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July 24, 2007 ISSUE 256
COMPUTERHOPE.COM NEWSLETTER
- http://www.computerhope.com/nletters/nl256.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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Deep link ( http://www.computerhope.com/jargon/d/deeplink.htm ) -
Term used to describe a link pointing to any section of a web page that is not the home page. For example, if someone was to link to this dictionary definition web page instead of linking to Computer Hope's main page, that would be considered a deep link.
Some companies or individuals request or prohibit a user from creating deep links to their web page because they believe a user may be confused by who is providing the information and/or because it cuts the amount of advertising displayed to the visitor while they are visiting a site.
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: Here we go again: Toshiba Recalls Sony-Made Batteries
realtechnews.com -- Yep, it seems like Sony just cant get it right ... Toshiba has just recalled another set of lithium-ion batteries manufactured by Sony.
07/21/2007 - Apple's U.S. Marketshare Up to 5.6%
07/21/2007 - MIT Project aims human buffer overflow at Secret Service
07/21/2007 - German police excuse angry computer user for outburst
07/21/2007 - $298 Wal-Mart PC features OpenOffice.org, no crapware
07/21/2007 - Card sharks to battle computer at poker
07/21/2007 - Italy arrests 26 for phishing operation
07/21/2007 - Happy Blogiversary
07/21/2007 - Microsoft patent gives a peek at the future beyond the taskbar
07/21/2007 - Hackers steal government, corporate data
07/21/2007 - Google offers Custom Search Business Edition for SMBs
07/21/2007 - Microsoft patents the mother of all adware systems
07/21/2007 - Pfizer waited six weeks to disclose data breach
07/21/2007 - Firefox update slams door on IE zero-day bug
07/21/2007 - Critical IM bugs hit Yahoo, Trillian
07/21/2007 - Microsoft Reminds: No Vista SP1 This Year
07/21/2007 - Magnetic "wobbles" cause disk failure
07/21/2007 - Gang arrested for kidnapping online game champion
07/21/2007 - Microsoft 'silently' restores root certificates that users di...
07/21/2007 - The tricky issue of spyware with a badge: meet 'policeware'
07/21/2007 - Ask to allow anonymous Web search
07/21/2007 - Hotmail Fails To Deliver Up To 81% Of All Attachment Emails
07/21/2007 - Report: DVR adoption to surge past 50 percent by 2010
07/21/2007 - Web video sites mined by talent scouts
07/21/2007 - ATI/Nvidia Says "No Support" to Laptop Owners for Vista
07/21/2007 - Chinese actress has world's most-read blog
07/21/2007 - Microchip implants raise privacy concern
07/21/2007 - Global PC Shipments Up 12 Percent
07/21/2007 - Net criminals shun virus attacks
07/21/2007 - Microsoft Sees Stronger XP Sales in FY08
07/21/2007 - Google Invests in Cellular Tech
07/21/2007 - Disney Warns of Data Leak
07/21/2007 - Here we go again: Toshiba Recalls Sony-Made Batteries
07/21/2007 - Google now expires cookies after 2 years, not 31
07/21/2007 - Turn Junk Phones into Cash
07/21/2007 - Google Acquires ImageAmerica
07/21/2007 - Next version of Windows: Call it 7
07/21/2007 - More Space for MySpace: Murdoch puts a stake in the heart of ...
07/21/2007 - iPhone not to blame for Duke outage
07/21/2007 - News of a Mac OS X worm incites death threats and intrigue
Find links to each of the above news articles at:
http://www.computerhope.com/cgi-bin/oldnews.cgi?1962007
Top News Story: Adobe fixes critical Flash bugs
computerworld.com -- Three critical vulnerabilities in Flash Player that could let hackers infect Windows, Mac OS X and Linux systems, were patched yesterday by Adobe Systems Inc.
07/13/2007 - Online Ads Could Become a Phisher's Dream
07/13/2007 - Sony suing rootkit maker
07/13/2007 - HP recycles faster than expected
07/13/2007 - iPhone buyers love their phones
07/13/2007 - Robot unravels mystery of walking
07/13/2007 - Government websites 'too complex'
07/13/2007 - Tiscali buys Pipex broadband unit
07/13/2007 - Adobe fixes critical Flash bugs
07/13/2007 - Military files left unprotected online
07/13/2007 - Experts warn of lightning-strike injuries with iPods, similar...
07/13/2007 - Anti-corruption Internet site launched
07/13/2007 - Cyberspace Author William Gibson Touting Latest Novel in Seco...
07/13/2007 - Google offers easy map customization with Mapplets
07/13/2007 - PayPal introduce new mobile payment system for online shopping
07/13/2007 - Ohio State Data Leak Now About 16 Times Worse Than Initially ...
