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 Nightly Tech Reading - tech
(hx) 04:21 AM CEST - Jun,30 2004
  • New IE Malware Captures Passwords Ahead Of SSL - SANS Internet Storm Center is reporting on a new strain of IE Malware. This one targets bank customers, which in itself is nothing new. But the catch is in the way it does it: it installs a Browser Help Object (BHO) that can capture login information before it is encrypted, and 'watches for HTTPS (secure) access to URLs of several dozen banking and financial sites in multiple countries.'." (thanks Slashdot.org)
  • php codes injection in phpMyAdmin version 2.5.7.- There is a vulnerability in phpMyAdmin version 2.5.7. This vulnerability would allow remote user to inject php codes to be executed by eval() function (in file left.php). However, This vulnerability only effect if variable $cfg['LeftFrameLight'] set to FALSE (in file config.inc.php)
  • Playboy 'hacker' jailed for two years - A supermarket shelf stacker who claimed he hacked into Playboy's network in an attempt to blackmail the company was jailed for two years yesterday. Simon Jones, 25, conned porn site bosses into believing he had access to private customer accounts. But his ruse backfired when US secret service agents and officers from the UK's National Hi-Tech Crime Unit carried out a down raid on the house he shared with his parents in Southampton, resulting in his arrest and eventual imprisonment.
  • TweakNews defrauded again - Tweaknews.net has caught yet another person posing as a hardware reviewer and trying to obtain illegal and expensive hardware.
  • Bill Gates: Progress Report on SPAM - Bill Gates has issued a report on the current status of stopping SPAM made by Microsoft. Already steady progress has been made from the deployment of SmartScreen (Microsoft spam-filtering technology). That's present in MSN 8, MSN Premium, MSN Hotmail, and Outlook 2003. Still this isn't enough as Bill Gates reviews alternatives to fighting SPAM.
  • Can a Customer take their IP's with them? (Court says yes!) - There has been a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) issued by state court that customers may take non-portable IP space with them when they leave their provider. Important to realize: THIS TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER HAS BEEN GRANTED, AND IS CURRENTLY IN EFFECT. THIS IS NOT SOMETHING THAT COULD HAPPEN, THIS IS SOMETHING THAT HAS HAPPENED. THERE IS AN ABILITY TO DISSOLVE IT, AND THAT IS WHAT WE ARE TRYING TO DO.
  • Supreme Court Strikes Down Porn-Shield Law -  A divided U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday suggested that a federal law designed to restrict Internet pornography violated Americans' rights to freedom of speech, but the court stopped short of a definitive ruling striking down the law as unconstitutional.
  • Beastie Boys claim no virus on crippled CD - The Beastie Boys website claims that the copy-control mechanism on the DRM-crippled CD "To the 5 Boroughs" does not install any files on the victim's computer. According to the notice, the disks use "Macrovision's CDS-200 technology, the same technology being used for the past several months around the world for all of EMI's releases in those territories. This Macrovision technology does NOT install spyware or vaporware of any kind on a users PC. In fact, CDS-200 does not install software applications of any kind on a user's PC. All the copy protection in CDS-200 is hardware based, meaning that it is dependent on the physical properties and the format of the CD. None of the copy protection in CDS-200 requires software applications to be [installed] onto a computer."
  • HP plans new security conscious PCs - Free software that backs up your hard drive automatically will be built into three new PC ranges from Hewlett Packard scheduled for release later this summer. Altiris Local Recovery, developed by software house Altiris, creates a separate partition on the hard drive and backs up settings and important files on a regular basis.
  • Sources: Sun Plans to Open Nearly All of Solaris Source Code - Developers and solution providers might get more than they expect when Sun Microsystems details its plans to open-source Solaris later this year.
