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High-Tech Tension Over Illegal Uses

Tue Feb 22, 8:10 AM ET
By Jonathan Krim, Washington Post Staff Writer
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In 2002, a young software programmer in Seattle named Bram Cohen solved
a vexing Internet problem: how to get large computer files such as home
movies or audio recordings of music concerts to travel rapidly across
cyberspace.

Among the benefits of the invention, called BitTorrent, was that
millions of users could quickly see lengthy amateur videos documenting
the devastation of the December tsunami in the Indian Ocean, helping to
spur an outpouring of charitable aid.

But BitTorrent also is wildly popular because the technology makes it
easier to freely trade Hollywood movies and television shows, putting it
in the cross hairs of the entertainment industry.

Increasingly, that same tension surrounds a dazzling new generation of
high-tech products and services that help people copy, customize and
increase the portability of digital works, sparking a sharp legal
debate: How should courts view technologies that have beneficial uses
but also are heavily used for illegal acts?

Next month, the U.S. Supreme Court (news - web sites) is scheduled to
hear arguments on whether a file-sharing service named Grokster should
be held liable for the millions of people around the world who use it to
illegally trade music, movies and software.

The entertainment industry is asking the court to rule that even though
Grokster itself does not engage in stealing files, the service is
responsible because it is predominantly used for theft and has done
nothing to try to stop that use.

The prospect that the court might adopt this legal reasoning is sending
shudders through the technology and consumer electronics communities.
Hundreds of existing products could be threatened, they say. And they
fear that new products, and early funding, will die in the crib if the
gear might be co-opted by people wishing to use it improperly.

"If it's so risky for me to try out new things or put new things on the
market, you are really going to devastate people's willingness to
innovate," said Elliott Frutkin, chief executive of Time Trax
Technologies Corp., a Gaithersburg start-up.

His company's hardware and software turn individual songs or entire
programs from XM and Sirius satellite radio broadcasts into digital
files that can be stored on a computer, burned to a CD or transferred to
portable players like Apple Computer Inc.'s iPod.

Frutkin said his product safely falls on the legitimate side of current
law and regulations. But he also knows that many users of technology,
especially those who are the quickest to latch onto new gadgets and
services, may be willing to push legal boundaries.

"The first people who were playing with the technology TimeTrax is based
on weren't people that I would have over for dinner with the family,"
said Frutkin, who does not condone stealing. "But that's the way things
happen."

Major technology companies, including Microsoft Corp., Google Inc.,
Yahoo Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO - news) and America Online Inc., have urged the
court to avoid basing its decision on how much a product is used for
nefarious purposes. They argue that courts should look at whether
Grokster actively encourages and helps users to steal, which would be
punishable under existing copyright law.

Officials of the Motion Picture Association of America and the Recording
Industry Association of America (news - web sites) say that approach
would make it too easy for companies to avoid prosecution for acts they
tacitly approve but never explicitly encourage.

The Grokster case, they insist, is not about scaring off new inventions.
It focuses purely on file-sharing services -- including Kazaa and
several others -- whose operations the entertainment companies claim are
built to encourage, support and profit from piracy, even if the
underlying technology has legal uses.

Firms that do not have illegal file-sharing as their primary business
model have nothing to fear, said Fritz Attaway, chief policy counsel for
the MPAA.

As an example, Attaway said the MPAA has not sued Cohen, the inventor of
BitTorrent, instead targeting several operators of Web sites that serve
as BitTorrent directories and openly list copyrighted movies.

Cohen said he developed the technology to allow devotees of bands that
allow their concerts to be recorded to share copies with other fans. But
he is well aware of the misuse by some BitTorrent index sites, whose
operators have openly pitched their directories as resources for
copyrighted movies.

"That's like putting a big 'shoot me' sign on your forehead," Cohen said
of the sites.

Device makers have fended off the entertainment industry before. In a
case that set the legal standards that will be reviewed in the Grokster
case, the movie industry sued Sony Corp (NYSE:SNE - news) (news - web
sites). over its Betamax recorders, arguing that copying television
programs violated copyright laws.

In 1984, the Supreme Court ruled that making a copy to view at another
time -- or "time-shifting" -- was an acceptable personal use. More
broadly, it determined that device makers could not be held responsible
for illegal acts of users as long as the product was "merely capable" of
substantial uses that were legal.

The decision did not stop the entertainment industry from targeting,
sometimes successfully, other products, including digital audio tapes,
an early MP3 player and ReplayTV (news - web sites), a digital
television recorder that also allowed users to skip commercials and send
program copies to a handful of others.

In ReplayTV's case, the company was forced to shut down rather than
fight industry lawsuits, said Andrew Wolfe, who was the company's chief
technology officer. He said that once the litigation started, the
company could not raise additional money from venture capitalists or
other investors.

"What would have happened if you applied these same standards [sought by
the entertainment industry] when people were shown the first Xerox
machine?" Wolfe asked.

The ReplayTV brand was later purchased by another company.

One problem, many technologists said, is that it is hard to know what
the entertainment industry deems to be acceptable use.

The recording industry, for example, has never explicitly said whether
burning songs to CDs is acceptable use, said Steven M. Marks, general
counsel of the RIAA (news - web sites). But burning a CD and
distributing it to others is "clearly illegal," he said.

There is also a difference of opinion about what someone can record with
a VCR. According to the MPAA's Attaway, the Betamax case gave consumers
the right to record over-the-air television transmissions, but not
programs via cable or satellite TV.

Such distinctions could pose problems for the burgeoning business of
digital television recorders, said Gary Shapiro, head of the Consumer
Electronics Association, the lobbying arm of roughly 2,000 device
makers.

"The content people will tell you that everything that is not authorized
. . . is infringing," he said. "This is the corporate equivalent of
living under a tyrannical dictator. You are not breaking the law, but
you want to keep your head down and not be noticed because the dictator
randomly kills."

In one ongoing dispute, the movie industry is challenging Federal
Communications Commission (news - web sites) approval of a new feature
from digital-recorder maker TiVo (news - web sites) Inc. that allows its
users to make copies of digitally enhanced television programs and
transfer them to a limited number of other locations.

Attaway argues that product and service providers who base their
businesses around piracy should not be able to hide behind the mantle of
innovation.

"Why should device manufacturers be exempt from all possibility of
litigation?" he asked.

Another source of tension will probably be copying of digital radio
programs and other broadcast "streams" designed to be listened to but
not downloaded.

Marks of the RIAA said his organization has told the FCC (news - web
sites) that users should be allowed to record only an entire program or
stream, not cherry-pick individual songs to build their own music
libraries.

TimeTrax allows recording of individual elements of a program, Frutkin
said, but to demonstrate the company's anti-piracy commitment, it
electronically stamps any recorded element so that if it showed up on a
file-sharing network it would be easy to trace.

Other small companies are working to steer clear of any potential
confrontation with the entertainment industry.

A California company called Grouper Networks Inc. makes file-sharing
software for the private use of family members or other small groups,
mostly aimed at those wanting to share photos. The software prevents the
copying of music files and imposes restrictions on the size of any group
wishing to share photos.

"We know what people want to do" with the software, said founder Josh
Felser, "but we are not going to get embroiled in the controversy
surrounding file-sharing."

Some who are concerned about the Grokster case say no matter what the
Supreme Court does, the movie studios and recording labels are
ultimately fighting a losing battle by trying to bottle up new
technologies.

"We are moving into a world where access to information is more
democratized," said Brad Burnham, a New York venture capitalist who
works with early-stage media companies. "It's too easy to move it
around. Value is going to shift from the creation of content to the
organization and customization of that content."

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Also in this issue:

- Security products put Microsoft in quandary
   If Microsoft Corp. doesn't do more to stem Internet attacks, the
company risks further   alienating customers unhappy with the multitude
of threats already facing its ubiquitous   software.
- E-mail scam targets families of Iraq war dead
   Federal authorities are investigating two e-mail scams, including one
targeting families   of troops killed in Iraq, that claim to be
connected to the Homeland Security Department.
- Google's toolbar sparks concern
   Search engine firm Google has released a trial tool which is
concerning some net users   because it directs people to pre-selected
commercial websites.
- Apple laptop is 'greatest gadget'
   The Apple Powerbook 100 has been chosen as the greatest gadget of all
time, by US magazine   Mobile PC.
- Making phone calls over the net
   Telephone calls made over an internet connection are predicted to be
the next revolution   in telecommunications. Cheaper broadband costs and
user friendly software is helping users   to start making Voice over IP
(VoIP) calls, with a number of companies offering products.
- The price paid for blogging Iran
   Iran is becoming an increasingly dangerous place to keep an online
diary.
- Google book plan sparks French war of words
   France's national library has raised a "war cry" over plans by Google
to put books from   some of the world's great libraries on the Internet
and wants to ensure the project does   not lead a domination of American
ideas.
- Opera allows viewers to talk back to their TV
   Opera has unveiled a voice-enabled electronic programme guide to allow
users to interact   with their TV and other home entertainment systems
without having to navigate an array of   remote controls.
- Nokia dumps IE for Firefox: 55,000 times
   REPORTS ON TWO Scandinavian web sites said that Nokia is pushing
Microsoft Internet   Explorer off its desktop PCs in favour of the
Firefox browser.
- Mobile Phone Virus Found in United States
   The world's first mobile phone virus "in the wild" has spread to the
United States from   its birthplace in the Philippines eight months ago,
a security research firm said on   Friday.
- High-Tech Tension Over Illegal Uses
   In 2002, a young software programmer in Seattle named Bram Cohen
solved a vexing Internet   problem: how to get large computer files such
as home movies or audio recordings of music   concerts to travel rapidly
across cyberspace.
- Linux For The Future
   Linux providers are trying to convince business customers to expand
the services and   strategies they buy around the base operating system.
Red Hat Inc. and Novell led that   charge last week at the LinuxWorld
conference in Boston.




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U.N. panel aims to end Web tug of war

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GENEVA, Switzerland (Reuters) -- A U.N.-sponsored panel aims to settle a
long-running tug of war for control of the Internet by July and propose
solutions to problems such as cyber-crime and e-mail spam, panel leaders
said on Monday.

The panel, set up in December 2003, will lay groundwork for a final
decision to be taken in Tunis in November at a U.N.-sponsored World
Summit on the Information Society, where global control of the world
wide web may be decided.

Right now, the most recognizable Internet governance body is a
California-based non-profit company, the International Corporation for
Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).

But developing countries want an international body, such as the U.N.'s
International Telecommunication Union (ITU), to have control over
governance -- from distributing Web site domains to fighting spam.

"There is an issue that is out there and that needs to be resolved,"
said Nitin Desai, chairman of working group and special adviser to U.N.
Secretary-General Kofi Annan.

Incorporated in 1998, ICANN oversees management of the Internet's
crucial addressing system which matches numerical addresses to familiar
Web site addresses.

While its oversight has been confined to technical matters, critics say
that it is subject to U.S. political influence.

The ITU, a 138-year-old trade body that among other things established
country code rules for international telephone calls, is seen by
developing countries as being better able to address their needs.

All countries want to counter spam -- unsolicited commercial messages
that can flood email accounts by the hundreds and burden the web with
unwanted traffic.

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Also in this issue:

- Virus alert: Don't open FBI e-mail
   Don't open those e-mail attachments that appear to be from the FBI.
They might contain a    computer virus.
- U.N. panel aims to end Web tug of war
   A U.N.-sponsored panel aims to settle a long-running tug of war for
control of the       Internet by July and propose solutions to problems
such as cyber-crime and e-mail spam,     panel leaders said on Monday.
- Security products put Microsoft in quandary
   If Microsoft Corp. doesn't do more to stem Internet attacks, the
company risks further      alienating customers unhappy with the
multitude of threats already facing its ubiquitous    software.
- Courts question anti-piracy rule
   The US broadcast regulator has been told by appeal judges it has
"crossed the line" with    an anti-piracy tag which stops programmes
being copied.
- Why democracy starts with an 'e'
   The net is starting to have a positive effect on politics, if the
politicians let it.
- Google AutoLink Feature Slammed
   Concern is growing over Google's decision to add AutoLink technology
to the Google toolbar   software.
- First instant messaging spammer charged
   The first criminal action has been taken against someone accused of
sending spam messages   over instant messaging software.
- Opera sings praises of voice-command TV
   Opera Software today unveiled technology designed to allow computer
users to control home   entertainment systems with voice commands.
- ID Theft Victims Could Lose Twice
   The recent security breach at data aggregator ChoicePoint that exposed
at least 145,000     consumers to identity theft and renewed a call for
regulation of the data industry will     likely leave victims of the
breach twice bitten -- first from the identity theft itself     and
second from thwarted attempts to recover damages for their losses if
they decide to     seek recourse.
- 'Granny-cam' initiative draws support
   Families of nursing home patients would be able to keep an eye on
their relatives - and   the care they get - under a bill that has been
submitted to Arkansas legislators.
- How Calgary firm struck digital gold
   When Ted Hellard bought the Calgary Stampeders last month, he wanted
to use his own     Internet advertising agency to overhaul the team's
website.But his managers told him to     take his business elsewhere.
Calgary-based Critical Mass Inc. was too busy dealing with   its
blue-chip U.S. clients to spend time on the founder's pet project.
- Singapore Unveils Plan to Battle 'Cyber Terror'
   Singapore is to spend $23 million over three years to battle online
hackers and other     forms of "cyber-terrorism" in one of the world's
most connected countries, government     officials said Tuesday.
- Michiganians at risk in computer attack
   2,318 in state may have had their personal information compromised in
ChoicePoint   incident.
- A supercomputer for the home?
   A supercomputer for the home? It's possible, says GridIron Software,
an Ottawa-based     developer of grid computing software.

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Australia forces Internet providers to join child porn crackdown

Wed Feb 23,12:01 PM ET

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SYDNEY (AFP) - Australia's government told Internet service providers
that they would face heavy fines if they fail to report online child
pornography to the police.

Justice Minister Chris Ellison said that under new laws taking effect
Monday, companies providing Internet services or hosting online content
must report child pornography or child abuse material to the Australian
Federal Police or face fines of up to 55,000 dollars (43,450 US).

"Internet Service Providers and Internet Content Hosts should be aware
that come March 1, they will be obligated to join the federal
government's frontline fight against abuse of children online," Ellison
said in a statement.

"It can not be emphasized enough that behind every horrid piece of child
pornography is a tragic case of an abused defenseless child, somewhere
in the world," he said.

The new laws impose fines of 11,000 dollars for the individual and
55,000 dollars for companies "if they are made aware that their service
can be used to access material that they have reasonable grounds to
believe is child pornography or child abuse material" and they do not
inform the police.

The legislation also makes it a federal offence, punishable by up to 10
years in prison, for a person to use the internet to access, transmit or
make available child pornography or child abuse material.

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Also in this issue:

- UK gets official virus alert site
   A rapid alerting service that tells home computer users about serious
internet security   problems is being launched by the UK government.
- Iran jails blogger for 14 years
   Millions of Iranians view the internet as a place to express
themselves An Iranian   weblogger has been jailed for 14 years on
charges of spying and aiding foreign     counter-revolutionaries.
- Science hopes to stop truck bombs
   Scientists at a top U.S. defense research center have unveiled
technology they say could   prevent trucks from being used as bombs on
wheels.
- Paris Hilton hacking victim?
   The sultry starlet's personal information was compromised;
investigation ongoing says   T-Mobile.
- FBI raises alarm on false 'official' e-mails
   The FBI has warned users about a flood of e-mails purporting to come
from the agency but   which in reality attempt to download a virus to
their PCs.
- Google Unveils Movie Showtime Search
   Google Inc. (GOOG.O: Quote, Profile, Research) said on Wednesday movie
showtimes are now   available on its leading Web search engine and can
be accessed via personal computers or   mobile phones and other wireless
devices that use short-message service.
- Hard-drive makers expand capacities
   Two hard-drive makers have expanded the capacities of their 1-inch
drives to 6 gigabytes,   catering to consumers' growing appetites for
more storage in tiny packages.
- Mobiles get touchy with their feelings!
   Samsung is welcoming all users to the world of haptics- the technology
of recreating touch   and texture through artificial stimuli.
- U.S. E-Commerce Sales Up 4.7 Percent
   U.S. retail sales over the Internet rose 4.7 percent in the final
quarter of last year as   Americans increasingly turned on their
computers to shop, the Commerce Department (news -   web sites) said on
Thursday.
- EBay Sued in California Over Bidding Practices
   EBay Inc. (Nasdaq:EBAY - news) is being sued by a Pennsylvania man who
charges that it   illegally forces up prices when certain high bidders
raise their maximum bid to guard   against last-minute offers, an
attorney for the plaintiffs said on Wednesday.
- Category-Specific Search Expected To Dominate The Market
   Vertical search engines dedicated to specific categories are expected
to eventually   dominate the paid-search market, a research firm said
Wednesday.
- Australia forces Internet providers to join child porn crackdown
   Australia's government told Internet service providers that they would
face heavy fines if   they fail to report online child pornography to
the police.
- Bloggers' Internet obsession
   Amy Sherman recently woke up at 4 a.m. in a panic. Why wasn't her food
blog getting as   much traffic as others?
- No Encryption for E-Passports
   Despite widespread criticism from security experts that a proposed
high-tech upgrade to   Americans' passports actually introduces new
security risks, the government is declining   to encrypt data on new
high-tech e-passports, according to proposed new rules published   last
week.
- The 2005 Wired Rave Awards
   They're amazing. They're Incredibles. They're reinventing TV and
technology, music and   medicine, buildings, books, and blogs. They're
15 mavericks and dreamers, winners of the   Wired Rave Awards.
- Feathers in PCs No Birdbrain Idea
   Researchers are turning to an unlikely source to develop
environmentally friendly computer   components: the barnyard.
- Software gives descriptive directions
   Automatically-generated directions for getting from one place to
another are a staple of   the Internet age, but they rarely include
landmarks.


