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You are now required to give your name to police when asked to. Remember our March entry about the Nevada Cowboy who was arrested for not showing his ID to the cops? He took the case all the way to the Supreme Court. He lost, in a 5-4 decision.
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"Joining Kennedy's opinion were Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist and Justices Sandra Day O'Connor, Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas. Justices John Paul Stevens, Stephen G. Breyer, David H. Souter and Ruth Bader Ginsburg dissented."
By bizarre coincidence, the same five justices who ruled against our right to privacy are the same five who appointed popular and electoral loser Bush to be president.
Link Alan sez: Regarding today's Supreme Court decision--The NewsHour With Jim Lehrer
and the article you linked to did _not_ say that one must produce
identification when ordered to do so, but that one must identify
oneself. The Nevada rancher in question was arrested because he refused
(eleven times, according to the NewsHour report) to give his name when
a cop asked him.
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SpaceShipOne blog, part 6: snapshots. 
Ground crew member Alan Radecki has posted his photos from the SS1 launch on his blog, here. Boing Boing pal Todd Lappin says, "I love this one (at left). It seems to capture so much of the backyard spirit of the adventure." Reader eecue also photoblogged the scene at Mojave airport, and that's here. Plenty of news coverage and blog ruminations out there about today's launch -- the first-ever private manned space flight -- but this snip from a CNN story struck me as memorable:
[Scaled Composites co-founder Burt] Rutan mingled, talked and directed traffic with those who spent the night on the windy Mojave Desert floor across from the airstrip Sunday night. He saved one sign as a memento of the occasion: "SpaceShipOne; GovernmentZero".
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Tech heavies support challenge to copyright law. Intel, Sun and others in new group throw weight behind bill that would make it legal to crack protection schemes. |
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Oracle Mulled Other Software Takeovers (Reuters). Reuters - Software vendors Siebel Systems
Inc. (SEBL.O) and BEA Systems Inc. (BEAS.O) were potential
acquisition targets for Oracle Corp. (ORCL.O), Oracle Chief
Executive Larry Ellison said in court testimony on Monday. |
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BugTraq: NETGEAR FVS318 Web-Based Administration DoS. Sender: Kurczaba Associates advisories [advisories at kurczaba dot com] |
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IE/0DAY -> Insider Prototype |
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ZoneAlarm Pro 'Mobile Code' Bypass Vulnerability |
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Re: Multiple Antivirus Scanners DoS attack. |
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Re: Virus scan attack |
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Multiple osTicket exploits! |
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Backdoor.Ranky.G |
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Alienware ALX delivers considerable performance boost at a premium. In early May Alienware announced that they would commence shipping systems this summer that would support dual PCI-Express video cards that would work together to deliver considerable performance boosts to 3D gaming. By Ken "Caesar" Fisher. |
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PCI Express launched in time for the future. Today Intel launched a new socket for its Pentium 4 line along with two new chipsets, the 915G and 925X. These are the first of many, many PCI Express chipsets to come. By Ken "Caesar" Fisher. |
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Rotary-dial phone handset Bluetooth mod.
For sale on eBay, an old rotary-dial phone handset, modified to act as a self-contained, battery-powered Bluetooth handset.
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there is an access hole to charge and operation is via a single rocker at the base (see picture) this enables volume up and down for the ear piece aswell as for the ringer volume. I will include the manual for operation.
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I Don't Blame Them.  |
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PalmOne reports profitable quarter. Increased demand for its smart phones helps deliver profitable quarter. |
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Fuel cell firm's neat solution for batteries. MTI Micro's fuel cells use 100 percent methanol to generate electricity, for a longer-lasting power pack. Time to say goodbye to batteries? |
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Motorola spinoff introduces new chip. Freescale chip integrates four separate functions into one, which should reduce costs for carriers building new fiber networks. |
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Rumble in the 'triple play' jungle. Cable companies and Baby Bells are set for a face-off over bundles that package TV, phone and broadband service. |
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MusicNow shifts management. The online music service, recently acquired by Circuit City, relocates its CEO and a co-founder. |
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Apple sells 1566 Xserves for U.S. Army research (MacCentral). MacCentral - Apple Computer Inc. will announce on Monday the sale of 1566 dual processor 1U rack-mount 64-bit Xserve G5 servers to COLSA Corp., which will be used to build what is expected to be one of the fastest supercomputers in the world. The US$5.8 million cluster will be used to model the complex aero-thermodynamics of hypersonic flight for the U.S. Army. |
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Grantsdale PCs Debut (PC World). PC World - Dell, HP, IBM, and Gateway unveil new desktops that use Intel' newest chip set. |
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Oracle Takeover Bid Said to Raise Prices (AP). AP - Major U.S. companies shopping for sophisticated software to automate their accounting and personnel departments will face price increases of up to 30 percent if Oracle Corp. buys rival PeopleSoft Inc., an antitrust expert testified Monday. |
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Skype Comes to Linux (PC World). PC World - Test version of Internet telephony service supports most Linux distributions. |
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PalmOne Swings to Quarterly Profit (Reuters). Reuters - PalmOne Inc. (PLMO.O) on Monday
reported a profit that was more than twice Wall Street
estimates on strong sales of its Treo 600 combination mobile
phone and digital organizer, and set aggressive forecasts,
which boosted its stock by 22 percent in after-hours trade. |
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Apple, BMW Introduce IPod Adapter (AP). AP - Apple Computer Inc. and BMW Group on Monday introduced an adapter that allows iPod and BMW customers to plug their music collections directly into their car sound systems. |
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Democrat Convention Credentials Bloggers (AP). AP - A handful of scribes publishing in a newer medium will join the thousands of newspaper, magazine and broadcast journalists at this summer's political conventions. They'll be blogging. |
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HP Launching Digital Camera Test Program at Hotels (Reuters). Reuters - Hewlett-Packard Co. (HPQ.N) is
launching a test program to put its digital cameras in the
hands of guests at Fairmont Hotels & Resorts Inc. (FHR.TO)
(FHR.N) as the world's No. 2 computer maker seeks to expand its
reach in digital photography and printing. |
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New HHGTTG Radio Show Gets Douglas Adams' Voice |
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Texas Using WiFi to Encourage Driving Breaks |
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Dan Kaminsky Suggests Having Fun with DNS |
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Confession For Two: A Spammer Spills it All |
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Cross-Platform VoIP Software? |
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PC vendors jump aboard the Grantsdale PCI Express. BOSTON - Dell Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP), IBM Corp., and Gateway Inc. all plan to incorporate Intel Corp.'s newest 915G/P and 925X Express chipsets into upcoming PCs for both consumers and corporate customers, the companies announced Monday. |
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Secure Development Framework |
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BugTraq: XSS vulnerability in Sqwebmail 4.0.4. Sender: Luca Legato [luca dot legato at mediaservice dot net] |
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Vulns: Epic Games Unreal Engine Memory Corruption Vulnerability. Epic Games' Unreal Engine is a 3D game engine used by Unreal and many other games. It is reported that the Unreal Engine supports the GameSpy Query Protocol, which is us... |
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Vulns: Asterisk PBX Multiple Logging Format String Vulnerabilities. Asterisk is a software-based PBX system, which is available for Linux operating systems. Asterisk includes support for various protocols including SIP, IAX v1 and v2, and... |
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Hotmail bounces Gmail invitations |
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'Open MS Passport': MyUID Goes Beta |
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MyUID |
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Lessons Learned From Blaster |
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Blaster Revisited - A second look at the cost of Blaster sheds new light on today's blended threats. |
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Australian Gov't To Consider Spyware Laws |
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Submit Hacker News |
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New gadgets take on 'Starbucks' security threat |
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Cisco releases Network Admission Control products |
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ST04-011: Using Instant Messaging and Chat Rooms Safely |
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SB04-161: Summary of Security Items from May 25 through June 8, 2004 |
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ST04-009: Identifying Hoaxes and Urban Legends |
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ST04-010: Using Caution with Email Attachments |
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Secure Development Framework |
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Google Ponders Gmail Risks |
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Lauren Weinstein outwits Comedy Central's humiliation show. LVX23 sez: "Beware! You could be next! Net pundit & privacy advocate Lauren Weinstein was almost ensnared by the greedy talons of a Viacom/MTV "reality" charade. Thanks to some clever web research she was able to uncover the con and spare herself himself humiliation in front of a national audience."