07/13/2007 - Online advertising 'growing fast'
07/13/2007 - Security paper shows how application can steal CPU cycles
07/13/2007 - Greek spying case uncovers first phone switch rootkit
07/13/2007 - The computer virus turns 25
07/13/2007 - Image spam declining, PDF spam set to take its place
07/13/2007 - Feds preparing to jail more spammers?
07/13/2007 - Researcher: Optimal copyright term is 14 years
07/13/2007 - Yahoo's New Suggested Search Feature Is Half-Baked
07/13/2007 - E3: Commodore unveils its U.S. desktop lineup
07/13/2007 - Reap the rewards of hardware recycling
07/13/2007 - Mounting scrutiny for Google security
07/13/2007 - Web warnings may not make kids safe
07/13/2007 - Java flaw poses widespread security threat
07/13/2007 - Logitech Gets Air Time With New Mouse
07/13/2007 - 75-Year-Old Woman Has Fastest Net Access
07/13/2007 - Chinese Internet Usage Rivals U.S.
07/13/2007 - D-Day Sunday For Internet Radio As Court Rejects Royalties Ap...
07/13/2007 - 40 Terabytes More Data For Amazon S3
07/13/2007 - Microsoft July updates for critical Excel, Windows and .NET f...
07/13/2007 - Intel, `$100 Laptop' Project Make Peace
07/13/2007 - At E3, trying to slay an MMO stereotype
07/13/2007 - OMG! YR still on MySpace? Loser!
07/11/2007 - Ballmer hints at Microsoft's future in the 'cloud'
07/11/2007 - Don't be so quick to click that Web page
07/11/2007 - E3 2007: Blizzard shows off 'Starcraft 2', new 'World of Warc...
07/11/2007 - AOL settles with states over cancellation complaints
07/11/2007 - Nokia Puts eBay's Skype on Handsets
07/11/2007 - E3 07: Unreal Tournament III due in '07, PS3/PC exclusive 'ti...
07/11/2007 - Microsoft Aims Low With Dynamics Live CRM Pricing
07/11/2007 - Microsoft Shows Off Blockbuster Holiday Lineup At E3 Kickoff
07/11/2007 - Last.fm strikes Sony music deal
07/11/2007 - Nielsen adds time spent on sites to Web rankings
07/11/2007 - Six arrested in massive credit card fraud case
07/11/2007 - 8 million people watched Live Earth concerts online
07/11/2007 - Intel to buy $218.5 million worth of VMware stock
07/10/2007 - Universal confirms iTunes contract change
07/10/2007 - Guitar Lessons Removed From YouTube in Copyright Dispute
07/10/2007 - P2P Trojan Makes PC Talk, Laugh at You, While Erasing Hard Drive
07/10/2007 - IPhone-Free Cellphone News
07/10/2007 - Windows Server 2008 launch set for February
07/10/2007 - Firefox "firefoxurl" URI Handler Registration Vulnerability
07/10/2007 - The $300 Linux-Powered 'iPhone Killer' Arrives
07/10/2007 - Google Buys a Manager of E-Mail
07/10/2007 - MySpace 'passes 10m UK users'
07/10/2007 - Microholography milks 500GB out of DVD-sized discs
07/10/2007 - Under The Linux 2.6.22 Hood
07/10/2007 - The emoticon is turning 25: You can thank this guy :-)
07/10/2007 - Average zero-day bug has 348-day lifespan, exec says
07/10/2007 - U.S. gets consecutive gold medals in spamming
07/10/2007 - Google to buy Web security company
07/10/2007 - Internet Explorer 0day Exploit
07/10/2007 - FileMaker Pro 9 Now Available
07/10/2007 - 217 Million People Play Online Games
07/10/2007 - Apple plans cheaper, Nano-based phone: JP Morgan
07/10/2007 - New rules could rock wireless world
07/10/2007 - Microsoft fixes 11 flaws in six patches; three are critical
07/10/2007 - Yahoo Photos closure bumps Flickr market share
07/10/2007 - Spammers defeat Captchas
Find links to each of the above news articles at:
http://www.computerhope.com/cgi-bin/oldnews.cgi?1892007
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:
Net criminals shun virus attacks
news.bbc.co.uk -- Hi-tech criminals have found novel ways to carry out web-based attacks that are much harder to spot and stop, warn security experts.
News of a Mac OS X worm incites death threats and intrigue
news.com.com -- A soap opera is playing out on the mailing lists of several security newsgroups this morning, complete with people hiding behind pseudonyms, people "outing" one another and rumors of death threats against the major players. At stake? A possible worm for Apple's Mac OS X operating system.
P2P Trojan Makes PC Talk, Laugh at You, While Erasing Hard Drive
zeropaid.com -- "You have been infected I repeat you have been infected and your system files have been deleted -- Sorry, have a nice day and bye bye." If your computer starts talking to you and tells you that you are infected and your files have been deleted, it's no joke, you have just been infected by the BotVoice.A Trojan.
