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May 23, 2005 ISSUE 188
COMPUTERHOPE.COM NEWSLETTER
- http://www.computerhope.com/nletters/nl188.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 viruses, 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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PGP ( http://www.computerhope.com/jargon/p/pgp.htm ) -
Short for Pretty Good Privacy, PGP was freeware released in 1991 by Philip Zimmermann, PGP is a public-key authentication and encryption method based on the IDEA single-key and RSA public-key encryption algorithms. PGP is now a product of PGP Corporation and still widely used encryption tool.
Non-commercial United States citizens can also freely obtain PGP from various web sites. MIT has a great page containing PGP for various platforms, see the MIT distribution site for PGP for downloads.
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: Apple Recalls G4 Batteries
informationweek.com -- Free replacements will be provided for the lithium ion batteries manufactured for use with the 12-inch iBook G4, the 12-inch PowerBook G4, and the 15-inch PowerBook G4.
05/22/2005 - The robot army that thinks for itself
05/22/2005 - Sapphire 'Blizzard' Liquid Metal Cooled Graphics Card
05/22/2005 - AMD releases a consumer electronics chip
05/22/2005 - Microsoft's Aim Is antivirus
05/22/2005 - Microsoft developing tools to deal with 'overwhelming' data flood
05/22/2005 - Ask Jeeves buys Excite Europe
05/22/2005 - A Torrent of Sith Searches
05/22/2005 - Google Hints at Future Products
05/22/2005 - TDK's 100GB Blu-ray Disc
05/22/2005 - Apple Patches Tiger Server
05/22/2005 - PalmOne gadget could rival iPod
05/22/2005 - 'Secure' Netscape released with vulnerabilities
05/21/2005 - E-mail worm throws up hate spam
05/21/2005 - iPod lure to cut down junk food
05/21/2005 - FBI makes database hacker raids
05/20/2005 - Google offers personalised pages
05/20/2005 - Broadband telephony gets a boost
05/20/2005 - Broadband telephony gets a boost
05/20/2005 - Microsoft releases first service pack for SBS 2003
05/20/2005 - Mac OS X 10.4.1 Server is out
05/20/2005 - Apple Recalls G4 Batteries
05/20/2005 - Netscape joins the browser update parade
Find links to each of the above news articles at:
http://www.computerhope.com/cgi-bin/oldnews.cgi?1352005
05/15/2005 - How to float like a stone
05/14/2005 - Microsoft to slim down Windows XP for older PCs
05/14/2005 - Report: Hacker infiltrated government computers
05/14/2005 - Fix in for Windows flaw
05/14/2005 - Power outage downs eBay
05/14/2005 - Mac malware door creaks open
05/14/2005 - Apple releases iTunes 4.8
05/14/2005 - Sober worm hits new heights
05/14/2005 - Sober-N Virus: Now It's All About Money
05/14/2005 - California to ban hunting over Internet
05/14/2005 - Google experiences brief outage
05/14/2005 - Yahoo launch online music service
05/14/2005 - Cars safe from computer viruses
05/14/2005 - US robot builds copies of itself
05/14/2005 - Massachusetts tackles spam gang
05/14/2005 - Firefox's flaws fixed in upgrade
05/14/2005 - Xbox 360 kicks off console wars
05/14/2005 - Microsoft offers security service
05/14/2005 - TV download sites hit by lawsuits
05/14/2005 - Microsoft, Toshiba Ink License Deal
05/14/2005 - Sun, Microsoft Building Relationship
Find links to each of the above news articles at:
http://www.computerhope.com/cgi-bin/oldnews.cgi?1282005
05/06/2005 - Yahoo developing an audio search engine
05/06/2005 - Panda Software Claims Zero-Day Virus Defense
05/06/2005 - EMI signs music fingerprint deal
05/06/2005 - Internet piracy trio sent to jail
05/06/2005 - Intel Demos Dual-Core Xeons
05/06/2005 - Qualcomm sticks Linux on mobile phone chips
05/05/2005 - Sony Everquest games exchange reviled
05/05/2005 - 'Personal supercomputer' goes on sale
05/05/2005 - Robots to help out blind shoppers
05/05/2005 - Gore to Get Lifetime Award for Internet
05/05/2005 - Novell Acquires Valuable B2B, Web Services Patents
05/05/2005 - Firefox Reaches 50 Million Downloads
05/05/2005 - Free security scan raises questions
05/05/2005 - Australian state to ban workplace e-mail spying
05/05/2005 - U.S. military security defeated by copy and paste
05/05/2005 - Acer starts selling Linux laptops
05/05/2005 - Microsoft plans to give some pirates a break
05/05/2005 - Google Web Accelerator aimed at speeding up the web
05/05/2005 - IBM to axe 13,000 jobs worldwide
05/05/2005 - Biggest security holes revealed
05/05/2005 - Microsoft shares spare technology
05/05/2005 - Apple patches Jaguar OS, again
05/05/2005 - Yahoo launches video search service
05/05/2005 - Sober-N Worm Able To Learn New Languages
05/03/2005 - Sun plans July release for StarOffice 8
05/03/2005 - Beware How You Google
05/03/2005 - Microsoft gunning for Adobe's PDF format?
