IT Stories for 2004

RIAA/MPAA Contractor Deploys Malicious Adware Trojans 883
Anti-Santy Worm Patches phpBB Flaw 245
New Trojan Threatens Windows XP SP 2 241
$1.5 Million Bar-code Scheme Bilks Wal-Mart Stores 618
Vioxx Replaces Porn as Spam King 200
Comair Done In by 16-Bit Counter 441
eBay Retires MS Passport Sign-In 304
Wireless Security By The Gallon 216
Computer Viruses Broke 100,000 In 2004 214
Microsoft Compares Windows And Linux 468
Holland Bans AMD's 'Virus Protection' Campaign 330
Dutch Fine Spammers, AOL Reports Drop in Spam 277
Two Reviews of Yourdon's 'Outsource?' 511
RCA / Thomson Modem Hack Discovered 182
Interview of the Windows XP SP2 Dev Team 392
NYT: Wal-Mart Slows RFID Plans, Suppliers Resist 188
China Lights Pure IPv6 Network 236
Don't Click Here For A Free iPod 594
Comair System Crashes; Passengers Stranded 398
Banks Begin To Use RSA Keys 208
3 New Windows Security Problems Found 190
U.S. World's Foremost Spam Nation In 2004 274
Four New Unpatched Windows Vulnerabilities 273
Opera Browser Beta Adds Voice, More 369
Unpatched Linux Lives 3 Months on Internet 56
China Closes 1,129 Web Sites 396
PostgreSQL Gets New Website, 8.0 Release Candidate 42
'Metal Gear' Symbian OS Trojan Disables Anti-Virus 197
How Real Is The Open Source Database Fever? 315
Windows XP Firewall Bug Flies Under the Radar 30
Seek And Destroy Malware With An Antiviral Live CD 31
Welcome to the Future of DRM Media 734
Skunkworks At Apple -- The Graphing Calculator Story 642
Judge Rejects Guilty Plea From AOL Employee 231
A Diagnosis of Self-Healing Systems 149
Two Books On Plone 107
Net Worm Uses Google to Spread 309
Some Ways To Avoid Spam On Gmail 308
WEP And PPTP Password Crackers Released 244
How Can I Trust Firefox? 1464
Building Applications with the Linux Standard Base 282
Reviewing Anti-Spam Offerings 311
Flaw in Google's New Desktop Tool [Update: Fixed!] 266
Rosegarden Developers Interviewed by O'Reilly 189
6-Month Sentence for NASA Cracker 329
Open Letter to a Digital World 545
Comment Spams Straining Servers Running MT 186
Mozilla 1.7.5 Released 454
Intel Expands Core Concept for Chips 222
Microsoft May Charge for Security Tools 642
Make Something Unreal Finalists Posted 20
PHP Vulnerabilities Announced 387
Interchangeable Data Storage Bricks? 185
Employee Stock Options Must be Treated as Expenses 325
Microsoft Acquires Spyware Removal Company 442
New Spoofing Vulnerability in IE 372
Debugging Indian Computer Programmers 1248
Plausible Deniability From Rockstar Cryptographers 358
Symantec to Buy Veritas 258
Dealing with Network Politics and Insecure Users? 170
Hacker Sentenced To Longest US Sentence Yet 775
DJB Announces 44 Security Holes In *nix Software 983
NetBeans 4.0 Release 45
OpenBSD Project Will Release OpenCVS 287
Agile/XP Book Freely Available 12
ICANN Approves Two More Top-Level Domains 305
Taking Halo 2 to Xbox Live 30
IT Practice Within Microsoft 508
Desktop Search Tools Will Help Virus Writers 140
Battle of the Ages; Stereotypes Collide 319
Linux Has Fewer Bugs Than Rivals 626
NYC's Educational Dark Fiber Network 101
Australian Police Given Power To Use Spyware 450
China and its Relation With Spam 373
Router Wars 142
Reliving The Glory Days of SGI 386
PeopleSoft Goes To Oracle 216
Penn State Tells Students To Ditch IE 486
Tim Bray's Top Twenty Software People in the World 418
Password Security Not Easy 674
WAN/LAN/VoIP Training Other than Cisco? 106
