24 February 2005

Latest Mydoom Shows Hackers Using Search Engines For Attacks "The latest variant of the Mydoom worm shows how hackers can use popular search engines such as Google and Yahoo to spread worms and find easily exploitable targets and vulnerability data for launching attacks... ." 8:45:12 AM      comment ? []

	10 February 2005

Windows Security Updates Summary for February 2005 "The security updates for February 2005 include several high-priority updates for Microsoft Windows that also affect Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Internet Explorer, and Microsoft Media Player technologies. If you have any of the software listed on this page installed on your computer, you should install the updates from Windows Update... " [Microsoft] 9:37:41 AM      comment ? []

Microsoft issues 12 patches, eight of them for 'critical' flaws "On the same day that it announced a deal to acquire antivirus software vendor Sybari Software Inc., Microsoft Corp. today released a total of 12 software patches designed to fix 16 vulnerabilities in Windows, Office and other products..." [Computerworld] 9:31:30 AM      comment ? []

	19 January 2005

New holes threaten media players "Security researchers have discovered new security risks affecting media players from Apple Computer Inc. and Microsoft Corp. ... " 12:49:36 PM      comment ? []

Experts warn of trick to bypass IE download warnings "A computer security researcher and an antivirus company are warning Microsoft Corp. customers about an unpatched hole in the company's Internet Explorer Web browser that could allow a remote attacker to bypass security warnings and download malicious content onto vulnerable systems ... ." 12:32:51 PM      comment ? []

	12 January 2005

Microsoft patches Windows, offers malware removal tool "Two security fixes are classified "critical" and one is "important". Microsoft Corp. ...offered patches for several serious Windows security holes and released a new tool that lets users remove malicious software from their PCs." Read More. 10:54:48 AM      comment ? []

	09 January 2005

What is Mozilla Thunderbird? "Most of you have used either Outlook, Outlook Express, Eudora, Netscape Communicator, Mail.app, or one of many e-mail clients. Like Mozilla Firefox, which has been steadily gaining more press and acceptance as a better web browser, Mozilla Thunderbird is shaping up to be a better mail client... " 2:03:46 PM      comment ? []

	05 January 2005

Amaya 9.0 and 8.7.1 "The current releases, Amaya 8.7.1 (old User Interface) and Amaya 9.0 (new User Interface), supports HTML 4.01, XHTML 1.0, XHTML Basic, XHTML 1.1, HTTP 1.1, MathML 2.0, many CSS 2 features, and includes SVG support (transformation, transparency, and SMIL animation on OpenGL platforms). You can display and partially edit XML documents. It's an internationalized application..." 3:27:07 PM      comment ? []

	09 December 2004

Multiple Browsers Window Injection Vulnerability Test "Secunia Research has reported a vulnerability, which affects most browsers. The vulnerability can be exploited by a malicious web site to "hi-jack" a named browser window, regardless of which web site is the true "owner" of the window... " 3:16:26 PM      comment ? []

Open Source's Lessons for Historians  Nathan L. Ensmenger, University of Pennsylvania "Of all the developments in the recent history of computing, none has attracted such widespread attention as the emergence of the open-source software movement. In part, this is due to the remarkable successes of such open-source projects as Linux, Sendmail, and Apache. Versions of the GNU/Linux operating system are used by 40 percent of large American corporations, 65 percent of the world's Web servers run Apache, and Sendmail manages 80 percent of the world's email. Even traditional commercial vendors such as IBM, Apple, and Novell have jumped on the open-source bandwagon; the Macintosh OS X operating system is based on a BSD derivative, and IBM recently announced a $1 billion commitment to open-source development. Despite these apparent successes, however, the lessons of the open-source movement are not necessarily those that its proponents might hope or imagine. They suggest more about new methods and questions for historians to grapple with than obvious conclusions about a new "one best way" to manage software development ... " 8:02:02 AM      comment ? []

	25 November 2004

Spyware Removal Tools "...spyware is a rampant problem. This is clear to anyone who engages in even the slightest bit of field support. The scenario is so typical, the diagnosis is instant. A user complains about a slow computer; programs don't start as fast as they used to, pop-ups continually flood the screen – you know how to identify the problem. But the solution? [By Adam Baratz, Ars Technica]" 9:55:08 AM      comment ? []

	15 November 2004

Phishing For Savvy Users Scott Granneman: "Recent "phishing" episodes, and two new browser vulnerabilities, show how the bad guys are tricking people into exposing their passwords and bank accounts. Couldn't happen to tech-savvy users, right? Unless you consider how entire nations have been fooled." More... 9:34:36 AM      comment ? []

	11 November 2004

Phishers develop sophisticated lure John Leyden, The Register Nov 4 2004 9:15AM: "Fraudsters have developed phishing emails capable of automatically stealing bank log-in details without requiring users to click on a website link, email filtering firm MessageLabs warns." More... 11:18:12 AM      comment ? []

	10 November 2004

Thunderbird 0.9 "Thunderbird 0.9 is Mozilla's next generation e-mail client. Thunderbird makes emailing safer, faster, and easier than ever before with the industry's best implementations of features such as intelligent spam filters, a built-in spell checker, extension support, and much more." 1:33:31 PM      comment ? []

Mozilla Firefox 1.0 Released "The Mozilla Foundation ...; released Firefox 1.0, the first major new product release since the Mozilla Suite's 1.0 in June of 2002. Firefox 1.0 is the completion of roughly 2 years of work on the revolutionary new browser, which has raised the Mozilla Foundation's profile greatly in its year of existance. The release follows up the hugely successful Preview Release which had over eight million downloads." More ... 11:34:54 AM      comment ? []

	02 November 2004

Tech Tonic: Towards a New Literacy of Technology Child Advocates Challenge Current Ed Tech Standards New report says government and high-tech industry foist expensive and unproven technology on schools, hurting children and undermining real technology literacy. 8:47:50 AM      comment ? []

Steve Talbott is back Stephen L. Talbott, the editor of Netfuture, has published issue #157 of his newsletter after a four-months break. I am glad that Steve has returned and is prepared to continue to share his insights, in times when they are needed. 8:02:38 AM      comment ? []