An Internet security specialist says a new threat forces computers to install faked Google software, which then goes phishing. Phishing is where e-mails, IM (instant messages) or Web sites parody a legitimate company, and try to get users to provide personal information or financial account numbers and passwords.

The latest cases involve bogus Google software spread via IM, and appear to be a variety of the infamous CoolWebSearch phishing scheme, according to Foster City-Calif.-based FaceTime Security Labs. CoolWebSearch has never been spread via IM before.

In the recent cases, IM users unwittingly download a rogue tool bar, which is installed on a Web browser and provides easier access to an Internet search provider.

The only working feature on the fake Google Toolbar saves credit card details, according to Christopher Boyd, the security research manager of Foster City, Calif.-based FaceTime Security Labs. A bevy of others, including one to "enable pornographic ads," do not work.

IM is increasingly a target of phishers, as the latest attacks show. "Full Article"

W32.Sober.Q@mm is a mass-mailing worm that uses its own SMTP engine to spread. It sends itself as an email attachment to addresses gathered from the compromised computer. The email may be in either English or German. It has been reported that it may arrive as one of the following files and that inside the ZIP archive is a file named PW_Klass.Pic.packed-bitmap.exe:

• KlassenFoto.zip
• pword_change.zip

• Also Known As:	CME-151, Sober.Y [Panda Software], W32/Sober.r@MM [McAfee], WORM_SOBER.AC [Trend Micro]
  Type:	Worm
  Infection Length:	Varies
  Systems Affected:	Windows 2000, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP

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Google Inc. took a step toward challenging Microsoft Corp.'s dominance of computer software with the announcement Tuesday of a collaboration agreement with Sun Microsystems Inc.

The move could lead to Google offering next-generation word processing, spreadsheet and collaboration tools that would take on Microsoft's industry-leading Office suite of software.

But for now its significance may be mostly as a symbolic shot across Microsoft's bow, signaling Google's intention of attacking the world's biggest software company head on.

This does not seem to be enough to be a Microsoft Killer. I still feel the company in the best position to take on MS, as if we have to kill the giant would certainly be Apple. I still like windows XP it is a fair priced OS. It does everything I like to do very well. It is for the most part very stable in light of the fact that the entire world is trying to beat it up.

If Apple tomorrow said, we have tested Tiger and you can now install it to any Intel based computer. This would be a serious change in the game.

Scott Hanselman posted a great tutorial for hooking a web cam to Dotnet. I personally found the entire concept a fun weekend adventure.  To read the article "Click Here".

Scott Hanselman is the Chief Architect at the Corillian Corporation, an eFinance enabler. He has twelve years' experience developing software in C, C++, VB, COM, and most recently in VB.NET and C#. 

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has rejected two key Microsoft patent applications relating to its File Allocation Table file system. But Microsoft officials still hold out hope that the company ultimately will succeed in the quest to patent FAT.

Microsoft officials said their reaction was upbeat because the USPTO did not reject the patent applications on the basis of prior art claims. In fact, according to David Kaefer, Microsoft's director of business development, the USPTO ruled in Microsoft's favor on all of the FAT prior art claims, including the prior art submitted by Pubpat.

If Microsoft successfully commercializes its six FAT patents—we attacked the oldest and narrowest of them—as it is trying to do with hardware manufacturers like those of flash cards and digital cameras that format such file systems manufacturers, then it could be possible for Microsoft to argue that anybody using a free software system that reads and writes to the MS DOS FAT file system also has to pay a royalty.

Microsoft claims it developed FAT in 1976. FAT has become a ubiquitous format, used for data storage and data interchange between computers and digital devices such as cameras and USB memory sticks.

Can't we all just get along?  With all the data from a recent Bagle outbreak, and most of the identifications are just Bagle, but they're almost all different specific variants.  The confusion this causes, and specifically look at the three big anti-virus companies: McAfee, Symantec and Trend Micro use names bearing no resemblance to each other.

In the heat of a malware outbreak there is usually a lot of confusion about what variant of what worm is involved? Is it just a new variant or a completely new worm? Inconsistencies between vendors about variant indices and virus names add to the confusion.