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"At first I found nothing again. But then I started working backwards from the contact phone numbers I had for the show's production staff. This time I hit pay dirt, and while the pages unscrolled on my screen a cold chill ran down my spine.
As the recent, angry testimonials I had found recounted, with a matching of modus operandi that left no chance for error, the show on which I was about to appear was a fraud.
Not really a debate at all, the show is actually
a program for Comedy Central (yes, an MTV/Viacom network) called "Crossballs" -- and its sole purpose is the embarrassment and humiliation of the expert guests who are brought on expecting a legitimate discussion program." Link |
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AmberPoint fills out Web services line. Outlines an update to Web services management tools designed to improve inventory-keeping and scalability. |
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Briefly: VMware tests Opteron support. roundup Plus: Refurbished OpenOffice gets release...AmberPoint fills out Web services line...Vivendi axes game jobs...Symantec settles counterfeiting suit. |
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Strong quarter ends hard year for PalmOne. Increased sales and double the profit analysts expected drive stock up 15 percent. |
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Earnings alert: PalmOne hits high note. Plus: Mixed results for Adobe...Red Hat reports profit growth...Oracle beats projections...SCO Group falters. |
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Google crosses off Merrill Lynch. In a filing, the company also highlights potential stresses on its ad programs and looming government regulations. |
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Apache Leader: Berkeley DB Java Edition Eases Hand-Rolling (Ziff Davis). Ziff Davis - Q&A: Alex Karasulu, technical lead for the Apache Directory Project, says Sleepycat's pure-Java version of the open-source database "reduces the need for an extra tier while keeping access to large sets of data fast." |
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Tiffany Sues eBay, Says Fake Items Sold on Web Site (Reuters). Reuters - Luxury jeweler Tiffany & Co. (TIF.N)
has sued eBay Inc. (EBAY.O), claiming the online auctioneer has
aided violations of the Tiffany trademark by letting
counterfeit items be sold on its Web site, a Tiffany spokesman
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Apple Unveils Adapter to Link iPod to Some BMWs (Reuters). Reuters - Apple Computer Inc. (AAPL.O) on
Monday unveiled an adapter that lets users of its iPod digital
music player connect them to stereo systems in some BMW and
Mini Cooper models and use buttons on the steering wheel to
play their music libraries. |
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iPod Your BMW Officially Launched |
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Skype comes to Linux. Skype Technologies made available a first test version of its Internet telephony application for Linux on Monday, 10 months and more than 14 million downloads after releasing the first version for Windows. |
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NetSuite, Oracle end licensing deal. NEW YORK - Oracle Corp. and hosted ERP (enterprise resource planning) software vendor NetSuite Inc. have ended a licensing agreement that allowed NetSuite to use Oracle's name to brand its small-business applications bundle. |
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Wireless Infidelity |
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Linux Security Week - June 21th 2004 |
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Stealth wallpaper could keep WLANs secure |
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Jack Valenti's curtain call. Hollywood's top lobbyist will leave behind an industry caught in a love-hate relationship with technology. And what does he have to say about the Internet? |
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Faster Ethernet for the masses. Equipment makers introduce their highest-capacity 10-gigabit switches on lower-cost gear. |
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Vivendi axes game jobs. About 350 North American workers will be laid off as part of a restructuring. |
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Briefly: Vivendi axes game jobs. roundup Plus: Symantec settles counterfeiting suit...IBM to showcase Java tools research...Controversial Accenture deal moves ahead...Open-source screening company hires legal muscle. |
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InfiniBand support could boost Linux supercomputing. A group of companies bands together to bring the high-speed networking technology to the open-source OS. |
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IBM Bests HP in Supercomputer Race (NewsFactor). NewsFactor - In the race for top billing as the world's fastest supercomputer, the Top 500 list compiled by a global group of researchers figures prominently -- and IBM (NYSE: IBM) recently has hopped over competitor Hewlett-Packard to claim the No. 1 spot as the provider who supplies the most systems to computers listed in the rankings. |
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Oracle: Would Support PeopleSoft Products (Reuters). Reuters - Oracle Corp. will make upgrades
to business software products sold by PeopleSoft for "10 years
or longer" if Oracle succeeds in its takeover bid for that
company , a top Oracle executive said on Monday. |
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SK Telecom Offers Cellular Anti-Virus Service (NewsFactor). NewsFactor - SK Telecom, South Korea's largest cell-phone operator, is looking for a competitive edge over its rivals by offering an antivirus service for cell phones and smartphones. With 75 percent of South Korea's population already subscribing to cell-phone services, the competition between the three main operators is intense. |
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Company Claims Breakthrough in Handheld Fuel-Cell Design (NewsFactor). NewsFactor - A company based in Albany, New York, has launched a new design that represents a key breakthrough in the manufacturing of fuel cells for notebook PCs and handheld devices, it claims. |
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Craigslist.com Welcomes Milwaukee to Fold (AP). AP - Milwaukee now has its own Craigslist Internet site, joining more than three dozen other communities with the hip online designation. |
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Yahoo Unveils 'Yisou' Search Engine for China (Reuters). Reuters - Yahoo Inc. unveiled a Web site
dedicated to Internet searches for China on Monday, less than a
week after archrival Google Inc. made its maiden investment in
the country's biggest search engine firm. |
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Skype VoIP Software Released For Linux |
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Vulns: LibPNG Incorrect Offset Calculation Buffer Overflow Vulnerability. The libpng graphics library may incorrectly calculate some offsets when creating or modifying PNG files. This vulnerability has been reported when manipulating 16-bit sam... |
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Vulns: Usermin HTML Email Script Code Execution Vulnerability. Usermin is a web-based user interface for UNIX/Linux users. It is designed to allow for users to access email and configure various user settings.
