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walktalker · 12-10-01, 05:02 PM

SirCam Ready to Drop Payload
I send you this article in order to give you advice: SirCam, the annoying e-mail worm that simply won't go away, will turn feral Oct. 16. According to analysis of SirCam's code, every year on Oct. 16 the worm will delete all the files and folders contained on the hard drives of randomly selected SirCam-infected computers. Those who have clicked on a file attached to an e-mail that reads, in part, "I send you this file in order to have your advice," have a few days to make sure the worm is not lurking in their computers.
http://www.wired.com/news/technology...,47476,00.html

New Anthrax Case Reported at NBC
An NBC News employee was infected with the skin form of anthrax after the network received mail containing a suspicious powder, authorities said Friday. The anthrax is not the inhaled form of the disease, which killed a Florida man a week ago. The NBC employee is being treated with antibiotics and is expected to recover, the network said. Barry Mawn, head of the FBI office in New York, said authorities "see no connection whatsoever" to the Sept. 11 attack on the World Trade Center. The FBI is checking to see if there is a link to the Florida case, but "preliminarily I do not see that," Mawn said.
http://www.wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,47542,00.html

Terror Bill Limits Gambling, Too
Osama bin Laden is not, according to news reports, a terribly big fan of Western vices. Nor has there been any reliable confirmation that last month's suicide-hijackers, who completed the bloodiest terrorist attack in American history, were habitual gamblers. But that didn't stop the House Financial Services committee from voting 62-1 on Thursday for an "anti-terrorism" bill that limits Internet gambling.
http://www.wired.com/news/conflict/0,2100,47518,00.html

Anthrax Still Music to Some Ears
Despite its album titled "Spread the Disease," the heavy metal band Anthrax wants people to know it has nothing to do with terrorists or terrorism. The band, which owns the anthrax.com domain, has seen a surge in traffic to its website since three people were discovered to have been infected with anthrax in Florida. On Thursday, Anthrax felt compelled to explain the origin of the band's name since so much attention has been focused on anthrax the bacteria.
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,47513,00.html

Bert-Osama Site Taken Down
A website which reputedly first brought together children's television icon Bert of Sesame Street fame and the world's most wanted man, Osama bin Laden, has been shut down by its creator. The site, operated by a Dutchman who identifies himself on his site only as J-roen, carried the following message on Friday: "Due to the great amount of comments (both positive and negative) since a picture from this website was recently featured in a collage poster, I have decided to take this section of the site offline." The author did not respond to e-mails seeking comment.
http://www.wired.com/news/conflict/0,2100,47532,00.html

Dream of Clean Desktop Gets Messy
While working on Microsoft's newest operating system, Bob Graf, the engineer who heads the company's user interface team, discovered something surprising -- if not "revolutionary," as he describes it -- about the way most people use computers. " I visited 50 or more people in their homes," he said, "and I was asking each of them to name the seven applications that they use most often. And the thing is, most people, when they sit down to think about it, they can only come up with three or four applications they use. And I was just amazed at that."
http://www.wired.com/news/technology...,47517,00.html

Mars Engulfed by Massive Storm
The entire surface of Mars is covered with the biggest dust storm the planet has ever seen, NASA researchers have reported. The Hubble Space Telescope and the Mars Global Surveyor now orbiting the planet show dust covering virtually the entire surface of the red planet. "A veil of hazy, reddish dust," is blanketing Mars, Jim Garvin, head of NASA's Mars exploration program, said Thursday at a news conference. Because of the storm, NASA engineers are considering slight changes in the flight path of a spacecraft scheduled to land on Mars in less than two weeks.
http://www.wired.com/news/technology...,47511,00.html

Anti-Secrecy Website Pulls Sensitive Information
An institution dedicated to blowing the lid off national security secrets has removed about 200 pages worth of data from its Web site out of concern that the information could compromise the safety of government buildings. "Like everyone else we are trying to understand the events of Sept. 11. Unlike everyone else, we have a large inventory of information online concerning national security policy and technology," Steven Aftergood, the director of the Federation of American Scientists' Project on Government Secrecy said today. "Against that backdrop we find ourselves in the unfamiliar situation of withholding certain categories of information ourselves," Aftergood said.
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/171058.html

Phone hub security sought
Saying terrorist attacks against telecommunications hubs could shut down banks, broadcasters and financial markets, Verizon Communications wants tougher security in phone-equipment buildings. "If you really want to create panic, take down the telecommunications facilities," says Larry Babbio, vice chairman of Verizon, the USA's No. 1 local phone company. Verizon has told Federal Communications Commission Chairman Michael Powell of its concerns. And the FCC, which regulates the issue, is encouraging companies to come forward with proposals, it says.
http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/t...b-security.htm

