Nightly Tech Reading - tech
(hx) 04:32 AM CET - Feb,06 2002
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- Nasa hacker thrown in the slammer - 20 year-old hacker who broke
into computers at Nasa's Jet Propulsion laboratory has been sentenced almost four years
after the event. Jason Allen Diekman was sentenced yesterday (4 February) to 21 months in prison and
ordered to pay restitution of $88,000 for breaking into Nasa in 1998.
- Virus Can Exploit Long Path under NTFS to Evade Detection - The
NTFS file system seems to be a hiding place for viruses if they utilize a file path that exceeds
256 characters. This vulnerability allows virus writers to store infected files in
directories that would not be checked by the antivirus, and therefore will not be detected
or removed.
- Vulnerability in Black ICE Defender - When the sender of the
flood is running BID, the machine quickly suffers a
BSOD, exception 0x1E, in blackdrv.sys. Exception 0x1E occurs when a
kernel-mode exception is not handled, indicating poor coding practice or insufficient
testing within a kernel-mode driver.
- Another mIRC bug - I mentioned html bug in mIRC yesterday, but I
missed another one
- if a compromised server sends a name that is more than 200 characters long to a
chatter's computer, the data causes a memory problem, called a buffer overflow, that
allows code appended to the data to be executed on that computer. Typically, such a hidden
command causes a malicious program to be downloaded and installed. The flaws only affect
versions of mIRC up to, and excluding, the latest release, version 6.0.
- Chinese SMS can crash Siemens mobiles - Siemens is evaluating
the impact of a security bug that allows malicious hackers to crash phones by sending
a malformed SMS message in Chinese. The flaw, which affects Siemens 3568i (or below)
mobiles but not Siemens 6688 phones, involves a bug in the way exceptional characters are
displayed, Chinese researchers xfocus advise.
- Lindows preview--good, bad or ugly? - A preview edition of the Lindows OS offers
insight into how the software will aim to combine the benefits of Windows and Linux. But
it still leaves many unconvinced.
- Microsoft pushes Flash for interactive TV - Macromedia announced an agreement
with Microsoft on Monday to increase support for Macromedia's Flash animation player in
Microsoft TV, the software giant's interactive TV software.
- Maxtor goes large with external HDDs - Maxtor is inching its way
into Iomega territory, by tripling the disk size for its Personal Storage 3000LE USB
2.0 external hard drive line. The latest 120GB model ships in the US 'in early February'
and carries a manufacturer's suggested retail price (MSRP)of $299.95. You can buy it also
online through MaxtorDirect.
Maxtor is retaining the 40GB Personal Storage model - this has an MSRP of $199.
- Geforce4 preoders & preview- Somene sent me an email
that some vendors are taking pre-orders
for GF4 MX440 based cards. In addition you can check this NVIDIA GeForce 4 preview at
NvMax.com
- Hercules 3D Prophet FDX 8500LE 64MB card - Rivastation.com has
posted the first pictures of the new Hercules 3D Prophet FDX 8500LE 64MB
card. The letters FDX stand for "Full Direct X" :P
- Gainward Powerpack ti450 Review - BurnoutPC reviewing
a Gainward Ti-450, which is a GeForce 3 Ti -200 based card from their Golden Sample
series of products. Gainward claims their cards to be highly overclockable, lets take a
look.
- Windows 2K Detonator Driver Database - The Windows 2k NVIDIA Detonator
Driver Database contains performance data on most of the Windows 2k NVIDIA Detonator
Drivers. For each set of drivers listed we have included performance data from the Mad
Onion 3DMark2000 benchmark, Unreal Tournament - Kenguru Demo, Quake 3 Arena Demo, and the
MDK2 Demo.
- New Build of IE6 SP1 released to testers - The Internet
Explorer Team is pleased to deliver the
second beta release (build 1330) of Internet Explorer 6 SP1! As always, we recommend
that you uninstall any beta versions of Internet Explorer before installing Internet
Explorer 6 SP1.
- Windows Media Bonus Pack for Windows XP - As a special thanks
for fans of the Windows XP digital media experience, we offer the Windows Media Bonus Pack for Windows XP! Jam-packed with utilities,
PowerToys, visualizations, skins, sound effects, and much more, the free Windows Media
Bonus Pack installs on your Windows XP-based PC and lets your personality and creativity
shine.
- Microsoft Network Security Hotfix Checker v3.32 - HFNetChk is a command-line tool that enables an administrator to
assess patch status for computers that are running Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, and
Windows XP, as well as hotfixes for Internet Information Server 4.0 (IIS), Internet
Information Services 5.0 (IIS), SQL Server 7.0, SQL Server 2000 (including Microsoft Data
Engine [MSDE]), and Internet Explorer 5.01 or later. Version 3.31 is an updated version of
3.3 that will properly identify SQL Server 7.0 systems.
- Mozilla 0.9.8 - The opensource browser Mozilla has updated to version 0.9.8. (Windows, Linux,
MacOS, OS/2)
- Serv-U v4.0.4 - Serv-U is a powerful, easy to use FTP Server. Serv-U is the ideal
solution for anyone that needs an FTP server for any reason. Serv-U features support
for SSL FTP transfers.
- Access Folders 2.0 - The program integrates into Windows' standard Save As/Open dialogs
which are used by most applications. By right-clicking the question mark (?) button at the
top-right hand side of this window, the program's menu pops-up to provide access to
favorite folders. You can select a folder and the dialog will immediately jump to the
directory.
- MiTweak-XP v2.1 - The primary goal of miTweak-XP is
to help the end-users who are running windows XP to unleash the hidden features of Windows
XP that your system's performance will be maximize and give you the maximum speed. Because
miTweak-XP uses the latest programming technology of Microsoft .NET framework/
- Virtual CD v4.0.4 - Virtual
CD copies your favourite audio-, data- or video-CD/DVDs as compressed image files on
the hard disk and emulates up to 22 CD drives to access and to run the CD applications.
- NVmax v4.00.40 - This new version
fully supports Detonator 27.xx.
- Intel Chipset Software Installation Utility 3.30.1010 -
Supported Chipsets: (810/815/820/830/840/845/850/860) + Intel FWH (i82802),
(430TX/440EX/440LX/440ZX/440BX/440DX/440MX), Older Chipsets are already supported by
Operating System, download now!
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