74-Year-Old Woman Survives Gator Attack (AP)04/23/2004 08:23 PM AP - A 74-year-old woman survived an attack by a nearly 10-foot-long
alligator that bit her on the leg and arm and dragged her into a lake.
Bin Laden Aims to Attack U.S. This Year - NY Times (Reuters)
Bin Laden Aims to Attack U.S. This Year - NY Times (Reuters)07/09/2004 12:10 AM Reuters - Osama bin Laden, believed to be hiding
along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, is directing an al Qaeda
effort to launch an attack in the United States sometime this
year, The New York Times reported on Friday, citing unnamed
U.S. officials.
""I am satisfied that I never saw any intelligence that indicated there was going to be an attack on America -- at a time and a place, an attack." "
Chinese New Year - 2002 is Year of the Horse01/22/2004 10:20 AM ¨§‡ … ˆ ˆ… †Š†Œ€Œ‡§ ¨§Œ §„ †ˆ .. Chinese New Year - 2002 is the Year
of the Horse .. Welcome to 4700 .. Monkey ..
4700
"From the shore, they look like tiny dots slowly making
their way out past the breakers. They're the software vendors
positioning themselves to catch the Enterprise RSS wave. My, that's a
lot of tiny dots...." [MoonWatcher]
RSS was big in 2004, but next year is going
to be something else. It's killing me that I can't say more, but I
know of two major library vendors that will make big announcements
about RSS in 2005. It's going to be a fun year!
1 year performance video - please watch for one year
Wow. What a long time it has been since I last posted to
plasticbag.org. And what have I done in the meantime? I've been back
to Norfolk to see my family, experienced the wonders of Christmas,
seen Return of the King,
watched ten hours of videos with my little brother, watched the snow
come down and get washed away, struggled through lots of music
television, had my first frank conversation with my little brother
about being gay, opened and given lots of gifts, battled back to
London via bus and train, gone back to work for a few days before
late-night driving off to Cornwall for New Year with a selection of
friends and friends of friends wherein was had much late-night
drinking, (indoor) swimming, fondue-ing, walks in the wet and the
dark, eating of beef and roaming around. Since I last posted I've
travelled about eight hundred miles in total, including trips to
Penzance for shopping, Newquay for boots and Bath for Sally Lunn's. I've driven
through Indian Queens, passed by Splatt and circumnavigated Pityme. I've also read a lot of The Social Life of Information (more
on how much I want to burn that particular waste of headspace later),
thought a lot about Tivo and Social
Software, played a lot of Knights of the Old Republic and both
been bought and bought for others some of the most wonderfully
entertaining porcelain cups I've ever seen. All in
all, an eventful and entertaining couple of weeks.
Next up is trying to get my head together to start a new project at
work (interesting one this - should have really positive, interesting
and coincidentally weblog-friendly effects on BBC Radio sites), trying to
assemble my thoughts for a conference at Olympia in a couple of
month's time, trying to work out whether to propose a participant session for this year's ETCon (which I'm
still hoping I'm going to attend), while apparently also trying to
score maximum points on self-created, self-destructive and highly
non-fun-for-all-the-family games like, "How quickly and effectively
can I alienate everyone I work with?", "Be an arse!" and "How fat,
weird and bearded can one man become?". What did you guys get up
to?
LynuxWorks Announces Consecutive Year Over Year Growth and Profitability; Company’s Fourth Quarter Success Fuelled by Growth in the Military/Aerospace Market
Research And Markets - The Western European PC Market Has Continued To Go From Strength To Strength In The First Half Of 2004, Capitalizing On The Recovery Of 2003 To Record An 18.3% Shipment Growth Year On Year
The Chinese mobile phone industry's shipment volume rose 64.2% year on year to reach approximately 65.2 million units as the PAS mobile phone shipment broke a record high
Constructech Magazine Names ELAN™ as One of Technology’s Hottest Companies Leading Construction Automation Technology Magazine Recognizes ELAN as One of the Year’s Most Innovative and Exciting Companies in the Home Building Market for Second Consecutive Year
While the Taiwanese router industry declined in the first quarter of 2004, Taiwanese router shipments are anticipated to grow by 30.9% year-on-year in the second quarter of 2004
DoS Attack Nothing New05/18/2004 01:14 PM Some WLAN security experts say that the reaction to a type of denial
of service (DoS) attack recently described by Queensland University
researchers is severe: "This is new only in a small incremental
sense," said Rich Mironov, vice president of marketing for AirMagnet.
