Security experts are monitoring what appears to be a coordinated effort to exploit a known vulnerability in the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) implementation in Windows, and say that there may be a worm doing some of the work.
The vulnerability in the SSL library in Windows has been known for some time, and there is a patch available. However, experts say that on Wednesday someone released working exploit code for the flaw and there has been a marked increase in the amount of attacks against this vulnerability since then, according to experts at VeriSign Inc., based in Mountain View, Calif.
See story in eWeek Security News - Compromise Likely of Serious Windows SSL Vulnerability
4/24/2004
Clause in Can-Spam Act allows States to prosecute
Spammers who get caught flooding American inboxes with junk mail could find themselves facing prosecution twice -- once at the federal level and once at the state level -- thanks to a largely overlooked clause in the U.S. Can-Spam Act. This according to Wired News.
The clause, noted in 28 words near the bottom of the nation's first federal law against spam, prevents the Can-Spam Act from pre-empting state laws that prohibit "falsity and deception" in commercial e-mails. In other words, states are free to keep certain portions of their existing antispam laws, or even form new ones -- contrary to statements made by critics of the Can-Spam Act.
Full story at Wired News : Taking a Second Shot at Spammers
The clause, noted in 28 words near the bottom of the nation's first federal law against spam, prevents the Can-Spam Act from pre-empting state laws that prohibit "falsity and deception" in commercial e-mails. In other words, states are free to keep certain portions of their existing antispam laws, or even form new ones -- contrary to statements made by critics of the Can-Spam Act.
Full story at Wired News : Taking a Second Shot at Spammers
4/23/2004
"Google IPO Imminent" says reports
The Wall Street Journal is reporting the people familular with the Google IPO matter are saying that the Internet-search pioneer Google Inc. plans to announce within days that it will push forward with an initial public offering. Many financial and news reporting agencies are carrying the story, but nothing else is known at this time.
The announcement is linked to the fact that Google will soon be required to disclose publicly more information about its business, under a Securities and Exchange Commission rule triggered after closely held companies surpass a certain size. Google is expected to have to make such disclosures as early as next week. Lawyers have said that the disclosure requirements can be a trigger for companies to list their shares.
While most news agencies are citing the source from the Wall Street Journal, the Mercury News is citing that all they have is an AP story that is saying the company appears poised to file the papers for the much-anticipated initial public offering of stock next week because of an obscure SEC rule affecting companies with at least 500 shareholders
More on the stories at Google IPO Imminent
The announcement is linked to the fact that Google will soon be required to disclose publicly more information about its business, under a Securities and Exchange Commission rule triggered after closely held companies surpass a certain size. Google is expected to have to make such disclosures as early as next week. Lawyers have said that the disclosure requirements can be a trigger for companies to list their shares.
While most news agencies are citing the source from the Wall Street Journal, the Mercury News is citing that all they have is an AP story that is saying the company appears poised to file the papers for the much-anticipated initial public offering of stock next week because of an obscure SEC rule affecting companies with at least 500 shareholders
More on the stories at Google IPO Imminent
4/22/2004
WSG Interviews Eric Meyer
The Web Standards Group, known best for their evangelism of standards both online and in the sunny climes of Australia, have posted their Top Ten Questions for Eric Meyer.
Eric discusses his new CSS books, along with his opinions on CSS3, where CSS has been, and where it's going There are tips for new developers, alongside Eric's take on image replacement and CSS hacks.
Read the interview at http://webstandardsgroup.org/features/eric-meyer.cfm
Visit Eric Meyer's website at http://www.meyerweb.com/
Eric discusses his new CSS books, along with his opinions on CSS3, where CSS has been, and where it's going There are tips for new developers, alongside Eric's take on image replacement and CSS hacks.
Read the interview at http://webstandardsgroup.org/features/eric-meyer.cfm
Visit Eric Meyer's website at http://www.meyerweb.com/
Yahoo RSS Syndication - FAQ for Publishers
You probably have heard that Yahoo!Search is beta testing a new service that allows users to add RSS feeds to their My Yahoo page directly from their search results. If a feed is available from a site, then the search result will contain a link to the XML page for you to view and a link to automatically add the feed to your My!Yahoo personal page.
You can take advantage of the public beta stage and have an opportunity to provide your website with another avenue to increase it's Internet presence. Headline syndication is a great way to build awareness of your content and your brand, drive traffic to your site, and serve your existing readership -- with relative ease and without expense. Invest a small amount of time to create your RSS file and you can essentially distribute headlines to many sources with very minimal ongoing work and virtually no overhead.
Not only can syndication help build stronger relationships with existing readers who want to know as soon as new content gets posted, it will also help attract new readers. And now, with My Yahoo! introducing the RSS format to its broad audience, publishers and bloggers who choose to syndicate will gain access to the millions of readers who visit My Yahoo! every day.
Yahoo is also maintaining an RSS feed directory in parallel with the service. The current RSS versions that it supports are RSS 0.90, 0.91, 0.92, 1.0, and 2.0. To date, this directory includes thousands of the most popular blogs and web sites that publish RSS feeds, but it is by no means exhaustive.
Getting into the the directory is very simple. If you have a My!Yahoo account, then all you have to do is add your RSS feed to your personal page. Each time you add a feed to My Yahoo!, the RSS directory is automatically updated. Once the feed in the directory anyone can discover it via the RSS search function.
Millions of Internet users visit My!Yahoo each day. To take advantage of that you can promote the fact that your content is available to be added to their personal page. Yahoo makes it easy for your visitors to add your headlines to My!Yahoo by putting a simple "Add to My Yahoo!" button on your site.
