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Phishing Likely Behind Reports of iTunes Security Hole

Phishing Likely Behind Reports of iTunes Security Hole | John Paczkowski | Digital Daily | AllThingsD: http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20100823/the-real-itunes-fraud-vulnerability-gullible-users/ I would be so bold to say that I am a savvy person, and I know I have not clicked on any phishing scams...

Posted to THE OFFICIAL BLOG OF THE SBS DIVA by bradley on Tue, Aug 24 2010
Filed under: Filed under: Security, Rants
Gawd I hate patching .NET...

Gawd I hate patching .NET... newly released tonight is a bundle of "known issues" for .NET updates including this gem: Files in use or File Locks can Result in Framework Assembly Files being Deleted: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2260913/ If the installation of framework patches fail and...

Posted to THE OFFICIAL BLOG OF THE SBS DIVA by bradley on Wed, Aug 11 2010
Filed under: Filed under: Security, Rants
Promise me a visit to MU

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/exchangesoftwareupdate/thread/e34f15c7-22f1-45cd-87e7-936b90082389 There's a thread in there about the loss of a SSL cert that I have not seen on a production SBS 2008 box... but whenever there's an issue with patching that includes SBS my spidey...

Posted to THE OFFICIAL BLOG OF THE SBS DIVA by bradley on Wed, Feb 10 2010
Filed under: Filed under: Security, Rants
I need your help

www.banthecheck.com I need your help. If you see a workstation that gets an update to Sun Java and gets the offer to install Carbonate backup software, can you grab a screenshot in MSPaint, save it as a bitmap file and email it to me at susan-at-msmvps.com? http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/blogs/mowgreen...

Posted to THE OFFICIAL BLOG OF THE SBS DIVA by bradley on Thu, Aug 6 2009
Filed under: Filed under: Security, Rants
Ban the Check

Dear Mr. Jobs, Glad you are feeling better and back to work. Thanks for rushing out the iPhone patch for the Blackhat issue that was just announced this week. http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1222 Kudos for getting a patch out that fast. Bet ol' Ballmer couldn't patch his phone platform that fast...

Posted to THE OFFICIAL BLOG OF THE SBS DIVA by bradley on Fri, Jul 31 2009
Filed under: Filed under: Security, Rants
Dear Scott:

It has been pointed out to me that in my zeal of ranting.. I picked the wrong CEO to rant at. http://msmvps.com/blogs/bradley/archive/2008/08/07/dear-larry.aspx Let's try that rant again. http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/executives/mcnealy/bio.jsp Dear Scott: Can you say my apologies for first ranting...

Posted to THE OFFICIAL BLOG OF THE SBS DIVA by bradley on Thu, Aug 7 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Security, Rants
Dear Larry:

(image of Sun Java's on PC after three versions were removed already) Dear Larry: Hope you've been well. Wondering if you could do me a big favor. You see I have a little problem with that itsy bitsy software you call Java. You see I need an easy way, not only for my office machines, but also...

Posted to THE OFFICIAL BLOG OF THE SBS DIVA by bradley on Thu, Aug 7 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Security, Rants
I think I'm from Pluto

http://blogs.technet.com/security/archive/2008/08/07/black-hat-got2-luv-the-h8ers.aspx This post reminded me of an email I got today (I won't name names) about a guy who followed a blog who saw that he was complaining about UAC and found it so annoying that he turned it off. So the guy pinged him...

Posted to THE OFFICIAL BLOG OF THE SBS DIVA by bradley on Thu, Aug 7 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Security, Rants
Facebook widgets try to install spyware - heise Security

Facebook widgets try to install spyware Facebook widgets try to install spyware - heise Security Another reason I should remove more of them or all or shut down my FaceBook account.

Posted to Windows Shell/User (MSN & OneCare Too) by ericvogel on Sat, Jan 5 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Security, Rants, Spyware
TCP Header Checksums Displayed as Corrupted (using Network Monitor)

OK,so I was troubleshooting and odd issue with an FTP server and one of the things that caught my attention while using Network Monitor (on a Windows 2000 server) was that some(actually almost all) of the TCP checksums (originating from the server) were found to be incorrect. At first I thought I was...

Posted to My Notes to Myself and Others... by Erik Rozman on Wed, Jul 11 2007
Filed under: Filed under: Server, General Computing, Security, Networking, Rants
For Sale: Phishing Kit - Security News Analysis

RSA this week said it has discovered what it calls the Universal Man-in-the-Middle Phishing Kit, an all-in-one package that provides the raw materials to launch sophisticated phishing exploits that appear to be operating on legitimate Websites. Source: Dark Reading - Desktop Security - For Sale: Phishing...

