If your still using Internet Explorer as your main web browser, I’m sorry. If you don’t know of other browsers that are available. Let me point out a couple. My favorite is Chrome, and my second favorite is FireFox. If you need a reason to change, let me introduce you to “Operation Aurora”.
Operation Aurora – Chinese Government – More reasons to ditch Internet Explorer
April Fools, You’re Infected.. No Really.. Seriousl
Tomorrow April 1st 2009, April Fools Day security specialist everywhere are on the look out for the Conflicker worm to spread. I have detailed before how it spreads and you can read that here “Conflicker, Downup, Downadup, Kido” and the fact that Microsoft has gone an offered $250,000 reward.
Why Microsoft Hosted Exchange?
Lets start out with, I am NOT an Exchange Administrator. We brand others for that. I am an *nix Administrator, but I know more then most on Exchange. We tried to provide hosted services using different platforms on Linux only to be left hanging from either lack of support and or stuff that just didn’t work right. If you want Exchange, the best thing is well Exchange period.
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Zero-Day Exploit in Microsoft Excel
Microsoft Security Advisory (968272)
A Zero-Day exploit is one that there are no patches for and is currently public and being used to attack computers. This one effects at this time Microsoft Excel 2008 for Mac, Microsoft Excel 2007 SP1, Microsoft Excel 2007, Microsoft Excel 2007, Microsoft Excel 2004 for Mac, Microsoft Excel 2003 SP3, Microsoft Excel 2003 SP2, Microsoft Excel 2003 SP1.
Operation Aurora – Continues
So continuing on from the previous post on Operation Aurora. We now know that Microsoft had known about this flaw for a while. Now we will examine the Chinese Governments place in this whole mess.
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