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August 24, 2003 ISSUE 120
C O M P U T E R H O P E . C O M N E W S L E T T E R
- http://www.computerhope.com/nletters/nl120.htm -
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IN THIS ISSUE:
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1. Weekly Computer Term
2. What's new in the news last week
3. Computer Virus, Worms, Security and/or privacy threats
4. What's new at Computer Hope this week
5. Hot computer issues
6. All Talk
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1. Weekly Computer Term.
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Script kiddie ( http://www.computerhope.com/jargon/s/scriptki.htm ) -
Individual who utilizes information, scripts, or other types of software utilities to help exploit or break into a computer or computer program without having a full understanding of how the exploit works or how it was made.
What makes a script kiddie different from a hacker or a advanced user is that the user commonly has a vast understanding of what he or she is doing, explores and locates the security vulnerabilities, and/or creates the programs or scripts that others may use.
See our complete dictionary listing and a daily computer term at:
http://www.computerhope.com/jargon.htm
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2. What's new in the news last week?
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Top News Story: ISPs: Sobig's the biggest virus so far
* news.com.com -- Recent data from e-mail service providers pegs the infection caused by the latest variant of the Sobig virus as the largest epidemic of a mass-mailing computer program to date.
08/18/2003 - Palm reveals new company name
08/18/2003 - Microsoft: 'Blaster' Virus Looks Like Dud
08/18/2003 - DNA Could Be Basis for Power Computing
08/18/2003 - New Internet Worm Tries to Patch Windows Hole
08/18/2003 - IBM cuts 600 semiconductor jobs
08/18/2003 - Spammer ducks for cover as details published on web
08/18/2003 - The Sad Tale of a Security Whistleblower
08/18/2003 - The shifting culture of video games
08/18/2003 - Microsoft Weighs Automatic Security Updates as a Default
08/18/2003 - Apple ships the G5 with Mac OS X 10.2.7
08/18/2003 - Citibank Warns Customers on E-Mail Scam
08/18/2003 - SCO puts disputed code in the spotlight
08/18/2003 - In MSBlast's wake, a DirectX threat
08/20/2003 - Microsoft Will Continue To Do Outlook Express
08/20/2003 - Microsoft to lock down MSN Messenger network
08/20/2003 - Microsoft Office debut delayed
08/20/2003 - FCC lifts AOL messaging limits
08/20/2003 - New Fast-Spreading Sobig Worm Adds to 'Worm Week'
08/20/2003 - Computer Glitch Halts New Zealand Trading
08/20/2003 - Ham Radios Came to Rescue in Blackout
08/20/2003 - The hidden dangers of documents
08/20/2003 - Computer Virus Hurts Air Canada System
08/20/2003 - Navy says intranet hit by worm but still functioning
08/20/2003 - Trademarks cast shadow on paid search
08/20/2003 - AOL lays claim to speed crown
08/20/2003 - Walmart.com to sell more Linux software
08/20/2003 - Microsoft warns of critical IE flaws
08/20/2003 - ISPs: Sobig's the biggest virus so far
08/20/2003 - Ocean Sponge May Be Best for Fiber Optics
08/21/2003 - Microsoft preps 200,000 CDs to fight Blaster in Japan
08/21/2003 - Microsoft protects own site with Linux'
08/21/2003 - Robot spy can survive battlefield damage
08/21/2003 - Microsoft tools its Web search engine
08/21/2003 - Online Advertising Up 7%
08/21/2003 - Japan ready to market "robot suit"
08/21/2003 - 'Sobig' Virus Could Be Spam Ploy
08/21/2003 - Robot attends Czech state dinner
08/21/2003 - Oracle warns of security flaw in 9i database
08/22/2003 - Feared Attack From Computer Virus Fizzles
08/22/2003 - Computer User Challenges RIAA
08/22/2003 - Hackers Steal 13,000 Credit Card Numbers
08/22/2003 - EBay goes down for three hours
08/22/2003 - Doom and rocket science
08/22/2003 - IBM Tests Grid With Games
08/22/2003 - Novell lays off hundreds
08/23/2003 - Virus hits hospital systems
08/23/2003 - Marvell Debuts Serial ATA II
08/23/2003 - Opera gets in tune with Mac OS update
08/23/2003 - Dare accepted on electronic voting machines
08/23/2003 - Worm may have hit 30 percent of China's poorly protected Internet users
08/23/2003 - PA's 10,000 for obscene e-mails 'shock'
08/23/2003 - Flash memory devices raise security flags
08/24/2003 - A spray-on computer is way to do IT
08/24/2003 - OpenOffice for Mac OS X Delayed
08/24/2003 - CD-Recordable discs unreadable in less than two years
08/24/2003 - USB Gets Unwired
08/24/2003 - Hi-tech tome takes on paperbacks
08/24/2003 - Dyke to open up BBC archive
Find a direct link to each of the above news articles at:
http://www.computerhope.com/cgi-bin/oldnews.cgi?2292003
Find all of the latest news and article headlines at:
http://www.computerhope.com/news.htm
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3. Computer Virus, Worms, Security, and/or privacy threats
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* Virus:
story.news.yahoo.com -- The Sobig.F worm may have attacked 30 percent of China's poorly protected Internet users, wreaking havoc on more than 20 million computers, business executives and officials said.
