Attack on Net servers fails. The computers that serve as the address books for the Internet came under attack for about an hour in an apparently coordinated effort to cripple the Net. [CNET News.com]

“The Ring”. I couldn’t sleep! This clammy, creepy shocker brings the evil — and the surrealist influence — back to horror flicks. [Salon.com]

Public asked if choosing a baby’s sex is acceptable [Independant.co.uk]

Root server DoS attack slows net. Cache for questions [The Register]

Microsoft: “Palladium is not designed to provide defenses against hardware-based attacks that originate from someone in control of the local machine.” I guess that takes care of that. [Hack the Planet]

Ten Things to Do With IIS by Matt J. Foley (iisdude@hotmail.com) [Security Focus]
Contains a number of intresting IIS5 add-ons such as URLSpellCheck, IIS ReWrite and gzip.

Microsoft, Panasonic propose (another) CD standard. HighMAT Heimat [The Register]

U.S. Says Pakistan Gave Technology to North Korea. U.S. intelligence officials have concluded that Pakistan was a major supplier of critical equipment for North Korea’s newly revealed nuclear weapons program. By David E. Sanger and James Dao. [New York Times: Politics]

Sony Releases Smallest VAIO Yet. ephidryn writes “Sony Corporation has released their new VAIO laptop in Japan. … [Slashdot]

Secure Linux desktop begins shipping to UK police force. Could amount to 60,000 machines, and there’s more where that came from [The Register]