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Nortel stock rallies on talk of Cisco bid. All mouth and no trousers By Datamonitor . |
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NEW: Latest on prison-abuse cases |
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China Urges ISPs To Pledge Patriotism |
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The Network Strikes Back: Experts Worry About Tech Retaliation |
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Symantec Awarded $3.2 Million In Counterfeit Case |
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Six Korean Government Agencies Hacked |
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Mechanical musical marvels. Mechanical Music Digest is devoted to antique nickelodeons, musical toys, automatons, and other wonderful contraptions of yesteryear. The site is no beauty, but the content is magnificent, with articles on miniature player pianos, steam-powered calliopes, and even amazing fakes:
 "Please be aware that there is currently a 'wave' of brand new, made-to-deceive old-looking automatons reaching the international marketplace. The few different variants of this monkey 'hookah-like' smoker which we've seen are purposely constructed so as to allow no internal inspection..."
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Marc Laidlaw's lucky lightning photo. Science fiction writer and Half-Life writer Marc Laidlaw was on TV for his lucky accidental photo of a tree being struck by lighting.
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He snapped his camera just as lightning struck a tree in his backyard, capturing nature's awesome power. He says he didn't know he had captured the shot, saying the strike was so terrifying, he just turn and ran. It wasn't until he went back and looked at his shots that he realized what he had, first thinking he had a daylight photo mixed in there.
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You are now required to show ID to police for no reason at all. Remember our March entry about the Nevada Cowboy who was arrested for not showing his ID to the cops? He took the case all the way to the Supreme Court. He lost, in a 5-4 decision.
"Joining Kennedy's opinion were Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist and Justices Sandra Day O'Connor, Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas. Justices John Paul Stevens, Stephen G. Breyer, David H. Souter and Ruth Bader Gin."
By bizarre coincidence, the same five justices who ruled against our right to privacy are the same five who appointed popular and electoral loser Bush to be president.
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Oracle v. DOJ: Oracle's other potential targets. special coverage CFO testifies about other companies that were on Oracle's shopping list, including J.D. Edwards. |
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Device patrols border between Net and networks. New product from security firm Blue Coat designed to catch viruses at gate between network and wilds of Web, without slowing traffic. |
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HP ventures into identity management. By entering this market, the company is going up against giants such as Microsoft and Sun, as well as several niche players. |
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Internet speed record broken. Gigloads of data are sent halfway round the world in less than 30 minutes by Sprint and Swedish academic researchers. |
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Microsoft releases update of accounting software. Great Plains 8.0, for midsize firms, features modules for online requisition management, expense entry and approval and other tasks. |
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Apple offers 'iPod your BMW' details (MacCentral). MacCentral - Owners of select BMW automobiles can now have their Apple iPods integrated directly into their vehicle's audio systems thanks to a new interface developed by Apple and BMW. The iPod can be controlled directly from your BMW's audio system and multi-function steering wheel through the use of an integrated adapter that's installed into the vehicle's glovebox. It's available for model year 2002, 2003 and 2004 BMW3 Series; Z4 Roadster; X3 and X5 SAV; and MINI models. The interface cable is not available on vehicles with navigation system, CD changer, DSP cassette player or satellite radio. |
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Democrat Convention Credentials Bloggers (AP). AP - A handful of scribes publishing in a newer medium will join the thousands of newspaper, magazine and broadcast journalists at this summer's political conventions. They'll be blogging. |
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Babylon 5 Creator Pitches Trek |
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Next-Gen Xbox To Lack Backwards Compatibility? |
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Recommind bolsters enterprise search. Recommind has upgraded its MindServer enterprise search software to make it easier for partners and system integrators to install and deploy, the company announced Monday. |
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New gadgets take on 'Starbucks' security threat |
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Cisco raising router security |
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Outlook's security compromised by spammers |
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Handy wireless networking with Knoppix Linux |
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New gadgets take on 'Starbucks' security threat |
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Cisco raising router security |
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Outlook's security compromised by spammers |
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Handy wireless networking with Knoppix Linux |
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WWW-SQL Include Command Buffer Overflow |
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Web Wiz Forums Registration Rules XSS Vulnerability |
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Wireless Man-In-The-Middle attacks Still Growing Issue |
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Public toilet lets you see out, but people can't see in. Here's a picture of a public toilet in Switzerland that's made entirely out of one-way glass. No one can see you in there, but when you are inside, it looks like you're sitting in a clear glass box. I don't think I'd be able to go. Link (Thanks, DocX!) |
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Hitachi bets $500 million in China. Although soothsayers predict market gloom, the company will splurge millions of dollars on a new hard-drive production plant. |
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Apple unveils new networking software. Apple Remote Desktop 2 lets administrators control client terminals whether they run Mac, Linux or Windows. |
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Intel dealt blow by high court in EU probe. European regulators can be privy to chipmaker's confidential documents in antitrust investigation. |
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U.K. taps supercomputers for better weather forecasts. NEC machines oust Crays, but can they clear the clouds away from erroneous reports?
