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Geek NewsAccess Your PC from Anywhere - Free Download You’re invited to try a new remote-access telework solution that CNET says could “change your life.” Gain the freedom to work from anywhere using GoToMyPC. It’s the fast, easy and secure way to access and control your PC via any Web browser — anytime, anywhere. GoToMyPC is perfect for teleworkers, travelers and after-hours access. Installs in 2 minutes – Get Your Free Download Now! Friday July 26th, 2002
AOL Reneges on AIM Interoperability PromiseDespite the fact that a Federal Trade Commission (FTC) condition of the AOL Time Warner merger stipulated that the company open up its AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) network to the competition, AOL revealed this week that it has no plans to do so. Instead, the company says, it will now focus on alternative ways to achieve interoperability between AIM and non-AOL networks, citing its recent deal with Apple Computer, which will be the first company other than AOL to ship an AIM-compatible chat client. "While [the AOL/Apple agreement] is not the kind of server-to-server interoperability we and others have looked at, it does represent a way forward that is available now to allow AIM users and users of other communities to exchange messages conveniently," an AOL spokeswoman said this week.AOL's agreement with the FTC stipulated that the company open up the AIM network to MSN Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, and other competitors, allowing users of these widely used but incompatible networks to exchange text messages, files, and other data with AIM users. The agreement came after AOL's competitors, including Microsoft, complained to the FTC, stating that the AOL Time Warner merger shouldn't be approved until AOL opened up AIM. Before the complaint, Microsoft had worked to let MSN Messenger users access AIM's user base, but AOL shut out Microsoft several times. Click here for more. Windows XP Rockets to Sales of 46 MillionMicrosoft's latest Windows version, Windows XP, continues its torrid sales pace, the company told me today, with over 46 million licenses sold since the product's launch last October. This morning, at the company's annual financial analysts meeting, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates announced the milestone and noted that XP continues to form the foundation of the company's revenues each quarter.Additionally, XP has seen unprecedented support from Microsoft's partners. There are now over 23,000 products designed specifically for Windows XP, available from over 700 partners. This is nearly three times the number of Designed for Windows logoed products that were available at XP's launch and more than twice the number of logoed applications than were available for any previous Windows version in the same timeframe. Click here for more. IBM and Linux our biggest threats - MicrosoftIBM and Linux combined represent a threat and inspiration as Microsoft Corp drives into enterprise computing, top company executives said yesterday.Computing giant IBM wages war against Microsoft in lucrative corporate accounts while Linux, the low-coast threat to Windows, wins supporters in fertile developer communities. Speaking at Microsoft's 2002 Financial Analysts Day yesterday, executives heading-up Microsoft's developer and enterprise server divisions spoke with frankness. They also revealed product and strategic initiatives to combat the double-headed threat. Click here for more. Princeton 'hacks' Yale admissions siteYale is threatening to sue Princeton after officials at the rival Ivy League college allegedly hacked into Yale's Web site to gain unauthorised access to its admission decisions.According to Yale Daily News, Princeton staff gained unauthorised access to decisions on at least 11 prospective Yale undergraduates in early April through its deeply insecure online admission notification system. Click here for more. Thursday July 25th, 2002
MS' step-by-step intro of new WPA with WinXP SP1The Register has received further information regarding Microsoft's redesign of the product activation system, due to be introduced with WinXP Service Pack 1. Our sources say that yes, a slipstreamed install of SP1 will mean you have to get a new key from Microsoft, but confirm that if you just install over the existing installation this won't be the case.Microsoft will be blocking installation of SP1 and further access to Windows Update for installations using any of three leaked keys, and there still seems to be some doubt as to how far beyond this the company will go. It is still possible that users of these keys will find themselves locked out of their machines, but this would be a significant escalation, particularly as earlier this year Microsoft said users with leaked keys would be able to carry on using their machine, they just wouldn't be able to update it. Click here for more. No more JPEGs - ISO to withdraw image standardThe ISO standards body will take the unprecedented step of withdrawing the JPEG image format as a formal standard if Forgent Networks, a small Texan company, continues to demand royalties on a seventeen-year old patent.The Register has spoken to representatives of both the JPEG committee and Forgent Networks this week. According to Richard Clark, JPEG committee member and JPEG.org webmaster , Forgent's royalty grab - coming after two decades of royalty-free use - means that ISO is obliged to withdraw the specification. Click here for more. Wednesday July 24th, 2002
