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The Courts

Submission + - RIAA Challenges Cause Foster Fees to Double

Submitted by
NewYorkCountryLawyer
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes: "The RIAA's challenges to Judge Lee R. West's order (pdf) awarding the defendant attorneys fees in Capitol v. Foster and to the "reasonableness" of Ms. Foster's attorneys' fees have not only forced the RIAA to disclose its own attorneys fees, and caused the judge to issue a second decision labeling them as "disingenuous", their motives "questionable", and their factual statements "not true", but have now caused the amount of the fees to more than double, from $55,000 to $114,000, as evidenced by Ms. Foster's supplemental fee application (pdf's)."
Security

Submission + - Over 10,000 malware sites hosted by IPowerWeb

Submitted by
mdm42
mdm42 writes: "Ethan Zuckerman blogs that a friend's website, hosted with IPowerWeb, got hacked. Turns out that almost eleven-thousand websites hosted by IPowerWeb have also been hacked in the same manner, but IPowerWeb denies that they have a security problem. The crack injects malicious JavaScript into hosted web pages; the purpose of the JavaScript? To load Windows trojans onto client machines that access the websites.

To the rest of us it looks like their systems have been compromised from the ground up. Or perhaps an inside job...?"
Security

Submission + - New Bank Authentication Scheme Debuts, Gets Hacked

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Harvard and CommerceNet researchers report breaking Vidoop, a new two-factor graphical authentication scheme for banks. The scheme requires users to remember "image categories" to login and is supposedly invulnerable to phishing attacks, keyloggers and "all prevalent forms of hacking" (according to theri website and their TV commercial on YouTube). The researchers describe how they broke the scheme in a few hours with a man-in-the-middle attack, and they posted a video of the attack. This is related to the attack on Bank of America's SiteKey by the boarding pass hacker and to the Harvard study on SiteKey that shows how easily users get phished.
Movies

Submission + - Warner cancels Canadian Promos due to Piracy

Submitted by sunwukong
sunwukong writes: Warner Brothers has decided that Canada is such a force in the world of movie piracy that they have cancelled all public promo screenings of their upcoming movies.


"The newly enacted policy represents the studio's response to the lack of legislation in Canada to curtail the growing wave of camcorder-shot ("camcorded") films being trafficked around the world," Warner Bros. said in a statement.
Security

Submission + - 22000 SSN's stolen from Univ. of Missouri Database

Submitted by Anonymous UM Employee
Anonymous UM Employee writes: 22000 records containing Social Security numbers have been stolen from a database at the University of Missouri. The records affected were of employees employed at any UM campus in 2004 and who had attended the University of Missouri — Columbia as students at any time before that. The compromised database was one used by IT services for tracking help desk quality. See the Press Release or the IT Services QA page for more details. This was the letter that I received:
Dear University of Missouri Employee:
A University of Missouri database was breached beginning May 3, compromising more than 22,000 names and social security numbers. Those affected include employees of any campus within the UM system during calendar year 2004 who were also current or former students at the Columbia campus.
Of those employees affected, nearly 9,000 are still employed by the University of Missouri. These employees will receive an individual e-mail outlining the specifics of the incident along with detailed instructions about how to proceed. Emails to affected employees have already been sent. If you did not already receive a separate email, you are not one of the employees affected and no further action is required.
The University of Missouri is committed to protecting the confidentiality of all employee information. A recent project has been in progress to remove social security numbers from university databases in an effort to avoid such breaches of confidentiality. As this extensive process continues, please be advised the university is doing everything possible to ensure the safety of its data.
For more information about the security breach, please access the Computer Security Web page that includes a question-and-answer section regarding the event at http://doit.missouri.edu/computersecurity.
Slashdot.org

Submission + - Percent of Spam Content in Slashdot RSS Firehose

Submitted by
bubblah
bubblah writes: "We signed up for the Slashdot fire hose about a week or so back and it is bringing to mind the vast amount of things submitted to Slashdot that just don't make sense. There is a large amount of spam, fly by night, ooh look at me, religious items that are submitted, and stand little chance of making it into the system. Story located here http://techwag.com/index.php/2007/05/07/rss-feed-o verload-the-slashdot-fire-hose/"
The Internet