05/03/2005 - Microsoft Cuts Call Times
05/03/2005 - Time Warner Loses Employee Data
05/03/2005 - Robots 'confirm' global warming
05/03/2005 - Artifical cornea lets woman blind 20 years see
05/03/2005 - Scientists create flat speakers
05/03/2005 - At Age 9, Girl in Pakistan Is a Microsoft Certified Professional
05/03/2005 - Half-Life 2 to be pulled from shelves
05/03/2005 - 2004 Internet Ad Rev Surpasses Dotcom Boom Levels
05/03/2005 - Chinese Hacker Captured After Taunting Law Enforcement
05/03/2005 - Yahoo Changes News Site, Adds Features
05/03/2005 - Microsoft details plan to put virtualization in OS
05/03/2005 - Net-powered computer goes on show
05/03/2005 - Quantum leap in secure web video
05/03/2005 - Google eyes better news searches
05/03/2005 - Toddlers help 'feeble' robot
05/03/2005 - A Better Way to Surf?
05/03/2005 - Intel's Dual-Core Chip Aces First Test
05/03/2005 - Apple tries to recover in the classroom
05/03/2005 - Latest Sober mutant targets soccer fans
05/03/2005 - Hackers aren't just picking on Microsoft: Study
Find links to each of the above news articles at:
http://www.computerhope.com/cgi-bin/oldnews.cgi?1212005
Find all of the latest news and article headlines at:
http://www.computerhope.com/news.htm
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3. Computer viruses, worms, security, and/or privacy threats
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* Virus:
E-mail worm throws up hate spam
news.bbc.co.uk -- A nasty side-effect for machines infected by the recent computer worm Sober-P has been revealed.
Sober worm hits new heights
news.com.com -- The Sober.P worm is circulating the Internet in greater quantities than ever, according to antivirus company Sophos.
Sober-N Virus: Now It's All About Money
news.yahoo.com -- Back in the good old days of computer viruses, malicious hackers wrote them for notoriety alone. Getting some code to run and then proliferate across the Internet still held some cachet in the online community.
Cars safe from computer viruses
news.bbc.co.uk -- A security firm has proved that today's cars cannot catch computer viruses.
* Security:
'Secure' Netscape released with vulnerabilities
zdnet.com.au -- Netscape has released the newest version of its browser with serious known vulnerabilities, claim developers of the code which forms the basis of the product.
Report: Hacker infiltrated government computers
cnn.com -- The FBI confirmed Tuesday the accuracy of a New York Times report that software on routers, computers that control the Internet, were compromised last year by a hacker who claimed that he had infiltrated systems serving U.S. military installations, research laboratories, and NASA.
Fix in for Windows flaw
news.com.com -- Microsoft on Tuesday issued an "important" Windows security fix as part of its monthly patch cycle, tackling a script injection vulnerability that could allow an attacker to take over a PC.
Firefox's flaws fixed in upgrade
news.bbc.co.uk -- The Mozilla Foundation, maker of the open source web browser Firefox, has released a security patch to plug two critical security flaws in the browser.
Microsoft offers security service
news.bbc.co.uk -- Microsoft is starting an antivirus and security service for PC users.
Biggest security holes revealed
news.bbc.co.uk -- Media players and antivirus programs have been named in a list of the most pressing security problems.
Apple patches Jaguar OS, again
cbronline.com -- Apple Computer Corp released a slew of security patches to fix 20 bugs in its "Jaguar" operating system for Macs, following an earlier major security update for the OS roughly a month ago.
* Privacy:
IRS flaws open door to identity theft
news.com.com -- Computer-security flaws at the U.S. tax-collection agency could expose millions of taxpayers to potential identity theft or illegal police snooping, according to a congressional report released on Monday.
Find a direct link to each of the above news articles at:
http://www.computerhope.com/cgi-bin/oldnews.cgi?1352005
http://www.computerhope.com/cgi-bin/oldnews.cgi?1282005
http://www.computerhope.com/cgi-bin/oldnews.cgi?1212005
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4. What's new at Computer Hope this week?
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* Many of you may have noticed that the Computer Hope newsletter not been sent the last few weeks. To help keep everyone updated, I am the only person who does the newsletter and unfortunately and have been in recovery from emergency medical issues. While everything is fine now unfortunately I had to spend two weeks recovering, which is why no newsletter was done and very little updates were done to the Computer Hope website.
- Very close to completing new mail script that should help speed up the response times on all e-mails and immediately help users who have similar issues to e-mails answered. Hope to have this done by the end of this week.
- Working on resolving issue with word of the day script not properly displaying pictures.
- Performed other minor updates.
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 can I make my computer quieter?
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000696.htm
How do I add a contact in Microsoft Outlook?
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000697.htm
How can I create a sticky note in Microsoft Outlook?
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000698.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
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6. All Talk
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http://www.google.com/ig
This week Google announced their personalized home page, for users who don't already have a personalized home page or enjoy using Google should give Googles new service a try.
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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