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walktalker · 09-11-01, 04:01 PM

MS group to oversee hack reports
Microsoft and five security companies announced Thursday that they would create an organization to promote the responsible publishing of information about software flaws. Though many of the details have yet to be hammered out, the move marks the beginning of what could be the widespread emergence of ethical rules for security research.
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/ne...kpt=zdnnp1tp01

IE flaw puts credit card info at risk
Microsoft has warned that versions of Internet Explorer can expose consumers' personal data contained within cookies. The vulnerability exists within IE 5.5 and 6.0, but earlier browser editions "may or may not be affected," according to a security bulletin posted to Microsoft's Web site Thursday. The security flaw allows an outsider to break into cookies -- tiny electronic files used by Web sites to file account information or personalize pages--through a specially crafted Web page or e-mail. A person could then steal or alter data from Web accounts, including credit card numbers, usernames and passwords.
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/ne...kpt=zdnnp1tp02

Comdex: Spotlight's back on tech
Can technology aficionados forget about security concerns, the slumping economy and their own job insecurity for a few days to focus on the latest advances in wireless networking and digital cameras? That's the key question for the scores of vendors who will be hawking their latest gadgets to shell-shocked visitors at the Comdex Fall 2001 show in Las Vegas next week. Although many other conferences have been canceled or postponed since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, a slimmer and more security-conscious Comdex is proceeding as planned. Some 150,000 attendees are expected this year, down about 25 percent from last year, and fewer major product announcements are planned.
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/ne...kpt=zdnnp1tp02

Xbox vs. GameCube -- get ready to rumble
Microsoft will make its first move into the cutthroat business with the Xbox on Nov. 15. Three days later, Nintendo plans to start U.S. sales of the GameCube, its first new console since the 1996 launch of the Nintendo 64. Meanwhile, market leader Sony has built a strong bunker against the interlopers, having shipped more than 20 million PlayStation 2 machines since its debut last year. Never in the history of the $20 billion video-game industry have two home consoles made their debuts in the same week. The battle, made all the fiercer by Sony's entrenched lead and the worsening economy, will feature splashy ad campaigns as the three players try to woo gamers.
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/ne...kpt=zdnnp1tp02

Government agencies fail security test
Government agencies have some chronic problems with their computer security, according to testimony at a congressional hearing Friday. A subcommittee of the House Committee on Government Reform issued a set of grades -- mostly failing -- to government agencies regarding how well they are protected against hackers, terrorists and other miscreants. "There's no significant relationship between the percent of (an agency's) IT spending on security and the security performance of that agency," Mark Forman, associate director for information technology and e-government at the Office of Management and Budget, said at the hearing.
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/ne...kpt=zdnnp1tp02

Pirate raid nets fake Windows XP
More than 4,000 copies of Microsoft software products have been seized in recent police raids in Singapore. Seven raids were conducted in October, across the island's HDB heartlands like Toa Payoh, Ang Mo Kio, Marine Parade and Bedok North. This is because activity at the traditional center of pirated goods, Sim Lim Square, has largely been stamped out by police action. The raids turned up over 4,000 pieces of illegal Microsoft goods. About 80 percent of these were of the software giant's Windows XP system, which premiered on October 25, and arrived in Singapore a day later.
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/ne...kpt=zdnnp1tp02

Instant messaging vulnerable to viruses
Security experts have warned companies that increased use of corporate instant messaging services could increase vulnerability to virus attacks and the interception of messages. Yahoo! and Sun Microsystems have both announced that they will release instant messaging (IM) software for corporate use, and Microsoft has said that IM will play a large role in its .Net strategy for accessing applications online. Yahoo! said its IM service will let employees send messages behind the corporate firewall, but will also integrate with other systems and the Internet to allow real-time communication across global locations. Sun's messaging service will also work behind the firewall, the company said.
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/ne...kpt=zdnnp1tp02

Taco Bell, Starbucks join eBay's cause
eBay is recruiting big businesses to re-energize its flagging Auction for America effort, which has raised only $5.6 million of its goal of $100 million in 100 days. Wells Fargo, Starbucks, Federated Stores and Taco Bell have donated items to the charity auction, which will benefit the victims of the September terrorist attacks, company spokesman Kevin Pursglove said Friday. Pepsico donated a replica of NASCAR star Jeff Gordan's race car. With eight days remaining in the auction, the car has already drawn more than 30 bids, and the bidding has reached more than $20,000. Taco Bell is donating an Xbox game console and $250 in gift certificates, and Wells Fargo donated a canceled 1870 stock certificate to the charity auction.
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1007-200...html?tag=mn_hd

