August 2007 - Posts

I work for you...
27 August 07 02:22 PM | michalos | 0 Comments   

I work for you. You’re paranoid. You want me to update a document, but you’re terrified I will “steal” the information in that document somehow. You secured your data against someone copying the contents. You don’t want it printed, so you’ve taken away Read More...

Filed under: security

"Me too" email chains
22 August 07 05:58 PM | michalos | 0 Comments   

This may happen to any big or medium size company: the "me too" email chain. Use your imagination and visualize what an email server can feel in the following situation. An email is sent to a distribution group. Let's say group is rather large, 3000 recipients. Read More...

Filed under: exchange

August 16th, the doomsday for some
20 August 07 03:49 PM | michalos | 0 Comments   

From Skype.com blog : On Thursday, 16th August 2007, the Skype peer-to-peer network became unstable and suffered a critical disruption. The disruption was triggered by a massive restart of our users’ computers across the globe within a very short timeframe Read More...

Filed under: security, windows

Internet is amazing
10 August 07 06:23 PM | michalos | 0 Comments   

I'm sitting in my office, watching Endeavour docking to ISS on CNN.com Live Video, chatting about the shuttle with my colleagues from Seattle, checking email every 5 minutes and watching a status of our systems in Dublin and USA. How cool is this? TV Read More...

CodeSign best practices
01 August 07 10:00 AM | michalos | 0 Comments   

This document provides a very good set of guidlines for everybody who is involved in CodeSigning process, including CTO's (chief technology officers), security officers, lab managers and build engineers. Word document, 2.2 MB Read More...

Filed under: security, codesign, Vista, work, windows