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<Karen>

-- Bead 'slashes mobile radiation'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/health/4203077.stm
Radiation from hands-free mobile phones can be reduced to virtually
zero by a simple tiny magnetic bead which costs a few pence, a
government adviser says.
Professor Lawrie Challis said clipping a ferrite bead on kits stops
the radio waves travelling up the wire and into the head.
He called on the mobile phone industry to start using them "as
standard".
The beads, which often measure less than 1cm in diameter, are commonly
used to stop data interference in computers.

-- NIST report urges caution with VoIP security
<http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,99258,00.html>
A new report from the National Institute of Standards and Technology
urges federal agencies and other organizations to take care in
switching to voice-over-IP technology because of security concerns.
The 99-page NIST report, "Security Considerations for Voice over IP
Systems," includes nine recommendations for IT managers to help them
implement VoIP in a secure manner. "Lower cost and greater flexibility
are among the promises of VoIP for the enterprise, but VoIP should not
be installed without careful consideration of the security problems
introduced," the report says.

-- Security organisation's Web site hacked
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/0,39020330,39185308,00.htm
The Information Systems Security Association's UK Web site [1] was
defaced earlier this month after a server upgrade
The UK arm of the Information Systems Security Association (ISSA) has
admitted its Web site was hacked into and defaced earlier this month.
The organisation's Web site, which has the logo "the global voice of
the information security profession", was hacked after its server was
upgraded.

-- "Professor's Web Posting at Center of Libel Suit"
A professor of business law at Oakland University, in Michigan,
has found himself embroiled in a libel lawsuit after posting a
student's essay online. In the essay, the student accused his
former employer, an industrial automation firm, of ethical and
legal lapses. (CNET)
<http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-5549899.html>

Mobile virus infects Lexus cars
Lexus cars may be vulnerable to viruses that infect them via mobile phones.
Landcruiser 100 models LX470 and LS430 have been discovered with infected
operating systems that transfer within a range of 15 feet.
"If infected mobile devices are scary, just thinking about an infected
onboard computer..," said Eugene Kaspersky, head of anti-virus research at
Russian firm Kaspersky. "We do know that car manufacturers are integrating
existing operating systems into their onboard computers (take the Fiat and
Microsoft deal, for instance)."
It is understood the virus could affect the navigation system of the Lexus
models, it transfers onto them via a Bluetooth mobile phone connection. It
is still unclear whether the cars in question use the Symbian operating
system which has recently been under attack from various worms and viruses.
<http://www.infosecnews.com/news/index.cfm?fuseaction=newsDetails&newsUID=bc
5789cf-e448-4a6e-bee9-a5dd291405ed&newsType=News >


-- "Colorado Colleges Sever Ties to Wires"
Several of Colorado's smaller institutions -- like Mesa State
University and Western State College -- are following the
states' larger public universities and setting up wireless
Internet connections. (The Daily Sentinel)
<http://www.gjsentinel.com/hp/content/news/stories/2005/01/26/1_26_1a_wirele
ss_colleges.html;COXnetJSessionID=B5eS9tEpdb8v3KsRVZ29vk2zCa6z48q9K7vlI2xAdh
tpV0ncP9Zz!1588890837?urac=n&urvf=11068452028180.4632925421525167>

-- New Scientist article: Wireless boom is hackers' heaven
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn6894
Setting up a wireless computer network at home has never been easier or
cheaper. But the freedom to access the internet from anywhere in or around
the house comes at a cost: Wi-Fi networks leave home computer users open to
unprecedented levels of security breaches.
Wi-Fi's radio signals carry up to 100 metres, and anyone within range can
pick them up. That is good news if you want to take your laptop into the
garden and connect to the net from there. But radio waves are no respecters
of household boundaries, and that can leave the network wide open to an
intruder operating a Wi-Fi PC from a neighbouring house, or sitting in a car
outside.
-- Developers say FIPS 140-2, WiFi security are big hurdles
http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/34902-1.html

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-- "Machine Learns Games 'Like a Human'"
"New Scientist is reporting that UK researchers have created a computer that
can learn rock, paper, scissors by observing humans. CogVis uses visual
information to recognize events and objects in addition to learning by
observing."
<http://science.slashdot.org/science/05/01/25/0225218.shtml?tid=126&tid=14&t
id=10>

-- Dame Miriam Louisa Rothschild, zoologist and entomologist,
born August 5 1908; died January 20 2005
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/science/story/0,12996,1396145,00.html>
Zoologist, naturalist, academic and eccentric who was the Queen Bee of
research into parasites and their hosts
They called her the Queen Bee, and she was. Dame Miriam Rothschild, who has
died aged 96, may have had little formal education but, without aspiring to
academic status, she was so expert in so many fields that she gathered eight
honorary doctorates, from Oxford in 1968 to Cambridge in 1999, and a
fellowship of the Royal Society (1985). Yet to describe her as one of
Britain's leading naturalists, a world authority on fleas, on butterflies,
on pyrazines and chemical communication - and a rightfully celebrated
eccentric of our time - is somehow to miss the more profound, and sometimes
even disturbing, qualities of her personality.


-- Sleuthing Spyware--And Its Corporate Sponsors
<http://www.forbes.com/2005/01/19/cx_pp_0120spyedelman_print.html>
Benjamin Edelman became a spyware expert before most of us had any idea
what was even clogging our computers.
Edelman, 24, has built a cottage industry documenting the nefarious ways of
the spyware and adware industries, which he contends are one and the same.
His extensive Web site is packed with the kind of hard
evidence--screenshots and videos--that's required to combat the deception
he says has been employed by companies like Claria, 180solutions, WhenU and
DirectRevenue to make a buck.
ABOUT Ben Edelman Berkman Center for Internet & Society Harvard Law School
<http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Technology/securitycrisisCENSORSHIP.html>

-- MS Office encryption flaw uncovered
<http://infoworld.com/article/05/01/19/HNmsofficeflaw_1.html>
Flaw is believed to affect all current versions of Office
A researcher has uncovered what is claimed to be a "serious"
flaw in the way Microsoft (Profile, Products, Articles) implements
document encryption in Word and Excel.

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