiceGuard SAM Privilege Escalation |
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3COM SuperStack II Hub MIB Community String Disclosure |
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Multiple Browser Telnet URI Handler File Manipulation |
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Microsoft Outlook Express Loading of Arbitrary Web Content |
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Microsoft Outlook Express Loading of Arbitrary Web Content |
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Ethereal Multiple Vulnerabilities |
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Ethereal Multiple Vulnerabilities |
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Fedora update for iproute |
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Fedora update for iproute |
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New Worm Exploits Sasser Flaw |
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Microsoft Internet Explorer showHelp Path Search Lets Remote Users Load Existing Local CHM Files |
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Microsoft Outlook Express Loading of Arbitrary Web Content |
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Ethereal Multiple Vulnerabilities |
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Fedora update for iproute |
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Some Upcoming Video Games Include Sex (AP). AP - The hot new creation at the world's top video game convention may be procreation. Amid the thousands of new products at the Electronic Entertainment Expo featuring shooting, racing, punching, slashing and pummeling, a handful of upcoming titles like "The Sims 2" and "Playboy: The Mansion" have focused on "love" — or at least the physical act of it — as the player's main goal. |
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Yahoo Sees Huge Demand For Searches (washingtonpost.com). washingtonpost.com - Yahoo Inc. officials said yesterday that the market for Internet searches will grow from $3 billion to $11 billion over the next five years, as computer users increasingly look for more local and product information online. |
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Scanner Cuts Cost of Custom-Made Clothes (AP). AP - A five-by-nine foot box that resembles a small recording studio may symbolize the future of the troubled American textile industry. |
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North America's Fastest Linux Cluster Constructed |
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OpenBSD procfs Integer Overflow Discloses Kernel Memory to Local Users |
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