An anonymous reader writes: “Olympus seems to be pushing the unit more as a digital voice recorder than as a 64MB MP3 player, but the DM-1 is a player nonetheless. Targeted to on-the-go business people, the player is headed for your local Staples and Office Maxx store. http://www.mp3newswire.net/stories/2001/olympus.ht ml“

LinuxSecurity: “A bug exists in xinetd as shipped with Mandrake Linux 8.0 dealing with
TCP connections with the WAIT state that prevents linuxconf-web from
working properly. As well, xinetd contains a security flaw in which
it defaults to a umask of 0. This means that applications using the
xinetd umask that do not set permissions themselves (like SWAT, a web
configuration tool for Samba), will create world writable files. This
update sets the default umask to 022.”

Martin Gruner writes: “BibleTime is the first Bible study tool specifically written for the K Desktop Environment (KDE). It contains most of the features that are available in commercial Bible study software. Bible Texts, Commentaries, and Lexicons for Bibletime are available at no charge. The range of texts available is larger than most commercial Bible study tools, currently numbering over 190 including classics like Luther’s original German translation, John Wesley’s commentary (English), and Bible translations into a number of languages which include Russian, Swahili, and Chinese. BibleTime is available as source code and precompiled binary packages. It can be downloaded from http://www.bibletime.de.”

Newsbytes: “A program that gives remote attackers complete control of vulnerable computers running
Microsoft’s popular Web-server software has been quietly posted online and may have
been in use for nearly two weeks.

Source code to the program, which exploits a recently discovered bug in the indexing
service (IDA) of Microsoft’s Internet Information server (IIS), was posted last week on the Geocities home
page of a Japanese hacker who uses the nickname “HighSpeed Junkie.” According to the code, it was
programmed on June 21.”

An anonymous reader writes: “Linuxlookup.com staff member Mark tells of his experiences with SuSE’s latest release – Suse Linux 7.2 Professional. ‘I received a copy of the boxed version of the Professional distribution and can state quite categorically that this is the easiest install I’ve run to date.’ Read the full review at: Linuxlookup.“

Wired: “Open-source developers, wanting to “head Microsoft off at the pass,” try to create a Linux version of the software company’s .Net tools.”

The Register: “A Welsh cracker whose “campaign” to expose the insecurity of ecommerce sites led
to an FBI investigation has escaped jail.

19 year-old Raphael Gray was sentenced to a psychiatric and community service
rehabilitation order of three years, in a hearing before Judge Gareth Davies at
Swansea Crown Court today.

Gray (whose handle is “Curador”, or custodian in Welsh) obtained the credit card
details of thousands of people from sites with flakey security and published those
details on two sites, paid for with stolen credit card details.”

PCWorld: “About 12 million users of the online messaging service MSN Messenger have been unable to pull up their contact lists since
Wednesday due to a hardware failure at Microsoft headquarters. The problem affects about one-third of the service’s customer
base.”

DebianPlanet: “I’m a *BSD user, and just installed debian-2.2 and after I realized it was a rather
cryptic to find packages I did a small perl-script called ‘debports’ which converts the
list of apts into /usr/ports/* directory hierachy with Makefile and REAMDE for each
package alike *BSD does it, e.g.”

CNET: “Researchers have found a security hole in Oracle’s 8i database program that could let an
outside attacker take over the software and–in the case of a Windows computer–the
entire system.”