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Atari Online News, Etc. Volume 13 Issue 41
Volume 13, Issue 41 Atari Online News, Etc. October 14, 2011
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Dana P. Jacobson, Publisher/Managing Editor
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A-ONE #1341 10/14/11
~ Google+ Hits 40 Million ~ People Are Talking! ~ Hands On With Raven!
~ DS Best-Selling System! ~ More Facebook Troubles ~ Google's Buzz Dead!
~ Dennis Ritchie Passes! ~ PSN Accounts Hit Again ~ Rustock Botnet Case
~ ~ UK Wants Porn Filters! ~
-* SEC: Disclose Cyber Attacks! *-
-* Microsoft Flags Security Failings! *-
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->From the Editor's Keyboard "Saying it like it is!"
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I wonder, is there such a thing as being over-sensitive to others feeling?
As far as I'm concerned, political correctness continues to really go way
overboard these days.
I was just getting myself another cup of tea while finishing up this week's
issue when I happened to overhear a news story on the television. Teachers
in a "local" elementary school are being told to tell their students that
they are no longer going to be allowed to celebrate Halloween and a few other
holidays (Thanksgiving, Columbus Day, etc.). Whether limited to on school
behavior or not, I didn't hear. Why this is happening is because these
celebrations might be sensitive to others!
Really? How long has the world been celebrating Halloween? C'mon, it's a
harmless pseudo-holiday for kids (okay, even a lot of adult kids!). It's
a fun day when we have ghosts and goblins, and yes, witches. If it's good
enough to have a world-famous celebration in the home of witches: Salem,
Massachusetts and not cause any offense, it should be good enough to
celebrate in an elementary school!
There's a time for having concerns for people's sensitivities, and there's a
time to sit back and really consider how some are going too far with it. I
am so tired of hearing or reading stories about how this group and that
group are flailing about with some cockamamie rationale how they are
offended by some sort of time-honored celebration of sorts - whether it be
a holiday or some other event. And it's not just holidays. People want to
ban the Pledge of Allegiance because of the mention of "God". Or take the
word "God" off of U.S. currency. Stop the Thanksgiving holiday because it's
offensive to Native Americans. And there are many more such thoughts of
being politically correct (or is that incorrect?). It's ridiculous.
Let kids be kids and let them have some fun. Next thing these PC advocates
will be trying to tell your kids is that there's no such person as Santa
Claus!
Until next time...
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->In This Week's Gaming Section - Nintendo DS The Best-Selling Game System!
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->A-ONE's Game Console Industry News - The Latest Gaming News!
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Nintendo DS The Best-Selling Game System in U.S. History with 50 Million Units
In March 2009, Nintendo sold its 100 millionth DS system on a worldwide
basis, but today the handheld game system set an impressive record in the
United States: it crossed the 50 million marker, making it the best-selling
video game system in U.S. history. This means that it has outsold systems
like the PlayStation, PlayStation 2, and Nintendos own Game Boy line.
"The Nintendo DS forever changed the gaming landscape, and the fact that
consumers continue to embrace the platform is a testament to its value and
mass appeal," said Scott Moffitt, Nintendo of Americas executive vice
president of Sales & Marketing.
Nintendo also used its press release to tout recent sales of its Nintendo
3DS. In September, the handheld posted sales of 260,000 units, besting
its August total by 10 percent. Amid months of poor sales, Nintendo
drastically cut the price of the 3DS by $80 (to $170) in August. Since
then, the tide appears to be turning for the system. Recently, The Legend
of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D became the first 3DS game to sell more than
500,000 copies in the United States.
Though Microsofts Xbox 360 sales exceeded 430,000 units in September,
Nintendo didnt have an all bad month. The Nintendo DS sold 145,000 units
and the Wii sold 240,000, bringing Nintendos total hardware sales for
the month to 647,000. Not bad, but can the 3DS keep up the momentum?
Unauthorized Access Hits Sony PlayStation Accounts
Sony said Wednesday intruders staged a massive attempt to access user
accounts on its PlayStation Network and other online entertainment
services in the second major attack on its flagship gaming site this year.