news.bbc.co.uk -- Staff at a Glasgow hospital worked round the clock to restore its computer systems after the network was struck by the Nachi worm.
abcnews.go.com -- A feared Internet attack resulting from a fast-spreading computer virus fizzled Friday. Security experts said they contained the virus by identifying and blocking computers key to coordinating it.
Microsoft Co. Ltd., the Japanese unit of Microsoft, will begin distributing 200,000 compact discs this weekend as part of its efforts to stop the Blaster worm.
computerworld.com -- The Navy confirmed late today that its multibillion-dollar Navy/Marine Corps Intranet (N/MCI) was hit by a variant of the Blaster worm, but it said that earlier statements that the network had been taken off-line were inaccurate.
story.news.yahoo.com -- A computer virus designed to inoculate against another infection brought down some computer networks Tuesday, forcing Air Canada to check in passengers manually at airports across the country.
reuters.com -- A new computer worm is spreading worldwide through a security hole in Windows -- also used by last week's Blaster worm -- but then patching the hole instead of crashing the system like Blaster does, security experts said on Monday.
* Security:
washingtonpost.com -- The Navy has canceled 13,000 credit cards used for government expenses after discovering that hackers had downloaded card numbers and billing records, Defense Department officials said
computerworld.com -- Database company Oracle Corp. is warning customers about security holes in versions of its Oracle9i Database Server.
zdnet.com.com -- Microsoft seems to have survived the MSBlast worm attack, but now the company is urging Windows users to patch their systems against a different, and potentially more dangerous, vulnerability in its software
* Privacy:
news.bbc.co.uk -- Your Microsoft Word document can give readers more information about you than you might think. Even Alastair Campbell has fallen foul of the snippets of invisible data few of us realize our documents contain.
Computer Virus information can be found at:
http://www.computerhope.com/vlist.htm
Computer Security Q&A can be found at:
http://www.computerhope.com/secureqa.htm
Computer Privacy Q&A can be found at:
http://www.computerhope.com/privacyq.htm
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4. What's new at Computer Hope this week?
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- Updated and corrected each of the bad links, fake sites, and errors on each of the pages in our drivers section. Improved links for companies that are no longer in business by linking to our network driver page instead of just a single third-party driver site. This improvement should greatly improve users search efforts when attempting to locate hard to find drivers.
- Updated and added additional information to many of our history pages.
- Updated several dozen companies listings with updated company information, links, and corrections.
- Updated and corrected each of the bad links in our network section. In addition migrated all the information from our search categories into our network section because much of the information between the two sections was duplicated. This update was more of a link check and correction update. In the near future we plan on posting an updated version of our network that will contain several dozen new computer related links.
- Added new questions and answers.
- Numerous additional minor updates were also made and can be seen in the below link.
Find up to the minute updates done to Computer Hope at:
http://www.computerhope.com/whatnew.htm
See the top 10 pages on Computer Hope at:
http://www.computerhope.com/chtop10.htm
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5. Hot computer issues.
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How do I change drives in MS-DOS?
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000515.htm
What are the current available antivirus programs?
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000514.htm
Errors with Microsoft Windows wbhook32.dll file.
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000512.htm
Find all of our issues and questions and answers at:
http://www.computerhope.com/qanda.htm
See all new questions and answer at:
http://www.computerhope.com/newqa.htm
See every Q&A in Computer Hopes database at:
http://www.computerhope.com/eqanda.htm
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6. All Talk
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http://www.diskonkey.com
A product we mentioned a while back in our Computer Hope news section, the DiskOnKey by M-Systems is USB personal storage device that also includes a ARM7 32-bit processor that enables it to also execute programs from the device, make the device appear to be a standard disk drive, have security for the data on the device, and with some computer BIOS versions allow the device to act as boot disk. Although the product does not currently offer many programs, we believe that this is a great idea and a first step that has a list of endless possibilities.
We would love to hear your comments; suggestions, interests, opinions, fun web sites or what ever is on your mind. E-mail us at newsletter@computerhope.com
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