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I found this post on Lifehacker via Kurt Wismer , someone whose comments I've kept an eye on for since I started reading the alt.comp.virus newsgroup, which is quite a time ago now. Kurt seems to have the habit of annoying people by simply speaking...
I have to admit that some areas of the computer industry make me asahmed to be part of the IT profession at times. Take gaming - 1up.com's article on 5 botched game launches talks about Steam ... Yes, yes, we all love Steam now. By which we mean "It...
This is another question I see get asked a lot around the place, so I'm posting my latest answer to this question here. Can someone tell me, if I download a zipped file which contains a virus and open this file then would my system would most likely become...
Still following the Safari hack and the fallout from it on Matasano. There are a lot of comments debating how serious it is anyway, because after all it isn't like you got root. A lot of comments all around about how much information is exposed. Folks...
UPDATE 21/04/07 19.33GMT. The Matasano website has been amended to add the following: Apparently the issue also affects Firefox. Turn off Java as a workaround for now. Breaking news as of yesterday. The CanSecWest security conference are running an event...
Is the point passing just over the heads of the WGA team bloggers at Microsoft. In a post last month they talk about the fuss surrounding WGA getting caught sending information back to Microsoft whether or not the user agreed to this (by accepting the...
Another contribution from Captain Obvious - I know Robert doesn't like the Windows Vista much but the Captain just felt this example of user foolishness was too good to pass up... There is a serious bug found in Windows Vista Ultimate, which allow the...
A whole "Month of Apple Bugs" planned here. Interesting. Be sure to read their FAQ before making assumptions about the motives of the people doing it. They've actually started off with a couple of media player bugs, one Apple Quicktime and...
This has got to be a mistake. (Why do I seem to say that a lot recently when reviewing an action taken by Microsoft?) The Windows Vista team blog posted a note about the terms of the licence for Windows Vista the other day, and it contains one or two...
Over on the Grand Stream Dreams blog, Claus Valca has written a post outlining the reasons you should take the security of your computers at home seriously. He mentions various scams that target home users with a few real world examples of people just...
And you thought it was just Microsoft products that needed to be patched. Apple have announced the release of update 10.4.8 for 10.4 users and Security Update 2006-006 for 10.3 users. I don't normally bother posting such notices, but a couple of things...
Well it seems people won't stop complaining about WGA no matter what. Wonder why that is. I would be really interested to break down the list of complainants to find out what portions are made up of the following groups People who'll moan and whine about...
Just in case it wasn't already bad enough, apparently it is even worse. SANS have yet another write up (see update 2), based on the fantastic work at Heise security . It seems the vulnerability we talked about previously also effects the Apple Mail...
I'm actually quite glad I had the chance to wait, reflect and of course drink in other peoples thoughts before starting my own write-up. What looked this morning like a moderately interesting hiccup in Safari now looks like it might chain a minor issue...
While some argue it to be as much a Trojan as it is a Worm, just days after I wrote that "While I've always denounced people who claim virus infections are impossible in OS X as ignorant, and I still stand by that, the current risk to Mac clients is substantially...
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