Deal boosts open-source supercomputing
Platform Computing, a company that tries to harness the collective computing power on computer networks, has signed a deal to commercialize an open-source supercomputing project. Platform is working with the Globus Project to commercialize the Globus Toolkit for governing the use of computers and storage systems joined into a large computing "grid," Platform said Wednesday. Grid computing is a relative of distributed computing, the best known example of which is the SETI@home screen-saver program that searches radio signals for extraterrestrial communications. Grid computing, though, often uses higher-powered computers than mere desktop PCs, and has attracted the interest of IBM, which thinks corporate customers as well as academics will use grid methods. IBM is working with Globus to boost this expansion.
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200...html?tag=mn_hd

Harry Potter and the ravenous surfers
Web surfers logging on at home are flocking to the official Web site of the Harry Potter movie, according to a survey released Friday. During the six weeks ended Nov. 4, traffic to the Harry Potter site skyrocketed 239 percent to 573,000 unique visitors, compared with 169,000 surfers for the week ended Sept. 23, according to Internet-audience measurement service Nielsen/NetRatings. Traffic to the site continued to grow this past week, jumping 47 percent for the week ended Oct. 28. The film is set to premiere Nov. 16.
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200...html?tag=mn_hd

Hacker: Don't bank on IBM security system
Two graduate students have found a way to hack into security systems that protect many banking and e-commerce transactions, Cambridge University said Thursday. Michael Bond and Richard Clayton, computer science doctoral students, developed programs allowing them to hack into an IBM security computer that was previously thought to be secure, it said. "We've found a way for a dishonest bank employee to manipulate a bank's computer system to get customers' personal identification numbers," Bond said in a statement. Typically, several employees must authorize access to the codes. "With the numbers, an employee could easily forge a cash card, go to a cash machine and withdraw money," he said.
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200...html?tag=mn_hd

The Net Effect: Super Sync
For decades, future-gazing technologists and visionaries have assumed that technology would bring into being some sort of electronic Library of Alexandria. In this scenario, massive databanks would be centralized information utilities, with access granted by cheap, fast and ubiquitous data feeds. In Star Trek, for instance, crew members used a wireless network to link their tricorders with the starship Enterprise's onboard computer — that storehouse of all things interesting and relevant.
http://www.techreview.com/magazine/nov01/garfinkel.asp

European council adopts cybercrime treaty
The 43-nation Council of Europe adopted an international treaty on cybercrime, the first to take aim at criminal offenses committed over the Internet. The treaty criminalizes activities such as fraud and child pornography committed on the Internet and sets up global policing procedures for conducting computer searches, intercepting e-mails and extraditing criminal suspects. The Council, a club of European democracies that aims to safeguard human rights, said the treaty was adopted by its Committee of Ministers and would be open for signature by member states at a conference on cybercrime in Budapest, Hungary, on Nov. 23.
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-7826224.html

Bush adviser: Terror a real threat to tech
The terrorist attacks of Sept. 11 may not have touched the Internet, but the incidents have put the high-tech industry on notice, President Bush's special adviser on cyberspace security said. In his first speech since Sept. 11, Richard Clarke stressed Wednesday that the nuisance of online vandals and the occasional hacker should not be used as a yardstick to measure the threat of terrorism to cyberspace. "Think not about the costs that have already occurred as a measure of what could occur," he told security experts, privacy advocates and policy-makers at a dinner here concluding the second day of Microsoft's Trusted Computing conference. "Our enemies are smart; they are not to be underestimated."
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-7816442.html

Pickup sites the next e-commerce trend?
British online shoppers with busy schedules will soon no longer have to wait at home for their goods to arrive -- they can pick them up from their nearest service station or convenience store. A report released Friday by market analysts Datamonitor said there is a growing trend toward the establishment of pickup points for online purchases in 24-hour shops like gas stations or corner shops. Analyst Mike Philipps said the move would boost the unfulfilled potential of online shopping and provide relief for both frustrated customers and harassed e-tailers.
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1007-200...html?tag=cd_mh

Court shields Yahoo from French laws
Yahoo does not have to comply with a French court decision that requires the company to block Nazi-related material from French consumers, a federal judge ruled on Wednesday. The French order, which was issued last year, violates Yahoo's First Amendment rights, said U.S. District Court Judge Jeremy Fogel of the Northern District of California. Fogel's ruling blocks the League Against Racism and Anti-Semitism (LICRA) and the Union of Jewish Students, which successfully sued Yahoo in France, from enforcing a judgment against the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company.
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1007-200...html?tag=cd_mh

