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Inside Todays Bytes:•Microsoft pushes back date of automatic delivery of XP SP2
•CA buys anti-spyware company PestPatrol
•'Lax Linux security' make Windows better for London, say experts while denying underhanded tactics
•RealNetworks slashes song prices in half to celebrate its iPod compatibility
•Second consortium unveils 'broadband Wi-Fi' proposal
•Commentary: Do cybercriminals get off too easy?
•More news, plus TidBytes... on the inside!... .

•Microsoft pushes back date of automatic delivery of XP SP2:
Monday, August 16, was set to be D-day for the automatic delivery of Windows XP SP2. But at the last minute, MS decided to push back by at least nine days the Windows Update/Automatic Update launch date for its collection of security fixes and features for corporate customers. Microsoft cited customer demand as the reason for the delay. Individuals running Windows XP Home Edition face a shorter reprieve. Microsoft will begin pushing SP2 to them automatically on Wednesday, August 18, according to the Microsoft note.
•CA buys anti-spyware company PestPatrol:
Computer Associates has acquired PestPatrol Inc., one of the original anti-spyware vendors, for an undisclosed sum. The purchase is an interesting one for CA, whose focus in the security market has been mainly in the security management area. But CA officials said many of their large enterprise customers had become more and more concerned about the presence of spyware on their corporate networks and were looking for an enterprise-class answer to the problem. PestPatrol has three products: PestPatrol Corporate, PestPatrol for Small Business and PestPatrol for Home Users.
•'Lax Linux security' make Windows better for London, say experts while denying underhanded tactics:
Officials at the London Borough of Newham have denied they had faked an interest in deploying Linux to force Microsoft to dramatically cut its licensing costs. Newham Council's head of ICT insisted that a recent assessment of the various merits of Windows and open source had been fair and above board. "We weren't playing around. We gave Linux a very serious look." The software giant is now citing Newham as proof that its software can deliver greater value than Linux. But open source advocates claim that MS made massive concessions to avoid the council taking the open-source road. The phrase "doing a Newham" has even been coined, to describe the act of threatening MS with a defection to Linux in order to drive licence fees down.
•RealNetworks slashes song prices in half to celebrate its iPod compatibility:
RealNetworks will kick off a high-profile digital music marketing campaign, highlighting the new iPod-compatible technology that has swung the company into conflict with Apple Computer. For a limited time, RealNetworks will offer song downloads from its music store for 49 cents, along with half-price albums. The campaign is the second wave of publicity around the company's "Harmony" technology, which effectively recreated a version of Apple's proprietary copy-protection technology without permission. That has allowed RealNetworks to be the first non-Apple store that can distribute songs directly compatible with the iPod music player, despite strong protests from Apple itself.
•Second consortium unveils 'broadband Wi-Fi' proposal:
A rival coalition to the WWiSE group has submitted its own proposal to the IEEE's 802.11n taskforce in a bid to shape the future of broadband-speed wireless networking. TGn Sync comprises the likes of Intel, Atheros, Cisco, Nokia, Nortel, Sony, Philips, Samsung and Toshiba, among others. Their joint proposal not only defines Wi-Fi technology capable of reaching 600Mbps and beyond, they claim, with a basic throughput of 243Mbps, but utilises adaptive radio technology to automatically adjust each radio to meet the regulatory structure of different territories.
•Commentary: Do cybercriminals get off too easy?:
Jeffrey Lee Parson pleaded guilty last week to unleashing part of the MSBlast worm attack that wreaked havoc on the Internet a year ago. He got off easy. Federal prosecutors predictably touted Parson's guilty plea as an example for other would-be vandals. The U.S. Attorney proclaimed: "The damage to individual computer users is very real, and the penalties are also very real." Not really. Ths attorney neglected to mention that Parson's all-expense-paid visit to Club Fed will be surprisingly brief... 18 and 37 months. That's mild punishment for someone who admitted to inserting nasty features into the original version of MSBlast to intentionally harm tens of thousands of people for his own amusement.
•Porn spam jumps 350% from June to July:
Pornographic e-mails have shot up by almost 350% in July over June, according to Clearswift's latest spam index. The company's June index revealed porn e-mails comprised only 4.8% of all spam for the month. However, pornographic e-mails made up 17.2% of all spam in July. Based on the success of the monthly spam index, Clearswift has also launched a virus index. The first findings support predictions of IT security experts' views that malicious activity is becoming progressively potent, with zombie and peer-to-peer networks facilitating the spread. Zafi-B tops the virus index followed by Netsky-P and Netsky-D.
•New McAfee, Alcatel tools scope nets for rogue PCs:
McAfee and Alcatel are employing new strategies to try to prevent initial infections and limit the damage of compromised networked machines. Each company is introducing an offering this week that use policy-based frameworks and network monitoring to regulate which PCs are allowed onto networks. Each offering can detect noncompliant machines in real time and take a variety of actions to bring them into compliance or remove them. Such a need is especially acute for IT managers, as some viruses, such as last week's Bagle.AQ, are beginning to evade anti-virus software and firewalls.
•Security company, eBay use 'CallerID' method to beat phishers:
WholeSecurity has teamed up with eBay to announce a new technology that automatically sniffs out sites that could house so-called "phishing" attacks. WholeSecurity Inc. on Monday launched Web CallerID, a detection, protection and management package that has been integrated into eBay Inc.'s online toolbar. While WholeSecurity is currently marketing Web CallerID at large corporations seeking to protect their brand from phishing scams, executives hinted that a turnkey package aimed at smaller businesses may come later.
•Supercharged college P2P project expands:
I2hub, the supercharged file-swapping network that has run for months on the university Internet2 network, is aiming to solidify its hold on campuses, with new businesses targeted at students. The I2hub founders have acquired a small online textbook exchange and are tying it into the file-swapping service, hoping that students will start reselling books to each other instead of using local bookstores. With this, and other similar student-focused services, they're aiming to turn the file-swapping traffic into a more traditional--and potentially profitable--hub of campus activities.
•PalmOne offers Wi-Fi card... but:
PalmOne will ship its eagerly anticipated Wi-Fi SD card next month, but Palm OS-based PDA users looking for a broad-ranging WLAN solution may be disappointed - the device is supported by just two handhelds... the Zire 72 and the Tungsten T3. That's still one up on Sandisk. It's much-delayed Palm OS Wi-Fi SD card shipped a few months back with support for just one device: the now defunct Zire 71. PalmOne has not said why its card doesn't support other handhelds, but Sandisk claims the range of machines its card will work with is limited by issues with the OS and the implementation of SD IO on older PalmOne models.
•DSL wins more additions than cable in US for first time:
US research company Leichtman Research Group found that, as of the end of the second quarter of 2004, the top DSL providers added nearly 900,000 subscribers, representing 52 percent of the net broadband additions for the quarter versus cable, marking the first quarter ever that DSL has had a greater share of net additions than cable. The top cable broadband providers maintain a 6.4 million subscriber advantage over DSL and have a 61 percent share of the total market versus DSL.

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