by Amber Maitland. 6 November 2006 - Wikipedia?s open contribution system has resulted in the spread of malware after hackers booby-trapped one of its pages. 

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Nemecká verzia Wikipedie obsahovala pozmenený článok o známom červovi Lovesan/W32.Blaster, ktorý skrýval pod odkazom “stiahnuť záplatu“ malware. 

By Alex Zaharov-Reutt. The German version of Wikipedia has been hacked to spread the W32.Blaster worm to unsuspecting users. Will the sneaky ?social engineering? attacks of the hackers ever end? 

Windows Live Barcode ? Sure, why not? from wikipedia Windows Live Barcode is Microsoft's implementation of 2D_Barcode 2D barcodes - optical patterns which can be captured and decoded using a normal digital camera. Microsoft have chosen the QR Code forma 

So this afternoon I'm looking around for Miguel de Icaza 's email address on the net. Why I didn't just check his blog in the first place, I don't know. I found it by first reading the Mono page on Wikipedia. On the Wikipedia page for Mono, however, I not 

Blog: One of the wonderful things about Wikipedia, and probably the thing that makes it work so well and grow so big, is that anyone... 

By Elizabeth Millard. Wikipedia has not yet seen the need to implement a virus-scanning function, analysts say, but the recent incident with malicious software planted on Wikipedia pages might force the company ... 

The free-for-all nature of Wikipedia has not only left it open to plagiarism; it s also made the encyclopaedia a vehicle for spreading malware. 

An entry in the popular online encyclopaedia was hijacked to direct users to malicious code

6.11.2006  

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Entry in German version of online encyclopedia hijacked to direct users to malicious code, says antivirus vendor. By Tom Espiner. A Wikipedia page has been used by hackers in an attempt to spread malicious code. 

Wikipedia s problémami, plagiátorstvom a vírusmi 

November 06, 2006 (IDG News Service) -- Malware writers have used a Wikipedia article and special storage features to attempt to plant malicious code on unsuspecting users systems, the online encyclopedia s organizers have confirmed. 

NEW YORK - Daniel Brandt, a longtime critic of Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia written and edited by users, has blasted the site for including many articles with passages lifted from other sites. 

The online encyclopedia has been used to try and infect users with malicious code. 

Cheeky fans of Borat have made their hero the President of Kazakhstan.Jokers logged onto internet site Wikipedia and edited the page for the fictional character's home nation. 

Daveydweeb writes, The accuracy of Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia, came into question again when a long-standing article on 'NPA personality theory' was confirmed to be a hoax. Not only had the article survived at Wikipedia for the better part o 

Německá verze Wikipedie ( de.wikipedia.org ) se stala prostředkem pro šíření viru - někdo vytvořil článek diskutující Blaster worm a do článku... 

eldavojohn writes The German Wikipedia has recently been used to launch a virus attack. Hackers posted a link to an all alleged fix for a new version of the blaster worm. Instead, it was a link to download malicious software. They then sent e-mails advis 

I was born in Nairobi. But not according to my Wikipedia entry which, until last month, stated categorically that I was born in Rome. Another line said I am anti-semitic. 

By Anick Jesdanun. AP. NEW YORK - A critic of an online encyclopedia written and edited by its users has identified dozens of biographical articles that appear to contain passages lifted from other sites, prompting ... 

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Spo22a writes Daniel Brandt found the examples of suspected plagiarism at Wikipedia using a program he created to run a few sentences from about 12,000 articles against Google Inc.'s search engine. He removed matches in which another site appeared to be 

Útočníci využili politiku otevřenosti, o které se opírají principy Wikipedie. 

Známa on-line internetová encyklopédia Wikipedia, resp. jej nemecká mutácia, musela riešiť ošemetný bezpečnostný problém, v ktorom sa voči nej obrátila hlavná myšlienka celého projektu. 

user24 writes As reported by Wikipedia's Signpost ezine, 'The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees has moved forward with a step in restructuring the organization by reorganizing itself. Following a planning retreat in Frankfurt, Jimmy Wales stepped do 

O stránkach, resp. službách Wikipedia a YouTube sa veľa hovorí nielen v rôznych aspektoch v médiách, ale pozornosť sa odzrkadľuje i v úspechu oboch stránok medzi návštevníkmi. 

