Archive for May, 2010

Insanely, the world’s second most popular browserMicrosoft actually has someone in charge of moving millions of Internet Explorer 6 users to a version of the browser that is safer. Ryan Gavin, the head of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer business grou... »

Yesterday I gave a talk at one of the regular ISSA Ireland meetings (ISSA being a non-profit Org that does all sorts of awesome security related things) on the subject of social networking in the workplace, and some of the tactics unpleasant people o... »

Mr. Wizard sez: “Alright!! Sunbelt AV detection!!”Sunbelt anti-virus protection has been incorporated into the free Spiceworks network management software version 4.7.51538.Spiceworks is advertising-supported software that provides an IT Desktop th... »

H-online is quoting an Adobe spokesman as saying the company is considering moving from a 90-day patch schedule for Adobe Reader to a 30-day schedule that would coincide with Microsoft’s monthly “Patch Tuesday” routine.Brad Arkin, Adobe's Directo... »

Our documentation team has done a great job of putting together a detailed Windows Server 2008 R2: Hyper-V Component Architecture Poster.  They were nice enough to give us on the development team some physical copies – but you can download the .PDF to create your own: The poster provides details on the inner workings of... »

Malware Alarm, Antivirus 2008 and VirusRemover 2008The U.S. Department of Justice announced today that it has brought indictments in the Northern District of Illinois against three men in connection with a rogue security software scam that bilked victi... »

I have a blogged about this before - but we maintain a list of all updates / hotfixes that have been released for Hyper-V on Windows Server 2008 R2.  We update this list regularly - and have just rolled out the latest updates.  You can review the list here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff394763(WS.10).aspx You should make sure to check... »

Started from buyfakepassports.com re-directing to fakepassportsale.cc.Hmmm. Country domain “cc” = Cocos Islands.buyfakepassports.com whois registration date:Created: 2010-04-26Expires: 2011-04-26The sites are together in the same IPs with the FakeV... »

VentureBeat is quoting market research firm DFC Intelligence as predicting that video gaming will be a $70 billion industry by 2015. That includes console, portable, PC and online games.Games have vast appeal. A Harvard economist, Lawrence Katz, even t... »

Are browser web histories the vulnerability of the week?The Register is reporting that police in Japan have arrested a Tokyo man and a juvenile on fraud charges in connection with an extortion operation in which they bilked victims out of “tens of t... »