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Big-iron rankings take on a Bluer hue. The latest Top500 list of supercomputers is heavy with IBM iron, and a Chinese system cracks the top 10. Also: Better weather forecasts? |
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Carlyle, Kyocera to buy wireless phone firm from KDDI for 2 bln dollars (AFP). AFP - US investment firm Carlyle Group and Japanese electronics maker Kyocera said they will buy a wireless phone firm from Japan's second-largest mobile phone carrier KDDI Corp. for two billion dollars. |
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Apple Remote Desktop 2 adds 50 features (MacCentral). MacCentral - Apple Computer Inc. announced on Monday Apple Remote Desktop 2, its software solution to assist Mac system administrators and computer managers with asset management, software distribution and help desk support. According to Apple, the new release features "dramatic improvements" in performance as well as 50 new features to help manage Macs running Mac OS X. |
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Google Drops Merrill Lynch from Underwriter List (Reuters). Reuters - Google Inc. has dropped Merrill
Lynch & Co.(MER.N) from the lengthy list of underwriters taking
bids for the Web search leader's much- anticipated initial
public offering, according to a new filing with securities
regulators on Monday. |
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Jean Tourrilhes On Linux Wireless LAN |
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EnGarde: kernel EnGarde: Multiple 'kernel' vulnerabilities |
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EnGarde: kernel 2.4 Multiple vulnerabilities |
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Elsewhere: Outlook's security compromised by spammers. Spammers have found a way to bypass Outlook 2003's anti-spam security by embedding images into their emails
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Elsewhere: IM Worms Could Spread In Seconds. Enterprises whose workers use>
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Vulns: Symantec Enterprise Firewall DNSD DNS Cache Poisoning Vulnerability. Raptor Firewall is an enterprise level firewall originally developed by Axent Technologies and is maintained and distributed by Symantec. Symantec Enterprise Firewall is ... |
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SpaceShipOne makes manned space flight. A team led by aviation pioneer Burt Rutan came a step closer to claiming the US$10 million X Prize after today's successful manned space flight by SpaceShipOne. By Eric Bangeman. |
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US Supreme Court sides with AMD on EU investigation. The US Supreme Court has ruled that Intel may eventually have to turn 600,000 pages of documents over to EU investigators as part of a long-running inquiry into Intel's business practices in Europe. By Eric Bangeman. |
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Neurology of humor. Cognitive neuroscientists at Dartmouth College have shown that the part of your brain that "gets" a joke is not the same as the region that deems it funny or not. To test their hypothesis, the researchers conducted functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) on subjects while they watched Seinfeld and The Simpsons. From a Scientific American report on the study:
"The investigators found that instances of humor detection lit up the left inferior frontal and posterior temporal cortices--the left side of the brain. Humor appreciation, in contrast, led to spikes in activity in the emotional areas deeper inside--specifically, in the bilateral regions of the insular cortex and the amygdala... Past research has shown the left inferior frontal cortex to be involved in reconciling ambiguous meanings with prior knowledge. And ambiguity, incongruity and surprise are key elements in many jokes."
Still, the results are preliminary. When SciAm asked an outside psychologist for his expert opinion on the research, he commented: "If some people don't find The Simpsons funny, it's premature to say that they have a defective frontal lobe."
Of course, he's wrong. Link |
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Cards as weapons. In 1977, magician Ricky Jay wrote the definitive book on card throwing--Cards As Weapons--with such chapters as "Cards and the Martial Arts" and "Self-Defense." From the Smithsonian article about Jay that I blogged a few days ago:
 "According to the Guinness Book of World Records, Jay has thrown a card farther, higher and faster than anyone. He captured the records one day in 1976; one card he threw traveled 135 feet; another sailed into a window several stories up; another flew 90 miles an hour. He throws a card with such deadly precision it can pierce a watermelon at 20 paces."
While Cards as Weapons unfortunately is out-of-print and copies go for several hundred dollars, BB reader David Maduram has posted selections from the text on his Web site. Link |
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PC makers reconfigure with new Intel chipsets. Desktop machines include a Dell device the size of phone book that can hide behind a flat panel. |
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Eclipse readies 'rich client' software. The open-source software offers developers an alternative to Windows for delivering desktop applications. |
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AOL Scraps Enterprise IM (Ziff Davis). Ziff Davis - Just days after Yahoo pulled the plug on the enterprise version of its free instant-messaging client, AOL plans to announce that it is halting sales of its own enterprise IM offering. |
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France Telecom, Motorola to work on integrated mobile services (AFP). AFP - The French telecommunications operator France Telecom and US equipment maker Motorola have signed a memorandum of understanding to jointly develop and deploy integrated wireless services, they said in a statement. |
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Search Rivals Gun Their Engines (washingtonpost.com). washingtonpost.com - With Google's public stock offering just about ready to roll, rivals Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo are doing whatever they can to keep the customers they have and pilfer the ones they don't. But Google also is upping the ante with new features of its own. |
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Fuel Cells for Laptop Computers |
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Offshoring gives boost to IT services market in 2003. Offshore outsourcing gave a boost to the IT services market in 2003, helping it to grow 6.2 percent over the previous year, according to preliminary figures released by Gartner Inc. on Monday. |
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Stealth wallpaper could keep WLANs secure |
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Debian: rlpr Format string vulnerabilities |
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Elsewhere: Feds face numerous encryption schemes for securing e-mail. Government agencies face a communications dilemma. On one hand, officials are asked to share more information with other agencies, businesses and citizens. On the other, ... |
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Elsewhere: New gadgets take on 'Starbucks' security threat. The growth in popularity of both wireless technology and mobile computing has created a potent new threat for network administrators: unauthorized intrusions onto their n... |
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Infocus: Securing Apache 2: Step-by-Step. Continuing the very popular "Securing" series from last year, this article discusses step-by-step how to compile, install, chroot and configure a secure Apache 2 web server. |
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Vulns: Multiple Browser URI Obfuscation Weakness. A weakness is reported in Microsoft Internet Explorer and Opera browser that may allow an attacker to obfuscate the URI of a link. This could facilitate the impersonation... |
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Vulns: MoinMoin Group Name Privilege Escalation Vulnerability. MoinMoin is a Wiki-type program written in Python. It is available for the Unix and Linux platforms, and is freely-available and open source.
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Vulns: Nmap Potential Insecure File Creation Vulnerability. Nmap is an open source port scanning utility. It is available for UNIX, Linux, and Microsoft platforms.
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[ GLSA 200406-15 ] Usermin: Multiple vulnerabilities |
| 21. |
4 Americans killed in ambush |
| 22. |
Sendmail delivers HP ProLiant bundle |
| 23. |
Putnam: Clinger-Cohen needs a cybersecurity boost |
| 24. |
Sizing up coded message options |
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SPEAKER SCHEDULE NOW ONLINE FOR THE FIFTH HOPE |
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Sporadic Problems from Europe and Elsewhere to Various Sites |
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Free textbooks for Cisco training. A Cisco networking instructor got sick of Cisco price-gouging his students for textbooks so he wrote his own and is giving away the electronic edition and selling the print edition through Lulu for $20 -- and he gets a $5 for every copy sold.
