November 2007 - Posts

How your mom will get owned next year . . .
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9049269&intsrc=news_ts_head Hopefully she's running Vista with UAC turned on so that IE runs at low IL, on a machine that supports hardware DEP, as a standard user. Read More...
Posted 28 November 07 10:43 by Robert_Hensing | 0 Comments   
Geekonomics?
Looks like an interestingb read: http://www.geekonomicsbook.com/ If you check out his blog it looks like he may touch on some of the 'cyber espionage' that's going on . . . nice to see someone able to distinguish the difference between 'cyber crime' and Read More...
Posted 27 November 07 09:36 by Robert_Hensing | 0 Comments   
Is your Mac laughing at you?
Very interesting blog post on OSX's coming of age: http://www.robhyndman.com/2007/11/14/ive-been-attacked-by-a-leopard/ It's a very interesting read about the trials and tribulations of a Leopard upgrade that even caught the attention of Fake Steve: http://fakesteve.blogspot.com/2007/11/i-am-so-sick-of-this-griping-about.html Read More...
Posted 16 November 07 03:24 by Robert_Hensing | 1 Comments   
Cisco Telepresence Magic
This is all kinds of awesome: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcfNC_x0VvE Read More...
Posted 16 November 07 09:09 by Robert_Hensing | 1 Comments   
More Vista perf / reliability updates (sigh) . . .
Freaking release SP1 already: http://windowsvistablog.com/blogs/windowsvista/archive/2007/11/12/new-updates-to-windows-vista-available-via-windows-update-this-week.aspx :) Read More...
Posted 13 November 07 12:41 by Robert_Hensing | 1 Comments   
The second coming of Zune . . .
Zuneinites unite! http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/12/new-zunes-get-unboxed-reviewed-and-microsoft-firms-up-plans/ Personally I can't wait . . . I'm torn between buying a Zune 80 and a Zune 8 . . . guess I'm going to have to play with each - but I watch Read More...
Posted 12 November 07 11:31 by Robert_Hensing | 0 Comments   
Overclocking the new 45nm Intel chips to 4Ghz?
Fascinating article . . . I used to build overclocked systems all the time but haven't really felt the need in a while (not since taking my dual 300mhz Celeron's to 450mhz) . . . recent overclocks haven't seemed to yield much (admittadly I don't stay Read More...
Posted 12 November 07 10:57 by Robert_Hensing | 0 Comments   
Hushmail - not so quiet after all!
In a previous life I did consulting for various law enfrocement agencies teaching them about how the bad guys they were interested in may be using the Internet to conduct business and keep ahead of the law. Hushmail (and of course encrypted emails in Read More...
Posted 09 November 07 07:26 by Robert_Hensing | 1 Comments   
Click-through cloaking (coming to a hacked site near you).
So yesterday I became aware of a web site that had been compromised and that was employing a concept known as 'click-through cloaking'. The web site in question can be found by going to Google or Live.com and searching for "open voting foundation". The Read More...
Posted 08 November 07 11:31 by Robert_Hensing | 1 Comments   
Apple patches 7 more QuickTime vulns . . .
Unbelievable . . . or sadly - all too believable . . . Apple patches 7 more QT vulns: http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9045599 What I find amazing is that: They don't use severity ratings (still!) but Read More...
Posted 06 November 07 10:41 by Robert_Hensing | 0 Comments   
Happy Birthday Vista!!!
It was one year ago today (November 8th, 2006) that my favorite operating system officially released to manufacturing! http://windowsvistablog.com/blogs/windowsvista/archive/2006/11/08/windows-vista-releases-to-manufacturing.aspx In the first year of Read More...
Posted 06 November 07 09:35 by Robert_Hensing | 0 Comments   
US-CERT weekly vulnerability summary, Vista, the meaning of life . . .
This URL came across one of my RSS feeds today so I had a quick look: http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/bulletins/SB07-309.html So I did a CTRL-F in IE and typed in "Microsoft" and was pleasantly surprised to find no hits . . . so I scrolled down to see what Read More...
Posted 05 November 07 04:06 by Robert_Hensing | 0 Comments   
Taiwan vs. China (he said / she said?)
Taiwan talks about the (no longer secret) Chinese hackers conducting espionage seemingly all over the world and then China outs a Taiwanese hacker? http://www.first.org/newsroom/globalsecurity/168300.html Since this activity has apparently been going Read More...
Posted 04 November 07 02:06 by Robert_Hensing | 0 Comments   
I make it me?
Zune acid trip: http://zuneinsider.com/archive/2007/11/01/you-make-it-you-new-zune-ad-campaign-launches-tonight.aspx Read More...
Posted 02 November 07 05:16 by Robert_Hensing | 1 Comments   
Symantec, Apple, electronic Jihad - these are a few of my least favorite things
On vacation so this will be quick. Symantec vulns in their e-mail scanning products means you could get your Exchange server pwn3d anonymously by an attacker sending an email with a malformed file attachment. Seems un-good: http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/soa/Critical-Symantec-flaws-threaten-Exchange-e-mail/0,130061733,339283358,00.htm?feed=rss Read More...
Posted 02 November 07 04:31 by Robert_Hensing | 2 Comments   
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