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NEWS - October 25, 2005

by roddy32 Oct 25, 2005 5:27AM PDT
Skype flaws open computers to attack
By Joris Evers
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
Published: October 25, 2005, 12:12 PM PDT

Skype Technologies updated its popular Skype Internet telephony software on Tuesday to fix a pair of security bugs. The most serious flaw could allow an attacker to commandeer a user's PC.

That flaw, which is similar to a bug Skype fixed last year, affects only Skype for Windows. An attacker could exploit the flaw by crafting a special link and enticing a user to click on it. The flaw could also be exploited when importing user information from a malformed electronic business card, or VCARD, Skype said in an advisory.

A second vulnerability affects Skype on all platforms, but could only be exploited in a denial-of-service attack, Skype said in another advisory. Skype clients are available for Windows; Mac OS X v10.3 (Panther) or later; Linux; and Windows Mobile 2003 for Pocket PC, Skype said.

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BitTorrent user convicted over movie sharing
by roddy32 Oct 25, 2005 5:29AM PDT

By Karen Gomm, ZDNet (UK)
Published on ZDNet News: October 25, 2005, 9:09 AM PT

A Hong Kong man has been convicted of copyright infringement using the BitTorrent service, in what is believed to be the first case of its kind.

Chan Nai-Ming was found guilty of distributing three Hollywood films using BitTorrent's peer-to-peer file-sharing technology, according to Taiwanese English-language newspaper The China Post.

The unemployed 38-year-old used the software to distribute the copyrighted films "Miss Congeniality", "Daredevil" and "Red Planet." He was arrested by customs officers in January 2005.

Nai-Ming pleaded not guilty to copyright infringement but was convicted after a four-day trial. He will be sentenced on Nov. 7.

BitTorrent is one of the most popular software programs used to acquire large files over the Internet using peer-to-peer file-sharing technology. The application, initially written by programmer Bram Cohen, is open source.

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Old software weakening Net's backbone, survey says
by roddy32 Oct 25, 2005 6:36AM PDT

By Tom Espiner, CNET News.com
Published on ZDNet News: October 25, 2005, 1:28 PM PT

Many Domain Name System servers are wrongly configured or running out-of-date software, leaving them vulnerable to malicious attacks, according to a report published on Monday.

DNS servers, which translate domain names such as "yoursite.com" into IP addresses, underpin the workings of the Internet. In its survey, Internet performance company The Measurement Factory found that the BIND software used for domain-name resolution is out-of-date on a fifth of DNS servers.

DNS servers that run versions of BIND previous to version 9 are "opening the door" to pharming attacks--a kind of phishing attempt--through DNS cache poisoning, the company said in its report.

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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-5913771.html?tag=zdnn.alert

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