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Tired of seeing his students pay exorbitant prices for Cisco Systems' high end computer training textbooks, Basham found a way to give the information away for free.
He wrote an 800-page, two-volume manual of numbers, formulas and test tips that can be obtained by anyone who sends him an e-mail.
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IBM seizes supercomputing crown. The tech giant has taken the supercomputing crown, helped by two small and powerful prototypes. |
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Private craft makes space history. SpaceShipOne has flown into the history books as the first non-governmental manned craft to reach space. |
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IBM to showcase Java tools research. The Java-related capabilities will be made available on Big Blue's AlphaWorks Web site. |
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Wallpaper designed to protect Wi-Fi networks. BAE Systems is betting that its high-tech wall coverings will be the answer to companies' wireless-networking worries. |
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Supreme Court disagrees with Intel on EU probe. European regulators can be privy to chipmaker's confidential documents in antitrust investigation. |
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Texas Using Wi-Fi to Encourage Motorists (AP). AP - To encourage drivers to take more frequent breaks, the Texas Department of Transportation wants to set up free wireless Internet access at rest stops and travel information centers. |
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Yahoo! Scraps Business Instant Messenger (AP). AP - Yahoo! Inc. scrapped its fee-based instant messenger service for businesses this week, saying that the Web portal would instead focus on boosting the number of individuals who use its free IM service. |
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Australian Gov't To Consider Spyware Laws |
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Deep Inside the K Desktop Environment |
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SpaceShipOne Flight Completed Successfully |
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AOL phases out enterprise IM product. The exodus of instant messaging service providers from the enterprise software market continued Monday, when America Online Inc. (AOL) announced plans to abandon its AIM Enterprise Gateway product and migrate users of that product to a similar one from IMlogic Inc. |
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New gadgets take on 'Starbucks' security threat. The growth in popularity of both wireless technology and mobile computing has created a potent new threat for network administrators: unauthorized intrusions onto their networks by hackers and viruses that take advantage of loosely secured laptop PCs and public computer kiosks. |
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Cisco releases Network Admission Control products. Cisco Systems Inc. said that products are now available for its months-old Network Admission Control, or NAC, program to integrate information technology (IT) security features and policies into network switching and routing products. |
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Linux Security Week - June 21th 2004 |
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Vulns: Linux Kernel Multiple Device Driver Vulnerabilities. It has been reported that the Linux kernel is vulnerable to multiple device driver issues. These issues were found during a recent audit of the Linux kernel source.
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North Americans confused about VoIP. It's the cheap calls, stupid By Tim Richardson . |
| 18. |
Oracle waves goodbye to NetSuite. Preps its own small biz suite By John Oates . |
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GorillaPark emerges as GP Ventures. Tech incubator battles on By Jan Libbenga . |
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Infoblox DNS One Script Insertion Vulnerability |
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Netgear FVS318 Multiple Connections Denial of Service |
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Microsoft MN-500 Multiple Connections Denial of Service |
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Linux Kernel Various Drivers Userland Pointer Dereference Vulnerabilities |
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Red Hat update for kernel |
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Snitz Forums 2000 "register.asp" Email Field Script Insertion Vulnerability |
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Gentoo update for usermin |
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SUP Logging Functionality Format String Vulnerabilities |
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super Unspecified Format String Vulnerability |
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WWW-SQL Include Command Buffer Overflow Vulnerability |
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Debian update for sup |
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Debian update for super |
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Red Hat update for libpng |
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Fedora update for libpng |
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Linksys BEFSR41 Connection Handling Denial of Service |
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Re: Multiple Antivirus Scanners DoS attack. |
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WORM_LOVGATE.AB |
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Security Managers Could Face Court Penalties |
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Gamedeck: like a Herman Miller chair for gamers. 
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The Gamedeck is a purpose-built gaming chair that a giant articulated hunk of sound-surrounded rumble-vibrating steel with good ergonomics and badass aesthetics.
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Tunneling ssh over DNS. Dan Kaminski, the Jedi master of packet-level hacking, has figured out how to tunnel ssh over DNS, a stupendously weird and cool feat. Ever been at an airport or coffee shop with WiFi that redirects you over and over again to the same captive portal page no matter what you do? With Kaminsky's tool, you could circumvent any captive portal that allows DNS to slip through. Here's the presentation he gave at the LayerOne conference in San Diego.
Reverse Serial Propagation
Can be quickly and statelessly deployed
* Scan networks with generic recursive probe
* For each incoming request seeking to service the probe, return whatever(TTL=0) and probe with an actual block request
- If a block request comes back from the recurser, populate the server
-If the population packet drops, the upstream should retransmit
* Move back through the file after each server group fills up
* Can be much slower to populate!
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Cory on "Nerd Determinism, Nerd Fatalism, and the Copyfight" in London. Cory's giving a free talk in London one week from today, at the Stanhope Centre near Marble Arch. It's part of an afternoon event on technology activism, and my bit is called "Nerd Determinism, Nerd Fatalism, and the Copyfight."
Date: Monday, 28 June 2004
Time: A panel discussion from 15:00 to about 17:00, with drinks to follow
Location: Stanhope Centre for Communications Policy Research (tube: Marble Arch, use exit #11 from the Hyde Park pedestrian subway) Stanhope House, Stanhope Place (at Hyde Park), London W2 2HH
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Clues to Half-Life 2 release. Catch up with the latest news from the world of video gaming. |
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Private craft rockets into space. The first private manned spacecraft is heading to its target attitude of 100km into space. |
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IBM to showcase programming tools. The Java-related capabilities will be made available on Big Blue's AlphaWorks Web site. |
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Symantec settles counterfeiting suit. Security software maker agrees to a settlement with a company it accused of marketing forged versions of its products. |
| 8. |
Briefly: Symantec settles counterfeiting suit. roundup Plus: IBM to showcase programming tools...Controversial Accenture deal moves ahead...Open-source screening company hires legal muscle...Blockbuster builds up to Viacom split. |
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France Challenges Microsoft in Software Re-Fit (Reuters). Reuters - France's cash-strapped government is
giving alternative software firms the chance to win state
business from Microsoft in a pioneering drive to challenge the
U.S. software giant in the public sector. |
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Tech Firms Push for Single EU Download License (Reuters). Reuters - Layers of red tape and mounting
copyright levies are crippling Europe's emerging digital media
market, a group of technology firms said on Monday. |
| 11. |
Music Labels Aim to Pocket a Comeback with New CD (Reuters). Reuters - Some of the world's largest record
companies are testing a new music format in Europe known as the
pocket CD to spin new life into faltering music singles. |
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Hits or Misses: Who is Your Website's Audience? |
| 13. |
Zombie Webmonkey: Back From the Dead? |
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Cisco releases Network Admission Control products. Cisco Systems Inc. said that products are now available for its months-old Network Admission Control, or NAC, program to integrate information technology (IT) security features and policies into network switching and routing products. |
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Trustix: kernel Multiple vulnerabilities |
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Vulns: Linux kernel do_fork() Memory Leakage Vulnerability. The Linux kernel has been reported prone to an unspecified memory leakage vulnerability that may allow an attacker to disclose sensitive kernel memory.