The Tokyo-based company temporarily locked about 93,000 accounts whose IDs
and passwords were successfully ascertained by the blitz. Sony sent email
notifications and password reset procedures to affected customers on the
PlayStation Network, Sony Entertainment Network and Sony Online
Entertainment services.
Credit card numbers linked to the compromised accounts are not at risk,
Sony said. It has "taken steps to mitigate the activity" and is
investigating any wrongful use of the accounts themselves.
"Less than one tenth of one percent" of the service's customers may have
been affected, Sony said in a statement.
The announcement follows an embarrassing data breach in April, which
compromised personal data from more than 100 million online gaming and
entertainment accounts and forced PlayStation Network to be shut for a
month.
Sony was subsequently criticized for lax security and acting too slowly to
inform customers as it grappled with one of the largest-ever security
thefts.
Sony confirmed the latest incidents after its security systems detected an
unusually high number of login attempts that failed, said Sony spokesman
Sean Yoneda. The company suspects that those responsible obtained large
data sets from other companies or sources, which were then used to try to
access Sony accounts.
"What happened in April was a breach on our servers as we said in our
announcements," Yoneda said. "But this time around, there was no intrusion
on our servers. This was ... taking someone else's identity and trying to
use that to access our services."
The unauthorized access attempts occurred between Oct. 7 and Oct. 10 and
targeted accounts globally. The company said it is unclear whether the
attempts were carried out by a single individual or multiple parties.
Sony's customer service centers around the world have not seen a spike in
user calls related to the incidents, Yoneda said.
Under Chief Executive Howard Stringer, Sony aims to more deeply connect
its hardware, content and services. Executives have said the hacker
attacks in the spring did not derail that core strategy.
The PlayStation Network bounced back relatively quickly, with the vast
majority of subscribers returning after Sony began restoring online gaming
services in May.
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A-ONE's Headline News
The Latest in Computer Technology News
Compiled by: Dana P. Jacobson
SEC Tells Companies To Disclose Cyber Attacks
U.S. securities regulators on Thursday issued guidelines for public
companies to follow in disclosing cyber attacks following a rash of
Internet crimes that caused lawmakers to call for clearer guidance on
reporting the crimes.
The guidance, posted late on Thursday by the Securities and Exchange
Commission, lays out examples of things that companies may be required to
disclose. The guidance comes after Senator John Rockefeller asked the SEC
to issue it amid concern that companies were failing to mention data
breaches in public filings.
The SEC said in its guidance that if a cyber event occurs and leads to
losses then companies should "provide certain disclosures of losses that
are at least reasonably possible."
"Intellectual property worth billions of dollars has been stolen by cyber
criminals, and investors have been kept completely in the dark. This
guidance changes everything," Rockefeller said in a statement.
"It will allow the market to evaluate companies in part based on their
ability to keep their networks secure. We want an informed market and
informed consumers, and this is how we do it," Rockefeller said in a
statement.
Tom Kellermann, chief technology officer of security firm AirPatrol Corp.,
said that the guidance tells companies to report cyber attacks and disclose
steps to remediate problems.
"They must also incorporate cyber events into their material risk reports,"
said Kellermann, who has advised U.S. President Obama on cyber policy.
There is a growing sense of urgency following breaches at Google Inc,
Lockheed Martin Corp, the Pentagon's No. 1 supplier, Citigroup, the
International Monetary Fund and others.
A report out earlier this month found that U.S. banks are losing ground in
the battle to combat credit and debit card fraud because they balk at the
expense of higher security. Globally, however, security is improving in
the payment industry, according to data from The Nilson Report, a
California trade publication.
There is some hope of U.S. legislation to address the problem, although the
House of Representatives appears more interested in tackling it piecemeal
while the Senate is opting for a more far-reaching approach.
Most of the concern has been focused on critical facilities like nuclear
power, electricity, chemical and water treatment plants.
