There are often times that I read something, typically involving a lawsuit, that I'm shocked people push. Often they are so embarassing, I'd probably pay extortion money to keep the crap quiet if someone threatened to go public about something I did. But instead of trying to keep it quiet and...
So often when I hear talking heads pontificate about constitutional issues, I hear two basic sides. The first is the strict constructionist interpretation where they claim the constitution is clear as day hence end of discussion. On the other side you have the 'living constitution' side that...
Another fine reason to patch your Windows Installations. State of Michigan allowed 55,000 computers get infected with the Rinbot virus. Secretary of the State had to turn people away. Now I wonder if our fine state has a anti-virus / spyware solution and if it is up-to-date. Link to Great Lakes IT Report
Beta testing to start late April, and ship in Fall 2007 New Features: Wireless connection - Help setup secure WIFI connections. Printer Sharing Support - Help connect printers to the local network. Management of Startup Programs - Includes speed boot time by automatically detecting rarely used programs...
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...
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...
Windows Live OneCare Team Blog: Windows Live OneCare (v1.5) and Windows Vista set to Launch Same Day As you may have heard, Microsoft announced some big news today – the Windows Vista has now been released to manufacturing and the general availability date is set for January 30, 2007! So what does this...
Windows Defender is now out of beta. Please update ASAP to get the latest version. Please note the beta version expired 12/31/06, so PLEASE do not let your anti-spyware expire! Still only runs on XP and Windows Server 2003. http://www.microsoft.com:80/athome/security/spyware/software/default.mspx
New features: - Updated interface that looks close to the standardized Windows Live! / Vista look - Windows Vista support. (Sorry, 32-bit only) - It now stays orange to you install a beta version of IE 7 RC1. (I think it should not happen to IE 7 goes gold) - Also stays orange if your phishing filter...
http://www.crn.com/sections/breakingnews/breakingnews.jhtml?articleId=192500586&pgno=1&queryText Security Winner: Collax Business Server Collax has several advantages when it comes to security. First off, the operating system is inherently more secure than anything offered by Microsoft... I feel...