  • Off-topic: Student Thumbs Her Way to Cell Phone Text Record - Business-administration student Kimberly Yeo, 23, thumbed her way into the Guinness Book of Records by typing a complicated 26-word message on her cell phone in 43.66 seconds. Yeo performed her record-setting feat of texting during the "SingTel SMS Shootout," organized by Singpore Telecom.
  • Off-topic: Khat drug may improve male fertility - A plant banned as an illegal drug in some countries could help boost men's fertility, say UK researchers. The leaves of khat, a plant cultivated in East Africa and the Arabian peninsula, contain a chemical that peps up sperm and increase their chances of fertilizing an egg. The researchers suggest the chemical could one day be produced as an over-the-counter treatment for couples experiencing problems conceiving. Khat (Catha edulis) has been known for centuries for the euphoria its leaves induce when chewed. The stimulant, cathinone, is not very stable and breaks down to produce cathine and norephedrine. These belong to a group of chemicals called PPAs, which are similar to amphetamines and adrenaline.
  • Windows XP Game Advisor launched - Microsoft announced the release of a new version of Windows XP Game Advisor today. The free online tool helps Windows XP users search for games as well as analyze their system to see if they can run the game.
  • AMD discontinues Athlon MP processor?  - According to this report over at The Inquirer, AMD is discontinuing Athlon MP processors to further encourage Opteron adoption. Only a handful of online vendors still carry the MP chips, which never made it past 2800+.
  • Nvidia goes for Nforce 4 - NFORCE 4 will be the name of the project that will finally bring PCI Express to the Athlon K8 market. This chipset will be socket 754/939 ready and 940 compatible and all CPUs Athlon 64s, FX, Sempr0ns and Opterons will work on it. The platform will have one to two PCI express 16 slots making this Geforce 6800 SLI mode possible for not quite as much crazy money as you'll have to invest in Tumwater and Xeon CPU.
  • ATI to release RV480 PCI Express in Q4 - Even if they haven't supplied and sold as many as the market would have liked of the X800XT, PRO and XT Platinums, ATI is already thinking about the next chip. The new chip will be called RV480 and it should be a faster version of R423 chip with similar marchitecture. Some sources suggest that this new chip might feature Pixel shader 3.0 but I guess that would mean too much modification to the core and 60 million more transistors to add to the existing 160. In that case, ATI R480 would ironically end up at the same transistor count as Nvidia NV40.
  • Sony Shows Pocket-Sized Camcorder - The Sony DCR-PC350 MiniDV Handycam Camcorder is the smallest 3-megapixel video camera in Sony's MiniDV lineup, says Linda Vuolo, director of Sony's camcorder products. The camera measures 4.25 inches high and is 2.38 inches deep. The 3.3-megapixel video camera weighs less than 1 pound and comes with a more efficient CCD (charge-coupled device) that records digital video at a 530-line horizontal resolution, and takes still images at a 2016 pixel by 1512 pixel resolution, she says.
  • Socket 940 vs. 939 - Socket 940 FX-53 and Socket 939 Athlon 64 3800+ look identical and for the most part they are. There is a cost of manufacturing advantage for motherboard makers to move to Socket 939 which uses a 4 layer PCB motherboard instead of the more expensive 6 layer motherboards for Socket 940. This was not the driving influence for AMD to pursue Socket 939. AMD needed the next generation socket to carry the processor through another growth curve.
  • NEC 1980SX 19in LCD review - This is a very nice looking monitor with a thin, black bezel (also can be purchased in a metallic white). Being able to use VGA and DVI lets you actually hook two computers to the monitor at the same time and switch between them.
  • Actiontec 54 Mbps Wireless Ethernet Adapter - The 54 Mbps Wireless Ethernet Adapter is the fastest, meanest wireless adapter on the road. It transforms a home or an office into a grand wireless network where any wireless capable device can connect to it. With 54 Mbps wireless speed, it is guaranteed that the Internet does not contain any slowdowns and it is extremely easy to install. It can transfer information up to 54 Mbps and makes it capable to share the Internet, printers and other devices.