MSWord 2000 'offensive to lesbians,' says rock starDisgruntled geologist Alan Vaughan writes complaining about the grammar checker in Microsoft Word 2000, which he says denigrates lesbians. Dykes, as all good geologists know, "are thin sheets of magma that has frozen in cracks on its way up from the hot interior of the Earth."And other things as well, of course. In Word 2000, if you type "the dykes which cut the granite are 2m wide," the grammar checker will change it to "the dykes who cut the granite are 2m wide." Since Alan told us this we at The Register have been striving to drive politically incorrect visions of burly granite-cutting Heroines of Soviet Labour from our minds, and we suggest you good people do likewise. Click here for more. Serious PHP vuln reportedThe PHP form-data POST handler is susceptible to a malicious POST request that can trigger an error condition which, depending on your hardware, can crash the machine or provide for remote exploitation.On an Intel x86 machine an attacker has no control over memory allocation/recovery and can only cause a denial of service; on a Sparc/Solaris machine an attacker would be able to free chunks of memory and overwrite them arbitrarily to run code. Click here for more. Microsoft backs Web services security standardMicrosoft Corp is supporting a multi-vendor web services security specification, opening the door on interoperability with rivals, Gavin Clarke writes.The Redmond, Washington-based company said it will adopt Security Assertion Mark-up Language (SAML), officially launched yesterday, as it relates to WS-Security - developed by Microsoft and IBM with VeriSign Inc. SAML was developed by 12 members of the Organization for Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS). Click here for more. Tuesday June 15th, 2002
Microsoft accidentally distributes virusMicrosoft accidentally sent the virulent Nimda worm to South Korean developers when it distributed Korean-language versions of Visual Studio .Net that carried the virus, the company acknowledged Friday.Microsoft's flagship developer tools picked up the digital pest when a third-party company translated the program into Korean, said Christopher Flores, lead product manager for Visual Studio .Net. Flores stressed that no other foreign-language versions of the program were found to carry the worm, and he said the worm had not actually executed on any developers' systems. "There have been no recorded infections," Flores said. In fact, he added, it's almost impossible to get the worm to execute on computers with Visual Studio .Net installed. Click here for more. Tuesday April 30th, 2002
Preinstalled Windows: AARGH! I can't get it off!If a PC shipped with Windows preinstalled, can you remove the OS and install Linux instead? Well, no, according to Microsoft. A somewhat obscure Microsoft site aimed at helping schools deal with donated computers flatly states: "It is a legal requirement that pre-installed operating systems remain with a machine for the life of the machine."If this is intended to mean what it says, then Microsoft is effectively treating the hardware and the software as a single, integrated package that you're not allowed to break up. If the statement is applied without qualification, then you're in breach of your licence agreement (and/or some bizarre law they've sneaked past us) if you vape Windows and put something else on instead, or if (as do many major companies) you buy a bunch of PCs with one MS installed and then install another. Put this together with Microsoft's campaigns against Naked PCs,* which make it fairly tricky to buy PCs without Windows on them because they 'fuel piracy,' and we're tottering on the brink of the age of compulsory Windows. Click here for more. Multiple Solaris vulnerabilities reportedWe've got denials of service, buffer overflows and root compromises, and we're frankly shocked, shocked, to report it. According to eSecurityOnline, your Solaris system is screwed six ways to Sunday, though we'll note that the majority of stuff-ups they cite are not remotely exploitable. Which is something.First up, we have two vulns involving the cachefsd daemon: a DoS condition which is remotely exploitable, and a buffer overflow which is locally exploitable and which may lead to a root compromise. Current workarounds are to disable cachefsd or to block RPC (Remote Procedure Call) services at the firewall. Click here for more. Klez storms monthly virus chartsVariants of the Klez worm were by far the most common viruses circulating on the Internet this month. That's according to monthly statistics from managed services firm MessageLabs, which stopped 422,507 viruses in April, way up on the 161,904 it blocked in March, after a mercifully quiet start to the year in terms of virus infections. MessageLabs reports that virus infection rates are currently running at around one per 265 emails, which compares to one in 30 infected emails at the heights of the Goner and Love Bug epidemics.Antivirus vendors such as Symantec have recently upgraded the threat level posed by Klez, but the worm is more accurately described as the latest high-profile virus rather than one of the most damaging. Click here for more. Saturday April 13th, 2002