Larry Seltzer wrote a couple articles on the topic and I am in total agreement. One can only guess at how confused a novice home user is by all the naming issues.

Finnish anti-virus specialist F-Secure has dived headfirst into the crowded anti-spyware market, rolling out a new consumer-facing security suite that promises to detect unwanted programs before a PC becomes injected.

F-Secure Corp.'s new F-Secure Internet Security 2006 offers technology to tackle the problem of inadvertently installed spyware and adware programs that sneak onto computers via file-sharing networks. F-Secure is also the first vendor to ship rootkit detection technology into a consumer product offering, giving the company an early entry into a potentially lucrative market. A rootkit is described as a malicious program that uses system hooks to conceal its presence on the system. For instance, it monitors if the user opens the Windows Task Manager in order to keep itself out of the list of processes. Security researchers have discovered evidence of malware writers using stealth rootkit features to hide spyware and other malicious programs on Windows machines.  "Learn more"

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Many times I get this php question; How do I use a different mail server than is mentioned in the Php.ini to send mail from a web site form?

The simple way is to have something like this included as part of the doc. By placing this at the top of the doc you can define it to your php scripts. A special note though many hosts use a internal relay server as a preferred. This is due to the fact that they force authentication in order to send mail from their mail servers. You may wish to check with your web host to make sure if this does not work. They would typically give you the name of the internal relay server that would handle this outbound mail. This would go into the field "mail.domainname.com".

ini_set('SMTP', "mail.domainname.com");
ini_set('sendmail_from', "noreply@domainname.com");

Why should you use DU Meter? There are many reasons why you might want to monitor your network activity. Watching your data transfer rates can be very enlightening as you download a web page, email, or a software application. This will give you a much better idea of how long the operation will take. It will also let you know how efficient your Internet connection is. And it can alert you of dangerous or unexpected network activity. If you are trying to improve your performance over the Internet and you are going to spend some time optimizing your configuration for maximum download speeds, it's critical that you accurately monitor your download speeds or data transfer rates so you can compare them at various settings.

DU Meter can also come in very handy to monitor whether some dangerous unknown activity is occurring while you are online. How can you tell whether data is either being uploaded to or downloaded from your computer behind the scenes while you are online? You get some idea of data flow when using your browser, email or FTP program, but what happens if some unknown application has installed itself and is sending or receiving data without you knowing about it? Obviously this is NOT something you want to think about, but it happens to people every day. Also, if you are on a LAN or local network, you can immediately see if someone is accessing your computer and transferring information. The problem of Trojans, worms and other hidden files which can raid your system completely in the background is a serious one, one that is becoming more and more common. Don't let this happen to you! DU Meter can monitor this activity for you 100% of the time and let you know if data is flowing behind your back. You can then log off from your ISP immediately and terminate the activity.  Screen Shots

AOpen, a member company of the world’s leading IT products supplier Acer Group, drops one of its blockbusters – Mini PC -- at Computex Taipei 2005. Mini PC, a revolutionary IT products developed in cooperation with Intel Corp., proclaims the advent of the “miniaturized personal computing age”, according to Bernie Tsai, president of AOpen Inc. “The launch of the unique Mini PC testifies the strong R&D capability of AOpen and demonstrates that the product development expertise of our company takes the leading position in the world,” Tsai elaborates.

Aopen said it will ship its mini PC code-named "Pandora" to US retailers in time to make the Christmas season. While there were no details available on product specs, the prototype shown for the first time at Computex in May of this year, integrated a Pentium M processor, 256 MByte of system memory as well as a 40 GByte harddrive. According to Aopen, Pandora will be "smaller" than Apple's Mac mini, which currently ships with a 1.25 GHz G4 processor, 512 MByte memory, a 40 GByte harddrive and a mobile Radeon graphics chip with 32 MByte of memory.

Web browser developer Opera Software has permanently removed the ad banner and licensing fee from its Web browser, focusing instead on creating revenue from integrated search functionality.

"It feels good to be able to do this, because we think it will give users a better experience," said Opera communications director Tor Odland. "For us, it will help us increase market share and make ourselves available to those outside the technological world."

