Online Lovers Need Stealth Switch
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One tap of the foot pedal hides your personal activities from the boss, if not from IT. In Sex Drive Daily.
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Also: Cell phones won't keep your secrets. Read these stories and more from around the Web on News.com Extra.
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Exclusive Slim pickings for thin clients
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People play games, go shopping and meet dates on the Internet. So why not use the Web to download the perfect mood-enhancing fragrance?
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By Fadhal Ilahi Abd Ghani  SUBANG JAYA: There's a new way to avoid the detection of illegal online gambling at cybercafes - a one-touch button that can erase or change computer screens whenever authorities step into the outlets.
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Japanese love hotels offer privacy to paramours wishing to copulate in peace, as they have for decades. A new book by photographer Misty Keasler documents their high-tech makeover -- game consoles, karaoke boxes, sex machines and more. By Lisa Katayama.
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The code for the first open source "intimate interface" to connect sex toy hardware to Second Life is posted by qDot Bunnyhug. Have at it. In Sex Drive Daily.
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Security researchers have released code showing how a pair of widely used technologies could be misused to take control of a victim&#39;s Web browsing experience.The code, published over the weekend by researchers Adrian Pastor and Petko Petkov, exploits features in two technologies: The UPnP (Universal Plug and Play) protocol, which is used by many operating systems to make it easier for them to work with devices on a network, and Adobe Systems&#39; Flash multimedia software.By tricking a victim into viewing a malicious Flash file, an attacker could use UPnP to change the primary DNS server used by the router to find other computers on the Internet. This would give the attacker a virtually undetectable way to redirect the victim to fake Web sites. For example, a victim with a compromised router could be taken to the attacker&#39;s Web server, even if he typed Citibank.com directly into the Web browser navigation bar.&quot;The most malicious of all malicious things is to change the primary DNS server,&quot; the researchers wrote. &quot;That will effectively turn the router and the network it controls into a zombie which the attacker can take advantage of whenever they feel like it.&quot;Because so many routers support UPnP, the researchers believe that &quot;99 percent of home routers are vulnerable to this attack.&quot;In fact, many other types of UPnP devices, such as printers, digital entertainment systems, and cameras are also potentially at risk, they added in a Frequently Asked Questions Web page explaining their research.The attack is particularly worrisome because it is cross-platform -- any operating system that supports Flash is susceptible -- and because it is based on features of UPnP and Flash, not bugs that could be easily fixed by Adobe or the router vendors.Users could avoid this attack by turning UPnP off on their routers, where it is normally enabled by default, but this would cause a variety of popular applications, such as IM software, games, and Skype, to break and require manual configuration on the router.Adobe could make changes to Flash to mitigate the problem, but attackers could most likely also launch this attack using another technique, known as DNS pinning, said Aviv Raff, a researcher who has also blogged about the attack.&quot;This is a critical issue,&quot; he said in an IM interview. &quot;People should turn off UPnP in their devices, and vendors should put UPnP disabled by default in the devices they deliver.&quot;Although this could make life difficult for nontechnical users, Raff believes it would be worth the effort. &quot;It&#39;s better than having your traffic owned by malicious people,&quot; he said.However, another security expert said that turning off UPnP would be overkill, considering that online criminals have not even begun using this attack. &quot;Look... if you get hit by a meteor, it&#39;s devastating,&quot; said Roger Thompson, chief research officer with Grisoft. &quot;But no one goes around building meteor shelters.&quot;
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bulk messages clogging instant-messaging accounts. AOL and its Anti-Spam Alliance partners -- EarthLink, Microsoft, and Yahoo
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Internet Security Systems' intrusion prevention software on Crossbeam Systems security switches.
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Web 2.0 applications such as wikis, blogs and online document editing offer nice functionality for users, but the bad guys are paying close attention as well -- and some of their tricks may be all but undetectable.
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Okay, totally off-topic, I know.  Well, the keyboard is computer-related.  But when I came across these links on my site, VarLinux.org, I couldn't resist sharing them.
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Worried about spyware? spam? "spim"? AOL wants to set your mind at rest. Also: Putting patches in place.
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com December 8, 2004, 4:50 PM PT. A function built into all major browsers could be co-opted by attackers to fool Web site visitors into surrendering sensitive information, a security firm warned on Wednesday.
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The company's new software might let private information go public. Also: A new website pays you to help your friends buy products  & hellip;. LAN operators start to gear up  & hellip;. and more.
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New online services could make you an even more inviting target for privacy attacks. Here's how.
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You can flip off your widescreen TV with the remote control. Power down your computer to standby. Unplug your cellphone from its charger. But as you leave the room, the "wall warts" -- those small boxes plugged into the wall sockets that power your electronics -- stare with glowing diode eyes in ...