17th March 2003 Archive
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Samba vuln – get your patches on
Or be rooted
A buffer overflow has been found in Samba that requires immediate action, the team's Jeremy Allison tells us. Samba is the most-widely used software that allows access Windows networks from non-Windows clients. If you're running a Samba server version 2.0 or higher, you urgently need to install the latest version 2.2.8, or …
Security 17 Mar 2003, 09:30
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RIAA website now hidden in plain sight
The Professionals
For those of you who have been following the RIAA's "Hide The Website" game, you'll be relieved to hear it's moved on again, and now can not be accessed at an entirely new location. This is the third hoster who can't host the site since January, although strictly speaking, it's come back home, to UUNet. The Recording Industry …
Music and Media 17 Mar 2003, 09:31
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Reg caught in strategic server relocation move
Site News Much Linux-based excitement at Vulture Central
There has been much excitement of late here at Vulture Central as we finally found a permanent home for the world's favourite IT news organ. Cue excited chatter about burstable bandwidth and high-speed and redundant network connectivity. You're right - maybe we should get out more, but we are genuinely delighted to announce …
Site News 17 Mar 2003, 09:33
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Content-based backup cuts PC storage needs
Eliminating redundant files reduces data volumes by up to 95%
A new breed of content-based backup technology is on show at CeBIT. Designed for corporate PC networks, it can back up email and application data on individual PCs without requiring huge amounts of storage space on a server. The idea is a simple one: if a file exists in several places, you only store one copy of it. This …
Storage 17 Mar 2003, 10:09
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US consumers to ‘dump fixed-lines’
Wireless threat claim
Fixed-line telecom companies are facing a "potentially staggering" threat to their consumer business from wireless operators. New research from telecoms solutions provider CIT-PriMetrica suggests that nearly 50 per cent of US households would be prepared to switch from a wireline service to a family share wireless option with …
Mobile 17 Mar 2003, 10:16
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The state of SuSE
Interview on retail, corporate take-up... and SCO
I spent a little time on AIM with SuSE U.S. rep (and all-around nice guy) Holger Dyroff, discussing SuSE's new products, trends in Linux desktop/consumer use, and the state of Linux market penetration in general. This transcript has been edited (very lightly) only for grammar and spelling, not content. Make sure you read all the …
Software 17 Mar 2003, 10:34
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Lawscot domain dispute gets to court
And promptly leaves again
The ongoing legal battle over domain lawscot.co.uk between the Law Society of Scotland and Glasgow resident Tommy Butler finally ended up in court at the start of the month - and promptly came back out again. Before the opening arguments were even made, Mr Butler was left without his lawyers and forced to consider representing …
Music and Media 17 Mar 2003, 10:35
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Adaptec shows SATA at CeBIT
As does world+dog...
Adaptec joins the Serial-ATA party today, with the launch at CeBIT of a set of SATA RAID cards at prices from £56. The two, four and eight channel cards are expected to replace low-end SCSI RAID controllers over time, as well as supplanting some of Adaptec's IDE (parallel ATA) RAID products. "SATA is definitely ready from the …
Storage 17 Mar 2003, 10:41
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Symbian and Microsoft sign RIM deals
A good day for the Canadians
Symbian and Microsoft both announced deals with Canadian pager company RIM for a piece of their email gateway today. Nokia surprised the industry by signing a licensing deal with RIM for the right to use the latter's software late last year. Nokia will support RIM's Blackberry Connect stack on its phones later this year. This …
Mobile 17 Mar 2003, 10:43
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DDS-DAT is back from the dead
HP and Seagate apply heart massage while Sony reads the last rites
Two years after terminating DDS-DAT with extreme prejudice, customer pressure has pushed HP and Seagate into reviving the popular mid-range tape technology. Showing at CeBIT, the new version is called DDS Generation 5 and stores 72GB of compressed data per cassette. The slight name change from DDS-5 to DDS Gen 5 is down to Sony …
Storage 17 Mar 2003, 11:14
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Freeserve mulls another Madeira VAT move
Broadband biz a go-go
Freeserve is considering relocating its broadband operation to Madeira to take advantage of the island's lower VAT rate. The FT cites Freeserve boss, Eric Abensur, as confirming that the matter is currently being discussed. He told the pink paper that a decision whether to move the ISP's broadband business to Madeira would be …
Music and Media 17 Mar 2003, 11:19
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cd-wow fights BPI over imported CDs
Round One to BPI
The music industry last week won an important legal battle in its bid to prevent discount etailer cd-wow from selling imported CDs in the UK. Music labels, lead by trade group the British Phonographic Industry (BPI), are seeking an injunction and claiming damages from Music Trading On-Line (HK) Ltd, the firm behind cd-wow, for …
Music and Media 17 Mar 2003, 12:55
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NTL in BT Broadband complaint
Not so, says telco
NTL has complained to the telecoms regulator that a broadband marketing deal between BT and satellite TV operator BSkyB is anti-competitive. The complaint, reports the Independent, was lodged last November, just a fortnight or so after BT and BSkyB announced the deal. An extract from Oftel's latest quarterly Competition …
Telecoms 17 Mar 2003, 12:58
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Euro SAN groups merge at last
Leaving the technology to the Americans...
