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(hx) 04:07 AM CEST - Sep,21 2004
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- Hackers deploying "bots" on a massive scale -
Hackers have
increased their attempts to hijack PCs since the start of the year, with
up to 75,000 being compromised daily, according to Symantec. The security
firm's biannual Internet Security Threat Report found that the average number
of PCs taken over by remote control was up from 2,000 to 30,000 a day.
- Security firm looks to hire alleged Sasser author - The teenage
virus writer arrested for writing the Sasser worm
has
been offered a job--at a security firm. Sven Jaschan, an 18-year-old
German, who is also thought to be behind the Netsky virus and is currently
awaiting trial on virus-writing charges, could be about to enter gainful
employment with German firewall company Securepoint. Securepoint says it would
teach the ex-malware maker to be a security programmer. The security vendor
says it would like to hire the reformed "script kiddy" because he has
knowledge in the field and deserves a chance to prove himself.
- Microsoft Opens Office Source Code to Governments - Microsoft Corp.
will allow governments around the world that use its software to have
controlled access to the source code for its pervasive Microsoft Office
2003 desktop offerings for the first time. The Redmond, Wash., software maker
on Monday in Europe will detail how it is going to give access to the code, an
expansion of the existing Government Security Program, or GSP, via a new
Government Shared Source License for Office.
- Arrest Made in Cisco Source Code Theft -
Police in the U.K. have arrested a man in connection with the theft of
source code from networking equipment maker Cisco Systems in May, a Scotland
Yard spokesperson confirms. The suspect has since been released on bail and is
scheduled to appear before authorities at a London police station again in
November. Another story can be found
here.
- "Warez lawyer" had double agenda - claim - More details have
emerged on the arrest of
a German lawyer and three businessmen who masterminded an international
warez network and grossed EURO1m. A spokesman for German anti-piracy
organisatin GVU told Berlin newspaper Tagesspiegel on Friday (17 Sept) that
the crackdown may have been the biggest blow ever against internet pirates
anywhere in the world. The main suspect, Bernhard Syndikus, a lawyer, was
arrested for criminal breach of copyright,money laundering and membership in a
criminal conspiracy. Police last week raided the offices of Gravenreuth &
Syndikus, a Munich law firm, of which Syndikus is a partner. According to
German reports almost all the funds of the warez site Ftpwelt.com were
channeled through an offshore company Internet Payment Systems Ltd, registered
on the Caribbean island of Tortola in the British Virgin Islands, and ended up
in a small eastern German town, Breitungen.
- PC-WELT discovers and fixes serious security issue in Windows XP SP2
(updated) - As soon as you install SP2 on a Windows XP PC with a certain
configuration,
your
file and printer sharing data are visible worldwide, despite an activated
Firewall. This also applies to all other services. The PC only has to provide
sharing for an internal local network and connect to the Internet via dial-up
or ISDN. Users of DSL services are also affected, if a firewall is not
integrated into the DSL modem or a common modem instead of a DSL router is
used. Additionally, Internet Connection Sharing of the PC has to be disabled.
- Off-topic: HAL 9000 on the Auction Block - He's now up
for sale on eBay, for the starting bid of just $150,000(USD)! :)
- Off-topic: Sen. McCain Seeks $1 Billion to Speed Digital TV Shift -
U.S. Senate Commerce Committee Chairman John McCain
is pushing for up to $1 billion in aid to ensure consumers are not left in
the dark when television stations broadcast only new, crisp digital signals,
according to draft legislation obtained on Sunday. McCain's measure would
require broadcasters to air only digital television signals by 2009 and help
consumers who rely on traditional television sets buy a device that would
convert digital back into a format that they could watch.
- Off-topic: Artificial Intelligence heads for the mainstream -
Artificial
intelligence (AI) is making its way out of the lab and into the mainstream
market, industry experts have reported.According to analyst group Frost &
Sullivan some technologies, such as case-based reasoning applications, have
already created a buzz in fields including drug discovery, medical diagnosis,
fraud detection, data mining and knowledge discovery.
- Off-topic: Poor service plagues half of European broadband users -
More than half of
European consumer broadband subscribers are dissatisfied with the customer
service they receive from operators, a survey has claimed. Two-thirds feel
that customer service would improve if they were given the opportunity to
receive high-speed data, voice over IP (VoIP) and video delivery from a single
service provider rather than ordering the same services from multiple
providers.