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Call for child porn users amnesty

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Operation Ore has led to thousands of UK arrests

Fewer users of internet child pornography should face court action, a
child protection group has said.

The Churches' Child Protection Advisory Service (CCPAS) wants to
encourage otherwise low-risk offenders to confess and hand over their
computers.

The threat of court action discourages this - instead they could just be
cautioned and placed on the sex offenders' register, CCPAS suggests.

The UK police hunt for web paedophiles - Operation Ore - was launched in
2002.

Officers have checked more than 7,000 individuals linked to child
pornography through the operation, leading to hundreds of convictions.

But some child protection experts believe efforts to find offenders may
be hampered by putting low-risk perpetrators of child internet
pornography through the court system.

A court appearance can lead to offenders losing their job, and put them
at risk of assault or persecution.

CCPAS director David Pearson told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "Most
people who are downloading indecent images of children are not known
about.

This is a genuine attempt to prevent people continuing down a road which
might lead in some cases to directly abusing children
CCPAS director David Pearson

Is child porn amnesty viable?

"This is a genuine initiative to try to encourage people to come forward
who are prepared to admit that they have a problem with this area.

"They would come forward on the basis of handing in their computer to
the police, facing the issue, being independently assessed, treatment
being provided.

"It wouldn't be a soft option. This is a genuine attempt, in order to
protect children, to prevent people continuing down a road which might
lead in some cases to directly abusing children."

But Assistant Chief Constable Stuart Hyde, of the Association of Chief
Police Officers, said: "The interest that we have is to protect the
victims. These are pictures of children who have been abused, who have
been sexually tortured for the gratification of some of these people.

"If that trade continues, then more and more children will be abused."

He added: "All this is trying to do really is to set in motion a way of
reducing the culpability of offenders, at a time when I think they need
to be held to account for the offences they have committed."

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Also in this Issue:

- Creatures frozen for 32,000 years still alive
   A new type of organism discovered in an Arctic tunnel came to life in
the lab after being   frozen for 32,000 years.
- On the Net, Unseen Eyes
   ACCORDING to the complaint filed in United States District Court in
Nashville, members of   a girls' basketball team visiting Livingston
Middle School in Tennessee spotted the camera   right away. "It was high
up in a corner, near a ceiling tile in the visitors' locker   room,"
said the girls' lawyer, Mark Chalos. "It seemed to look out over the
changing   area."
- ID theft victims face lifetime of vigilance
   Warren Lambert thought it was just another piece of junk mail until he
read the letter   more closely and learned that con artists may have
obtained his Social Security number,   name and address -- just what
they need to steal his identity and ruin his credit.
- Solutions to net security fears
   Fake bank e-mails, or phishing, and stories about ID theft are
damaging the potential of   using the net for online commerce, say
e-business experts.
- Call for child porn users amnesty
   Operation Ore has led to thousands of UK arrests. Fewer users of
internet child   pornography should face court action, a child
protection group has said.
- UK net users get government security alerts
   The UK government has followed the lead of its US counterpart, with
the launch yesterday   of an internet security alert and advise service
aimed at non-technical internet users.
- Firefox fix plugs security holes
   The Mozilla Foundation on Thursday released an update to the Firefox
Web browser to fix   several vulnerabilities, including one that would
allow domain spoofing.
- Copernic Desktop Search 1.5 (beta)
   Copernic Desktop Search 1.5, available now in public beta, is even
more flexible than the   previous version 1.2. It still supports Windows
98 and Me, unlike most of its competitors,   and still comes in English,
French, German, or Dutch. Now it indexes e-mail messages,   attachments,
and contacts for Mozilla Thunderbird and Eudora, as well as for
Microsoft     Outlook and Outlook Express.
- IBM Developing Next Release Of Data-Integration Tool
   IBM is developing the next release of its WebSphere Information
Integrator software,   expanding its ability to manage and search both
structured and unstructured data and   adding tools that help
business-technology managers better understand their information
assets. The software, known internally as "Serrano," is expected to ship
late this year.
- Singapore Unveils Plan to Battle 'Cyber Terror'
   Singapore is to spend $23 million over three years to battle online
hackers and other   forms of "cyber-terrorism" in one of the world's
most connected countries, government   officials said Tuesday.

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Phishers get a fright at the Opera

by David Quainton
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The Opera browser, currently the third most popular web browser is
beefing up its security with new anti-phishing additions to its
software. The Opera 8 browser will present users with detailed security
information on whichever site is being viewed.

Specifically targeted are sites without security certificates and those
that attempt to spoof secure websites. By clicking on a yellow security
bar that appears at the top of the browser users can see the name of the
organisation that owns the relevant certificate for the website and see
whether the site is valid.

"One of the most important measures to counter phishing attacks is the
use of security certificates," says Christen Krogh, VP of engineering at
Opera. "The challenge for browser vendors is to better explain the
verification of certificates and to make the user more aware of this
additional verification before entering into secure transactions."

In an attempt to combat concerns over Internationalized Domain Names
(IDN) the browser will only display localized domain names from top
level domains that pass pre-set Opera domain conditions.

The changes appear in Opera's second beta version of its next browser,
that was made available late last month.

The news comes days after SC reported Mozilla had updated its own
Firefox browser, currently the second most popular internet browser, in
order to plug phishing holes. Until the update Firefox had been
susceptible to spoofed websites.

www.opera.com

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Also in this issue:

- The real world behind James Bond
   Documents and photographs released by MI5 have given a fascinating
insight into the   real-life intrigue which inspired James Bond's
creator Ian Fleming - from exploding   fountain pens to human torpedoes.
- An acceptable career?
   These days anyone can set up a website and become a porn star. With
the internet   fundamentally changing the industry, could pornography be
becoming mainstream?
- Yahoo Introduces Yahoo Search Developer Network
   Yahoo Inc. a leading global Internet company, today announced the
launch of the Yahoo!   Search Developer Network...developers with sample
code, tools to share ideas and   expertise, as well as showcase
applications written and distributed by developers.
- Phishers get a fright at the Opera
   The Opera browser, currently the third most popular web browser is
beefing up its security   with new anti-phishing additions to its
software. The Opera 8 browser will present users   with detailed
security information on whichever site is being viewed.
- Microsoft Issues SP2 Reminder
   A notice on Microsoft's TechNet page reminds users, specifically
Windows XP users, that   the grace period for delaying the download of
Service Pack 2 expires on April 12, 2005.
- Net-based 911 fight puts lives on line
   Seventeen-year-old Joyce John frantically grasped the portable phone
and dialed 911.     Downstairs, her parents struggled with two armed
robbers. "Joyce, Joyce, call the police!"   her mother, Sosamma,
screamed. But when she did, she heard this message: "Stop. You must
dial 911 from another telephone."
- China Forecasts 120 Mln Internet Users by Year End
   Internet usage in China is expected to accelerate this year, as
personal computers find   their way into more homes and access to
telecoms networks grows, according to a report on   Tuesday.
- Tax the Internet, Nyet!
   Let's back up a couple of weeks to Lance Ulanoff's crazy column, "It's
Time to Tax the   Internet." Ulanoff argues for taxing the Internet on
the mistaken belief that the Net is   free and, golly, we should be
paying for all those photos and content and blogs and   blah-blah-blah.
My retort: Feh!
- New Browsers, Same Unwanted Ads
   For internet users seeking to avoid exposure to spyware and intrusive
ads, the prevailing   wisdom among net security experts has long been
that a good first step is to switch from   Microsoft's Internet Explorer
to an alternate browser.


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Food for thought: restaurant sued for stale Web site

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staurantsuedforstalewebsite

And now for a taste of something different on the international cyberlaw
front: a restaurant reportedly has been fined because of out-of-date
prices and entrees on its Web site.

Indeed, under New Zealand's Fair Trading Act, the owner of a restaurant
in Henderson, Waitakere, New Zealand, called Tony's Vineyard Restaurant,
pled guilty to misleading menu prices and availability that occurred for
half of a year.

The fine totaled $3,000 in New Zealand currency and the restaurant also
was ordered to pay $260 in New Zealand currency to cover court costs.

So, how did this happen? Well, after receiving a complaint from a
customer of Tony's Vineyard Restaurant, a New Zealand Commerce
Commission investigation reportedly uncovered that many entrees promoted
on the restaurant's Web site either were not available at all or were
not available at the prices listed on the Web site.

The investigation concluded that the Web site prices were between 17%
and 36% cheaper than displayed on actual menus in the restaurant.

A New Zealand Commerce Commission spokesperson reportedly stated that a
restaurant owner should not be excused in circumstances like this, even
if the Web site is outdated because of lack of time or technical
knowledge.

On the one hand, misrepresentations are not appropriate on the Internet,
just as in other places. On the other hand, it is not difficult to
imagine that at times people might forget to update their sites
frequently; the restaurant customers at least were given the proper
prices on the in-house menus.

One might think the New Zealand Commerce Commission has bigger fish to
fry (pardon the pun). And surely Tony's has received more publicity and
business from this incident than its Web site ever would have cooked up.

------------------------

Also in this issue:

- Can Yahoo dominate next decade?
   Yahoo has reached the grand old age of 10 and, in internet years, that
is a long time.
   For many, Yahoo remains synonymous with the internet - a veteran that
managed to ride the   dot-com wave and the subsequent crash and maintain
itself as one of the web's top brands.
- Firefox slows on IE heels
   When Firefox 1.0 was launched in November 2004, it spread like
wildfire across the net, to   date the browser has been downloaded over
25 million times, that's hot right.
- The next Einstein? It's all relative
   He didn't look like much at first. He was too fat, and his head was so
big his mother       feared it was misshapen or damaged. He didn't speak
until he was well past 2, and even      then with a strange echolalia
that reinforced his parents' fears. He beaned his little      sister
with a bowling ball and chased his first violin teacher from the house
by throwing   a chair at her.
- Reuters Summit-Web Search Technology Still in Early Stages
   Web search technology and services still have a long way to go to
fulfill users' needs,     executives at Microsoft and Yahoo said on
Tuesday.
- Amateur Cybersleuths Flocking to BTK Case
   Day by day, James Keith became more obsessed with the BTK serial
killer. Just one more     clue, he thought, and he could crack the case
that had baffled authorities in Wichita,     Kan., since the 1970s.
- Internet sale of mind-altering drugs surges, says drugs agency
   The illicit sale on the Internet of pharmaceutical drugs with a
narcotic effect surged in   2004, the International Narcotics Control
Board (INCB) warned in a report.
- Senate Democrat Introduces Phishing Bill
   A senior Senate Democrat on Tuesday introduced legislation to impose
tough penalties     against persons convicted of launching "phishing"
scams -- a form of online fraud in which   criminals use deception to
trick computer users into giving up their personal and     financial
information.
- Bahrain detains moderator of online forum for 'defaming king'
   Bahrain has detained the moderator of an online discussion forum
accused of defaming King   Hamad, his lawyer said.
- Collective Detective Police Work
   When a 9-year-old Florida girl disappeared from her bedroom last week,
the sheriff's     office coordinating the search for her immediately
posted a front-page alert on its     website.
- 1861 census data published online
   A service showing the 1861 census for England and Wales is being made
available online for   the first time. The company behind the initiative
hopes it will interest the growing     number of people trying to trace
family history.
- Microsoft's Gates being knighted
   The king of computer software Bill Gates is due to receive an honorary
knighthood from the   Queen for his contribution to enterprise in the
UK.
- Phishing scams continue to reel users in.
   There's no end in sight to the relentless rise of phishing scams, with
a new report     highlighting rapid growth in both phishing emails and
websites.
- Watchdog-attacking Bagle ramps up
   A new variant of Bagle is spreading rapidly, security companies have
warned.
- Christmas number one virus plays on
   The Christmas card worm -- Zafi.d -- is still dominating the virus
charts, as people     continue to report having run the program thinking
it was a seasonal greeting.
- Food for thought: restaurant sued for stale Web site
   And now for a taste of something different on the international
cyberlaw front: a     restaurant reportedly has been fined because of
out-of-date prices and entrees on its Web   site.


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Japanese Internet "guru" targets portal bigger than Yahoo Japan

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TOKYO (AFP) - The man at the centre of a controversial bid for Japanese
media control said he plans to create an Internet portal bigger than Yahoo
Japan through broadcast media and IT outlets.

Net Calling Rocks!

Why ditching the landline, if done right, could save you a bundle. Plus, a
who's who VoIP service providers.

Takafumi Horie, founder and chief executive of Livedoor, said the portal
would ride off the back of radio network Nippon Broadcasting Systems if his
bid for the media group was successful.

"We aim to create a new, larger Yahoo," Horie said Thursday, adding: "It's
going to become the biggest business model."

The 32-year-old businessman, considered by some a "guru", quit his studies
at the University of Tokyo to set up Livedoor nine years ago after
recognising the business potential of the Internet.

Since then, his computer network development and consulting firm has grown
rapidly through acquisitions raising the ire of traditional media operators
in Japan.

Livedoor's move to buy Nippon shares in off-market trading has also
provoked fierce opposition among some business leaders, prompting the
government to speed up stock market reforms.

"I am optimistic about the outcome. I don't want to think about the
possibility of failing, but we are also considering other options," Horie
told journalists.

He again criticized people running broadcast media in this country as being
too slow in decision-making, and warned they would become money losers.

"It would be best to conduct (a takeover bid) in a friendly fashion, but if
I don't force it now, we will run out of time," he said.

"The existing mass media have brand names and reach but they only have one
way communications," he said. "The Internet will allow consumers to open
accounts and make online transactions while listening or watching programs."

Yahoo Japan has four million subscribers, but the size of the market
receiving broadcast information was much bigger, he said.

Nippon Broadcasting has attempted to block Livedoor's further acquisition
of its shares and recently issued equity warrant rights to parent Fuji
Television Network which could dilute the 40 percent stake in Nippon which
Livedoor has already acquired.

That issue would give Fuji television the exclusive right to purchase new
shares issued by Nippon Broadcasting and late Thursday Nippon Broadcasting
employees also entered the derbate, issuing a statement opposing Livedoor's
bid.

"He seems to be only interested in taking advantage of the capital
structure (of the company), and not interested in joining in the management
of the media," the statement said.

"We don't think president Horie understands responsible broadcasting and
accurate reporting," it said.

Horie has sought a temporary injunction to block the move arguing the issue
violated the law because it was designed to thwart competition in the market.

Nippon Broadcasting's primary asset is a 22.5 percent stake in Fuji, making
it the largest shareholder and the most profitable of Japan's five
nationwide commercial television networks.

