Sony beams in new Cli

Sony's new Cli? T415 handheld will boast an application that allows you to use the PDA as a remote controller for your TV, DVD and VCR players. The Cli? Remote Commander application allows users to control most currently-available home entertainment systems from up to 5m via infrared, with preset programs for many. Expected to retail for around $300, the T415 uses Palm OS 4. ...more

US government backs Philips' and HP's video content protection technology

HP and Philips have gained approval from the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for their video content protection system (VCPS), formerly dubbed Vidi. The system is seen by the two companies as central to the management of digital entertainment content - to enable flexible viewing of broadcast digital data, but to enable the content providers to control the extent of its redistribution. Central to VCPS is the concept of the Broadcast Flag, adopted by the FCC as a content protection mechanism for digital broadcast television. ...more

New P2P client aims to shut-out snoopers

Mute is a new peer-to-peer file sharing application that claims to be able to circumvent the measures that the US record industry use to indentify and sue individuals making large collections of music available over the Internet. Mute does this by assigning each user a random, virtual address as well as a standard IP address and by routing downloads over several computers rather than directly between the host and client machine. The combination of both factors - described in detail on the Mute website - should prevent the Recording Industry Association of America and iots snooping software from identifying the precise location of shared files. ...more

AMD support forum infected with .wmf attack

Finnish security company F-Secure says that AMD's online discussion forum appears to be infected a WMF exploit. It says that anyone visiting the site is sent such an exploit through an encoded IFRAME directive and warns against viewing. It says it has told AMD of the problem and that the company is working on fixing the problem. ...more

Majority of phishing websites 'assembled from kits'

New research has found that almost all phishing websites are made from off-the-shelf components available from the internet. The study carried out by IBM's Internet Security Systems subsidiary found that 92 per cent of new phishing web sites were kit-based. The company's X-Force research team found that out of 3,544 phishing websites recently identified, 3,256 of them used tools that allow a non-technical attacker to rapidly deploy multiple phishing websites (with multiple DNS host entries for virtual hosts) on a single host (i. ...more