December
20, 2003
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- New
3D Picture Now On Tech Talk Website
- Made
by Dave Roe from EMR
Group
- iPIX®
patented immersive technology.
- The
EMR Group offers
the whole picture through interactive, spherical images providing
users a complete field of view from earth to sky, floor to ceiling,
horizon to horizon.
- Identity
Theft -- Low Tech, High Profit Activity (Requires
Free Registration)
- FTC
estimates loses of $53 billion per year
- Seven
million victimized in 2002
- An
interview with Stephen Massey provides insight into “best practices”
- Discovered
his first victims at the dump in the recycling shed
- He
found a big barrel of discarded tax forms from an accounting
firm
- He
then harvested dumpsters at hospitals, accounting firms, and
law firms
- Some
hack databases or use “phishing” sites and emails. This is the
exception rather than the rule
- Used
a team of drug addicts to do his collecting.
- After
getting the data for a new victim, he would
- Run
a credit check to see if they owned a home
- Apply
for credit card using an on-line credit-card company and get
an instant line of credit for 1K to 5K
- Use
the victims current address and then indicate a recent move
- Use
PO Box for current address
- Use
pre-paid cell phone for phone number
- Pay
off one credit with a second card to keep a good account alive
- Massey
stole identity of over 400 people and stole over $1M before
being caught.
- One
of his addict collectors led police to him.
- Company
insiders also provide much information
- Auditors,
consultants, security experts have access to passwords
- Sell
records for $60 each
- Keystroke
loggers and sniffer programs can also be used at public computers
and terminals.
- Fortune
Magazine Winners and Losers
- Worst
Technology
- Winner:
Paperless Voting
- Runner-up:
Surgically implanted RFID
- Last
year: Darpa’s Total Information Awareness with John Poindexter.
- Best
Technology
- Camera
Phones
- Started
with one-megapixel, fixed focus
- Casio
just introduces two-megapixels, 10X digital zoom, autofocus
- May
be banned from health clubs and other private areas
- Best
of the Rest
- Apple
Power Mac G5 ($1,799
- 64-bit
PowerPC G5 processor (up to two)
- Gateway
42-inch HD Plasma TV ($4,000)
- Pioneer-810HS
DVD Recorder with TiVo ($1,000)
- Hardrive
and DVD-R to store
- TiVo
convenience
- Why
RealNetworks Sued Microsoft
- RealNetworks
filed an anti-trust lawsuit against Microsoft
- MS
refused to disclose or delayed disclosing AIP relating to Secure
Audio Pathway, a MS technology that encrypts audio streams to the
audio card
- Tactics
are the same as those employed against Netscape
- MS
want to control the distribution of digital media and is giving
away its digital media products at zero or negative prices
- MS
selectively licensed Secure Audio Pathway (SAP) to RealNetworks
competitors
- MS
used similar tactics against Sun
- Suit
is aimed at stopping MS attempt to “dominate the creation, delivery,
and playback of media, regardless of the device used for delivery
or playback.”
- Peer-to-Peer
News
- RIAA
loses Verizon appeal
- RIAA
is Record Industry Association of America
- RIAA
asked Verizon for list customers who were sharing MP3 songs
- Court
denied request calling some of RIAA’s arguments silly
- Good
the consumers
- Dutch
Court Rules Kazaa legal
- Ruled
that it is lawful to make Kazaa software available
- Said
that Kazaa could not be held liable for copyright-infringements
- Ruling
came to too late to save Kazaa
- Sale
already complete to Sharman Networks
- Wal-Mart
gets into online song business
- Selling
songs for 88 cents each
- Undercutting
Apple's iTunes Music Store price (99 cents)
- Let
the competition begin, consumers will win
- Government
Issues First Do-Not-Call Citation
- FCC
accused CPM, Inc (Irvine CA) of making eight telemarketing calls
to people who listed their names on the Do Not Call Registry.
- FCC
permitted to fine up to $11,000 per violation
- You
can register complaints by going to DoNotCall Registry
- Click
on file a complaint
- To
file a complaint now, your phone number must have been on the
registry for three months.
- To
file a complaint, we need the date you got the call, and either
the name or telephone number of the company that called you.
- Top
Ten Things to Do with Old Computer
- Learn
Networking (Ethernet)
- Make
a Multimedia Player (Sound card, hook to stereo, jukebox program,
MP3s)
- Try
Multiplayer Games (Doom95)
- Install
Linux
- Make
Server (shared files, shared printers, shared MP3s)
- Donate
to church or school
- Take
it apart
- Strip
it and sell the parts on eBay
- Turn
it into an aquarium (Macquarium)
- Here
is one already built
- “Who
needs a screen saver when you can have real fish in your old
Mac?”
- Recycle
it ($5 to $15 cost)
- Guard
Against Spyware and Adware
- Download
“free” software can be dangerous
- Trojan
software communicates your surfing habits and delivers ads that
match your interests
- Locate
and destroy spyware/adware with Spybot
- MSBlaster
and the August 14th Blackout
- MS
Blaster Facts
- Exploits
a flaw with the Remote Procedure Call (RPC) process, which controls
activities such as file sharing.
- The
flaw enables the attacker to gain full access to the system.
- The
vulnerability affects Windows NT, Windows 2000 and Windows XP
- MS
Blaster hit the Internet August 11, 2003
- Infected
more than one million machines in the days following
- Timeline
for blackout
- At
2:14 pm the alarm and logging software in FirstEnergy’s control
room failed
- Six
minutes later, several remote control consoles failed
- At
2:41 pm, the primary server computer hosting alarm functions
failed
- For
over an hour no one in FirstEnergy’s control room grasp that
their computer systems were not operating properly
- The
State Estimator computer, which is used to check the power grid
itself, failed at 12:15pm.
- The
cascading power failure was not detected in the critical first
hour
- Bruce
Schnierer, CNet, speculates that the failure of the various computers
looks like a computer worm wending its way through FirstEnergy’s
operational computers
- Other
worms have caused trouble
- Slammer
worm knocked out 911 emergency telephone service in Bellevue
- Natchi
worm disabled automatic teller machines (ATM) made by Diebold
- Stratford
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