about 10 months ago - No comments
From black and white footage in 1974. So much of what he says is true, including that it allows anyone to live anywhere they wish, although that concept is arriving a bit slower. Clarke also forgot to mention that those mutton chops would show up again in the late 90′s. Thanks go to: Arthur C.…
about 10 months ago - No comments
Kudos for Microsoft in taking the lead to squash so many of the botnets out there. They are doing things that law enforcement hasn’t been able to do. And they do it better too. Compare Microsoft’s approach, of selected targeting of specific hosts to the scattershot disruptive approach of the DOJ and ICE of grabbing…
about 1 year ago - No comments
Microsoft released a YouTube video making fun of the G-Mail man who snoops through your email to target you with ads. And with more and more companies beginning to outsource their email to G-Mail, it is nice to see that there are alternatives out there. I’ve used G-Mail for a corporate environment, and it was…
about 2 years ago - No comments
I have a list of User-Agent strings I’m reviewing that I collected at a client site. I’m trying to normalize and classify each of them for a project at work, and I ran across this one- User-Agent: microsoft ncsi It was the 65th most popular user agent string generated in a large enterprise environment where…
about 2 years ago - No comments
I have been loving my new Outlook 2010 since I installed it the other day. It allows you to integrate your Outlook with your Facebook, LinkedIn and other social networks and it automatically adds the profile photo to emails received from those people. The contacts that do not use those social networks are given a…
about 3 years ago - No comments
Dean Kane explains why it is so important to use the InPrivate mode of IE8. UPDATE! Not anymore. Microsoft seems to have taken down this epic video because it featured a chick puking through her nose in disgust at her husband’s porn surfing habits. So instead, this is a video on sharing, which is also…
about 4 years ago - No comments
Its been a busy day, so posting is light. Here is a cool video showing how the Internet was developed, courtesy of Geeks are Sexy. Enjoy. History of the Internet from PICOL on Vimeo.
about 4 years ago - No comments
I put a new post up over at Geeks Are Sexy about Microsoft releasing an emergency patch to fix the 0-day flaw that is being exploited by hackers. I originally wrote about this flaw in XML parsing here. Microsoft has done an excellent job at rolling this one out so soon. Currently thousands of webservers…
about 4 years ago - 1 comment
The games hackers play. They waited until Microsoft released the patches on Tuesday and then dropped a 0-day exploit that compromises hosts by taking advantage of a new flaw in XML parsing. Thousands of hosts are already affected. I have details written up over at Geeks Are Sexy here. Go check it out. To avoid…
about 4 years ago - No comments
The biggest vulnerability to come out this year, the remote execution of the Windows server service, detailed here, has gone all wormy according to Jose Nazario at Arbor Networks. He said: Earlier today we were informed about a bot that we’ve seen before, KernelBot, being dropped by an exploit tool for MS08-067. The exploit code…