Friday Tech Mania - tech
(hx) 01:02 PM CEST - Apr,09 2004
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- Software beats all CD copy protection -
Software that makes it simple to bypass any form of anti-copying technology
used to protect music CDs has been released by a computer magazine and a
software company in Germany. The program (called
unCDcopy) exploits the so-called "analogue hole".
- Cisco bug could put hackers in driver's seat - Networking giant
Cisco
Systems warned customers on Wednesday about a security flaw (advisory)
that could compromise two products used to manage wireless local area network
devices and data center switches. The company said in the warning posted on
its Web site that a preset username and password coded into its Wireless LAN
Solution Engine (WLSE) and Hosting Solution Engine (HSE) could give attackers
complete control of the devices. Attackers could use this control to add new
users, modify details of existing users or even change the device's
configuration, the company said.
- New Worm/Virus April 8th -
According to SecurityFocus, the file is called ndemon.exe (.99k) and it
puts itself into c:\winnt and c:winnt\system32. Registry entries
HKLMSoftware|Microsoft|CurrentVersionRun and
HKLMSoftware|Microsoft|CurrentVersionRunServices (Think it creates that
one). At first look: it then tries to propagate itself via MS ports 135, and
139 VIA known flaws and password guessing. It also listens for other infected
machines on port 1025 and scans for MS IIS boxes on port 80 (to try known
exploits as well).
- Kazaa and eDonkey brace for NetSky-Q attack -
Zombie PCs infected with the NetSky-Q worm are set to launch distributed
denial of service attacks against P2P and warez sites tonight. The worm
will attempt to flood the main Web sites of Kazaa and eDonkey with spurious
traffic between 00:01 8 April and 11 April (time taken from system clocks).
Other sites including www.cracks.st, www.cracks.am and www.emule-project.net
are also targeted for attack. File-sharing networks themselves won't be
affected by the worm, only access to Web sites.
- "Homeless Hacker" Sentencing Delayed -
A sentencing hearing for noted computer hacker Adrian Lamo has been
postponed from Thursday, according to a spokesperson for the U.S. Attorney's
Office for the Southern District of New York. Lamo was scheduled to appear in
Manhattan federal court to be sentenced, after pleading guilty to an
unauthorized intrusion onto the computer network of the New York Times in
February 2002. That sentencing is now postponed until June 2004, the
spokesperson says.
- Privacy advocates say Google's e-mail scanning process a dangerous
precedent - Google Inc.'s planned Web-based e-mail service is a big target
for privacy
advocates upset by the gigabyte storage capacity to be offered users and
the company's plans to scan communications for advertising purposes. And the
name Gmail could soon be the subject of a trademark dispute. A coalition of 28
privacy and civil liberties groups wrote Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry
Page this week urging them to rethink the service, which they say sets
potentially dangerous precedents for automated scanning of private
communications. The service may conflict with European privacy laws and should
be suspended until privacy issues are addressed, they wrote in a letter
Tuesday.
- Surgeons Who Play Video Games Err Less - All those years on the
couch playing Nintendo and PlayStation appear to be paying off for surgeons.
Researchers found that doctors who spent at least three hours a week playing
video games
made about 37 percent fewer mistakes in laparoscopic surgery and performed
the task 27 percent faster than their counterparts who did not play video
games
- CeBIT Wrap-Up 2004 - GameExplosive have published
an
extensive CeBIT 2004 wrap-up.
- Nokia's Bluetooth CDMA phone draws iPod comparisons - Nokia used
the CTIA show last month to unveil a phone that's drawn comparisons to the
iPod.
Nokia's 6255 is a flip phone, which the company has been reluctant to
bring to market, works on CDMA networks and is due to ship by in the final
quarter of the year. It also has a VGA camera, MP3 player with removable
storage for MMC cards, and a radio, and will be Nokia's first CDMA phone to
feature Bluetooth.
- Nvidia sets NV40 launch date on April 14 - Nvidia has set the
launch date for its latest AGP8X chip,
the NV40, on April 14, aiming to penetrate the high-end market of around
US$499, according to sources at Taiwanese motherboard makers.
