Artists bid for CD parity on digital royalties

Music managers are meeting in Manchester today to launch a campaign for bands and solo artists to receive a greater share of income from music downloads stores, specifically Apple's iTunes. According to the Music Managers Forum, artists receive just 4.5p, 5. ...more

Source Code Club resurfaces to offer stolen Cisco code

The Source Code Club, a group of so-called hackers, has re-emerged after closing down their website in July. The group, which is now operating via Usegroup discussion boards is offering Cisco Systems Inc.'s PIX firewall software to potential buyers for a mere $24,000. ...more

BMG videos hit the net

BMG Entertainment is offering thousands of music videos to surfers in a new Internet venture. The company, which is worth a sizeable $4.7 billion, has signed a deal with Virage to use the Virage Internet Video Application Platform to syndicate the videos over the Internet. ...more

Twenty vulnerabilities addressed by latest security update

This month's bulletin dispatched from Redmond covers more than 20 critical and moderate vulnerabilities. They fix holes that have the potential to allow an attacker to remotely run code on a successfully exploited system and affects versions of Windows from 98 and NT Workstation 4.0 (with service pack 6a) to XP and Server 2003 - including the 64bit versions. ...more

Autorooter worm attacks Windows RPC flaw

The US Department of Homeland Security's concerns that hackers were preparing viruses to take advantage of a recently discovered flaw in Windows have been vindicated, with the arrival of the Autorooter worm. The almost inevitable sequence of events - from a vulnerability being identified to exploits for it entering widespread use - have been squashed into a couple of weeks. Just two weeks following Microsoft's warning of a Windows vulnerability in the handling of the RPC (Remote Procedure Call) protocol - which allow programs running on one computer to run code on another - Kaspersky Labs has flagged the arrival of the 'Autorooter' Internet worm, which attacks vulnerable Windows NT, 2000 and XP systems. ...more