De-spamming Your Inbox The Hard Way 631
When Malware Authors Combine Efforts 306
Are You Talking to Your PC Yet? 333
New Vulnerability Affects All Browsers 945
Introducing The Heron Programming Language 142
No Honor Among Malware Purveyors 416
Warzone 2100 Source Liberated 67
Lycos Anti-Spam Screensaver Inspires Trojan 167
PA Sues Online 'University' For Spamming 313
Service Pack 1 for Windows Server 2003 429
11 Anti-spam Products Tested 200
Computer Forensics 244
Getting an IT Job in Europe as an American 187
Daring to Dream: Apple & IBM 523
Offshoring IT 369
HP Plots New Courses with HP-UX/Tru64 133
RAD with Ruby 162
U.S. Cybersecurity Report Available 187
Golden Spam Cans to Promote Python Musical 137
FairUCE - the Smart Email Proxy 333
Database Error Detection and Recovery 163
Apple Releases Mac OS X Patches 84
Former CIA Head Calls for Limiting Access to the Internet 935
Google Battles Fraudulent Clicks 386
Location-Based Encryption 239
PC Setup for Small House with Child? 199
Lycos Anti-Spam Screensaver Brings Down Spam Sites 715
MySQL Database Design and Optimization 233
Anti-Spyware Products Don't Live Up to Promises 400
Spyware Removal is Big Business 454
Half of U.S. I.T. Operations Jobs to Vanish 625
Open Source Multimedia Center For Windows 215
ATI Unveils the X850 Series 41
Freya Reaches 2.0 Beta Release 50
BusinessWeek On XORP vs. Cisco 302
Ohio Law Could Send Spammers To Jail 455
Lycos Anti-Spam Site Compromised [Updated] 520
Clean System to Zombie Bot in Four Minutes 608
Python 2.4 Final Released 359
Green Hills Software Decides Linux Isn't So Bad 198
Microsoft Offers Beta of Visual Studio 2005 92
What Do People in the IT Field Do for Side Jobs? 1405
Delphi Renaissance 262
SCO.com Defaced 547
Windows 2000 SP5 Replaced With Update Rollup 44
CA's 'Pest Scan' Results Mislead Users 37
Air Force Orders Up A Custom Windows Monoculture 541
Finland Issues IE 6 Warning 22
Protecting Your Enterprise Network from Vendor App Servers? 258
Tin Foil Passports? 264
Lycos Declares War on Spam Servers 567
The Economist Tackles Complexity in IT 270
Source SDK Released Soon, HL2 High in Gamerankings 137
Windows Incident Forensics with Knoppix Helix 156
Failed Win XP Upgrade Wipes Out UK Government Agency 731
Malware: Fighting Malicious Code 95
Westerners Migrating to India for Jobs 499
Intel Helping Asia to Use Linux 258
Interview: David Roundy of Darcs Revision Control 173
Microsoft Replaces Your Pirated Windows, For Free 574
Shortage of Intel Laptop Chipsets 108
Can People Really Program 80+ Hours a Week? 741
Beginning Perl, 2nd Ed. 141
How Much Harm Can One Web Site Do? 501
Tips For A Budding Project Manager? 98
CertMag Salary Survey Shows Where IT Money Is 20
Cross-Platform Java Sandbox Exploit 382
Postfix's Wietse Venema Interviewed 12
Failing Grades For Most Anti-Spyware Tools 517
Anarchy Brings Low Telecom Prices In Somalia 31
Security Flaws In Linux SMBFS 347
The Definitive Guide to MySQL, 2nd Ed. 128
HP & Commodity Computing 64
FireFox Sets the World Ablaze 436
Alternative Development Systems for the Mac 128
Worm Exploit Distributed by Advertising Network 478
Software Tools of the Future 337
Writing Code for Spacecraft 204
A Complete Guide to Pivot Tables 261
Large Dev Teams Do Not Make For Quick Dev Cycles 55
What is the Tech Jobs Situation in Late 2004? 1138
Joel On Software 166
Valve Takes the Offensive on Warez Users? 1127
Gates 'World's Most-Spammed Man' 424
Where Are All of the IT Fraternities? 84
