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 Friday Tech Reading - tech
(hx) 11:44 PM CET - Feb,21 2003
  • Cash machines vulnerable to hackers - A corrupt banking employee can guess your pin number in just 15 attempts because of a weakness in banks' computer systems, say computer scientists in Cambridge. Publishing their findings in an online technical report, Mike Bond and Piotr Zielinski at Cambridge University describe a weakness in the computer hardware systems used to verify PIN numbers from ATM cash machine transactions. It could be used to generate millions of pounds for a thief each day, they say. These four digit numbers should normally take an average of 5,000 attempts to guess correctly. In practice this is not an option because software in the ATMs only allows you three wrong attempts before locking you out.
  • AOL probes hacker "breach" - AOL is investigating reports that crackers gained access to its customer database through a combination of cracking and social engineering exploits. The allegation of an extremely serious security breach is published today in Wired. The publication interviewed hackers who claim to have gained full access to Merlin, AOL's latest intranet-based customer database application. If true, the breach potentially exposes the private information of AOL's 35 million users.
  • Crypto attack against SSL outlined  - Swiss security researchers have discovered an attack against implementations of the ubiquitous SSL protocol (you can also check my exploit posts (1 / 2 / 3) at Neworder) that could potentially compromise email passwords, though not ecommerce transactions. The protocol itself has not been compromised and the weakness only applies to versions of OpenSSL prior to version 0.9.6i and 0.9.7a, according to early analysis. Users of earlier versions of OpenSSL are strongly advised to upgrade.
  • Microsoft Accidentally Shares Office 2003 - Microsoft posted the second beta of Office 2003 to its Microsoft Developer Network Web site on Wednesday, only to pull it a few hours later. "A copy of the second beta was inadvertently posted yesterday. It was subsequently pulled because it is not ready for customers," a Microsoft spokesperson in Europe said Thursday. "We expect the beta 2 to ship in March." Microsoft won't specify how many MSDN subscribers downloaded the beta, saying only that it was "a very low number."
  • 'Honest Thief' confronts music industry  - A Dutch company calling itself an "honest thief" has become the latest threat to an entertainment and recording industry beset by swelling numbers of file-swapping services.  Operating in the Netherlands, Internet services company PGR--doing business as The Honest Thief--plans in the spring to license its software and provide legal advice to others who hope to set up the newest incarnation of peer-to-peer services.
  • Hitachi licenses on-chip interconnect technology - Hitachi Information Technology Co. Ltd. has licensed an on-chip interconnect technology from Sonics Inc. and plans to use it to stitch together different intellectual property blocks on a chip, the companies said. The license will allow Hitachi-IT to use Sonics' Smart Interconnect technology when designing system-on-chip (SoC) devices for its customers, who in turn will need to negotiate a separate license with Sonics when the SoC is ready for production, said David Lautzenheiser, vice president of marketing at Sonics.
  • Toshiba to launch HDD/DVD player/recorders in US and UK markets - According to the Japanese-language Nikkei Sangyo Shimbun, Toshiba is launching HDD/DVD player/recorders in the US and UK. It launched versions of these products in Japan last year. Toshiba will release the RD-XS30 HDD/DVD player/recorder in the UK in April. This HDD/DVD player/recorder, which Toshiba claims to be the thinnest DVD player in the market at 78mm, features a built-in 60GB HDD for recording. The company launched the same model in Japan last November. Toshiba projects selling 1,000 RD-XS30s in the first month of release and up to 10,000 units per month this summer in the UK. The device allows users to dub data/recordings from HDD to DVD-R, DVD-RAM, CD-R and CD-RW discs.
  • DVD player single-chip solutions may fall under US$10 - Taiwan IC design industry sources expect that single-chip solutions for DVD players may fall under US$10 from the current US$15 as more competitors enter volume production. The current price does not include RF ICs, while the lower price estimate does.
  • IDF Spring '03 : Day 3 Keynote, and PCI-Express - Hexus has posted two IDF Day 3 articles, and also Tom's Hardware has posted day 3 of their IDF coverage.
  • Samsung SM-348 CD-RW/DVD-ROM combo Review - Last year, Samsung took its CD writing speed to 32X. This year, the company improved its technology, pushing speeds to a whopping 48X with the Samsung SM-348 CD-RW/DVD-ROM combo drive ($130 street). Updated from the SM-332, the SM-348 gives you faster burn speeds and read times. It offers speeds of 24X for rewriting, 16X for DVD reading, 48X for CD recording, and the usual 48X CD-ROM read rate. We burned a 325MB file in less than 2 minutes. We also ran the Titanic DVD in the background with MusicMatch playing an MP3, and still the drive was able to burn without difficulty.