- Sandisk, Toshiba tout 4-gigabit Nand flash memory - SanDisk Corp.
and Toshiba Corp. have doubled the capacity of their jointly developed Nand
flash memory to 4 gigabits by applying multilevel cell technology on a 90-nm
process. The memory chip tops Samsung's 2-Gigabit Nand memory also made using
a 90-nm process. Simultaneously, the partners have
developed an 8-gigabit device by stacking two single-die 4-gigabit chips
in one package. Samples of the single die and stacked chip will be available
within a month at $113 and $226 each respectively.
- Navigation 1 TeraByte external hard drive becomes reality -
LaCie, a PC peripherals manufacturer, announced the release date of it's 1
TeraByte "Bigger Disk" external hard disk drive. The "Bigger Disk" product
line already consists of 320GB, 400GB, and 500GB external models. The price
for 320GB HDD is $399.99, 400GB HDD is $479.00, and for the 500GB model is
$579.00. The price for the 1000GB or
1TeraByte model drive has been set at $1200.00. This is the first external
hard drive that will feature 1000GB of storage space.
- nForce3 250Gb chipset review -
The 250GB is especially interesting because it's the first core logic
chipset to integrate a Gigabit Ethernet MAC, hardware-accelerated firewall,
and RAID across four Serial ATA and four "parallel" ATA devices. TechReport's
performance results suggest that the 250Gb is at least as fast as, if not
faster than, the K8T800.
- Draytek Vigor 2900g Broadband Security Router review - How much
would you pay for a four-point SPI router with 802.11g access point, USB print
server and built-in VPN endpoint? If you think about $200 is too much, would
you change your mind if it handled LAN-LAN and Remote-LAN PPTP, IPsec and L2TP
VPN tunnels on both the wired and wireless sides? And how about if it threw in
VLAN and Bandwidth control? Come
read THG's review to see how Draytek's Vigor 2900g Broadband Security
Router does it all.
- Iomega Super DVD QuikTouch 8x Video Burner review -
The Iomega Super DVD QuikTouch 8x Video Burner is an analog-to-DVD
converter with a broad software suite and exceptional recordable-media
compatibility. Its 8X maximum speed and dual-format capabilities make it worth
the $110 premium over the 4X HP DVD Movie Writer dc3000 ($249 direct), which
debuted last fall, though the HP bundle delivers greater video-editing
facility.
- X-Micro EVA MP3 Player review - PimpRig has
a review of the 128MB portable MP3 player from X-Micro. "The quality of
the earphones while listening to music on the EVA MP3 player was exceptional.
I could not tell any major differences of sound quality when I compared the
EVA to an iPod (3rd Generation), iRiver iFP-108T, and a Creative Labs Zen."
- Storage in Practice - Some vendors may claim that multiple hard
drives, RAID systems or DVD burners can do the job, but
tape drives still remain the only cost-effective option for large-scale
data backup. THG look at different tape drive options and put a mid-level
device from Tandberg to the test.
- Shader Model 3.0 article - D. Sim Dietrich Jr. of NVIDIA has
published
an article entitled "Shader Model 3.0 - No Limits" that appears at
Microsoft's WINHEC web site. The article compares the capabilities and
features of pixel and vertex shaders as they exist in Shader Model 3.0 to
Shader model 2.0.
- PECompact 2.00 Beta Build 83 -
PECompact
is an advanced Windows executable file compressor. It works by compressing the
executable or module and then performing decompression in memory at runtime.
Not only does this save space and bandwidth, PECompact also adds a level of
obsufcation to your binaries.
- Mousotron 4.5 -
Mousotron measures your mouse and keyboard activity.
- DefilerPak 1.17 -
The DefilerPak is a minimalist collection of video and audio codecs
designed to keep you up to date with the latest developments. It includes
XviD; ffdshow; AC3Filter; CoreAAC DirectShow filter; Ogg DirectShow filter;
CoreVorbis; Matroska DirectShow filter; VSFilter; DivX ;-)
- AntiBugBear Removal Tool -
AntiBugBear
Removal Tool (download)
is a free tool from BitDefender. It detects and removes the BugBear virus from
your system.
- SpywareBlaster 3.1 -
SpywareBlaster doesn't scan and clean for spyware - it prevents it from
ever being installed.
- Omega ATI Drivers out Based on Catalyst 4.4 - Omega has released
some new Omega drivers
for the ATi catalyst 4.4 (mirror)
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