07/03/09 2126 McAfee false-positive glitch fells PCs worldwide "IT admins across the globe are letting out a collective groan after servers and PCs running McAfee VirusScan attacked core system files, in some cases causing the machines to display the dreaded blue screen of death." 07/02/09 2031 First Person Shooters Disease 07/02/09 1621 Browser Vendors Force W3C To Scrap HTML 5 Codecs "Major browser vendors have been unable to agree on an encoding format they will support in their products, forcing the W3C to drop audio and video codecs from HTML 5, the forthcoming W3C spec that has been viewed as a threat to Flash, Silverlight, and similar technologies. " 07/02/09 1338 Secrets of Schizophrenia and Depression "Unlocked" "Previously schizophrenia and depression were assumed to be two separate conditions, but the new research shows for the first time that both have a common genetic basis" 07/02/09 1336 superdosage acetaminophen outlawed? "The problem is the key ingredient — acetaminophen — can easily damage or destroy a patient's liver if more than 2000 mg are used per day. In many cases that means if you take a pain killer and then take two extra strength Tylenol, you may have gone over the maximum dosage per day."" 07/02/09 1057 "$4 Billion in Broadband Stimulus Grants Tied to Strict Net Neutrality Rules" "Two federal agencies are now ready to hand out $4 billion in grants and loans to help bring broadband to the people and stimulate the economy, but applicants have to promise to play fairly with whatever devices, applications and services users want to use, vice president Joe Biden announced today." 07/02/09 0850 Apple to drop NVIDIA? "Although they've portrayed themselves almost as best friends for several months, Apple and NVIDIA are now rumored in a spat that could see some GeForce chipsets excluded from future Mac models." 07/02/09 0840 Cash machine cracking presentation cancelled "Hacking into automated teller machines was to be the subject of the presentation, "Jackpotting Automated Teller Machines", planned for delivery at the coming Black Hat Conference." 07/02/09 0840 Apple iDisk flaw fixed "According to Apple, it was a directory traversal issue; this is when access to directories using relative paths is allowed, for example, when the path is prefixed with "../"." 07/02/09 0833 Don't "Youtube" your hacking activities "He says he's "infiltrated a very large corporate office," but according to the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, he was just working the night shift as a security guard, pretending to break into the very building he was supposed to be guarding." 07/02/09 0832 Microsoft 'mega data centers' "Microsoft on Wednesday launched a new data center in Dublin, describing it as the largest it has built outside the U.S.The site is what Microsoft calls a "mega data center"" 07/02/09 0830 Serious iPhone SMS vulnerability "The attack in question exploits a weakness in the way iPhones handle text messages received via SMS (Short Message Service)," 07/02/09 0829 Firefox 3.5 patch coming "Firefox 3.5.1, which Mozilla intends to deliver in mid-to-late July, will include fixes for at least three bugs and "topcrashes," the term the company uses to describe the frequently-reported crashes." 07/02/09 0826 NSA To Build 20 Acre Data Center In Utah "The Salt Lake City Tribune reports that the National Security Agency will be building a one million square foot data center at Utah's Camp Williams. " 07/02/09 0809 New Linux patch could circumvent Microsoft's FAT patents "A Linux developer has published a new kernel patch that provides a workaround to avoid Microsoft's patents on the FAT filesystem." 07/01/09 1103 BluRay encryption fixed, again " In December 2008, a new generation of BD+ programs had stopped both SlySoft AnyDVD HD and the open source effort at Doom9." 07/01/09 0932 RIAA triumphs in Usenet copyright case "Baer noted that in citing the Betamax case, Usenet.com failed to see one important difference between it and Sony. Once Sony sold a Betamax, an early videotape recorder, the company's relationship with the buyer ended." 07/01/09 0910 100 Million Used Games Traded Each Year In the US "We occasionally discuss the complaints from video game publishers and developers about how used game sales are hurting them, and how they've been testing out countermeasures disguised as features to compensate." 