Posted to Windows Shell/User (MSN & OneCare Too) by ericvogel on Mon, Jan 15 2007
Filed under: Filed under: Security, News, Rants
WARNING: Phishing Scam on MySpace. Test your profile themes!

I went to post a comment on a friends MySpace profile tonight, and I clicked the top navigation banner to go Home to my main screen. I could have chosen Mail or Bog does not matter. Instead I got re-directed to a login screen and thought it was a corny flaky MySpace server. It was not, I looked at the...

Posted to Windows Shell/User (MSN & OneCare Too) by ericvogel on Wed, Nov 29 2006
Filed under: Filed under: Security, News, Rants
Microsoft admits WGA failures “coming up more commonly now”

Here is some more info about WGA issues for valid legal customers: http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?p=142&tag=nl.e540 Susan Bradley states Microsoft snuck us a WGA update without stating so or the changes: http://msmvps.com/blogs/bradley/archive/2006/09/27/Communication-101.aspx

Posted to Windows Shell/User (MSN & OneCare Too) by ericvogel on Fri, Sep 29 2006
Filed under: Filed under: Windows XP, Security, Rants, Opinions
Don't read this horrible book...

Seriously ... I really don't want you to buy the latest Security book by Michael Howard and Steve Lipner called... Security Development Lifecycle ... I really don't.. because if you do, you'll get as ticked off as I am about the applications that I spend money one. Applications like my industry's tax...

Posted to THE OFFICIAL BLOG OF THE SBS DIVA by bradley on Sun, Jul 9 2006
Filed under: Filed under: Security, Rants
Pulling back the rights.....

So does everyone in your network use the same rights of access? Is everyone a domain admin? Obviously not.. or I hope not anyway... so you probably have some that when you set them up on the server you gave them just plain user rights.. so they don't have the abilty to log in via RWW. Hang on.... you...

Posted to THE OFFICIAL BLOG OF THE SBS DIVA by bradley on Fri, Jul 7 2006
Filed under: Filed under: Security, Rants
How long does is take you to reboot?

In the blog comments..... a poster says. ... . Everytime I write up a memo to use WSUS it gets shot down by my boss as "Too dangerous", "It might break something", "But patches force me to reboot and I can't work then". and to that I say .. TOUGH. Reboot... it takes how long? Come on folks ..... the...

Posted to THE OFFICIAL BLOG OF THE SBS DIVA by bradley on Tue, Jun 6 2006
Filed under: Filed under: Security, Rants
My practice.. my risk

"How can I harden my SBS server?" "What's the best practice for SBS?" I really hate those questions.... I really do. Because it assumes that each firm has the same assets, the same risks, the same everything. And last I looked around... businesses have differences. So when someone sets up a SBS box with...

Posted to THE OFFICIAL BLOG OF THE SBS DIVA by bradley on Sat, May 20 2006
Filed under: Filed under: Security, Rants
Microsoft Auto Update Causes Issues

I posted this comment on Susan Bradley's SBS Blog (Patch Status Report - April Patches) , so I thought I would post it here too: My work computer, home laptop (Desktop does not have office on it mainly MCE), Mom's Laptop, Friends Desktop and Fathers Desktop and possibly' bosses laptop. All have the Outlook...

Posted to Windows Shell/User (MSN & OneCare Too) by ericvogel on Fri, Apr 21 2006
Filed under: Filed under: Security, Rants, Support
The body count

All returns out the door.... Many more returns efiled this year than last..... One band-aided workstation that died on Friday.... One workstation that has a non functional mouse (ever try to drive a Windows workstation these days with no mouse? It's not pretty... not sure what's up with that one.......

Posted to THE OFFICIAL BLOG OF THE SBS DIVA by bradley on Tue, Apr 18 2006
Filed under: Filed under: Security, Rants
Let's not isolate ourselves too much....

Subtitled... okay MBSA 2.0 is closer...but I STILL cannot consistently scan my domain worth a darn..... Okay so we already heard from a poster that he used a dll exclusion in the firewall... So we went back into our Small business server firewall settings... and clicked on "define program exceptions...

Posted to THE OFFICIAL BLOG OF THE SBS DIVA by bradley on Thu, Mar 30 2006
Filed under: Filed under: Security, Rants

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