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Microsoft Shelves NGSCB Project As NX Moves To Center Stage Windows XP SP2 hooks into No Execute technology in newer AMD, Intel processors By Paula RooneyCRN 9:32 AM EST Wed., May 05, 2004 After a year of tackling the Windows security nightmare, Microsoft has killed its Next-Generation Secure Computing Base (NGSCB) project and later this year plans to detail a revised security plan for Longhorn, the next major version of Windows, company executives said. On Tuesday, Microsoft executives confirmed that NGSCB will be canned. The project, dreamed up with Intel in 2002, was once code-named Palladium. "We're evaluating how these...

In a bizarre twist of fate for the burgeoning Linux community, the U.S. Department of Justice has banned Linux from the United States. The DOJ ruling comes after Darl McBride, CEO of SCO Group, and Linus Torvalds, original developer of the Linux kernel, agreed to arm wrestle over the disputed code in lieu of seeking a court ruling. Overall, SCO has been the subject of a great deal of criticism from the open-source community after charging that its proprietary Unix System V source code was illegally used in IBM's AIX operating system and Linux distributions. With full approval from IBM...

   http://writ.findlaw.com/commentary/20031113_chander.html ----This Penguin May BiteLinux's Counterattack Against SCOBy ANUPAM CHANDER ---- Thursday, Nov. 13, 2003 Is everyone who uses the popular, cost-free "open source" computer operating system Linux a thief? A small computer software company called SCO believes so. Since March, SCO has claimed that Linux is an "unauthorized derivative" of UNIX -- another operating system. Moreover, SCO also claims it owns the relevant versions of UNIX. Thus, it urges, Linux users must either pay up, since they are using a product that incorporates SCO-owned code, or else SCO "may consider litigation against them." Put another way, though...

SoftwareLinux's Hit MenDaniel Lyons, 10.14.03, 7:00 AM ET In the world of "free" open source software, there is no greater villain than SCO, owner of the Unix operating system. The Lindon, Utah, company has outraged Linux lovers by suing IBM (nyse: IBM - news - people ), claiming IBM stole Unix code and put it into Linux. Some fear the lawsuit by SCO (nasdaq: SCOX - news - people ) will impede the adoption of Linux. Linux's Hit Men IBM Refuses To Indemnify Linux Users Red Hat's Mad Matt Vs. Humongous SCO Lawsuit IBM Takes Linux To A New...

Home Articles Software HardwareReviews CommunityForum Guidesand Help Credits The End of the New Age of Robber Barons by Jem Matzan Technically the term "Robber Baron" refers to two separate but related definitions: that of the late 19th century unscrupulous businessman, and that of the feudal European landed nobleman who regularly robbed those who passed through his lands. Both describe the same situation: using unethical means to acquire unearned wealth. But let's take it one step further and say that a Robber Baron is someone who takes more than what they are due from an innocent and needy third party.Working...

Thursday » October 9 » 2003 Standing up to SCO Canadian techies are priming to join the battle to keep Linux free Kate Heartfield < TD>The Ottawa Citizen Thursday, October 09, 2003 CREDIT: Nicki Corrigall, For TechWeekly From left, Mike Kenzie, Shad Young and Dave Edwards are members of an Ottawa-based coalition formed to fight The SCO Group's claim to Linux, the world's No. 1 open-source operating system. SCO, a Utah-based company, claims it owns a key part of the Linux code, and now wants to bill anyone who uses it. CREDIT: Andrew Serban, Bloomberg News. On SCO's side...

The indispensable GPL Monday September 08, 2003 - [ 09:00 AM GMT ] Topic - Free Software- by John O'Sullivan - When I first became interested in Linux in 1998, Richard Stallman, the godfather of the GNU General Public License, was widely regarded as a crank -- someone whose past accomplishments were crucial, but who like Trotsky insisted on continuing the revolution long after it was over. A Linux Weekly News article of the time said, "Richard Stallman is kind of like the eccentric uncle that everybody loves, or at least respects, but whose behavior means that nobody wants...

AUGUST 28, 2003 Stupid Microsoft TricksWhy the Richest Company on Earth Feels it Needs to Cheat By Robert X. Cringely I had no idea when I wrote in last week's column about the lawsuit between Burst.com and Microsoft that there would be a public hearing on the case this week in Federal Court in Baltimore. Evidently, nobody else knew it, either, because there is no mention of the event on Google News or anywhere else I looked. This must be a relief to Microsoft, or was until you started reading this column about 20 seconds ago. You see, Microsoft...

Microsoft has laid the blame for half of all Windows crashes on third-party code. Scott Charney, chief security strategist at Microsoft, told developers at the TechEd 2003 conference in Brisbane, that information collected by Dr Watson, the company's reporting tool, revealed that "half of all crashes in Windows are caused not by Microsoft code, but third-party code". Charney's comments come as the company highlights the rigour with which it tests its own products before release. Microsoft emphasised that products such as Yukon and Exchange Server were undergoing thorough testing -- both internally and via independent third parties -- prior to...

