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News / Spyware Critic Knocked Offline by DDoS Attack
« on: February 09, 2005, 09:21:59 PM »
Harvard researcher Ben Edelman, one of the most vocal critics of spyware purveyors, fell victim to a massive DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attack over the past 24 hours. Edelman's Web site, which publishes detailed research reports on spyware, was knocked offline for much of Monday and Tuesday by a DDoS attack that crippled the server capacity.

"My prior Web host tells me I was the target of the biggest DDoS attack they've ever suffered—some 600MB per second," Edelman said.

"These aren't nice practices, so I suppose it comes as no surprise that someone—perhaps some group or company that doesn't like what I'm writing—has sought to knock my site offline," Edelman said.

Edelman is a Ph.D. candidate at the Department of Economics at Harvard University and a student at Harvard Law School.                    

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News / Spyware takes aim at Mozilla browsers
« on: February 09, 2005, 09:19:31 PM »
Security experts are advising that spyware that targets browsers from the Mozilla Foundation has been spotted--a threat that could worsen as its Firefox browser takes market share from Microsoft.

"According to my research team, this site does not target Firefox, but it does target Mozilla," Stiennon said. "(It's) only a matter of time now until a Firefox spy is discovered."

Experts believe that Mozilla-based browsers such as Firefox have become a greater target for spyware as their market share has rapidly increased over the last six months--from 2.4 percent in May to 7.4 percent in November, according to Web traffic measurement company OneStat.com. Firefox has said that it is aiming for 10 percent of Web surfers by the end of 2005.

David McGuinness, a Mozilla contributor, said Firefox protects PC users by displaying a yellow information bar if a site that is not Update.mozilla.org tries to automatically install code. But he warned that it will be more difficult to protect systems against a stealth install.

"It all boils down to user education. People can install applications with variable amounts of effort from all browsers. It's the stealth attacks that are the problem, where people get infected without running anything themselves," McGuinness said.                    

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News / First Trojan To Directly Target Microsoft Anti-Spy
« on: February 09, 2005, 09:13:13 PM »
The first trojan to specifically affect Microsoft's Anti-Spyware program has been released. Called BankAsh-A, the trojan steals credit card and other info, turns off anti-virus programs (and disables the beta Microsoft anti-spyware software), deletes files on the computer and downloads code from the internet as well as installing more malware on the computer.

The trojan runs a key logger on infected computers, which captures all kinds of personal information. BankAsh-A is distributed via spam email. Sophos reports that users banking with Barclays, Cahoot, Halifax, HSBC, Lloyds TSB, Nationwide, NatWest, Smile and others are affected. Sophos are reporting that so far, the trojans has seen limited distribution.                    

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News / Symantec flaw leaves opening for viruses
« on: February 09, 2005, 08:32:37 PM »
Symantec has issued a patch for a flaw in its scanning software that could cause a virus to execute, rather than catch it. The vulnerability affects an antivirus library used by the majority of Symantec's antivirus and antispam products, including Norton SystemWorks 2004 and Symantec Mail Security for Exchange, the security provider said on Tuesday.

Computers are at risk if they run an unpatched version of a Symantec product that scans files to detect malicious code and if they use the Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Solaris and AIX operating systems, Symantec said.

But the flaw does not affect the latest versions of some of the products, such as Norton Antivirus 2005, the company said. Security information company Secunia, which rates the seriousness of software vulnerabilities, gave the Symantec flaw its second-highest threat grade, "highly critical."

Symantec is distributing patches to its customers through its LiveUpdate automatic update service and other mechanisms. It warned companies that do not use those services to download the patches from its Web site and apply them as soon as possible.                    

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News / Processor Wars
« on: February 05, 2005, 09:46:08 PM »
Battling back against AMD's increasingly popular Athlon 64 processor, Intel is poised to bring 64-bit computing to its desktop CPU lineup when it unveils its P4 6XX series. The processor family could be announced as early as later this month.

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News / Playstation 3 Details
« on: February 05, 2005, 09:41:10 PM »
Engineers from Sony, IBM and Toshiba are set to provide fresh details on the Cell processor that will power the next version of Sony's PlayStation video game machine, but at least one analyst already has a pretty clear idea of what's coming.
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News / FBI Hacked ??
« on: February 05, 2005, 09:36:58 PM »
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The FBI said Friday it has shut down an e-mail system that it uses to communicate with the public because of a possible security breach.

The bureau is investigating whether someone hacked into the www.fbi.gov e-mail system, which is run by a private company, officials said.

"We use these accounts to communicate with you folks, view Internet sites, and conduct other non-sensitive bureau business such as sending out press releases," Special Agent Steve Lazarus, the FBI's media coordinator in Atlanta, said in an e-mail describing the problem.

The FBI computer system that is used for case files, classified and sensitive information, and internal communications is unaffected, Lazarus said.

The bureau is in the process of switching its e-mail accounts, officials said.

Lawmakers and the Justice Department's inspector general have criticized the FBI for taking too much time and spending too much money to upgrade its computer systems.

A $170 million project, Virtual Case File, may have to be scrapped because it is outdated and inadequate, FBI Director Robert Mueller acknowledged Thursday in testimony on Capitol Hill.                    

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News / Microsoft Aim To Improve
« on: February 05, 2005, 09:28:36 PM »
Microsoft adopted a new mantra on Thursday, promising to work harder to make its software work better with other software systems and hardware, Chairman Bill Gates said in an e-mail to customers.
Previously, such e-mails signaled the launch of massive new efforts by the world's largest software company. The last major initiative, to improve the security of the company's software, was launched by Gates three years ago, and most messages since then have focused on that issue.

But in Thursday's lengthy e-mail, sent to major corporate customers and made public by Microsoft, the company said it would boost efforts to make its software work more smoothly, or "interoperate" with other existing technologies.
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Reviews, Previews & First Looks / New Console
« on: May 26, 2004, 10:24:37 PM »
got this from june 2004 Pc Gamer                    

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The Archive / Kheulith GATT Challenge
« on: May 11, 2004, 01:42:12 PM »
Wins : 2 - coldstorm, 2 - Nirtate , 2 - Kukka/VCW



Losses 1 - coldstorm

any challengers check http://www.gatt.co.tt/index.php?name=PNphp...2853&highlight=                    

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PC Gaming / We are suppose to be overall gamers
« on: May 09, 2004, 10:00:59 AM »
how many of u'll can play chess i could use the practice from diffent levels                    

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Reviews, Previews & First Looks / Naruto
« on: April 26, 2004, 12:05:18 AM »
for those who didn't know what i was talking bout in the naruto game here u go                    

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