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Microsoft Denies Media Player Flaw

Microsoft Denies Media Player Flaw

Last week researcher Laurent Gaffie wrote on the BugTraq security mailing list, claiming a flaw in Windows Media Player 9, 10, and 11, according to CNET. He said the flaw would allow a hacker to send a malformed file (WAV, Midi, or SND) to compromise PCs running XP or Vista. He even included proof of concept code that he claimed would allow remote code execution.

Now Microsoft has investigated those claims and pronounced them false, and slammed Gaffie on its Security Vulnerability Research & Defense blog for publishing without contacting the company first.

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New York Threatens Comcast Over Child Porn

New York Threatens Comcast Over Child Porn

New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has indicated his office will pursue legal action against cable operator and broadband provider Comcast if it doesn’t quickly move to comply with a “code of conduct” drawn up by the state designed to impede online trafficking in child porn. Among other things, the code of conduct specifies that ISPs will block access to Web sites and bulletin board systems that distribute child porn.

Cuomo described Comcast as continuing “to drag its heels when it comes to taking every necessary action to eliminate online child porn from the Internet.”

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Google Launches Code Jam 2008

Think you can code? Then Google Code Jam 2008 competition might be ideal for you. The company has just opened registration for the event, which will close July 17. After that the challenge will begin, with developers working against the clock to solve algorithmic coding problems.

The top 500 from the first round, which runs from July 25 to August 2, will be flown to Google’s regional offices for round two between August 22 and September 6.  Read more...

Google Launches Code Search

Internet search giant Google has launched another operation designed to better meet specialized search needs—and this time, it aims at geeks.

Just out of Google Labs, Google Code Search is an effort to index publicly accessible computer source code. Google’s operation will take it into code hosting projects such as Sourceforge.net and Google’s own code services, dips into versioning and cource control repositories managed by CVS and Subversion, and even opens up and indexes contents of compressed archives and tarballs, including support for tar, zip, and gzip formats. Code search results will also be accessible via a Gdata feed which developers can use to integrate support for code searches into developer tools, editors, compilers, and development environments. Google Code Search supports searching by regular expressions, supports restricting searches by language, filename, and even license terms, and already indexes billions of lines of code.  Read more...

Google Offers Up Online Da Vinci Code Quest

Google and Columbia Pictures today said they were launching a series of online puzzles tied into the movie studio’s upcoming “The Da Vinci Code” movie debut on May 19. “The Da Vinci Code” Quest on Google, as a skills based contest, will be open to puzzle fans in the U.S., UK and Australia.

“The Da Vinci Code” Quest on Google, said the two companies, consists of 24 days of online puzzles to “challenge movie fans of all ages”. These puzzles include symbol logic, chess-related codes, city map jigsaw puzzles and video riddles. The first puzzle has been posted today in celebration of Leonardo da Vinci’s 553rd birthday and additional ones will be posted daily.  Read more...

PSP Gets Untold Legends: The Warrior’s Code

PSP Gets Untold Legends: The Warrior

Sony Online Entertainment has shipped Untold Legends: The Warrior’s Code for its Playstation Portable game system. The Warrior’s Code is an action RPG game featuring 3D graphics and an enhanced combat engine, plus new special effects, spells, and complex scenario lighting. The Warrior’s Code is the sequel to Sony’s earlier game Untold Legends: Brotherhood of the Blade, and carries a suggested price of $39.99.

In The Warrior’s Code, refugee-turned-hero players stumble across a secret which may offer a hope for freedom, if they can bring the last surviving heir to the ruling dynasty to the game world’s capital city. Players who love the action

Netscape 8.0 Not So Secure

“Just hours after the security-centric browser shipped, the company was forced to rush out a patched version to correct the gaffe. Netscape 8 is based on the Mozilla Foundation’s Firefox code base, which means that security bugs in Firefox are likely to affect Netscape users.

The three vulnerabilities, which put users at risk of remote code execution attacks, were rated “highly critical” because of the wide distribution of exploit code on security mailing lists. “

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Read more at eWeek

AOL Launches Beta AIM Client

“Code named “Triton,” the software is expected to be generally available before the end of the year, the Dulles, Va.-based, Internet service provider said. In the meantime, users of AOL Instant Messenger can expect to see one more upgrade of the current 5.9 version.

With Triton, AOL, a subsidiary of Time Warner Inc., has reengineered the AIM client with a new code base and architecture, in order to enhance advanced communication services, such as real-time voice and video. ”

Read more at InformationWeek

Save $95 Dollars On LG Flatron Monitors

Both of these have a $50 MIR and an additional $45 off when using promo code LG4503 (promo code ONLY works on these two monitors) that both last until the end of the month. This is cheaper than every site out there (at least the ones participating in shopping comparison sites), granted you don’t live in a state where they get taxed shopping.

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NTT DoCoMo Unveils mova 506i i-mode Phone

The handsets feature cameras with effective resolutions of more than one million pixels. They also come with infrared ports for exchanging data and photos with compatible handsets and performing infrared-based functions such as remote-control operation of appliances, authentication and cashless payments.

Additional characteristics of the 506i series phones include*:

  • Ability to read JAN Code and QR Code, enabling easy retrieval of data from printed materials, copying information to the phone’s address book and saving text as well as pictures and melodies.
  • i-appli
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