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1. "Joe Average User Is In Trouble"... Scott Granneman
reports that most users are unaware of even the most basic computer security
measures, and proposes some solutions:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/56/33599.html
2. "The Great MS Patch Nobody Uses"... The
Outlook Email Security Update has been around since June 2000 and is effective
against most malicious code--but very few people know about it:
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,48756,00.html
3. "Help! my Belkin router is spamming me"...
Consumer networking vendor Belkin drew fire from users when it began spamming
them with pop-up ads via its wireless routers:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/69/33858.html
4. Third Annual Firewall Buyer's Guide... A good overview
of firewalls gleaned from the ICSA firewall certification website. Covers basic
firewall concepts, types of firewalls, and some policy and design issues. Although
this guide makes no specific hardware recommendations, it's helpful to those
looking to buy just the right product for their needs:
http://security/fwbuyers.pdf
5. DIRECTV cracks down on signal piracy... Nearly 160
Oregonians now face federal charges for allegedly buying pirate access devices
for stealing TV satellite signals:
http://www2.kval.com/x30530.xml?ParentPageID=x2649&ContentID=x42525&Layout=kval.xsl&AdGroupID=x30530
6. Changes to Functionality in MS Windows XP Service Pack 2...
This 73-page document details Microsoft's new set of security technologies
in the beta release of XP Service Pack 2 for the 32-bit versions of Windows
XP Professional and Windows XP Home Edition.
http://download.microsoft.com/download/8/7/9/879a7b46-5ddb-4a82-b64d-64e791b3c9ae/WinXPSP2_Documentation.doc
7. AOL's director of anti-spam operations discusses the relationship
between network security and spam... The text of Carl Hutzler's
talk, which was presented at the NANOG 29 meeting in October (NANOG is the acronymn
for the North American Network Operators' Group):
http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0310/pdf/hutzler.pdf
8. "The Big Download Debate: Politics of Digital Copyright or,
What part of 'Jailhouse Rock' don't you understand?"... Matt Oppenheim
and Robert Hamilton's October 24 debate on the ethics of filesharing is available
on video and partial transcript at:
http://www.cit.cornell.edu/oit/UCPL.html
9. DNS checker...Handy free service for DNS experts who
need to troubleshoot a variety of DNS problems:
http://www.squish.net/dnscheck/
10. Abilene Observatory Research Data... The greater
computer science community can now access this data, which offers an extensive
overview of network status and performance:
http://abilene.internet2.edu/observatory/
11. "Low Cost Academic Solutions Now Available from Red Hat"...
http://www.redhat.com/about/presscenter/2003/press_education.html
12. "Biculturalism (Unix and Windows)..."
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Biculturalism.html
13. Darwin Streaming Server... Open source version of Apple's
QuickTime
http://developer.apple.com/darwin/projects/streaming/