Well said Joe: http://www.microsoft-watch.com/content/operating_systems/the_great_double_standard.html To be fair the stock has risen to its highest point in like 7 years . . . I'm almost afraid to talk about it for fear of scaring it away . . .

Also a classic line from The Adventures of Buckaroo Bonzai Across the 8th Dimension and also very applicable to that fruit company's new OS. http://www.isfym.com/Site/Blog/Entries/2007/10/27_Don%E2%80%99t_go_Back_to_My_Mac.html What could *possibly...

Over the weekend I decided to try something cool at home. I have a Buffalo WHR-HP-G54 wifi g-router that I got a few weeks back via Slickdeals. It's a great router - very strong wifi signal / range and it was cheap - like $50 or something . . . but the...

I give you - the newest CLR language: http://blog.notdot.net/archives/32-LOLCode.net-Now-your-LOLCats-can-use-the-CLR!.html :)

F-Secure is reporting that a PDF spam run has started that exploits the Adobe URI handler vulnerability ( that is really sort of our vulnerability - where Acrobat is simply the current attack vector). Couple things: The Adobe Acrobat update has...

Available now: http://www.microsoft.com/security/portal/sir.aspx

Thanks to the parallel processing ower of modern GPUs: http://technology.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn12825&feedId=online-news_rss20 I'm surprised they didn't jump on the Sony PS3 / Cell processor bandwagon . . . On an related note - remember...

So I just got done reading Larry's article on XP SP3 over here: http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2204198,00.asp Near the beginning of the article he mentions something about needing an offline / disk based version of the update process for people...

Unbelievable talent . . . http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/living/2007/10/16/intv.one.handed.rubiks.champ.cnn And all he wants to buy with his $700 prize is . . . .

We now have several years worth of solid CVE / vuln data that has accrued (both for us and our competitors) and some folks like us are improving (by needing to fix fewer security vulns year over year) and others . . . not so much. :) http://blogs.technet...

"I felt a great disturbance in the Force...as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened." - Ben That's right - Microsoft now has not one but two (count 'em - TWO) open source...

http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/300.html#security Looking through the feature set . . . lets see: We've had tagging of applications downloaded from the Internet since like XPSP2 (attachment manager api). We've had the ability to sign applications...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20071015/tc_pcworld/138431 27 database vulns - 5 of which are remote anonymous (i.e. Critical). When was the last time SQL had a remote anonymous / critical? Is *anyone* keeping a running list of CVEs for Oracle so...

H.D. is just totally pwning the iPhone. He's got a two part series that covers using a LibTiff vuln to get shellcode running in say Safari which runs as root. http://blog.metasploit.com/2007/10/cracking-iphone-part-1.html http://blog.metasploit...

I've attended a number of briefings on the RBN in recent months and there is actually quite a lot of information in the hands of cluefull researchers about who is behind this shadowy organization. Much of that information has been kept private and then...

Not content to let the Chinese dominate the attachment based espionage game . . . it looks like the Russians are finally getting in on the act: http://www.first.org/newsroom/globalsecurity/157668.html I think it's pretty awesome that MessageLabs has the...

Install these updates: http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/10/03/Microsoft-updates-Vista-speed-and-stability-again_1.html Don't ask questions. :) The article above doesn't have the downloads URLs but here's a tip: You can sort the download web site...

http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/10/02/Security-researchers-look-beyond-Vista_1.html Halvar : One well-known researcher who goes by the name Halvar Flake called Vista "arguably the most secure closed-source OS available on the market," in a blog...

UPDATED (New links, more things I like) UPDATED (Again, now with a video of the Zunes and Zune software in action) So the Zune2 IMHO is hugely important for us. Apple seemed to have opened a big ole can of whoop-ass on us a few weeks ago with their...

Bot-herder - indicted: http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/cae/press_releases/docs/2007/10-01-07KingIndictment.pdf This may be a very small dent . . . but it's a start. :)

I think I have A.D.D. . . . I haven't like . . . been to a doctor about it - but from doing some research - I can tell I have it based on what I saw here: http://www.movieweb.com/video/V07F29lmopCJUY Oh CRAP! I should be working . . .

Interesting blog from my friend Adam Shostack here: http://www.emergentchaos.com/archives/2007/10/apples_update_strategy_is_1.html He takes a look at the Apple iPhone Security Update <--> Bricked Device issue. Basically if you want 10 security...

Okay - this is hilarious in an EPIC 2014 sort of way: http://www.loadingreadyrun.com/videos/view/228 The keyboard I type with even makes a cameo appearance at the end of the video - although I have nothing to do with its masterful creation (no really...