Alternate Data Streams is used by recently discovered Rootkit to hide itself from the being discovered. By using Alternate Data Streams you can totally hide files from the user and from Anti-Virus applications

What is an alternate data stream (ADS)?
In NTFS, a file consists of different data streams. One stream holds the security information (access rights and such things), another one holds the “real data” you expect to be in a file. There may be another stream with link information instead of the real data stream, if the file actually is a link. And there may be alternate data streams, holding data the same way the standard data stream does.

heysoft.de published a page called: FAQ: Alternate Data Streams in NTFS which gives you all the information about Alternate Data Streams.

The war between Israel and the terror organization, Hezbollah in Lebanon is going also in cyberspace. After Moroccans and Turkish hackers defaced several commercial Israeli web sites, two Israeli hacker groups decided to retaliate and defaced at least 15 Hezbollah related web sites.

The groups, LIGHTNING and 3paC broke to the sites, erased the content from the server and replaced the home page with a picture saying: “War is not the solution“, “The Hezbollah gonna fall soon, very soon“, and also wrote “Remember fags, you mess with the best you die like the rest!“.

In the picture there is also the IDF and Israeli air force logo, and two stars of David.

Some of the hacked web sites:
aboualisina, azarmabna, abrahgostar, airsystemco, ajandriz, anahitco, ariadisc-co, armanchemie, arsiarakhshanfar, asiaautopart, asiaelectronics2000, attilaortho, bahador-ameri, bararpour, bargsoft

Many of them went offline and no longer accessible at this time.

Source: Scoop.co.il

Following an outcry from corporate customers, Microsoft is removing an add-on feature to Windows that allowed users to create password-protected folders.

The feature was introduced as a free download last week. Almost immediately, people raised questions over how businesses would grapple with the ability of individual workers to encrypt their data.

“Private Folder 1.0 was designed as a benefit for customers running genuine Windows,” Microsoft said in a statement to CNET News.com on Friday. “However, we received feedback about concerns around manageability, data recovery and encryption, and based on that feedback, we are removing the application today. This change will take effect shortly.”

Source: News.com

Electronic Arts, Inc., the world’s largest video games publisher, says it is planning to release a role-playing game based on the British author J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings trilogy.

“We will launch the Lord of the Rings game at the end of 2007,” says Electronic Arts spokesperson Scott Gamel. “The game will incorporate elements from the J.R.R. Tolkien novels and also from the recent Lord of the Rings movie trilogy, which was produced by New Zealander Paul Jackson.”

Known as The Lord of the Rings, The White Council, the game will be developed at Electronic Arts’ Redwood City, California studio. The executive producer for the role-playing game will be Electronic Arts developer Steve Gray.

Source: NewsFactor