My latest column for the Windows Help and How-to Community is now live. "With more and more people using Internet banking and other online financial services, the number of con artists trying to separate us from our hard-earned savings has grown. People who are new to these services—including some...
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08-05-2007
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Microsoft's Phishing Filter is proving to be quite a success, thanks not only to all of the IE7 and MSN/Windows Live Toolbar users who are actively reporting phishing sites, but also thanks to data sharing between MS and third party data sources. Recently MS have been adding up to 17,000 URLS a month...
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08-26-2006
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For your viewing pleasure.. an excellent video from TechEd Windows Vista System Integrity Technologies http://www.microsoft.com/emea/itsshowtime/sessionh.aspx?videoid=223 Steve Riley is a fun presenter... messy blonde hair, sneakers, red pants, blue shirt, shell fragment necklace, leather wrist bands...
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08-06-2006
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One of my loyal readers pointed me to this site, coincidentally after reading my blogpost about the Bit9 assessment which placed Firefox 1.0.7 as the most dangerous non-malicious software out there: http://www.cweiske.de/ It seems the owner/author doesn't like IE and is blocking access to IE users. That...
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06-23-2006
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Note, HP and Kerio are NOT the only software affected by the problems described in the KB article 918165. Older NVIDIA software is also implicated, and as the KB article states, there may be other third party COM controls or shell extensions causing a problem. In short, don't assume that just because...
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04-14-2006
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Summary: My advice? Don't install it. (Please forgive any grammatical or logical flow errors - I'm running real short of time but wanted to get this live before starting my work day). Two MS security bloggers have mentioned the eEye "patch" that protects against the createTextRange vulnerability. http...
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03-29-2006
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http://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/virusencyclo/default5.asp?VName=JS%5FDLOADER%2EBXR&VSect=P I do note on the diagram that it stipulates that only the "January edition" of Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2 Preview is vulnerable. There has been a lot of confusion about whether the March build (that is, 5335...
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03-25-2006
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Important Update: http://msmvps.com/blogs/spywaresucks/archive/2006/03/15/86345.aspx ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This could prove to be a very serious problem. The Windows Genuine Advantage Validation Tool *must* be installed before many downloads are...
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03-11-2006
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Ok, so Firefox is going to introduce a "Phishing Shield": http://news.com.com/Firefox+to+get+phishing+shield/2100-1029_3-6047610.html?part=rss&tag=6047610&subj=news I'm trying *really* hard to behave myself, but I can't resist asking if the decision to include a phishing filter has been influenced...
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03-09-2006
Filed under: Security, safety and privacy on the Internet, Internet Explorer 7, General stuff