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Andy Updegrove writes Far too much attention has been paid to whether or not the Wikipedia is accurate enough. The greater significance of the Wikipedia today, and even more for those in the future, is its reality as the most detailed, comprehensive, con 

The government s collection of intelligence agencies has set up its own version of Wikipedia, to help spies and other intelligence workers collaboratively add and edit content. 

By Katherine Shrader, AP. Based on free software from Wikipedia, officials from the 16 US spy agencies - and even some beyond that ?re increasingly using a new internal website called Intellipedia to ... 

Just found something very intresting on wikipedia.. Every April Fool's Day ( 1 April ) since 1989 , the Internet Engineering Task Force has published one or more humorous RFC documents, following in the path blazed by the June 1973 RFC titled ARPAWOCKY. T 

By KATHERINE SHRADER. AP. Based on free software from Wikipedia, officials from the 16 US spy agencies - and even some beyond that - are increasingly using a new internal Web site called Intellipedia to research ... 

Populární Wikipedia technologie se nyní rozšiřuje i do analytické práce zpravodajských složek 

Members of the US government s intelligence community are using a Wikipedia-like community networking Web site to share information across agency boundaries and open dialogue about disagreements over assessments such as those that led to the war in Iraq ... 

Silver bullet or leaker's dream? Washington's spymasters model a new intelligence-sharing system on Wikipedia. 

Tak a máme tady pro Vás jména vítězů soutěže k filmu Beastie Boys, 50 Kamer A 40 Tisíc Očí, kterou jsme 30. října spustili. Ten kdo využil mého tipu a zavítal na světovou encyklopedii Wikipedia to měl poměrně jednoduché. Zcela jistě se mu podařilo uhádno 

?Who else except Charles and An_Angel is going to TechEd Barcelona next week, especially the developer's part? I'll be there and it'd be cool to meet, discuss the sessions and maybe check out Barcelona in the evening (

1.11.2006  

 

By Greg Miller, Times Staff Writer. Washington - The CIA and other US intelligence agencies have created a computer system that uses software from a popular Internet encyclopedia site to gather content on ... 

The Intellipedia system lets analysts and officials add and edit content, much like its more famous namesake. 4:40 PM on October 31 

(InfoWorld) - Members of the U.S. government's intelligence community are using a Wikipedia-like community networking Web site to share information across agency boundaries and open dialogue about disa 

Google has acquired a start-up that develops wikis , the online collaboration tool popularised by digital encyclopaedia Wikipedia. 

My previous post on What is SOA? was inspired by the first few slides of a detailed slide deck on SOA provided by David Chappell. Anything he has written on SOA is great reading. The Wikipedia entry for SOA is a good read for a basic introduction to SOA. 

Internetovou encyklopedii Wikipedia už možná znáte. Je to encyklopedie, kterou společně píše mnoho jejích čtenářů. Možná ale nevíte, že existuje i její parodie zvaná Necyklopedie. Seriózní články tam skutečně nenajdete, ale pro pobavení je vynikající. Pod 

Řekněte co, Wikipedia to koupí 

Řekněte co, Wikipedia to koupí(MadInBlack.com, 28. října 2006) Wikipedia možná odkoupí obsah, podléhající autorským zákonům; chce ho poskytnou zdarma. „Zatím to není projekt, ale nápad,“ říká spoluzakladatel Wikipedie Jimmy Wales, který nedávno obeslal čl 

Slashback tonight brings some clarifications and updates to previous Slashdot stories, including: IBM speaks about the SCO suit, another angle on COPA, AllofMP3 followups, Navier-Stokes solution withdrawn, a librarian's guided tour of Wikipedia, and the i 

Wikipedia trpí nedostatkom expertov. To je fakt... Ale neviem si predstaviť, ako chce autor projektu Citizendium nájsť expertov na stotisíc rôznych odvetví. Ba ani podľa čoho bude určovať, kto je expert. 

