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Firefox foils phishing flaw
VNUNet.com
By Steve Ranger
Friday, February 25, 2005
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All Firefox users are being encouraged to download a security update for the popular open source browser.
The update includes several fixes to guard against spoofing and arbitrary code execution, and improves stability, said The Mozilla Foundation.
The Firefox security update - Firefox 1.0.1 - is available for the 25 million users who have already downloaded the free browser.
The Mozilla Foundation said that it "encourages all users to download the update", which is available here.
"Regular security updates are essential for maintaining a safe browsing experience for our users," said Chris Hofmann, director of engineering at Mozilla.
"The Mozilla Foundation has developed a community of users and developers who continuously provide feedback on Mozilla software, and as a result of that constant vigilance we are able to provide quick and effective responses to security vulnerabilities."
Mozilla said that it evaluates security issues on an ongoing basis and will issue security updates "as warranted". More information is available in the release notes here.
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Sunday, February 27, 2005
NY teen charged over IM spam attack
By John Leyden, The Register Feb 22 2005 10:42AM
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A New York teenager has become the first American to be arrested for sending spam messages across IM networks. Anthony Greco, 18, of Cheektowaga, New York, was charged with violations of the CAN-SPAM Act after allegedly sending 1.5m messages punting mortgage refinancing and adult pornography to MySpace.com users in October and November 2004. According to a criminal complaint, Greco created thousands of fraudulent instant messaging accounts on MySpace.com to bombard its users with junk IM messages. Greco allegedly threatened additional attacks unless MySpace.com, an online community site popular with teenagers, hired him as a consultant. He travelled to Los Angeles last week hoping to granted "exclusive" rights to send commercial e-mail to users of the MySpace.com only to be arrested by officers from the US Secret Service and the Los Angeles Police Department after he stepped off the plane.
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A New York teenager has become the first American to be arrested for sending spam messages across IM networks. Anthony Greco, 18, of Cheektowaga, New York, was charged with violations of the CAN-SPAM Act after allegedly sending 1.5m messages punting mortgage refinancing and adult pornography to MySpace.com users in October and November 2004. According to a criminal complaint, Greco created thousands of fraudulent instant messaging accounts on MySpace.com to bombard its users with junk IM messages. Greco allegedly threatened additional attacks unless MySpace.com, an online community site popular with teenagers, hired him as a consultant. He travelled to Los Angeles last week hoping to granted "exclusive" rights to send commercial e-mail to users of the MySpace.com only to be arrested by officers from the US Secret Service and the Los Angeles Police Department after he stepped off the plane.
Friday, February 25, 2005
Potential ID Theft Victims Eye Information
By RACHEL KONRAD
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Warren Lambert thought it was just another piece of junk mail until he read the letter more closely and learned that con artists may have obtained his Social Security number, name and address - just what they need to steal his identity and ruin his credit.
Lambert is one of nearly 145,000 Americans rendered vulnerable by a breach of the computer databases of ChoicePoint Inc., a leading trafficker in a growing pool of information about who we are, what we own, what we owe and even where we go.
CHOICEPOINT INC
NYS:CPS
Updated: 2005/02/24 ET
41.00 -0.22
The Georgia-based company began mailing the warning letters after acknowledging this month that thieves opened more than 50 ChoicePoint accounts by posing as legitimate businesses.
Lambert, a retired banker in San Francisco, now spends several hours a day phoning customer service agents, poring over credit card statements, ordering credit reports and checking bank accounts.
He worries that thieves will eventually do to him what sheriffs detectives in Los Angeles say they've done to more than 700 other people - reroute his mail, ring up credit card debts, buy a car or even commit a felony in his name.
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Warren Lambert thought it was just another piece of junk mail until he read the letter more closely and learned that con artists may have obtained his Social Security number, name and address - just what they need to steal his identity and ruin his credit.
Lambert is one of nearly 145,000 Americans rendered vulnerable by a breach of the computer databases of ChoicePoint Inc., a leading trafficker in a growing pool of information about who we are, what we own, what we owe and even where we go.
