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 Wednesday Tech Reading - tech
(hx) 12:51 PM CEST - Jul,21 2004
  • Credit risk for customers after firm's PCs stolen - Intuit, a provider of financial software and services, is warning 47,000 customers that their credit-card data may be at risk after computers were stolen from a company office. According to a letter sent to customers last week and a notice recently posted on Intuit's Web site, the theft happened in early June at the Omaha, Nebraska, office of ItsDeductible, a software maker acquired by Intuit last year to be part of its TurboTax tax preparation business. Thieves broke into the office during the weekend of 11 June, according to the notice, and took several items, including a PC with password-protected customer data. Inuit spokeswoman Julie Miller said the records on the PC contain personal data, including credit-card details, for about 47,000 customers who purchased ItsDeductible products between December 2002 and November 2003.
  • The new face of cybercrime - Most spammers do not intend to sell. All they want is to "phish" your credit card number. Messages now zip around the Internet purporting to come from trusted companies and asking you to "verify your account." The victim is taken to a Web site that looks genuine but is run by a fraud ring. Besides the direct loss from the stolen card numbers, this fraud damages confidence in Internet security.  This is the new face of cybercrime. Whereas hacker vandals once coveted bragging rights, professional hackers have profit in mind. What's more, they are considerably more determined and have better resources than vandals. A new approach is necessary, and we must unlearn some of the lessons drawn from hacker vandalism.
  • Filipino phone phreakers foiled - A gang of eight suspected of ripping off the Philippines' main phone company and its customers of millions over the last six years have been arrested by local authorities. The Manila-based syndicate allegedly exploited security loopholes to obtain free access to telephone calls at the expense of customers of the Philippine Long Distant Telephone (PLDT). The process - known as phone phreaking - involves electronic manipulating phone systems, normally by sending additional control codes down phone lines. The gang is accused of reselling this free access for illicit gain.
  • Opera: Multiple spoofing vulnerabilities - Opera fails to remove illegal characters from an URI of a link and to check that the target frame of a link belongs to the same website as the link. Opera also updates the address bar before loading a page. Additionally, Opera contains a certificate verification problem.
  • Unreal Tournament 2003/2004: Buffer overflow in "secure"  - The Unreal-based game servers support a specific type of query called 'secure'. Part of the Gamespy protocol, this query is used to ask if the game server is able to calculate an exact response using a provided  string. Luigi Auriemma found that sending a long 'secure' query triggers a buffer overflow in the game server.
  • Off-topic: Speaker system lets flowers sing - An audio technology that turns plants and flowers into loudspeakers has been developed in Japan, although some experts remain sceptical about the idea. The speaker system, designed by Let's Corporation, a technology firm based in Okayama, southern Japan, mimics the way conventional audio speakers work. But it uses flowers instead of the conventionally used cone made of paper, plastic or metal, to generate sound waves. Flowers are inserted into an acrylic tube containing a magnetic coil and an oscillating component. Applying an alternating electrical current causes the tube, and the flowers, to vibrate at high speed, producing audible sound.
  • Microsoft Expands Access to Windows Source Code - The Redmond, Wash., company said on Monday that all the MVPs within the Microsoft platforms community and living within the 27 eligible countries worldwide will now be able to access Windows source code at no cost.
  • Verbatim 16x DVD+R media in September - Verbatim is working closely with the verification authorities and expects to begin manufacturing certified 1-16X DVD+R media shortly after specifications are released later this month. Sample 16X media has already been provided to five of the leading burner manufacturers that are tuning their drives to Verbatim's high-performance media.
  • No 60GB iPod - official - There is no 60GB iPod in the pipeline, Apple vice president of hardware product marketing Greg Joswiak has confirmed.
  • Intel Unveils Power-Saving Processors - The three new Pentium M chips are all based on the Dothan core, Intel's code name for the processing engine behind its 90-nanometer Pentium M processors. These chips have twice the Level 2 cache of their Banias predecessors, with 2MB of storage as well as faster 400-MHz front-side bus. Intel's new processor numbering system applies to the new chips. The Pentium M Low Voltage 738 processor runs at 1.4 GHz, the Pentium M Ultra Low Voltage 733 runs at 1.1 GHz, and the Pentium M Ultra Low Voltage 723 chip runs at 1 GHz. The new chips cost $284, $262, and $241, respectively, in quantities of 1000 units.
  • AMD Sempron specifications revealed - The Sempron's front side bus will have a 25 percent increase as compared to the lower end Athlon XP processors that operate at 133 front side bus.
  • Samsung SGH-E100 review - The SGH-E100 is pretty bog-standard under the hood. Dual band 900 / 1800 MHz GSM and GPRS Class 10 are coupled with IR to take care of connectivity. The two LCD screens, one monochrome 96 x 64 and one 16-bit TFT running at 160 x 128, are admittedly excellent. Each is adjustable for contrast or brightness, neither of which seemed to impact battery life, which gave a modest 3 days of average use in comparison to the 9 days claimed by Samsung. Thankfully, the AC adaptor is small enough to take it with you anywhere.
  • PNY Verto GeForce 6800GT 256MB review - When you get right down to it, the PNY Verto GeForce 6800GT is an excellent card, considering you can get up to 6800 Ultra performance. It plays all of my games at the highest image quality without breaking a sweat, and leaves room to breath in. I’m especially excited that when games come out with Pixel Shader 3.0 support, the 6800GT will be able to let you enjoy the benefits, mostly performance-wise, as the upcoming v1.2 patch for Far Cry indicates. Another review can be found at EliteBastards.