240 Miles Up, Seeing Tragedy
Space station commander Frank Culbertson and his two crewmates, Russian cosmonauts Vladimir Dezhurov and Mikhail Tyurin, were working through another busy day in orbit 240 miles above the Earth on Sept. 11 when a flight surgeon in Houston radioed word of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon. "It's difficult to describe how it feels to be the only American completely off the planet at a time such as this," Culbertson wrote the next day in a letter to friends, family and, ultimately, the nation.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...2001Oct10.html

Agencies censor sites deemed useful to terrorists
Federal agencies are scrutinizing their Web sites and striking any information they believe terrorists might use to plot attacks against the nation. The move is quickly reversing strides the government has made over the last decade toward providing public information online. The review of the government's Web sites is wide in scope. It is unclear whether a specific guideline has been passed down about which types of information should be removed.
http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/t...govt-sites.htm

Network Associates puts PGP up for sale
Network Associates plans to sell off its PGP desktop encryption and Gauntlet firewall product lines. It's a surprise move that reflects weakness in the encryption market that has hit other major players, such as Baltimore Technologies. Up until Network Associates can find a buyer, development will cease on those products (though support will continue) while the rest of the PGP Security products and technologies will be integrated into the firm's McAfee and Sniffer product lines.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/7/22186.html

New net domain 'fiasco'
Up to a quarter of the early registrations for the new .info domain name could be bogus. A study of 11,000 registrations has shown a failure of the steps taken to stop people winning control of domains they do not have the right to run. Legal experts have called the whole process a fiasco, and said the company administering the .info domain could face legal challenges from those denied a chance to apply for some generic .info domains.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci...00/1593396.stm

Outcry Over Pinky And Yellowy
Scientists have developed the first pig with a fluorescent yellow snout and trotters using jellyfish DNA. Researchers in the US say the work is a step towards growing animal organs for transplants - which could save thousands of human lives. But opponents have said the work is a freak show and a perversion of science.
http://www.skynews.co.uk/skynews/sto...032139,00.html

PCs talk personal
It's easy enough to distinguish between a human voice and a computer-synthesized one. Yet people still hear personality in computer voices, a new study suggests, and are more readily influenced by ones that mirror their own character. The findings may help Web marketers pitch their sales-talk. Extroverted listeners prefer an 'extroverted' computer voice which is loud, fast and varied in pitch, communications expert Clifford Nass and his colleagues at Stanford University in California found.
http://www.nature.com/nsu/011004/011004-3.html