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Also in this issue:

- Judge dismisses spam conviction
    A judge dismissed a felony spamming conviction that had been called one
of the first of     its kind, saying he found no "rational basis" for the
verdict and wondering if jurors were   confused by technical evidence.
- Hotspot users gain free net calls
    People using wireless net hotspots will soon be able to make free phone
calls as well as    surf the net.
- One in four 'touched' by ID fraud
    A quarter of UK adults have had their identity stolen or know someone
who has fallen     victim to ID fraud, a Which? magazine survey has suggested.
- Google's secret of success? Dealing with failure
    The technical wizardry behind Google's successful search engine may come
down to a     blindingly obvious insight: PCs crash.
- Microsoft Showcases Robots to Watch Kids
    The teddy bear sitting in the corner of the child's room might look
normal, until his head   starts following the kid around using a face
recognition program, perhaps also allowing a   parent talk to the child
through a special phone, or monitor the child via a camera and     wireless
Internet connection.
- Phishers Would Face 5 Years Under New Bill
    Prominent Democrat Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) Tuesday introduced a
federal anti-phishing    bill that would levy fines as high as $250,000 and
impose jail terms of up to five years    against criminals creating fake
Web sites and spamming bogus e-mail designed to con       consumers.
- New Weapons to Stop Identity Theft
    To combat phishing, companies are augmenting passwords with new Web
safeguards to keep     your personal info protected
- Bricks and clicks
    New approaches blur the line between traditional classrooms and online
learning
- Court stays $521m Microsoft fine
    Microsoft had been fined $1.47 for every copy of Windows sold. A US
appeals court has     ordered a retrial in a case which could have cost
software giant Microsoft a $521m fine.
- End of the line for Pentium 4
    Intel processor codenames have always been difficult to keep up with,
and this year?s     additions to the family are no exception. The pervasive
theme, however, is simple -     multicore.
- Intel Seeks a Bigger Slice of the Memory Market
    Intel (Quote, Chart) is looking for a larger share of the computer
memory marketplace and   will double its 2005 product line to do it, the
company said Wednesday.
- Security Flaw Repaired by Firefox Browser
    The new version of the Mozilla Firefox browser fixed a defect that made
users vulnerable    to online fraud, allowing criminals to create Web sites
whose names were very similar to    legitimate companies' site names.
- Japanese Internet "guru" targets portal bigger than Yahoo Japan
    The man at the centre of a controversial bid for Japanese media control
said he plans to    create an Internet portal bigger than Yahoo Japan
through broadcast media and IT outlets.

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Symantec granted patent for detection of mutating viruses

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ing-viruses.html

Security company Symantec says it has developed a new weapon in the battle
against viruses, Trojans and worms. It has been granted a patent in the US
for what it is terming 'data detection of viruses' in order to combat the
increasing sophistication of modern malware.

Ever since the first viruses appeared, detection has always depended on
'signatures' - unique sections of code which antivirus scanners look for.
However, over recent years, virus writers have become much more
sophisticated and have begun to generate self mutating code which change
the signature and keep them one step ahead of the virus hunters.

In a statement Symantec said that the patent covers the ability to 'write
simple detection scripts to allow for complex scanning and emulation of
executable files, complex threats such as self-mutating viruses, worms, and
spyware can be detected. Furthermore, researchers are able to aim an
antivirus scanner at specific regions of each file for inspection, rather
that having to scan larger regions of files and slowing down the operation
of a computer.'

Well and dandy you might think. Anything which speeds up the detection of
mutating viruses is a Good Thing. Except that the patent number 6,851,057
granted this week, was first applied for in 1999. Since then, a number of
other companies have come up with similar scripting techniques to predict
future mutations. In fact its hard to think of a way of building a modern
virus detection application without them.

Michael Schallop, director of Intellectual Property for Symantec said,
'This patent is part of a strategic portfolio that allows Symantec to
continue to set the standard for innovation in the information security
industry.'

To be sure, Symantec will want to be bolstering its defences this year.
Microsoft has said it is entering the anti-virus detection market this
year. Nearly half of Symantec's $2.42 billion revenues comes from end user
subscriptions to its anti virus products. If it can put some legal
roadblocks in Redmond's way over patent issues to delay its entry in the
market so much the better. If it can prove it owns key patents for virus
scanners which will halt Microsoft and its current competitors like McAfee
completely, then Symantec will claim total victory.

However, to do that, the patent will inevitably end up being tested in
court. Another long running high tech patent dispute? The lawyers will be
rubbing their hands already.

-------------------------

Also in this issue:

- Poll: Most Americans unfamiliar with blogs
    Though use of the Internet has become pervasive among Americans, a poll
released Thursday   finds that few computer users are tuned in to the blog
phenomenon.
- 'Unit needed' to tackle net porn
    A body to co-ordinate investigations into internet child pornography has
been proposed by   police chiefs.
- Hopping mad over 'hobbit'
    Take a single fossil skull the size of a chimpanzee that might have held
a highly advanced   human brain, a trove of ancient humanlike bones and
teeth, and an odd assortment of stone   tools from an unknown age, and you
add a major new mystery to the endless puzzle of human   evolution.
- Bill Gates Discusses PC Security
    In this week's Cybershake, we lend an ear to Bill Gates, now an honorary
knight and ready   to joust against security flaws. Plus, spouses of state
governors and other officials     remind parents: teach your kids online
safety.
- Symantec granted patent for detection of mutating viruses 11:13AM
    Security company Symantec says it has developed a new weapon in the
battle against     viruses, Trojans and worms. It has been granted a patent
in the US for what it is terming   'data detection of viruses' in order to
combat the increasing sophistication of modern     malware.
- Scientists from UW report on undersea "Lost City"
    When scientists on a research cruise in the Atlantic Ocean first
stumbled across an     underwater landscape of giant white towers and
feathery spires, they only had time for a    quick look around.
- DOS man sues over book allegations
    THE MAN credited for the big idea that built MS DOS has sued an author
who claims the     sofware ripped off Gary Kildall's CP/M operating system.
- Microsoft Researchers Target Worms, Buffer Overruns
    Microsoft researchers showed off some forward-looking technologies this
week, including     new ways to protect systems against Internet worms,
prevent hacker attacks, and measure     available bandwidth on home networks.
- Most CA Software At Risk, Patches Available
    Computer Associates on Wednesday patched a bug in licensing software
used in virtually all   its Windows, Macintosh (news - web sites), Linux
(news - web sites), and Unix (news - web   sites) titles after a pair of
security firms released details of vulnerabilities that     could let
hackers hijack systems.
- Predicting Bird Flu's Future
    Avian flu could be morphing into forms going unobserved by most
researchers, if one     scientist's theory is correct.
- Isolated world of deaf-blind being cracked open by new technologies
    Jane Sayer, president of the Canadian National Society of the
Deaf-Blind, shows the sign    for "I love you," a universal greeting to
good friends who are deaf, in Winnipeg.
- PC tax could replace TV licence
    The BBC licence fee could eventually be replaced by a tax on having a PC
instead of owning   a TV, according to a Green Paper delivered this week.
The government plans to retain the    license fee for at least ten years
but ministers are looking ahead to a time when     high-speed broadband
connections routinely deliver digital television channels to
the     nation's homes. In that event a fee based on television ownership
could become redundant    and the government could look at other ways to
raise revenue, from subscriptions to taxing   other access devices.
- Declaring Biowar on Cancer
    The anthrax letter attacks of 2001 drew a lot of attention to the
question of biological    warfare, sparking fears that terrorist-funded
biologists could create superbugs, bacteria   or viruses designed to kill.
But efforts to build designer bugs are not always malicious.   In one
unusual form of biological attack, researchers are engineering viruses to
seek and   destroy the cells that run amok in cancer patients. After more
than 10 years of lab work,   researchers in the field of oncolytic therapy
have reached a sort of critical mass,     deploying their designer viruses
in a number of human trials.
- Lottery or e-gov?
    Almost a quarter of surveyed government executives feel the likelihood
of personally     winning the lottery is greater than federal agencies'
chances of securing full funding for   e-government initiatives.

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British Police Call for Center to Tackle Net Child Porn

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By Victoria Cutler

LONDON (Reuters) - Police called on Friday for a national center to tackle
soaring Internet child pornography crime, as new figures highlighted the
extent of the problem.

A multi-national crackdown under the so-called Operation Ore and greater
use of the Internet in general have led to an explosion in convictions for
child pornography offences.

Arrests and convictions in Britain have quadrupled in two years, according
to children's charity NCH.

Now police have sent a new proposal to work with Internet Service Providers
(ISPs) and children's charities to Home Office Minister Paul Goggins.

"It's the way forward," said Assistant Chief Constable Stuart Hyde of the
Association of Chief Police Officers.

"It's making sure we have joined-up thinking and working between the
agencies and across industry," he added.

NCH said new figures showed 2,234 people were cautioned or charged with
child pornography offences in 2003, compared with 549 in 2001.

John Carr, NCH's Internet safety adviser, said the rise in offences was
undoubtedly linked to the success of Operation Ore, but also followed the
growth of home Internet use.

"That's not to say that the Internet is to blame, any more than the
telephone service is to blame for people who misuse telephones, but we can
say that the Internet has facilitated a massive increase in this type of
criminal behavior," he added.

"I think that what's happened is that the Internet has made it easier for a
lot of people who might previously have suppressed their interest in this
type of material ..."

Carr said NCH also intended to write to Home Secretary Charles Clarke to
ask him to put pressure on more ISPs to block customers from accessing
known child pornography sites.

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Also in this issue:

- Getting the net off the ground
    Early attention to security issues might have given us a better internet
today - or the     project might never have taken off at all, says Robert Kahn.
- 'Blogger fear' in Apple leak case
    Three blogs which published sensitive information about upcoming Apple
products could be    made to disclose where the leaks came from.
- Netscape Releases Beta Of New Browser   March 4, 2005
    In an attempt to resurrect its browser namesake, Netscape Communications
on Thursday       released the first public beta of Netscape 8.
- U.S. Readies Aggressive Counterintelligence Plan
    The Bush administration has adopted a new counterintelligence strategy
that calls for       pre-emptive action against foreign intelligence
services viewed as threats to U.S.       national security, officials said
on Saturday.
- Persian blogging round the globe
    Millions of Iranians view the internet as a place to express themselves
- No information overload just yet
    Despite thousands of e-mails a day, technology analyst Bill Thompson
says he is nowhere     near his "information overload" limit.
- Bloggers not protected by Constitution, says Apple
    A tentative ruling yesterday by Superior Court judge James Kleinberg is
likely to have     serious implications for the online publishing industry.
In a preliminary ruling on a case   filed by Apple Computer against three
website publishers, the judge said Apple can force    the three website
publishers to surrender the names of their sources who
disclosed       confidential information about the company's upcoming products.
- Campaign finance law seeps into cyberspace; Federal judge's ruling alters
frontier for     'blogs'
    Deep in cyberspace, Mike Tipping of Orono muses about Maine politics.
    But his Internet site, www.mainepolitics.blogspot.com - and thousands of
similar sites      around the country - could be forced to undergo drastic
changes resulting from a federal    judge's ruling that campaign finance
laws should be extended to the Internet.
- Era of humanised computing dawns
    Intel Developer Forum Next thing we'll be using carbon nanotubes
    JUSTIN RATTNER took over the Kicking Pat mantle at the last frenzy of
keynoting here in     San Francisco.
- FTC rules Intel broke antitrust law
    The Fair Trade Commission has ruled that semiconductor giant Intel is in
violation of the   Antimonopoly Law for its method of selling central
processing units to computer makers.
- British Police Call for Center to Tackle Net Child Porn
    Police called on Friday for a national center to tackle soaring Internet
child pornography   crime, as new figures highlighted the extent of the
problem.
- Broadband Everywhere
    I admit it. I'm addicted to reading e-mail on my Treo, and I take my
laptop everywhere.     I'm also spoiled. Browsing the Web on the Treo is
slow, and logging on to the Net from my   notebook means using either a
slow WAN card or finding a Wi-Fi hot spot. Those aren't bad   choices, but
I want high-speed Internet access everywhere I go.
- Yahoo to Invest in Blogs, Analyst Says
    Internet media company Yahoo Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO - news) is likely to
build and buy tools     that help its users create, publish and search
blogs, Susquehanna Financial Group Marianne   Wolk said in a note on Friday.
- Feds Catching Up With Proxies
    The Commerce Department has disputed claims by domain registrar Go Daddy
that the     department launched a new policy when it declared in February
that people would no longer   be able to keep their personal contact
information private when they register a .us     domain.
- Blog-linked firings prompt calls for better policies
    Flight attendant Ellen Simonetti and former Google employee Mark Jen
have more in common    than their love of blogging: They both got fired
over it.
- More People Turning To Online News
    During the 2004 presidential campaign, six times as many people used the
internet to get    political news as they did in 1996.
- Customer data stolen and used in theft
    Donald Jay Alofs got a call at home last fall asking if he had recently
bought several     thousand dollars' worth of electronics. He had not, and
he had a good reason for not being   on a spending spree: He was in the
hospital at the time.
- Microsoft to unveil product to manage Net communications
    Microsoft Corp. -- there's a name that rings a bell. Soon it may be the
bell inside your    office telephone.
- Google Updates Desktop Search Tool
    Google plans to launch on Monday an updated version of its desktop
search tool with     enhancements including the ability to search the full
text of Adobe PDF files and the     metadata of multimedia files, a Google
executive says.
- Study: More Using Web for Political News
    NEW YORK - Reliance on the Internet for political news during last
year's presidential     campaign grew sixfold from 1996, while the
influence of newspapers dropped sharply,     according to a study issued
Sunday.
- England's EBay for Sex
    Just as myriad swingers sites allow soccer moms to commit adultery and
married men to     cheat with impunity, a new British website is helping
people to become part-time     prostitutes.
- Israeli Army Sports Wrist Video
    HOLON, Israel -- Israeli troops are now wearing gear that Dick Tracy
would be proud of:     tiny video screens, worn on the wrist, that display
video shot by unmanned airplanes.


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Teen Convicted Under Internet Piracy Law

By BETH DeFALCO, Associated Press Writer
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=1212&e=10&u=/ap/20050308/ap_on_\
hi_te/internet_piracy&sid=95573501

PHOENIX - An Arizona university student is believed to be the first person
in the country to be convicted of a crime under state laws for illegally
downloading music and movies from the Internet, prosecutors and activists say.

University of Arizona student Parvin Dhaliwal pleaded guilty to possession
of counterfeit marks, or unauthorized copies of intellectual property.

Under an agreement with prosecutors, Dhaliwal was sentenced last month to a
three-month deferred jail sentence, three years of probation, 200 hours of
community service and a $5,400 fine. The judge in the case also ordered him
to take a copyright class at the University of Arizona, which he attends,
and to avoid file-sharing computer programs.

"Generally copyright is exclusively a federal matter," said Jason Schultz,
an attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a technology civil
liberties group. "Up until this point, you just haven't seen states
involved at all."

Federal investigators referred the case to the Maricopa County Attorney's
Office for prosecution because Dhaliwal was a minor when he committed the
crime, said Krystal Garza, a spokeswoman for the office.

"His age was a big factor," she said. "If it went into federal court, it's
a minimum of three months in jail up front."

Although Dhaliwal wasn't charged until he was 18, he was 17 when he
committed the crime. Prosecutors charged him as an adult but kept it in
state court to allow for a deferred sentence. Garza also said Dhaliwal had
no prior criminal record.

The charge is a low-level felony but may be dropped to a misdemeanor once
he completes probation, she said.

A call to Dhaliwal's attorney, James Martin, was not returned.

A man who identified himself as Dhaliwal's father, but refused to give his
name, returned a message left Monday at Dhaliwal's parents' home. He said
his son had made a mistake, and was trying to put the case behind him. The
man declined to comment further.

Brad Buckles, executive vice president for anti-piracy at the Recording
Industry Association of America (news - web sites), said estimates say
Internet piracy has cost the industry up to $300 million a year in CD sales
alone.

The FBI (news - web sites) found illegal copies of music and movies on
Dhaliwal's computer, including films that, at the time of the theft, were
available only in theaters. They included "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless
Mind," "Matrix Revolutions," "The Cat In The Hat," and "Mona Lisa Smile."

A federal task force that monitors the Internet caught on to the student
and got a warrant, Garza said, adding that Dhaliwal was copying and selling
the pirated material.

