Topic: COMPUTER - on October 13, 2003 at 9:06:05 PM CEST
Liste der ungepatchten Sicherheitslücken des Internet Explorers vom Netz genommen
Die von Thor Larholm gepflegte Liste der ungepatchten Sicherheitslöcher im Internet Explorer ist nicht mehr im Internet verfügbar. In ihr waren alle Schwachstellen der vergangenen Jahre zusammengetragen, die von Microsoft nie beseitigt wurden. Bei einigen Fehlern war Microsoft bisher nicht der Ansicht, dass sie sicherheitsrelevant sind, für andere Fehler gibt es zwar Patches, diese schließen die Lücken aber nicht wirklich. Und bei einigen Fehlern lässt der Patch einfach nur auf sich warten.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on October 12, 2003 at 10:28:16 AM CEST
Spieler, zur Sonne!
Irgendwann, fürchtet so manche Mutter, verwächst der videospielende Nachwuchs mit dem Schreibtischstuhl, erbleicht von PC-Gelb zu Kalkweiß, verliert die Bewegungsfähigkeit und reagiert allergisch auf Sauerstoff. Doch Rettung naht: Konami bringt "Boktai" auf den Markt, das Spiel, das Daddler an die Sonne zwingt.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on October 11, 2003 at 11:14:55 AM CEST
What is WiFi-SM ?
WiFi-SM is an Internet connected wireless device that you can fix on any part of your body. It automatically detects the information from approximately 4,500 news sources worldwide updated continuously.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on October 10, 2003 at 11:42:26 PM CEST
Europe's New High-Tech Role: Playing Privacy Cop to World
Last year General Motors Corp. set out to update its electronic company phone book, so that with a few keystrokes its engineers in, say, Taiwan could look up colleagues in Germany. But an unanticipated problem came in the way: Europe's strict privacy laws.
Employee office phone numbers were their "personal" information, European authorities said. Bob Rothman, the car maker's chief privacy officer, knew what that meant: sending numbers outside the EU would require months of legal work through GM's global operations -- or the company would be risking a criminal offense in some European countries. Not even GM's U.S. headquarters could know the phone numbers, if the company didn't take some measures first.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on October 7, 2003 at 1:52:25 AM CEST
Game Biz Mystified by Code Theft
In one of the highest-profile cases of cybercrime to hit the gaming industry, the source code for Half-Life 2 -- one of the year's most-anticipated games -- was stolen and released over the Internet, developer Valve said Thursday. Valve went into radio silence Friday and did not offer any insights into the motive behind the theft.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on October 6, 2003 at 10:42:38 PM CEST
IBM debuts hard drive 'airbag' crash protection
IBM today debuted a new hard drive system designed to prevent data damage when the notebook is dropped. The technology, dubbed the IBM Active Protection System (APS), will appear in new ThinkPad R50 and T41 series machines.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on October 6, 2003 at 12:14:34 AM CEST
CyberInsecurity: The Cost of Monopoly
How the Dominance of Microsoft's Products Poses a Risk to Security. CCIA warned of the security dangers posed by software monopolies during the US antitrust proceeding against Microsoft in the mid and late 1990’s. We later urged the European Union to take measures to avoid a software “monoculture” that each day becomes more susceptible to computer viruses, Trojan Horses and other digital pathogens.
Dr. Daniel Geer, Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of AtStake, was fired by AtStake for co-authoring this paper. AtStake is a supplier to Microsoft.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on October 4, 2003 at 1:54:16 PM CEST
VeriSign Will Temporarily Suspend Web Navigation Service
in Order to Continue To Work With Internet Community Towards a Long-Term Implementation. VeriSign, Inc. (Nasdaq: VRSN), the leading provider of critical infrastructure services for the Internet and telecommunications networks, today announced that it will temporarily suspend its Site Finder, a new service to improve Web navigation for Internet users.
"Without so much as a hearing, ICANN today formally asked us to shut down the Site Finder service. We will accede to the request while we explore all of our options," said Russell Lewis, executive vice president of VeriSign's Naming and Directory Services group.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on October 4, 2003 at 1:35:25 PM CEST
Microsoft moves to integrate Windows with BIOS
A deal with BIOS maker Phoenix Technologies would allow the operating system to directly control hardware. It also raises concerns over who controls the software in PCs
Microsoft has expanded its relationship with BIOS maker Phoenix Technologies in a deal designed to more closely integrate the basic building blocks of the PC with the Windows operating system.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on October 3, 2003 at 10:26:28 PM CEST
Microsoft sued for security faults
Microsoft Corp. faces a proposed class-action lawsuit in California based on the claim that its market-dominant software is vulnerable to viruses capable of triggering "massive, cascading failures" in global computer networks.
The lawsuit, which was filed Tuesday in Los Angeles Superior Court, also claims that Microsoft's security warnings are too complex to be understood by the general public and serve instead to tip off "fast-moving" hackers on how to exploit flaws in its operating system.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on October 3, 2003 at 8:52:24 PM CEST
Source code for popular game leaked on the net
Source code for the popular game Half-Life 2, made by Valve Corporation, has been leaked on the internet, a company official has confirmed.
It appears that the attackers gained entry to developers' computers at Valve by exploiting a vulnerability in the Windows mail client, Outlook.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on October 2, 2003 at 4:44:10 PM CEST
Symantec Releases Six-Month Internet Security Report
Symantec today released its semiannual Internet Security Threat Report, and the results were not pretty.
In the past six months, Web application vulnerabilities increased 12 percent, malicious codes were up 20 percent, and worms and viruses increased 19 percent, according to the report.
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