CHOICEPOINT INC
NYS:CPS
Updated: 2005/02/24 ET
41.00 -0.22
The Georgia-based company began mailing the warning letters after acknowledging this month that thieves opened more than 50 ChoicePoint accounts by posing as legitimate businesses.
Lambert, a retired banker in San Francisco, now spends several hours a day phoning customer service agents, poring over credit card statements, ordering credit reports and checking bank accounts.
He worries that thieves will eventually do to him what sheriffs detectives in Los Angeles say they've done to more than 700 other people - reroute his mail, ring up credit card debts, buy a car or even commit a felony in his name.
read more »
USS Jimmy Carter commissioned
GROTON, Connecticut (AP) -- The USS Jimmy Carter entered the Navy's fleet Saturday as the most heavily armed submarine ever built, and as the last of the Seawolf class of attack subs that the Pentagon ordered during the Cold War's final years.
The $3.2 billion Jimmy Carter was commissioned Saturday, the first submarine named after a living ex-president.
Carter, himself a submariner during his time in the Navy, was on hand for the ceremony signaling the end of an era in submarining.
"The most deeply appreciated and emotional honor I've ever had is to have this great ship bear my name," Carter said in remarks prepared for the ceremony at the Naval Submarine Base New London.
Carter was joined by his wife, Rosalynn, former Vice President Walter Mondale and his wife, Joan, and Stansfield Turner, CIA director in the Carter administration.
The 453-foot, 12,000-ton submarine has a 50-torpedo payload and eight torpedo tubes. And, according to intelligence experts, it can tap undersea cables and eavesdrop on the communications passing through them. read more »
The $3.2 billion Jimmy Carter was commissioned Saturday, the first submarine named after a living ex-president.
Carter, himself a submariner during his time in the Navy, was on hand for the ceremony signaling the end of an era in submarining.
"The most deeply appreciated and emotional honor I've ever had is to have this great ship bear my name," Carter said in remarks prepared for the ceremony at the Naval Submarine Base New London.
Carter was joined by his wife, Rosalynn, former Vice President Walter Mondale and his wife, Joan, and Stansfield Turner, CIA director in the Carter administration.
The 453-foot, 12,000-ton submarine has a 50-torpedo payload and eight torpedo tubes. And, according to intelligence experts, it can tap undersea cables and eavesdrop on the communications passing through them. read more »
Thursday, February 24, 2005
Michael Jackson
Michael Jackson has been told the trial against him will go ahead - despite his pleading with the judge to have the case thrown out.
The troubled singer was informed there was enough evidence to warrant the child abuse charges - which includes child abduction, false imprisonment and extortion.
The judge also rejected a request from Jackson's lawyers to exclude vital evidence from his Neverland ranch. more »
The troubled singer was informed there was enough evidence to warrant the child abuse charges - which includes child abduction, false imprisonment and extortion.
The judge also rejected a request from Jackson's lawyers to exclude vital evidence from his Neverland ranch. more »
Wednesday, February 23, 2005
Big Bangs
Last Friday at NASA headquarters, astronomers met to discuss the brightest explosion ever detected in our galaxy: a 0.2-second flash that packed as much punch as our sun produces in 200,000 years. The incredible flash was so bright that it knocked satellites' instruments out of whack and interfered with low-frequency radio waves on Earth.
The blast came from a rare entity called a magnetar roughly halfway across the Milky Way--50,000 light years from Earth. That may sound a long way off, but as one astrophysicist pointed out, "Astronomically speaking, this explosion happened in our backyard." If it had happened just 10,000 light years away, it might have blown away the ozone layer.
Thankfully, the nearest known magnetar is 13,000 light years from here. So what's a magnetar? Basically, it's a neutron star with a super-strong magnetic field. And what's a neutron star? It's the remnant of a different sort of stellar explosion--a supernova.
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Tuesday, February 22, 2005
Stop the World, I Want to Get Off
Earth's surface consists of a hard shell called the crust, which is broken into large chunks called plates. Plates can hold entire continents (as the North American Plate does) or entire oceans (as the Pacific Plate does). Often, they hold bits of both.
