An anti-CNN group promoting to hack the site has hacked into two sites relating to sports, one under the CNN.com’s Sports Illustrated name.

Sportsnetwork.com and sports.si.cnn.com were both hacked Early Sunday, with the former still showing the message written by the group.

“Tibet WAS,IS,and ALWAYS WILL BE a part of China!” it says.

“We are not against the western media, but against the lies and fabricated stories in the media.”

These anti-western stance was caused by the media’s reporting in the Tibetan region, where rioting and violence have occurred in the lead up in the Beijing Olympic Games. Protests are actively campaigning for the former state of Tibet to be free from China’s Communist rule.

As well, TechCrunch is reporting that many Chinese MSN users are adding “Love China” to combat against the anti-Western stance.

On the forums of “Hack CNN”, via a translation from Google Translator; there is a special forum dedicated to the hacking, dubbed the “Core Area”, is password protected.

As well, they offer people a download of a piece of software which, what TECHGEEK understands, is that the software would crash the servers of CNN if it was used by many people. They also suggest that you go put it up in your Startup folder so it would run automatically.

However, hackers thought taking down the SI site was CNN’s sports site. They are both owned by the same company, yet they are two different properties that share the cnn.com domain.

A hacker notorious of repeatedly accessing the off-limit parts of the eBay’s network and bragged about it in the public has been arrested, according to the company.

Vlad Constantin Duiculescu, also known as Vladuz, was arrested by Romanian police force with the help of the US Secret Service, the FBI and eBay’s global fraud investigation team. It would not discuss additional details; and both the Secret Service and the FBI could not be reached for comment.

eBay officials managed to contact Duiculescu by pretending to be interested in purchasing the application. They both agreed on the "deal" and Duiculescu gave out his real address - leading to his arrest.

According to The Register, he was arrested in a communist-era housing project in the capital, Bucharest.

He came to the public spotlight last year after having gained credentials to access employee-only sections of the eBay site. The breach allowed him to masquerade as an eBay official in the forums. Though never offering proof, he claimed to gain full access to the restricted parts.

eBay, however, says he only accessed limited parts of the system, and never accessed sections of the admin functions of the storage of credit card numbers.

The breach were an embarrassment to the company who was founded on trust and security, with many members speculating that a small, but vocal, group of members put in a backdoor into the system.

One Romanian site is reporting that he is accused of also illegally accessing the email accounts of users between 2005 and 2007.

The court in the capital cit has remanded the hacker in custody for 29 days.

In less than two years, the current network architecture that makes up the Internet may reach its limits in 2010; according to the U.S telecommunications giant, AT&T.

Speaking at the Westminster eForum in London; Jim Cicconi, the vice president of legislative affairs at AT&T, warned that the current systems will not be able to cope with the increasing amounts of video and user-generated content that is being constantly uploaded to sites.

Speaking at the event as part of meetings with the UK government officials, he said that at least $5 billion was needed to invest in new infrastructure in the US alone for the next three years. He also claimed that the “new wave” of traffic would increase 50-fold by 2015; with AT&T investing $19 billion to maintain and upgrade its network.

He also warns that HD content would create the increasing strain on the network.

“Eight hours of video is loaded onto YouTube every minute. Everything
will become HD very soon, and HD is 7 to 10 times more bandwidth-hungry
than typical video today. Video will be 80 percent of all traffic by
2010, up from 30 percent today,” he said.

MySpace has just expanded to Korea, trying to penetrate in a highly competitive market which is dominated by local social sites. The service owned by News Corporation, will have exclusive features that will not be seen on the US or any other international markets; like “minilogs”, a type of online notebook which users can make entries.

The US-based site will face strong competition from the market leader Cyworld, which has 18 million users, but has presented itself a new design that is different than the other versions as well.

MySpace has also plans to expand into India soon.

French politicians have called for stiff penalties, including three years in jail, for fines against “pro-anorexia” sites and publications that encourage girls and young women to stave themselves.

“Giving young girls advice about how to lie to their doctors, telling them what kinds of food are easiest to vomit, encouraging them to torture themselves whenever they take any kind of food is not part of liberty of expression,” Roselyne Bachelot, France’s Health Minister, said to the French parliament.

These proposed laws are mainly aimed at sites dubbed “pro-ana” blogs and sites where anorexics share and even provide tips on how to suppress their appetite. It will include penalties of two years in jail with a 30,000 euros fine for “incitement to excessive thinness by publicizing of any kind.”

It would then rise to three years in jail and a fine of 45,000 euros where cases involved death caused by anorexia.

The bill, like many other countries, needs to go before the Senate before it becomes law.

Microsoft has now officially said the SP3 version of XP will come out of the “first half of 2008″, but some RTM (Release to Manufacturing) builds are expected to come out on the second half of April.

As well, released by Neowin, its release schedule sees April 14 as the day when support is available for the release version.

April 21 will see only OEM, Volume License, Connect and MSDN and TechNet Subscribers getting the update. Other users can receive it at April 29, where it will be up on Microsoft/Windows Update and the Download Center. However, it won’t make Automatic Update status until June 10.

SP3 contains all the previously-released XP features; meaning that you can install SP3 without installing SP1 or SP2. It will also add NAP (Network Access Protection), which allows it to take advantage of the new features on Server 2008.

It is unclear if there will be a SP4, since Microsoft said it will stop selling XP to most manufacturers and system builders on June 30, but it has extended the life of XP Home until June 2010 for budget laptops.

Telstra will shut down the CDMA mobile phone network after the Communications Minister Stephen Conroy has told the press that the giant telco has met the requirements that would allow such closure.

The CDMA network is being superseded for the new Next G Network, and Telstra has told customers to switch or move to another network.

The ten-year-old network served almost two million users in the regional areas of Australia. Telstra wanted to shut down the network in 2007, but the government forced it to be postponed until it met the requirements.

Telstra will also provide a hotline for those who are want their questions resolved and its handset replacement program for those who switched to Next G. You can call them on 1800 888 888. However, on July 1; it will continue the handset exchange using the established customer service line on 125 111.

After Microsoft was given the green light for its OOXML standard to become an official standard, it will now see the ISO taking control over the format, and has put it in the same group responsible for running the OpenDocument Format, its rival.

The next six months, according to Ars Technica, will see an ad hoc group drafting and deciding a new plan to maintain the format; while a second group will stay with the OpeDocument Format and a third group working on an OOXML-ODF interoperable.

Microsoft is expected to change the OOXML format after the ISO made recommendations, thus meaning more and more updates. The voting has even caused some share of controversy, with the European Commission is looking into if Microsoft made any influences in the vote.

A new proposed bill by the new Rudd government could allow companies to snoop on their workers’ emails, causing outrage by civil liberty groups.

However, the Deputy Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, has said that it is needed to protect our electronic infrastructure from terror attacks. This bill would also include changes in the Telecommunications Act as the current powers, which only see security agencies to monitor the activities without consent, end in June 2008.

They are also working on protocols and guidelines so that companies don’t breach the worker’s privacy, a claim by civil liberty groups.

Federal Attorney-General Robert McClelland has said that if a major attack crippled our computer network, it would cause greater economic damage; comparing it to last year’s botnet attack in Estonia, one of the most wired countries in the world.