Friday Tech Reading-NERO:Urgent Virus Warning - tech
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SECURITY...
- Single Windows security patch coming next week -
Tuesday, Microsoft will release a single patch addressing a critical
flaw in its Windows operating system. The update will be issued as part of
the software company's monthly security update.
- Microsoft Patches Break Some Sites - Two patches released by
Microsoft earlier this year for its Internet Explorer browser
may cause some Web sites not to load properly. After installing MS05-038,
which was published August 9 on the Microsoft Download Center, Web pages
containing Component Object Model (COM) objects called monikers may not work
as expected. Microsoft has
published
instructions on how to resolve the MS05-038 issues.
- NERO: Urgent Virus Warning -
Criminals
are currently sending virus contaminated e-mails which appear to originate
from Nero (e.g. [email protected] or [email protected] ). Please delete such
e-mails immediately and do not under any circumstances open the attachments.
Nero does not send any e-mails with attachments concerning registration.
- Cisco Patches 'Black Hat' IOS Vulnerability -
Cisco has warned users of a flaw in its IOS software which might be used
by hackers to bypass security restrictions and run hostile code on network
devices. The vulnerability reportedly affects all Cisco products that run
Cisco IOS software, including routers and a limited range of switches that
don't run CatOS.
- Apple QuickTime Player Remote Denial Of Service - Apple QuickTime
Player
is reported prone to remote denial of service attack (exploitable via
remotely originated content). A missing movie attribute is interpreted as an
extension, but the absence of the extension is not flagged as an error,
resulting in a de-reference of a NULL pointer. This will cause a denial of
service against any application loading remotely-originated content.
- World of Warcraft hackers using Sony BMG rootkit - World of
Warcraft hackers have confirmed that
the hiding
capabilities of Sony BMG's content protection software can make tools made
for cheating in the online world impossible to detect.
- Phishing attack hits PayPal subscribers -
A new phishing attack is targeting PayPal users, redirecting them to a
fake site in an attempt to collect password details. The executable, named
'PayPal-2.5.200-MSWin32-x86-2005.exe', is a Trojan Horse which modifies the
DNS server of the local workstation and then deletes itself. All future
requests are then transparently redirected to a bogus website.
- Technology can't beat us, casino cheat says -
A
self-proclaimed casino cheater has criticized the effectiveness of many
technologies touted as anti-cheating measures--including controversial
solutions like RFID and facial recognition--and suggested they are doomed to
expensive failure. Richard Marcus said he is "more or less retired" but is
still widely regarded as a leading authority on casino cheating. Marcus
scammed a reported $5 million in Atlantic City, N.J., Las Vegas, London and
Monte Carlo over a 25-year period.
CRIME/LAW...
- US youth arrested for botnet cyber attack -
A 20-year-old Californian was arrested by the FBI for assembling a botnet
comprising hundreds of thousands of computers to spread spam and other malware,
the Los Angeles Times reported on Friday. Jeanson James Ancheta of Downey,
California, was also accused by US Attorney's Office of having illegally
distributed adware, software that pops up advertisements in infected computers,
to earn a profit. If convicted of all charges, he could be sentenced to 50 years
in prison, according to the prosecutors. Another article can be found at
Wired.
- Police Need 90 Days To Crack Hard Drives -
The UK police may need 90 days to hold terrorist suspects because it takes
that long to crack a suspect's PC hard drive.
- China cracks down on online games -
The new regulations, which include tight limits on playing time and a ban on
underage players in violent games, were announced earlier this year, and the
government plans to begin full enforcement early next year.
OFF-TOPIC
- US man seeks movie plotline patent - Andrew Knight, a rocket engine
inventor and registered patent agent,
filed the test application in November 2003, the first of its kind, arguing
that fictional plots are patentable under the US system. Knight suggests
on his website that the plots of several films - including Memento, Eternal
Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Being John Malkovich, Fight Club, The Matrix,
The Truman Show, Minority Report, The Village and Groundhog Day - may have
been eligible for patent protection. But presumably he doesn't see anything in
the memory loss genre as prior art that could damage his own prospects of
winning a monopoly right.
- Survey: One in five U.S. teens has a blog -
Nearly three in five school-age teens with Internet access have created
on-line content, including Web pages with artwork, photos and stories - and
about a fifth have their own blogs, which also allow friends and other readers
to create feedback postings
TECHNOLOGY...
- G71 is the Playstation 3 RSX chip -
NVIDIA
calls its 90 nanometre graphic core of Playstation 3, RSX. This graphic
chip is set to work at 550MHz and Nvidia can guarantee that a million chips
will work at this speed as it's not that challenging at this process level.
Nvidia can obviously make G70 work fine at 550MHz but it can not ship millions
of those chips, more likely tens of thousands.
- Nintendo announces Wi-Fi
Connection plans for Europe -
Nintendo has announced that more than 15,000 Wi-Fi Connection hotspots
will be active in time for the European launch of the service - a figure which
is set to almost double by the end of the year.
- Microsoft publishes
report on possible next-generation OS -
Singularity is a research project (in
PDF) focused on the construction of dependable systems through innovation
in the areas of systems, languages, and tools.
- Google Opens Up Library Doors - Google have opened up the library
doors to their beta Google
Print service.
- Microsoft to digitise 100,000 books - Microsoft
and the British Library have come together
to make 100,000 of the institution's titles available online. The deal
covers some 25 million pages which will be made available as part of
Microsoft's book search service, next year.