BOFH and the Interruptible Power System By Simon Travaglia Posted: 20/05/2003 at 12:33 GMT BOFH 2003: Episode 9 "This is eerie," The PFY whispers, as we gaze around the darkened and newly silent computer room with a flashlight. "Isn't there emergency lighting?" "Apparently not," I respond. "Which is an excellent design feature for a room with no windows in the centre of a building." "So where's the UPS bypass switch?" He asks, directing the spotlight around the room to the power distribution board. "Not sure, but I'm guessing that they would put it somewhere next to the UPS. First...

Passport flaw leads to password gambit By Robert Lemos Staff Writer, CNET News.com May 8, 2003, 12:15 AM PT A serious security flaw in Microsoft's Passport service put customers' accounts, including their personal information and credit card numbers, at risk of being hijacked. The flaw, in Passport's password recovery mechanism, could have allowed an attacker to change the password on any account to which the user name is known. The flaw was disclosed late Wednesday night on the security mailing list Full Disclosure. The simplicity of the attack method and the high value of the data frequently stored in...

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<p>NEW YORK (AP) -- When his dishwasher acts up and won't stop beeping, Jeff Seigle turns it off and then on, just as he does when his computer crashes. Same with the exercise machines at his gym and his CD player.</p>

NEWS < http://www.securityfocus.com/news/4217 >   Rise of the Spam Zombies By Kevin Poulsen, SecurityFocusApr 25 2003 4:45PMPressed by increasingly effective anti-spam efforts, senders of unsolicited commercial e-mail are resorting to outright criminality in their efforts to conceal the source of their ill-sent missives, using Trojan horses to turn the computers of innocent netizens into secret spam zombies. "This is the newest delivery mechanism," says Margie Arbon, director of operations of anti-spam group MAPS. "I've been looking for it for a year, and in the last couple of months people have actually found Trojans that are doing it... They're carrying...

(AP Photo) Battlefield Internet Helps Forces in Iraq Battlefield Internet Helps U.S. 4th Division See Through the Fog of War in Iraq The Associated Press Print This Page Email This Page See Most Sent * What's the Secret to Motivating Staffers? * Powered-Up Prosthetics Give New Life to Wounded * Waco's Child Survivors Recall Cult's Horrors NORTH OF BAGHDAD, Iraq April 17 - A computer system that tracks friendly and enemy forces and pinpoints hazards like minefields on video game-like touch screens got its first use in battle. Commanders are hoping it can cut down on friendly fire deaths.The...

ElcomSoft verdict: Not guilty By Lisa M. Bowman Staff Writer, CNET News.com December 17, 2002, 1:22 PM PT update SAN JOSE, Calif.--A jury on Tuesday acquitted a Russian software company of criminal copyright charges related to selling a program that can crack antipiracy protections on electronic books. The case against ElcomSoft is considered a crucial test of the criminal provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), a controversial law designed to extend copyright protections into the digital age. The company faced four charges related to directly designing and marketing software that could be used to crack eBook copyright protections,...

Namibia wisely spurns M$ 'gift' in favor of Linux By Thomas C Greene in Washington Posted: 31/10/2002 at 22:27 GMT The African nation of Namibia is large in area and small in population with considerable distances between communities. Imagine the challenges of getting its schools wired to the Net. SchoolNet Namibia, a chiefly volunteer organization, struggles to do precisely that with a free ISP and numerous other initiatives to get the nation's schools, many of which lack any library resources at all, on-line. Imagine the pleasure with which SchoolNet would initially have confronted a charitable overture from Microsoft involving...

Tools Vendor Readies Passport for Linux   Server component of Microsoft's single sign-on technology may be resold apart from Windows. Matt Berger, IDG News Service Wednesday, October 16, 2002 A small software development company this week disclosed that it will soon offer prebuilt versions of Microsoft's Passport Internet-based authentication technology for the Unix and Linux operating systems.The news follows Microsoft's announcement Thursday that it will share some of the source code for its single sign-on service. The software giant said it would make available in November the code to the Passport Manager--software that links a Web site or a software...

      |     HP drops Microsoft for rival Corel By Scott Morrison and Paul Abrahams in San Francisco Published: August 27 2002 0:56 | Last Updated: August 27 2002 0:56 Microsoft, the world's biggest software group, on Monday suffered a blow to its most important business, when Hewlett-Packard, the world's largest personal computer company, selected a rival software package for its consumer PCs.The move follows a decision last week by Dell Computer, the number two PC maker, to replace Microsoft software. Both companies said they would offer WordPerfect productivity software from Corel of Canada instead of Microsoft's Works, a scaled-down version of...

<p>WATERLOO, Ontario -- Students at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, upset over a $2.3 million (CDN) partnership fund from Microsoft Canada, have charged that the company is trying to buy its way into the academic curriculum.</p> <p>The corporation had lobbied UW staff to use its C# programming language in a new course before the partnership fund was announced, Wired News has learned.</p>