"It's an excellent time for browsers that are an alternative to Internet Explorer," Odland noted. "We're joining Firefox in the crusade to win IE users."

"At one point, Opera had the room to eat away at IE's market, but it could be that now it's too late," he said. "Adoption with Firefox is slowing as the early adopter crowd is drying up. That means Opera and Firefox will have to compete for the mainstream, where there are fewer converts available for alternative browsers."

In addition to its model change, Opera also noted that two security vulnerabilities reported by Secunia on Tuesday have been patched in the most recent browser, Opera 8.50.

   The recent increase of Bagle variants are being spammed out in large quantities through a distributed network of compromised machines, called botnets. Some of the variants are older versions of the Bagle virus, repacked to avoid detection. The new Bagles are Trojan downloaders, which retrieve and install malicious files from a pre-programmed Web site location and create a backdoor on a machine. This distribution mechanism causes variants to spread outside of the spam channels and leaves unprotected users or systems with outdated virus signatures vulnerable to attack.

   ESET is providing a free remover for the most prevalent variants of the Bagle worms, which can be downloaded at www.eset.com.
   
   ESET's Virus Radar (www.virusradar.com), a real-time malware tracking tool, identified the new Bagle variants using NOD32. Virus Radar provides site visitors with easy access to in-depth analysis of the latest malicious outbreaks and processes approximately four million email messages per day to provide information such as the exact date a virus was first detected and its current detection rate. Virus Radar is also capable of tracking the progression of a single virus over a given period -- in some instances from the earliest heuristic detection of a new virus to the point where the virus disappears.

MSN Launches Paid-Search Service in France and Singapore

NEW YORK — Sept. 26, 2005 — Today, Yusuf Mehdi, senior vice president of the MSN^® Information Services & Merchant Platform division, opened the second annual Advertising Week 2005 in New York City by announcing the official launch of adCenter in France and Singapore. adCenter powers a paid-search service from MSN that provides advanced audience intelligence and targeting capabilities to help advertisers improve their return on investment when it comes to paid-search advertising.

The official launch of adCenter in France today and Singapore on Aug. 31 follows successful pilot programs in both countries. U.S. testing of adCenter is set to begin in October.

“adCenter is helping us apply more flexibility and control in our paid-search advertising campaigns because it gives us the tools to learn so much more about the kind of people who are searching on MSN,” said Stuart Larkins, vice president of Search for Performics Inc., a division of DoubleClick Inc., which participated in the test.

Powerful campaign management tools and deep audience intelligence unique to MSN make it easy for advertisers to optimize and refine their campaigns to reach a specific audience. Some of those tools include the following:

•	Keyword Selection allows advertisers to indicate whom they want to reach based on geographic location, gender, age range, time of day and day of week, and suggests keywords based on the desired audience.
•	Site Analyzer assists advertisers by suggesting keywords based on the content of their Web site, rather than on another keyword.
•	Audience Profiler provides advertisers with an expected profile of those customers who are most likely to search for specific keywords.
•	Cost Estimator helps advertisers remain within their budget by estimating rank, traffic and cost per month per keyword.
•	Campaign Optimization allows advertisers to respond quickly and decisively throughout the campaign to easily refine budget allocations and keywords, as well as apply targeting filters such as geographic, demographic and dayparting.
•	Post Sales Audience Intelligence & Reporting provides advertisers with detailed reports on campaign performance and audiences reached including click-through rate, estimated position and spending levels. In the near future, adCenter will become a one-stop shop from which advertisers can manage all their MSN advertising campaigns, end to end, including display and direct ads. In addition, advertisers will be able to use advanced targeting tools and audience intelligence data to reach their desired audiences across the MSN network. Advertisers interested in learning more or signing up for adCenter can go to http://advertising.msn.com.

I am still seeing my OLD DNS information can you fix my problem?? Heres the fix.

Run/CMD: ipconfig /flushdns This should do the trick if it is not being cached by your ISP. This works if your machine is just refusing to go take another look. It could have the wrong path cached and believes it is the correct answer.

