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December 10, 2004
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In This Edition
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1. News: No XP SP2 Security Fixes for Win2K
2. News: Pop-up Loophole Opens Browsers to Phishing Attacks
3. News: AOL Locks Out IM Users
4. News: Apple Threatens Owner of iTunes Domain
5. News: The Hidden Risks of Demo Discs
6. News: Mozilla Launching Second Act with E-Mail Client
7. News: PalmSource Adds Linux to Smart-Phone Mix
8. Reporter's Notebook: A Sizzling-Hot Oracle OpenWorld
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Enterprise Update
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1. News: No XP SP2 Security Fixes for Win2K
None of the security enhancements built into Windows XP SP2
will be back-ported to Windows 2000, which is still used by
the majority of enterprises. But what about customers who
can't afford to upgrade?
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2. News: Pop-up Loophole Opens Browsers to Phishing Attacks
A malicious site could insert its own content into a pop-up
window on even trusted sites, making fraudulent content
appear genuine, warns security firm Secunia. Browser vendors
have yet to issue patches.
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3. News: AOL Locks Out IM Users
The leading IM service accidentally blocks an unknown number
of users while purging outdated accounts. A fix could take
until Monday.
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4. News: Apple Threatens Owner of iTunes Domain
Apple has taken steps to take ownership of the iTunes.co.uk
domain name from its current owner, with the company
formally complaining to Nominet, the UK domain name
registrar, that it is entitled to the domain.
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5. News: The Hidden Risks of Demo Discs
Sony's PlayStation Underground members received their
Holiday Demo disk only to find one of the games zapped their
memory cards. However, there's more to the story than a
handful of gamers losing their saved game files. Reporter
Libe Goad examines the enterprise implications of such a
snafu.
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6. News: Mozilla Launching Second Act with E-Mail Client
With the launch of the Thunderbird 1.0 application, the
nonprofit hopes to achieve in e-mail what it did with its
Firefox Web browser: Persuade a groundswell of users to try
its alternative to Microsoft's dominant software. Will it
work?
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7. News: PalmSource Adds Linux to Smart-Phone Mix
PalmSource acquires mobile Linux vendor China MobileSoft and
announces plans to implement the Palm operating system on
top of Linux. Get the details here.
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Mobile Wars: Windows vs. Linux
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8. Reporter's Notebook: A Sizzling-Hot Oracle OpenWorld
>From minions of Satan hawking rival application servers on
up to Oracle's hot 10g message, Oracle OpenWorld showgoers
reported a simmering stew of hot topics catching their
attention. Read all about it, and check out the slideshow
too.
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