It has been repor... |
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Vulns: Linux Kernel Assembler Inline Function Local Denial Of Service Vulnerability. The Linux Kernel is reportedly to be affected by a local denial of service vulnerability surrounding inline assembly functions. This issue is due to a design error that ... |
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Vulns: MIT Kerberos 5 KRB5_AName_To_Localname Multiple Principal Name Buffer Overrun Vulnerabilities. Kerberos is a network authentication protocol. It is designed to provide strong authentication for client/server applications by using secret- key cryptography. Kerberos ... |
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Linux alliance fights against Euro software patents. It was five years ago today... 21 June 1999 By Team Register . |
| 20. |
IT barometer requires pulse check. Reg Survey Corporate Security Drivers and Solutions By Team Register . |
| 21. |
Symantec hits counterfeit biz for $3.2m. Personal damages too By John Oates . |
| 22. |
Bahrain mobile number: yours for $13k. Eye-catching numerals demand high price By Lester Haines . |
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Dell UK slashes Dimension to just £53,000. A 'build-your-own' online bargain By Lester Haines . |
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SB04-105: Summary of Security Items from March 31 through April 13, 2004 |
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SB04-119: Summary of Security Items from April 14 through April 27, 2004 |
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SB04-161: Summary of Security Items from May 25 through June 8, 2004 |
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SpaceShipOne blog, part 5. The Space Woodstock Wireless edition. SpaceShipOne ground crew member Alan Radecki says:
Well, folks, there's now a big RV city sitting out there...and they're still lined up and coming in at 10pm. Lots of folks are wandering the flightline street, ooing and ahing. XCOR has their hangar open and are doing firings of their little rocket engines to show off for the folks. Someone on the [mojave airport mailing] list mentioned "Space Woodstock"...it certainly seems like it! There's a ton of press out here, too...it'll be neat to see how things play out.
BoingBoing reader Mike, who is en route to the Mojave launch site, writes:
We're currently southbound on I-5, 222 miles from Mojave, and intelligence from the front says that parking has been opened already and there's about 300 people there already. We have a wifi base in here connected to a GRPS cellular uplink and all sorts of insanity, so we are a moving open wifi spot, and we will be one of the many who will have a port open there.
And BoingBoing reader Peeter says, "The webcast links you pointed to earlier seem to be overloaded, but this one from MSNBC still works -- at least here in Europe."
History may change today -- if the launch is successful, it will be the first time a privately-built spacecraft carries a human into space. Link to news that Mike Melvill has been chosen as the craft's pilot, Link to Space.com's page dedicated to the launch (look for lots of updates there around 9:30 am ET) and Link to previous BoingBoing post. |
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Invoice fraud 'rises in summer'. Summer brings a surge of fake invoices sent in the hope they will be paid while management is away, firms are warned. |
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Vivendi ex-boss in police custody. The former boss of the French media giant is being held by police investigating allegations of 'financial misappropriation' at the firm. |
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Private space craft has blasted off. The first private manned space craft has started its historic 100km flight into space. |
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Phone fray attracts cable industry. Cable companies hope they are up to the task of competing with the nation's local phone carriers. |
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Apple Remote Desktop 2 speeds up, adds 50 features (MacCentral). MacCentral - Apple on Monday announced Apple Remote Desktop 2, software to assist Mac system administrators and computer managers with asset management, software distribution and help desk support. The new release features "dramatic improvements" in performance as well as 50 new features to help manage Macs running Mac OS X. |
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Report From "Get The Facts" |
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Hotmail Blocks Gmail Emails (and Invites) |
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Onaro delivers SAN manager. Onaro on Monday will roll out what company officials are billing as the industry's first predictive change management technology for SANs (storage area networks), designed to help storage administrators increase their effectiveness. |
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Taxonomy tools organize searching. Enterprise search vendor Verity this week will introduce taxonomy and classification management software designed to make it easier to find business information. |
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Wireless Infidelity |
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Openwall: kernel Multiple vulnerabilities |
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Red Hat: kernel Multiple vulnerabilities |
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Met Office bags shiny new supercomputer. Cray twins out of the forecasting business By Lucy Sherriff . |
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Glasgow vandals cut 5,000 phone lines. Cables get snipped By Tim Richardson . |
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Workers get into email trouble. Adults treated like adults act like adults... By John Oates . |
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Web draws in Euro football fans. Football fans are flocking to the net for Euro 2004 news, with most choosing the BBC sport site, research shows. |
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What Europe (still) doesn't get. CNET News.com's Declan McCullagh says a lingering regulatory mindset in Europe may continue to hold it back when it comes to technology competition with the United States.