Microsoft Flags Firefox and Chrome for Security Failings
Microsoft has unveiled a website aimed at raising awareness of browser
security by comparing the ability of Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox,
and Google Chrome to withstand attacks from malware, phishing, and other
types of threats.
Your Browser Matters gives the latest versions of Firefox and Chrome a
paltry 2 and 2.5 points respectively out of a possible score of 4. Visit
the site using the IE 9, however, and the browser gets a perfect score.
IE 7 gets only 1 point, and IE 6 receives no points at all. The site
refused to rate Apple's Safari browser in tests run by The Register.
The page is designed to educate users about the importance of choosing an
up-to-date browser that offers industry-standard features. The ability to
automatically warn users when they're about to download a malicious file,
to contain web content in a security sandbox that has no access to
sensitive parts of the computer's operating system, and to automatically
install updates are just three of the criteria.
The site gives Internet Explorer 9 a perfect score of 4
The site dings Firefox for a variety of omissions, including its inability
to restrict an extension or a plug-in on a per-site basis, its failure to
use Windows Protected Mode or a similar mechanism such to prevent the
browser from modifying parts of the system it doesnt have access to, and
its lack of a built-in feature to filter out malicious XSS, or cross-site
scripting, code. Among other things, Chrome lost points for not using
Windows features that protect against structured exception-handling
overwrite attacks.
Reg readers still stuck in the rut of critiquing Microsoft security based
on products released a decade ago are likely to be unimpressed. The
reality is that over the past few years, Redmond has endowed Windows and
IE with measures such as ASLR, or address space layout randomization, and
DEP, or data execution prevention, that significantly reduce the damage
attackers can do when they exploit buffer overflows and other bugs that
are inevitable in any large base of code. Apple didn't pull ahead of
Microsoft on this score until earlier this year with the release of its
Mac OS X Lion.
It didn't take long for Mozilla developers to take issue with the critique.
"Microsoft's site is more notable for the things it fails to include:
security technologies like HSTS, privacy tools like Do Not Track, and
vendor response time when vulnerabilities are discovered," Johnathan
Nightingale, Mozilla's director of Firefox engineering, said in a
statement. He said: "Mozilla is fiercely proud of our long track record
of leadership on security.
Partners throwing their endorsement behind the new Microsoft page include
the Anti-Phishing Working Group, the Online Trust Alliance, and the
Identity Theft Counsel.
Google+ Tops 40 Million Users
Google co-founder and chief executive Larry Page on Thursday said that its
online social networking challenge to Facebook is growing fast and has
topped 40 million users.
"People are flocking to Google+ at an incredible rate and we are just
getting started," Page said during an earnings conference call.
He added that billions of digital photos are shared at Google+.
Page said social features highlighted at Google+ will be "baked in" to the
Internet star's other online offerings.
"Last quarter we shipped 'plus' and now we are going to ship the Google
part," Page said of weaving social and sharing features throughout the
firm's platform.
"We are still at the very early stages of what technology can deliver,"
he continued. "These tools we use online will look very different in five
years time and we are building these tools into Google-plus."
The Internet giant on September 20 opened google.com/+ to the public as it
ramped up its challenge to leading social network Facebook.
The move came with an array of improvements Google to the social network
it launched in an invitation-only test format on June 28.
Enhancements to Google+ included letting members take part in video-chat
"Hangouts" using camera-enabled smartphones or tablet computers, or
broadcast video presentations to groups of watchers using "Hangouts On
Air."
Famous figures who have taken part in Google+ hangouts in past weeks
include the Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, and Desmond Tutu,
the retired archbishop of Cape Town, who is also a renowned human rights
activist.
Hands-on with Raven, An App-centric Web Browser for OS X
The choice between Chrome, Firefox and Safari just got a little tougher.
A new OS-X-exclusive browser dubbed Raven takes the world of apps and
brings them to the Web without sacrificing the style and simplicity the
Apple operating system is known for.
