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Submission + - Week of Oracle database bugs gets cancelled!

Submitted by
kantaguru
kantaguru writes: "Do you remember so called Week Of Oracle Bugs (WOOB) announced by
security researcher Cesar Cerrudo last week on 21.11 also at Slashdot: http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/11/21/173 3208

Well guess what?

WOOB is no more, woop! It's gone, its nowhere to be found!

It got suspended, from http://www.argeniss.com/woodb.html where Argeniss writes:

"The Week of Oracle Database Bugs

We are sad to announce that due to many problems the Week of Oracle Database Bugs gets suspended.

We would like to ask for apologizes to people who supported this and were really excited with the idea, also we would like to thank the people who contributed with Oracle vulnerabilities."

Would anyone like to know what possible problems they had for trying to run the Week of Oracle bugs?

I'd guess they got pretty much quiesced by Oracle PR or lawyers :(

Aren't we sad now too? Maybe we can try it again next week!

Any volunteers up for this?"

Feed Feds Relent on Security Hacker (wired.com)

From feed by wiredfeed
A grad student who posted a fake boarding pass generator to illuminate a security hole, only to get raided by the FBI, avoids prosecution. But he says his treatment will make the nation less safe. In 27B Stroke 6.


Microsoft

Journal Journal: The Microsoft ROKR

Journal by DingerX
I'm loving this Zune thing. Only a couple times a season does a consumer electronic launch end in such a tragic mess of champagne, blood and flailing body parts. As far as catastrophes go, the Zune has to work for mindshare: I mean, we've got the PS3, both Blue-Ray and HD-DVD, and increasingly cool videos of Li-Ion fires. But the Zune had a really great launch: before the band could stop playing, the Zune had slipped to the deep, leaving its only trace a few bubbles that would intermitten
Patents

Submission + - NTP sues Palm with Patent Infringement Suit

Submitted by
WebHostingGuy
WebHostingGuy writes: "As reported by C|Net NTP filed a patent lawsuit against Palm asserting that Palm's products, services, systems and processes infringe on NTP's patents. Specifically, NTP is claiming that Palm infringes on seven of its patents, five of which it successfully proved RIM had violated. Palm's line of Treo smart phones, the Palm VII, Palm i700 and Palm Tungsten and their associated software applications and services, are each named as infringing on NTP's patents."
Portables (Apple)

Submission + - Mac Mini Portable Project - Tablet Edition

Submitted by
artypete
artypete writes: "Peter Green (me!) has just released details of his latest Mac Mini Portable — the 'Tablet Edition' MkIII.

This actually turns out to be the worlds LIGHTEST (1.9kg) Mac portable, and (probably) the only Mac Intel (Core Solo 1.5Ghz) with a 8" tablet touch screen panel with 3 hours battery life.

"Apple don't make a tablet palmtop, so I made one for them..."

Whilst this might at first sight seem just like any old other Mac mod, it actually sends both an important design message to Apple about consumer requirements, but also delivers a very capable and usable 'for purpose' design.

Apple, make me one so I don't have to DO IT AGAIN!! :-)

http://homepage.mac.com/peter_green/MMP_MkIII_Tabl et/

Construction pictures on site, with video of MMP MkIII Tablet Edition in action coming in the next few hours!!"
Games

Submission + - Guitar Hero Is Big Hit With Bands

Submitted by
Carl Bialik from WSJ
Carl Bialik from WSJ writes: "An unlikely but growing group of rock stars are also avid players of Guitar Hero, a PlayStation title that uses a miniature plastic guitar to let gamers pretend to be, well, rock stars, the Wall Street Journal reports. From the article: 'Michael Einziger, the 30-year-old guitarist for the hard-rock band Incubus, says he was "shocked at how hard it was" to play the videogame's version of his song "Stellar." He admits he was handily beaten by his then-14-year-old sister, Ruby Aldridge, when the two of them squared off earlier this year. "It doesn't have anything to do with playing guitar," Mr. Einziger says. "It's all rhythmic." When the four members of the punk-pop band the Donnas got together to play Guitar Hero last week, guitarist Allison Robertson took some good-natured ribbing from her bandmates, says drummer Torry Castellano. That's because Ms. Robertson had a hard time playing along with the band's own song "Take It Off." "Expectations for her are pretty high because she's the guitar player and because she's so good at videogames in general," says Ms. Castellano.'"
Privacy

Submission + - SSN disclosures and the law

Submitted by
An anonymous reader writes: I recently recieved an email from a US based publicly traded company that I used for income tax services. The content of the email was a screenshot which prominently displayed my SSN. I expressed concern to the company that they chose to send this information over the web in an unencrypted format. The company's response was to offer a verbal apology, explain that it was a one time violation of company policy, and offer a year of credit monitoring service. I think their mishandling of an SSN probably would result in some legal trouble for the company if reported to the government. What sort of fines/other punishment is the company liable for in this case if pursued in court? I'm trying to decide if it's worthwhile to sue them or take the monitoring service and let it go.
The Internet

Submission + - Power outage knocks LiveJournal offline again

Submitted by brickbat
brickbat writes: For the second time in less than two years, LiveJournal has been knocked offline due to a power loss at its data center. Information is limited, but it appears that power maintenance which began at the data center late Friday night has caused "unexpected issues". On January 14, 2005, a power outage at the Internap data center took LiveJournal down for more than 24 hours. The service has since moved to its parent company SixApart's data center in San Francisco.

