by wwarren | Jul 13, 2009 | Microsoft, Office, Open Source, Security
The Complete Guide To Microsoft’s Office 2010. All cloud computing is the re-emergence of the mainframe to terminal model using hte internet as the mainframe. However unlike the mainframe the cloud is inherently insecure(I don’t care what these folks say)...
by wwarren | Jul 11, 2009 | Open Source, Security, Security Alerts, Windows
Microsoft Security Advisory (972890): Vulnerability in Microsoft Video ActiveX Control Could Allow Remote Code Execution. What does this mean? Zero day means the bad guys were exploiting it BEFORE anyone else knew about it. What this flaw menas is that if you...
by wwarren | Jul 11, 2009 | Open Source, Security
Full Disclosure: imageshack – pwned for anti-sec.. They also hit an outfit called SSANZ. Full-Disclosure is not meant to make money. If full disclosure did not exist many security issues would never be known by anyone except the bad buys. Companies like...
by wwarren | Mar 3, 2009 | Security, Security Alerts
Conficker Collateral Damage for March 2009. This is one side effect of the conficker worm. Since it generates random doains to try to get instructions for if your site is the site of the day you are going to get hammered. On March 13 it will be southwest...
by wwarren | Mar 3, 2009 | Security, Security Alerts
Protecting Against the Rampant Conficker Worm – PC World. It’s called conficker or downandup and it’s another attack against a bad design in the windows system. Conficker affects ALL versions of windows in one form or another. The primary means...
by wwarren | Mar 3, 2009 | Open Source, Security
After CERT warning, Microsoft delivers AutoRun fix | ITworld. It’s about time. I have been trying to kill U3 forever among other autorun enabled garbage. ALL ECC managed network will get this patch pushed out to them.