http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/computersecurity/2008-06-17-mozilla-window-snyder_N.htm Boy why bother with facts when it's so easy to make stuff up and to throw out randomly generated numbers like these: " Organized cybercrime gangs are more...

It's nice to see that the security researchers are taking notice of FireFox's increased share of the market and responding appropriately: http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=1288 This is interesting on many levels . . . here we have a free, open source...

Larry Seltzer is IMHO one of the few technology journalists who has actually written code - and thus he is more likely to actually understand that which he chooses to write about than the average technology journalist that is trying to cover the exciting...

Seems the miscreants behind the GPCode.ak (<-- picture of message user sees, poor English wording and all) malware finally picked up a copy of 'Applied Cryptography' or the ' Handbook of Applied Cryptography ' and coded up a version of their malware...

So I was chatting with a Microsoft friend of mine today. He's a Firephox fanboi. He's always trying to convert me. He was talking to me about FF 3.0's pending release and talking about how amazingly fast it is on his XP SP3 rig. So I started admonishing...

"Windows Embedded NavReady 2009"!?! Really people? I think we totally missed an opportunity to add a few more words to describe this fascinating new OS variant thereby ensuring that it will in no way easily fit on any product stickers and will have to...

Okay - so last month I discovered that Adobe PDFs can contain Java freaking script in them AND that Acrobat has that feature turned ON by default (Edit menu -> Preferrences -> Enable Acrobat Java freaking Script). How could I NOT have known about...

Ugh . . . stupid Apple . . . releasing a freaking $199 iPhone that has both 3G and GPS which finally brings it to feature parity with my Moto Q9 . . . but the real coupe de grace is the fact that it will also natively support Exchange Direct Push thereby...

Sometimes . . . we fail (shocking - I know, but bare with me please). :) So a seceurity researcher who goes by the name Liu Die Yu seems to have unraveled the mystery of the recent Apple Safari carpet bomb fail that we released an advisory on and how...

So last night a pipe carrying water in building 27 in the ceiling over the first floor burst causing water to pour out of the ceiling and onto the floor. This is interesting to me because building 27 is the building where most of the MSRC and SWI folks...

So do something about it: http://blogs.technet.com/swi/archive/2008/06/24/new-tools-to-block-and-eradicate-sql-injection.aspx We give you 3 different ways to combat SQL injection on our platform above including an update to one of my all time favorite...

Man - not sure why this didn't grab the media's attention until today: http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/147503/group_says_google_a_top_source_of_badware.html March was apparently a bad month for the Google properties: http://blogs.stopbadware...

Interesting article from Dino: http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=1325 Vista x64 has like . . . 4.5 out of 5 of things he wants. Love the comment in there about making the heap non-executable. :)

My friend Chris wrote an interesting paper on inferring things from static analysis based on the calling of known functions to re-construct program flow and even find bugs: http://chris.rohlf.googlepages.com/Static_DS_REC.pdf Yeah he's an Ubuntu /...

MikeHow just wrote a brief write-up of some of the things our new heap manager on Vista is capable of detecting at runtime over at the SDL blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/sdl/archive/2008/06/06/corrupted-heap-termination-redux.aspx As with the Low Fragmentation...

Boy there's a mouth full . . . I think my head will hurt after reading this - but I will read it nonetheless: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/xdsecuritywp/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=1157

I give you "Pointer fun with Binky" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pmWojisM_E

This has to be one of the funniest / saddest things I've read all year . . . http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00001450.html Oh and make sure you read the previous post as well - very insightful: http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives...

Anyone with any amount of technical clue who has used Vista has invariably figured out that the 'Windows Search" (wsearch) service is responsible for a lot of the CPU and disk suckage that seems to start at random times from out of nowhere and last for...

On XP or Vista from any network with HTTP outbound access go to start->run and paste this in: \\live.sysinternals.com\tools After a few seconds of negotiation the WebDAV redirector should kick in and let you browse the site and download the latest...

Now with Haute Secure technology: http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2218502/opera-sings-praises-security http://hautesecure.com/index.aspx

This guy has spent an insane amount of time collecting and organizing useful security links . . . but he doesn't just throw them in a blog in random order - he's got a graphical legend and mad organizational skillz. Although I must question some of...

The Microsoft Malware Protection Center team (i.e. the AV folks) have a new blog URL: http://blogs.technet.com/mmpc/ Hopefully these folks will be blogging more about new and exciting malware like they've done just recently. This month - they talk...

In Formula 1, silly season usually begins near the middle to end of the F1 calendar (although it seems to start earlier each year) as many drivers and teams start the intricate backroom negotiations of who will drive what next season or even sometimes...