___


On the Net:

Recording Industry Association of America: http://www.riaa.com

Maricopa County Attorney's Office: http://www.maricopacountyattorney.org

Electronic Frontier Foundation: http://www.eff.org/


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Also in this issue:

- White House admits first blogger to news briefing
    With an official credential hanging from his neck, a young man stepped
into the White   House briefing room Monday as perhaps the first blogger to
cover the daily press   briefings.
- Text Messaging Gets a Translator
    Remember Star Trek's universal translator, which instantly rendered
Klingon into English?   That was science fiction, but a New York City
startup called Transclick is rolling out   software that translates e-mail
and text messages with just one click.
- How Doctor Who spread on the net
    The pirating of a Doctor Who episode on the net before it is even
broadcast has put TV   downloading into the spotlight. But how big a
problem is this for television broadcasters?
- King Tut 'died from broken leg'
    King Tutankhamun was not murdered and may have died of complications
from a broken leg,   say researchers who hope the pharaoh will now be left
alone.
- Google takes Desktop Search out of beta
    On Monday Google officially launched Desktop Search 1.0. The beta
version of the program   first launched in October, and now version 1.0
adds the ability to search PDF, music,   video, and image files. In
additio, Desktop Seach 1.0 supports the Firefox and Netscape   browsers and
the Thunderbird and Netscape e-mail clients. To top it off, Google is
making   APIs available to software developers in order to spur development
of plug-ins for the   program, which will add the ability to search other
content types.
- Tally's In: More Voters Log On
    Television may still be the king of America's information kingdom, but
the Internet is the   crown prince. Research shows that more Americans are
logging on to the Internet for their   primary source of political news,
while shunning traditional media outlets like newspapers   and radio.
- Virus writers start new flame war
    A newly discovered worm has begun spreading in the wild, sparking what
security experts   warn could be another slanging match between rival virus
writers.
- VOIP Port Blocking Draws Congressional Interest
    Congress will likely look deeper into the problem of "port blocking"
since the Federal   Communications Commission ruled last week that Madison
River Communications could not   resort to this practice to prevent
customers from using voice-over-IP applications.
- Teen Convicted Under Internet Piracy Law
    An Arizona university student is believed to be the first person in the
country to be   convicted of a crime under state laws for illegally
downloading music and movies from the   Internet, prosecutors and activists
say.
- RFID Invades the Capital
    A new smartcard, the type privacy advocates fear because it combines
biometric data with   radio tags, will soon be one of the most common ID
cards in Washington.
- Terrorists targeted India's outsourcing industry
    India's software and services outsourcing industry is a likely target
for a terrorist   group operating in the country, local police warned
yesterday. But Indian outsourcing and   software companies said they are
prepared to cope with the threat.
- Defense tech debated
    Congress will scrutinize the Defense Department's $30.1 billion budget
request for   military information technology spending for fiscal 2006 by
questioning redundancy in the   services' warfighting IT systems.




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Global media giants claim Canada wants to rule the web

Wed Mar 9, 3:08 AM ET
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TORONTO (AFP) - The Washington Post, backed by 50 global media giants,
challenged a landmark Internet libel claim lodged in Canadian courts, which
critics fear could squelch freedom of expression in cyberspace.

The appeal seeks to overturn a previous ruling that Canada has jurisdiction
to hear a nine million-dollar (6.5 million US dollar) damages claim lodged
against the US-based paper by a former United Nations (news - web sites)
official now living in Ontario.

Media firms, including Cable News Network, The New York Times, the London
Times newspaper and Japan's Yomiuri Shimbun, argue that if the case
proceeds, it could force them to block access to their websites in some
nations.

Such a move would undermine the very rationale of the World Wide Web, and
be a detriment to global freedom of expression, the firms said.

It also raises the spectre of limitless liability for newspapers with
websites, read by millions of readers around the world.

Ghanian-born former UN official Cheickh Bangoura is suing the Post over
articles in 1997 mentioning allegations of sexual and financial wrongdoing
against him while he was working in Africa.

His case largely rides on the fact that the articles can still be read
online in Canada, and suggests a precedent that material posted on a
website should be considered as published in the nation where it is read.

Tuesday's case in the Ontario Court of Appeals challenges a previous ruling
by a lower court that the paper should have considered the allegations
would impact the official's life, wherever he subsequently chose to live.

The Post argues the case has no connection with Ontario, despite the fact
that the official now lives in the province. Bangoura was living in Kenya
when the alleged libels ocurred.

"The extraordinary nature of the ruling presents real dangers to the
continued development of the Internet and global communications," the
coalition of media firms argued in a submission to the court in support of
the Post.

Lawyers for the Post argue that Canadian courts did not have jurisdiction
as Bangoura did not even move to Canada until after the stories were
published, and did not take up residence in Ontario until 2000.

They proposed Washington as the proper venue for such a claim. Incidentally
US libel laws are more favourable to media organisations owing to freedom
of speech provisions enshrined in the US Constitution.

But Bangoura's lawyers responded that since the damage to his reputation
was most pronounced, and ongoing, in Ontario, where he now lives, he should
be entitled to redress in the province's courts.

In a point of key interest to the world's top media firms, they warned that
newspapers should be aware of potential legal ramifications in foreign
countries from posting material on the Internet.

Three judges, led by Ontario Chief Justice Roy McMurtry, reserved judgement
on the case until a later date.

The Canadian case is one of a sheaf of new questions surrounding libel
issues on the Internet.

In a recent example in Australia, known as the Gutnick case, a man was
given permission to sue Dow Jones for a story published in Barron's
magazine which it owns, accessed via the Internet.

Critics of such rulings argue that they could lead to people who believe
they have been libeled by an Internet publication shopping around the world
for a country where they may receive a sympathetic hearing.

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- 3G may bring Web to African poor
    Sowetan security guard Sam Phungo has never surfed the web and like most
Africans,     wouldn't know where to start.
- Harvard rejects biz applicants it says hacked
    Harvard Business School said Tuesday it is rejecting applications from
119 would-be     students who it says hacked into a Web site to learn if
they were accepted at the Ivy     League university ahead of the official
notification.
- Mobile growth 'fastest in Africa'
    Mobile phone use in Africa is growing faster than anywhere else in the
world, according to   a report.
- UK climbs EU e-government league
    The UK is among the best in Europe at providing public services online,
but Britons still   need some persuading to use them, say researchers.
- Google Desktop Search Leaves Beta
    Google moves its desktop search tool out of beta, formally launching
version 1.0 with     support for more browsers and file types and better
protection of sensitive documents
- Robin Hoods of cyberspace plead guilty to copyright charges
    Seth Kleinberg, 26, of Los Angeles, Jeffrey Lerman, 20, of New York, and
Albert Bryndza,    32, of New York, pleaded guilty Tuesday to putting
copyrighted computer games, movies and   software on the Internet for free
copying.
- Microsoft updates malware detector
    Microsoft has updated its free tool for removing malicious software from
servers and     operating systems.
- Net buzzing on bloggers' status
    With a Santa Clara County judge still weighing the issue of whether
bloggers and online     publishers can be considered journalists, there is
a wide range of sentiments already     posted in the Internet's court of
public opinion.
- Are virus writers working together?
    Security vendors are divided as to whether several virus writers are
working together and   sharing information.
- Phishers use DNS servers to lure victims
    Online thieves looking for personal data are moving to more active
measures by     manipulating DNS servers to redirect people to their
malicious Web sites, security experts   said this week.
- Intel: We Didn't Do It
    After a relatively quiet couple of months highlighted by a successful
developer     conference, Intel (Nasdaq: INTC) is once again in trouble.
This time the heat is coming     from Japanese regulators, who ruled this
morning that the chipmaker has been stifling     competition in the region.
- Microsoft to Debut Real-Time Tools
    Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday announced an aggressive move in the growing
software niche of    real-time communications that uses instant messaging,
Web conferencing and Internet     telephony to keep office workers in
closer touch.
- Singapore given top ranking in 104 nation IT report while US drops
    Singapore is the most successful country in the world at harnessing the
Internet     revolution and new technology while the United States has lost
its touch in the field,     according to a report issued by the World
Economic Forum (news - web sites) (WEF).
- Global media giants claim Canada wants to rule the web
    The Washington Post, backed by 50 global media giants, challenged a
landmark Internet     libel claim lodged in Canadian courts, which critics
fear could squelch freedom of       expression in cyberspace.
- Machines Not Lost in Translation
    Faced with daunting translation problems in war and disaster zones
around the world, the    U.S. military is refining a handheld
voice-translation device that will soon be used by     police and
emergency-room doctors back home.
- Top Corporate Hate Web Sites
    Sometimes it seems that shoddy products and atrocious customer service
go together like     peanut butter and chocolate.

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What's a journalist?

Bloggers' rights to protect sources are at stake as courts look at whether
they deserve the same protections as the working press.

March 9, 2005
http://www.redherring.com/Article.aspx?a=11449&hed=What%E2%80%99s+a+journalist%3\
F§or=Industries&subsector=InternetAndServices

Bloggers and journalists alike are waiting for a California judge to decide
if they share the same rights, a question some media experts consider "the
mother of all tipping points" in defining the boundaries of online publishing.

The case at hand involves Apple Computer, which subpoenaed data from
bloggers and their email providers to find out who leaked company trade
secrets. The bloggers refused, invoking their right as journalists to
protect sources under the First Amendment and California's media shield law.

Apple balked, arguing that bloggers aren't journalists. And Superior Court
Judge James Kleinberg said last week that he was likely to side with
Apple's contention that bloggers are not "legitimate members of the press."
Judge Kleinberg is expected to issue a formal ruling within a week.

For the young field of cyber-citizen journalism, the preliminary ruling was
foreboding. Scoops are one of the best ways to legitimize a fledgling
publication. The bloggers in the Apple case experienced this phenomenon
when their mainstream media colleagues picked up their coverage of
"Asteroid," the Apple project in question.

Asteroid is the code name for an upcoming Apple product that bloggers
report is an audio interface for musicians using Apple's popular GarageBand
application. Apple has had no comment aside from filing its trade secrets suit.

Without offering protection for sources, bloggers may have less to add to
mainstream coverage. Employees, for example, might be less inclined to talk
about their companies if they know they may be identified. Taken a step
further, social critics may be reluctant to speak out about government
policy if they fear being placed on a government watch list.

The notion of free speech in the United States is fundamental to the
country's approach to democracy and dates back to then-radical political
pamphlets like Tom Paine's Common Sense, published six months before the
U.S. declared its independence from Great Britain. "Society in every state
is a blessing," wrote Mr. Paine, "but Government, even in its best state,
is a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one."

The business of journalism depends on credibility, but there is no formal
accreditation system in the U.S. Under the First Amendment, a reporter's
privilege allows journalists to keep sources confidential. Both houses of
the U.S. legislature are looking at bills to define these rights more
clearly, and web-only news services have been included in the Senate's
discussion.

As essential as individualism is to bloggers, online journalism craves
respect, in the form of rights and privileges. And that extends to such
areas as protection of sources, developing readership, and receiving
credentials to cover newsworthy events.

As the current case shows, it's not just bloggers who are liable.
PowerPage.com's Internet Service Provider, Nfox, has been asked to provide
email records that might point to the "Does" who leaked the trade secrets.
Large-scale blog providers, like Six Apart and Google's Blogger, could
potentially be dragged into similar lawsuits.

Redefining Journalism

Not surprisingly, professional journalists, bloggers, and the people they
cover are all watching the Apple case closely. "Journalism is defined much
more broadly than five or six years ago," said Ted Glasser, director of
Stanford University's journalism program. He said he's worried about
extending "the status of journalists" to "any and all bloggers."

"This is the mother of all tipping points," said Orville Schell, dean of
journalism at the University of California, Berkeley. He noted appeals were
likely, and said: "I don't envy any of these judges."

Certainly, bloggers have heavily influenced working journalists in the last
year. For example, they prompted revision of CBS' coverage of U.S.
President George Bush's National Guard service. In another instance,
bloggers first reported that White House-credentialed Talon News reporter
"Jeff Gannon" was actually James Guckert, the employee of a Texas
Republican operative.

Other online journalists compete directly with their more traditional
colleagues and have earned their respect. Dow Jones, publisher of The Wall
Street Journal, recently paid $519 million to acquire MarketWatch.com to
complement its existing online financial new operations. In other recent
acquisitions, The Washington Post bought Slate.com and The New York Times
bought About.com.

Hundreds of bloggers were granted credentials to cover the conventions
staged by both Republicans and Democrats last summer. And the White House
took a step towards recognizing bloggers this week by granting a press pass
to FishBowlDC's Garrett Graff.

------------------------------

Also in this issue:

- Warnings on woeful wi-fi security
    Companies are getting worse at keeping their wireless data networks secure.
    A survey of wi-fi networks in London, Frankfurt, New York and San
Francisco by RSA       Security found more than a third had basic security
features turned off.
- Last chance for EU software law
    There will be no new European law to govern computer-related inventions
if the current      proposals are rejected, a European Union (EU) official
has said.
- Harvard bars admissions hackers
    More than 100 applicants have been barred from Harvard's business school
after they were    discovered hacking into its admissions website.
- Chip maker backs net phone calls
    Rich Templeton, the head of giant chip maker Texas Instruments, has
given his backing to    the growing sector of Voice over Internet Telephony
(Voip)
- Dotcom shares still spook investors
    On 10 March 2000 the Nasdaq index of leading technology shares spiked,
burst the dotcom     bubble and sent entrepreneurial dreams crashing back
to earth.
- Tax collector employs technology to snare deadbeats
    Sam Byers heard a commotion outside his house, but by the time he got to
the window his     Ford Explorer was gone.
- Next generation mobiles unveiled
    The mobile phone is a phone no more -- or rather it's a phone and more.
The new models      unveiled at the CeBIT technology show this week let
users do more than just call a friend   to catch up.
- CherryOS released. Again.
    The CherryOS, a Mac emulator for Windows PCs from Hawaii's Maui
X-Stream, won the       not-coveted Number Two slot in Wired magazine's
2004 Vaporware Top Ten.
- What's a journalist?
    Bloggers' rights to protect sources are at stake as courts look at
whether they deserve     the same protections as the working press.
- Australian ISP Is Raided in File Swap Hunt
    Australian recording industry investigators raided an Internet service
provider on       Thursday suspected of having used high-speed
file-swapping technology to allow the       pirating of hundreds of
thousands of songs and video clips, an industry official said.
- Yahoo Unveils Small-Business Resource Center
    Yahoo Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO - news) on Wednesday launched a small-business
resource center      that offers online services that include designing a
commercial website, as well as       articles on a variety of topics, such
as marketing, technology and human resources.
- Internet Gains Credibility as News Source
    Political news junkies flocked to the Web in 2004, looking for
information about the       candidates, conducting e-mail debates and
lending their moral and financial support to      their preferred candidates.
- Feds square off with organized cyber crime
    Computer intruders are learning to play well with others, and that's bad
news for the       Internet, according to a panel of law enforcement
officials and legal experts speaking at   the RSA Conference here Thursday.
- Where is Google Headed?
    As the bad guys start using Google more and more, the company wrestles
with some new       security and privacy issues with AutoLink.


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Ten Not-So-Simple Rules for Using the Internet

Larry Seltzer - eWEEK
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10/tc_zd/147411

Even technically sophisticated users lose perspective on security at times.
We all want breaches of security to be someone else's fault and we don't
want to have to deal with the inconveniences of running a secure system.

But there are certain security rules that apply to all computing platforms.
These rules are expressed well in an article on Microsoft's TechNet site
called Microsoft's Ten Immutable Laws of Security. These laws are worth
keeping in the back, and often the front, of your mind.

Law No. 1: If a bad guy can persuade you to run his program on your
computer, it's not your computer anymore. The first law, appropriately, is
the most important one. It's a truism so true that it often gets dismissed
as trite when it's actually at the heart of many attacks. It is at the
heart of many social engineering attacks, including spyware and almost all
e-mail worms, including Bagle and Netsky.

We try to mitigate this threat with such products as anti-virus software,
but these can never be perfect. The primary defense must be the one typing
at the keyboard, and if you are cavalier about running programs that you
get from strangers you will likely end up compromising your computer.

It's only fair to say though that this is also an area in which Microsoft,
for complicated reasons, shares some responsibility. The ability for a bad
guy to persuade you to run a malicious program is related to your own
rights on the computer; if you are running as a less-privileged user, then
the program you run is limited in the damage it can do. Microsoft has good
tools for limiting the rights of users in a managed corporate environment,
but it hasn't made enough of an effort to do so for consumers.

Law No. 2: If a bad guy can alter the operating system on your computer,
it's not your computer anymore. I really hope this is obvious. Some
programs on the computer must be trusted, and—significantly—I lump device
drivers in this as well. Microsoft has actually put good protections into
Windows against such threats with system file protection, which looks for
modifications to critical system files and undoes them.

Law No. 3: If a bad guy has unrestricted physical access to your computer,
it's not your computer anymore. There is no security without physical
security. Consider that someone alone with your computer can boot it up off
the floppy or CD drive and run his or her own software while none of the
software on your computer can protect it. The attacker could install
spyware, compromise your own security provisions, or just wipe out the disk.

Law No. 4: If you allow a bad guy to upload programs to your Web site, it's
not your Web site any more. "Upload" is such an official way to put this;
the real-world way this often happens is to invoke a buffer overflow on the
server in order to run arbitrary code on it, but there are other ways it
can happen.

Law No. 5: Weak passwords trump strong security. If I can guess, quickly,
that your administrator password is "admin" or something else easily
surmised, then Law No. 1 comes into effect because I can run whatever I
want on your computer. I can do a lot of damage with just a user password
as well.