- Critical Mass. for AMD's chip designs? - The chipmaker this summer
established
a
new chip design team at its Boston Design Center here, a continent away
from its Silicon Valley base, as part of a worldwide effort to strengthen its
ability to deliver new processors and boost its sales. The bulk of the new
team, about 60 design engineers out of a total of 90, was already in the
neighborhood--they were stationed at a nearby outpost of Sun Microsystems. The
engineers, who came on board en masse in July, had been working on new
processors for Sun, before the computer maker shifted its processor design
strategy and canceled two projects, including its UltraSparc V. Many of the
designers also had worked on Digital Equipment's Alpha processor at one time
or another, considered a good pedigree in the chip world.
- NVIDIA adds 3D core to wireless media chip - NVIDIA has reportedly
added a
3D graphics core to its GoForce wireless media processor. Dubbed "Early
Z," the graphics core has a 40-bit pipeline, the ability to apply up to four
textures per pixel, and programmable shader technology. As its name implies,
the graphics core also makes use of occlusion culling to reduce overdraw.
The Early Z graphics core is a part of
NVIDIA's GoForce 4500 media processor, which also includes a 2D graphics
engine and JPEG and MPEG4 codecs.
- Via Details Processor Plans - Via Technologies' next generation of
desktop microprocessors, based on the Esther processor core,
will be called C7, the company says. Mobile versions of the chip will be
called C7-M. The first C7 and C7-M chips, which will be produced by IBM using
a 90-nanometer (nm) process, will ship in volume during the first half of next
year, says Richard Brown, Via's associate vice president of marketing, noting
that samples of the C7 will be available before volume production begins next
year.
- Athlon 64 4000+, FX-55 to arrive October - According to
TheInquirer,
the
Athlon64 4000+ and FX-55 on October 11th. Both appear to be 130 nanometre
parts. In related news,
the company expects to ship 600,000 units in the third quarter and 1.5-2
million K8 CPUs in the fourth quarter.
- 4GHz Intel Prescott on target for Q1 -
The 4GHz
Prescott processor using an LGA 775 pinout and with 1MB of L2 cache is on
target for the first quarter of next year, according to the latest Intel
roadmaps. he 580 has an 800MHz system bus and will be released round about the
same time as Intel's 670, 660, 650 and 640. These chips are really Gallatin
core processors - they have 2MB of cache and an 800MHz front side bus, as
we've reported previously.
- Via brings dual PCIe 16X slots to Pentium 4 -
The Via
chipset will have support for FSB 800 and 1066MHz P4s. It will support
both DDR 333/400 MHz and DDR 2 400/533MHz memories while we don't know what
will happens to DDR 2 667MHz memory marchitecture support. This chipset is
compatible with Via's VT8251 south bridge which includes two PCIe 1X slots,
four IDE and four S-ATA drivers, S-ATA command queue, integrated RAID, eight
USBs, 10/100 Mbit LAN, and AC 97 6 channel audio.
- PQI Turbo 1GB Ultra Low Latency PC3200 review - System Cooling has
posted
a review on the PQI Turbo 1GB Ultra Low Latency PC3200 memory.
- PowerColor Radeon 9800 Platinum Edition review - Bjord3D
take a look
at the PowerColor RADEON 9800 Platinum Edition. For those that don't know, Tul
owns the PowerColor brand and is the third largest provider of ATI-based
graphic cards. The company makes very competitive products that are known all
over the world. Although the RADEON 9800 has been around for some time now,
this card is something totally different.
- Albatron Trinity GeForce 6800GT 256Mb review - The Crucible has
posted
a review of Albatron Trinity GeForce 6800GT 256Mb video card.
- Lite-On SOHW-1633S 16x DVD Writer review - TechIMO has posted
a review
of Lite-On SOHW-1633S 16x DVD Writer.
- Pioneer DVR-108 16x Dual Layer DVD+/-RW Drive review -
The DVR-108 is capable of writing at speeds up to 16x maximum on DVD-R and
+R discs that are designed for this recording speed, as well as specified 8x
media. With 16x media not yet available, Pioneer's DVR-108 is allowing
customers to write on currently available 8x media at faster speeds by
capitalizing on Pioneer's over specification technology, a writing strategy
designed to allow the DVR-108 to record at higher speeds with certain media.