The crust is actually a hard exterior on top of a much deeper layer, the mantle. Most of the mantle is made of thick liquid rock called magma, melted by heat from an even deeper layer--the Earth's core. The plates that make up the crust basically "float" on the mantle's magma.
That means the plates and everything on them, including whole continents and oceans, are in continual motion. Their movement is slow, ranging from less than an inch a year to a top speed of about 6 inches (15 cm) a year, but it's real. Just what drives the movement isn't clear. It could be gravity. It could be convection currents within the mantle. It could be both.
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The crust is actually a hard exterior on top of a much deeper layer, the mantle. Most of the mantle is made of thick liquid rock called magma, melted by heat from an even deeper layer--the Earth's core. The plates that make up the crust basically "float" on the mantle's magma.
That means the plates and everything on them, including whole continents and oceans, are in continual motion. Their movement is slow, ranging from less than an inch a year to a top speed of about 6 inches (15 cm) a year, but it's real. Just what drives the movement isn't clear. It could be gravity. It could be convection currents within the mantle. It could be both.
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Monday, February 21, 2005
Henry Ford Puts the World on Wheels
Henry Ford was born in 1863 in Dearborn, Michigan, four weeks after the Battle of Gettysburg. As a boy, he had an instinct for gadgets and machines but little use for literature or history, which he considered "more or less bunk." He quit school at the age of 15 and soon headed for the big city. Want to learn more?
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America’s Missing: Broadcast Emergency Response
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Saturday, February 19, 2005
Beirut's Roots
This week, a bomb in Beirut killed former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri. The popular leader resigned last October while calling on Syria to remove the 14,000 troops it keeps inside Lebanon. Now that call is coming even louder. In fact, Hariri's funeral quickly turned into an anti-Syrian rally, with more than 150,000 mourners chanting "Syria out! Syria out!"
Your paper will tell you that Syrian troops have been deployed around Beirut for decades, ever since the Lebanese civil war raged from 1975 to 1990. It probably won't mention that Beirut itself has been around since biblical times--and that its relationship with Syria has ancient roots, too.
Beirut's Roots
The first mention of a city called "Biruta" dates to the 15th century BC. Back then, the region now called Lebanon was inhabited by seafaring traders whom the Old Testament calls Canaanites.
The Greeks called these merchant mariners Phoenicians (from "phoinikies," a purple dye they sold), and adapted their alphabetic script for their own use. Unfortunately for the Phoenicians, neighbors coveted more than their letters. Beirut's wealth made it a target. At various times, the ancient city and its natural harbor were conquered by Egyptians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Greeks, and Romans.
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Your paper will tell you that Syrian troops have been deployed around Beirut for decades, ever since the Lebanese civil war raged from 1975 to 1990. It probably won't mention that Beirut itself has been around since biblical times--and that its relationship with Syria has ancient roots, too.
Beirut's Roots
The first mention of a city called "Biruta" dates to the 15th century BC. Back then, the region now called Lebanon was inhabited by seafaring traders whom the Old Testament calls Canaanites.
The Greeks called these merchant mariners Phoenicians (from "phoinikies," a purple dye they sold), and adapted their alphabetic script for their own use. Unfortunately for the Phoenicians, neighbors coveted more than their letters. Beirut's wealth made it a target. At various times, the ancient city and its natural harbor were conquered by Egyptians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Greeks, and Romans.
Want to learn more?
Visit Lebanon's historic sites online
All for a one-time payment of just $34.95--
no renewals, ever!
KnowledgeNews.net * 123 South 6th Street * Marshall, Illinois 62441 * USA
Questions? Comments? Suggestions? Write to us at info@knowledgenews.net
We read every note and answer as quickly as possible.
Friday, February 18, 2005
The official support and discussion site for FeedBurner.
