Michael J Much's Weblog

Saturday, August 30, 2003

Update: Teenager arrested in Blaster case [IDG InfoWorld] 7:03:57 PM    comment []

Update: Teenage Blaster worm suspect arrested. Jeffrey Lee Parson, 18, of Hopkins, Minn., was arrested at home on one count of intentionally causing or attempting to cause damage to a computer. [Computerworld News] 7:03:28 PM    comment []

US youth charged over net virus. An American teenager is charged with releasing the MSBlast worm, infecting computers worldwide. [BBC News | Technology | UK Edition] 7:03:15 PM    comment []

Accused Web Attacker Under House Arrest. The teenager suspected of creating "Blaster" makes his initial court appearance as some security experts wonder why it took so long to follow the worm's trail. [eWEEK Technology News] 7:02:54 PM    comment []

FBI arrests MSBlast worm suspect. The U.S. Attorney's Office believes the 18-year-old suspect is a "key and significant player" in the Blaster worm attack. [CNET News.com - Enterprise] 7:02:31 PM    comment []

Friday, August 29, 2003

SCO Says It Has No Plan To Sue Linux Companies [Slashdot] 3:50:57 PM    comment []

RIAA Discloses Some Methods of Tracking. The recording industry is providing its most detailed glimpse into some of the detective-style techniques it has employed as part of its secretive campaign against online music swappers. By The Associated Press. [New York Times: Technology] 3:50:38 PM    comment []

Thursday, August 28, 2003

Machine Thinks, Therefore It Is. We've come a long way from Microsoft's lame Clippy the paperclip helper application. Artificial intelligence is poised to take another big leap forward, with the development of computers that can anticipate what you want. By Michelle Delio. [Wired News] 5:25:16 PM    comment []

Amazon sues to stop alleged e-mail forgeries. Suits seek millions of dollars in damages for allegedly using Amazon's name in e-mail ads [InfoWorld: Security] 5:24:42 PM    comment []

Fastest US Supercomputer Runs Linux [Slashdot] 5:24:01 PM    comment []

A Television Network With a PC at Its Heart. An improvised television network is reaching students over the Internet. By J. D. Biersdorfer. [New York Times: Technology] 5:23:30 PM    comment []

Small Webcasters sue RIAA. A group of small Net radio stations say the trade association tried to push independent music stations offline. [CNET News.com] 5:22:20 PM    comment []

Wednesday, August 27, 2003

Avaya cabling makes 10G go further. Latest LAN news. [Network World on LANs] 2:50:30 PM    comment []

NAI unveils Netasys for SMBs. Troubleshooting tool identifies network problems [InfoWorld: Security] 2:50:03 PM    comment []

Network Associates launches network/security management software. The company has launched Netasyst Network Analyzer software for smaller businesses seeking network problem resolution, security management and performance monitoring. [Computerworld Network LAN/WAN News] 2:49:36 PM    comment []

Beyond Binary Computing? [Slashdot] 2:49:11 PM    comment []

Intel to Build $200M China Facility. The new chip-assembly plant should open in 2005 and employ 675 people initially. [eWEEK Technology News] 2:48:52 PM    comment []

Sleuths Try to Stay Step Ahead of Online Worms. Researchers at F-Secure, a small computer security company in Finland, identified the SoBig.F computer worm, prepared a patch and distributed the update to its customers. By Laurie J. Flynn. [New York Times: Technology] 2:48:31 PM    comment []

Different ways to protect your net from worms. Nutter helps a reader battle the latest viruses. [Networking how-to's] 2:47:46 PM    comment []

Tuesday, August 26, 2003

MIT's Open-Course Project. From Ho Chi Minh City to Nashville, Tennessee, students are flocking to MIT's new program to post about 2,000 classes on the Web, for free. Meet the global geeks getting an MIT education, open-source style. By David Diamond of Wired magazine. [Wired News] 5:12:16 PM    comment []