07/01/09 0908 Pirate Bay Hit With DDoS Attack After "Selling Out" "In response to one user who asked if a DDoS attack was why he couldn’t access the site, Sunde replied, “Yup, DDoS. Understand the people doing it as well. I hope people will calm down and understand what it means logically instead...”" 07/01/09 0901 June 2009 malware and spam geographical and vertical trends "June 2009 MessageLabs Intelligence Report highlights the following trends" 07/01/09 0900 The Pirate Bay: users can delete accounts ahead of sale "The operators of The Pirate Bay will allow users to delete their accounts on the torrent-tracking site, a feature many users have requested since a deal to sell the site was announced Tuesday." 07/01/09 0900 'Iceman' pleads guilty to massive company hacks "The guilty plea came after the accused, Max Ray Butler, had requested nearly a dozen extensions for time to file pre-trial motions after his arrest in September 2007 on three counts of wire fraud and two counts of transferring stolen identity information." 07/01/09 0855 CRITICAL:ESX kerberos "VMWare released a new security advisory about a vulnerability in the krb5 (Kerberos) package. The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause a DoS or potentially execute arbitrary code on the ESX server." 07/01/09 0852 YouTube readies redesign " YouTube plans to soon switch all of its members to a redesign of its channel pages that it has been testing for several months, although many people want the Google video-sharing site to give them the option to keep the old layout." 07/01/09 0851 Google's next target: Unified communications "Unified communications has been a technology specialty of networking vendors for years, but Google Inc.'s recent forays into voice communications and collaboration could drastically upset the competitive landscape." 07/01/09 0851 Universal Translator? " The first iterations of something akin to the universal translators used on Star Trek may soon be arriving via your smartphone." 07/01/09 0850 Firefox 3.5 "Mozilla puts Firefox 3.5 ahead of the browser pack with better performance, improved tab handling and nifty new features." 06/30/09 2137 New Click Fraud Attack "The Trojan takes advantage of Google's "AdSense for Search" API, which allows Web sites to embed Google search results alongside the usual Google AdSense ads." 06/30/09 1300 Windows 7 Beta auto reboot "Microsoft's Windows 7 Beta will start to spontaneously reboot every two hours beginning on Wednesday, the company has warned users." 06/30/09 1115 Internet Explorer 8 commercials 06/30/09 0911 First look: Microsoft Office 2010 "In its place is a new, four-tab Ribbon that helps to surface much of Outlook's hidden workflow power while bringing the overall user experience in line with the rest of the suite." 06/30/09 0903 Cisco launches toughest networking certificate "the new Cisco Certified Architect, attempting to marry the networking engineering know-how of the CCIE with the business acumen of a MBA." 06/30/09 0902 Michael Jackson malware "The Flash update ploy may be a now-standard hacker tactic, but it's worked extremely well in the past" 06/30/09 0852 Adobe Shuts Down U.S. Operations For a Week "Graphic-design software giant Adobe has announced that it has shut down its North American operations for one week in an effort to cut costs and save money." 06/30/09 0848 The Pirate Bay Sold To Software Company, Goes Legal "Software company Global Gaming Factory X (GGF) says it is in the process of acquiring The Pirate Bay and file-sharing technology company Peerialism. GGF claims to have the biggest network of internet cafés and gaming centers in the world." 