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October 22, 2007 ISSUE 261
COMPUTERHOPE.COM NEWSLETTER
- http://www.computerhope.com/nletters/nl261.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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Odd header ( http://www.computerhope.com/jargon/o/oddhead.htm ) -
Term used to describe a header that is printed on the odd pages of a document.
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: Comcast Blocks Some Internet Traffic
news.wired.com -- Comcast Corp. actively interferes with attempts by some of its high-speed Internet subscribers to share files online, a move that runs counter to the tradition of treating all types of Net traffic equally.
10/21/2007 - Ubuntu 7.10 officially released
10/21/2007 - UK spy agency puts out call to gamers
10/21/2007 - HDD USB Dock Plugs Bare SATA Drives Like NES Cartridges
10/21/2007 - Above-sea ride sends inventor over the moon
10/21/2007 - WIA "Microrobot" is friggin' huge and well armed
10/21/2007 - Opera Lovers Unite: Get This Patch
10/21/2007 - New Spam Attack Delivers Audio Stock Pitches
10/21/2007 - Are You 'Gutsy' Enough to Replace Your OS with Linux?
10/21/2007 - In Growing Job Market, IT Pros Get More For The Soft Skills
10/21/2007 - MySpace opens door to developers
10/21/2007 - 'World's smallest radio' unveiled
10/21/2007 - Firms seek online copyright pact
10/21/2007 - Wi-fi security system is 'broken'
10/21/2007 - EA wants 'open gaming platform'
10/21/2007 - Hand-held supercomputers 'on way'
10/21/2007 - Dash to bring Internet mapping to your car
10/21/2007 - China Not Redirecting Search-Engine Traffic to Baidu
10/21/2007 - World Solar Challenge 2007 started
10/21/2007 - IE + RealPlayer = Security hole
10/21/2007 - Viacom CEO Dismisses Google Antipiracy Plan
10/21/2007 - Windows gets a 'Mini-Me'
10/21/2007 - Automattic acquires Gravatar
10/21/2007 - Storm Worm Now Just a Squall
10/21/2007 - Tokyo Soccer Robots Hit the Field
10/21/2007 - Lights Out San Francisco
10/21/2007 - MySpace slips to middle-of-road as Facebook surges ahead
10/21/2007 - Alternative Search Engines 1.7% of Market Share
10/21/2007 - Micro-robot that can clear arteries
10/21/2007 - Photo surveillance on TTC aims to snap every user
10/21/2007 - Comcast Blocks Some Internet Traffic
10/21/2007 - Beauty And The Geek: Firefox 3's Visual Makeover
10/17/2007 - Tech group calls for new cybersecurity legislation
10/17/2007 - Security issue dogs new AIM release
10/17/2007 - AOL to Lay Off 20 Percent of Staff
10/17/2007 - Napster relaunches with Web-enabled platform
10/17/2007 - YouTube launches long-awaited video piracy blocker
10/17/2007 - Apple's Leopard system goes on sale
10/17/2007 - Researcher posts unofficial patch for Windows URI bug
10/17/2007 - Microsoft's Live Search 411 to rival GOOG-411
10/17/2007 - Asus officially announces Eee PC
10/17/2007 - The Absolute Poker Cheating Scandal Blown Wide Open
10/17/2007 - 10, 000 Employees' Data on Stolen Laptop
10/17/2007 - Trojan imitates Skype, steals login credentials
10/17/2007 - Cafe Latte attack steals data from Wi-Fi PCs
10/17/2007 - A real yardstick for virtual worlds?
10/17/2007 - Air Force fighter to use speech recognition
10/17/2007 - Acer Inc.
10/17/2007 - Hacker Posts iPhone Exploits
10/17/2007 - Storm Botnet May Co-opt Infected PCs
10/17/2007 - Phishers Move Beyond eBay, PayPal
10/17/2007 - Survey: HP Tops Dell as World's Largest PC Supplier
10/17/2007 - Robots Will Become Part of Daily Life
10/17/2007 - Apple Drops Prices for DRM-free Music
10/17/2007 - Best Buy to End Sales of Analog TVs
10/17/2007 - Next New Networks Acquires BarelyPolitical.com
10/17/2007 - RIAA shifts legal battle to a new front, sues Usenet access p...