Submission + - BitTorrent President Responds to Ohio U. P2P Ban

Submitted by P2P watcher
P2P watcher writes: Ashwin Navin, president of BitTorrent, weighs in on the ban on P2P at Ohio U...
"By instituting this ban, Ohio University has demonstrated a serious lack of understanding of P2P technology's value and role on the Internet. Furthermore, the school has closed its doors to innovation and shirked its responsibilities as an educational institution."

http://news.com.com/The+P2P+mistake+at+Ohio+Univer sity/2010-1027_3-6181676.html?tag=nefd.top
PlayStation (Games)

Submission + - PS3 Linux performs Real Time Ray Tracing

Submitted by
fistfullast33l
fistfullast33l writes: "A video posted on You Tube shows three PS3s networked together to perform Real Time Ray Tracing. Keep in mind that PS3 Linux runs in a hypervisor, so the RSX graphics chip is not being used at all. Even more impressive, PS3 Fanboy is reporting that Linux also limits the number of SPEs to 6 at once, so not all the horsepower on each of the PS3s is being utilized. According to the You Tube Summary, IBM Cell SDK 2.0 is being used for the IBM Interactive Ray-tracer (iRT). This apparently was done by the same team that presented a tech demo at GDC 2007 of a Linux PS3 rendering a 3 million polygon scene in real time at 1080p resolution."
PHP

Submission + - Current state of PHP security, with MOPB recap

Submitted by
cail
cail writes: "J. Forristal over at SPI Dynamics just completed an article on The current state of PHP security (w/ MOPB full review). The article first looks at the overall outcome of the Month of PHP Bugs (MOPB), showing statistics such as 12% of the MOPB bugs have not been fixed to date (deduced by reviewing all PHP CVS commits), and going over which bugs PHP users should be worried about. The article then switches gears and figures out that a plague of phpinfo.php pages on the Internet may be due to default Gallery installations and overzealous hosting providers. Then the article launches into an overview of some PHP configure.sh options and php.ini settings which users can use to make PHP proactively more secure. The article finishes up with some thoughts on source code scanners (and the Coverity open source scan project) and long-term programming advice, all relating back to PHP's history with a little bit of PHP trivia thrown in for kicks."
Communications

Submission + - FCC: No Mobile Calls On Airplanes

Submitted by narramissic
narramissic writes: All you frequent business fliers can breathe a sigh of relief — at least for now. The FCC has ended a proceeding that would have allowed mobile phone calls on airplanes. If 'appropriate techincal data' becomes available, however, the FCC said it could reconsider the issue.
Power

Submission + - Daylight Saving Change: No savings, No point

Submitted by Giolon
Giolon writes: Ars Technica is reporting that the plan to enter daylight savings early in order to save power has been largely a bust:

"As it turns out, the US Department of Energy (and almost everyone else except members of Congress) was correct when they predicted that there would be little energy savings. This echoed concerns voiced after a similar experiment was attempted in Australia. Critics pointed out a basic fact: the gains in the morning will be offset by the losses at night, and vice-versa, at both ends of the switch. That appears to be exactly what happened."
Announcements

Submission + - Portugal Celebrates Massive Solar Plant

Submitted by SolarPower
SolarPower writes: A project slated to become the world's largest-producing solar power plant was inaugurated Wednesday in Portugal, though construction actually began last summer. The 11-megawatt 61 million euro ($78.5 million) plant, a joint project of U.S. and Portuguese energy companies, spreads across a 150-acre hillside in Serpa, 124 miles southeast of Lisbon.
United States

Submission + - California scrutinizing Diebold voting machines

Submitted by
christian.einfeldt
christian.einfeldt writes: "During her successful campaign for California Secretary of State, newly-minted California Elections Czar Debra Bowen spoke repeatedly of the need to use free open source software in voting machines to ensure the integrity of California's elections. Now that Secretary Bowen is acting on that campaign pledge, closed-source voting machine vendor Diebold worries aloud that rejecting its black-box voting machines could snarl California's elections, according to this detailed article by Contra Costa Times reporter Ian Hoffman. Diebold's concerns come at the same time that it is suing Massachusetts for "wrongfully" declining to purchase those same voting machines."

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