2006 Election Maps Mashups 105

Posted by kdawson from the red-and-the-blue dept.
John Fitzpatrick writes, "Search Engine Watch has an article on the launch this week of map-based search tools to follow the 2006 Congressional elections, from both Google Earth and the map-based real estate site HotPads.com. The Google Earth Blog notes the release of two election-oriented layers outlining the borders of the congressional districts and linking to Google News articles related to the different races. And HotPads is offering the 2006 Election Edition. From their blog: 'The 435 congressional districts are outlined on HotPads Maps, with red and blue designating the party affiliation of the districts' current Representatives. By clicking on the districts' "I" buttons..., users can view quick facts about the districts including the current Representatives and the candidates in November's contests. By clicking on the quick facts bubble, users can get more detailed information [from] Wikipedia articles with detailed information about the candidates and the close races.'"

Kent State's Facebook Ban for Athletes 248

Posted by timothy
Most commenting readers scoffed at Kent State University's new policy (noted on Slashdot yesterday) forbidding athletes from using profiles on Facebook. The arguments offered (legal, moral, and practical) mostly berated the school for limiting their students to no good end, but some thought-provoking comments exposed at least some complexities which make the issue less clear-cut than a straightforward case either of censorship or contractual freedom. Read on for a sampling of the comments which typified the conversation.

Kent State Banning Athletes from Using Facebook 428

Posted by timothy from the thank-you-sir-may-I-have-another dept.
denebian devil links to a Columbus Dispatch story about athletes at Kent State being forbidden to use Facebook — "not by the Web site, but by university administrators." From the article: "Athletics Director Laing Kennedy recently told student-athletes they have until Aug. 1 to remove their Facebook profiles, citing a need to protect both their identities and the university's image. "We're really concerned about the safety of our student-athletes and some of the personal information some of them have on there," he said. ... If student-athletes don't remove their profiles by the deadline, they risk losing their scholarships, he said. Coaches and athletics counselors will monitor the site for violators." denebian devil continues "Arstechnica also has an interesting take on the subject. Makes you wonder why they even bother providing internet connections on college campuses."

Windows Servers Beat Linux Servers 709

Posted by samzenpus from the say-it-aint-so dept.
RobbeR49 writes "Windows Server 2003 was recently compared against Linux and Unix variants in a survey by the Yankee Group, with Windows having a higher annual uptime than Linux. Unix was the big winner, however, beating both Windows and Linux in annual uptime. From the article: 'Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and Linux distributions from "niche" open source vendors, are offline more and longer than either Windows or Unix competitors, the survey said. The reason: the scarcity of Linux and open source documentation.' Yankee Group is claiming no bias in the survey as they were not sponsored by any particular OS vendor."

Extortion Virus Code Cracked 371

Posted by Zonk from the unlock-your-stuff dept.
Billosaur writes "BBC News is reporting that the password to the dreaded Archiveus virus has been discovered and is now available to anyone who needs it. Archiveus is a 'ransomware' virus, which combines files from the My Documents folder on Windows machines and exchanges them for a single, password-protected file, which it will not unlock unless a password is given. The user would normally be required to pay the extortionist money in order to receive the password, but apparently the virus writer made one small, critical error in coding: placing the password in the code. BTW, the 30-digit password locking the files is mf2lro8sw03ufvnsq034jfowr18f3cszc20vmw."

The Enemy Within the Firewall 265

Posted by ScuttleMonkey from the sowing-dissent-and-distrust-in-the-workplace dept.
Mel Tom writes to tell us The Age is reporting that many businesses are now considering employees a much bigger threat to security than most external threats. From the article: "With email and instant messaging proving increasingly popular and devices such as laptop computers, mobile phones and USB storage devices more commonplace in the office, the opportunities for workplace crime are growing."

5% of All Web Traffic Unsafe 204

Posted by ScuttleMonkey from the conservative-estimates dept.
OnFour writes "The MIT-backed startup behind SiteAdvisor has slapped a red "X" warning label on approximately 5 percent of all Web traffic and warned that there are roughly one billion monthly visits to Web pages that aren't safe for surfing. About 2 percent of all Web traffic was given the "yellow" caution rating." A more general SiteAdvisor blog entry overview was covered earlier on Slashdot.

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