First Amiga games released for Microsoft devicesAmiga, Inc. announced the release schedule of the Amiga Anywhere Entertainment Pack #1 for Windows Powered Devices. The Entertainment Pack will run on devices using Windows CE 3.0, Windows CE .NET, Pocket PC, and Pocket PC 2002 including handhelds, smart phones, web pads, and set-top boxes."Since announcing a change from hardware to software Amiga has strived to create and distribute content that can run on numerous digital devices. Amiga is now focused on the vision that all digital content should be available on all digital devices," said Bill McEwen, President and CEO of Amiga Inc. "To that end Amiga has announced distribution of dozens of applications that can run on a wide range of different types of devices with hundreds more currently in development". Click here for more. Saturday April 6th, 2002
Report: MS Foes Bribed AttorneysMicrosoft's foes bribed state attorneys general to continue with the antitrust suit, columnist Robert Novak claimed this week.In his column, which appears in the Washington Post, Novak pointed out that the attorneys general who have refused to settle the case have received tens of thousands of dollars -- each, in some cases -- from Microsoft enemies including Oracle and Sun Microsystems. "The symbiotic relationship between state attorneys general and Microsoft's foes is shown in Utah. (Mark) Shurtleff, serving his first year as attorney general in 2001, waited until 15 minutes before the 11 a.m. deadline Nov. 6 before joining the anti-Microsoft group. But lawyers inherited from his Democratic predecessor long had collaborated with Novell," Novak wrote. Click here for more. Saturday March 30th, 2002
Angry users: Yahoo's setting spam baitSome Yahoo members on Friday reacted angrily to changes in the Web portal's e-mail marketing practices, comparing the company's revised policy to an open invitation to spam."I never received any notification about this from Yahoo," one annoyed reader wrote in an e-mail to CNET News.com. "I was merely lucky enough to have a friend warn me about it." The ire stems from changes in Yahoo's "marketing preferences" page, which the company uses to secure permission to send service promotions. Along with other changes to the page, Yahoo said it had reset the default preferences for all members in a way that would require them to manually request that the company block the messages in the future--even if they had declined to accept such e-mail in the past. Click here for more. Yahoo updates privacy policyWeb portal Yahoo has revised its privacy policy to more clearly describe how personal data will be treated in certain circumstances, company executives said.The new policy states that Yahoo will share information to investigate circumstances involving illegal activity such as fraud, violations of its terms of service agreement, and the use of its service for potential threats. The revision also said Yahoo will transfer user information if it is acquired by another company and abide by the acquiring company's privacy policy. Click here for more. DoubleClick to settle privacy suitsA federal court on Friday granted DoubleClick preliminary approval to settle all state and federal class-action lawsuits that charged it violated the privacy of Web surfers.The preliminary settlement, set to be finalized May 21, would clear up class-action lawsuits from California, Texas and New York that were consolidated last year. The suits charged that DoubleClick violated state and federal laws by surreptitiously tracking and collecting consumers' personally identifiable data and combining it with information on their Web surfing habits. Under the settlement, DoubleClick has agreed to give consumers clear notice and choice of any data-collection practices within its privacy policy. Among other provisions, the settlement requires DoubleClick to obtain permission from consumers before combining any personally identifiable data with Web surfing history. Click here for more. eBay: An invitation to hackers?eBay, recently targeted by hackers, is drawing the attention of security experts.Unlike most leading e-commerce sites, eBay does not automatically encrypt much of the data sent between customers' computers and eBay's servers, which means