  • Leadtek WinFast A400GT TDH (GeForce 6800 GT) - The Leadtek WinFast A400GT THD is another great package from Leadtek. The card's performance puts it in a heated battle with the X800 PRO. With Doom III now Gold, we are waiting for its arrival to test the A400GT THD on a game I have been waiting for since I saw the preview back when GeForce3 just came out. It is clear that the new generation video cards need a new generation of games.
  • Albatron FX5700P Turbo and Gainward Ultra/980 SilentFX Professional -  The memory clock at 500MHz gives you a slightly underwhelming 8GB/sec of GPU-to-memory bandwidth. Albatron aren't interested in following the basic specs too much though. So while they keep the core clock at 425MHz, the memory runs at 650MHz on the P Turbo, for 10.4GB/sec or a full 30% increase over basic spec.
  • Twenty One Hard Disk Drive with 160GB Storage Capacity - X-bit Labs take a closer look at the performance and features of 21 hard disk drives from such well-known storage device manufacturers as Western Digital, Samsung, Seagate, Maxtor and Hitachi. They recommend purchasing the Maxtor drives for work with streaming video/audio content, the Hitachi and Western Digital drives for work with common Windows applications. Samsung's devices can be characterized as "universal" - they don't seem to have any obvious weaknesses.
  • Toshiba SD-R5272 8x DVD±RW review - One of the best things about Toshiba's new writer is its price. The SD-R5272 is one of the more affordable 8x DVD±RW drives currently available.
  • Plextor PX-712UF review - Overclockers Online have posted a review of Plextor PX-712UF. "What I can say is that this drive is very sweet. If you already have the 708UF, then don't upgrade quite so fast. However, if you're in the market for a very fast external drive, then this may be it. With the 8MB Buffer, you don't need to worry about creating a coaster while running all your favorite applications" They also have posted a review of Plextor ConvertX PX-AV100U. The PX-AV100U is the entry ConvertX model and the article aims to provide you with an idea of how well this device performs in converting analog sources to various digital video formats.
  • HP Compaq nx9110 review - Getting down to brass tacks, what you get for your money is an Intel P4 3.2GHz CPU with 512MB of DDR333 RAM, a 60GB 4,200rpm HDD and a DVD writer. The DVD writer will burn DVD+R discs at four-speed, DVD+RW media at 2.4-speed, write CD-Rs at 16-speed and burn CD-RWs at 10-speed. On the video side the screen is a stunning 15.4in widescreen display capable of a 1,280 x 800 resolution, fuelled by an ATI Radeon Mobility 9000 graphics chipset. Audio is also well catered for courtesy of HP’s JBL Pro integrated speakers ­ the overall effect is excellent.
  • Far Cry Benchmark v1.1 - The HardwareOC's Far Cry Benchmark is an easy-to-use tool, that makes video card benchmarking fast and easy.
  • Public folder RSS Feed Event sink - Glen Scales created an Event sink for public folders so when a new mail or post arrives into that folder it will fire a script that updates a feed with the last 7 days of posts.
  • Opera v7.53 (b3850) final - Opera (Win32 w/o Java ~ Win32Java ~ Linux) introduces the looks and the performance of an exceptional Web browser. Opera's user interface has received a major overhaul with the new start-up dialog, and new default buttons, skin and panels in a blue and white color scheme that can be changed back to classic Opera look or another design. At start-up you can select a single or multiple document interface (SDI/MDI).
  • Codec Pack All in 1 6.0.1.7 - This package contains all you need to see DivX movies: DivX, XviD, AC3.
  • Fraps 2.2.4 - Fraps (download) is designed as a generic tool for DirectX and OpenGL games. In its current form Fraps performs many tasks and can best be described as: Benchmarking Software, Screen Capture Software and Realtime Video Capture Software. This new version adds preliminary DirectX 9.0c support, improves Fraps graphics for systems using large size DPI setting and fixes keyboard response delay encountered by some users.
  • YMPEG 1.2 - YMPEG (download) offers you the most simplest way to encode or convert your favorite videos. YMPEG is a first Freeware MPEG Codec which can integrate itself with Windows and offers seamless encoding from your favorite application (VFW).
  • nLite v0.98 Beta - Mainly, it's a little bit of a slipstreamer, customizer, reducer and iso creator all in one package. Works for every version of Windows XP installation, so far tested up to slipsteamed SP2 build 2162. To avoid confusion, this is for pre-installation, not like XPlite which is post installation customizer. This version (changelog) still could be buggy, if you encounter any critical errors please report it and use 0.97, it's quite stable.
  • Intel Processor Frequency ID Utility 7.1 - This version of the Intel Processor Frequency ID Utility has been updated to support the new Intel Xeon Processor, Pentium 4 processors, Mobile Intel Pentium 4 processors, Pentium III processors, Mobile Pentium III processors with Intel SpeedStep technology, Pentium III Xeon processors and Intel Celeron processors with 66, 100, 133, 400, 533 , and 800 MHz system memory bus products, as well as adding new processor identification functionality (CPUID).
  • ATI Radeon DNA-DRIVERS 2.7.4.7 - These are modified/hacked ATI Catalyst drivers (based on the official CATALYST 4.7). The drivers have been optimized with two things in mind, better Image Quality and more/stable frames per second when compared to the official Catalyst drivers from ATI - download.

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