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Worm Hits Diebold's Windows ATMs
Wired News Report
Story location: http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,61526,00.html
11:12 AM Dec. 09, 2003 PT
Automatic teller machines at two banks running Microsoft's popular
Windows software were infected by a computer virus in August, the maker
of the machines said. The ATM infections, first reported by
SecurityFocus.com, are believed to be the first of a computer virus
wiggling directly onto cash machines.
Computer security experts predicted more problems to come as Windows
migrates to critical systems consumers rely on. An unknown number of
ATMs running Windows XP Embedded were shut down during the spread of the
so-called "Nachi" worm, said officials at Diebold, which made the ATMs
and refused to name the customers affected.
The Nachi worm, also called "Welchia," was written to clean up after the
MSBlast, or Blaster, worm. Instead it crippled or congested networks
around the world, including the check-in system at Air Canada. Both
worms spread through a hole in Windows XP, 2000, NT and Server 2003.
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Mobile document access: Consumer electronics maker Sharp said that it
and Canadian software developer BitFlash had developed a type of
electronic display system for viewing business documents on mobile
phones.
Sharp said the new technology allows word processing files, spreadsheets
and presentations to be displayed on a mobile phone, complete with a
zoom function. The electronics firm announced last month that it
developed software that allowed users to adjust the width and length of
characters on the display of mobile phones without distorting their
shape.
In the past, mobile phones either did not allow users to adjust font
size or would distort the shape of characters when they were made bigger
or smaller. Sharp holds a 13 percent market share for the global active
matrix LCD screens for mobile phones, ranking behind Seiko Epson and a
joint venture from Toshiba and Matsushita Electric Industrial.
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Vodafone's phoneless 3G: Vodafone Group said it was launching new
third-generation mobile services for choice German and Italian clients,
but not for making phone calls. Targeting company laptop users in need
of high-speed mobile Internet links, Vodafone is ignoring ordinary
consumers because the 3G phones offering features such as video
telephony are still riddled with technical glitches.
Operators had hoped to buy into a gold mine when they spent 100 billion
euros ($123 billion) for licenses to bring fast Internet access and
video calls to mobile phone users in Europe.
But most have missed several launch dates as the telecoms industry still
grapples with bulky, expensive 3G handsets, short battery lives and
calls that drop when users are on the move.
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Perfect for a snoop: Camera cell phones, one of the hottest items on
this year's Christmas must-have list, is also a growing privacy issue
for both consumers and organizations. The phones, with their discreet
lens, tiny size and ability to immediately transmit images onto the
Internet or other cell phones, are a voyeur's dream.
The phones first appeared on the market in early 2001, and for the last
several months, media reports out of Asia have called attention to
incidents such as nude photographs of unsuspecting victims turning up on
the Internet.
Their growing popularity in North America since their debut late last
year has sparked similar concerns, prompting fitness centers across
North America, from Los Angeles to Toronto, to begin banning or limiting
cell phone use on their premises.
With locations including Beverly Hills and New York, The Sports Club/LA
-- one of the most luxurious fitness centers in the world -- was among
the first to ban all cell phones in July, limiting their usage only to
the lobby.
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Internet phone service dealing: Time Warner Cable is working with Sprint
and MCI to offer phone service using the up-and-coming
voice-over-Internet technology, one of the surest signs yet that cable
companies are assaulting the local phone industry.
While other cable companies sell phone service to their customers in
selected markets, the deal announced Monday is the first time the
"voice-over-IP" technology will be offered across the nation by a cable
company with a major footprint.
In September, New York-based cable TV operator Cablevision Systems said
it would offer Internet phoning to all 3 million of its customers - in
New York, New Jersey and Connecticut - by year's end. The technology
will let Time Warner customers make calls with their regular phones, but
the calls will travel as packets of data over the cable line that feeds
into the house, rather than going through traditional, circuit-based
phone wires.
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