Digital watermarking rivals trade blows
A legal dispute between digital watermark developer Verance and rival Digimarc could complicate efforts to set a standard for DVD copy-protection. Verance on Wednesday filed a lawsuit in federal court in Portland, Ore., charging Digimarc with violating antitrust and unfair competition laws, the latest legal blow in a long-standing intellectual property dispute between the two companies. Among other things, the suit alleges that Digimarc illegally submitted Verance's digital watermarking technology to a standards group. The case could have wider ramifications for copyright holders, who may have to wait longer for a standard to emerge, analysts said. A previous copy-protection scheme for DVDs, known as CSS, was broken two years ago by Linux programmers, leaving Hollywood studios scrambling to find a replacement.
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200...html?tag=cd_mh

FastTrack founder looks to legal future
Napster, the now infamous Internet song-swapping service, may have been grounded by a protracted legal battle, but its legacy lives on. A Dutch technology start-up, FastTrack, has picked up where Napster left off. Its software has enabled tens of millions of computer users to trade tracks from The Beatles and Britney Spears for free, plus an added bonus: hefty movie files to choose from, too. Now Niklas Zennstrom, the 35-year-old founder of FastTrack, finds himself in the same position as Napster creator Shawn Fanning. His tiny, year-old company has made a lot of noise in the entertainment industry.
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200...html?tag=cd_mh

BBC gives new look to interactive TV, Web
The British Broadcasting Corp. has quietly relaunched all of its interactive services under a single brand, its first step toward driving digital access in Britain. All BBC online, digital-text and interactive TV services were brought under the "BBCi" banner Wednesday, providing a uniform format for its information and education services. The redesign is intended to merge all interactive platforms into one, making it easier for BBC audiences to access emerging digital platforms.
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200...html?tag=ch_mh

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theflaco · 09-11-01, 04:09 PM

Uncle Sam Wants Napster!

The Pentagon is taking a friendlier view of Napster's file-sharing concept than are America's big entertainment companies, which have repeatedly sued tech upstarts to stop people from swapping songs, movies and other copyrighted material.

Rather than trying to shut down the new computer networks that allow people to directly connect other personal computers, the military wants to enlist their creators in the war against terrorism.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...-2001Nov7.html

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walktalker · 10-11-01, 12:08 PM

