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(CNSNews.com) - The sponsors of at least two different websites chronicling the anti-war statements and activities of Hollywood celebrities, say they're being inundated with death threats from "anti-war pacifist" supporters of the celebrities. The sponsor of one of the sites, who would only identify himself as Tim C., said he has received nearly 100 death threats since starting www.famousidiot.com less than two months ago. Tim's mother and wife want him to stop exposing Hollywood's liberal activists out of fear for his personal safety. "If they are anti-war pacifists, they're the most violent people I have ever met in my life....

A brace of Microsoft security vulns pose risks for both home users and corporates. The more serious problem, involving Microsoft's virtual machine (Microsoft VM), which enables Java programs to run on Microsoft Windows, provides a mechanism for attackers to run amok on Windows PCs. Microsoft has released a fix designed to address the problem, which affects users of Windows 98, NT 4, Windows 2000, XP and Windows Me. Attacks including "changing data, loading and running programs, and reformatting the hard disk", might be possible, according to the low-fat version of Microsoft's alert. Well if that doesn't get consumers patching, what...

Over the past 18 months, the U.S. government has bought access to data on hundreds of millions of residents of 10 Latin American countries -- apparently without their consent or knowledge -- allowing myriad federal agencies to track foreigners entering and living in the United States. A suburban Atlanta company, ChoicePoint Inc., collects the information abroad and sells it to U.S. government officials in three dozen agencies, including immigration investigators who've used it to arrest illegal immigrants. The practice broadens a trend that has an information-hungry U.S. government increasingly buying personal data on Americans and foreigners alike from commercial vendors...

Bug leaves Windows open to Java attack12:30 Thursday 10th April 2003Matthew Broersma  Microsoft said that its Virtual Machine fails to catch certain malicious code in Java applets, allowing an attacker to take control of a PC Microsoft has warned of three new flaws affecting its software, the most serious of which would allow an attacker to gain full control of a user's PC using a Java applet. The three warnings, all issued on Wednesday, involve the Microsoft Virtual Machine for running Java applets on Windows; a cross-site scripting bug in a component of Windows 2000 and Windows NT 4.0; and a...

SEATTLE (Reuters) - Three-fourths of computer software security experts at major companies surveyed by Forrester Research Inc. (Nasdaq:FORR - news) do not think Microsoft Corp.'s (Nasdaq:MSFT - news) products are secure, the technology research company said on Monday. Related Quotes FORRMSFTDJIANASDAQ^SPC 14.0924.318018.751344.56851.68 -0.02+0.10+26.62+3.39+3.50 delayed 20 mins - disclaimerQuote Data provided by Reuters   While 77 percent of respondents in the information technology (IT) field said security was a top concern when using Windows, 89 percent still use the software for sensitive applications, Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Forrester said in a report titled "Can Microsoft Be Secure?" The survey polled 35 software security...

A MUSLIM militant group is believed to have hacked into the Hereford Diocese web-site and left pictures of dead and wounded children. Four video stills, two showing fatally injured children, possibly taken from Middle East TV war coverage, appeared on the site on Monday afternoon. Anyone visiting the church web-site would have found themselves on the Muslim Allah Akbar page, which means `Allah is the greatest'. Diocese director of communications, Anni Holden, said she presumed a militant Muslim Arab organisation was behind the sabotage. "It was very dramatic. The page said Allah Akbar and there was also a line of...

Vulnerability hits NT 4, Windows 2000 and XP By James Middleton [28-03-2003] 'Important' RPC flaw cannot be patched on NT 4, warns Microsoft Microsoft has warned of a vulnerability affecting Windows 2000 and XP systems and that is especially bad news for NT 4. Labelled 'important', the vulnerability was discovered in the Remote Procedure Call (RPC) Endpoint Mapper protocol, which could allow denial of service (DoS) attacks to be carried out against systems. Although patches have been issued for Windows 2000 and XP, NT 4's architecture makes one impossible, according to Microsoft. "Due to the fundamental differences between Windows...

SAN JOSE, CALIF. - Robert Beck suspended his distrust of online auctions last month and went for a top-of-the-line speaker system. He cast a winning bid of $1,900, paid by credit card and waited for his first eBay purchase. The speakers never arrived. Last week, detectives confirmed to the 25-year-old engineer that the sellers, an Arizona couple, had cashed out their bank account and fled town. The couple allegedly stole more than $100,000 from more than 500 bidders. The case has cast suspicion on eBay Inc.’s anti-fraud software, which the San Jose-based company installed nearly a year ago to counter...

