Topic: COMPUTER - on March 18, 2003 at 9:14:11 PM CET
US Army attacked via new Windows flaw
In an unusual case, attackers have begun exploiting a new Microsoft bug before the flaw was widely known. Microsoft is urging sites to patch their servers as quickly as possible
Microsoft warned customers on Monday that a security hole in Windows 2000 and the company's Web server software is allowing online attackers to take control of corporate servers.
Because the vulnerability is being actively exploited by Internet vandals, Microsoft advised customers to apply a patch or use a workaround to defend against the attack as soon as possible. One of the servers attacked belonged to the US Army, according to reports.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on March 18, 2003 at 5:22:44 PM CET
Further security problem hits Windows 2000
MICROSOFT warned that there's a hole in Windows 2000 which could let attackers take control of your PC, with results you may not want. The problem is to do with an unchecked buffer in a Windows component. The operating system supports the WWW distributed authoring and version protocol, which gives extenstions to HTTP.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on March 18, 2003 at 10:54:30 AM CET
Computer virus writers mostly obsessed males
Male. Obsessed with computers. Lacking a girlfriend. Aged 14 to 34. Capable of sowing chaos worldwide.
That is the profile of the average computer-virus writer, an anti-virus expert said on Tuesday.
About 1,000 viruses are created every month by virus writers increasingly intent on targeting new operating systems, said Jan Hruska, the chief executive of British-based Sophos, the world's fourth-largest anti-virus solutions provider. "So far, we've seen no indication of decreased interest in virus writing," Hruska told Reuters in an interview.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on March 17, 2003 at 7:02:10 PM CET
Ausstellung über Filesharing im Internet
Das Museum für Angewandte Kunst in Frankfurt am Main baut seinen neuen Schwerpunkt im Bereich digitaler Medien aus. Schon zum dritten Mal organisiert das Haus am Museumsufer eine Ausstellung, die sich mit dem Internet beschäftigt. Nach Computerviren ("I love you") und Internet-Demos ("origami digital") sind nun Musiktauschbörsen wie Napster an der Reihe.
Die Schau mit dem Titel adonnaM.mp3 ist vom 20. März bis zum 20. April zu sehen.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on March 15, 2003 at 7:25:26 PM CET
Alcohol-powered laptops ahead
Toshiba has unveiled a prototype fuel cell it hopes will become the power source for laptops in the future. The fuel cell breaks down methanol to generate power and, Toshiba claims, will provide enough juice to run a laptop for about five hours.
To get the cell working, the alcohol fuel is provided in small 50cc cartridges.
Toshiba hopes to put the fuel cell on sale in early 2004.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on March 14, 2003 at 7:57:29 PM CET
10 years ago NCSA Mosaic for X 0.10 was released
Marc Andreessen (marca@ncsa.uiuc.edu) Sun, 14 Mar 93 03:00:45 -0800
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Beta version 0.10 of NCSA Mosaic for the X Window System, a networked information systems and World Wide Web browser, is hereby released: file://ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Web/xmosaic/xmosaic-0.10.tar.Z
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Topic: COMPUTER - on March 14, 2003 at 7:46:20 PM CET
Zweiter Patentverletzungs-Programmierwettbewerb
Am kommenden Wochenende startet der Zweite Deutsche Patentverletzungs-Programmierwettbewerb. Bis zum 3. Mai 2003 dürfen wieder "möglichst absurde europäische Software-Patente dokumentiert und eingereicht werden", teilt die Essener Linux User Group mit. Alle Programmierer sind zum Mitmachen eingeladen. Als Preis ist unter anderem eine Miniatur-Toilettenschüssel mitsamt Brille ausgelobt.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on March 14, 2003 at 6:36:28 PM CET
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Microsoft explores self-managing software
Microsoft will next week take on its key competitors with a new initiative for building self-managing computing systems.
The Redmond, Wash.-based company plans to unveil the initiative, called Dynamic Systems Initiative (DSI), at a Las Vegas conference next week when it debuts its new systems management tools.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on March 14, 2003 at 5:46:08 PM CET
Does File Trading Fund Terrorism?
A congressional hearing on the links between terrorism, organized crime, and the illegal trading of copyrighted material produced more complaints about college students using peer-to-peer networks and other governments sanctioning copyright violations than it did evidence of nefarious connections.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on March 14, 2003 at 10:55:09 AM CET
Open News bei ORF.at
Die Schlagzeilen einiger ausgewählter Sites des ORF.at Networks werden in einem standardisierten, auf der Beschreibungssprache XML basierenden Austauschformat – Rich Site Summary (RSS) – angeboten.
Ständig aktualisiert bietet dieses Service Schlagzeilen und Links zu den neuesten ORF.at Meldungen und Berichten aus Politik, Österreich-Chronik, Kultur, Sport, IT, Wissenschaft, Musik und Lifestyle.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on March 14, 2003 at 9:31:30 AM CET
Indian hackers target Pakistan
A new e-mail virus has been released on the internet in the latest cyber war of words between rival hackers in India and Pakistan.
A variant of the Yaha internet e-mail worm has been written by a group of hackers calling themselves the Indian Snakes.
It has been attacking websites in Pakistan, including government sites, internet service providers and the Karachi Stock Exchange, said anti-virus firm Sophos.
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Topic: - on March 13, 2003 at 7:55:09 PM CET
Doom 3 and half-naked fairies
The Holy Grail in the battle for dominance of the graphics world has always been cinematic-quality performance. If you can get a game that's as graphically complex as "Shrek" or "Toy Story" to run smoothly on a PC, the theory goes, you'll open up the gaming industry to a vastly larger audience.
For years, nVidia and ATI have claimed to hit that milestone every time they have a new chip coming out – though that has generally been more PR bluster than fact. They're making the boast again about their latest releases. And while the skepticism is still thick, even critics are acknowledging that the gap between in-game and on-screen graphics is quickly shrinking.
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