Richard Clarke on Cyberterrorism and Iraq 592
Quality of Life Issues Holding Back Game Industry 99
Reviews Arrive For nVidia GeForce 6600GT AGP 184
Netscape Reborn? 413
Yahoo! Mail Now Using Domain Keys To Fight Spam 222
Dutch City Of Haarlem Takes Up OpenOffice.org 32
Is The Lone Coder Dead? 809
Bill Gates Proclaims End of Passwords 488
The Verdict on WinXP SP2? 471
Art Tips For Programmers? 565
Intro to Encryption 244
Are Usability & Security Opposites in Computing? 253
Can Reverse Engineering Help In Stopping Worms? 187
Solaris 10 Released, Updated & Free (Like Speech) 363
Meet Millionaire Spammer Jeremy Jaynes 379
Wal-Mart's Data Obsession 581
Creative Data Loss 350
Intel Quietly Introduces 3.8GHz P4 207
Security Pros Bemoan the Need for Focus 62
Ukraine Holds 4th Largest Programmer Population 301
Security Vulnerabilities Discovered in WinXP SP2 343
Are Your Peripherals Monitoring You? 393
Airlines Ordered To Turn Over Passenger Data 57
Electronic Arts Facing Possible Class Action Lawsuit 1060
The Continued Advance of VoIP 159
Automatic Games Installer for JDS Linux 22
Schneier On Electronic Voting 299
Windows Source Code Seller Arrested 275
BT to Offer Free Internet Calls 195
Open Source Expertise in Short Supply 346
When Is A Good Time To Upgrade? 490
CA Executive Outlines Open Source Plans For Ingres 16
Beat Spam Using Hashcash 324
Pitfalls and Options For Business-Desktop Linux 346
iX magazine Launches English Test Issue 13
FTC Email Authentication Summit 11
Latest Version of MyDoom Exploits New IE Flaw 435
Windows Forensics and Incident Recovery 142
Techies Migrate in Search of Work 873
GBA Game Development Competition 16
IT Literacy Test 302
The men behind ettercap-NG 89
Hal Stern interview on Solaris & Linux Datacenter 12
The Lessons of Software Monoculture 585
Zope X3 3.0.0 Released 229
Fishing for Phishers 152
Source Engine SDK Released 54
Soldiers Call for Engineering Tech Support 314
WPA Weak Key Cracker Posted 168
Using Layered Defenses to Stop Internet Worms 148
Hardware That Recognizes You 472
Konfabulator Coming to Windows 307
Microsoft Opens Access to Vulnerability Notifications 104
Outsourcing Information Security 196
Programmers Hold Funerals for Old Code 342
Asterisk and Linux to Build Secure VoIP Connection 140
NTT DoCoMo Debuts Credit Card Phone 123
No-Click Phishing On The Way 301
Russian Denies Writing SoBig Worm 67
Another MS Internet Explorer Security Hole 18
Standards-Based CSS/XHTML Slide Show 175
Latest SCSI Drive Reviewed 213
Assessing Network Security 89
Anti-Spyware Vendor Partners with Spyware Company? 274
Study Recommends Mac OS X as Safest OS 370
Letters-Only LM Hash Database 237
Funniest IT Related Boasts You've Heard? 490
Open Source Ingres Swings At Oracle, SQL Server 39
High-Tech Crimes Revealed 114
U.S. Deploys Satellite Jamming System 342
DoubleClick On The Blocks? 198
So, Who Wrote Sobig? 187
FreeBSD 5.3 RC2 Released 150
Grid Computing: Conceptual Flyover For Developers 79
Tim Boudreau On The Future of NetBeans 43
Linux, UNIX, and Windows: TCO Revisited 26
Security Responsibility Without the Authority? 206
Flattening Out The Linux Cluster Learning Curve 89
New URL Spoofing Bug in Pre-SP2 IE 266
Gmail Accounts Vulnerable to XSS Exploit 232
IBM Sponsors Linux on POWER Contest 31
ATMs Susceptible to Windows Viruses 403
NSA Security Guide for Mac OS X 250
Apache 1.3.33 Released 227

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