Given that Raven was designed specifically for the Mac operating system,
it should come as no surprise that its user interface bears a striking
resemblance to all things Mac. You have your dock (albeit it to the left
hand side) in a black panel, and this houses your applications. The
overall design is minimalistic and stylish.
To navigate raven, you can choose to use the browsers apps, or take the
traditional route via the Web in its basic form. The omnibox is a sparse
strip across the top of the page, which strangely houses Ravens
navigation tools. On the right hand side, you can find the tools to
refresh, add a tab, star, bookmark, or return to the home page. All pretty
standard fare.
You also have the option to turn your entire screen over to Raven, and
given this browsers focus on apps and appearance, we can see how it wants
to be the destination for much of your activity. Give it a strengthened
app store with more production-oriented tools, and lightweight work could
definitely be accomplished within Raven.
Being in beta means that there isnt a terribly large inventory of apps to
play with, but Raven does a admirable job bringing users some key choices.
The default applications of choice like Facebook, Twitter, CNN, the New
York Times, Delicious, YouTube, and Flickr are all there, as are
noteworthy additions like Vimeo, Hulu Plus, and Quora.
Raven takes on a desktop-like attitude, particularly with the social
applications and those that require or cater to user interaction. Ubuntu
and Apple users will appreciate the seamless experience of moving between
installed software and the Web. The left-hand side panel holds all of your
chosen apps, as well as navigation icons. Selecting an app then brings up
your options for in-site actions.
For example, opening Twitter via the Raven app pulls up your command
options for the site on that left-hand panel, placing them below the
Twitter icon. Users can refer almost entirely to the left-hand panel once
theyre inside an application.
Apps like CNN pull up video or breaking news options (CNN specifically has
its iReport feature installed). So while your instinct might be to use
CNNs default navigations, there are benefits for more consumption-based
Websites as well.
Generally, working with Raven is a pleasure. Its stupid-simple to orient
yourself with all of the navigation commands, and installing and using
apps is quick and easy. Switching between apps and the native Web was
seamless, an upgrade from Chromes Web Store experience in our opinion.
There was less of a 'marketplace' feel to installing apps, and they were
deposited into the sidebar automatically instead of via a dedicated page.
Its a small difference, indistinct to some, but Web apps themselves are
some sort of compromise between bookmarks and desktop software, and this
felt like a more natural choice.
The app organization could bear an upgrade, however. Wed love it if Raven
would offer infinite scrolling for the left-hand sidebar so you can
automatically paw through your apps instead of selecting the gear icon at
the bottom to determine if they get to sit in one of the 12 coveted spots.
Either that, or shrinking icon size based on how many you install, so you
can view them all at once. As it stands, you can manually indicate your
apps status by pressing the gear in the bottom left-hand corner.
Our only major complaint is that we wish Raven werent a Mac-specific
browser. Its not as fast as browser dominators like Chrome and Firefox,
but we like how it toes the line between app-dependent and Web-enabled.
Raven has its early kinks to work out, but given the thinning line between
the Web and the desktop, this is a visually interesting and intuitive
solution to closing that gap a little more.
Facebook Lawsuit Prompts Look Back at Legal Troubles
A woman from Louisiana is about to take on Facebook. Janet Seamon, from
Baton Rouge, :a, has filed a class action lawsuit against the social
networking giant, claiming that Facebook collects and stores users'
Internet browsing history without the knowledge of the users. Former
Louisiana Attorney General Richard Leyoub filed the suit on Ms. Seamon's
behalf. Since the start of the company, it has had its fair share of
troubles and here is some more information on Facebook.
* Facebook was founded in February 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg while he was a
student at Harvard University.
* Eduardo Saverin originally helped Zuckerbeg fund the site when it was
only exclusive to Harvard University.
* It was originally called thefacebook.
* Two other Harvard students, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes helped
Zuckerberg run the company and eventually Moskovitz along with Mark
Zuckerbeg dropped out of Harvard to run Facebook fulltime.
* In 2005 the name was changed to Facebook, and the domain name
facebook.com was purchased for $200,000.
