Connecticut has bagged what may be the state's first known cell phone voyeur arrest, when East Haven police arrested a New Haven man accused of using a camera phone to take partial nudes of his girlfriend which he shared with friends after the couple broke up. Anthony Fulgieri was booked on charges of voyeurism and sending voyeuristic material, felonies under a 1999 law that made Connecticut the first to criminalize video or photo voyeurism. The now-former girlfriend called police in June after learning Fulgieri might have taken the partial nudes of her while she slept.
Virus watchers never sleep, and lo! They've noticed yet another variant of Bagle spreading this week. The good news: Bagle.dll.dr, or W32.Beagle.AQ as it's also known, isn't likely to go very far. That's because, while it tries turning off a victim's security software and download most of its mischief-making malware from about 125 Websites, most of the sites don't work, according to McAfee. Norton AntiVirus makers Symantec likewise gave Bagle no respect, listing it very low on its threat gauges and confirming at least half the sites in the bug's code were inactive or malfunctional.
Wi-Fi watches seem to believe Wi-Fi Protected Access 2 (WPA2) is a big improvement on earlier wireless Net security standards. "WPA2 is ideally suited for enterprises in both the public and private sectors," said Wi-Fi Alliance managing director Frank Hanzlik. "Products that are certified for WPA2 give IT managers the assurance that the technology meets interoperability standards and in turn helps them manage support and deployment costs." The Alliance said hackers found easy enough ways to circumvent such earlier standards as Wired Equivalent Privacy. WPA2 is compatible to the first WPA and thus companies already using WPA can upgrade easily.
Malfunctional might be a word fitting for video game maker Acclaim Entertainment, which has filed for bankruptcy liquidation after the company couldn't come up with new financing. Known for controversial titles like BMX XXX and failures like Turok: Evolution, Acclaim has also been troubled by litigation from several top licensees, including teen film and television stars Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen. What will happen to Acclaim properties, including forthcoming titles like 100 Bullets and new entries in the Worms series, is not yet known.
Microsoft may have launched MSN Music this week, but rivals are quoted as saying the Redmond, Washington software empire has a long enough way to go before it takes a substantial bite out of Apple's iTunes Music Store. And those rivals include Apple itself, which says MSN Music, launched in test mode, will have a time of it trying to catch up to iTunes's reported 16 million song downloads a month. But Forrester Research is a little more optimistic about MSN Music's prospects. "It has weaknesses that Apple has pointed out but many of them are going to get fixed," said analyst Josh Bernoff. "Just because Microsoft's first offering doesn't solve all problems doesn't mean that they won't be around for a long time or soak up customers."
Pfizer hopes to soak eighteen Websites they accuse of selling illegal version of cholesterol medication Lipitor. Lipitor is the first prescription drug to top $10 billion in annual sales, and the lawsuits follow comparable Pfizer actions in April and May. Pfizer has also chased counterfeit Viagra versions in court. The Lipitor suits accuse the sites of patent infringement and want injunctions against further sales.
Kenneth Wilk still hasn't been charged formally in the killing of a Broward County Sheriff's detective trying to serve him with a computer child porn search warrant last month, but Wilk has pleaded not guilty in federal court to child porn and witness tampering charges. His attorney J. Rafael Rodriguez told the court the former automobile seller would contest the three federal charges vigorously. Wilk is accused of shooting a high powered rifle out of his home, killing sheriff's detective Todd Fatta and wounding partner Angelo Cedeno, both of whom were part of a federal task force at the time of the killing.
Now, as old Gabriel Heatter used to say, there's good news tonight: It's happy tenth birthday to the world's oldest cybercafe, Café Cyberia in the heart of London. The creation of Polish psychology student Eva Pascoe in 1994, with the savvy and foresight to think e-mail and coffee went together, Café Cyberia got rave reviews from just about the day it opened its doors, not to mention investments from such heavyweights as Mick Jagger. Today, though, Café Cyberia is known as BTR Internet Café and is owned by South Korean investors – who say they use the same connecting line through which the café was born… and the same coffee machine.