Law No. 6: A computer is only as secure as the administrator is
trustworthy. Microsoft uses business examples in this case to show how
important it is to a business that the system administrator be trustworthy,
and this is an essential point. Every consultant you hire may require
administrative access and need to be trusted with the assets of your
business. But it's true at home, too. Are your teenagers trustworthy with
your computer? Maybe they shouldn't be administrators.

Law No. 7: Encrypted data is only as secure as the decryption key. In
public key cryptography there is a private key that only you should have,
and it's called the "private" key for a reason. If it's stored on the
computer, then an attacker could get access to it. The same is true of
passwords. You need to memorize them or store them in a place that can't
easily be compromised. This is inconvenient, but at least be aware of the
vulnerability you're creating if you make passwords and encryption keys too
convenient.

Law No. 8: An out-of-date virus scanner is only marginally better than no
virus scanner at all. "Marginally" is a debatable way to put it. No doubt
about it, it's better to be up to date, but the most prevalent threats out
there are quite old. If the user is not too credulous and you do update the
scanner before too long, it's not disastrous.

Law No. 9: Absolute anonymity isn't practical, in real life or on the Web.
Much of the Web appears to be a place you can visit and interact with
anonymously, but this is largely a mirage. Unless you're very careful and
sophisticated, you are always leaving clues around as to who you are and
how someone could track you down. This usually doesn't matter because,
realistically, who cares about what Web sites you're surfing? But don't
assume that you are the wind and that you can whisk in and out of sites unseen.

Law No. 10: Technology is not a panacea. Security is, unfortunately, a
series of trade-offs with other goals we expect from computing, with
convenience usually at the front of the list. Novices may expect security
suites that claim to be comprehensive will protect them, but this can never
be the whole truth.

The fact that security can't be perfect isn't a reason to criticize
anyone—it's just a fact of life. You can't do a perfect job, but you can do
a good job, and knowing the limitations of the technology is a good place
to start.

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- Last chance for EU software law
    There will be no new European law to govern computer-related inventions
if the current     proposals are rejected, a European Union (EU) official
has said.
- Warnings on woeful wi-fi security
    Companies are getting worse at keeping their wireless data networks secure.
- Video gear gives Israeli army bird's-eye view
    Israeli troops are now sporting gear that Dick Tracy might envy: tiny
video screens, worn   on the wrist, that display video shot by unmanned
airplanes.
- AOL to offer Internet calling
    America Online plans to offer an Internet-based telephone service to its
customers within   a month, and will eventually offer it to anyone with a
high-speed Internet connection.
- Australian ISP raided in BitTorrent crackdown
    Australia's music industry piracy investigations unit has raided an
Internet service     provider in Perth in what it says is the first
Australian assault on the use of BitTorrent   technology for copyright
infringement.
- Google Lets Users Customize News Site
    Web search leader Google Inc. on Thursday said it added tools to its
news site that lets    users customize the stories they see.
- Ten Not-So-Simple Rules for Using the Internet
    Even technically sophisticated users lose perspective on security at
times. We all want     breaches of security to be someone else's fault and
we don't want to have to deal with the   inconveniences of running a secure
system.
- Revised Spyware Bill Moves Ahead
    A key committee in the U.S. House of Representatives unanimously
approved anti-spyware     legislation Wednesday that includes revisions
designed to make the bill more palatable to   business interests.
- Slow start to speedy net services
    Faster broadband in the UK is becoming a reality as more internet
providers offer     super-fast services.
- 'Digital plumbers' fix home nets
    A new qualification for "digital plumbers" is to help train people to
become bona fide     "home network" fixers.
- Net gets anti-terror talk going
    An international summit on terrorism, democracy, and security is
underway in the Spanish    capital of Madrid.
- U.S. regains electronics edge
    Momentum has shifted; American companies have some of the best gadgets.
- Morpheus takes a stand - again
    One of the entertainment industry's archest enemies operates from a
small office suite on   the second floor of a suburban strip mall here.
- Click Fraud: Problem and Paranoia
    Last week, I served on the "Click Fraud: Problem or Paranoia" panel at
the Search Engine    Strategies conference in New York. At one point,
Jessie Stricchiola, one of my fellow       panelists, tried to gauge the
extent of the problem by asking the 80 people in attendance   to raise
their hands if they had ever been victims of "click fraud."
- Would-be refugee accused of running Web scam from jail
    A refugee applicant from Botswana faces fraud charges over an elaborate
Internet     telemarketing scam he allegedly orchestrated from a jail cell.
- Peter Griffin: Hatred of corporations spreads across the internet
    They belong to a part of the net born of dark experiences, even darker
humour and a whole   lot of anger - they're corporate hate websites.
- Three men admit to biggest ever Warez charges
    Three men have pleaded guilty in the US to making millions of dollars'
worth of copyright   material available over the internet. The men claim
that they were not doing it for     profit, but for fun.

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This conference will also serve as an incubator to promote mLearning in

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War Against Phishing Continues

Mon Mar 14, 1:43 AM ET
Dennis Fisher - eWEEK
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1738&ncid=1212&e=7&u=/zd/2005031\
4/tc_zd/147422

Phishers and other online scammers are well ahead of law enforcement
officials and security experts right now in terms of techniques and
tactics, but the good guys are closing the gap and may be able to claim
victory within as little as two or three years, people involved in the
fight against phishing say.

But that victory, if it comes, will not be easily won.

Experts say that there is no one answer to the question of how to stop
phishing.

Consumer education efforts have begun to show results, but 3 to 5 percent
of recipients still fall for phishing scams.

Some technology vendors have introduced tools that help uncover fraudulent
Web sites, but scammers always seem to be one step ahead with new tricks.
And law enforcement officials have made a few high-profile arrests
recently, but successful prosecutions of phishers remain rare.

In the end, it will likely be a combination of education, technology,
legislation and law enforcement that ends up making a serious dent in the
phishing industry.

"I think there will be innovation required to solve this. We have the
evolution right now where people are already trying to retrofit their
solutions to fit the problem," said Bill Conner, president and CEO of
Entrust Inc., a security vendor based in Addison, Texas. "We're on the
beginning edge of the innovation curve there."

But, Conner said, the government needs to play a prominent role in the
fight against phishing, too.

"What we learned [on the National Cyber Security Partnership corporate
governance task force] is that DHS [U.S. Department of Homeland Security]
didn't have the backbone to do anything on its own. This is the same. It's
a Commerce and Justice issue."

The bulk of the work done in finding and arresting phishers falls to the
United States Secret Service and the FBI (news - web sites), which share
jurisdiction on electronic fraud. Both agencies have agents trained
specifically for fighting online crime, but their personnel and monetary
resources only go so far.
Cyber-Crime

"They've been very unsuccessful in catching phishers. The criminals are
moving targets. They need to dedicate substantial resources to finding
them," said Eric Laykin, a director with Navigant Consulting Inc., in Los
Angeles, and an experienced computer crime investigator.

"It's very expensive to follow the trail," Laykin said. "But we need
serious federal leadership on this. I don't see that we are there yet."

While law enforcement agencies struggle to stem the tide of phishing scams
and track down the perpetrators, some legislators have begun to push hard
for a national law to help combat identity theft.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein (news, bio, voting record), D-Calif., has introduced
a bill that would require all federal agencies and companies conducting
interstate commerce to notify customers when their private data is compromised.

And Sen. Patrick Leahy (news, bio, voting record), D-Vt., last month
introduced the Anti-Phishing Act of 2005, a bill that would make it illegal
to create a Web site or e-mail message that purports to be for a legitimate
business but instead attempts to steal personal information with the intent
to commit identity theft or fraud.

Meanwhile, security experts say, phishers continue to hone their craft and
raise the level of sophistication and authenticity in their scams.

"They've become much more sophisticated in the last three to six months.
The level is very high. You used to be able to counter it with education,
but now all the right hallmarks will be there on the e-mails and Web
sites," said Mark Sunner, chief technology officer of MessageLabs Inc., a
New York-based provider of e-mail security services.

"The sophistication we see now is all to do with making them look
absolutely perfect," Sunner said. "The bad guys aren't going to stand out
anymore. These people know an awful lot about mail."

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Also in this issue:

- UK clamps down on denial-of-service attacks
    Derek Wyatt MP, chairman of the All Party Internet Group (APIG), has
filed notice of a 10   Minute Rule Bill calling for amendments to the
Computer Misuse Act (CMA) to address the     threat from denial-of-service
(DoS) attacks.
- Police called after hackers crack UK PC dealer
    Hackers have broken into the systems of UK PC dealer Jal Computers and
sent malicious     emails to the firm's customers.
- CeBIT fair full of jargon
    There's "SAN extension over MAN/WAN" on offer as well as "knowledge
automation        infrastructure" with "authentic cross-linguistic
capability." That is all about computer    networking and how companies
store and access information.
- Lawmakers: Hands off Web logs
    Internet bloggers should enjoy traditional press freedoms and not face
regulation as     political groups, lawmakers and online journalists said
Friday.
- This week in viruses
    Antivirus researchers are tracking a new Trojan horse that could prove
to be a more     pervasive threat to cell phones than Cabir.
- Mozilla freezes Seamonkey
    The Mozilla Foundation is shuffling development priorities away from its
software suite as   the popularity of its Firefox browser soars.
- Swedish Raid on ISP Called Major Blow to Piracy
    The U.S. film industry on Friday hailed a raid by Swedish police against
an Internet     service provider as a major blow to European piracy of
movies and music on the Web.
- Gallup Probes Blogs, Finds Most Americans Have Never Heard of Them
    NEW YORK Media and political types are currently obsessed with the
newfound influence of    blogs, but is the trend being overhyped? According
to a new CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll,     relatively few Americans are
generally familiar with the phenomenon of blogging.
- Canada 'Nowhere Near' Internet Pharmacy Clampdown
    Canada said on Friday it was "nowhere near" deciding how to clamp down
on Internet     pharmacies that send cheap medicine to the United States,
often without Canadian doctors    having seen the patients.
- Software legend joins Microsoft
    Collaborative software that allows employees to work together over the
internet from     various locations has been growing in complexity and usage.
- Mozilla's future under debate
    Development problems concerning the Mozilla Suite have led to some
soul-searching in the    Foundation, with some calling for Firefox to be
spun off.
- Phony buyers bilk online sellers; rash of S.J. victims
    It's an Internet scam with international intrigue, allegedly involving
Nigerians, network   servers in Israel and that 1984 Toyota you're trying
to sell on Craigslist.
- Agency Warned Bush of High-Tech Dangers
    The nation's electronic intelligence agency warned President Bush (news
- web sites) in     2001 that monitoring U.S. adversaries would require a
"permanent presence" on networks      that also carry Americans' messages
that are protected from government eavesdropping.
- Hands Off the Web, Bloggers and Lawmakers Say
    Internet bloggers should enjoy traditional press freedoms and not face
regulation as     political groups, lawmakers and online journalists said
on Friday.
- Showdown at the Supreme Court
    On March 29, the entertainment and technology industries will descend
upon Washington,     D.C. to argue their respective sides before the
Supreme Court in the landmark case of MGM   v Grokster. At stake: the
future of peer-to-peer technology, consumer electronics,     software
design, and consumer rights in the United States.
- Spyware Assassin censured for 'bogus' claims
    A firm accused of scaring punters into buying ineffective protection
against spyware has    been ordered to curtail its deceptive marketing
claims by a US District court. The Federal   Trade Commission is looking to
extend this temporary injunction against Spyware Assassin    into a
permanent ban. The US consumer watchdog is also seeking compensation for
consumers   from MaxTheater, the firm behind Spyware Assassin, and Thomas
L. Delanoy, its principal.
- Firefox to Replace Mozilla
    FirefoxThe march of Firefox's success continues. Announced late last
week on the Mozilla    Foundation's website and numerous other blogs,
Mozilla says that there won't be any more    official releases of the
Mozilla Application Suite (codename: SeaMonkey).
- Consumer Online Spending Grows 14 Percent
    NEW YORK - Consumer spending on online content such as music, dating
sites and business     and investment information grew 14 percent last year
to $1.8 billion, an organization of    online publishers reported Thursday.
- War Against Phishing Continues
    Phishers and other online scammers are well ahead of law enforcement
officials and     security experts right now in terms of techniques and
tactics, but the good guys are     closing the gap and may be able to claim
victory within as little as two or three years,    people involved in the
fight against phishing say.
- Software firms trying to net online 'phishing' fraud operations
    Computer security is in the spotlight at the world's biggest IT fair,
the CeBIT, with     software companies touting the latest defenses against
ever more devious tricks in     Internet fraud (news - web sites).

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** FINAL CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: Congress in the Classroom 2005 **

** SPECIAL NOTICE: Past Participants are welcome to apply! **

DEADLINE: March 15, 2005

Congress in the Classroom® is a national, award-winning education
program now in its 13th year. Sponsored by The Dirksen Congressional
Center, the workshop is dedicated to the exchange of ideas and
information on teaching about Congress.

Congress in the Classroom® is designed for high school teachers
who teach U.S. history, government, civics, political science, or
social studies. Forty teachers from throughout the country will be
selected in 2005 to take part in the program.

You will gain experience with The Center's educational Web site,
CongressLink - http://www.congresslink.org -- which features online
access to lesson plans, student activities, historical materials,
related Web sites, and subject matter experts.

Throughout the program you will work with national experts as well as
colleagues from across the nation. This combination of firsthand
knowledge and peer-to-peer interaction will give you new ideas,
materials, and a professionally enriching experience.

In sum, the workshop consists of two types of sessions: those that
focus on recent research and scholarship about Congress (and don't
always have an immediate application in the classroom) and those
geared to specific ways to teach students about Congress.

The 2005 program theme will be Our New Congress -- the 109th.
Confirmed session titles are:

* A View from Capitol Hill
* The Importance of Teaching Democracy Appreciation
* George W. Bush's Second Term: What's in Store for Congress?
* Reporting on Congress: The Role of the Media
* How Congress Members Decide (Hint: It Looks Like a Game of
Billiards)
* Teaching Congress through Visuals
* The Struggle to Reform Congress and Its Consequences
* What are the Ten Most Important Things High School Students Should
Know about Congress?
* Congress Has a Humorous Side
* How to Get Your Point Across to Congress Members
* The Dirksen Center Web Suite as a Resource for Teachers
* Congressional Insight: A Computer Simulation of a Member's First
Term in the House of Representatives, and more.

Speakers for this year's workshop include a member of Congress;
political scientists from Rutgers University, the U.S. Naval Academy,
the Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies at American
University, Dickinson College, and the George Bush School of
Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University; a historian
from Boston College; and a former congressional staffer who now runs
her own consulting company.

The workshop will take place from Monday, July 25 through July 28,
2005, at the Radisson Hotel in Peoria, Illinois. Teachers who are
selected for the program will be responsible for (1) a non-refundable
$135 registration fee (required to confirm acceptance after notice of
selection) and (2) transportation to and from Peoria, Illinois. Many
school districts will pay all or a portion of these costs.

The Center pays for three nights lodging at the headquarters hotel
(providing a single room for each participant), workshop materials,
local transportation, all but three meals, and presenter honoraria
and expenses. The Center spends between $25,000 and $30,000 to host
the program each year.

Those teachers who are not selected for the program will have an
opportunity to register for the Web-based Congress in the
Classroom® Online professional development workshop --
http://www.congressclass.org.

The deadline for applications is March 15, 2005. Enrollment is
competitive and limited to forty. Selection will be determined by The
Center. Individuals will be notified of their acceptance status by
April 1, 2005.

Take a look at The Dirksen Center Web site -
http://www.dirksencenter.org/print_programs_CongressClassroom.htm --
to see what participants say about the program and to learn more
about the scheduled sessions and presenters.

If you are interested in registering for the Congress in the
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Websites Crippled By Consumers Deleting Cookies

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=74&ncid=1212&e=6&u=/cmp/20050315\
/tc_cmp/159402976

More than half of Internet users have deleted cookies, seriously
undermining website operators' ability to measure consumer behavior on
their sites, a market research firm said Monday.

Don't Be Duped

The top 5 online scams, how to stay clear of nasty phishing hooks, and a
web safety cheat sheet.

Cookies are small files often uploaded to people's computers as they visit
websites run by retailers, entertainment companies, newspapers and other
businesses. The applications are often used to track visitors' behavior on
a site in order to build improvements later, or to offer visitors products
or services they may be interested in based on previous visits, a process
called personalization. In addition, cookie-gathered information is often
pivotal for advertising campaigns and email marketing.