10/17/2007 - If Only Users Were Gold: Skype Hits 10M Simultaneous Users Mark
10/17/2007 - Man accused of hacking into 911
10/17/2007 - $2.2 Million Grant Calls for Designing Computer Software to ...
10/15/2007 - Google Buys Messaging Vendor Jaiku
10/15/2007 - Hard times for hard drives: US may ban popular imports
10/15/2007 - HowStuffWorks Acquired by Discovery for $250M
Find links to each of the above news articles at:
http://www.computerhope.com/cgi-bin/oldnews.cgi?2872007
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:
Storm Worm Now Just a Squall
pcworld.com -- The Storm Worm's days may be numbered, according to a University of California researcher. Brandon Enright, a network security analyst at UC San Diego, has been tracking Storm since July and said that, despite the intense publicity that the network of infected computers has received, it's actually been shrinking steadily and is presently a shadow of its former self. On Saturday, he presented his findings at the Toorcon hacker conference in San Diego.
Trojan imitates Skype, steals login credentials
networkworld.com -- Security analysts are warning of another malicious software program masquerading as an installer file for Skype.
* Security:
Opera Lovers Unite: Get This Patch
blogs.pcworld.com -- The folks at Opera Software have released an update to their popular Web browser that patches two critical security flaws.
New Spam Attack Delivers Audio Stock Pitches
blogs.pcworld.com -- Stock tip spammers have a new ploy to dupe you into listening to their pitches. According to Web security firm MessageLabs spammers are tricking people into opening e-mail MP3 attachments promising music from Elvis Presley, The Beatles, and Britney Spears. Instead of receiving a song, spam recipients are hearing audio stock pitches.
Wi-fi security system is 'broken'
news.bbc.co.uk -- More holes have been picked in the security measure designed to protect the privacy and data of wi-fi users.
Security issue dogs new AIM release
infoworld.com -- AOL has patched a serious flaw in its instant-messaging software, but more troubles may lie ahead, according to a security researcher familiar with the issue.
Researcher posts unofficial patch for Windows URI bug
infoworld.com -- A researcher beat Microsoft to the patch punch Sunday by publishing an unofficial fix for a critical flaw in Windows XP and Server 2003 on PCs with Internet Explorer 7.
Cafe Latte attack steals data from Wi-Fi PCs
infoworld.com -- If you use a secure wireless network, hackers may be able to steal data from your computer in the time it takes to have a cup of coffee. At the Toorcon hacking conference in San Diego this coming weekend, security researcher Vivek Ramachandran, will demonstrate a technique he's developed to attack laptops that use the WEP encryption system to log on to secure wireless networks.
Man accused of hacking into 911
ocregister.com -- SWAT officers expected to find a victim shot to death, drugs and a belligerent armed suspect when they surrounded the home of an unsuspecting couple, but found they were only a part of a false emergency call caused by a teenager who hacked into the countys emergency response system, authorities said.
* Privacy:
10,000 Employees' Data on Stolen Laptop
The Home Depot Inc. said Wednesday that a laptop computer containing about 10,000 employees' personal data was stolen from a regional manager's car in Massachusetts.
Phishers Move Beyond eBay, PayPal
pcworld.com -- EBay and PayPal, once the primary lures used by phishers to trick e-mail users into giving up personal information, aren't as popular as they used to be. According to security vendor Sophos, which monitors spam and phishing e-mails to catch new blasts and determine trends, the number of messages pretending to be from eBay or its payment subsidiary PayPal has dropped from 85 percent of all phishing e-mails a year ago to 21 percent in September.
The computer, which was password protected, didn't contain any customer information, said Ron DeFeo, a spokesman for Atlanta-based Home Depot, the world's largest home improvement store chain. He would not say whether the information had been encrypted.
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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- Added new Q&A's and dictionary definitions.
- Posted other various updates throughout site.
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 determine and change the workgroup I'm in?
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000941.htm
How do I backup a DVD movie to my hard drive?
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000942.htm
How do I make a CD or DVD from an ISO file?
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000943.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.freedomdriver.net/
We recently came across the Freedom Driver Technology that allows virtually any flat surface to turn into a speaker. It's an interesting idea and we can't wait to try it and/or see it in action.
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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