  • X800Pro to XT Softmodding - Some threads going on other forums at the moment about people that have successfully soft modded the current batch of Club3D X800 Pro Vivo cards to XT by flashing with a Gigabyte Bios. These cards are shipping with the 1.6ns Ram, bridges still intact and even have XT stickers on the HSF - by all accounts they are effectively XT cards with 4 pipelines disabled in the bios.
  • Norton AntiVirus 2005 Beta preview - Symantec already started to develop the latest AntiVirus software suite for year 2005, I have the beta installed and would like to write some stuff about it. Like older versions, the options and all looks the same but now with some more options and the design has some small changes. It all works like the old way and is explained very good in the Help and Support center.
  • BHODemon - BHODemon is a free tool that will list all Browser Helper Objects that are installed on a Windows system by scanning the registry and give you the ability to disable them. This will also list "good" BHOs as well, but nevertheless is a useful tool in detecting and disabling malicious software.
  • phpMyAdmin 2.6.0-beta2 - phpMyAdmin can manage a whole MySQL-server (needs a super-user) but also a single database. To accomplish the latter you'll need a properly set up MySQL-user who can read/write only the desired data.
  • Firefox 0.9.1 and Thunderbird 0.7.1 - The Mozilla Foundation has just made available interim releases of Firefox 0.9.1 (direct link) and Thunderbird 0.7.1 (direct link). Apparently: 'These releases are designed to address early issues found in the new extension manager and automatic upgrade system as well as making changes to the new Firefox theme based on initial feedback.'"
  • HijackThis 1.98 - HijackThis, a general homepage hijackers detector and remover. Initially based on the article Hijacked!, but expanded with almost a dozen other checks against hijacker tricks
  • PowerStrip 3.50 (shw) - PowerStrip (download) provides advanced, multi-monitor, programmable hardware support to a wide range of graphics cards - from the venerable Matrox Millennium I to the latest Radeon 9700DV and Matrox Parhelia.
  • Fraps 2.2.2 - Fraps is a tool that lets you monitor current framerates in a corner of the screen for programs using DirectX or OpenGL technology. It also allows you to easily take screenshots of games and make gameplay movies.
  • FFDShow MPEG-4 Video Decoder 29-06-2004 - FFDSHOW is a DirectShow decoding filter for decompressing DivX, XviD, WMV, MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 moviesl
  • The Codecs 2.1 - This package contains the best and newest codecs that are needed for playing most movies (Divx, VCD, SVCD etc.).
  • Riva Tuner v2.0 RC15 - RivaTuner is the most powerful tweaking utility for NVIDIA and ATI display adapters running under Windows 98 / Windows 98 SE / Windows ME / Windows 2000 and Windows XP. The purpose of this utility is to give you access to all the undocumented features of Detonator and Catalyst drivers. Drivers have a lot of undocumented registry entries. Some of them don’t affect anything, but there are some that are very useful.
  • Realtek ALC AC97 Audio Driver v3.60 - Realtek released version 3.60 driver for their ALC AC97 audio chipsets.

last 10 comments:
v1m(05:44 AM CEST - Jun,30 2004 )
IE vulnerabilities? Who cares? www.mozilla.com

Anonymous(09:34 AM CEST - Jun,30 2004 )
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xxxx(05:54 PM CEST - Jun,30 2004 )
Mozilla. whatever turns your crank. I prefer exploitable IE.

lucas(07:12 PM CEST - Jun,30 2004 )
yeah, I prefer dodgy russian guys maxing out my credit card too... oh wait... no I dont.

pheonix/firebird/firefox user since 0.4. dont see why anyone would use IE for anything but viewing the occasional extraordinarily badly coded site... except the MS fanboys, i know why they use it

xxxx(06:59 AM CEST - Jul,02 2004 )
yup, smart kind that use ms written software with a ms written operating system. guaranteed support, quick patches excellent web site backing for compatibility and excellent response time. not like some fag that wants to be in some in-crowd, i know they use it. like ur name says backwards, suck a cock u loser.

Ozieo(04:58 PM CEST - Jul,02 2004 )
Since I use FireFox 0.9.1 I will never ever touch that slow IE again. 8)

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