The Mozilla Foundation has released a new version of its Firefox browser that fixes two critical security bugs in the software that were reported over the past week.

The most widely reported flaw concerns the International Domain Name (IDN) feature that Mozilla products use to process Web pages that do not use the Latin alphabet (see "Security flaw targets Firefox, Linux users").

Links pointing to a host with a long name composed entirely of dashes could be crafted so that earlier versions of Firefox would execute arbitrary code of an attacker's choosing. That means an attacker theoretically could use the flaw to take control of a user's machine by launching a buffer overflow attack.

Firefox 1.0.7, released this morning, also fixes a critical flaw in the way the Mozilla software handles Unix and Linux shell commands that could allow attackers to run unauthorized software on some systems, said Chris Beard, head of products with Mozilla Corp.

All Firefox users are encouraged to download the new release, which also contains a number of minor changes designed to make the browser more stable and secure.

The plan calls for a reorganization of Microsoft into three large divisions led by individual presidents, each reporting to Steve Ballmer, Microsoft's chief executive.

•  Jeff Raikes will head up the company's Business division, which will house Microsoft's Information Worker group (which includes its Office product line), and its Business Solutions packaged applications group.

•  Kevin Johnson and Jim Allchin will be co-presidents of the Platform Products and Services division, which will comprise Windows Client, Server and Tools and the MSN division. Microsoft said Allchin will hold that new position until he retires, once the company ships Windows Vista at the end of next year.

•  Robbie Bach will be president of the Entertainment and Devices division, which will oversee games and mobile device development.

The huge reorganization is designed to streamline the company's decision-making process and improve product development, Ballmer said in a statement.

In the past several months, some insiders and former employees have said that Microsoft has become too bureaucratic and process-driven to compete with nimbler competitors such as Google.

"Our goal in making these changes is to enable Microsoft to achieve greater agility in managing the incredible growth ahead and executing our software-based services strategy," Ballmer wrote in an e-mail sent to employees on Tuesday.

Security researchers at Panda Software say they have discovered a new worm that generates a spoofed version of Google, the Web's most popular search engine.

The company's PandaLabs unit reported late Friday that it had identified a worm it has labeled as P2Load.A that creates a fake Google site, and launches adware on infected computers.

The security software maker, which is based in Bilbao, Spain, said that the attack spreads via peer-to-peer, or P2P, computer networks, specifically the Shareaza and Imesh programs.

Panda said that the P2Load.A threat copies itself onto the shared directory of the P2P software as an executable file named after a Star Wars-themed video game, Knights of the Old Republic 2, and lures end users into launching the virus on their machines using a faked error message. Once the virus has been sprung, it immediately modifies the computer's start page, launches the adware and spoofs Google.

As part of its delivery function, the P2Load.A attack modifies an infected computer's Hosts file so that when an unsuspecting user attempts to call up the search engine, they are instead diverted to the mocked-up version of the site, which Panda said was hosted somewhere in Germany. The fraudulent page appears as an exact copy of Google and supports all 17 languages that the search site is offered in. The virus has also been designed to redirect people who mistype Google's URL into their browsers, and will pop up if someone mistakenly types wwwgoogle.com, www.gogle.com, or www.googel.com.

-- Symantec observed that denial-of-service attacks grew from an average of 119 per day to 927 per day during the first half of 2005 -- a 680% increase over the previous reporting period. The most frequently targeted industry was education, followed by small business and financial services.

-- The time between the disclosure of a vulnerability and the release of associated exploit code decreased from 6.4 days to 6.0 days. In addition, an average of 54 days elapsed between the appearance of a vulnerability and the release of an associated patch by the affected vendor. This means that, on average, 48 days elapsed between the release of an exploit and the release of an associated patch; during this time, systems are either vulnerable or administrators are forced to create their own workarounds to protect against exploitation.

-- During the first half of 2005, Symantec documented 1,862 new vulnerabilities -- the highest number ever recorded in the Internet Security Threat Report. 97% of these vulnerabilities were classified as moderate or high in severity, and 59% of all vulnerabilities were found in Web application technologies, marking an increase of 59% over the previous reporting period and a 109% increase over the first six months of 2004.