* Security:
Firefox update slams door on IE zero-day bug
infoworld.com -- Mozilla late yesterday patched Firefox to fix nine bugs, including the controversial critical vulnerability that involved both the open source Web browser and Microsoft's Internet Explorer.
Critical IM bugs hit Yahoo, Trillian
infoworld.com -- Security researchers Monday disclosed critical vulnerabilities in two popular Windows instant messaging clients, Yahoo Messenger and Trillian.
Microsoft 'silently' restores root certificates that users di...
networkworld.com -- Kill off any one of 230 root certificates available under the default configuration of Windows XP Service Pack 2 and the operating system will "silently" revive it and restore the certificate to the trusted status that the user intended to be revoked, according to security expert/blogger Paul Hoffman.
Adobe fixes critical Flash bugs
computerworld.com -- Three critical vulnerabilities in Flash Player that could let hackers infect Windows, Mac OS X and Linux systems, were patched yesterday by Adobe Systems Inc.
Image spam declining, PDF spam set to take its place
infoworld.com -- Security vendors and users agree that image spam is finally on the decline, but at the same time a new kind of spam is emerging that uses an attached PDF file to trick recipients into buying stock in a company.
Java flaw poses widespread security threat
news.com.com -- Google's security team has discovered vulnerabilities in the Sun Java Runtime Environment that threaten the security of all platforms, browsers and even mobile devices.
Microsoft July updates for critical Excel, Windows and .NET f...
computerweekly.com -- Microsoft released six security updates Tuesday, three of which address critical flaws in Excel, Windows and the .NET Framework. And it's the .NET issues in particular that have security experts concerned.
* Privacy:
Hackers steal government, corporate data
today.reuters.com -- Hackers stole information from the Department of Transportation and several U.S. corporations by seducing employees with fake job-listings on ads and e-mail, a computer security firm said on Monday.
Disney Warns of Data Leak
The tricky issue of spyware with a badge: meet 'policeware'
arstechnica.com -- It's well known that organizations with nefarious and often criminal goals support and distribute malware and spyware that allows them to snoop on and/or manipulate people's computers. However, what is less well-known is that some of the people behind spyware are ostensibly the "good guys"law enforcement officers who install the software on suspects' computers to assist them with their investigations.
Ohio State Data Leak Now About 16 Times Worse Than Initially ...
techdirt.com -- Back in June, the state of Ohio said it had lost the personal information of some 64,000 state employees, after a storage device was stolen from an intern's car -- which, apparently according to its security protocols, was a suitable off-site storage location. The state dutifully followed the usual plan of releasing another announcement raising the number of people whose information was lost, putting it at 500,000. Turns out that was a little conservative; the state now says the figure is closer to one million, nearly 16 times the original claim. The governor and his staffers claim that nobody appears to have used the stolen information yet, and that it would take somebody with "special knowledge and understanding" to access it. Of course, coming from a place where storing stuff in an intern's car is regarded as secure and safe, that claim doesn't carry a lot of weight -- nor does it make up for the egregious breach that occurred.
Six arrested in massive credit card fraud case
tgdaily.com -- Secret Service agents have arrested six members of a southern Florida gang that was responsible for using more than 200,000 stolen credit card numbers and causing $75 million in damages. The group purchased stolen credit card numbers from Eastern Europe and then fabricated counterfeit cards, complete with holograms and other security features.
Find a direct link to each of the above articles at:
http://www.computerhope.com/news/security.htm
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4. What's new at Computer Hope this week?
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- Introducing new potential search engine that searches Computer Hope pages including the Computer Hope forums using the Google custom search. The new search is on the below link and contains the below features not available in the current search engines on Computer Hope.
http://www.computerhope.com/googtest.htm
1. Searches all Computer Hope pages including the forums and all news sections.
2. Spell checking.
3. Faster searching.
4. Capabilities of Boolean and quoted string searches.
5. Refinements, which allow you to refine any search only to a specific category.
- Updated several different question and answer pages, dictionary definitions and other minor pages.
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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Windows Device Manager base system device under other devices.
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000921.htm
Why is there bumps on the F and J keyboard keys?
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000922.htm
How to disable Windows and Windows programs sounds.
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000923.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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PLEO
http://www.pleoworld.com/
This week we thought we'd talk about PLEO a truly autonomously life form from UGOBE. This robot is going to be a definite hit this holiday season with the capability of moving realistic, the capability of interacting with you and other objects, emotions, and much more. In addition to the information and Adobe Flash video on the above site you can also get a good preview of this robot from the below video posted on YouTube. Right now this creature is available for pre-order on Amazon at $349.99(US) and indicates it will be released on November 1, 2007.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0C55PEcj5E
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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