Wikipedia je jeden z internetových projektov, ktorý sa začal v podstate ako amatérsky, no inovatívny nápad, a dnes je z neho globálny fenomén. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reset_(band) 

Pamatujete si na ikonku Sad Mac, která oznamovala, že něco není s Macíčkem v pořádku? src= http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/1f/Sad_mac 

By Natali T. Del Conte. Larry Sanger never meant for Wikipedia to be a joke. He meant for it to be the ultimate user-generated encyclopedia where people would share and exchange knowledge. 

Blog: If you can't beat 'em, join 'em.Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, apparently tired of the incessant fighting over copyright and the... 

Server o matematice pro studenty středních škol (http://www.e-matematika.cz) Wikipedia - Otevřená encyklopedie (http://cs.wikipedia.org)Maturita - Referáty, maturitní otázky, atd... (http://www.maturita.cz)Čtenářský deník - Obsahy knih (http://www.ct... 

A Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger is launching a new project to take on the free online encyclopedia he helped found. src= http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/idg/uk/MacworldUk?i=wRC 

It looks like Cygwin's days are numbered as the primary build environment for Mozilla under win32 the current cygwin DLL seems to have problems with ASLR http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Address_Space_Layout_Randomization under Vista, because fo 

An anonymous reader writes Jimmy Wales recently asked the Wikipedia community to suggest useful, 'works that could in theory be purchased and freed' assuming a 'budget of $100 million to purchase copyrights.' He went on to say that he has spoken with a p 

One of the founders of Wikipedia is starting a competing project that he hopes will overcome one of Wikipedia's most contentious problems -- the accuracy of its entries. src= http://feed 

By Stefanie Olsen. One of Wikipedia s founders and closest critics is launching an alternative to the free online encyclopedia this week. 

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Larry Sanger plans to launch an alternative to the free online encyclopedia this week. 

Minulý týždeň Reportéri bez hraníc informovali, že väčšia časť anglickej verzie internetovej encyklopédie Wikipedia je opäť dostupná i užívateľom z komunistickej Číny. V tejto krajine je internet pod prísnou kontrolou cenzorov, čo spôsobilo, že v roku 200 

eldavojohn writes, Webaroo has added Wikipedia to their services on mobile devices. There have also been open source efforts to deliver it to the iPod (also check out the wiki) or a PDA. I guess if I were still a bartender, this would be a necessity in s 

Raindance writes I've posted an in-depth look at Citizendium, Larry Sanger's new project and Wikipedia's new competitor. In a nutshell, Citizendium isn't just about building a better encyclopedia (though that is their goal) it's also a pilot proj 

Některé věci se stanou rychleji než čekate. Mění se lidé, které potkáváte, mění se i ti, které míjíte. Ja jsem minulý týden změnil ulici, město a kontinent, na kterém žiju. Pár nasledujících let mě pravděpodobně čeká

12.10.2006  

 

Niekoľko používateľov internetu v Číne hlási funkčnosť slobodnej encyklopédie Wikipedia. 

ZZeta writes Even though the information on the site is still scarce, Editor & Publisher is already publishing the scoop: Apparently, Wikipedia has been unblocked in China. From the article: 'Wikipedia reported on its site that it had received word f 

SpamSpan is a small bit of JavaScript code (2 KB). It allows you to obfuscate an email address to prevent spambots (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spambot) from collecting it. SpamSpan will reveal the email address to real users, even if their browser does 

Ever wished you could hold Wikipedia in the palm of your hand? Wanted to browse Wikipedia while you're on the bus ride home? Wikipod is the answer! Wikip 

The Bliki engine API supports the conversion of a Wikipedia article into HTML and the conversion of an HTML snippet into a Wikipedia article. 

Version 2.0.5 Editor which supports Wikipedia Syntax. * Wikipedia templates (Ctrl+SPACE) * HTML preview rendering * export wizard for generating HTML files * open a Wikipedia link with right mouse c 

A small and simple script that searches Wikipedia for the selected string in Safari. No more, no less. 