More news later on

12-10-01, 05:02 PM	#2
walktalker The local newspaper man Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: Montreal Posts: 2,036	SirCam Ready to Drop Payload I send you this article in order to give you advice: SirCam, the annoying e-mail worm that simply won't go away, will turn feral Oct. 16. According to analysis of SirCam's code, every year on Oct. 16 the worm will delete all the files and folders contained on the hard drives of randomly selected SirCam-infected computers. Those who have clicked on a file attached to an e-mail that reads, in part, "I send you this file in order to have your advice," have a few days to make sure the worm is not lurking in their computers. http://www.wired.com/news/technology...,47476,00.html New Anthrax Case Reported at NBC An NBC News employee was infected with the skin form of anthrax after the network received mail containing a suspicious powder, authorities said Friday. The anthrax is not the inhaled form of the disease, which killed a Florida man a week ago. The NBC employee is being treated with antibiotics and is expected to recover, the network said. Barry Mawn, head of the FBI office in New York, said authorities "see no connection whatsoever" to the Sept. 11 attack on the World Trade Center. The FBI is checking to see if there is a link to the Florida case, but "preliminarily I do not see that," Mawn said. http://www.wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,47542,00.html Terror Bill Limits Gambling, Too Osama bin Laden is not, according to news reports, a terribly big fan of Western vices. Nor has there been any reliable confirmation that last month's suicide-hijackers, who completed the bloodiest terrorist attack in American history, were habitual gamblers. But that didn't stop the House Financial Services committee from voting 62-1 on Thursday for an "anti-terrorism" bill that limits Internet gambling. http://www.wired.com/news/conflict/0,2100,47518,00.html Anthrax Still Music to Some Ears Despite its album titled "Spread the Disease," the heavy metal band Anthrax wants people to know it has nothing to do with terrorists or terrorism. The band, which owns the anthrax.com domain, has seen a surge in traffic to its website since three people were discovered to have been infected with anthrax in Florida. On Thursday, Anthrax felt compelled to explain the origin of the band's name since so much attention has been focused on anthrax the bacteria. http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,47513,00.html Bert-Osama Site Taken Down A website which reputedly first brought together children's television icon Bert of Sesame Street fame and the world's most wanted man, Osama bin Laden, has been shut down by its creator. The site, operated by a Dutchman who identifies himself on his site only as J-roen, carried the following message on Friday: "Due to the great amount of comments (both positive and negative) since a picture from this website was recently featured in a collage poster, I have decided to take this section of the site offline." The author did not respond to e-mails seeking comment. http://www.wired.com/news/conflict/0,2100,47532,00.html Dream of Clean Desktop Gets Messy While working on Microsoft's newest operating system, Bob Graf, the engineer who heads the company's user interface team, discovered something surprising -- if not "revolutionary," as he describes it -- about the way most people use computers. " I visited 50 or more people in their homes," he said, "and I was asking each of them to name the seven applications that they use most often. And the thing is, most people, when they sit down to think about it, they can only come up with three or four applications they use. And I was just amazed at that." http://www.wired.com/news/technology...,47517,00.html Mars Engulfed by Massive Storm The entire surface of Mars is covered with the biggest dust storm the planet has ever seen, NASA researchers have reported. The Hubble Space Telescope and the Mars Global Surveyor now orbiting the planet show dust covering virtually the entire surface of the red planet. "A veil of hazy, reddish dust," is blanketing Mars, Jim Garvin, head of NASA's Mars exploration program, said Thursday at a news conference. Because of the storm, NASA engineers are considering slight changes in the flight path of a spacecraft scheduled to land on Mars in less than two weeks. http://www.wired.com/news/technology...,47511,00.html Anti-Secrecy Website Pulls Sensitive Information An institution dedicated to blowing the lid off national security secrets has removed about 200 pages worth of data from its Web site out of concern that the information could compromise the safety of government buildings. "Like everyone else we are trying to understand the events of Sept. 11. Unlike everyone else, we have a large inventory of information online concerning national security policy and technology," Steven Aftergood, the director of the Federation of American Scientists' Project on Government Secrecy said today. "Against that backdrop we find ourselves in the unfamiliar situation of withholding certain categories of information ourselves," Aftergood said. http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/171058.html Phone hub security sought Saying terrorist attacks against telecommunications hubs could shut down banks, broadcasters and financial markets, Verizon Communications wants tougher security in phone-equipment buildings. "If you really want to create panic, take down the telecommunications facilities," says Larry Babbio, vice chairman of Verizon, the USA's No. 1 local phone company. Verizon has told Federal Communications Commission Chairman Michael Powell of its concerns. And the FCC, which regulates the issue, is encouraging companies to come forward with proposals, it says. http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/t...b-security.htm 240 Miles Up, Seeing Tragedy Space station commander Frank Culbertson and his two crewmates, Russian cosmonauts Vladimir Dezhurov and Mikhail Tyurin, were working through another busy day in orbit 240 miles above the Earth on Sept. 11 when a flight surgeon in Houston radioed word of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon. "It's difficult to describe how it feels to be the only American completely off the planet at a time such as this," Culbertson wrote the next day in a letter to friends, family and, ultimately, the nation. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...2001Oct10.html Agencies censor sites deemed useful to terrorists Federal agencies are scrutinizing their Web sites and striking any information they believe terrorists might use to plot attacks against the nation. The move is quickly reversing strides the government has made over the last decade toward providing public information online. The review of the government's Web sites is wide in scope. It is unclear whether a specific guideline has been passed down about which types of information should be removed. http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/t...govt-sites.htm Network Associates puts PGP up for sale Network Associates plans to sell off its PGP desktop encryption and Gauntlet firewall product lines. It's a surprise move that reflects weakness in the encryption market that has hit other major players, such as Baltimore Technologies. Up until Network Associates can find a buyer, development will cease on those products (though support will continue) while the rest of the PGP Security products and technologies will be integrated into the firm's McAfee and Sniffer product lines. http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/7/22186.html New net domain 'fiasco' Up to a quarter of the early registrations for the new .info domain name could be bogus. A study of 11,000 registrations has shown a failure of the steps taken to stop people winning control of domains they do not have the right to run. Legal experts have called the whole process a fiasco, and said the company administering the .info domain could face legal challenges from those denied a chance to apply for some generic .info domains. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci...00/1593396.stm Outcry Over Pinky And Yellowy Scientists have developed the first pig with a fluorescent yellow snout and trotters using jellyfish DNA. Researchers in the US say the work is a step towards growing animal organs for transplants - which could save thousands of human lives. But opponents have said the work is a freak show and a perversion of science. http://www.skynews.co.uk/skynews/sto...032139,00.html PCs talk personal It's easy enough to distinguish between a human voice and a computer-synthesized one. Yet people still hear personality in computer voices, a new study suggests, and are more readily influenced by ones that mirror their own character. The findings may help Web marketers pitch their sales-talk. Extroverted listeners prefer an 'extroverted' computer voice which is loud, fast and varied in pitch, communications expert Clifford Nass and his colleagues at Stanford University in California found. http://www.nature.com/nsu/011004/011004-3.html More news later on __________________ This post was sponsored by Netcoco, who wants cookies, cookies, cookies and, you guessed it, more cookies