- Long Standing Bug Still
Plagues Thunderbird Users -
Are you a Mozilla Thunderbird user who lives in an area that observes Daylight
Savings Time? Is your computer running a Windows operating system with FAT
or FAT32 formatted drives? If so, chances are you may have experienced
problems with Thunderbird since the change from Daylight Savings Time went in
to effect earlier this month. A long standing bug that causes severe
performance issues and has existed in various stages of the Mozilla project
now known as Thunderbird continues to plague users despite having
a history of bug reports that have been filed via Bugzilla, Mozilla's
online bug reporting tool.
- Ford squeezes an office into a truck -
Ford Motor unveiled a mobile office designed for the new F-Series truck
that includes a touch-screen computer, printer, wireless broadband access and
Global Positioning System.
- Wireless: The new backseat driver? - On Thursday,
General Motors demonstrated a vehicle-to-vehicle, or V2V, wireless
communication system that alerts you when a collision is imminent. The
automaker equipped regular Cadillac STS sedans with wireless and Global
Positioning System antennae and computer chips that allow the cars to
communicate with other vehicles with similar equipment.
- Think GAIA -
Sanyo eneloop Batteries -
The eneloop battery is the world first rechargeable battery that can be
used like a dry cell battery, because it comes pre-charged. Rechargeable
batteries usually suffer from self-discharge. Sanyo solved this issue and
achieves with the eneloop a residual ratio after one year of non use of 85% in
tests.
- 7800GTX 512MB hits the street on 14th -
The 7800GTX 512MB is already SKUed and the delivery date is set for
Monday, November 14th.
GADGETS...
- iRobot Takes Orders for the Scooba Floor Washing Robot -
iRobot sells the Scooba for $399.99 with free shipping and a 30 day risk
free trial. Only issue is that the delivery time is 8-10 weeks. The Scooba features a four
stage cleaning process in a single pass. It vacuums, washes, scrubs and dries
floors automatically.
- Nokia 770 Linux Internet Tablet Now Available in
Europe -
The Nokia 770 is available for 12 European Countries. Apparently the
German version is not in stock anymore has never been. the UK version is in
Stock and sells for £245.00 (~$ 432). No word yet when the Nokia 770 is
available in the United States.
- Sony PSP TV Adapter Kit -
The PSP2TV Sony PSP TV adaptor kit actually requires to open up the Sony
PSP and by doing this void your warranty. The PSP On TV is works without
voiding the warrenty of the PSP. Lik-Sang is also offering a warranty safe
version, but it will not be released until December.
- T-Mobile offers own-brand HTC Wizard in UK - T-Mobile has become
the first carrier to offer
HTC's Wizard Wi-Fi-equipped Windows Mobile 5.0 handset in the UK. Its
version of the device is called the MDA Vario, but it provides the usual
messaging and browsing features standard to all versions of the device. The
unit contains 128MB of memory, expandable using MiniSD cards, and incorporates
Bluetooth and 802.11b wireless network connectivity. It has a quad-band
GSM/GPRS radio with EDGE support for higher data transfer rates.
HARDWARE...
GUIDES...
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Everything You Need to Know About Digital Cameras -
Everything you need to know before buying a digital camera: what is
megapixel, how many photos you can store in a memory card and what the most
common terms mean.
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VoIP & Internet Phone Services Compared Explanatory Guide -
VoIP
is one of those mysterious acronyms that almost everyone has seen by now.
If you’ve read or watched TV ads for Vonage or any of the other mushrooming
broadband telephone services, or read about eBay’s acquisition of Skype,
you’re familiar with it. You might have experienced it without even knowing
it.
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How To Secure Your Emails - You may think that when you send an email,
it will only go to the person you want, but this
is not
always the case.
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Myths Regarding Windows XP v1.2.7 - There are numerous Myths floating
around the Internet regarding Windows XP, especially relating to Optimizations
and Security.
Hopefully this site will debunk some of these.
SOFTWARE...
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FreeBSD 6.0 Final -
release notes /
download
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CloneAD avi.NET 1.4 -
avi.NET is an MPEG1/MPEG2
to AVI converter (download)
using AVS scripts. avi.NET is a 'AutoGK' type program but has a top priority
of making AVI files that are Standalone Player Compatible.
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FastStone Image Viewer 2.27 -
FastStone Image Viewer (download)
is a fast, stable, user-friendly image browser, converter and editor. It
supports all major graphic formats (BMP, JPEG, JPEG 2000, animated GIF, PNG,
PCX, TIFF, WMF, ICO and TGA) and popular digital camera RAW formats (CRW, CR2,
NEF, PEF, RAF, MRW, ORF and DNG).
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JoJoThumb 2.9.6 -
JoJoThumb (download)
is a utility that allows to create thumbnails from images of the imagetypes
BMP, GIF, EMF, JPG, PCD, PCX, PNG, PSD, TGA, TIF, WMF and RAW-Files from
Digital-Cameras.
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AIM Ad Hack 5.0 BETA 12 for Aim Triton 0.8.8 -
With this small file
(download)
you can effectively remove all the ads from AIM you must be using.
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Nero CD-DVD Speed 4.10 -
Nero CD-DVD Speed is a benchmark which can test the most important
features of an optical drive. These tests include: Transfer rate, Seek times,
CPU (Central Processing Unit) usage, Burst rate, DAE (Digital Audio
Extraction) quality & Spinup/spindown time. It can also check the CD (Compact
Disk) and DVD (Digital Versatile Disk) media quality.
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ATI Catalyst 5.11 Beta with CP -
This driver, although WHQL tagged is unofficial and unsupported.
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nForce Drivers WHQL sets - Nvidia have released
5 new sets of nForce Drivers 5.11, 6.69, 7.13, 7.15 and 8.22 for Windows
2000/XP and Windows XP 64bits.
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