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Hey NetHappenigs,

Thought everyone would like to know about these
Recent News Headlines.

<Karen>


In all, 1,286 internet experts looked at the future
impact of the internet and assessed predictions
about how technology and society will unfold.
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Technology/trends.html

Microsoft Patches Flaw in Service Pack 2
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1504-2005Jan11.html
Microsoft Corp. issued a trio of software updates to fix
security holes in computers powered by its Windows operating system,
including one flaw that hackers are using to infiltrate PCs equipped
with a massive security upgrade the company released just five months
ago. Download http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com,

The new mac mini $499 details
http://www.apple.com/macmini/

Hacker breaches T-Mobile systems, reads US Secret Service email
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/01/12/hacker_penetrates_t-mobile/
By Kelly Martin SecurityFocus 12th January 2005
A sophisticated computer hacker had access to servers at wireless
giant T-Mobile for at least a year, which he used to monitor US Secret
Service email, obtain customers' passwords and Social Security
numbers, and download candid photos taken by Sidekick users, including
Hollywood celebrities, SecurityFocus has learned.
The Library of Congress' s Rare Book & Special Collections Division
is pleased to announce the release of a new digital collection, The
Kraus Collection of Sir Francis Drake, available on the Library's Global
Gateway Web site at: http://international.loc.gov/intldl/drakehtml/

I.B.M. to Give Free Access to 500 Patents
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/11/technology/11soft.html
By STEVE LOHR Published: January 11, 2005
I.B.M. plans to announce today that it is making 500 of its software
patents freely available to anyone working on open-source projects, like
the popular Linux operating system, on which programmers collaborate and
share code.
The new model for I.B.M., analysts say, represents a shift away from the
traditional corporate approach to protecting ownership of ideas through
patents, copyrights, trademark and trade-secret laws. The conventional
practice is to amass as many patents as possible and then charge anyone
who wants access to them. I.B.M. has long been the champion of that
formula. The company, analysts estimate, collected $1 billion or more
last year from licensing its inventions.
The move comes after a lengthy internal review by I.B.M., the world's
largest patent holder, of its strategy toward intellectual property.
I.B.M. executives said the patent donation today would be the first of
several such steps.

Hacker compromises data at George Mason University
By Jaikumar Vijayan JANUARY 10, 2005 COMPUTERWORLD
<http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,98848,00.html>
The names, photos and Social Security numbers of more than 32,000
students and staff at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va., have
been compromised as the result of a hacker attack against the
university's main ID server.

Google exposes web surveillance cams
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/01/08/web_surveillance_cams_open_to_all/>
By Kevin Poulsen, SecurityFocus 8th January 2005
Blogs and message forums buzzed this week with the discovery that a
pair of simple Google searches permits access to well over 1,000
unprotected surveillance cameras around the world - apparently without
their owners' knowledge.

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