* It started out as a social networking site for college students only,
and then in September 2006 Facebook opened up its site to everyone.
* Facebook became so popular that it beat out Google for the site that
users spend the most time on.
* But as Facebook became more and more popular, Tyler and Cameron
Winklevoss along with their business partner Divya Narendra filed a
lawsuit against Mark Zuckerberg and the company.
* The Winklevoss twins and Narendra were also students at Harvard
University who had hired Zuckerberg to work on their similar social
networking site HarvardU, now called ConnectU, but instead, they allege,
Zuckerberg stole their idea and launched Facebook.
* The lawsuit was filed in 2004, and it was settled in 2008.
* The settlement was reportedly $65 million.
* However, the Winklevoss twins attempted to undo the settlement,
appealing to a court that Facebook misrepresented how much the company
was actually worth, which would entitle them to more money.
* In April 2011, an appeals court ruled against the twins and upheld the
original settlement.
* The story of Facebook was turned into a movie, The Social Network,
which was released in 2010 and made close to $100 million.
* Mark Zuckerberg is the second youngest billionaire in the world, with
Dustin Moskovitz, who works with him being the youngest.
* Facebook currently has over 800 million users, with fifty percent of
them logging in at least once a day.
Google's Buzz Is Dead
Buzz is dead. Google said Friday it was shutting down the
social-networking product to focus on its new service, Google+.
Buzz had been launched in 2010 as the software giant's social-networking
vehicle. But it quickly became embroiled in privacy issues that led to an
investigation and settlement with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, and
an international uproar.
In a posting on The Official Google Blog, Vice President for Product
Bradley Horowitz wrote Friday that Buzz and the Buzz API will be shut down
within a few weeks. "We learned a lot from products like Buzz," he wrote,
"and are putting that learning to work every day in our vision for
products like Google+."
He said that while users "obviously won't be able to create new posts"
with Buzz following the shutdown, they will be able to look at existing
content on their Google Profile, and download it using Google Takeout.
Buzz was built around the company's popular Gmail, and it enabled the
sharing of updates, photos, videos and other material and information with
friends. But it caused an uproar when the automated process revealed
users' e-mail contacts and friends, without their permission. With Buzz,
lists of friends were automatically created from Gmail contacts and
most-frequent e-mail contacts, even though some might not be friends.
At the time of the controversy, the Electronic Privacy Information
Center's Marc Rotenberg told The New York Times that there was concern
that "Gmail users are being driven into a social-networking service that
they didn't sign up for." Google said the auto-friend feature was
intended to get people started.
Buzz got the buzzer about privacy violations not only from the U.S.
Federal Trade Commission, but such other countries as France, Germany,
Ireland, Israel, Italy, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Spain, and the
United Kingdom.
In a letter to Google, privacy officials in those countries wrote at the
time that Buzz, "in essence," took Gmail, a private one-to-one e-mail
service, and turned it into a social networking service "without
adequately informing Gmail users about how this new service would work or
providing sufficient information to permit informed consent decisions."
The officials said this violated a basic principle that users should be
able to control their private information.
In the FTC settlement last fall, Google agreed to establish a $8.5
million fund to support organizations focusing on Internet privacy policy
or privacy education, in addition to covering lawyers' fees.
Chief Executive Larry Page said this week that Google +, which was
launched over the summer, now has more than 40 million users. By
comparison, social-networking giant Facebook has more than 800 million
users.
Buzz's demise is only one of the products that Google is shutting down.
Horowitz also said that Code Search, which had been designed to help
searches for open-source code, and Jaiku, a product purchased in 2007
that allows users to send updates to friends, will both close in January.
Additionally, social-networking features on iGoogle will also end at that
time, and the University Research Program for Google Search, providing
API access to search results for some academic institutions, is ending.
And Google Labs closes Friday, with its experiments becoming part of
product efforts.
Rustock: Civil Case Closed
Microsoft has officially announced that our civil case against the
operators of the Rustock botnet (a major source of spam) has been closed
and our teams have turned over the information weve gathered to the FBI.