"Cookies, 99 out of a 100 times, are not an invasion of a consumer's
privacy or security," Eric T. Peterson, analyst for JupiterResearch, a
division of Jupitermedia Corp., said. "They're just harmless little text
files."

Nevertheless, 58 percent of Internet users have deleted the tiny
applications, essentially making many consumers anonymous during site
visits, and crippling website operators' ability to gather information,
JupiterResearch found through surveys this year of more than 4,600 online
consumers. In addition, 39 percent of consumers are deleting cookies from
their primary computer monthly.

The reason for these Draconian measures is fear. Consumers are constantly
reminded about the risks on the Internet posed by spyware, phishers and
viruses, so deleting cookies makes them feel more secure, even though it's
unlikely to make them safer, Peterson said.

"It makes sense that consumers are going a little over the top to try and
find things that they can do to protect themselves online," Peterson said.

Fully 52 percent of consumers who use the web say they have a strong
interest in stories and articles about Internet security and privacy,
JupiterResearch found. The high level of concern contributes to 38 percent
of consumers believing cookies are an invasion of security and privacy,
while 44 percent are convinced that deleting or blocking cookies protects them.

Peterson said the problems caused by cookie deletion are going to get worse
for businesses.

"They shouldn't put their heads in the sand and hope the problem goes
away," Peterson said.

Instead, website operators need to look for technologies other than cookies
to gather information. For example, Flash, a website-development technology
from Macromedia Inc., can track consumers each time they visit a site.

For those companies that want to continue using cookies, they should
consider telling visitors upfront that cookies are used and clearly explain
why.

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Also in this issue:

- 'Best blogs on the web' honoured
    The best of the web's blogs - online diaries or websites where people
publish their     thoughts - have been recognised in the annual Bloggies.
- Stress afflicts security bosses
    Keeping computer viruses at bay is more stressful than divorce, warns a
survey.
- Tiny robot to help cancer diagnosis
    British scientists are developing a tiny robot to fit inside MRI
machines, which will     improve the accuracy of biopsies taken to screen
for prostate cancer.
- 911 Trojan author jailed for six months
    A Louisiana man has been jailed for six months after he was convicted of
infecting WebTV    users with a Trojan horse that made 911 nuisance calls.
David Jeansonne, 44, of Metairie,   Louisiana, pleaded guilty last month to
causing a threat to public safety and causing     damage to computers.
- Netscape browser makes comeback
    The once-mighty Netscape browser is attempting a comeback. How, you ask?
Simple. By     combining the best elements of its two leading rivals.
- Websites Crippled By Consumers Deleting Cookies
    More than half of Internet users have deleted cookies, seriously
undermining website     operators' ability to measure consumer behavior on
their sites, a market research firm     said Monday.
- Phear of Pharming
    Good morning. After reading today's edition of Random Access, disconnect
from the Internet   and turn off the computer. Find something else to do today.
- Feds square off with organized cyber crime
    Computer intruders are learning to play well with others, and that's bad
news for the     Internet, according to a panel of law enforcement
officials and legal experts speaking at   the RSA Conference here Thursday.
- Record fine for mobile spam
    GERMAN mobile telephone operator Debitel was fined the record sum of 2
million kroner     ($456,000) by a Danish commercial court for sending
unsolicited text and email messages to   phone users.

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Have hackers recruited your PC?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4354109.stm

More than one million computers on the net have been hijacked to attack
websites and pump out spam and viruses.

The huge number was revealed by security researchers who have spent months
tracking more than 100 networks of remotely-controlled machines.

The largest network of so-called zombie networks spied on by the team was
made up of 50,000 hijacked home computers.

Data was gathered using machines that looked innocent but which logged
everything hackers did to them.

Quick attack

The detailed look at zombie or 'bot nets of hijacked computers was done by
the Honeynet Project - a group of security researchers that gather
information using networks of computers that act as "honey pots" to attract
hackers and gather information about how they work.

While 'bot nets have been known about for some time, estimates of how
widespread they are from security firms have varied widely.

Even in unskilled hands, it should be obvious that 'bot nets are a loaded
and powerful weapon

Honeynet Project

To gather its information the German arm of the Honeynet Project created
software tools to log what happened to the machines they put on the web.

Getting the machines hijacked was worryingly easy. The longest time a
Honeynet machine survived without being found by an automatic attack tool
was only a few minutes. The shortest compromise time was only a few seconds.

The research found that, once compromised machines tend to report in to
chat channels on IRC servers and wait instructions from the malicious
hacker behind the tools used to recruit the machine.

Many well-known vulnerabilities in the Windows operating system were
exploited by 'bot net controllers to find and take over target machines.

Especially coveted were home PCs sitting on broadband connections that are
never turned off.

The months of surveillance revealed that the different 'bot nets - which
involve a few hundred to tens of thousands of machines - are used for a
variety of purposes.

Many are used as relays for spam, to route unwanted adverts to PC users or
as launch platforms for viruses.

But the research team found that many are put to very different uses.

During the monitoring period, the team saw 'bot nets used to launch 226
distributed denial-of-service attacks on 99 separate targets. These attacks
bombard websites with data in an attempt to overwhelm the target.

Using a 'bot net of machines spread around different networks and nations
makes such attacks hard to defend against.

One DDoS attack was used by one firm to knock its competitors offline.

Other 'bot nets were used to abuse the Google Adsense program that rewards
websites for displaying adverts from the search engine. Some networks were
used to abuse or manipulate online polls and games.

Criminals also seem to be starting to use 'bot nets for mass identity
theft, to host websites that look like those of banks so confidential
information can be gathered and to peep into online traffic to steal
sensitive data.

"Leveraging the power of several thousand bots, it is viable to take down
almost any website or network instantly," said the researchers. "Even in
unskilled hands, it should be obvious that 'bot nets are a loaded and
powerful weapon."

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- Have hackers recruited your PC?
    More than one million computers on the net have been hijacked to attack
websites and pump   out spam and viruses.
- Child porn site blocks supported
    UK net users would strongly back service providers if they tracked
visitors to child porn   websites, according to a Mori survey.
- Pair convicted of internet piracy
    Two men who were part of a huge network of internet software pirates,
known as Drink Or     Die, have been convicted of conspiracy to defraud.
- The pirates with no profit motive
    Two men who were part of a huge network of internet software pirates,
known as Drink Or     Die, have been convicted at the Old Bailey. BBC News
investigates how the network worked    and what motivated those involved.
- The spies watching while you type
    The computer criminals who tried to steal money from Sumitomo Mitsui
bank used a tried and   tested technique to gather confidential data from
the financial institution.
- GAO: Program linking schools, libraries to Internet flawed
    Federal oversight of the popular E-rate program that helps link schools
and libraries to    the Internet is flawed on several levels, congressional
auditors have found.
- Yahoo Steps Into Blogs, Networks
    Yahoo is preparing to introduce a new service that blends several of its
website's popular   features with two of the internet's fastest-growing
activities -- blogging and social       networking.
- Google Offers Gmail on Site
    Google has reportedly started offering Gmail accounts to random visitors
of the Google      homepage. The company though insists that this is not a
sign that Gmail will be stepping    out of the beta phase, where it has
been since it took mail storage to completely       different levels
sending other providers scampering to compete.
- Cyber attack against Japanese foreign ministry website
    The homepage of the Japanese foreign ministry came under a cyber attack,
making access to   it erratic, with a report linking the online barrage to
a growing territorial row with      South Korea (news - web sites).
- $5.4B intended to plug schools, libraries into Net sits unspent
    More than one-third of nearly $15 billion raised to help connect public
schools and       libraries to the Internet has gone unspent, even as some
cities go begging for cash, a new   report says.
- Search Rank Easy to Manipulate
    Greg Boser manipulates search engines for a living, and there's little
the Googles of the   world can do about it.
- Pharming Out-Scams Phishing
    First came phishing scams, in which con artists hooked unwary internet
users one by one     into compromising their personal data. Now the latest
cyberswindle, pharming, threatens to   reel in entire schools of victims.

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Web to have 'terror watch' team

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4360727.stm

Five European governments are setting up a hi-tech team to monitor how
terrorists and criminals use the net.

The group will make recommendations on shutting down websites that break
terrorism laws.

The plans for the initiative came out of a meeting of the G5 interior
ministers in Spain that discussed ways to tackle these threats.

The five countries also agreed to make it easier to swap data about terror
suspects and thefts of explosives.

The interior ministers of Spain, Britain, France, Germany and Italy - the
G5 - met in Granada this week for an anti-terrorism summit.

Easy sharing

To combat terrorism the ministers agreed to make it easier for police
forces in their respective states to share data about suspects connected to
international terror groups.

Information shared could also involve intelligence about money laundering,
the forgery of identity papers, stolen cars, DNA data, missing persons and
unidentified corpses.

Part of this anti-terror work will involve the creation of the technical
team that will keep an eye on how organised crime groups and terrorists
make of the web.

Many criminals have moved many well-known crimes to the web because the
returns are so good and the chance of being detected is still relatively low.

The group is also likely to make recommendations on shutting down websites
that contravene laws on inciting acts of terror.

Although the meeting of the G5 is informal and any decisions they make are
not binding, the summits do tend to set the tone for future policy decisions.

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- Web to have 'terror watch' team
    Five European governments are setting up a hi-tech team to monitor how
terrorists and     criminals use the net.
- What price for 'trusted PC security'?
    You can now buy "trusted computers", but can we really trust the PC
vendors, asks     technology analyst Bill Thompson.
- The art of the Internet
    As Leslie Cohen focuses on the more traditional art galleries for her
work, Jeff Cohen has   become a leading artist on eBay.
- Report: IRS employees vulnerable to hackers
    More than one-third of Internal Revenue Service (IRS) employees and
managers who were     contacted by Treasury Department inspectors posing as
computer technicians provided their   computer login and changed their
password, a government report said Wednesday.
- Online auction for disputed 9-11 flag on again
    A U.S. flag, whose owner said it flew over the Pentagon on 9-11, was for
sale online again   Wednesday despite questions about its authenticity.
- Study: 'Texting' on the rise in U.S.
    A quarter of American adults who have cell phones have used the devices'
text-messaging     features within the past month, a new study finds.
- Internet Filter Usage Increasing Among Parents
    A report released late Thursday indicates that parents are increasingly
using filters to    limit what their children can access online. A study by
the Pew Internet & American Life    Project showed a 65% increase in filter
usage since the beginning of the decade.
- Study: Most Parents Limit Teens' Web Use
    Most parents of teenagers who go online say they set time limits on the
kids' Internet     activity, according to a study released Thursday. They
also try to monitor it, in part by   placing computers in common areas.
- Yahoo Readies Blogging Tool
    Yahoo is developing a free service designed to let users stay in touch
with acquaintances   such as friends, family, and co-workers via new and
existing Yahoo services. The service    will include the Sunnyvale,
California company's first blogging tool, according to a     company executive.
- Remote Control Parenting
    America's parents are relying more than ever on software filters to
block what their     children can see on the Internet, according to a study
published Thursday afternoon.
- Playing With Frozen Fire
    More energy is trapped under the sea as frozen natural gas than is
stored in all the     world's oil reserves -- and researchers this week
took a step toward tapping it

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Spain Leads 12-Nation Crackdown on Internet Child Porn

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MADRID (Reuters) - Spain said Wednesday it was coordinating a 12-nation
police operation against Internet child pornography and around 500 arrests
were expected.

Police were making simultaneous searches of homes in Spain, France, Italy,
Sweden, the Netherlands, Chile, Argentina, Panama, Costa Rica, Mexico, the
Dominican Republic and Uruguay, the Interior Ministry said in a statement.

Nineteen people had been arrested so far throughout Spain and worldwide
arrests were expected to total around 500, the ministry said.

The operation targets child pornography distributed through a
Spanish-language Internet chat room.

Police had found more than 20,000 items containing child porn, including
videos, photographs and MP3 files and had also seized video cameras and
documents, the ministry said.

The investigation began in January when a Spaniard complained to
authorities about "highly aggressive" photographs of very young children
that were available through an Internet chat room, the Interior Ministry said.

Spanish police monitored the site to find out who was putting the material
on the Internet and tracked down more than 900 connections from all over
the world in two weeks.

Spain then informed Eurojust and IbeRed, organizations that coordinate
judicial cooperation in Europe and Latin America respectively.
Investigating judges from all countries involved took part in planning
meetings before Wednesday's swoop.

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Also in this issue:

- Digital tax to aid poor nations
    A plan for wealthy nations to contribute a digital tax to provide
hi-tech tools for poor    nations has been officially launched in Geneva.
- BT program to beat dialler scams
    BT is introducing two initiatives to help beat rogue dialler scams,
which can cost dial-up   net users thousands.
- Parents' online access to school
    After online banking, online news and online shopping, families are
being promised online   access to their children's education.
- If you agree, click here...
    If cars were sold under the same terms as software, the chances are we
would all be     walking to work.
- Fast launches mobile search tool 10:54AM
    Norwegian search developer Fast Search & Transfer (FAST) has come up
with what it claims    is the world's first search product for mobile devices.
- Google Expands Gmail Access
    Google opened up its Gmail Web mail service to a wider scope of users
this week by     randomly offering, for the first time, accounts to some
visitors of the main Google.com     page.
- Beware of AOL's fine print
    I am not sure about you but I don't spend a lot of time reading EULAs.
The EULA, or     "End-User License Agreement," is the yadda yadda yadda
that you agree to when you install   software on your computer. It's
usually pages and pages of stuff that no one reads.
- U.S. May Restrict Sale of Social Security Numbers
    Seeking to combat rampant identity theft, U.S. lawmakers said on
Thursday they may clamp    new restrictions on companies that amass and
sell social security numbers and other     personal information.
- Security Report Outlines Terror Scenarios
    The agency charged with protecting homeland security developed an
elaborate, confidential   report to alert states to a host of terror-strike
scenarios, but the document was     inadvertently posted on several states'
public Web sites before being removed.
- Spain Leads 12-Nation Crackdown on Internet Child Porn
    Spain said Wednesday it was coordinating a 12-nation police operation
against Internet     child pornography and around 500 arrests were expected.
- Ask Jeeves Launches Toolbar For Firefox
    Search engine Ask Jeeves Inc. on Tuesday launched its toolbar for the
open-source Firefox   browser.
- Need a Building? Just Add Water
    In a world with millions of refugees, numerous war zones and huge areas
devastated by     natural disaster, aid agencies and militaries have long
needed a way to quickly erect     shelters on demand.
- Geekfathers: CyberCrime Mobs Revealed
    Crime is now organized on the Internet. Operating in the anonymity of
cyberspace, Web mobs   with names like Shadowcrew and stealthdivision are
building networks that help crackers     and phishers, money launderers and
fences skim off some of the billions that travel     through the Web every day.
- Shadowcrew: Web Mobs
    They operate under names such as carderplanet, stealthdivision,
darkprofits and the     shadowcrew. They buy and sell millions of credit
card numbers, social security numbers and   identification documents,
typically for less than 10 bucks apiece. And they create sites    and
services to breed more skilled, like-minded organizations. Here's how the
growth of     electronic commerce is threatened by the operations of these
Web Mobs.

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Hackers expand their web of deceit

Jennifer Dudley, technology reporter
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FAST-spreading mobile phone viruses, infected video and audio files and
sophisticated attempts to steal financial details are set to spike in the
coming year, according to Symantec's Internet Security Threat Report
released today.

The six-monthly report also found "phishing" attacks that attempt to extort
banking details had more than quadrupled  since July, and threats to
confidential information and attacks on home computers and web applications
rose from July to December last year. Spam, or unsolicited e-mail, also
spiked during the period and now accounted for up to 70 per cent of all
e-mail messages.

Symantec Australia managing director John Donovan said the report was
compiled from information collected from 180 countries.

He said it found threats to confidential information had increased ­ now
representing more than half the top 50 malicious computer codes ­ and
phishing attacks had grown from an average of nine million per week in July
to 33 million per week in December.

Mr Donovan said it was part of a larger trend among hackers to make "a
return on their investment".

"There's a shift from the old-style hacking attacks where they would deface
a website or take down a computer to more surreptitious attacks where they
would steal or modify information, mostly without alerting the user to what
has happened," he said.

The report also found hackers were increasingly targeting web applications,
including Microsoft Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox, to install
viruses and steal information from consumers' computers, and the number of
Microsoft Windows viruses had jumped 64 per cent in six months.

But Mr Donovan said that did not mean users of other computer operating
systems were safe.

"Previously, people using Macs felt very secure ­ they thought there were
very few viruses and no one really targeted them," he said.

