Microsoft fixes Passport 'feature'

Microsoft says it has fixed an `oversight` in its Passport system that allowed an attacker to redirect the response containing a link that would allow the password to be changed to any desired email address. It suspended the feature while looking for a fix and on Friday claimed that Passport was back on its feet and secure. Microsoft suggests a simple test to see if you have been affected: if you can sign in to your account, you're all right. ...more

Apple updates Bonjour

Apple has updated the Windows version of its Bonjour zero-configuration networking software. The software, formerly known as Rendezvous, is a networking protocol that uses industry standard IP protocols to allow devices to automatically discover each other without the need to enter IP addresses or configure DNS servers. The software includes a plugin to discover advertised HTTP servers using Internet Explorer - click the Bonjour icon in the Internet Explorer toolbar to enable Bonjour browsing - and Bonjour Printer Wizard, which allows Windows computers to print to Bonjour networked printers, including USB shared printers connected to Apple wireless hubs: AirPort Extreme and AirPort Express Base Stations. ...more

Play games for money

So you think you are a pretty cool computer games player and you want to be a professional gamer, trading frags for money... ...more

Files set to self-destruct

With files flying around left, right and centre on the Internet and the music industry tightening its grip on music sharing software such as Napster, it is no surprise that new forms of digital rights protection are coming to the fore. One of the more interesting file access control applications doing the rounds at the moment is something called InTether from Infraworks Corporation. The company made its name in the late 90s with its file deletion software called Sanitizer but now has turned its gaze towards digital rights management. ...more

Apple makes copycat jibe at Microsoft

Posters on display at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference are taking an undisguised swipe at Microsoft's Longhorn, the next version of Windows. MacMinute reports that the banners make less-than-subtle suggestions that Redmond-based Microsoft might copy one or two things from Mac OS X 10.4 'Tiger', which will be previewed for the first time this evening. ...more