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Hackers update Conficker worm, evade countermeasures March 8, 2009 (Computerworld) Computers infected with the Conficker warm are being updated with a new variant that sidesteps an industry effort to sever the link between the worm and its hacker controllers, researchers at Symantec Corp. said Friday. The new version, dubbed Conficker.c, represents the first set of "orders" that researchers have witnessed being sent to infected systems, said Vincent Weafer, vice president of Symantec's security response group. The update shows that the hackers want to defend their collection of compromised PCs, Weafer argued. Conficker, which is also known as "Downadup," gained notoriety earlier this year when it spread to millions of machines by exploiting a vulnerability that Microsoft Corp. patched with an emergency update in October 2008. Last month, about 20 technology companies and organizations, including Microsoft, Symantec, VeriSign and ICANN, the nonprofit gro

Microsoft slashes software leasing prices in bid to keep cash-strapped corporate customers March 10, 2009 (Computerworld) In an attempt to retain recession-hit companies seeking to opt out of their software maintenance contracts, Microsoft Corp. is wooing them by cutting the price of leasing software by as much as 26%. Until July 3, large companies and organizations can sign up to subscribe to Microsoft Office 2007, Windows Vista, or two bundles of client access licenses (CALs) for server software and save more than a quarter off the list price, according to the Web site, MicrosoftIncentives.com. That would mean that a company that pays about $155 a year per PC for its license and maintenance contract for Microsoft Office could save about $40 per PC, according to Paul DeGroot, an analyst at the independent firm Directions on Microsoft. Microsoft's maintenance contract is called Software Assurance. Aimed at large customers, SA is a requirement of several Microsoft licenses, s

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CNN) -- A floating city off the coast of San Francisco may sound like science fiction, but it could be reality in the not-too-distant future. The Seasteading Institute has drawn up plans for a floating city off the coast of San Francisco. The Seasteading Institute has drawn up plans for a floating city off the coast of San Francisco. City floating on the sea could be just 3 years away The Seasteading Institute already has drawn up plans for the construction of a homestead on the Pacific Ocean. One project engineer described the prototype as similar to a cruise ship, but from a distance the cities might look like oil-drilling platforms. According to the plans, the floating cities would not only look different from their land-based counterparts, but they might operate differently, too. Patri Friedman, a former Google engineer who now works for the Seasteading Institute, said floating cities are the perfect places to experiment with new forms of government. Some of the new poli