Hacking activity reported on Linux boxes
Further to our report of the Weekend's Windows attacks, DMXzone author Gareth Downes-Powell wrote:
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Back to School Student Contest
Macromedia kicks of the Back to School season with new student contest.
The contest is designed to inspire students to create digital experiences that challenge, provoke, educate, and entertain, while rewarding and providing exposure for student authors of outstanding content.
The Macromedia 2003 Back to School Student Contest features a People’s Choice Award and a Macromedia Expert Award for each of three categories – “Build Stuff,” “Create,” or “Not Normal”. Students compete against their peers and vote for their favorites in December. The deadline for submissions is November 15, 2003. Complete program information and submission instructions are at www.macromedia.com/go/studentcontest/.
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The Big Hack Starting?
As we mentioned in our newsletter, there's a lot of news about a potential big hack beginning tomorrow. is it starting now?
The U.S. Homeland Security Department cautioned Wednesday that it had detected an "Internet-wide increase in scanning" for victim computers. I've personally seen a 300% increase in alerts from my firewall - and there's rumours on newsgroups about several big hosting companies suffering 24 hour outages.
The hack alert comes after the recent alerts of critical security flaws in Microsoft's DirectX software. A chinese group, Xfocus ("From the Internet. For the Internet. Have fun!") posted code exploiting the flaw.
Could be a very long weekend. Let us know if you hear of anyone going down.
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Wanted: The World's Best Programmer - salary: outrageous.
Location: SuperYacht. Salary: Outrageous. The Hours are a very reasonable 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. You will be working for an inconsiderate, insensitive, demanding swine that expects everything to be done yesterday and is intolerant of feeble excuses like "It's impossible".
Advert in The Times (found on MetaFilter)
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Goodbye IE, says Tim Bray
Tim Bray was a co-inventor of XML and speaks at lots of conferences on the future of the Web. Last week he wrote on why IE is history. Read MoreGeneral
ASP.NET is better than PHP
says Microsoft.
"No it isn't" says php architect.
"Yes it is", say Microsoft.
What do you say?
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24 July - New Windows Critical Security Patch
Only one week after the last critical Windows Security Flaw, the BBC reports another one.
The flaw involves DirectX, an extensive collection of programming add-ons for Windows used by computer games. If exploited, the flaw could allow a malicious hacker to run their own specially crafted computer code to plant a virus or even take over a machine.
Here's the patch. Here's Lindows, a Linux based Operating system, with the ease of Windows, but without the security flaws.
(Part 455788 in a series of 940923)
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KaZaa users hunted down by RIAA like the dogs they are!
Now that the two sons of Saddam are toast, it's time to focus on Enemies of Freedom #2. Yes, of course, I mean Kazaa users - those sapping the lifeblood of those record companies who find and nurture talent like Atomic Kitten, Tatu, Shania Twain and the Cheeky Girls.
The RIAA have a list of those users that they are pursuing. Are you on the list? Tell us what you think!
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10 Most Dangerous Web Vulnerabilities
The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) released their list of top 10 vulnerabilities in web applications.
(found by Bruce)
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