<p>LONDON, March 21 -- As bombs continue to fall in Iraq, protesters and patriotic hackers alike have stepped up their war of words on the Internet, defacing hundreds of U.S. and UK corporate and government Web sites, a security expert said on Friday.</p>

HAMBURG, Germany, March 20 (AFP) - Attacks by computer hackers against company Internet sites have been increasingly focusing on US firms, with many of the incidents clearly aimed at protesting the US-led war against Iraq, a specialist British consultancy said on Thursday. So far this month, two thirds of all attacks launched on the Internet have hit the sites of companies from the United States and Canada; double the number recorded for March last year, according to British specialists mi2g. By comparison, says the company specialising in information intelligence, Web sites in Europe have been the target of only 21...

WASHINGTON -- Microsoft Corp. on Wednesday warned about a serious flaw in almost every version of its popular Windows software that could allow hackers to seize control of a person's computer when victims read e-mails or visit Web sites. Microsoft assessed the problem's urgency as critical, its highest level, and urged customers to download a free repairing patch immediately from its Web site, www.microsoft.com/security.

Accounting Web: Leading tax preparation software companies Intuit (TurboTax) and H&R Block (TaxCut) may be producing software that puts customer tax data at risk, according to some data security experts. Both TurboTax and TaxCut leave taxpayer data files unencrypted and thus unprotected from hackers, and some people are concerned about the possibility of identity theft. Security Firm PivX Solutions has issued a warning about the hacker potential. Here's how the tax information is stored: TurboTax stores taxpayer information in files that end in a .tax extension. These files, while not readable by a standard word processing program, can be opened...

This below is the work of the Bildenberg/Fabian group...After corrupting the banking system, and therefore having a never ending supply of money with which to achieve any oyher corruption they want...They corrupted our democracies..This vote fixing goes on in most democracies of the world.......DO NOT TRUST THE COMPUTER COUNTING..IT IS UNACCOUNTABLE News Release Let it be known to all I am sending you this document entitled “Remedy for our stolen democracy” In hopes that you’ll realize that this is information that all Free Canadians need to know, to insure the protection of our democracy. This statement has previously been released...

<p>Oddly enough, Silicon Valley has been a laggard when it comes to applying the technology it's famous for to the election process. Now it's finally beginning to catch up, and it has suddenly become the locus of an overdue -- and profoundly important -- debate about the mechanics of democracy in the 21st century.</p>

The following is a private e-mail from a World Economic Forum attendee that was inadvertantly released for general public viewing: -- With apologies for the group email... I thought this was interesting enough to pass along. These are the notes from a friend of a friend who writes for Newsday. Adam Davis Director, EPRIsolutions Environment Division 1299 4th Street, Suite 307 San Rafael, CA 94901 Main Office:415-454-8800 Direct:415-257-4631 Cell: 415-305-4786 Hi Guys. OK, hard to believe, but true. Yours truely has been hobnobbing with the ruling class. I spent a week in Davos, Switzerland at the World Economic Forum. I...

<p>Using a combination of trade tricks and clever programming, hackers have thoroughly compromised security at America Online, potentially exposing the personal information of AOL's 35 million users.</p> <p>The most recent exploit, launched last week, gave a hacker full access to Merlin, AOL's latest customer database application. As a security measure, Merlin runs only on AOL's internal network, but savvy hackers have found a way to break in.</p>

I need to know if there is any way a URL could show up in the IE 5.5 history list without the browser having actually visited that page. I also need to know if a document URL could show up in the recent Document folder without the browser having browsed to that URL.

By Brian Livingston Windows XP, which has been marketed by Microsoft as "the most secure version ever," has been found to have a flaw so bone-headed that it renders passwords ineffective as a means of keeping people out of your PC. Reader Tony DeMartino alerted me to the problem, which all administrators of Windows XP machines should immediately take to heart: Anyone with a Windows 2000 CD can boot up a Windows XP box and start the Windows 2000 Recovery Console, a troubleshooting program. Windows XP then allows the visitor to operate as Administrator without a password, even if the...

Microsoft finds more glitches in XP and IE By Nick Farrell [06-02-2003] Fifth security advisory this year warns of IE and XP bugs Two more Microsoft security advisories have appeared concerning Windows XP and Internet Explorer (IE). The latest Windows XP bug brings the total number of Microsoft security advisories issued this year to five. The XP vulnerability has been caused by an unchecked buffer in the Windows Redirector function on the operating system, Microsoft said. The company explained that an attacker exploiting the vulnerability could crash the system or run their own code with system privileges. This could...

US Customs and the Federal Bureau of Investigations are looking into the possible transfer of thousands of Sony PlayStation 2s from US retail stores to Iraq, military intelligence sources have reported. An astounding 4,000 PlayStation 2s have apparently been shipped to Iraq in the last two to three months, according to a secret Defense Intelligence Agency report. With the under-whelming shipment of PS2s that have hit North American shores, this recent news makes strange sense. But is this the real reason that Sony can't meet US gamers' demand? Or is the news really real at all? According to the news...