that when customers type their password into eBay's Web site, that information can be viewed by hackers. Most e-commerce sites use Secure Socket Layer (SSL), a technology that encrypts sensitive information such as customer passwords and account activity while the data is in transit to another computer. "SSL is typically a no-brainer on any Web site," said John Pescatore, research director for Internet security at Gartner. Click here for more. KaZaA ruled perfectly legalThe Dutch courts have dealt a blow to copyright fascism by ruling that KaZaA can't be punished simply because its software might be abused. A previous ruling against KaZaA won by Dutch copyright enforcement syndicate Buma Stemra has been overturned on appeal.Much of this is irrelevant in practical terms since KaZaA was sold last year to an Australian company, Sharman Networks. But it is a development worth noting as Europe comes under increasing pressure from Uncle Sam to conform to American standards of copyright reverence. Click here for more. Windows on a database - sliced and diced by BeOS gurusAfter we wrote about Microsoft's plans to put a database into each copy of Windows as the native file store back in January, we were delighted to hear from two system architects for whom this news was really old hat.You see, it's been done before. Benoit Schillings was one of Be Inc's first employees, and authored the original user space database server. This was later superseded by a more conventional approach: BFS, a fast, 64bit journaled file system written by Dominic Giampaolo, which had many database-like properties. Between them they have more practical experience in making such an ambitious scheme work on a PC than anyone else. So last month we reunited Benoit and Dominic at Menlo Park's Applewood Pizza for reminiscences about Be, and some low-down on file systems and databases. Click here for more. Teoma preps relaunch, wants to be Google-beaterSix months after its acquisition by Ask Jeeves Inc, Teoma Technologies Inc is about to relaunch its web site, where it provides a search engine it hopes will eventually become more used than Google. But the firm has a way to go before that will be achievable, and admits its offering is not fully finished.Paul Gardi, who founded Teoma and is now VP of search technology, said recent statistics prove Teoma is well-liked by searchers. When Teoma web search results started supplementing Ask Jeeves' results (replacing DirectHit's hits), Ask.com clickthrough rates went up 25%. But the company also has high hopes for its standalone Google-alike site, Teoma.com, as well as the potential for providing search services to unaffiliated portals. Revenue generating features such as paid URL submission and sponsored links (courtesy of Overture Services Inc) are already live on the beta site. Click here for more. Win XP Pro with .NET Server performance? Forget it...In response to our piece on NTSwitch earlier this week, reader David Bazile was sufficiently fired up to try the routine. NTSwitch purports to demonstrate that there are relatively minimal differences between Microsoft server and workstation operating systems by allowing you to switch between, say Win2k workstation and server, and XP Pro and .NET Server. In either direction.Naturally, you do so at your own risk anyway, and your licensing situation is between you, your conscience and the Microsoft Piracy SWAT Team. And you'd probably be right in thinking that nothing in this world is free. David tried it the other way round, turning .NET Server into XP Pro, and it turns out that even the eccentric route to licensing unorthodoxy is somewhat unsatisfactory. Here's what he has to say: This article was written for anyone who read the one on The Register and said to themselves: ".NET Server performance, and it thinks it's XP Pro? WOW! I've gotta try this!" (that's what I said to myself...). This is basically a warning in advance. Unless you actually run a server or use Windows primarily for number crunching &/or memory/cpu-critical processing, .NET Server is *not* for you. Click here for more. Wednesday March 20th, 2002
Bill's vision for the future of the PC, c1980 - er, XenixMicrosoft attorney Dan Webb's precis of Bill Gates' forthcoming trial contribution has prompted quantities of correspondence from bitter old lags on the subject Microsoft's pivotal role in the history of the computer industry, and on His Billness' "vision."To refresh your memory: "They had a vision. Their vision was that Microsoft could facilitate consumer acceptance of personal computers if it developed this common operating system that could be installed in many different configurations of personal computers and that would provide these blocks of software code that software programmers, application developers could write to. That was the dream. That was the idea." And there's something else Mr Webb had to say on Monday that we should take into account to set the scene. Of Unix he said: "It's used some, but it's never received widespread