Wednesday, June 18, 2003

WA PayPal eCommerce Toolkit Recipes
And They're Free!
These recipes provide step by step instructions on maximizing your development experience with the WA PayPal eCommerce Toolkit for Dreamweaver (v3.0.4 or later required). Included with these recipes are instructions and code snippets that show you how to obtain and manage a PayPal account as well as detailed guidelines on implementing common scenarios such as adding optional fields, sending user information with the order, and working with shipping.

+ Get Started With PayPal: Accept credit card or bank payments online immediately with the proven power of PayPal, your first step to eCommerce success.

+ Add Options to your Order Form: Offer additional options - customization, more colors - it's a win-win for you and your shoppers.

+ Make it Easy On Your Customers: No shopper wants to re-enter their name and personal info a bunch of times - now they don't have to.

+ Set Up Transaction-based Shipping: Still shipping flat-rate? You might be missing out on higher profits. Find out and fix it, quick.
http://www.webassist.com/Products/ProductDetails.asp?PID=29
Cash Flow Planner
Whether you've been in business for years or you're just starting out, it's a good time to take advantage of our solutions to make your business life easier. Save your energy for what you're good at — running your business.

Disclaimer: This planner is provided for educational and illustrative purposes only. The accuracy of the calculations and their applicability to your circumstances are not guaranteed. The content has been provided by a third party. Wells Fargo and the third party make no representations as to its accuracy and assume no liability for such content. It is being provided to you as a convenience, and Wells Fargo is not endorsing the content or its source. Because it is not intended to provide advice, please consult with an appropriate advisor regarding your unique situation.
http://www.moneymatch.com/enter.asp?_DARGS=%2Ftemplates%2Fbiz%2Fcashflowtool.jhtml

Tuesday, June 17, 2003

New Breed of Trojan Raises Security Concerns
Security researchers believe they have identified a new breed of Trojan horse that is infecting machines on the Internet, possibly in preparation for a larger coordinated attack.
However, experts have been unable to pin down many of the details of the program's behavior and are unsure how many machines might be compromised by the Trojan.

The program scans random IP addresses and sends a probe in the form of a TCP SYN request with a window size that is always 55808. Infected hosts listen promiscuously for packets with certain identifying characteristics, including that specific window size. Experts believe that other fields within the packet's header probably give the infected host information on the IP address of the controlling host and what port to contact the host on.

The Trojan is also capable of spoofing the source IP addresses for the packets it sends, making it much more difficult for researchers to track infected hosts. The program appears to scan IP addresses at a rate that enables it to scan about 90 percent of the IP addresses on the Internet in 24 hours, according to officials at Lancope Inc., an Atlanta-based security vendor. The company has seen the new Trojan on its own honeynet and has also observed it on the network at a university.


The company said it was alerted to the existence of the Trojan by an employee at a defense contractor and later notified both the FBI and the CERT Coordination Center. A spokesman for the FBI confirmed that the bureau was aware of the issue, but said there was little it could do unless there's an incident.…
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1126751,00.asp