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Experts Study Developing Internet Attack

Government and industry experts warned late Thursday of a mysterious, large-scale Internet attack against thousands of popular Web sites. The virus-like infection tries to implant hacker software onto the computers of all Web site visitors. According to Yahoo News, industry experts and the Homeland Security Department were studying the infection to determine how it spreads [...]

Sender ID e-mail spec submitted to standards body

Microsoft has submitted a draft technical specification of the e-mail authentication system Sender ID to the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) for consideration as an industry-wide standard.Sender ID combines Microsoft’s Caller ID for E-mail (which was submitted to the IETF for consideration in May) with Sender Policy Framework (SPF). SPF, also known as Sender Policy [...]

Announcement

I will be away on the 24th of June so there won’t be any news updates on Thursday. I will be back on Friday the 25th so everything will be back to normal. We will be broadcasting TechShout radio later than usual on Friday (in the evening rather than the morning) as I won’t be [...]

Apple extends iBook repair program (again!)

Mac announced on Monday that it is offering free repairs to iBooks purchased between May 2001 and October 2003 that have certain display problems. Apple had previously covered a smaller number of machines, those bought starting a year later, between May 2002 and October 2003. Affected machines can have various display problems after they boot [...]

Unreal UnSafe

Security company Secunia issued a bulletin warning a flaw in some versions of the “”Unreal”” game engine, used by numerous PC games. Most game publishers using the engine have already issued patches, however, to plug the hole. According to the bulletin, malicious hackers could send a string of junk data to the security tool the [...]

Intel to inveil 64Bit Nocona on Monday

Intel Corp. plans to unveil its first processor with 64-bit extensions technology next week. The Nocona processor will allow workstations and servers to run both 32-bit and 64-bit applications on the same system, provided that server uses a 64-bit operating system. AMD was the first to introduce such a processor with the launch of the [...]

Industry heavies announce anti-spam guidelines.

InfoWorld reports that Microsoft, AOL, Yahoo, & Earthlink have released recommendations for ending unsolicited commercial (“”spam””) e-mail in which the recommend ISPs crack down on worm-infected computers on their networks. am Technical Alliance’s (ASTA) Statement of Intent, released Tuesday, includes a list of suggestions and “”best practice”” recommendations for Internet service providers (ISPs), e-mail service [...]

Microsoft ”drops” Xbox comapatiblity in Xbox2

The Register reported today that Microsoft’s’ Xbox2 is not going to be backwards compatible with the XBox. This means that all your XBox games will be relegated to the drawer, only ever to emerge if the urge comes upon you to be nostalgic and use your XBox. This is another one of Microsofts wonderful decisions where they fly in [...]