Topic: - on February 21, 2003 at 7:24:51 AM CET
SSL cracked
Net security software exposed
The most commonly used security system to protect passwords over the internet has been cracked by researchers at one of Switzerland's top technology universities.
A team at the Federal Institute for Technology in Lausanne said they had been able to decipher a password in less than an hour.
"It is the first time we have noticed a security problem in the SSL protocol itself and not in how we use it or how we implement it," Professor Serge Vaudenay, director of the institute's security and cryptography lab, told the BBC.
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Topic: - on February 20, 2003 at 6:39:04 PM CET
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."
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Topic: - on February 20, 2003 at 6:02:50 PM CET
Working at Microsoft
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Topic: - on February 18, 2003 at 11:20:58 AM CET
Hackers View Visa/MasterCard Accounts
More than five million Visa and MasterCard accounts throughout the nation were accessed after the computer system at a third party processor was hacked into, according to representatives for the card associations. Early indications were that none of the information, which would include credit card numbers, was used in a fraudulent way, according to the representatives.
The associations said they could not provide a timeline of when the breach took place or details on how it was accomplished because it involved a third party processor used by merchants and not Visa or MasterCard systems. The associations said they could not disclose the name of that processor.
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Topic: - on February 18, 2003 at 10:48:22 AM CET
uk.co domain wiped off face of Internet
The .uk.co domain was wiped off the face of the Internet this morning with no notice, leaving more than 8,000 livid individuals and businesses - including Amazon and Priceline - with no Web presence or email.
The only proof of its existence is a posting on www.uk.co from the top-level domain .co owner - the University of the Andes in Bogota, Colombia - saying that the registrar for the .uk.co domains Net Registrar had failed to agree terms of a new arrangement and so it was "no longer entitled to operate uk.co sub-domains". Therefore, "Net Registrar is not entitled to permit you to use the uk.co domain names that you had registered with them".
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Topic: - on February 16, 2003 at 11:04:28 PM CET
Google kauft größten Weblog-Anbieter
Der weltgrößte Suchmaschinen-Betreiber Google hat dieser Tage das Softwarehaus Pyra Labs übernommen.
Die Company aus San Francisco hat als einer der ersten ein Tool entwickelt, dass das einfache Erstellen von tausenden Weblogs auf einem Server ermöglicht. Herausgekommen ist Blogger.com, das auf bereits 1,1 Millionen registrierte User verweisen kann.
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Topic: - on February 15, 2003 at 9:44:24 PM CET
US hackers told to leave Iraq alone
The FBI has warned American hackers not to launch cyber attacks against Washington's foes.
An alert by the FBI's National Infrastructure Protection Center (NIPC) warned that "patriotic hacking" was a crime and could even backfire.
The Center said it issued the warning "to heighten the awareness of an increase in global hacking activities as a result of the increasing tensions between the United States and Iraq."
¬> BBC
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Topic: - on February 13, 2003 at 4:05:27 PM CET
Government Warns Against 'Patriot Hacking'
Experts: Many Do-Gooders Could Become Dupes
The FBI is warning that growing tensions between the United States and Iraq could lead to an increase in global computer hacking on both sides.
The agency's National Infrastructure Protection Center says such activity is illegal and punishable as a felony.
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Topic: - on February 13, 2003 at 1:49:42 PM CET
IGGGIIITTT Internet Explorer erreicht 96 Prozent Marktanteil
Programmierer neuer Werbeformate orientieren sich vor allem am IE
"Microsofts Internet Explorer hat zum ersten Mal Netscapes Navigator überholt. Microsoft hat einen Marktanteil von 50,1 Prozent erobert, während Netscape nur noch 47,4 Prozent erreicht" - so lautete eine ZDNet-Meldung aus dem Sommer 1999. Mittlerweile ist viel Wasser die Isar hinunter geflossen und das Kräfteverhältnis zwischen den beiden meist genutzten Browsern verteilt sich etwas eindeutiger: Aktuell bewegen sich weniger als fünf Prozent der europäischen User mit einem Browser, der nicht von Microsoft entwickelt wurde, durch das Internet.
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Topic: - on February 11, 2003 at 1:37:01 PM CET
IPv6 Appli- Contest 2003
The IPv6 Promotion Council is holding a contest called "IPv6 Appli- Contest 2003" from February to July. The contest will award developers of applications and software which helps to create new possibilities in the Internet world. The Internet has spawned application and software developers in unexpected places. It is estimated that IPv6, the next generation Internet protocol, will further enhance the possibilities of the Internet.
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Topic: - on February 11, 2003 at 11:44:21 AM CET
Famous hacker 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.
¬> Seattle Post-Intelligencer ¬> Take a look
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Topic: - on February 11, 2003 at 11:13:52 AM CET
Pixar swaps Sun for Intel
Pixar Animation Studios, which brought the world "Monsters Inc." and "Toy Story," is switching from Sun Microsystems to Intel, as the melodrama in the server market heats up.
The Emeryville, Calif.-based film studio is replacing servers from Sun in its "render farm"--a bank of servers that fuses artists' images into finished film frames--with eight new blade servers from RackSaver. In all, the blade system contains 1,024 Intel 2.8GHz Xeon processors, and it runs the open-source Linux operating system.
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