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09-11-01, 04:01 PM	#1
walktalker The local newspaper man Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: Montreal Posts: 2,036	The Newspaper Shop -- Friday edition MS group to oversee hack reports Microsoft and five security companies announced Thursday that they would create an organization to promote the responsible publishing of information about software flaws. Though many of the details have yet to be hammered out, the move marks the beginning of what could be the widespread emergence of ethical rules for security research. http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/ne...kpt=zdnnp1tp01 IE flaw puts credit card info at risk Microsoft has warned that versions of Internet Explorer can expose consumers' personal data contained within cookies. The vulnerability exists within IE 5.5 and 6.0, but earlier browser editions "may or may not be affected," according to a security bulletin posted to Microsoft's Web site Thursday. The security flaw allows an outsider to break into cookies -- tiny electronic files used by Web sites to file account information or personalize pages--through a specially crafted Web page or e-mail. A person could then steal or alter data from Web accounts, including credit card numbers, usernames and passwords. http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/ne...kpt=zdnnp1tp02 Comdex: Spotlight's back on tech Can technology aficionados forget about security concerns, the slumping economy and their own job insecurity for a few days to focus on the latest advances in wireless networking and digital cameras? That's the key question for the scores of vendors who will be hawking their latest gadgets to shell-shocked visitors at the Comdex Fall 2001 show in Las Vegas next week. Although many other conferences have been canceled or postponed since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, a slimmer and more security-conscious Comdex is proceeding as planned. Some 150,000 attendees are expected this year, down about 25 percent from last year, and fewer major product announcements are planned. http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/ne...kpt=zdnnp1tp02 Xbox vs. GameCube -- get ready to rumble Microsoft will make its first move into the cutthroat business with the Xbox on Nov. 15. Three days later, Nintendo plans to start U.S. sales of the GameCube, its first new console since the 1996 launch of the Nintendo 64. Meanwhile, market leader Sony has built a strong bunker against the interlopers, having shipped more than 20 million PlayStation 2 machines since its debut last year. Never in the history of the $20 billion video-game industry have two home consoles made their debuts in the same week. The battle, made all the fiercer by Sony's entrenched lead and the worsening economy, will feature splashy ad campaigns as the three players try to woo gamers. http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/ne...kpt=zdnnp1tp02 Government agencies fail security test Government agencies have some chronic problems with their computer security, according to testimony at a congressional hearing Friday. A subcommittee of the House Committee on Government Reform issued a set of grades -- mostly failing -- to government agencies regarding how well they are protected against hackers, terrorists and other miscreants. "There's no significant relationship between the percent of (an agency's) IT spending on security and the security performance of that agency," Mark Forman, associate director for information technology and e-government at the Office of Management and Budget, said at the hearing. http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/ne...kpt=zdnnp1tp02 Pirate raid nets fake Windows XP More than 4,000 copies of Microsoft software products have been seized in recent police raids in Singapore. Seven raids were conducted in October, across the island's HDB heartlands like Toa Payoh, Ang Mo Kio, Marine Parade and Bedok North. This is because activity at the traditional center of pirated goods, Sim Lim Square, has largely been stamped out by police action. The raids turned up over 4,000 pieces of illegal Microsoft goods. About 80 percent of these were of the software giant's Windows XP system, which premiered on October 25, and arrived in Singapore a day later. http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/ne...kpt=zdnnp1tp02 Instant messaging vulnerable to viruses Security experts have warned companies that increased use of corporate instant messaging services could increase vulnerability to virus attacks and the interception of messages. Yahoo! and Sun Microsystems have both announced that they will release instant messaging (IM) software for corporate use, and Microsoft has said that IM will play a large role in its .Net strategy for accessing applications online. Yahoo! said its IM service will let employees send messages behind the corporate firewall, but will also integrate with other systems and the Internet to allow real-time communication across global locations. Sun's messaging service will also work behind the firewall, the company said. http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/ne...kpt=zdnnp1tp02 Taco Bell, Starbucks join eBay's cause eBay is recruiting big businesses to re-energize its flagging Auction for America effort, which has raised only $5.6 million of its goal of $100 million in 100 days. Wells Fargo, Starbucks, Federated Stores and Taco Bell have donated items to the charity auction, which will benefit the victims of the September terrorist attacks, company spokesman Kevin Pursglove said Friday. Pepsico donated a replica of NASCAR star Jeff Gordan's race car. With eight days remaining in the auction, the car has already drawn more than 30 bids, and the bidding has reached more than $20,000. Taco Bell is donating an Xbox game console and $250 in gift certificates, and Wells Fargo donated a canceled 1870 stock certificate to the charity auction. http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1007-200...html?tag=mn_hd Deal boosts open-source supercomputing Platform Computing, a company that tries to harness the collective computing power on computer networks, has signed a deal to commercialize an open-source supercomputing project. Platform is working with the Globus Project to commercialize the Globus Toolkit for governing the use of computers and storage systems joined into a large computing "grid," Platform said Wednesday. Grid computing is a relative of distributed computing, the best known example of which is the SETI@home screen-saver program that searches radio signals for extraterrestrial communications. Grid computing, though, often uses higher-powered computers than mere desktop PCs, and has attracted the interest of IBM, which thinks corporate customers as well as academics will use grid methods. IBM is working with Globus to boost this expansion. http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200...html?tag=mn_hd Harry Potter and the ravenous surfers Web surfers logging on at home are flocking to the official Web site of the Harry Potter movie, according to a survey released Friday. During the six weeks ended Nov. 4, traffic to the Harry Potter site skyrocketed 239 percent to 573,000 unique visitors, compared with 169,000 surfers for the week ended Sept. 23, according to Internet-audience measurement service Nielsen/NetRatings. Traffic to the site continued to grow this past week, jumping 47 percent