Tuesday, July 13, 2004
Despite efforts from various agencies to curb peer-to-peer trading of movies, games, and music, a new study estimates that the amount of data traded has doubled from one year ago.
From Reuters, "Better broadband Internet connections and compression technologies mean larger files can be downloaded more rapidly, creating as big a piracy headache for movie studios as for music labels."
"Each day, the equivalent of roughly three billion songs or five million movies zips between computers, according to the study by Cambridge, England-based technology firm CacheLogic."
"It estimates Internet users around the globe freely exchange a staggering 10 petabytes -- or 10 million gigabytes -- of data, much of it in the form of copyright-protected songs, movies, software and video games."
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Al on 07/13 at 10:20 AM
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Friday, July 09, 2004
Act Rasier and Drakengard headed for handsets.
From IGN Wireless
"Square Enix announced a partnership with Macrospace to roll out European releases of mobile versions of popular Square Enix titles. The first three games in the deal include the SNES classic Act Raiser, Aleste, and the recently released PS2 action game, Drakengard."
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Tuesday, July 06, 2004
First person shooter on the PC to be released in October features battles against cyborg animals.
From Ferrago, "The game is set upon the mysterious island of Soreo, where one-hundred years before your arrival contact was lost with a maniacal doctor conducting bizarre experiments. As a special forces soldier you are sent to present day Soreo to deal with an uprising, but it won't be the militants youll be most worried about. 'Modbeast' foot soldiers, 'Humanimal' biped warriors, and 'Overbrute' elite beasts will be the main villains of the piece, and weҒre promised twenty types of monster in total. Naturally, brutal violence is pretty much par for the course in the FPS genre, and Action Forms are promising gore galore complimented by an advanced physics engine."
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Al on 07/06 at 04:57 PM
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Friday, June 25, 2004
Hackers have taken advantage of a significant number of web sites running on Microsoft IIS by infecting them with code which in turn infects anyone that visits the site using Internet Explorer. Note: All of GameWinners.com's servers are Linux-based, and therefore not prone to the infection or passing it on.
From Internet Storm Center, "A large number of web sites, some of them quite popular, were compromised earlier this week to distribute malicious code. The attacker uploaded a small file with javascript to infected web sites, and altered the web server configuration to append the script to all files served by the web server. The Storm Center and others are still investigating the method used to compromise the servers. Several server administrators reported that they were fully patched."
"If a user visited an infected site, the javascript delivered by the site would instruct the user's browser to download an executable from a Russian web site and install it. Different executables were observed. These trojan horse programs include keystroke loggers, proxy servers and other back doors providing full access to the infected system."
"The javascript uses a so far unpatched vulnerability in MSIE to download and execute the code. No warning will be displayed. The user does not have to click on any links. Just visiting an infected site will trigger the exploit."
"If you visited an affected page, and your BROWSER is compromised:
* You may see a warning about a javascript error. But it depends on how the attack code interfers with other javascript on the respective page, and many users disable these javascript warnings.
* Disconnect the system from the network as soon as possible.
* Run a thorough virus check with up to date virus definitions. Many AV vendors released new definitions as recently as last night.
* If you are able to monitor traffic to the infected host, you may see attempts to contact 217.107.218.147 on port 80.
* AV software will detect the javascript as 'JS.Scob.Trojan'."
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Al on 06/25 at 10:30 AM
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Thursday, June 24, 2004
Russian teen sends dirty text messages to 15,000 wireless phone subscribers sentenced for spamming.
From Reuters, "The unnamed university student from the Urals city of Chelyabinsk hacked into one of Russia's biggest mobile phone operators and used a special program to send the message, Interfax news agency said. He was handed a one-year suspended sentence and ordered to pay a 3,000-rouble (around $100) fine."
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Al on 06/24 at 10:23 AM
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