Screenshots undermine Blu-ray DRM

Less than a month into their lives and the much vaunted DRM systems of both Blu-ray and HD DVD have been circumvented. German computer magazine c't found that movie content on the high-resolution discs can be copied frame-by-frame and reassembled, simply be taking screenshots. 'C't has discovered that the first software players running on Windows XP allow screenshots of the movies to be created in full resolution,' p2pnet reports. ...more

Wednesday's child is full of unpatched security exploits

The Internet Risk Impact Summary Report for the second quarter of 2003 reveals that most security attacks are launched on a Wednesday, with increasing variety of methods used to target the same vulnerabilities. The report, issued by Internet Security Systems, shows the numbers of serious incidents have risen 13.7 per cent over the previous quarter, with Wednesdays averaging 1,809,222. ...more

VeriSign subject to further legal attacks

VeriSign's 'Domain Name Expiration Notice' marketing campaign is filling up its wardrobe with law suits for every occasion. The latest suit on the hanger is courtesy of Go Daddy Software, the sixth largest domain name registrar, who objected to the campaign and has filed a suit alleging VeriSign tricked its customers into transferring domains to VeriSign and paying $29 per domain, as opposed to $8.95 charged by Go Daddy. ...more

NEC unveils 50in monitor

Electronics company NEC has launched a new revolutionary 50 inch monitor. The new monitor is a high-definition PDP (Plasma Display Panel), which can display two kinds of data on the same screen. So the 50in monitor can display graphics data from a PC and video footage from a digital source at the same time using this unique "double picture function". ...more

Sony Ericsson plays entry level Walkman phone

Sony Ericsson has extended its Walkman phone range with the W550. The entry level entertainment mobile has a 1.3 megapixel camera with a 4x digital zoom, a 176 x 220 pixel TFT display, runs Java games and is pre-loaded with Adobe picture PC software, but music is the main angle for the new model. ...more