Evening Tech Reading - tech
(hx) 02:58 AM CET - Feb,17 2004
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- MSIE Integer Overflow in Processing Bitmap Files Lets Remote Users
Execute Arbitrary Code -
A vulnerability was reported in Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE) version
5. A remote user can execute arbitrary code on the target system. It is
reported that a remote user can create a specially crafted bitmap file that,
when loaded by IE, will trigger an integer overflow and execute arbitrary
code. The author states that this flaw was found by reviewing the recently
leaked Microsoft Windows source code. The flaw reportedly resides in
"win2k/private/inet/mshtml/src/site/download/imgbmp.cxx" (leaked Windows
source code). The report indicates that IE 5 is affected but that IE 6 is not
affected.
- Police arrest Forces Reunited 'hacker' - Police have questioned a
Lancashire man suspected of hacking the
Forces Reunited
Web site. The unnamed 29 year-old from Chorley, Lancashire was arrested and
questioned last week by Wiltshire Police probing a cyber attack against the
military equivalent of the popular Friends Reunited. After questioning, the
man was released on police bail pending further inquiries,
reports. A number of computers were seized from the man’s address and will
now undergo forensic examination. Wiltshire Police have issued a statement on
the arrest
here.
- Belgian police arrest female virus writer -
A
19 year-old female technology student suspected of being the infamous
virus writer Gigabyte was arrested by Belgian police last weekend. The
woman was charged with computer data sabotage offences, Belgian daily La Libre
Belgique reports. Her alleged crimes are punishable by up to three years in
prison and fines of up to L100,000. Police confiscated five of the teenager's
computers and shut down her Web site. The 19 year-old, from Mechelen (30
kilometres north of Brussels), was released on bail pending further police
inquiries.
- Who's The Fastest Growing Linux Distro? - But according to one
metric by Internet research company Netcraft's January survey, when measured
by counting active sites that contain the name of a Linux distribution in the
header of the open source Apache Server,
the Debian version of Linux is showing the fastest growth in the past six
months. From July 2003 through January 2004, Debian's 24.6 percent growth
to 442,753 installations represented the fastest growth in that period,
Netcraft said.
- AMD cuts Athlon XP prices -
AMD trimmed its prices today, knocking back the cost of buying its Athlon
XP desktop and mobile chips by up to 34 per cent.
- Dual Display Gaming Bigs Up - Without a doubt,
"SurroundGaming" is not just a fun feature but also creates a new level of
atmospheric immersion in games. If you're already using two monitors for your
everyday computer work, you're only a step and some manual configuration work
away from multi-display gaming - provided you have a graphics card using a
Matrox or NVIDIA chip. Since ATi's processors don't support horizontal span
mode, the list of games that will run in dual-monitor configurations on a
Radeon board is short. Actually, the only title we know of that can do this is
Microsoft's Flight Simulator 9.
- World's Smallest, Always-Connected Windows XP PC Premiere - Vulcan
Inc., founded by Paul G. Allen, announced today that
it will preview FlipStart at DEMO 2004, the premier forum for new product
innovation. Previously debuted as Vulcan's "MiniPC" prototype, FlipStart(TM)
combines the performance and functionality of Microsoft(R) Windows(R) XP with
the connectivity of wireless PDAs to provide users with continuous access to
software, e-mail and the Web while on the go.
- HP unveils 8x dual format DVD±R/RW writers - HP has so far only
been selling single format DVD+R/RW writers but in
the new dvd420i,
dvd420e and dc4000 DVD writers HP has also added support for burning the
DVD-R/RW format. The dvd420i is an internal IDE version, the dvd420e an
external USB 2.0/firewire version and the Movie Writer dc4000 is an external
USB 2.0 version with built-in analog video capture.
- 3.2GHz EE Northwood CPU review -
Intel's Extreme Edition version of Northwood is targeted towards a
specific and focused area of today's consumer. If you want something that is
incredibly fast right out of the box for high speed gaming, extensive graphic
work or just bragging rights at stock speeds, this processor is for you. The
3.2EE easily held its own in most benchmarks even against a steroid induced
2.4C clipping along with a 1Ghz+ FSB at 3.2Ghz.
- Hercules Radeon 9600SE vs PNY GeForceFX 5600XT review -
Whichever way you look at it,
PNYs GeForceFX 5600XT doesn't have either the muscle or the finesse to
make itself the preferable card here in any way, shape or form. PNYs decision
to use a 64-bit bus for this card, on top of the natural architectural
disadvantages the 5600 core has against its 9600 rival, was not far short of
suicide. The advice is simple - Don't bother with this card. It would be
interesting to see how a 128-bit bus 5600XT (which most IHVs producing this
card use) would cope against the 9600SE, you would certainly hope that it
would perform somewhat better than PNYs rather miserable offering.
- Dlink's DWL-G650+ PCMCIA 802.11g adaptor review - In brief,
the DWL-G650+
is in fact a 54Mbps (802.11g) wireless PCMCIA card capable of 256bit
encryption which appears to be well suited to take full advantage of the
DI-624+'s features, in particular the 256bit encryption. The DWL-G650 is
Dlink's PCMCIA version of their PCI based GWL-G520 card.
- ME-770 USB 2.0 Hard Drive Enclosure review - RipNet-UK has checked
out the
ME-770 USB 2.0 Hard Drive Enclosure.
- Roxio Easy Media Creator 7 review - PCMag has posted
a review of the Roxio Easy Media Creator 7.
- Multiplexer Hotfix for DirectX 9.0, 9.0a, and 9.0b -
This Hotfix corrects specific application compatibility issues with
DirectX 9.0 changes in the DirectShow DV Decoder and Multiplexer.
- OpenOffice 1.1.1b Stable -
OpenOffice.org (Win32
~
Linux) is the open source project through which Sun Microsystems is
releasing the technology for the popular StarOffice productivity suite
- RightMark 3D Beta 4 -
RightMark 3D
is Independent DirectX 3D Benchmarking Project.
- Abit KT7/KT7 Raid BIOS - Abit has released
a
new BIOS update for the Abit KT7/KT7 RAID.
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