06/29/09 2154 Firefox 3.5 vs. Chrome 3 Showdown, Round 1: How private is private browsing? "At least, isn't that what you expect…for Chrome to forget it later? What happens when you exit Chrome altogether…does it forget your shopping cart then? No. Start up Chrome again, and your shopping cart is alive and well." 06/29/09 2151 Steve Jobs returns to work at Apple "Steve is back to work," a company spokesman told Reuters. "He's currently at Apple a few days a week, and working from home the remaining days. We are very glad to have him back." 06/29/09 1342 Apple agrees to industry standard mobile phone charger "IPhone maker among 10 mobile phone companies that will support micro-USB chargers in 2010" 06/29/09 1305 iPhone 3GS Recall? "I recently woke up with a hot iPhone. In fact, it happened twice. And that was just during the first week I owned my new iPhone 3GS." 06/29/09 1305 Ad Networks the Laggards In Jackson Traffic Spike " An analysis by Keynote found that many news sites delivered their own content promptly, only to find their page delivery delayed by slow-loading ads." 06/29/09 1300 13 year old kid reviews a 30 year old Sony Walkman "It took me three days to figure out that there was another side to the tape" 06/29/09 1259 PlayStation Phone ? "The Sony rumor that just won't die has reared its potentially beautiful head again: a PSP phone may be in the works" 06/29/09 1258 Cable DVRs are legal: Supreme Court denies appeal of Cablevision decision to forestall cable service providers such as Cablevision from providing their customers with DVRs with full commercial-skipping control, was silently shot down this morning in the final session of this year's US Supreme Court term. 06/29/09 0835 Firefox 3.5 set to land tomorrow Mozilla is expected to spin out a complete version of Firefox 3.5 tomorrow, more than six months on from when it had originally planned to release the browser. 06/29/09 0747 Licensing Issues Shut Down Pandora Outside US We are deeply, deeply sorry to say that due to licensing constraints, we can no longer allow access to Pandora for listeners located outside of the US. 06/29/09 0745 Scientists create first electronic quantum processor "A team led by Yale University researchers has created the first rudimentary solid-state quantum processor, taking another step toward the ultimate dream of building a quantum computer." 06/29/09 0744 The lost NASA tapes A Mac Pro and 40-year-old tape drives are helping restore the original Lunar Orbiter tapes 06/29/09 0744 Microsoft to charge Europeans double for Windows 7 European customers will pay up to twice as much for Windows 7 compared to U.S. users, even though the new operating system will ship without a browser in Europe, according to Microsoft. 06/28/09 1901 iTunes breaks records after Jackson death Meanwhile, Apple has unintentionally benefitted as those mourning Michael Jackson's death have flocked to iTunes to buy the pop star's music in what's likely to be record numbers. 06/28/09 1858 VirtualBox goes multi-processor The Sun-sponsored VirtualBox project has released a beta 3.0 version of its free, x86-oriented virtualization software. The Linux-compatible xVM VirtualBox 3.0 adds support for guest Symmetric Multiprocessing (SMP) with up to 32 virtual CPUs, as well as support for version 2.0 of the OpenGL graphics acceleration standard, among other features. 06/28/09 1521 Kiwi hacker scores top billing at BlackHat Mr Neilson was chosen to give a presentation at the Black Hat conference because of his work exposing a security flaw in a network security application developed by Nasdaq-listed firm Juniper Networks. 06/28/09 1513 Secunia Personal Software Inspector 1.5 As a result, closing known vulnerabilities by keeping all of the browser-related programs updated has become more important than ever 06/28/09 1512 Hole in VLC Media Player An attack would require the attacker to get the victim to open a play list file with an overly long smb:// URI. The cause of the problem is a buffer overflow in the Win32AddConnection function in modules/access/smb.c 06/28/09 1508 'Infomercial King' Billy Mays Found Dead in Home Mays, 50, was found unresponsive by his wife inside his Tampa, Fla., home at 7:45 a.m. on Sunday, according to the Tampa Police Department. 06/27/09 1910 Palm WebOS SDK "The Mojo SDK is open for limited testing, but apparently, someone decided to leak the download link, and thanks to the web, the SDK can now be downloaded all over the place." 06/27/09 1909 Windows 7 on USB key? "Microsoft is reportedly considering offering Windows 7 on USB thumb drives to allow netbook owners to upgrade their machines." 06/27/09 1907 The Pirate Bay opens The Video Bay "But I checked out The Video Bay, and hey, it is about to go live! This is what they write: 'To stay in the spirit on which TPB was founded and using the Latest Technology, TVB aims to use the new HTML5 features, more specificly the
