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Countdown to Big Brother 4
  CBS Orders Two More Episodes of Big Brother 4
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from Variety
CBS has ordered two more episodes of the hit reality series, Big Brother 4, a move that means the show will now wrap its fourth season on Wednesday, Sept. 24, from 9-10 p.m., rather than the previously planned Sept. 17. That's the first Wednesday of the 2003-04 television season, and a sure sign that CBS executives have faith in "BB4" to end with a bang.
The schedule shuffle means a one-week delay for one of the network's biggest series moves of the year: The shift of King of Queens to Wednesday nights. The Kevin James-starrer will now have its one-hour premiere Oct. 1, with Becker beginning its new season Oct. 8.
It also pits the Big Brother 4 opposite the season premiere of ABC's The Bachelor, as well as the debut of the Aaron Sorkin-less The West Wing and an original episode of Fox's Paradise Hotel.
 Reality TV With the Greatest of Sleaze
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by Ben Katner
If there remains any doubt that sin is in, today's reality-show singletons lay it to rest by adhering to one simple rule: To enjoy 15 minutes of fame, one must indulge in 15 minutes of shame. As a result, we've been introduced to an incredibly uninhibited stable of mack daddies and hoochie mamas, each of whom is more eager than the last to score points with viewers by, well, scoring with each other. But which of them deserves the coveted title of the Big Sleazy? A quick rundown of their hook-up highlights tells the sordid story.
Key
Kind of incorrigible: man magnet Jennifer Lopez
Singularly skanky: boy toy Ashton Kutcher
Too trashy for words: late hoops playa Wilt Chamberlain
Trishelle: After starting a hot-tub orgy with her Real World: Las Vegas roomies, she gambled her life by having unprotected sex with male counterpart Steven.
David: A day after giving hedonistic housemate Amanda a tour of buddy Nathan's boudoir, the Big Brother 4 lady-killer showed his one-night stand the door.
Dan: The Meet My Folks fox nearly changed the title of the show to Mortify My Folks when a, ahem, fireside chat with not-so-sweet tart Stefanie left him begging for s'more.
Brian: Not content with his odds of winning over Mr. Personality trophy babe Hayley, this dawg doffed his mask (and then some, we presume) for a bathroom tryst with a hula dancer.
Toni: The incredible she-hulk calls fellow Paradise Hotel guests her family, then proceeds to maul them, prompting at least one conquest, Alex, to puke. Can't say we blamed him.
Sarah: Joe Millionaire's sexiest money honey gave Evan the, er, kiss that was heard 'round the world — unzipping, slurping, giggling and all. (Of course, that was us giggling.)
Rob: So dim he made Evan look like Einstein, For Love or Money's bachelor proved three's company by canoodling with Kelly while date No. 2, Paige, skipped to the loo. Scope, anyone ?
UK BB4 HG - Gos to enter BB4 USA house on August 20!
Rumours are flying all over the internet thanks to reports from London papers that are reporting that a UK BB4 houseguest - Gos, who is touring the US now, will be entering the BB4 House very soon. As part of the live show after the eviction and interview with Julie Chan, Gos will enter the house and direct the houseguests in an extra extended head of household competition that will require them to use their brains and athletic abilities. The article supposedly goes on to say that people in the UK will be able to see Gos enter the house on Wenesday, August 20, 2003 during the last 15 minutes of the show just before the head of household competition. It is also being reported that on Friday August 22, 2003 the rest of the head of household competition will take place and wiill be televised during the CBS television broadcast along with the houseguests reactions to Gos arrival.
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Monday, August 4, 2003 --- Hacking contest promotes security
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By Robert Lemos
Staff Writer, CNetNews.com
CNET News.com
August 4, 2003, 4:55 PM PT
LAS VEGAS--The U.S. government continues to talk tough on computer crime, but here in the desert, hackers--including some from federal agencies--are learning about defending networks by breaking into computers.
The exercise is part of a Capture the Flag-like game that's known as Root Fu. The annual contest pits eight teams at the DefCon conference against each other in a test of network defense and hacking skills. Each team has to defend its own server and applications while trying to break into the servers of the seven other teams. "This sort of adversarial testing shows what is possible--and not--with security," said Crispin Cowan, chief scientist at Linux security seller Immunix and the leader of the Immunix team. "We value this competition, because we think it is a better evaluation of security than common criteria."
Such comments conflict with tough talk from top-level U.S. officials who still look at hackers as a threat. Laws such as the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and the Cybersecurity Enhancement Act have focused on punishing hackers. But knowledgeable security experts see practicing such skills through Root Fu-like challenges as a necessary way to improve security.
"The reality is that you may have hostility at a high level, but the people who know their stuff decided to come," said Adam Shostack, chief technology officer for security start-up Informed Security.