popularity, because what happened is that Unix got fragmented... So I respectfully suggest that a proper remedy in this case should not require the firm Microsoft, that has provided the most popular and successful product, to adopt the business models of those who have failed." Click here for more. MS Mira beta: buy $800 web tablet, then pretend it's notBeta testers of Microsoft's Mira wireless display devices are going to have to pay for the hardware, according to an email sent to testers yesterday and obtained by ActiveWin. Well, fair enough, you might think, it is hardware so there's a cost factor that's absent from the usual software beta, but it's $800 for an 8.4in 800x600 TFT unit, and even odder than that, it's not a wireless display at all - it's a full-blown appliance that can operate independently of the PC it's to be tested with.It would be nice to think Microsoft had tossed all its earlier Mira plans after reading The Register's objections to them less than 48 hours ago, but we fear it's likelier that whoever's doing the organisation and deal-making here is just missing the point rather drastically. On Monday we complained about Mira being a mobile CE-based appliance that was maimed into just being a local wireless display for your home PC. well, today it's clearly worse than that - you have to buy a mobile CE-based appliance then maim it yourself. Click here for more. Instant message, cracker tricksIRC and instant messaging (IM) services are increasingly becoming vectors for social engineering attacks.That's according to an alert by security clearing CERT issued yesterday. This warns that script kiddies are tricking gullible users into downloading and executing malicious software using the services. These risks are well known but CERT's comment that "tens of thousands of systems have recently been compromised in this way" makes the warning more timely. Reports received by CERT suggest that crackers are using automated tools to post messages to unsuspecting users of IRC or IM services. Click here for more. Building trust into open sourceIn the past three months, the open-source community has been given a wake-up call. While Microsoft has concentrated on reviewing its flagship Windows source code as part of a new focus on security, Internet watchdogs have released the details of three widespread flaws in open-source applications usually shipped with the Linux operating system.The flaws could compromise the security of computers on which the applications are installed, prompting some developers to urge the open-source community to take another look at popular code. But most fear the majority of members won't bother. "No one is doing auditing," said Crispin Cowan, chief scientist at Linux maker WireX Communications, one of several companies selling a version of the OS with additional security options. Cowan is the founder of Sardonix, a Web site aimed at organizing groups of people who want to review major open-source software. Click here for more. Tuesday March 12th, 2002
Flaw leaves Linux computers vulnerableA flaw in a software-compression library used in all versions of Linux could leave the lion's share of systems based on the open-source operating system open to attack, said sources in the security community on Monday. Several other operating systems that use open-source components are vulnerable too varying degrees as well.The software bug--known as a double-free vulnerability--causes key memory-management functions in the zlib compression library to fail, a condition that could allow a smart attacker to compromise computers over the Internet, said Dave Wreski, director for open-source security company Guardian Digital. "It is just a matter of time before an exploit is developed," Wreski said. Click here for more. Cisco disclosing more in filingsCisco Systems, the biggest maker of computer-networking equipment, is now disclosing more information than it has in the past in its quarterly filing with regulators.Specifically, Cisco is now identifying revenue adjustments and deferrals to geographic and product categories. Previously, it had lumped them together, prompting queries from analysts and investors. The San Jose, Calif.-based company also is providing more details on its role in financing four start-up companies developing technology Cisco hopes will be promising and successful in the networking and data storage industries. Click here for more. ICQ hack theories flood into Vulture CentralOur recent story about a possible mass hack of ICQ inspired many of you to turn sleuth.To recap, a Reg reader discovered that both of his accounts had suddenly become disconnected and the passwords no longer worked. The email addresses for both accounts, which were divided between divided between MacOS machines and Windows machines, were changed to 'uin@deathrow.com'. A search of the AOL Mirabilis ICQ whitepages reveals hundreds of accounts all with this address (registered in countries such as China and Egypt). We began to suspect a mass hack. Click here for theregus.com article. Thursday March 7th, 2002