"But in the last 12 months we have picked up 37 severe vulnerabilities.
There's no system that is 100 per cent secure."

The report also predicted mobile phone viruses would "increase in number
and severity" and affect Bluetooth-enabled handsets, and more attacks could
arrive in e-mail hidden in audio and video files.

Mr Donovan said with the ever-increasing number of threats, consumers
should assume their computers will be compromised by a hacker at some
point, and recommended backing up their data.

Australian Computer Emergency Response Team security analyst Chris Horsley
said the University of Queensland centre had witnessed a spike in phishing
attempts this year.

"The barriers to entry are very low ­ it doesn't take much technical skill
and at the moment there are no really good solutions against it," he said.

"Before, people were happy to make computer viruses and malicious programs
for a challenge, but now they're developing them for profit."

Mr Donovan said users should ensure they use up-to-date anti-virus and
firewall software, regularly change passwords and refuse to open e-mail
attachments unless they are certain of their contents.


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Also in this issue:

- EU warns on Microsoft behaviour
    Microsoft has not done enough to comply with sanctions imposed for
breaking European     anti-trust rules, the European Commission (EC) has said.
- 'Virtual' police station on line
    The UK's first 'virtual' police station is up and running, giving
residents face-to-face    access to a police officer 24 hours a day.
- The art of the Internet
    She has just signed with one of the Southeast's major art galleries. He
just finished an    $8,000 month on the Internet.
- Internet phones a hacking risk?
    Internet phone services have drawn millions of users looking for
rock-bottom rates. Now     they're also attracting identity thieves looking
to turn stolen credit cards into cash.
- Internet security takes a hit
    The discovery of a crack in a commonly used Internet encryption
technique raised concerns   among government agencies and computer-code
experts, according to a report by The Wall     Street Journal.
- Web pioneer: Design hampers mobile Internet
    A mass market exists for the mobile Internet, but it will remain
untapped until designers   make simpler Web pages that can be viewed
properly on handsets, the inventor of the World   Wide Web said.
- Teens Need To Use 'Filter Between Their Ears' On Web
    Almost two-thirds of parents admit to monitoring which Web sites their
teenagers visit,     according to a survey released by the Pew Internet &
American Life Project.
- Parents Increasingly Install Software Filters To Monitor Internet Use
    Over the last few years, parents have been watching their teens'
Internet usage more     closely, with more than half of them using software
filters to keep pornography and other   offensive content from their
children, a research firm says.
- Firefox Eats More Microsoft Market Share
    Firefox continues to steal market share from Microsoft Internet
Explorer, according to Net   Applications, a maker of Web-monitoring
software. According to the company's February     figures, use of Firefox
rose to 6.17% from 5.59% in January.
- First steps in the fight against fraud
    An attempt to steal £220m ($423m) from the London offices of the
Japanese bank Sumitomo     Mitsui by hacking into the bank's systems has
been foiled by the police of several     countries.
- Remote Control Parenting
    America's parents are relying more than ever on software filters to
block what their     children can see on the Internet, according to a study
published Thursday afternoon.
- NEW FROM MICROSOFT Surf, play, work from your sofa
    IN the next few months, Singapore will be the first in South-east Asia
to experience two    new offerings from software giant Microsoft.
- Google Open-Sources Code
    Developers who are curious about how Google's engineers compile and
debug their code are    getting a chance to use some of the search
company's internal tools.
- Yahoo pledges full Firefox compatibility
    Yahoo has confirmed plans to allow Firefox users to access all the
portal giant's products   and services, many of which are currently only
available through Microsoft's Internet     Explorer browser.
- Ask Jeeves Search Brings 'Navigation Through Concepts'
    Ask Jeeves is preparing to release a related-search feature that it
hopes will relieve Web   searchers from the burden of repeatedly refining
their queries.
- Search Engines Look Beyond the Web
    The major search engines are looking beyond the Web to find, display and
make money from    search results.
- Supersonic Search Engines
    During mid-tide, the volume of water thundering through Nova Scotia's
Minas Channel in the   Bay of Fundy exceeds the flow from every river and
stream on Earth. The scene, looking out   over that rugged coast,
uncomfortably approximates the information tidal wave threatening   to
drown us all. The torrent of facts, figures, opinions—and garbage—makes
search tools     ever more vital. We've looked at a number in the recent
past, and here we've lashed those   reviews together to give you a life raft.
- A mobile page turner
    Improvements in liquid-crystal displays and features such as automatic
page-flipping, make   reading a mobile novel more enjoyable than you'd imagine.
- Hackers expand their web of deceit
    FAST-spreading mobile phone viruses, infected video and audio files and
sophisticated     attempts to steal financial details are set to spike in
the coming year, according to     Symantec's Internet Security Threat
Report released today.
- Firefox Vs IE: is that a ‘David & Goliath’ story?
    Whether or not Firefox proves to be a challenge for Microsoft is
something only time can    tell. But the way the open source browser is
currently snatching market share from the     software giant’s IE is
something Bill Gates et al down at 'MSFT' cannot afford
to     ignore.Whether or not Firefox proves to be a challenge for Microsoft
is something only     time can tell. But the way the open source browser is
currently snatching market share     from the software giant’s IE is
something Bill Gates et al down at 'MSFT' cannot afford to   ignore.
- Parental net filters widely used
    Both teens and parents believe teens, “do things on the internet” their,
“parents wouldn’t   approve of ,” says a report.
- New Tech Plugs Human Brain into Desktop PC
    "We can take someone's thought and put it on a screen," says Tim
Surgenor, chief executive   of Cyberkinetics Neurotechnology Systems,
manufacturer of the device, which is called     BrainGate Neural Interface
System.
- Startup Helps Control Personal Info on Web
    A Cambridge startup is offering a service it says gives a measure of
control over the     personal data the Internet disgorges, giving new
meaning to a practice commonly termed     "ego surfing" or "Googling yourself."
- AOL Launches Test of Travel Search Site
    America Online, the world's largest Internet service provider, on Monday
launched a test    version of a travel Web site it hopes will attract
consumers looking to bypass online     travel agencies and book directly
with airlines and hotels.
- Chirac plans French anti-US "counter-offensive" on Internet culture
    French President Jacques Chirac has vowed to launch a new
"counter-offensive" against     American cultural domination, enlisting the
support of the British, German and Spanish     governments in a
multi-million euro bid to put the whole of European literature on-line.
- Battlefield communications
    As soldiers of the Army’s 3rd Infantry Division patrol Iraq on their
second tour of duty,   they communicate more freely and easily because of a
new system using primarily commercial   technology.
- The strange decline of computer worms
    Computer worms are becoming less commonplace as virus writers diversify
their malware     spreading tactics to create the maximum effect for the
least possible effort. Email-borne   worms, such as NetSky, Bagle and
Sober, remain perennial favourites with malware authors    but
Slammer-style worms are becoming rarer, according to anti-virus firm F-Secure.


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The NY Public Library's Digital Gallery

By Jim Regan | csmonitor.com
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HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA ­ You may have heard that the New York Public Library
recently put a substantial portion of its collections online in the form of
a Web-based gallery. You may have also heard that the response was so
overwhelming that the Library was forced to briefly take the site down in
order to beef up its ability to respond to a phenomenal number of visitors.

Well, back in operation and now equal to the challenges of high traffic,
the NYPL Digital Gallery is open for business once again - you can see what
everyone else has been looking at.

Officially launched on March 3rd, the NYPL DIgital Gallery is presently
offering 275,000 images (stored on a 57-terabyte, a thousand billion bytes
of data, network of servers) for public perusal and free personal use
("...individual private study, scholarship and research..."). Most of the
contents of the Gallery is in the public domain, and if you can obtain your
own reproduction of any image you find here, you can probably use it as you
see fit.

The digitized copies on the NYPL website, however, are protected by
copyright, and the Library charges a usage fee if an image is used in any
"nonprofit or commercial publication, broadcast, web site, exhibition,
promotional material, etc" contexts. (It's also possible - for a fee - to
order high resolution digital files or hard copy prints of most images
through the website.)

In terms of the territory covered by the collection, you can be excused for
wondering if you've inadvertently linked your way into the British Museum
or Library of Congress. In chronological terms, most of the artifacts range
from the middle ages to the mid-20th century (though there are some items
from outside these dates).

And while there is understandably an abundance of material directly related
to New York, there are artifacts from around the globe as well, including
Russian Civil War posters, Renaissance Manuscripts, and, "A Suite of Twenty
Engravings of the Yuan Ming-Yuan Summer palaces and Gardens of the Chinese
Emperor Ch'ien Lung" (published in 1786).

The Gallery also boasts a bit of 'pre-NASA NASA' - with some early
celestial maps and illustrations from the 1596 publication, "Prodromus
dissertationum cosmographicarum continens mysterium cosmographicum, de
admirabili proportione orbium coelestium, de que causis coelorum numeri,
magnitudinis, motuum,que periodicorum genuinis & proprijs : demonstratum,
per quinque regularia corpora geometrica" - which presumably translates to
something roughly like, "Astronomy for Dummies."

A sampling of other collections includes historical maps, George Caitlin's
North American Indian Portfolio, Goya's "Disasters of War" and the Miss
Frank E. Buttolph American Menu Collection, 1856-1930. ("Menus?" you ask?
Well let's see your hobby immortalized at the New York Public Library along
with the works of Copernicus and Goya.)

If you still can't find what you're looking for, check back later - the
Library's plan is to use twice monthly updates to increase the size of the
collection to 500,000 items within the next few months.

And while even such an impressive collection might seem to be of little
more than passing interest to most of us outside the scholarly community,
the traffic-generated shutdown demonstrates that, in fact, most of us
simply like looking at old stuff - especially if it's old stuff we don't
usually have access to. Naturally, navigation needs to be efficient in
order to keep us visitors on a site of this kind, and the Digital Gallery
has a multitude of methods which allow us to wade through the collection or
zero in on a specific image.

Available in both Flash-enhanced and HTML-only versions (both requiring
JavaScript), the Gallery Home Page greets the visitor with a Keyword
Search, options to browse the collection by Name, Subject or Library
Division, a Curator's Choice feature, and a handful of Explore categories
(Arts and Literature, Nature and Science, etc.) for those who simply want
to immerse themselves in the material. (The home page also provides links
to such useful information as how to make best use of the site, a FAQ page,
and details about the legalities of using any of the Gallery's images.)

Once you've descended a level or two into the site, you'll be presented
with a grid of thumbnail images, each with a cataloging ID number (the most
direct way to get back to that specific item at a later date) and a link to
"View Image Details." This next step opens a mid-sized copy of the selected
artifact along with detailed information (much of which contains links to
related items elsewhere on the site), and a very nice "Search For More
Images"drop box." (I don't know if such a term exists in the web design
lexicon, but you'll see what I mean at the site.)

Below each thumbnail, a varying collection of links displays the options
available for each file - options which will always include a "Printer
Friendly" version of the page, and an enlarged (760 pixels on the longer
side) copy of the image which opens into a new window. (You won't be making
any 16 x 20s out of these free files, but they're large enough for a good
on-screen perusal or a small print.)

Other options may or may not appear on a given page depending on the
artifact being viewed. Two-sided items (such as Baseball cards) will have a
"View Verso" button, while single pages of larger publications (e.g.,
restaurant menus) will include the chance to view the entire set in a
single frame. A few items (well, "a few" when compared to a collection of
275,000), such as the Japanese woodcut featured on the site's home page,
will also offer a "Pan and Zoom" option for detailed inspection of the
artifact.

Finally, there is the invitation with every image to "Add to Selections."
In this case, Selections is a personal catalog of images which is stored in
your browser's Cookie file for future reference. Once added, all your
selections can be accessed at once, and revised as you see fit. Meanwhile,
"Search History" uses Cookies to track your current visit in case you need
to quickly backtrack to a previous file.

The only complaint that comes to mind (other than my admittedly
unreasonable desire for free and instant access to high-resolution files)
centers on the fact that the title bar - and corresponding browser tab - of
every page in the site is identical, i.e., "NYPL Digital Gallery."

When you've got a half dozen or more Tabs open in your browser, and every
one of them says NYPL Digital Gallery (even those for the About and FAQ
pages), it leads to a lot of unnecessary flipping through windows to find
the image you know you've got open there somewhere. Even substituting the
first few words of every page's "Source" description in the title bar would
be of enormous help.

That criticism aside, this is a staggering collection with navigational
options that are more than up to the task. Once again the web makes
accessible to millions artifacts that previously were only available to a
relative handful, and with the strengths of this production, it's not even
remotely surprising that the Library was forced to enhance the site's
serving capacity.

The NYPL Digital Gallery can be found at http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/.

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Also in this issue:

- Rise of zombie PCs 'threatens UK'
    The UK leads the world in home computers that have been hijacked by
malicious hackers,   warns a report.
- Hackers steal California students' IDs
    CALIFORNIAN students are having a hard time keeping their data secret
these days.
- Latest 'pharming' attack on Net banks Add to Clippings
    Online bank customers beware! A computer virus is now diverting internet
bank customers to   fake websites in a bid to steal their personal details
and rob them of their cash.
- Technology Retracted at MIT mag
    Technology Review, one of the most prestigious brands in technology
journalism, has   suffered the embarrassment of retracting two stories it
says it can't authenticate.
- Quadriplegic controls PC by mind power alone
    A US company has carried out trials on a brain implant which offers
quadriplegics the   possibility of controlling a computer by mind-power
alone. Although the first volunteer to   use the Cyberkinetics
Neurotechnology Systems' BrainGate has so far been able only to move   an
on-screen cursor, play the game Pong and transmit simple instructions to a
robotic arm,   the developers hope that in the future, paralysis will not
be an obstacle to surfing the   web, sending email and generally enjoying
the PC experience.
- The NY Public Library's Digital Gallery
    HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA ­ You may have heard that the New York Public
Library recently put a   substantial portion of its collections online in
the form of a Web-based gallery. You may   have also heard that the
response was so overwhelming that the Library was forced to   briefly take
the site down in order to beef up its ability to respond to a
phenomenal   number of visitors.
- Mini Big Bang Created, Puzzling Results Too Explosive
    What do you get when you turn the temperature up to a trillion degrees?
- AFP Says 'Non' to Google News
    Google's stated mission is "to make all the world's information
available online." Agence   France Presse (AFP) calls that copyright
infringement.
- Vancouver couple's Net photo service in Yahoo's picture
    Caterina Fake never expected the on-line game she was creating with her
husband would   spawn so much interest. It wasn't an action game, and they
didn't have a Hollywood   partner. What they had was a good idea and the
foresight to shift gears when they realized   the best feature of the game
was the ability to share photographs.
- Novell Says Its Next Linux Desktop Will Surpass Windows
    While Microsoft still has the monopoly on the desktop market with its
Windows operating   system, Novell is readying new features and
functionality that it believes will propel its   Novell Linux Desktop
offering into the mass market.


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'Bring crime fighting into the internet age'

http://software.silicon.com/security/0,39024655,39128918,00.htm

Criminals are using computers more than crowbars according to one
parliamentary lobbying group which is demanding political parties in the UK
amend the laws to reflect the changing face of crime in the 21st century.

The European Information Society Group (EURIM) claims half of all crime ­
in financial terms ­ is committed using computers, either to plan, commit
or process. Many are automating old crimes such as fraudsters who have now
adopted email as a default tool for financial scams.

Philip Virgo, secretary general of EURIM, told silicon.com: "It is
phenomenally big business".

EURIM today announced the launch of a manifesto document which implores
political parties to prioritise digital crimes as they do physical, offline
offences.

EURIM's manifesto claims failure to crack down on cybercrime will be to the
long term detriment of society and business.

"If people perceive they are vulnerable [online] they will avoid putting
themselves at risk. Perceptions of the internet as a dangerous place
inhibit growth and destroy trust in electronic services," it states.

It calls for a number of measures including proper resourcing of
cybercrime-fighting efforts which are currently in a woeful state.

Virgo also told silicon.com: "We also need to see revisions to the Computer
Misuse Act brought forward. If we are to properly fight crime then we need
more international cooperation and we need to see more crimes become
extraditable."

The Computer Misuse Act is currently under review with recommendations to
increase the severity of crimes such as hacking. An appropriate increase
would elevate such crimes to a point where criminals could be extradited.
Virgo believes this would be an important step in protecting UK consumers
from those sat in relative safety within other countries committing crimes
within UK 'cyberspace'.

EURIM also believes the UK should use its presidency of the G8 group of
nations to press for greater cross border co-operation.

Virgo added: "Either this has to be addressed or we accept that people are
left to defend themselves."