for the week ended Oct. 28. The film is set to premiere Nov. 16. http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200...html?tag=mn_hd Hacker: Don't bank on IBM security system Two graduate students have found a way to hack into security systems that protect many banking and e-commerce transactions, Cambridge University said Thursday. Michael Bond and Richard Clayton, computer science doctoral students, developed programs allowing them to hack into an IBM security computer that was previously thought to be secure, it said. "We've found a way for a dishonest bank employee to manipulate a bank's computer system to get customers' personal identification numbers," Bond said in a statement. Typically, several employees must authorize access to the codes. "With the numbers, an employee could easily forge a cash card, go to a cash machine and withdraw money," he said. http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200...html?tag=mn_hd The Net Effect: Super Sync For decades, future-gazing technologists and visionaries have assumed that technology would bring into being some sort of electronic Library of Alexandria. In this scenario, massive databanks would be centralized information utilities, with access granted by cheap, fast and ubiquitous data feeds. In Star Trek, for instance, crew members used a wireless network to link their tricorders with the starship Enterprise's onboard computer — that storehouse of all things interesting and relevant. http://www.techreview.com/magazine/nov01/garfinkel.asp European council adopts cybercrime treaty The 43-nation Council of Europe adopted an international treaty on cybercrime, the first to take aim at criminal offenses committed over the Internet. The treaty criminalizes activities such as fraud and child pornography committed on the Internet and sets up global policing procedures for conducting computer searches, intercepting e-mails and extraditing criminal suspects. The Council, a club of European democracies that aims to safeguard human rights, said the treaty was adopted by its Committee of Ministers and would be open for signature by member states at a conference on cybercrime in Budapest, Hungary, on Nov. 23. http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-7826224.html Bush adviser: Terror a real threat to tech The terrorist attacks of Sept. 11 may not have touched the Internet, but the incidents have put the high-tech industry on notice, President Bush's special adviser on cyberspace security said. In his first speech since Sept. 11, Richard Clarke stressed Wednesday that the nuisance of online vandals and the occasional hacker should not be used as a yardstick to measure the threat of terrorism to cyberspace. "Think not about the costs that have already occurred as a measure of what could occur," he told security experts, privacy advocates and policy-makers at a dinner here concluding the second day of Microsoft's Trusted Computing conference. "Our enemies are smart; they are not to be underestimated." http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-7816442.html Pickup sites the next e-commerce trend? British online shoppers with busy schedules will soon no longer have to wait at home for their goods to arrive -- they can pick them up from their nearest service station or convenience store. A report released Friday by market analysts Datamonitor said there is a growing trend toward the establishment of pickup points for online purchases in 24-hour shops like gas stations or corner shops. Analyst Mike Philipps said the move would boost the unfulfilled potential of online shopping and provide relief for both frustrated customers and harassed e-tailers. http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1007-200...html?tag=cd_mh Court shields Yahoo from French laws Yahoo does not have to comply with a French court decision that requires the company to block Nazi-related material from French consumers, a federal judge ruled on Wednesday. The French order, which was issued last year, violates Yahoo's First Amendment rights, said U.S. District Court Judge Jeremy Fogel of the Northern District of California. Fogel's ruling blocks the League Against Racism and Anti-Semitism (LICRA) and the Union of Jewish Students, which successfully sued Yahoo in France, from enforcing a judgment against the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company. http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1007-200...html?tag=cd_mh Digital watermarking rivals trade blows A legal dispute between digital watermark developer Verance and rival Digimarc could complicate efforts to set a standard for DVD copy-protection. Verance on Wednesday filed a lawsuit in federal court in Portland, Ore., charging Digimarc with violating antitrust and unfair competition laws, the latest legal blow in a long-standing intellectual property dispute between the two companies. Among other things, the suit alleges that Digimarc illegally submitted Verance's digital watermarking technology to a standards group. The case could have wider ramifications for copyright holders, who may have to wait longer for a standard to emerge, analysts said. A previous copy-protection scheme for DVDs, known as CSS, was broken two years ago by Linux programmers, leaving Hollywood studios scrambling to find a replacement. http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200...html?tag=cd_mh FastTrack founder looks to legal future Napster, the now infamous Internet song-swapping service, may have been grounded by a protracted legal battle, but its legacy lives on. A Dutch technology start-up, FastTrack, has picked up where Napster left off. Its software has enabled tens of millions of computer users to trade tracks from The Beatles and Britney Spears for free, plus an added bonus: hefty movie files to choose from, too. Now Niklas Zennstrom, the 35-year-old founder of FastTrack, finds himself in the same position as Napster creator Shawn Fanning. His tiny, year-old company has made a lot of noise in the entertainment industry. http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200...html?tag=cd_mh BBC gives new look to interactive TV, Web The British Broadcasting Corp. has quietly relaunched all of its interactive services under a single brand, its first step toward driving digital access in Britain. All BBC online, digital-text and interactive TV services were brought under the "BBCi" banner Wednesday, providing a uniform format for its information and education services. The redesign is intended to merge all interactive platforms into one, making it easier for BBC audiences to access emerging digital platforms. http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200...html?tag=ch_mh More news later on __________________ This post was sponsored by Netcoco, who wants cookies, cookies, cookies and, you guessed it, more cookies

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theflaco Join Date: Aug 2000 Posts: 768	Uncle Sam Wants Napster! The Pentagon is taking a friendlier view of Napster's file-sharing concept than are America's big entertainment companies, which have repeatedly sued tech upstarts to stop people from swapping songs, movies and other copyrighted material. Rather than trying to shut down the new computer networks that allow people to directly connect other personal computers, the military wants to enlist their creators in the war against terrorism. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...-2001Nov7.html theflaco