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Apple loses iPad trademark in China->

Submitted by narcc
narcc writes "Apple and its Chinese resellers are facing legal action following a court ruling that found that Apple does not own the trademark to the iPad name in China. Proview International registered the IPAD trademark during an ill-fated attempt to break into the tablet market back in 2000.

In 2006, Proview Electronics (Taiwan) agreed to sell Apple the “global trademark” for the IPAD name for £35,000, according to Proview, but the two companies have subsequently disagreed about whether that deal included China. Proview has applied for an immediate halt to sales of the iPad by Apple resellers in the southern Chinese cities of Shenzhen and Huizhou, with the first hearings due in the next eight weeks."
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Read Chat Logs From The Internet's 24-Year-Old "Ki->

Submitted by HansonMB
HansonMB writes "Apart from the networks of infected computers and poorly-translated emails offering shady pharmaceutical drugs, the inner workings of the shadowy criminal empires that deal in Internet spam remain a mystery. Every once in a while though, we match a face to junkmail. He’s called “the King of Spam” among members of the internet’s seedy underground, and now he’s been caught by authorities — 24 year old Oleg Nikolaenko, aka “Docent,” is the alleged owner of the “Mega-D” botnet, an enormous web of zombie-computers that collectively sends around 10 billion spam messages per day."
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4chan Declares War On Snow 201

Posted by samzenpus
from the common-enemy dept.
With all the recent hacktivism in the news, Anonymous has decided to take on a new and powerful enemy: snow. On Sunday the group announced that it will "do everything in its power to shut snow down by attacking the Weather Channel and North Face websites, boycotting outerwear, and voting for the sun as Time’s 2010 Person Of The Year." I'm sure there are a lot of people in Minneapolis right now that would wish them luck.

Comment: List of free Windows firewalls (Score 5, Informative) 216

by Aryeh Goretsky (#33642832) Attached to: ZoneAlarm Employs Scare Tactics Against Its Users
Hello,

Below is a list of free application software firewalls I put together a while ago. Not sure if they are all current, and I am probably missing quite a few, but it is a starting point.

Firewalls
Active Network - Active Wall Free Edition
Agnitum - Outpost Firewall Free
AS3 Soft4U - AS3 Personal Firewall
Ashampoo - Ashampoo Firewall Free
Comodo Group - Comodo Firewall (now a part of Comodo Internet Security)
FilSecLab - Filseclab Personal Firewall Professional Edition
Group 4 Business Intelligence - IDNWebShield (main web site down when last checked)
NetVeda - NetVeda SafetyNet
PC Tools - PC Tools Firewall Plus Free Edition
PrivacyWare - Privatefirewall
SecurePoint - Securepoint Personal Firewall & VPN Client - (discontinued?)
SoftPerfect - SoftPerfect Personal Firewall
Tall Emu - Online Armor Free - (acquired by EmsiSoft?)
WIPFW Project - WIPFW - (port of BSD IPFW)

Firewall Managers
GT Delphi Components - Windows Firewall Ports & Applications Manager (WFWPAM)
Sheesley, Eric - XPFiremon

Hopefully, this is of help.

Regards,

Aryeh Goretsky
Classic Games (Games)

36-Hour Lemmings Port Gets Sony Cease and Desist 268

Posted by Soulskill
from the found-a-cliff-real-quick dept.
Zerocool3001 writes "The recently featured 36-hour port of the original Palm version of Lemmings to the iPhone and Palm Pre has received a cease and desist letter from Sony. Only one day after submitting the app for approval on the two app stores, the developer has put up a post stating that he 'did this as a tribute to the game — we can only hope that Sony actually does a conversion for platforms like iPhone and Palm Pre in the near future.' The text of the cease and desist letter is available from the developer's website."

Comment: Already being tested by Symantec (Score 2, Insightful) 178

by Aryeh Goretsky (#29598105) Attached to: Auto-Detecting Malware? It's Possible
Hello,

What Dr. Jakobsson has described is a reputation system.

At Virus Bulletin 2009, Symantec gave a presentation on reputation systems: " Using the wisdom of crowds to address the malware long tail ," which cited data from one that began development in 2006. While I do not claim to understand the system, in a nutshell, it seems to work by generating a hash for files after they are downloaded or when they are to be executed, and sends this to Symantec along with some metadata, such as source IP/host, filename, path specification on the local host, date and time stamp on the file and other useful information, which is sent to Symantec, initially to provide a quick lookup, but more information can be sent if additional analysis is required. Symantec's client software can then display a message saying "Program XYZ.EXE has been seen n time(s) over the course of n day(s)/week(s)/month(s)." along with some suggestions about how safe it is likely to be based on new/unique program files more likely to be untrusted (higher potential for malcode) and older, commonly program files having a higher degree of trust.

One advantage of this approach is that it quickly allows malcious files encoded using server-side polymorphism to be quickly identified, as well as the sites hosting them. This negates the technique used by the bad guys to constantly modify code to in order to escape detection by anti-virus software.

Regards,

Aryeh Goretsky

Comment: The .GOV.UK approach (Score 2, Informative) 260

by Aryeh Goretsky (#29462869) Attached to: Security / Privacy Advice?
Hello,

In the United Kingdom, the Cabinet Office published a short strategy paper on using Twitter. I found it to be quite good, and while it obviously is Twitter-centric, the ideas are applicable to a other social networking sites. The document can be downloaded from http://blogs.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/digitalengagement/post/2009/07/21/Template-Twitter-strategy-for-Government-Departments.aspx .

Regards,

Aryeh Goretsky

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