Once your feed is published at Yahoo, you will want to make sure that your latest posts appear immediately by using Yahoo's API. Yahoo's system will schedule an immediate refresh of your site so that My Yahoo! has the most up-to-date version of the RSS feed. The two interfaces currently available are: REST and XML-RPC. Example request and response.
If you publish a weblog (blog) or personal web site, consult the FAQs associated with your publishing software or hosting service to learn how to enable RSS on your platform. Many programs and services offer built-in tools to publish and update your RSS file easily. Yahoo does not support ATOM feeds -- but plans to expand other formats in the future. It is not clear whether this will be one of them. ATOM feeds are the standard for blogs created at Google's Blogger.com website.
If you are a webmaster or developer who manages a more robust or custom content management system, there are several tutorials that can help you get started. Here are just a few existing resources:
For the complete FAQ for RSS Publishers at Yahoo, visit http://my.yahoo.com/s/publishers.html
Further information can be found at http://www.bandofgonzos.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=495
You can take advantage of the public beta stage and have an opportunity to provide your website with another avenue to increase it's Internet presence. Headline syndication is a great way to build awareness of your content and your brand, drive traffic to your site, and serve your existing readership -- with relative ease and without expense. Invest a small amount of time to create your RSS file and you can essentially distribute headlines to many sources with very minimal ongoing work and virtually no overhead.
Not only can syndication help build stronger relationships with existing readers who want to know as soon as new content gets posted, it will also help attract new readers. And now, with My Yahoo! introducing the RSS format to its broad audience, publishers and bloggers who choose to syndicate will gain access to the millions of readers who visit My Yahoo! every day.
Yahoo is also maintaining an RSS feed directory in parallel with the service. The current RSS versions that it supports are RSS 0.90, 0.91, 0.92, 1.0, and 2.0. To date, this directory includes thousands of the most popular blogs and web sites that publish RSS feeds, but it is by no means exhaustive.
Getting into the the directory is very simple. If you have a My!Yahoo account, then all you have to do is add your RSS feed to your personal page. Each time you add a feed to My Yahoo!, the RSS directory is automatically updated. Once the feed in the directory anyone can discover it via the RSS search function.
Millions of Internet users visit My!Yahoo each day. To take advantage of that you can promote the fact that your content is available to be added to their personal page. Yahoo makes it easy for your visitors to add your headlines to My!Yahoo by putting a simple "Add to My Yahoo!" button on your site.
Once your feed is published at Yahoo, you will want to make sure that your latest posts appear immediately by using Yahoo's API. Yahoo's system will schedule an immediate refresh of your site so that My Yahoo! has the most up-to-date version of the RSS feed. The two interfaces currently available are: REST and XML-RPC. Example request and response.
If you publish a weblog (blog) or personal web site, consult the FAQs associated with your publishing software or hosting service to learn how to enable RSS on your platform. Many programs and services offer built-in tools to publish and update your RSS file easily. Yahoo does not support ATOM feeds -- but plans to expand other formats in the future. It is not clear whether this will be one of them. ATOM feeds are the standard for blogs created at Google's Blogger.com website.
If you are a webmaster or developer who manages a more robust or custom content management system, there are several tutorials that can help you get started. Here are just a few existing resources:
- O'Reilly's RSS DevCenter: http://www.oreillynet.com/topics/rss/getting_started
- Lockergnome's RSS Resource: http://rss.lockergnome.com/resources/
- RSS Tutorial: http://www.mnot.net/rss/tutorial/
For the complete FAQ for RSS Publishers at Yahoo, visit http://my.yahoo.com/s/publishers.html
Further information can be found at http://www.bandofgonzos.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=495
Gallery 1.4.3 is now available
Gallery v1.4.3 is now avaliable for download. It is a combination of lots of bug fixes and several new features.
Some of these include:
See Source Forge entry for Gallery 1.4.3
Some of these include:
- Compatibility with register_globals turned off
- GeekLog, phpBB2, MamboServer, and NSNnuke integration
- Image watermarking
- Fullscreen fit-to-screen slideshow Java applet
- Java applet for uploading
- Various security enhancements
See Source Forge entry for Gallery 1.4.3
Placing in top three pages of results key to search marketing success
More than 80% of Internet users don’t look beyond the first three pages of search results, underscoring the importance of placing high in searches, according to survey findings from search engine marketing firm iProspect.
More on the story Search Marketing Success
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4/20/2004
News Blogs - The News, One Entry at a Time
The News, One Entry at a Time
By Mark Baard - Wired News
01:03 PM Apr. 19, 2004 PT
CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts -- Blogs are giving a voice to many people, including former journalists, who have been shut out by the mainstream media, said bloggers meeting last weekend at Harvard University.
Some of the bloggers in a group that included former career journalists from NPR, CNN and the New York Daily News also suggested that traditional journalistic standards and ethics should not apply to blogs, because readers of Web content crave more than the rote reporting of events and issues.
Interesting story. For the rest of the story, see The New, One Entry at a Time
Discuss at Band of Gonzos Forum
By Mark Baard - Wired News
01:03 PM Apr. 19, 2004 PT
CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts -- Blogs are giving a voice to many people, including former journalists, who have been shut out by the mainstream media, said bloggers meeting last weekend at Harvard University.
Some of the bloggers in a group that included former career journalists from NPR, CNN and the New York Daily News also suggested that traditional journalistic standards and ethics should not apply to blogs, because readers of Web content crave more than the rote reporting of events and issues.
Interesting story. For the rest of the story, see The New, One Entry at a Time
Discuss at Band of Gonzos Forum
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