Day: 31 March 2010
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Internet etiquette
The Internet age has ‘been upon us’ for quite a number of years already – it’s a mainstream part of everyday life. The amount of people joining the web-age is increasing by 10’s of thousands of people everyday – there were 1.7 billion internet users as of the end of 2009 and my article ‘The…
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64% of Microsoft Vulnerabilities down to the use of admin rights
While non-Microsoft users have grown up understanding the simple concept of access controls and rights within our environments for many years, the single biggest factor for bug propagation on Windows platforms is still the use of administrative rights. The truth of the matter is that prior to Vista, there was little way for a regular…
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A flurry of app security updates
Today has been a very busy day from a security update p.o.v. Microsoft as released an update for the critical hole in IE which as been out for about 3 weeks ( iepeers.dll ) and 9 other updates which apply to various IE/Windows combinations ) the F1 attack discovered a month ago unfortunately still remains…
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Novell wins copyright case against SCO
It seems that SCO’s litigation engine has been running for ever ( 7 years now ) and they exist only to litigate. But it appears that a jury-led decision agreeing with Novell being the rightful copyright holders of Unix, has finally put paid to any serious action by SCO. Perhaps we can all get on…