  • Canon i70 Color Bubble Jet Printer Review - The Canon i70 Color Bubble Jet Printer ($300 street) combines mobility and speed in a portable printer that produces clear text and fine color photo output for general use. The i70 operates with a USB connection to a PC, or you can print directly to Bubble Jet Direct-compatible Canon digital cameras and camcorders. The 4-pound i70 fits into a standard-size briefcase when the 2.0- by 12.3- by 6.5-inch (HWD) case is closed. With its input tray extended (there's no output tray), the i70 measures 6.6 by 12.3 by 12 inches. You can stack 30 sheets of standard paper or five envelopes in the input tray.
  • LCD 17: Samsung 17in & NEC LCD1760V vs. Everyone Else  - Any self-respecting buyer of a 17-inch LCD monitor starts out by making a list of self-respecting monitors. This list would naturally include the Hitachi CML174SXW and the Iiyama AS4314UTG, both of which have been tested by Tom's . But we hadn't yet tested the 171N, a 25 ms, or the LCD1760V, a 16 ms. Well, this is now remedied, and for good measure we've thrown in some general details on LCDs: frequencies, technologies, interfaces, etc.
  • R350 Specs -  German CHIP Online has published some info in regards to the upcoming R350 and RV350 VPU line-ups from ATI. Radeon 9800 -
    Process: 0,15 um, Core clock: 375 MHz, Memory type: DDR-I (128MB), Memory clock: 350 MHz; Radeon 9600 Pro - Process: 0,13 um, Core clock: 400 MHz, Memory type: DDR-II (128MB), Memory clock: 400 MHz; Radeon 9600 - Process: 0,13 um, Core clock: 300 MHz, Memory type: DDR-II (128MB), Memory clock: 300 MHz; Radeon 9200 - Process: 0,15 um, Core clock: 275 MHz, Memory type: DDR-I (64MB), Memory speed: 275 MHz.  It will be followed shortly by the Radeon 9900, which will debut in May or thereabouts. The 9900 will feature an impressive 256 MB of RAM on the card, and will come in both "9900 Pro" and regular "9900" versions. Consumers may have to pay close to US$500 for the 9900 Pro card, however.
  • Xabre II specs - According to XabreGamers, there are 2 models : the SiS 340 aand 341 both support DX9 and AGP8x. Both models will have 500Mhz DDRII memory (!!) and will have the core clocked at 375Mhz. The only difference lies with the number of pipelines : 8 for the SiS340 and 4 for the SiS341.
  • SQL Server Critical Update Wizard 8.00.0194 - The SQL Critical Update Wizard was developed specifically for the home and small business user, though enterprise customers may also download and deploy the wizard to their internal customers. The SQL Critical Update Wizard will walk you through the steps of detecting a vulnerability to Slammer and updating the affected files. SQL Critical Update Wizard runs on WindowsR 98, Windows ME, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000 and Windows XP.
  • Alcohol 120% v1.4.1.221 -Alcohol 120% (download) is a combination of both Alcohol 52% and Alcohol 68%. It enables users to both copy and emulate real or virtual CDs & DVDs. Alcohol 120% can handle the creation of 31 virtual CD & DVD-ROMs, allowing the user to play discs whithout needing the physical disc. It also allows users to make copy CD & DVD to CD-R / CD-RW / DVD-R / DVD-RW / DVD-RAM / DVD+RW.
  • WinOnCD 6.0 Service Pack 1 - The first Service Pack (download) for the great CD mastering program WinOnCD 6 has been released.
  • SecureCRT 4.0.4 - SecureCRT (download) gives you an encrypted SSH session with both SSH1 and SSH2t servers. SSH security goes far beyond the basic secure logon, rerouting data or local applications using TCP/IP ports through an encrypted channel. The VCP utility secures file transfers using SFTP.  This new version fixes some CRC errors during transferring files using bulletin board ZModem, VCP looks for a newline or carriage return character in order to determine if the ENTER key was pressed when authenticating, On Windows NT 4.0, sometimes certain keys (SSH2) did not work after authenticating.
  • Tweak-XP Pro 2.08 - Tweak-XP Pro bundles more than 37 different utilities in one: it was developed to combine both tweaking and optimizing features to increase the speed of your Windows XP system.

Comments from NOTHINGposted - 03:14 AM CET - Feb,22 2003
Well, with the can of worms opened with regard to ATi's next powerhouse vid card, I'm really really curious to see what nVidia is going to announce in terms of their offering.

Comments from FUDGEposted - 04:14 AM CET - Feb,22 2003
AOL and CompuServe freaken suck! MSN sounds ok; But I never tryed it, Shopping for a Geforce 4 card jest to play Splinter Cell $350 some bucks F-me I should jest say the hell with PC games and buy a frealen XBOX or PS2 all-ready Man this sucks I don't know what to do I have over $4000 bucks worth of PC game it seams stupid to go to another platform and start all over, I don't know man Pissed off is me, EAT S*&^ UBI SOFT!

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