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Carlyle to Buys DDI Pocket for $2 Billion (AP). AP - The Carlyle Group will buy DDI Pocket, Japan's leading wireless data company, for 220 billion yen ($2 billion), with a minority stake going to Japanese electronics maker Kyocera Corp., the U.S. private equity firm said Monday. |
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School Foils Cheats by Blocking Phone Signals (Reuters). Reuters - Mobile phone-savvy teenagers tempted to
cheat their way through exams by sending text messages or
scanning pictures of tests could be thwarted by a device that
jams signals inside the school walls. |
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Democrat Convention Credentials Bloggers (AP). AP - A handful of scribes publishing in a newer medium will join the thousands of newspaper, magazine and broadcast journalists at this summer's political conventions. They'll be blogging. |
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Oracle to End Licensing Deal with NetSuite (Reuters). Reuters - Oracle Corp. (ORCL.O) has agreed to
end a licensing deal with start-up company NetSuite, executives
of the two firms said, as Oracle plans to expand its own
Web-based products, calling them the future of software. |
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Torrentocracy = RSS + Bit Torrent + Your TV |
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Top 500 Supercomputer List Released |
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New gadgets take on 'Starbucks' security threat. The growth in popularity of both wireless technology and mobile computing has created a potent new threat for network administrators: unauthorized intrusions onto their networks by hackers and viruses that take advantage of loosely secured laptop PCs and public computer kiosks. |
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New technology could aid fuel cell manufacturing. An Albany, New York, fuel cell company plans to unveil a new design on Monday that it says solves a key hurdle in the manufacturing of fuel cells for notebook PCs and handheld devices. |
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Intel to share technology with Chinese chip maker. Intel Corp. has signed an agreement to transfer chip-making technology and equipment to Nanotech Corp., a start-up contract chip maker in China, the companies said in a statement released on Saturday. |
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Java productivity gains eyed. Java development will become markedly easier if upcoming technologies from Eclipse Foundation and Sun Microsystems live up to their promise. |
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AmberPoint scales its Web services management system. AmberPoint on Monday is announcing an upgraded version of its Web services management software that can manage of thousands of active service-level agreements. |
| 14. |
User-friendly BI takes shape. Actuate and MicroStrategy continue to battle over an enterprise market increasingly demanding more user-friendly business intelligence from a single BI platform. |
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Google offers to rev up sites with two new services. Google Inc. unwrapped two new search services for Web site publishers on Friday, promising to help them increase traffic and revenue from their sites, while extending the search giant's own reach in the online ad market. |
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IT barometer requires pulse check. Reg Survey Corporate Security Drivers and Solutions By Team Register . |
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Dell launches i915, i925 systems. XPS desktops for gamers, Dimensions for everyone else By Tony Smith . |
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Experts worry about tech retaliation |
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Stealth wallpaper could keep WLANs secure |
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Secure development framework |
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Feds face numerous encryption schemes for securing e-mail |
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Senate debates cybercrime treaty |
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UK.biz complacent over virus threats |
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Phone fray attracts cable industry. Cable companies hope they are up to the task of competing with the nation's local phone carriers. |
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How to reform the FCC. Economist Randolph May says the time is ripe to move the FCC to the executive branch, where there will be more political accountability for its actions. |
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Indie music riding the digital surge. iTunes is hot, but the world of independent music services is staging a comeback from the dot-bomb fizzle. |
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Company Makes Plans for Portable Fuel Cells (PC World). PC World - New Mobion technology could lead to new power sources for notebooks and PDAs. |
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Yahoo Unveils 'Yisou' Search Engine for China (Reuters). Reuters - Yahoo Inc (YHOO.O) unveiled a Web site
dedicated to Internet searches for China on Monday, less than a
week after archrival Google Inc made its maiden investment in
the country's biggest search engine firm. |
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Microsoft looks to youth for future of Office. Microsoft Corp. this week will host 15 university students from around the world at its Redmond, Washington, headquarters to pick their brains on what the Office productivity suite should look like 10 years from now. |
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AskJeeves enhances search features. Ask Jeeves Inc. has enhanced its search engine to give users the ability to preview images of Web sites listed in search results, a feature the company said will make it easier and faster for users to find the information they are looking for, Ask Jeeves was set to announce Monday. |
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IBM rising, Apple out of latest supercomputer ranking. The Japan Marine Science and Technology Center's Earth Simulator remains the world's most powerful computer, according to the latest version of an industry ranking, but for the first time a serious competitor has made an appearance. |
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Serena buys requirements management technology. Application lifecycle and change management vendor Serena Software on Monday will announce the acquisition of Integrated Chipware’s RTM (Requirements & Traceability Management) technology for approximately $3 million. |
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FriendsReunited buys Aussie site. Onwards and upwards for nostalgia / infidelity service By John Oates . |
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Linux alliance fights against Euro software patents. It was five years ago today... 21 June 1999 By Team Register . |
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Syrian surfer jailed. Downloaded material from banned website By Lester Haines . |
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China urges ISPs to sign 'self-disciplinary' pact. Wants Net to be healthy By Tim Richardson . |
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Sendo X S60 smartphone rollout finally starts. Hot in Europe this summer? By John Lettice . |
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'Spit with Totti' - the online challenge. Euro 2004 footie fun By Lester Haines . |
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Linux Kernel JFS File System Information Leak |
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Linux Kernel XFS File System Information Leak |
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Re: Caveat Lector: Beastie Boys Evil |
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Vivendi ex-chief Messier arrested. The former boss of the French media giant is being held by police investigating allegations of 'financial misappropriation' at the firm. |
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IBM seizes supercomputing crown. The tech giant has retaken the supercomputing crown, helped by two small and powerful prototypes. |
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DOJ gets key testimony (TheDeal.com). TheDeal.com - A University of Virginia economist testifies that Oracle-PeopleSoft competition constrains prices. |
| 4. |
KDDI Seals Deal with Kyocera, Carlyle (Reuters). Reuters - U.S. fund Carlyle Group and Kyocera Corp
said on Monday they would buy a mobile operator from KDDI Corp
for $2 billion in the biggest leveraged buyout in Japan so far
this year. |
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Yahoo Launches Chinese-Language Site (AP). AP - Yahoo! Inc. launched a Chinese-language search portal on Monday, following Google's lead in maneuvering for a stronger foothold in one of the world's biggest Internet markets. |
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Breeding Race Cars With Genetic Algorithms |
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Nortel and Cisco chat prompts merger mania. Two plus two can equal five... By John Oates . |
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Sony adds HDD to USB Flash drive line-up. Reg Kit Watch More capacious, but less compact By Tony Smith . |
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Bluetooth folding keyboard enters the wild. PDA cool - at a price By Bryan Betts . |
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AMD: no longer the also-ran. Long-term strategy for serious contender By Datamonitor . |
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Unisys pushes the ES7000 envelope. Performance up, cost down By Datamonitor . |