While Virgo conceded many already do so, having given up long ago on the
hope that legislation could ever keep pace with emerging threats, the
danger is that with two-thirds of the UK now online the unprotected
non-savvy users surfing the web will perpetuate many of the problems such
as Trojan recruitment of zombie bot-nets.

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- E-mail is under-used in politics
    The dramatic rise in home internet access has failed to plug the
communication gap between   politicians and citizens, a new survey has found.
- Bad e-mail habits sustains spam
    The 'bad behaviour' of e-mail users is helping to sustain the spam
industry, a new study    has found.
- The Grocery Store of the Future
    Forget waiting in long lines, aimlessly wandering the aisles, even
bringing your wallet.
- Spamming spammers?
    IBM unveiled a service Tuesday that sends unwanted e-mails back to the
spammers who sent    them.
- Yahoo! Gets Fat
    What does it mean when Yahoo! (Nasdaq: YHOO) quadruples the storage of
its free email     accounts and agrees to acquire fast-growing
photo-sharing site Flickr? In a nutshell, fat   is where it's at and thin
is no longer in.
- BM fights spam at its source
    IBM unveiled a new technique that allows business to deal with and stamp
out spam,     especially phishing and spoofing scams, without the use of
anti-spam content filtering.     The new system is called FairUCE (which
stands for Fair use of Unsolicited Commercial     E-mail), and works by
targeting the machine the e-mail was sent from rather than the     sender's
e-mail address itself, which could be false.
- Hackers look to flip switches: Providers of power are targeted
    Electric companies and power-grid operators are being subjected to
increasingly     sophisticated hack attacks on their computer systems, a
new report says.
- Hackings Subject Universities to Potential Data Theft
    Computer hackings at two U.S. universities have come to light recently,
though there is no   indication that the responsible parties were
interested in stealing personal information,   according to the schools.
- Microsoft tests new patch program
    Microsoft on Tuesday began testing Microsoft Update, which it says will
help users keep up   with the latest versions of Windows, Office and other
programs.
- Mozilla: We're more secure than Microsoft
    Even with increased popularity, the Firefox Web browser won't face as
many security     problems as Internet Explorer, according to the president
of the Mozilla Foundation.
- Yahoo Desktop Search Goes Past the PC
    Yahoo is expected to launch on Wednesday the first upgrade to its
desktop search tool,     adding the ability to index data from Yahoo's
instant messenger archives stored on users'   PCs and from users' address
books residing on Yahoo's servers.
- Woman Cleared in Mass Obscene E-Mailings
    A death penalty opponent who sent e-mails laced with obscenities and
references to Adolf    Hitler and Osama bin Laden (news - web sites) to a
pro-death-penalty Web site was not     guilty of a crime, a judge ruled.
- Nepali Reporters Take Democracy Fight to Cyberspace
    Journalists in Nepal, one of the world's poorest and most backward
nations, are going     hi-tech to sidestep tight censorship imposed after
last month's royal coup.
- Swinging Koreans Face Porn Charges for Web Pictures
    More than 150 suspected South Korean swingers were being questioned by
police on Wednesday   for possibly violating pornography laws by posting
naked pictures of themselves on a Web    site for spouse swapping, police said.
- 'Bring crime fighting into the internet age'
    Criminals are using computers more than crowbars according to one
parliamentary lobbying    group which is demanding political parties in the
UK amend the laws to reflect the     changing face of crime in the 21st
century.
- The new code word in Eastern Europe is "Windows"
    Microsoft’s share-source program is reaching further into every corner
of the world. Jason   Matusow, director of the program, says on his new
blog that Microsoft is expanding its     initiative into Cyprus, Estonia,
Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Slovakia, and Slovenia. Those    countries are
the latest additions to a program that now gives 1.5 million
developers     outside the company various levels of access to the source
code in 17 Microsoft offerings.
- Military Plays Its 'Smart' Card
    In spite of a reputation for being a technological laggard in some
respects, the U.S.     military is on the leading edge of one high-tech
revolution: the use of smart cards.

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*  Increasing Enrollment and Retention via Technology:  Strategies
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Session topics include:

Integrating New Media into Enrollment Strategies
Technology and Your Enrollment Management Plan
Blogs, Webcards, Video
Email Marketing
Writing for the Web
Writing Grants:  Finding Money to Develop Online Courses
Increasing Communication in the Online Classroom
Case Studies on Retention
What do Students Want? Hear Results from a Focus Group
Online Advising
Online Orientation
A detailed agenda is located on our website

Who Should Attend

Recruiters
Admissions
Technology Professionals
Administrators
Online Learning Instructors
Online Learning Administrators
Deans
Website Developers
Marketing Professionals
Communications Professionals
Enrollment Management Administrators
Student Services/Affairs Administrators
Instructional Designers

Speakers

Dr. Geri Anderson
Geri Anderson currently serves as Chief Academic Officer at Front
Range Community College, the largest community college in the state
of Colorado. Prior to that, she served as Dean of Student Services
at
FRCC, Associate Director of Undergraduate Academic Affairs at the
University of Colorado, and Director of Competency-Based Teacher
Education at Regis University. She has over 22 years of higher
education administrative experience and has a unique and fun
perspective regarding enrollment management. Geri Anderson earned
her
Master's degree in Secondary Science Education from the
University of
Nebraska and holds an Educational Doctorate.

Dr. Jim Black
Jim Black is currently the associate provost for Enrollment Services
at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. His areas of
responsibility include Admissions, Financial Aid, Registrar's
Office,
Student Academic Services (primarily responsible for advising and
retention initiatives), Student Success Center, Evening University,
and the student information system (SCT Banner). His areas of
expertise include leadership, organizational change, customer
service, strategic enrollment management, marketing, recruitment,
and
retention.

Dr. Black has published numerous book chapters and articles
including
articles as a feature writer for The Greentree Gazette. Some of his
published works are:

Navigating Change in the New Millennium: Strategies for Enrollment
Leaders The Strategic Enrollment Management Revolution
GEN Xers Return to College: Enrollment Strategies for a Maturing
Population and, Essentials of Enrollment Management: Cases in the
Field.
Dr. Black is one of only twenty-three IBM Best Practice Partners in
the world, recognized as such for his institution's delivery of
exemplary student services as well as his expertise in change
management and human resource management.

Stephanie Geyer
Stephanie Geyer directs Web site development and e-communications
projects for Noel-Levitz. Ms. Geyer has served institutions such as
the University of Illinois at Springfield, Aurora University (IL),
Elmira College (NY), and the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Her
Web consultation services are based on current best practices in
enrollment management and are frequently integrated with recruitment
and marketing consultations and market research projects.

Attend our conference to learn how Ms. Geyer was an enrollment
research and communications specialist for Wilkes University (PA),
where undergraduate enrollment increased by 22.7 percent and
retention increased by 11 percent.

James Maraviglia
James Maraviglia has been actively involved in admissions and
recruitment for the past twenty-nine years. He was appointed
Assistant Vice President for Admissions, Recruitment and Financial
Aid at Cal Poly in 2002 after serving as the Executive Director of
Admissions and Recruitment from 1993.

He has been directly responsible for reengineering the workplace of
two very different institutions. He has won a series of awards from
a
number of professional associations for initiatives his unit has
brought to the profession. He has also written numerous papers on
enrollment planning, admissions, recruitment, and re-engineering the
workplace through technology and now serves as a professional
consultant to a number of institutions interested in implementing
similar solutions for their enrollment initiatives.

Bob McCullough
Bob McCullough is the Director of Marketing and Communications in
the
Office of Undergraduate Admission at Case Western Reserve University
in Cleveland, Ohio.  Bob was formally named marketing director in
the
summer of 2004, following seven years of progressive responsibility
within the admission office. Over the past two years, Bob and his
team have played a critical role in advancing an aggressive set of
enrollment goals at Case, building a complex infrastructure of
systems to meet these needs. As the primary architect of Case's e-
recruitment strategy, Bob integrates web, email, and other emerging
media with traditional marketing channels to form a comprehensive
recruitment program.

Attend the conference to learn how Case Western Reserve University
increased its applicant pool by 50% over two years, using the latest
technologies in target marketing and e-recruitment.

Landon K. Pirius
Landon K. Pirius is the Director of Enrollment Services & Registrar
for Inver Hills Community College, which is part of the Minnesota
State Colleges and Universities (MnSCU) system. Previously, Landon
was the Associate Registrar at Minnesota State University, Mankato.
While at MSU, Mankato, Landon was a member of the Distance Learning
Taskforce and chaired the subcommittee focusing on developing and
implementing online student and faculty services.

Landon is primarily interested in developing and maintaining student
services in an environment accessible to all students. As a peer
reviewer for Minnesota Online, Landon evaluates the online readiness
of student services for institutions wishing to implement online
degree programs. His interest involves changing the way faculty,
administrators, and staff view traditional, campus-based services
and converting those services to an online format.


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can someone explain to me what a blog is?   -   Tasmine618k

Tas wrote:

> can someone explain to me what a blog is?   -   Tasmine618k

Here's a reply I posted elsewhere on the topic:

A weblog is basically an online journal - easy to update, and through the
use of technologies like RSS, easy for others to get hold of your up-to-date
info. There's also the advantage that search engines are supposed to like
them because they tend to be easier to crawl and index than something
haphazard that was put together by a human

Blog was nominated by Merriam-Webster as its Word of the Year for 2004 -
although I love the snooty comment from the OED's spokesman that ".. it was
the word of last year rather than this year" - see
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4059291.stm

Certainly, there was a fascinating study done by Perseus in 2003, which if
you've never read, is well worth a look at:
http://www.perseus.com/blogsurvey/thebloggingiceberg.html

My personal preference is for hosting your own blog on your own website.
mainly because I'd prefer to be responsible for backing-up/losing my own
data than wake up to a story like
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,63856,00.html

I've stated elsewhere before that I prefer Nucleus -
http://www.nucleuscms.org to many others I've tried. Your tastes - and what
you're looking for in terms of features - may differ...

Hi,

For the past 5 years I have been working in the area
of system/networking engineering in an IT firm and do
have some additional responsibilites in the area of
procurement and stock management in my company.
6 months ago, I was introduced to Lawson procurement
and was trained. For the past 4 months, I have been
consistently been in an implementation team for Lawson
ERP.

Questions:

What is the future of ERPs?
Its is just a flash in the pan, that quickly as iot
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Review: Programs That Manage Passwords

By PETER SVENSSON
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=1212&e=10&u=/ap/20050324/ap_on_\
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NEW YORK - Admit it: you use the same password for all Web sites. There's
no use denying it. You really know better: someone could get hold of your
password from an insecure site and use your identity to sell a nonexistent
collection of antique garden gnomes on eBay, leaving you to face the
furious buyer.

Now, what are you going to do about your passwords?

Well, browsers nowadays help you remember passwords, but they're not a very
good solution.

In Internet Explorer, there's no easy way to manage stored passwords, and
worse, they're available to anyone with access to your computer, which
could include hackers who install hidden programs.

The recently released Mozilla Firefox browser improves on this by providing
a rudimentary management feature and allowing you to lock your passwords
with a master password.

A plethora of standalone password management programs do the same, only
they're more convenient. These programs also generate random passwords on
request, improving security by making the passwords impossible to guess.

I tested five such programs for Windows PCs: Access Manager 2 ($19.95), TK8
safe ($19.95), Password Agent 2 ($24.95), Handy Password ($30) and RoboForm
Portable ($39.98).

The first three are almost identical. They all store your passwords in an
encrypted "safe" n your hard drive. To retrieve them, you enter a master
password.

Woe betide you if you forget your master password, but at least there's
just one.

To enter a saved password on a Web page you have to drag and drop the
password from the password management program into the Web browser. This is
a lot more cumbersome than the password management built into Web browsers.
The programs all claim they can fill in password fields automatically via a
keyboard command, but this didn't work in my test.

Access Manager 2, TK8 safe and Password Agent 2 thus don't offer much
beyond Firefox's built-in password manager, though they could be useful for
Internet Explorer users who don't mind some extra work for the sake of
security.

Handy Password is a bit better: it creates a toolbar in Internet Explorer
and fills in your passwords automatically. It also has a short but good
tutorial to get you started. The toolbar feature doesn't work in other
browsers.

The leader of the pack, however, is RoboForm Portable.

Unlike the other programs, it's designed to be installed on a USB drive,
the tiny "keychain" gadget that has well-nigh replaced the floppy disk as
the medium for carrying files between computers.

This means that you can take your passwords with you between computers,
along with other personal files on the USB drive. RoboForm takes up less
than 10 megabytes of memory.

After inserting the USB drive, you have to open its folder and start
RoboForm, which inserts a toolbar into Internet Explorer, Firefox or recent
Netscape versions.

It would be more convenient if the program were to start up automatically
when the drive is inserted, but it doesn't work that way. It does shut down
automatically when the drive is removed, however, keeping your passwords
safe from whoever's using the computer next.

Some of the other password management programs will also install on USB
drives but are less convenient than RoboForm.

Do note: If you lose the drive, you've lost your passwords (unless you
backed them up to other drives or printed them out). But they should be
safe if someone finds it since they're protected by the master password.

However, don't think taking your passwords with you on a USB drive solves
all your security problems. A computer with a surreptitious keylogging
program can still capture your passwords.

Also, the password managers provide no protection from phishing scams, the
fake Web sites that are set up to harvest passwords to bank and PayPal
accounts.

Is RoboForm Portable worth $40? I'd say yes, if you use several computers.
If you only use one computer, go with Firefox or RoboForm Pro, which
installs on your hard drive instead of a USB drive and costs $10 less.
___

On the Net:

http://www.roboform.com

http://www.handypassword.com

http://accessmanager.co.uk

http://www.tk8.com/safe.asp

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- Force starts virtual ID parades
    Virtual identity parades are being started by Scotland's largest police
force on Thursday.
- New online access to 1871 census
    People searching for Victorian ancestry will be helped by the
introduction of records from   the 1871 census online.
- Yahoo to step into blogosphere
    Yahoo Inc. said Wednesday it will soon start invitation-only testing of
its new Web log     and social networking service Yahoo 360, which aims to
better connect users to people they   already know.
- Craigslist gets beamed into space
    Aliens will be glad to know that if ever they need to find an apartment
here on Earth,     someone has got them covered.
- Web service sued over consumer access to 911
    Texas sued the nation's largest Internet-based phone service provider
Tuesday, saying     Vonage failed to clearly inform customers they cannot
automatically dial 911 when they     sign up.
- Yahoo e-mail storage quadruples
    Yahoo Inc., the No. 2 U.S. Internet search engine, will quadruple the
storage capacity of   its free e-mail service and improve screening for
computer viruses to support its position   as the most popular Web e-mail
service.
- Firefox Receives Another Security Update
    Mozilla has patched a Firefox vulnerability, discovered by the Internet
Security Systems    group, having to do with the method in which Mozilla's
browser resolves .gif images.
- Symantec Moves Into Hosted E-Mail Security
    Symantec Corp. wants to take the garbage out of your E-mail before it
arrives. Symantec     Hosted Mail Security, rolled out Thursday,
incorporates the company's anti-spam and     antivirus technologies in a
managed service.
- Yahoo Betas Content Sharing Search
    Yahoo is testing out a new search engine devoted entirely to content
licensed under the     Creative Commons project. Creative Commons is a
non-profit organization that provides     flexible copyright protections
for creative works. Much of the content available under the   license can
be modified, extended or even sold.
- Court to Hear Web Speech Censorship Case
    A federal appeals court was to hear arguments on whether U.S.-based
Internet service     providers are liable for damages in foreign courts for
speech originating from the United   States.
- IBM Debuts New Anti-Spam Tool
    In a move to expand its Internet security footprint, IBM (NYSE: IBM -
news) has introduced   a new anti-spam application aimed at corporations.
Called "FairUCE," (Fair use of     Unsolicited Commercial Email), the
application helps filter and block spam by using     identity management
technology at the network level to analyze the domain identity of an    e-mail.
- Red Lake shooter's blogs provide frightening insight
    As authorities sought today to figure out what stoked Jeff Weise's rage
enough to drive     him to kill nine people and then himself, perhaps the
teen summed it up best himself:
- Review: Programs That Manage Passwords
    Admit it: you use the same password for all Web sites. There's no use
denying it. You     really know better: someone could get hold of your
password from an insecure site and use   your identity to sell a
nonexistent collection of antique garden gnomes on eBay, leaving    you to
face the furious buyer.
- Utah Internet Porn Law May Face Challenge
    Internet service providers that operate in Utah must offer customers a
way to block porn    sites under a law signed this week. ISPs complained
that the law adds nothing to the fight   against pornography, and said a
legal challenge is likely.

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