The two main European storage networking associations have completed their merger, emerging as the "new" Storage Network Industry Association Europe (SNIA-E). This combines the resources of the old SNIA-E with those of the Fibre Channel Industry Association Europe (FCIA-E) Everyone involved is being very careful not to present …
Telecoms 17 Mar 2003, 12:59
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Lock up your computers! Crime is everywhere
Small Biz seminar
Did you know that 61 per cent of British businesses suffered computer-related crime last year? This astonishing statistic is supplied courtey of the British Chamber of Commerce. And if that were not hyberbolic enough for you, how about another "fact": "93% of firms experienced a virus attack or irregular intrusion" last year. …
Small Biz 17 Mar 2003, 13:19
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Wrox hit the rocks as Glasshaus cracks
IT publishing community collapses
IT publisher Wrox Press is set to close following the collapse into liquidation of US owners Peer Information last Friday. Peer Information owns Friends of Ed and Wrox Press, which trades as Glasshaus, Curlingstone, and runs a number of community sites. Glasshaus and Friends of Ed have announced that their respective sites are …
Software 17 Mar 2003, 14:02
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How much does it cost to oversee the Internet?
Too much and a third extra next year
How much do you think it costs to oversee the Internet a year? Not pay for any servers or cables or set up any domains or deal with customers or anything like that, but simply act as an overseeing body, listening to what people are saying and, if necessary, making a decision on what should be done. A few thousand? A hundred …
Music and Media 17 Mar 2003, 20:38
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BT Tower in St Patrick's Day green light stunt
Plugging new DQ service
BT Tower in the heart of London was lit in emerald green last night as part of a stunt to plug a new directory enquiries (DQ) service. The stunt - timed to coincide with St Patrick's Day - was promoting the 11 88 88 service launched by independent DQ service Conduit. Last night's light show involved a crew of 50 people, a …
Data Networking 17 Mar 2003, 20:40
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Win2K Web Server software brown alert goes out
This time it's serious
An unchecked buffer in a Windows component could cause web server compromise, Microsoft warns today. According to Microsoft, the flaw affects Windows 2000 only (i.e. not XP or NT). It revolves around Microsoft's flawed implementation of the World Wide Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) protocol in IIS. WebDAV is …
Security 17 Mar 2003, 20:42
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Hole in Sun ONE
Boggy
A potentially serious vulnerability in Sun ONE Application Server creates a mechanism for crackers to run malicious code on Web servers. A flaw in the NSAPI Connector Module, which connects a Sun ONE Application Server to Sun ONE Web Server (formerly iPlanet Enterprise Server), leaves the door open to stack buffer overflow …
Security 17 Mar 2003, 20:45
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Freeserve clamps down on heavy users
1,500 targeted
Freeserve is clamping down on 1,500 heavy Net users warning them that unless they curb their activities they could face usage limits - or even the chop. The ISP has highlighted around 1,500 users of its unmetered AnyTime service who it claims are using the service more than 20 hours a day. Those involved have set up their kit …
Music and Media 17 Mar 2003, 20:49
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MS revamps eBiz server licensing
Fairer but not necessarily cheaper
Microsoft is to introduce revised licensing terms from April 1 to make it cheaper to run its business applications on partitioned servers. The software giant is moving to a per processor server licensing model so that customers pay only for licenses for the processors which server software runs on, instead of all the processors …
Hardware 17 Mar 2003, 21:05
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Letter Molesting Google
Dear Editor - The Register's story about my report Chester's Guide to Molesting Google seems misguided. Some basic technical misunderstandings were evident, especially regarding how material is removed from Google's search results. To aid people in understanding the details of Google's blacklist, I've now written a guide on …
Letters 17 Mar 2003, 21:05
