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 Weekend Tech Reading - tech
(hx) 01:56 AM CET - Dec,11 2003
  • Security Experts Warn of New Way to Attack Windows -  Security experts have found a new way to exploit a critical vulnerability in Windows that evades a workaround and enables the attacker to compromise a number of machines at one time. Microsoft Corp. issued a patch for the vulnerability in November, but the security bulletin also listed several workarounds for the flaw, including disabling the Workstation Service and using a firewall to block specific UDP and TCP ports. But penetration testers at Core Security Technologies, a Boston-based security company, discovered a new attack vector that uses a different UDP port.  The attack takes advantage of several characteristics of the UDP protocol. Unlike TCP, UDP is "connectionless," meaning that there is no TCP-style handshake, and you need not establish a connection with a remote machine in order to send a UDP packet. Also, because the Internet's DNS service uses the protocol, UDP packets usually have no trouble traversing firewalls.  If someone hasn't applied the patch but blocked the ports as they should have, they're still vulnerable," said Max Caceres, a product manager at Core Impact.
  • IE bug lets fake sites look real - A vulnerability has been identified in Internet Explorer, which can be exploited by malicious people to display a fake URL in the address bar. The vulnerability is caused due to an input validation error, which can be exploited by including the "%01" URL encoded representation after the username and right before the "@" character in an URL. Successful exploitation allows a malicious person to display an arbitrary FQDN (Fully Qualified Domain Name) in the address bar, which is different from the actual location of the page. This can be exploited to trick users into divulging sensitive information or download and execute malware on their systems, because they trust the faked domain in the address bar.
  • Group wants P2P files to pay - The Content Reference Forum is hoping to create a kind of intelligent file that can be distributed through file-sharing networks like Kazaa, Web pages, e-mail or almost anywhere else online. Instead of containing a song or movie itself, the file would set up a process that automatically delivers files in the right format and potentially triggers an automatic payment system that could be changed moment to moment by the content distributor.
  • Sun sets Solaris x86 free - Starting this week, Sun has removed the $20 price-tag for the OS - versions 8 and 9, replacing it with a red FREE sign instead. A fair number of Sun users have kept a close eye on this saga and will remember that it was way back in Jan. of 2002 when Sun first said it would halt development on Solaris x86 only to buckle and bring the OS back at cost.
  • P4 chipset prices dip below US$10, sources say - Seeking the number two position in the Pentium 4 (P4) chipset market, VIA Technologies is said to be quoting some of its P4 chipsets to first-tier motherboard makers at below US$10, according to local industry sources.
  • Sony DRU-530A 8x DVD Burner review - ExtremeTech has posted a review on the Sony DRU-530A 8x DVD Burner.
  • Windows Longhorn Preview - Windows-Help.NET has published a review on the PDC build of Windows Longhorn.
  • BattleStar Galactica Trailers - Scifi.com has posted the first trailers for the new BattleStar Galactica miniseries the remake of 1980's hit show.
  • Visual Boy Advance v1.7 beta 4 -  Visual Boy Advance (download) is a GBA and GB emulator that runs with Windows systems. According to the offical website, this will be the last 1.7 beta and contains numerous fixes to the GUI problems since the GUI migration. It also reverts some of the timing back to 1.6a timing due to problems caused by the new timing. Also, several Gameboy bugs are now fixed.
  • DVD Backup Guide - Techimo have published their new two part DVD Backup Guide (part #1 ~ part #2).
  • UltraEdit-32 v10.10b (SHW) - UltraEdit-32 is a Windows text editor with support for unlimited file sizes, a spell checker, drag and drop, full HEX editing capabilities, user configurable syntax highlighting (pre-configured for HTML, Java, C/C++, VB, Perl), column editing, sorting, and a configurable toolbar
  • 7-Zip 3.12 - 7-Zip is a file archiver with a high compression ratio. The program supports 7z, ZIP, RAR, CAB, GZIP, BZIP2, and TAR formats. Compression ratio in the new 7z format is 30-50% better than ratio in ZIP format. It also compresses to ZIP 2-10% better than PKZip and WinZip. It has an additional powerful command line version and FAR Manager support.
  • Oficial ForceWare Drivers 53.04 for Win9x/ME - For those who haven't noticed, NVIDIA has released also new ForceWare Drivers v53.04 for Win9x/WinME.

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