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Universal to revive dead CD single format. Tiny discs to restore single market in turn By Tony Smith . |
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Blogs Welcome at Dems' Convention. Coverage of this summer's political conventions could be a little more colorful than in the past: Democrats have invited bloggers to apply for media credentials for the party's bash. Republicans remain unsure how to handle the brash voices filling the brave new world of political blogs. |
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Voter Drives, Without Politics. Many special-interest groups, liberal and conservative, have tried to get more young people to vote, but without much success. So the Soap Box Coalition is trying a different tack -- by not appealing to ideology at all. By Jacob Ogles. |
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Army Sets Up Video-Game Studio. The Pentagon creates a video-game studio to make simulations for all kinds of military and government jobs, like safeguarding the White House or training special ops forces. John Gaudiosi reports from Cary, North Carolina. |
| 16. |
Fans Forge Future IPods. An iPod fan website displays hundreds of speculative designs for exotic music machines. The mockups give some insight into what iPod fans want. How about a pair of movie-star sunglasses that play video in 3-D? By Leander Kahney. |
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Heavy Betting on Election Domains. Domain-name speculators and satirists find new opportunities, thanks to John Kerry's drawn-out quest for a running mate and George W. Bush campaigners' decision to buy only a few websites containing variations on the president's name. By Joanna Glasner. |
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Space Shot on a Shoestring. Privately financed SpaceShipOne is set to soar into history Monday high above the desert sky, and civilian Mike Melvill could become the first people's astronaut. This could be the dawning of the second Space Age. Dan Brekke reports from Mojave, California. |
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Microsoft readies defence against smart-phone virus |
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ACA calls for mod-chip legalisation; copyright fair use |
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Smuggled cell phones make Sri Lanka upwardly mobile (AFP). AFP - With taxes slashed and handsets smuggled in, Sri Lanka is becoming a mobile phone paradise where even the island's prisons are awash with cell phones. |
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LG Electronics Reports Record Mobile Sales in May (Reuters). Reuters - LG Electronics Inc, a latecomer to the
overcrowded global mobile phone market, said on Monday it sold
a record number of handsets in May, bolstered by shipments to
Hong Kong conglomerate Hutchison Whampoa. |
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Yahoo Unveils 'Yisou' Search Engine for China (Reuters). Reuters - Yahoo Inc unveiled a Web site
dedicated to Internet searches for China on Monday, less than a
week after archrival Google Inc made its maiden investment in
the country's biggest search engine firm. |
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Countdown to private space trip. SpaceShipOne, the first private manned spacecraft, is undergoing final preparations for an historic flight to 100km. |
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'Open MS Passport': MyUID Goes Beta |
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Ars Technica
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The future of Prescott: when Moore gives you lemons.... With Prescott having run into problems at 90nm and Intel looking backwards to the Pentium III for the future, where does that leave Prescott? Ars CPU Editor Jon "Hannibal" Stokes looks at Prescott's dual-core future. By Eric Bangeman. |
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Microsoft hopes younger eyes have Office vision. What will tomorrow's workers want from their productivity software? Microsoft just asks them. |
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Report: Sun-Times Inflated Circulation (AP). AP - The Chicago Sun-Times created bogus sales accounts and inaccurately recorded thousands of unsold newspapers to inflate its circulation numbers, according to The Wall Street Journal. |
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Singapore adminusers.csv Admin Password Disclosure |
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phpMyChat admin.php3 Arbitrary File Access |
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Dialing through the recovery. Scores of new products and a war of words over local phone service will highlight Supercomm 2004 in Chicago. |
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Phone fray attracts new competitor: cable. Is the cable industry up to the task of keeping the nation's local phone companies in check? |
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IBM rising, Apple out of latest supercomputer ranking (MacCentral). MacCentral - The Japan Marine Science and Technology Center's Earth Simulator remains the world's most powerful computer, according to the latest version of an industry ranking, but for the first time a serious competitor has made an appearance. |
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Lessons Learned From Blaster |
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SecurityFocus News
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Elsewhere: Wal-Mart Plowing Ahead with RFID. Wal-Mart intends to expand its RFID program in mid-2005 to three additional distribution centers that cover 100 more stores than the pilot. In the fourth quarter, seven m... |
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Elsewhere: Stealth wallpaper could keep LANs secure. Keeps outsiders off your wired or wireless network
UK defence contractor BAE Systems has developed a stealth wallpaper to beat electronic eavesdropping on company Wi-F... |
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Columnists: Time to Dump Internet Explorer. It's time to tell our users, our clients, our associates, our families, and our friends to abandon Internet Explorer. |
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News: 'Spam King' Richter get legal roasting. Spam King Scott Richter's plans to launch a global clothing line under the "Spam King" and "SK" brands have come apart at the seams. |
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News: Feds, Private Groups to Educate Consumers About Phishing Scams. The federal government and some of the nation's leading consumer organizations and financial institutions today kicked off a campaign to educate consumers about the growing threat posed by "phishing," a sophisticated form of identity theft conducted via e-mail and conterfeit Web sites. |
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News: Court clips DirecTV piracy suits. Satellite company promises a kinder, gentler anti-piracy crackdown. |
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News: U.S. moves towards anti-spyware law. Legislation would demand companies get a user's consent before spying. |
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SecurityFocus Vulns
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BugTraq: Script injection in DNSONE appliance. Sender: c3rb3r [c3rb3r at sympatico dot ca] |
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BugTraq: RE: SECURE SOCKETS LAYER COELACANTH: Phreak Phishing Expedition. Sender: Jelmer [jkuperus at planet dot nl] |
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BugTraq: Re: Caveat Lector: Beastie Boys Evil. Sender: Hamilton Frail [h dot frail at bigpond dot com] |
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BugTraq: Internet Scanner 7 Restriction Bypass Vulnerability. Sender: Chris Hurley [churley at assureddecisions dot com] |
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Vulns: Microsoft Windows Remote Desktop Protocol Server Key Verification Vulnerability. Microsoft Windows uses the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) for communications between Terminal Services clients and servers. RDP is capable of using three different encryp... |
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Vulns: Linux IPRoute Spoofed Kernel Messages Denial Of Service Vulnerability. iproute is a freely available, open source network suite for the Linux platform.
X-NAS-Bayes: #0: 2.0861E-161; #1: 1
X-NAS-Classification: 0
X-NAS-MessageID: 1985
X-NAS-Validation: {E681C936-E9F0-4DDC-9901-74301AF33E67}
A problem has been discovered in iproute when handling messages from the kernel. Becaus... |
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Vulns: Snitz Forums Register Script HTML Injection Vulnerability. Snitz Forums is ASP-based web forum software. It runs on Microsoft Windows operating systems.
Snitz Forums is prone to an HTML injection vulnerability. This issue exis... |
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Vulns: Ethereal Multiple Protocol Dissector Vulnerabilities. Ethereal 0.10.4 has been released to address multiple vulnerabilities. These issues may allow a remote attacker to carry out denial of service and buffer overflow attacks... |
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Vulns: ASP-Rider Malformed Cookie Administrative Access Vulnerability. ASP-Rider is a weblogging application written in Farsi(Persian).
ASP-Rider is reported prone to an administrative account access vulnerability that can allow a remote at... |
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Vulns: GNU Aspell Stack Buffer Overflow Vulnerability. GNU Aspell is a spelling checker designed to replace ispell. It's designed to be more accurate and robust, and contains a word list compression program to save space by c... |
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