Report: Spies may read LED lights'Like fiber optics but without the fiber'. By monitoring the flashes of LED lights on electronics equipment and the indirect glow from monitors, scientists in the United States and the United Kingdom have discovered ways to remotely eavesdrop on computer data.Optical signals from the little flashing LED (light-emitting diode) lights -- usually red and dotting everything from modems to keyboards and routers -- can be captured with a telescope and processed to reveal all the data passing through the device, Joe Loughry, a computer programmer at Lockheed Martin Space Systems in Denver, told Reuters. Click here for more. Report: Half billion people have home Net accessNearly half a billion people around the world had access to the Internet from their homes by the end of last year, Nielsen/NetRatings said on Thursday.The Internet measurement firm said some 498 million people could surf the Web from home by the end of 2001, a jump of 5.1 percent from the figure in July-September. People in Asia continued to hook up faster than anywhere else, with home Web access growing 5.6 percent in the last three months of the year from the previous quarter. Click here for more. Sony to launch PS2 online gaming serviceSony Corp. on Thursday took its next strategic step in the U.S. video game market, saying it will launch online services for its market-leading PlayStation 2 game console in August.Sony said it will sell a network adapter for $39.99 beginning that month, allowing for both low- and high-speed Internet connections. The PS2 does not have built-in network capabilities but does have high-speed expansion ports. Analysts had expected Sony to launch the online service, a long-time goal for the company since the $299 PS2 was unveiled in November 2000. Sony said it will begin testing the system with a group of about 1,000 players this month. Click here for more. Convoluted software is key hurdle in turnaround effortA new buzzword has been added to the networking industry, one with a meaning far less technical than most: "CFN," an abbreviation for "Cisco-Free Network."Used jokingly or not, the term is a metaphor for the daunting challenges facing Cisco Systems as it tries to resurrect its fortunes while avoiding the kind of backlash that typically befalls industry leaders. Already, inroads by upstart rivals have led some customers to question whether they can do without the networking giant's products, an unthinkable notion in years past. A key factor in Cisco's potential vulnerability is the software that's used to direct the destination of digital information traveling along networks based on the company's hardware. While the San Jose, Calif.-based company is best known for its router hardware, critics say it has fallen behind in developing the software that serves as the brains for that equipment, which has been blamed for some high-profile outages. Click here for more. Wednesday March 6th, 2002
Microsoft: Can't pull IE from WindowsAllchin in deposition: 'Technically I just couldn't do it'Microsoft's chief executive and the top executive involved with its Windows operating system are sticking with a position the company has held since the outset of the four-year antitrust case: They cannot pull the Internet Explorer Web browser out of Windows. Nine states suing Microsoft for antitrust violations want to force the company to offer a version of Windows without the browser and other added features. That would allow computer makers to install competitors' products, if they chose, without taking on the added cost of supporting both products. Currently, Microsoft's ubiquitous Windows has a leg up on competitors vying for the hearts of consumers and software designers. Click here for more. Friday March 1st, 2002
Oops! It's the 'Britney' e-mail wormRated low-risk; carries attachment labeled '.chm'Britney Spears can add one more notch to her soaring global popularity -- or, in this case, another reason for some to roll their eyes. The perky pop star has become the inspiration for a potentially destructive e-mail worm touring through cyberspace, security experts said on Friday. The bug, labelled variously as "VBS/Britney-A" and "VBS-BRITNEYPIC.A," is considered low risk because it has infected a small number of computer users in Europe since it was initially detected on Thursday morning, computer experts said. Click here for more. A one-on-one interview with Bill Gates(CNN) -- With Windows XP and its new video gaming system, Xbox, Microsoft is continuing to turn out best-selling products. James Hattori caught up with Bill Gates recently at Microsoft's Tech Fest, where he talked about Microsoft's research and development future and the future of his company's anti-trust settlement.Click here for more. Looking for a previous news article? Check out the these other pages from the past, November 2001, December 2001, January 2002, and February 2002 |
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