So you're looking for some dummy data? Well how about downloading the wikipedia???!! There are over 2 milliion pages on the wikipedia. Don't try to crawl the site, it won't let you. No robots allowed! Go to http://download.wi 

Francouzský kryptolog Serge Vaudenay (vedoucí Security and Cryptography Laboratory of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technologies) navštíví Katedru algebry MFF UK v Praze ve dnech 16.-20.10.2006.

5.10.2006  

 

Pro zájemce. 

I really like the write-up on this article. Most people seem to focus on the UI changes, but Vista is a major feature overhaul. 

Postavu, kterou není potřeba představovat. Dostala se dokonce do encyklopedie Wikipedia. Tam se dozvíte skoro vše o pánovi v hnědém sáčku s kravatkou. Rowan Atkinson to prostě umí. Tady je pár ukázek nejslavnějších scének + něco navíc. Delší: Nemocni... 

(InfoWorld) - When Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger was elected as pope last year, some Internet users who logged onto Wikipedia to see what he looked like found a rather different image: that of the evil emp 

(InfoWorld) - Inspired by the communal wisdom generated on sites like Wikipedia.com, Klir Technologies launched an IT management product Monday intended for system administrators at small and medium b 

One of Wikipedia s founders, Larry Sanger, says he plans to rewrite it - as Citizendium, a citizens compendium . 

I just went out to Wikipedia to look something up and I see my favorite Canadian trio is Today's featured article. Rush is a Canadian progressive rock band comprising bassist, keyboardist and vocalist Geddy Lee, guitarist Alex Lifeson, and dr 

Zakladateľ Wikipédie čoskoro spustí novú encyklopédiu, ktorá bude na úvod jej kópiou a aj neskôr z nej bude čerpať. Podstatným rozdielom však bude to, kto bude mať rozhodujúce slovo pri výbere a zmenách v článkoch. 

Also: White House uploads anti-drug videos to YouTube. Read these stories and more from around the Web on News.com Extra. 

Larry Sanger začína pracovať na novej verzii populárnej encyklopédie Wikipedia, pričom tú starú využil ako štartovací bod. 

Electron Barrage writes, An anonymous professor writes that last year about half of the seniors at his US university were suspected of cheating, mostly due to the Internet and community sites such as Wikipedia. He guesses that perhaps 25%-30% were actual 

tmk writes Larry Sanger, first editor-in-chief of Wikipedia plans to fork the project. In Berlin he announced the start of Citizendium the citizen's compendium. Main differences: no anonymous editing and experts will rule the project. Members of 

Wikipedia nabízí stránku Search web links, která vyhledá odkazy vedoucí z Wikipedie na Vámi zadanou doménu. Mnou odkázaná stránka hledá na anglické verzi Wikipedie. Náhradu na české Wikipedii jsem nenašel. Via Find Wikipedia Backlinks - Philipp Lenssen. 

Acidus writes, There is an excellent article in this month's First Monday about using reputation systems to limit the effects of vandalism on public wikis like Wikipedia. It discusses the benefits and weaknesses of various algorithms to judge how 'reliab 

truthsearch writes Jimmy Wales has defied the Chinese government by refusing to bow to censorship of politically sensitive Wikipedia entries. He challenges other internet companies, including Google, to justify their claim that they could do more good th 

Blog: Wikipedia is so rich with esoterica that we could probably just post one of the online encyclopedia's entries each day in this... 

Your browser knows that http://www.microsoft.com is running IIS 6.0/.NET 2.0 as the web server http://www.google.com 's web server is GWS 2.1 http://www.eweek.com is running on IIS 5.0 http://www.shopping.com uses Apache 1.3.33 http://en.wikipedia.org use 

Today I'm attempting to kick off a new project called SavageSVG, a complete SVG library for Mono/.NET. First of all, what is SVG? From Wikipedia: Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) is an XML markup language for describing two-dimensional vector graphic 

Donna Bogatin: Digg, Google and Wikipedia are invested in maintaining their as-is status-quo, no matter how flawed. Not one of the three powerhouses can risk diminishing public confidence in the grandiose vaunted missions each espouses. Digital Micro-Markets--subscribe to RSS feed 12:51 PM on September 7