- Plextor PX-712A and Plextor PX-712S DVD writers review -
TrustedReviews
take a look at the Plextor PX-712A and Plextor PX-712S DVD writers, both
tested wtih 16x DVD+R media from Verbatim.
- 7 Hot New Water Cooling Systems Tested review - In theory, water
coolers represent an optimal solution to keep CPUs cool and quiet. But in
practice, water coolers in the past have been difficult to install and use.
THG tests a new crop of seven to see if water cooler vendors have gotten
their cooling acts together.
- BlueTake Hi-PHONO BT460EX Bluetooth Hi-Fi Audio Station Kit review -
Modtown has posted
a
review of BlueTake Hi-PHONO BT460EX Bluetooth Hi-Fi Audio Station Kit
- Lexmark X1150 All In One Printer/Scanner review - Ascully.com has
posted
a review of Lexmark X1150 All In One Printer/Scanner.
- Make your CD/DVD burner go from internal to external - There are
few options for portable DVD burners. Most cost quite a bit more than similar
internal versions. One of the available options is to make an internal DVD
external by putting it into an enclosure. This option is not a well-known one,
and because of that, not many people are willing to spend the money to see if
it actually works.
This guide is to help out in setting up an enclosure and drive so that the
mystery and uncertainty is dispelled
- Desktop Graphics Card Comparison Guide Rev. 7.1 - Adrian's Rojak
Pot has posted
rev. 7.1 of the Desktop Graphics Card Comparison Guide.
- Messenger Plus! 3.20.100 -
Messenger Plus! Extension
(download) is
a program that adds functionalities to the MSN Messenger/Windows Messenger
chat program.
- UXTheme Multi-Patcher 2.5 -
With this little program you can you can use 3rd-party visual styles in
Windows XP with SP1 and/or SP2 and Windows 2003 without having to worry about
any bugs or errors. In other words, to patch uxtheme.dll protection.
- IENavigator 2.0.05 - The most
IENavigator (download)
advantage as a pop up blocker is intellectuality. This pop up blocker is
capable of distinguishing between a pop up that is an inherent functional part
of the current page, and a window that is a mere advertising trick introduced
by the resource creator. New IENavigator version features improved pop up
blocking capabilities. Using this pop up blocker you’ll hardly meet pop ups.
- IPCheck Server Monitor 4.3.2.391 - By design
IPCheck Server
Monitor fills the gap between the small freeware tools that do not monitor
thoroughly enough and the expensive management suites that are often very
complicated to set up.
- TVTool 9.7 -
TVTool (download)
is a control center for the TV output of nVidia graphics cards. With this tool
it is possible to adapt the TV output perfectly to your needs and to control
the TV mode in a comfortable way. TVTool accesses the hardware directly and is
able to offer a significant greater functionality and picture quality than
most standard graphics card driver.
- AnyDVD 4.0.3.2 Beta -
AnyDVD is
a driver, which descrambles DVD-Movies automatically in the background. This
DVD appears unprotected and region code free for all applications and the
Windows operating system as well. With AnyDVD's help copy tools like CloneDVD,
Pinnacle Instant Copy, InterVideo DVD-Copy, etc. are able to copy CSS
protected Movies.
- XP Edit 2.0 -A -
XP Edit
allows you to change various settings in Windows XP, including owner
information, mouse and keyboard options, personal folder locations, taskbar
options, boot screens and more.
- Nero Suite Update 2004-09-20 - The
Nero Suite contains: Nero
Burning Rom 6.3.1.25, Nero
Burning Rom 5.5.10.56 (lang),
Nero Burning Rom WMA9 Plug-In
2.0.9.3, Nero Burning Rom
WMP Plug-In 1.0.1.5, Nero Media
Player 1.4.0.23, NeroMIX
1.4.0.23, NeroVision Express
2.1.2.18, Nero InCD 4.3.0.5,
Nero Recode 2.1.1.20
and more.
- CPUCooL 7.3.1-
CPUCooL (download)
is a program that monitors temperature, fan speed, and voltages for many
motherboards. It provides Cpu cooling under Win9x/2000/XP/NT, allows
FrontSideBus changing, optimizes your memory and CPU.
- Driver Cleaner + Cab Cleaner -
Driver Cleaner is a program which helps you to remove parts of drivers
that are left after uninstalling the old drivers. The program is for ATI and
nVidia drivers.
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