-- A growing number of Win32 viruses and worm variants were also reported during the first half of 2005. Symantec documented 10,866 new Win32 virus and worm variants, an increase of 48% over the previous reporting period and 142% over the first half of 2004.

-- Adware, spyware, and spam continue to propogate, according to the report. Eight of the top 10 adware programs were installed through Web browsers. Of the top 10 adware programs reported, five hijacked browsers. Six of the top 10 spyware programs were bundled with other programs and six were installed through Web browsers. Symantec also observed that spam made up 61% of all e-mail traffic and that 51% of all spam received worldwide originated in the United States.

-- An analysis of future and emerging trends concluded that an increase in the number of attacks and threats directed at wireless networks is likely. In addition, Voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) threats are expected to emerge as more enterprises merge their data and voice networks.  "Full Article"

Mac users are "operating under a false sense of security," according to Symantec Corp., and Firefox users will have to recognize that the popular open-source Web browser is currently a greater security risk than Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer.

Symantec's latest Internet Security Threat Report, published today, found evidence that attackers are beginning to organize for attacks on the Mac operating system. Researchers also found that over the past six months, nearly twice as many vulnerabilities surfaced in Mozilla browsers as in Explorer.

"It is now clear that the Mac OS is increasingly becoming a target for the malicious activity, contrary to popular belief that the Mac OS is immune to traditional security concerns," the report said.  "Full Article"

Apple CEO Steve Jobs vowed Tuesday to repel "greedy" record companies' demands for higher music download prices, warning that any such move would encourage piracy.

Jobs, speaking before the opening of the Apple Expo in Paris, said some music majors were pushing for an increase in prices on Apple's online iTunes Music Store.

Apple's co-founder and CEO said record companies already earn more profit from songs sold through iTunes — cutting out costs of manufacturing, marketing and returns — than from those sold on CD.

"So if they want to raise the prices it just means they're getting a little greedy," he said.

As their contracts with Apple come up for renewal, music companies are seeking to improve their take from sales through the U.S. iTunes site, which charges 99 cents per song. Prices are typically higher in Europe, Japan and other regions.

 Password Safe

Password Safe is a tool that allows you to have a different password for all the different programs and websites that you deal with, without actually having to remember all those usernames and passwords. Password Safe runs on PCs under Windows (95/98/NT/2000/XP). An older (but fully functional) version is available for PocketPC. Linux/Unix clones that use the same database format have also been written (see Related Projects).   "Latest version" 

Originally created by Bruce Schneier's Counterpane Labs, Password Safe has opened it's source, and development and maintenance has been handed off to Jim Russell. Currently, the PasswordSafe Open Source project is being administered by Rony Shapiro.

VisualHash - hash calculator click for full size VisualHash is a hash calculator that enables you to calculate hash sums of files and text snippets. It offers a drag and drop interface that can process multiple files at once. The program is fairly simple and does not allow you to compare or validate hashes, however it supports a large number of algorithms, and you can choose to generate as many of them as you need. The list of computed hashes can be copied to the clipboard. Supported algorithms include Adler-32, Cksum-32, CRC-16, CRC-16-CCITT, CRC-16-XModem, CRC-32, CRC-32-MPEG2, CRC-64, ELF-32, FCS-16, FNV-32, FNV-64, GOST, MD2, MD4, MD5, PJW-32, SDBM-32, SHA-1, SHA-256, SHA-384, SHA-512, Sum-32 and XUM-32 and many more.  License: Freeware Price: Free Windows: 98/ME/NT/2000/XP Requires:  .NET Framework File size: 72 kb Author: Dominik Reichl Version: 1.0 Added: Sep 16, 2005 Our Rating (Good) Popularity Overall Rank n/a User Opinions Be the first to rate it!

Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles, Microsoft demonstrated its Atlas development software for Ajax-style programming. An early preview is now available. Using Dynamic HTML (DHTML) and asynchronous server communications, Atlas offers server-side extensions to ASP.Net and client-side scripting libraries in JavaScript that work on many browsers and platforms, according to a Microsoft representative. This is intended to make it easier to build rich Web experiences.

