Archive for January 19th, 2010

The American Red Cross (short code 90999) has reported that as of Sunday they had collected $22 million via text-message donations for the victims of the Haiti earthquake. Totally, the organization collected $103 million at that point.Cell phone users ... »

We wanted to provide a quick update on the threat landscape and announce that we will release a security update out-of-band to help protect customers from this vulnerability. Based on our comprehensive monitoring of the threat landscape we continue to see very limited, and in some cases, targeted attacks.  To date, the only successful attacks that... »

Microsoft late yesterday issued Advisory 979352 with security advice for those using the Internet Explorer browser. A worrisome unpatched vulnerability in some versions of IE has been linked to the “Aurora” attacks against Google and more than two ... »

tweetmeme_url = 'http://blogs.msdn.com/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2010/01/19/hyper-v-virtual-machines-do-not-start-after-using-startup-repair.aspx'; Over the weekend, I attempted to reconfigure some of the drives in my Hyper-V server at home.  Note that I said “attempted”.  I ran into hardware issues and ended up having to revert back to my old configuration - but somehow in all of this – I broke my system disk. Specifically it... »