"This is one new flavor or variation of the DoS attack." The report
from Australia has been widely described as a dramatic new security
fault inherent in the 802.11b standard. Some reports have included
recommendations to stop using 802.11b networks altogether. The attack
appears to have no real effect on 802.11a or 802.11g-only networks
which employ a different signal encoding method than 802.11b. But some
say the attack isn't new at all. Richard Rushing, chief security
officer for AirDefense, says this new report looks exactly like
findings presented by University of San Diego researchers at a UseNix
conference last August. The buzz around the recent report from
Queensland just happens to be better publicized, he said. Neither
Mironov nor Rushing expect the form of attacks to be particularly
threatening. The attack can be performed with an off-the-shelf PC card
but the card's firmware must be modified using a driver that may or
may not become public. "It's probably going to come out, but it's not
necessarily going to propagate," said Rushing. Even if it does get
widely circulated, the attacks themselves will be limited to the APs
in range of the altered PC card. "It's not like the whole network
crashes. It's the one or two or three APs nearby that are crashing,"
Mironov said. AirMagnet's current product looks for 16 other distinct
DoS attacks and will soon identify this type of attack. When its
network sensors pick up on the attack, an alarm is sent to a network
administrator. An IT manager can then use a handheld device to locate
the source of the attack to shut it down. AirMagnet expects to be able
to distribute an update that will identify this specific attack in
about a week, Mironov said. Key to identifying such attacks are
sensors that are separate from the APs, Rushing said. "If I'm using
the AP to get my monitoring information I won't see anything. I'll
just see that nothing is connecting to the AP," he said. But a
separate sensor would see the signals sent from the hacker's device.
Mironov says this new attack is not a reason to shy from...
SCO hit by DoS attack
SCO hit by DoS attack12/10/2003 06:35 PM VIA NEWS RELEASE LINDON, Utah -- The SCO Group, Inc., owner of the
UNIX operating system, today confirmed that on Wednesday, Dec. 10,
2003 at approximately 4:20 a.m. Mountain Time, it experienced a
large-scale distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. The attack
caused the company's Web site and corporate operational traffic to be
unavailable during the morning hours including e-mail, the company
intranet, and customer support operations. The company's site remains
unavailable while this DDoS attack continues to take place. The
company is working with its Internet Service Provider to restore
www.sco.com to legitimate Internet users.
Under attack
Under attack05/19/2004 08:56 AM CNET Asia May 19 2004 1:21PM GMT
SCO Under DOS attack again
SCO Under DOS attack again12/12/2003 03:19 AM Apparently SCO needs to hire some System Administrators that have a
clue on how to prevent this third DOS attack....
This site is under what appears to be a DOS attack from 70.85.45.132.
Of course, it could just be a script kiddie trying to write his first
email address harvester. I've notified my ISP, his ISP, and added a
quick and dirty IP ban filter.
On June 15, a federal grand jury will convene in upstate New York
to consider possible bioterrorism charges against University at
Buffalo art professor Steve Kurtz and the Critical Art Ensemble, an
internationally-known hactivist collective. From the CAE Defense Fund
Web site:
"Early morning of May 11, Steve Kurtz awoke to find his
wife, Hope, dead of a cardiac arrest. Kurtz called 911. The police
arrived and, after stumbling across test tubes and petri dishes Kurtz
was using in a current artwork, called in the Joint Terrorism Task
Force.
Soon agents from the Task Force and FBI detained Kurtz, cordoned off
the entire block around his house, and later impounded Kurtz's
computers, manuscripts, books, equipment, and even his wife's body for
further analysis. The Buffalo Health Department condemned the house as
a health risk.
Only after the Commissioner of Public Health for New York State had
tested samples from the home and announced there was no public safety
threat was Kurtz able to return home and recover his wife's body. Yet
the FBI would not release the impounded materials, which included
artwork for an upcoming exhibition at the Massachusetts Museum of
Contemporary Art."
This Washington Post article provides more background on the bizarre
turn-of-events. Protests at the Court House in Buffalo and in other
major cities are planned. Link
Attack of the caterpillars06/23/2004 07:12 PM Currently one of the most popular news items at Yahoo! News is
Caterpillar Population Explodes in Mass. As a current resident of
Mass., I can testify to the disgusting omnipresence of caterpillars.
All around my house there are zillions of tent caterpillars. When I
first arrived on island in mid-May, they were just exiting their
tents. Now they are in all the plants, climbing up the sides of the
house, and marching across the deck. They are big, furry, gross, and
filled with juicy guts that explode when you step on them. My mom
tried to squish one last weekend and it blew up all over her foot.
Ick.
Boy, five, saved from pig attack
Boy, five, saved from pig attack09/01/2004 05:27 PM A man rescues his nephew from an angry pig after the animal attacked
the
five-year-old in its pen.
When pet piranha attack
When pet piranha attack08/04/2004 10:04 AM Some idiot abandoned two pet piranha in a Hong Kong fountain and one
took a bite out of a boy's finger while he was playing in the water.
The piranha -- which has its origins in warm South
American rivers and can devour whole cows when hunting in packs -- is
a popular fish in Hong Kong home aquariums and can be bought in
Mongkok pet shops for less than HK$100 a pair (7 pounds).
Maybe piranha could help deal with the problem of the renegade alligators
in New York City's sewers. Link
Microsoft attack on PDA05/03/2004 12:22 PM Amadoo May 3 2004 5:12PM GMT Grok Description matches for A year of attack GrokA matches for A year of attack
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