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Yahoo Closes Chat Rooms to Anyone Under 18
Yahoo Closes Chat Rooms to Anyone Under 18
New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer and Nebraska Attorney General Jon Bruning today announced an agreement that will help prevent children from getting involved in dangerous chat room activities over the internet. Under the agreement, one of the nations leading internet service providers, Yahoo!, has removed and barred the posting of user-created chat rooms with names that promoted sex between minors and adults. The agreement is the first to institute system-wide controls over categories of chat rooms that are likely to be frequented by child predators. "We need to be vigilant to protect our children," Spitzer said. "It is imperative that parents, industry, prosecutors and lawmakers all work together to identify and address possible threats, and that we teach our children to protect themselves from those who would do them harm." Attorney General Bruning said: "Millions of people use the internet every...
Microsoft and Yahoo link IM arms
Microsoft and Yahoo link IM arms
Microsoft and Yahoo have agreed to make their instant messaging products compatible. It will mean users of either service will be able to exchange messages by the end of the year and, at a later date soon to be announced, make VoIP phone calls. The IM market has been dominated by three main players - Microsoft, Yahoo and AOL - but all have gone out of their way not to work with the others in a grab for market share. Analysts have long predicted it was only a matter of time before the companies saw the financial sense in allowing their customers to communicate with one another.
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The Fridge: Cool News for Ubuntu
The Fridge: Cool News for Ubuntu
Conceived at UbuntuDownUnder, The Fridge is an information hub for the Ubuntu community, bringing together news, grassroots marketing, advocacy, team collaboration, and great original content. Just like the family fridge at home, this is where we - the Ubuntu family - can put our best work on display for everyone to see along with the requisite jokes, reminders, invitations, news clippings, photos and everything else! Were starting out small, but have some good plans for filling the shelves. Read on to find out about upcoming features, and where to send your suggestions. So when youve got something cool and fresh that youre just itching to tell the Ubuntu community, you know what to do Stick it on The Fridge!
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Wireless Security Defining Keywords and Assessing the Threats
Wireless Security Defining Keywords and Assessing the Threats
Wireless networks can offer convenience but could become a security nightmare if not used appropriately. In the future, advanced security measures might be applied to wireless networks to make a certain network more secure; however, this is not yet the case. Security of a LAN is often dictated by the physical properties of the medium it uses for communication, the methods used to transmit the data, the protocols that control the security of the transmitted data, and the policies that a certain LAN enforces to ensure authorized use. Wireless LANs use airwaves to transmit data, and are considered inherently insecure because the data transmitted are not physically bound like their counterpart, the wired LAN. To secure a wireless LAN, both operational and data security must be enforced. The security issues of wireless LANs are similar to those of the wired LAN.
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Cisco Announces CCSP Certification Updates
Cisco Announces CCSP Certification Updates" />Cisco Announces CCSP Certification Updates
Cisco Press, a marketer of new certification preparation materials, announced a suite of CCSP Self-Study products that align to the new CCSP professional-level certification exams. Cisco Press provides these valuable resources, which are the only materials approved and recommended by Cisco Systems for CCSP self-study. The CCSP (Cisco Certified Security Professional) certification is designed for IT professionals responsible for delivering self-defending networks that are integrated, collaborative, and adaptive. CCSP certification validates that a network professional can secure and manage network infrastructures to protect productivity and reduce costs. CCSP certification still requires candidates to pass five exams, though new exams and training courses have been added to the curriculum.
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Microsoft Offers Free E-Learning Promotion
Microsoft Offers Free E-Learning Promotion" />Microsoft Offers Free E-Learning Promotion
Microsoft Learning is currently offering free e-learning programs prior to the upcoming release of SQL Server 2005 and Visual Studio 2005. The company has several online courses that deal with various features and functions, as well as skills assessments, available for both products on the Microsoft Learning Web site. Its really about readiness, said Lori Dennis, group product manager of e-learning at Microsoft Learning. Its focused on getting customers ready to do early deployments as soon as the products release. We want customers to get comfortable in their understanding of how the products are going to work before it launches. The courses also serve as a resource for those planning to pursue certifications for SQL Server 2005 and Visual Studio 2005, which will be released on Nov. 7. These two certifications will be the first of Microsofts next-generation certification...
Big guns launch assault on 802.11n wireless spec
Big guns launch assault on 802.11n wireless spec
More than two dozen leading wireless LAN companies have formed an industry coalition to create and submit a spec for the IEEE's next generation wireless LAN standard - 802.11n. The Enhanced Wireless Consortium (EWC), announced today, says it aims to break a deadlock and speed up ratification of the 802.11n standard, which may go as fast as 600 Mbit/s. The 27 members include big Wi-Fi players such as Atheros, Broadcom, Cisco and Intel, but omit the one significant MIMO vendor, Airgo.
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W32/Sober.r Threat Rating is Raised
W32/Sober.r Threat Rating is Raised
McAfee today announced that its Anti-virus and Vulnerability Emergency Response Team (AVERT) raised its risk assessment to "Medium" on the recently discovered W32/Sober.r, also known as Sober.r. Sober.r is a fast-moving worm that spreads via e-mail, sending itself to addresses found on the victim's machine. The worm arrives as a ZIP file that contains an executable file inside, named "PW_Klass.Pic.packed-bitmap.exe." And it has many of the same functionalities as its Sober predecessors, researchers at McAfee's AVERT said. Users would need to manually extract the executable from the ZIP file and manually run the attachment in order to be infected.
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Microsoft finally admits to third XP service pack
Microsoft finally admits to third XP service pack" />Microsoft finally admits to third XP service pack
Microsoft has finally confirmed that there will be a third service pack for Windows XP, nearly a week after the news broke and two days after a version of it appeared on the Web. The company declined to release further details, but said that Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) will be available after the shipment of Windows Vista, the next version of the client OS. Vista is scheduled to be available at the end of 2006. "Right now, Vista is our priority," Michael Burk, product manager for Windows Vista at Microsoft, said in a statement. "We'll have more information to share after Vista ships."
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Nine fixes on Microsoft Patch Tuesday
Nine fixes on Microsoft Patch Tuesday
There will be nine security fixes - eight of them critical - on Microsoft Patch Tuesday, the company has said. After a quiet September, the eight critical patches are all updates to the Windows OS, and will be released next week. The other update, for both Windows and Exchange, is rated as important. Microsoft also will release an updated version of the Microsoft Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool on Windows Update, Microsoft Update, Windows Server Update Services and the Download Center. The tool will not be distributed using Software Update Services, however.
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