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The EMR Group offers the whole picture through interactive, spherical images providing users a complete field of view from earth to sky, floor to ceiling, horizon to horizon.
RealNetworks filed an anti-trust lawsuit against Microsoft
MS refused to disclose or delayed disclosing AIP relating to Secure Audio Pathway, a MS technology that encrypts audio streams to the audio card
Tactics are the same as those employed against Netscape
MS want to control the distribution of digital media and is giving away its digital media products at zero or negative prices
MS selectively licensed Secure Audio Pathway (SAP) to RealNetworks competitors
MS used similar tactics against Sun
Suit is aimed at stopping MS attempt to ?dominate the creation, delivery, and playback of media, regardless of the device used for delivery or playback.?
Exploits a flaw with the Remote Procedure Call (RPC) process, which controls activities such as file sharing.
The flaw enables the attacker to gain full access to the system.
The vulnerability affects Windows NT, Windows 2000 and Windows XP
MS Blaster hit the Internet August 11, 2003
Infected more than one million machines in the days following
Timeline for blackout
At 2:14 pm the alarm and logging software in FirstEnergy?s control room failed
Six minutes later, several remote control consoles failed
At 2:41 pm, the primary server computer hosting alarm functions failed
For over an hour no one in FirstEnergy?s control room grasp that their computer systems were not operating properly
The State Estimator computer, which is used to check the power grid itself, failed at 12:15pm.
The cascading power failure was not detected in the critical first hour
Bruce Schnierer, CNet, speculates that the failure of the various computers looks like a computer worm wending its way through FirstEnergy?s operational computers
Slammer worm knocked out 911 emergency telephone service in Bellevue
Natchi worm disabled automatic teller machines (ATM) made by Diebold
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