Microsoft is compelled to offer an Ajax solution, said analyst John Rymer, vice president of application development and infrastructure at Forrester Research Inc.

"It fills a gap within their development environment. They didn't address Ajax at all," Rymer said. "I think a lot of people are overestimating Ajax, how valuable it's going to be. But a lot of people are using it, and Microsoft just had no answer."

He added that Ajax is just scripting. Although flexible and easy, it is difficult to maintain applications written with scripts because of a lack of structure, he said. "It's not a silver bullet."  "Full Article" "More Here"

A "social" Web browser, called Flock, has been created to meet the needs of a new generation of web users who want to edit, comment on and share web content, rather than just peruse it.

Of course this is a double edge sword; While I assume it matters little to someones blog. The concept is certainly not for commercial web sites. It is clear the web should support more methods of direct interaction. "New Scientist" 

The Redmond, Wash., software company instituted a new policy for all developers that bans functions using the DES, MD4, MD5 and, in some cases, the SHA1 encryption algorithm, which is becoming "creaky at the edges," said Michael Howard, senior security program manager at the company, Howard said.

MD4 and MD5 are instances of the Message Digest algorithm that was developed at MIT in the early 1990s and uses a cryptographic hash function to verify the integrity of data. "Eweek article"

While Bruce Schneier, and other experts in the field outlined the end of MD5.  It appears that MS is at least listening to some degree. Though one would think they would be on the edge at least they are not ignoring this. Seems that scraping SHA1 is also in their best interest as well.

The next and more serious question is what about all the exsisting use, that is in production. Is the problem so serious that we cannot get beyond it? As I have stated I am certainly no crypto expert. It seems a fair question, and is some cause for concern.

Google chief executive Eric Schmidt said few of the company's recent hires have been as significant as Cerf, widely regarded as one of the internet's creators because of his seminal work developing the network's essential communications protocols, TCP/IP, at Stanford University in the 1970s.

"He is one of the most important people alive today," said Schmidt, who has been friends with Cerf for more than 20 years. "Vint has put his heart and soul into making the internet happen. I know he is going to jump right in here and start shoveling out new ideas for Google."

When he starts work at Google on Oct. 3, Cerf's official title will be "chief Internet evangelist," but he is determined to be more than a figurehead or detached visionary.

"What I have done in the past is not going to be important at Google," Cerf said, "What's important at Google is what you are doing today and what you going to do tomorrow. That's the metric I will be measured by."

Cerf will remain chairman of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the oversight agency for internet domain names.

He also will continue as a visiting scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where he has been focusing on a very Google-like project — trying to figure out a way to connect the internet to outer space. He said working at Google is "really my dream job."

Oracle Corp. announced Tuesday that it is shipping Oracle Database 10g Release 2 on the Windows platform.

The move gives the company's Windows-based customers the ability to tap into enhancements made to the version, specifically in the areas of grid computing, performance, scalability and security.

"This announcement is one in a long line of those we've already made that show our commitment to the Windows platform and its users," said Willie Hardie, Oracle senior director of product management.

Oracle has served customers on Microsoft Corp. platforms since 1985, and in May 2004, the company joined the Microsoft Visual Studio Industry Partner program to offer better integration between Oracle Database and Visual Studio .Net 2003.

Hardie added that the release will allow developers to tap into core functionality that's designed to increase scalability and management at an affordable cost.

Oracle Database 10g Release 2 incorporates new features geared toward Windows developers, such as extensions for .Net, which include stored procedures. The feature allows developers to use the .Net language they prefer, which Oracle believes will reduce the time needed to build and deploy its database applications.

Windows customers will also be able to tap into Release 2's regular features, including automatic storage management, transparent data encryption, real application clusters and support for the W3C XML query standard.

Google UnSafeSearch

Google, like most major search engines, provides a filtering mechanism to remove results from their searches that may offend uptight or insecure people. Strong language, porn and such. What they don't do, however, is provide a way to view only that content which is deemed unfit for family audiences. Enter UnSafeSearch, this page will do a search on google both with and without SafeSearch(tm), and return only those results SafeSearch removes.