Samstag, 14. Juni 2003

Should I restart? Irak is still a major mess! Lies, lies, lies! 4:31:01 PM    comment []

Samstag, 17. Mai 2003

SecurityFocus HOME News: RIAA messaging gambit faces countermeasures To the Recording Industry Association of America, sending threatening messages to online music swappers is a potentially effective way to educate the public that trading copyrighted material is wrong. But to security geeks in the file trading community, the technique is just another volley in the electronic war with peer-to-peer opponents... and a rather trivial one at that. 11:32:50 PM    comment []

Matrix Sequel Has Hacker Cred. Trinity uses a 'sploit [The Register] The real origin of the story is here http://www.securityfocus.com/news/4831 11:06:55 PM    comment []

New Safari Beta fixes security hole; Online Banking compatibility. Apple has released a minor update to its Safari web browser, patching a recently discovered security hole that made it "possible to spoof SSL sites." Safari 1.0 Beta 2 (v74) is available via Software Update and on Apple's very own Safari page. Early reader reports indicate that compatibility with several online banking sites -- which prior to this update experienced authentication and connection failures -- has been sufficiently increased. Apple is being brief on exactly... [Spymac] 11:01:47 PM    comment []

Donnerstag, 8. Mai 2003

Microsoft fixes Passport flaw. The software giant works overnight to repair the password reset feature of its online identity service after a flaw was discovered that put millions of accounts at risk. [CNET News.com] 10:09:53 PM    comment []

Mozilla 1.3.1 Available [Mozilla Dot Org] Fixed Mac issues that basically prevented almost anyone from upgrading to 1.3. 10:05:20 PM    comment []

Dienstag, 6. Mai 2003

Apple opens the door to music pirates. Apple is promoting its new iTunes Music Store as a revolutionary step against digital music piracy, but enthusiasts this weekend discovered that the company's iTunes 4 -- which allows users to stream their music collection to anyone with Internet access -- may be used for unlawful purposes. "Apple has made it very easy for anyone to hijack these streams and to download [someone else's] music onto their local system," says Spymac reader Greg Molden. "There's... [Spymac] 12:00:43 AM    comment []

Montag, 5. Mai 2003

One Million Songs Sold. The iTunes Music Store sold more than one million songs during its first week. Over half of the songs were purchased as albums and over half of the 200,000 songs offered on the iTunes Music Store were purchased at least once. More than one million copies of iTunes 4 have been downloaded, and Apple has received orders for more than 110,000 new third-generation iPods since their introduction a week ago. [May 5] [Apple Hot News] 11:56:46 PM    comment []

Sonntag, 4. Mai 2003

Software Bullet Is Sought to Kill Musical Piracy. Record companies are financing the development of software that would sabotage the computers of people that download pirated music. By Andrew Ross Sorkin. [New York Times: NYT HomePage] ... black hat hackers ... Who'll put'em to jail? 5:49:59 PM    comment []

Freitag, 2. Mai 2003

Apple is Porting iTunes to Windows. An anonymous reader writes "It seems that Apple is indeed porting its new iTunes software to Windows as evidenced by a posting on its job board (No. 1949938) ... [Slashdot: Apple] 9:07:18 PM    comment []

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