The Rustock botnet is considered one of the largest sources of spam on the
Internet and our case is helping to reduce the effects of the botnet and
ensure that it will never be used for cybercrime again.
Learn how to clean an infected computer and help protect your PC with
botnet protection and avoid malware.
What is the Rustock botnet?
The Rustock botnet is a network of infected computers controlled by
cybercriminals and used for spam, fraud, and other cybercrime. The owners
of infected computers probably had no idea that their computer was being
used to send spam.
What did the Rustock botnet do?
Most of the spam messages generated by the Rustock botnet promoted
counterfeit or unapproved generic pharmaceuticals from unlicensed and
unregulated online drug sellers. Rustock spam also used Microsoft's
trademark to promote these drugs. In another scheme, Rustock-generated
email lured people into lottery scams in which spammers attempted to
convince people that they had won a lottery. The victims were told that
they needed to send the spammers money to collect the larger lottery
winnings.
Help protect yourself against these kinds of email and web scams.
Microsoft is offering a $250,000 reward for information that leads to the
arrest and conviction of Rustocks operators. Any tips should be sent
directly to the FBI at MS_Referrals@ic.fbi.gov.
Dennis Ritchie, Creator of Unix and C, Dies at 70
One of the most influential figures in the history of computing, Dennis
Ritchie, has passed away at the age of 70 after a long illness.
Ritchie is credited with creating the programming language C, one of the
most widely used and influential languages today. He was also one of the
creators of operating system UNIX, whose variants - most notably Linux and
OS X - are also widely used today.
Ritchie, often referenced as dmr (a part of his email address that he used
in various technical discussion groups), has had an immense influence on
the computing world. Among his many accomplishments is a Turing award that
he received in 1983 (together with Ken Thompson) for his work on UNIX, and
the National Medal of Technology, which he received in 1999 (again,
jointly with Thompson).
Programmers will perhaps best remember Ritchie for his famous "hello,
world" program, which is used in many programming textbooks, even those
that dont pertain to C, as an example of a very simple computer program.
David Cameron To Ask ISPs To Offer Porn Filters
According to new measures to be announced by Prime Minister David Cameron,
online pornography watchers will have to place a special request with their
Internet Service providers (ISPs) to watch pornographic or sexualised
content online.
The prime minister is holding a summit at No.10 today with 30 media and
retail executives, including broadcasters, magazine editors, trade bodies
and advertisers, said the Daily Mail. Cameron is expected to announce the
crackdown after Mothers Union charity chief executive Reg Bailey submitted
a report on the matter after six months of study.
Bailey's recommendations included providing parents with a website where
they can register and track complains, putting age restrictions on music
videos and ensuring retailers offer age-appropriate clothes for children.
In June, Cameron wrote to Bailey saying, "I very much agree with the
central approach you set out."
The letter said, "As you say, we should not try and wrap children up in
cotton wool or simply throw our hands up and accept the world as it is.
Instead, we should look to put 'the brakes on an unthinking drift towards
ever-greater commercialisation and sexualisation'."
Following the report, a ban could be implemented on children of up to 15
being employed as 'brand ambassadors' or in peer-to-peer marketing
campaigns, said the Daily Mail.
As part of the crackdown on the sexualisation of childhood, four leading
Internet service providers will be asked to offer customers the option to
block adult content at the point of subscription. Those who want to visit
pornographic sites will first have to 'opt in'.
Under the new measures, BT, Sky, TalkTalk and Virgin will offer the
protection for smartphones, laptops and PCs.
The prime minister will also launch Parentport - a website where people can
complain about inappropriate content. Cameron is also expected to back a ban
on billboards displaying sexualised images near schools.
The service providers, on their part, seem to enthusiastic about the
proposed changes.
According to the Guardian, the four major ISPs said in a statement that they
"have worked closely with Government and a range of stakeholders to swiftly
introduce measures addressing recommendations set out in the Bailey Report."
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