So you've burned your feed and you've dropped the "FeedBurner chicklet" on your web page or blog. Congratulations! When you go look at your feed stats, however, are you seeing all of your feed traffic? Maybe not. The rest of this entry contains some hints and tips to make your stats as useful and accurate as they can be. more»
O'Reilly Books
Google Hacks,
2nd Edition Google Hacks, 2nd Edition -- Featuring dozens of refreshed hacks, plus 25 completely new ones, this updated edition of Google Hacks is a collection of real-world solutions to practical Google research problems. Thanks to these industrial-strength tips, now you can easily save hours of research time mining Google. Best of all, each of the book's 100 hacks is easy to read and digest; there's no confusing terminology or extraneous information to hamper your understanding. Sample Hacks are available free online. more »
2nd Edition Google Hacks, 2nd Edition -- Featuring dozens of refreshed hacks, plus 25 completely new ones, this updated edition of Google Hacks is a collection of real-world solutions to practical Google research problems. Thanks to these industrial-strength tips, now you can easily save hours of research time mining Google. Best of all, each of the book's 100 hacks is easy to read and digest; there's no confusing terminology or extraneous information to hamper your understanding. Sample Hacks are available free online. more »
Wednesday, February 16, 2005
A free family boardgame for five or more players about Tudor England and Henry VIII
by Garry Stevens PhD
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Current release: Last modified and updated July 2003.
Download Henry VIII: Intrigue in the Tudor Court for free!What the Game is About
The Year Is 1525
Henry VIII, King of England, is troubled. After many years of marriage to Catherine of Aragon, he still has no son. The Tudor dynasty is young. The bloody family squabbles of the House of Plantagenet (that we know as the Wars of the Roses) were ended by his father. But still they haunt the memories of men. And the remnants of the House of York yearn to rule once again over this upstart Lancastrian. more »
Back to Garry's Games.
Current release: Last modified and updated July 2003.
Download Henry VIII: Intrigue in the Tudor Court for free!What the Game is About
The Year Is 1525
Henry VIII, King of England, is troubled. After many years of marriage to Catherine of Aragon, he still has no son. The Tudor dynasty is young. The bloody family squabbles of the House of Plantagenet (that we know as the Wars of the Roses) were ended by his father. But still they haunt the memories of men. And the remnants of the House of York yearn to rule once again over this upstart Lancastrian. more »
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Command Line,
You've always been told to write maintainable code. All of those fancy books on Extreme Programming and every computer science course you've ever had has emphasized commenting and clarity and all of those other broccoli-is-good-for-you-so-clean-your-plate directives. This article, and its second half, are about the opposite of that—unreadable code, inscrutable code, and disposable code. But, also, indispensable code. It is the editor we will use that will be the dominating factor in the way we write our code, however, and that editor is the bash command line prompt. more »
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Help removing error guard
Close all windows,rerun HJT, put a tick beside these and
click FIX CHECKED
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [ErrorGuard] C:\Program Files\ErrorGuard\ErrorGuard.Exe
O16 - DPF: {205FF73B-CA67-11D5-99DD-444553540006} (CInstall Class) - http://www.errorguard.com/installation/Install.cab
Then boot up in SAFE MODE
then go to C:\Program Files and delete ErrorGuard <---folder
then reboot and post a fresh Hijackthis log.
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click FIX CHECKED
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [ErrorGuard] C:\Program Files\ErrorGuard\ErrorGuard.Exe
O16 - DPF: {205FF73B-CA67-11D5-99DD-444553540006} (CInstall Class) - http://www.errorguard.com/installation/Install.cab
Then boot up in SAFE MODE
then go to C:\Program Files and delete ErrorGuard <---folder
then reboot and post a fresh Hijackthis log.
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Interoperable Communications Network
City of Harrisonburg and Rockingham County, Va., Deploy Interoperable Communications Network
"For the first time, the city of Harrisonburg and Rockingham County's Police, Sheriff, Fire and Emergency Medical first-responders will be able to talk to one another and coordinate with other city and county service agencies."
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BlackBerry 7520 use the JABRA® Bluetooth headset
Get the most from your phone with powerful custom accessories. For your BlackBerry 7520 use the JABRA® Bluetooth headset for hands-free wireless conversation. Or, if you have a non-Bluetooth-enabled phone you can get the JABRA Universal Multi-Adapter to support wireless communication.
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