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Friday, October 25, 2002

First Worm with a EULA?
Posted by michael on Friday October 25, @02:03PM
from the first-born-child-at-risk dept.
ErikRed1488 writes "There is a new virtual postcard from Friend Greetings, owned by Permissioned Media that prompts you to install their software to view the card. You are then presented with a EULA granting them permission to e-mail all the Contacts in your Outlook Address Book. Those people are presented with an e-mail from you telling them they have a greeting card to pick up. So, this thing spreads like a worm, but includes a EULA that 95% of users won't take the time to read. Symantec isn't detecting this as a virus, but does have information about it on their site. In addition to the worm-like way it spreads, it also installs spyware designed to deliver ads to your computer. You also give them permission to install further software any time they want. In my opinion this is completely nasty, but it's all clearly in the EULA that you must agree to before it installs the software."

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2:33:59 PM

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10:37:01 AM

Implantable Chip, On Sale Now. No sooner had the ink dried on the FDA's curiously quick approval of an implantable human chip than the company that produces it launches a national marketing campaign. By Julia Scheeres. [Wired News]
10:28:51 AM

N-009: Buffer Overflow in kadmind4:"A stack buffer overflow in the implementation of the Kerberos v4 compatibility administration daemon (kadmind4) in the MIT krb5 distribution could be exploited to gain unauthorized root access to a KDC host. " www.ciac.org
10:09:06 AM

It's Linux for IBM supercomputer project. Linux gets the nod for Big Blue's upcoming "Blue Gene" supercomputers--a major endorsement for the operating system and the open-source computing model it represents. [CNET News.com]
10:01:03 AM

Internet Week > Web Services > OASIS Tees Up Digital Signatures, Time Stamping > October 24, 2002 - The OASIS standards group Thursday formed a new technical committee to develop XML protocols for digital signatures and cryptographic time stamping in a Web services transaction.
OASIS has become a font of XML standards, housing specs ranging from ebXML to WS-Security to SAML.
9:44:23 AM