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 Nightly Tech Reading - tech
(hx) 02:05 AM CET - Feb,12 2003
  • Famous hacker Kevin Mitnick gets hacked - The world's best-known computer hacker suffered the indignity of having someone break into his new security consulting company's Web site. But Kevin Mitnick shrugged it off as "quite amusing," not serious enough for him to call the FBI. Mitnick, whose federal probation on hacking charges ended a few weeks ago, acknowledged that this weekend's electronic break-in at Defensive Thinking Inc. of Los Angeles was actually the second time in weeks that hackers found a way into the computer running the firm's Web site.
  • Cupid stunt sends not-so funny Valentine - Security companies are currently examining a suspicious Valentine's Day email being sent to computer users. The email, from [email protected], says that the recipient has received an e-card and invites users to click on a link. The site then asks users to download an 800Kb file that will need Flash to be viewed. Antivirus firms have already discovered that the software changes the browser's default search engine and drops an unidentified DLL into Windows.  A check on the basic www.valentines-ecard.com URL reveals that the page has exceeded its monthly bandwidth limit.
  • Broadband over power lines? Technology spurs surging optimism - St. Louis-based Ameren Corp. and other utilities already are testing the technology, and many consider it increasingly viable. This truly plug-and-play technology, if proven safe, has the blessings of federal regulators looking to bolster broadband competition, lower consumer prices and bridge the digital divide in rural areas. The technology works like this: data is carried either by fiber-optic or telephone lines to skip disruptive high-voltage lines, then is injected into the power grid downstream, onto medium-voltage wires. Because signals can only make it so far before breaking apart, special electronic devices on the line catch packets of data, then reamplify and repackage them before shooting them out again.
  • Company develops unbreakable data encryption code - Meganet, an Israeli-U.S. data security company, has developed an encryption technology that appears to be unbreakable, enabling governments and corporations, to keep their data safely out of the hands of competitors, thieves and saboteurs. Meganet Corporation's founder, Saul Backal, claims that its solution can put an end to these problems. Meganet offers a patented non-linear data mapping technology, called VME (Virtual Matrix Encryption), that creates exceptionally random cipher text and combines it with a one million-bit key, which is unheard of in today's data security markets. Competing solutions offer a maximum of 256 bits.
  • MS .Net patent--clouding standards? - Microsoft is in the process of applying for a wide-ranging patent that covers a variety of functions related to its .Net initiative.  If approved as is, the patent would cover application programming interfaces (APIs) that allow actions related to accessing the network, handling Extensible Markup Language (XML), and managing data from multiple sources. APIs are the hooks in software that allow applications to work with another system.  Microsoft declined to elaborate on its plans for the patent, but intellectual property attorneys said that if it's granted, the company could dictate how, or whether, developers of software and devices can link to the .Net initiative.
  • Ericsson demos video calls on dual-mode handsets - Ericsson Mobile Platforms, a licenser of open-standard 2.5G and 3G technology platforms for mobile handsets, said Tuesday (Feb. 11) that it could demonstrate video calls on an integrated, dual-mode W-CDMA and GSM/GPRS mobile platform. Ericsson's demonstration shows standards-compliant video telephony operating between two test phones running on the 64-kbit/second circuit switch bearer to deliver 15 video frames per second. Further, it also shows video streaming on the 384-kbit/s packet data bearer.
  • 3D shooter for Series 60 - Nokia's Series 60 platform is rapidly gaining a foothold amongst mobile device users, as new games and applications are churned out at a rate far exceeding that of the Series 80 platform, better known as the Nokia 9200 series. 3D games seem to be in particular demand, and now eager gamers have yet another alternative in the shape of Netherlands-based Overloaded's Resistance, where it's the age old stance of man vs aliens all over again.
    More on "Unreal" Security Risk - A slew of vulnerabilities disclosed by PivX Solutions affect any game running on the Unreal Engine. PivX says the holes could let an attacker launch a denial-of-service attack, crash a gaming server, or even run code on a player's machine.  Luigi Auriemma, a security researcher for PivX Solutions, discovered the holes. "These bugs have been around for five years," he says. "They could be used by malicious attackers in worms or large-scale attacks that rival those of Nimda and Sapphire/Slammer.... Really frightful."
  • WD 10,000 RPM HDD - Western Digital Corp. announced today that it is entering the enterprise hard drive market with an Enterprise Serial ATA (ESATA) product called WD Raptor. The new hard drive offers systems builders and storage vendors enterprise-class specifications: 1.2 million hours MTBF (Mean Time Between Failure), 10,000 RPM, 5.2 milliseconds (ms) average seek time and a five-year warranty.
  • Barton XP 2500+ XP 2800+ XP 3000+ Reviews - AMDBoard has already more than 30 reviews already stored at their Barton Special page.
  • New Motion Tech Muzic AERA - The New Motion Muzic AERA is looking to be the digital Swiss Army knife of the geek world. Packing a flash USB disk, MP3 player, voice recorder, plus a LED flashlight into a single, portable package, the AERA covers a lot of ground in 29 grams (sans 1 AAA alkaline battery). When I first saw Tom's Hardware's review of the Creative MuVo, I thought it was a really great idea. So finding this, with the voice recorder and flashlight at two thirds the price, I though I'd give it shot. But as convenient as Swiss Army knives are, they don't necessarily excel at anything they do. How will the AERA do?
  • HP iPAQ Pocket PC h5450 First Look - The HP iPAQ Pocket PC h5450 ($700 street) carries the flag well both for Hewlett-Packard and the Pocket PC 2002 universe. Sure, the price nearly buys a notebook PC today, but the h5450's useful features will appeal to both enterprise and professional users. The assets include integrated 802.11b Wi-Fi and Bluetooth radios for wireless LAN and PAN connections, plus a fingerprint reader for bulletproof security. The 7.3-ounce h5450 also features a Secure Digital slot and a class-leading 65,536-color, 3- by 2.3-inch transflective display (320-by-240 resolution).
  • NVIDIA 3DMark 2003 released - You probably already noticed that Futuremark has officially released 3DMark 2003 today. On a related note, Nvidia has contacted GameSpot to say that it doesn't support the use of 3DMark 2003 as a primary benchmark in the evaluation of graphics cards (!), as the company believes the benchmark doesn't represent how current games are being designed. Specifically, Nvidia contends that the first test is an unrealistically simple scene that's primarily single-textured, that the stencil shadows in the second and third tests are rendered using an inefficient method that's extremely bottlenecked at the vertex engine, and that many of the pixel shaders use specific elements of DX8 that are promoted by ATI but aren't common in current games. In addition,  PCExtreme.net has posted the first review, and Beyond3D has posted an article called "Introduction To 3DMark2003"
  • Mozilla 1.3b - Mozilla is an open-source web browser and toolkit, designed for standards compliance, performance and portability. Mozilla.org provides binaries for testing and feedback.
  • VisualRoute 7.1b - VisualRoute (download) delivers the functionality of key Internet "ping," "whois," and "traceroute" tools, in a high-speed visually integrated package. VisualRoute automatically analyzes Internet connectivity and performance problems, displaying the results in an easy to understand table and on a world map.
  • DVD Region-Free 1.36 - DVD Region-Free is an unique, effective and easy-to-use DVD tweaking too that allows you to watch all region DVDs on any DVD drive(especially RPC2) even if it has been locked.

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