Nightly Tech Reading - tech
(hx) 04:31 AM CET - Mar,19 2003
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- Tiscali UK downed by 'external attack' -
Tiscali UK was knocked out this afternoon after the ISP came under attack
from Internet saboteurs.
The company experienced a massive Denial of Service assault that downed the
ISP's portal, Net access and email services. The full details behind the
attack are not know. However, in a statement the company said: "Tiscali has
been subject to an external attack on our network.
- London is a wireless hacker's playground -
Many wireless
Lans still open to attack, security experts warn Wireless local area
network (Lan) deployment in London has rocketed but most businesses continue
to leave their network open to hackers, security experts have warned.
According to the second annual report of wireless Lan research commissioned by
security firm RSA Security, wireless deployment has grown by 300 per cent. But
levels of security have failed to improve.
- Important: Critical Windows 2000 flaw
found -
Windows 2000 users need to patch (details)
their systems immediately to avoid hackers taking control, Microsoft has
warned. Users have discovered a flaw in the operating system's
implementation of the World Wide Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning
(WebDAV) protocol. WebDAV provides a standard for editing and file
management between computers on the internet using HTTP, and is commonly used
to manage web servers remotely. If a hacker sends a specially crafted
HTTP request to a server running IIS
they can either
shut down the server or cause it to run their code. The flaw is not
related to the new version of CodeRed II that also attacks IIS servers.
- Internet banking passwords stolen - The warning follows
a scam email being sent en masse to Australian internet users in an
attempt to steal their account passwords. The email, purporting to be an
official communication from the Commonwealth Bank, asks customers to
"reactivate" their account by logging in after a technology update. But the
website provided for customers to log onto, while similar to the bank's
website and including its security advice, is bogus.
- Dropping GameCube: Argos' turn? - Nintendo may be facing a
fight for its life at UK retail, as the decision by the Dixons group to
liquidate GameCube stocks is replicated by another leading retailer - high
street and catalogue sales outlet Argos. In an effort to clear existing stock
of the GameCube, Argos will be cutting the price of the system to an all-time
low of L78.99 - over L50 cheaper than Nintendo's SRP for the console, and
significantly lower than the L99 price point set by Dixons in its stock
clearance effort.
- CeBit 2003 Editorial - Guru3D has posted
pretty extensive article (over 15 pages) about CeBit 2003.
- LGP Announces The Linux Game Development Project Team - Michael
Simms announced the eight winners of
LGP's game development company initiative last evening and Linuxlookup's
very own resident programmer
Matt Wilson was granted one of the eight positions on the team.
- Details on Matrix Phone Emerge - A little more information on
Samsung Electronics'
as-yet unannounced "Matrix phone" has come out after the device received
U.S. regulatory approval at the end of last week. The phone, which is a tie-in
product to the upcoming "The Matrix Reloaded" movie, is called the SPH-N270,
according to documents submitted to the U.S. Federal Communications Commission
by Samsung. All devices that emit radio signals require FCC approval before
they can be sold in the U.S.
- TI unveils Lan, Bluetooth and GSM/GPRS PDA -
Texas Instruments
has unveiled a PDA design which it said is the first handheld to
incorporate wireless local area network, Bluetooth and GSM/GPRS technologies.
Code-named Wanda (Wireless Any Network Digital Assistant), the Windows Pocket
PC "tri-wireless PDA concept design" is powered by Texas Instruments' OMAP
processors. Its hybrid communications capabilities enable simultaneous
phone calls, web browsing, mobile commerce and Bluetooth connectivity, such as
printing and headset listening.
- ECS said to launch notebook at US$599 - According to sources,
second-tier Taiwan-based motherboard and PC maker Elitegroup Computer Systems
(ECS)
will launch a US$599 notebook in March or April. The notebook, equipped
with Transmeta's Crusoe CPU, will command the lowest price in the market to
date, sources said. Unlike ECS's DeskNote mobile PCs, the low-price notebook
will come with a battery.
- Personal Video Recorders Round-up - In this roundup,
PC Magazine reviews several approaches to personal video recording:
audio/video devices that hook up to your television (like the TiVo and the
SonicBlue ReplayTV; new PCs with integrated PVR functions; PVR/tuner
cards...). All of these products accept broadcast TV, cable TV, satellite, and
digital cable signals. Most have program guides. About half of the PC products
have video outputs so you can show your recordings on a television set.
Recordings saved to hard drives take up about 1GB (VCR-quality) to 5GB
(DVD-quality) per hour of video. no tuner included.
- NextVision N6 HDVP Review - EnvyNews has posted
a review
on ViewSonic's High-Definition Video Processor; a box that enables you to
adapt your computer CRT or LCD to display HDTV output from consoles, satellite
broadcasts, Progressive-scan DVD players, and the like.
- 802.11g Need-To-Know: Part 2 - Tom's Hardware Guide has
posted
the second part of their 802.11g Need-To-Know series.
- TVTool 7.0 with nView support Announced -
According to TVTool
official website, the end of the development of TVTool 7.0 is in sight. In
that version nView (formerly called TwinView) will be supported on GF2-MX and
GF4 cards. This is probably interesting especially for GF2-MX card owners as
the standard graphics card drivers don´t offer any overscan support
(fullscreen without black borders). Also digitally connected (DVI) flat panel
displays will be supported, as well as notebooks with GF2Go chips. This
version should be available within this month.
- Trojan Remover 5.0.0 -
Trojan Remover was written to aid in the removal of Trojan Horses from a
computer where standard anti-virus software has either failed to detect the
Trojan Horse or is unable to effectively eliminate it. In no way should it be
considered as an alternative to regularly using good anti-virus software to
protect your computer.
- K-Lite Codec Pack 2.00 Final - The Final Builds of the
K-Lite Codec Pack 2.00
are available. These are the public versions. Uninstall the old version first.
- MySQL 4.0.12 Gamma -
MySQL
4.0.12-gamma (changelog)
has been released today.
- Riva Tuner v2.0 RC12.3 & SoftR9x00 -
Rivatuner
is an extremely polular tweaking utility for any NVIDIA based GeForce or ATI
based Radeon graphics cards. This new version adds Detonator 43.xx support,
updates scripts AnisoBoosterOGL, AnisoBoosterD3D, NVStrap antiprotection and
LODBiasFix for the Detonator 42.90, revises NVStrap v1.4 driver for both
Windows 9x and Windows 2000/XP, adds ATI RV280 and R350 graphics processors
support, and also updates SoftR9x00 scripts for both Windows 9x/ME and Windows
2000/XP. Now the scripts are tested and certified for use with Catalyst 2.0 -
3.2 (both beta and release versions) and allow you to force RADEON 9800PRO PCI
DeviceID as well as RADEON 9500 and RADEON 9700PRO PCI DeviceIDs, and many
more.
- Athlon XP Processor Identifier -
This script
turns the user unfriendly markings from any Athlon XP based processor to human
readable information such as CPU frequency, FSB, operating voltage, cache
size, multiplier and so on. One of the most useful function is that the script
automaticaly identifies weather the CPU core is Palomino, Thoroughbred (A or B
revision) or the newest one - Barton.
- HighPoint BIOSes and Drivers v3.02 - There are some new HighPoint
3.02 BIOSes and Drivers for the
RocketRAID 404 and the
HPT374 RAID.
- Pioneer DVR-A05/105 recorder firmware - A new
firmware version 1.30 has been released for the Pioneer DVR-A05/105
DVD-recorder.
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