Alicia Keys MySpace page is hacked  —  Attacks on MySpace seem to be on the rise.  First, at the end of October, there were a number of links added as friend-comments that went via MySpace’s open-redirector (MSPlinks) to exploit sites in China.  This was reported publicly on the FunSec mailing list.

Source:   Exploit Prevention Labs
Author: […]

Surge in encrypted torrents blindsides record biz  —  BPI claims losing is winning in P2P arms race  —  Exclusive The legal crackdown and publicity blitz aimed at people who share music, videos and software online is having an unintended consequence for the troubled record industry.

Source:   The Register
Author:   Chris Williams
Link:   http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/11/08…

Blogcosm Challenges Technorati, Techmeme to Parse the Blogosphere  —  Blogcosm is a new company aiming to build a directory of the blogosphere.  From the mundane to the esoteric, the company wants to provide users with a rich data set about any particular blog of interest or the vertical market it is in.

Source:   Read/WriteWeb
Author:   […]

WORDPRESS FOUNDER LOOKS INTO BLOGGING’S FUTURE  —  LAS VEGAS, Nev.—If you type “Matt” into the Google search bar, you won’t immediately get results for the actor Matt Damon or the political site owner Matt Drudge, as you might expect.  —  Instead, the No. 1 listing points to the site of Matt Mullenweg …

Source:   Webware.com
Author: […]

Adobe: Online Photoshop coming this year  —  MONTEREY, Calif.—Adobe Systems has committed to shipping a beta version of its online image-editing tool, Photoshop Express, this year, and said it will be complete in 2008.  —  “By late this year, we anticipate having a beta version,” …

Source:   CNET News.com
Author:   Stephen Shankland
Link:   http://www.news.com/8301-13580_3-9813680-39.html

LookSmart Announces Sale of FindArticles.com  —  LookSmart, Ltd. (NASDAQ:LOOK), an online advertising and technology solutions company, today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to sell the Company’s FindArticles.com property to CNET Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ:CNET) …

Source:   investor.shareholder.com
Link:   http://investor.shareholder.com/looksmart…

Redstone: ‘If Content Is King, Copyright Is Its Castle’  —  He may look his age when he’s not speaking, but when Sumner Redstone, the 84-year-old chairman of Viacom and CBS, starts talking about the shifting media landscape, you forget he was born when radio was a novelty.

Source:   Forbes
Author:   Louis Hau
Link:   http://www.forbes.com/technology/ebusiness/2007/11/08…

IE Automatic Component Activation (Changes to IE ActiveX Update)  —  Back in April 2006, we made a change to how Internet Explorer handled embedded controls used on some webpages.  Some sites required users to “click to activate” before they could interact with the control.

Source:   IEBlog
Author:   Ieblog
Link:   http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2007/11/08/ie…

Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification for November 2007  —  Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification issued: November 8, 2007  —  Microsoft Security Bulletins to be issued: November 13, 2007  —  This is an advance notification of two security bulletins that Microsoft is intending to release on November 13, 2007.

Source:   Microsoft
Link:   http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin…

Vonage loss widens, but settlement boosts shares  —  update Internet calling company Vonage Holdings on Thursday reported a bigger quarterly loss on litigation costs, but a legal settlement with AT&T raised hopes that such problems were coming to an end.  —  Vonage shares rose more than 21 percent …

Source:   Reuters
Link:   http://www.news.com/2100-7352_3-6217552.html