D-Link Offers Hot Spot Access Point. D-Link to offer a preconfigured hot spot access point: The Airspot DSA-3100 Public/Private Gateway has a suggested price of $599, for which you get captive portal/gateway page, up to 250 local accounts, authentication pass-through for back-end 802.1X and other AAA, MAC filtering, and time/bandwidth limits and monitoring. It also has various firewall and attack monitoring options. Configuration is handled through a Web-based interface, but it doesn't mention whether it's an encrypted, SSL/TLS Web... [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service] 5:11:37 PM    comment []

More attacks on SCO SCO Web site attacked again. Open source community implicated in second DoS attack [InfoWorld: Security] 5:11:18 PM    comment []

Much of the news continues to focus on the recent worm damage. SCO is really getting hit by the industry over their claims of ownership of key Linux code. 3:59:54 PM    comment []

SCO Web site hit by denial of service attack. The SCO Group's Web site was accessible again Monday after being down for about three days, the victim of a denial of service (DOS) attack launched by a "senior" member of the open source community, according to open source advocate Eric Raymond. 3:57:35 PM    comment []

Linux People: Check out this article!  We can talk about this in class... Check the link listed in the story for details about a site that tracks Linux security attacks. Is Linux as Secure as We'd Like to Think? [Slashdot] 3:56:47 PM    comment []

AOL Sued For Over-Zealous Blocking [Slashdot] 3:56:28 PM    comment []

Web surfers flock to antivirus sites. Computer users are rushing to Microsoft's antivirus site to search for ways to combat the recent onslaught of worms. [CNET News.com - Enterprise] 3:56:00 PM    comment []

Ingram spies potential in surveillance. The giant distributor of information-technology products steps into the surveillance market, in a move to provide one-stop shopping for its resellers and customers. [CNET News.com - Enterprise] 3:55:49 PM    comment []

U.S. Now Demanding Biometric Technology. Biometric technology that scans faces, fingerprints or other physical traits to confirm people's identities is about to get its biggest test: at U.S. border checkpoints. By The Associated Press. [New York Times: Technology] 3:55:04 PM    comment []

Monday, August 25, 2003

Antivirus companies target spyware, worms [IDG InfoWorld] 10:04:12 PM    comment []

Neal Stephenson Rewrites History. For the dark prince of hacker fiction, looking backward is another way of seeing the future. By Robert Levine from Wired magazine. [Wired News] 10:03:49 PM    comment []

BlackBerry Reveals Bank's Secrets. When a computer consultant buys a used wireless pager -- once the property of a former Morgan Stanley executive -- on eBay, he ends up with an unexpected bonus: a trove of sensitive corporate data. By Kim Zetter. [Wired News] 10:03:26 PM    comment []

Sobig.F worm could have originated on Usenet. Worm is estimated to have infected more than 100,000 computers [InfoWorld: Security] 10:02:56 PM    comment []

Handhelds the next virus target?. Rapid adoption could spur attacks [InfoWorld: Security] 10:02:47 PM    comment []

Get on with Linux and ignore SCO, developer says. Developers and users should ignore the copyright lawsuit filed by the SCO Group against IBM and should continue to work with and deploy Linux without fear of the consequences, according to MontaVista Software, a developer of embedded Linux software. [InfoWorld: Top News] 10:02:29 PM    comment []

Storage Web Digest: Marvell Releases Serial ATA II Controllers. Marvell Releases Serial ATA II Controllers; Hitachi Preps Heterogeneous Replication Solution; Extending Laptop ROI; Ciena Pays $45 Million for Storage Networking Specialist Akara [eWEEK Technology News] 10:01:49 PM    comment []

SuSE to bundle SGI servers. In an effort to broaden Linux's appeal, the open-source software maker says it will bundle its new Enterprise Server 8 with SGI's Altix 3000 servers and superclusters. [CNET News.com - Enterprise] 10:01:20 PM    comment []

The Aftermath of Cyberattacks. How much can the Department of Homeland Security do about cyberattacks? By David Strom. [New York Times: Technology] 10:00:50 PM    comment []

Vonage Fights Minnesota's Attempts To Regulate VoIP [Slashdot] 11:57:46 AM    comment []

The Origin Of Sobig (And Its Next Phase) [Slashdot] 11:57:17 AM    comment []