Day: May 23, 2006

Sony rootkit settlement gets final nod – ZDNet

Sony rootkit settlement gets final nod | Tech News on ZDNet For more info click on above link A federal judge on Monday gave final approval to a settlement in a class action suit against Sony BMG Music Entertainment over anticopying software the company had embedded in some music CDs. The agreement covers anyone who bought, received or used CDs containing what was revealed to be flawed digital rights management (DRM) software after Aug. 1, 2003. Those customers can file a claim and receive certain benefits, such as a nonprotected replacement CD, free downloads of music from

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Casinos bewail missed opportunity of Web betting – CNET News.com

Casinos bewail missed opportunity of Web betting | CNET News.com For more info click on above link U.S. casinos wish they had access to the growing universe of gamblers that seem intent on placing bets online, but companies claim they are not losing customers to the foreign operators that offer Web wagering. “It represents an enormous opportunity,” said Alan Feldman, spokesman for U.S.-based MGM Mirage, the world’s second-largest gaming operator. “And it is an opportunity that is being completely handed to foreign companies right now.” Standing in the way of this potential windfall is a 1961 federal

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Interest in Barbaro injury fuels record-breaking traffic to Bloodhorse.com

NEWS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Monday, May 22, 2006 Contact: Robert Bolson, Director of Corporate Marketing Blood-Horse Publications (859) 276-6809; rbolson@bloodhorse.com (Lexington, KY) — Web site traffic to bloodhorse.com, the Thoroughbred industry’s leading online site for racing and breeding news and information, increased intensely in the hours immediately following Saturday’s nationally-televised and potentially life-threatening Preakness breakdown by unbeaten Kentucky Derby winner Barbaro, easily surpassing the previous historical record for the ten-year-old Web site. The Web traffic record was short-lived; however, as subsequent traffic to the online site more than doubled the Saturday record on Sunday morning. “The

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Online gamblers targeted by scams – CNET News.com

Online gamblers targeted by scams | CNET News.com For more info click on above link Gamblers playing in online casinos are being warned that they may increasingly be targeted by hackers looking to steal. Earlier this week, F-Secure said it detected a potentially malicious rootkit application targeted at users of CheckRaised.com. The Finnish antivirus vendor said the program was being dropped onto users’ machines from the poker community site when they downloaded a poker fee “rakeback” tool called Rake Tracker.

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ISP snooping plans take backseat – CNET News.com

ISP snooping plans take backseat | CNET News.com For more info click on above link A prominent Republican in the U.S. Congress has backed away from plans to rewrite Internet privacy rules by requiring that logs of Americans’ online activities be stored. Wisconsin Rep. F. James Sensenbrenner, the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, said through a representative this week that he will not be introducing that legislation after all.

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Veterans’ data swiped in theft – CNET News.com

Veterans’ data swiped in theft | CNET News.com For More Info Click on Above Link Personal information belonging to 26.5 million U.S. veterans was seized following the theft of the data from the home of a government employee, according to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. According to a message posted on the department’s Web site on Monday, one of the department’s data analysts violated procedure by taking home the information without authorization. The information was stored on a laptop, according to Avivah Litan, a security analyst for research firm Gartner. Law enforcement agencies have launched a

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IM worm installs ‘safe’ Web browser – ZDNet

IM worm installs ‘safe’ Web browser | Tech News on ZDNet For more info click on above link A new instant messaging worm installs a rogue Web browser called “Safety Browser” and hijacks the user’s Internet Explorer home page, experts have warned. The worm, dubbed “yhoo32.explr” by FaceTime Security Labs, was found two weeks ago on the Yahoo instant messaging network and was still active as of Friday, Tyler Wells, senior director of research at FaceTime, a seller of instant messaging security products, said in an interview.

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Do we need a national ID card? | Perspectives – CNET News.com

Do we need a national ID card? | Perspectives | CNET News.com For more info click on above link With all the political wrangling about immigration in Washington, D.C., I’m surprised we haven’t heard more about national ID cards. Shortly after Sept. 11, 2001, members of the U.S. Congress took up the idea of requiring a national identity card; they did that again just before the 2004 election. But there is news out of the United Kingdom that national ID cards may become mandatory by 2010. And the initial response has been mostly bad, forcing me to

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