Each team had to run five Web services on a variant of Unix known as BSD. The services consisted of the music streaming application IceCast, a Web news portal based on Slashcode, two ads, and a multiuser text-based role-playing game known as FurryMuck. Each team accumulated points for having the applications available. The longer a service was up, the more points its supervising team won. However, each team lost points if a service it was running became compromised. Ghettohackers, the group of hackers who created and officiated the game, focused on making the competition a good measure of offensive and defensive security skills. Late Saturday, the Immunix team retained a large lead, but another team named Anomaly caught up to win the competition on Sunday.
Alan Harper, a security engineer with the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), thought that competitions like Root Fu could help others understand that all hacking isn't bad. "There is an understanding, more and more, of ethical hacking," he said. "The technique is the same, but the intent is different. It's not something that we have to hide from our peers at work."
Root Fu--a hackerish name that derived from the superuser's name on Unix systems, root, and the final syllable of kung fu--may have also settled a long-debated point, Immunix's Cowan said: whether hackers make the best defenders.
"The offensive attackers have been doing the best code auditing," he said. "They attack, find the holes and then tell the defenders on the team."
The experience underscores that knowing how to attack systems is a critical skill in learning how to defend them. Others have maintained that you can't trust hackers, but Cowan stressed that it's all about the ethics of the hacker.
"Hacking tools should not be illegal, but if I use them to break into your computer, then I'm a criminal," he said.
Monday, August 4, 2003 --- Brandon the best houseguest that never made it to this truly BORING BB4 season is "Still ticking!"
We here at Reality411.com spoke with Brandon Showalter today on the telephone. Brandon says he is having a great summer sunning and surfing. Brandon went to that high school reunion this past weekend and had great fun seeing people he graduated from high school with ten years ago. Oh, Brandon, you don't look a day over 23! How did you graduate ten years ago? Gee Arnie and Allison missed out on the most fun and interesting possible houseguest this season in our opinion here at Reality411.com!!!
Keep having fun in the sun and surf Brandon, we here think you made out by NOT BEING on this BORING BB4 season's show!!!
Sunday, August 3, 2003 --- Attack bot exploits Windows flaw
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By Robert Lemos
Staff Writer, CNetNews.com
CNET News.com
August 2, 2003, 6:01 PM PT
LAS VEGAS--Online vandals are using a program to compromise Windows servers and remotely control them through Internet relay chat (IRC) networks, system administrators said Saturday.
Several programs, including one that exploits a recent vulnerability in computers running Windows, have been cobbled together to create a remote attack tool. The tool takes commands from an attacker through the IRC networks and can scan for and compromise computers vulnerable to the recently discovered flaw in Windows.
Files left behind on a compromised server by the worm were posted to a security mailing list. Computer security company Symantec analyzed the files and determined that what was first thought to be a worm was actually an attack program.
"Based on our analysis, the threat does not appear to be a worm," said Oliver Friedrichs, senior manager for Symantec's security response team. "It doesn't go and try to spread." Friedrichs was in Las Vegas attending the Black Hat Briefings and DefCon hacking conferences.
The ability to spread automatically is the hallmark of a computer worm. The collection of programs that Symantec analyzed is a tool that compromises computers and is referred to as an autorooter. It also acts like an IRC bot, listening to specific channels on the chat network and taking commands from attackers via IRC.
The initial post describing what security researchers thought might be a worm appeared at 10 a.m. PDT Saturday on the Full-Disclosure security list.
The tool consists of six files that work together to find vulnerable systems and attack them. Ever since the Windows flaw was announced, security researchers widely expected a worm to be written to exploit it. The IRC bot is one step removed from a worm and less disruptive.
This bot compromises computers using a flaw that
Microsoft
warned the public about on July 16.
The flaw is in the distributed component object model (DCOM) interface, a part of the OS that allows other computers to request the system to perform an action or service. The object, known as the remote procedure call (RPC) process, facilitates activities such as sharing files and allowing others to use the computer's printer. By sending too much data to the DCOM interface, an attacker can cause the system to grant full access to the computer. A week ago, hackers from the Chinese X-Focus security group publicly posted a program to several security lists designed to allow an intruder to use the vulnerability to break into Windows computers. The Windows flaw has been characterized by some security experts as the most widespread ever found in Windows. In the past week, security researchers and hackers have been refining the exploit code. That program is one of the six that make up the tool. The files include rpc.exe, rpctest.exe, tftpd.exe, worm.exe, lolx.exe and dcomx.exe. Although one of the programs sports the name "worm.exe," the resulting set of files is not a worm, because it doesn't spread automatically, Friedrichs said.
Symantec was still analyzing the files late Saturday, but judging from the names of the files the tool can search for vulnerable computers via RPC and when it finds a target, exploit the system with dcomx.exe. The Trivial FTP server, tftpd, allows files to be transferred to the new host, and lolx is likely to be a component that allows attackers to communicate with the system via IRC.
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