A Chinese couple is holding out against property developers despite being marooned… Video here:http://video.news.com.au/videoplayer?channel=Weird+News&clipid=878785&bitrate=300&format=wmp
You would expect Fortune 500 companies to have high end antivirus, antispyware and antimalware software yes and have their networks set up to block the end result of PCs that may be infected? Apparently not. Check out this article at the Washington Post by Brian Krebs:http://blog.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2007/03/fortune_500s_unwittingly_becom.html The outted companies are: Oracle Corp – spam seen […]
I saw this tonight when I went to check the detection status of the now infamous ie7.0exe. Putting aside a delay of between 8 and 12 minutes, it is well and truly time that Virustotal should have fixed their site to work with IE7 – check out the mess made of the last few […]
There is a screenshot of the malware email at the Sunbelt URL below – please get the word out, warn those you know not to access the Web site, and do not attempt to download the file:http://sunbeltblog.blogspot.com/2007/03/beware-fake-ie-7-downloads.html I can see several samples of the malware email in my webmail accounts – none have been received at […]
Vulnerability in Windows Animated Cursor Handling http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/935423.mspx I’ve already adjusted my network’s protections to strip any *.ani that are received via email – I recommend you do the same. The next important step is to ensure that OL and Windows Mail are set to display all messages in plain text only. Corporate environments can use a […]
Information about a URL encoding change in Windows IE7 http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/934279
Fix: The autocomplete feature does not work after you click a javascript hyperlink on a web page in IE6:http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/931298 Fix: IE6 may unexpectedly close when you try to use digest proxy authentication to connect to secure (HTTPS) web sites:http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/931299
Some sites say today (29 March)… some sites say 26 April.. who to believe… Hmm, it seems we are looking at a 2nd delay – with sentencing originally deferred to 29 March, but now deferred for a 2nd time to 26 April?:http://www.courant.com/news/local/hc-amerodelay0327,0,511626.story
As reported on bugtraq@securityfocus.com by “nsp”, Firefox 2.0.0.3 and Opera 9.10 apparently fail to detect a phishing site if it is embeded in an IFRAME / OBJECT label: Demonstration pages can be seen here (warning, the URLs will prompt to install a Chinese language pack – there is no need to install the language pack): […]
I’m wondering if there is anything like this happening in the USA, Canada or elsewhere. Australian university students can purchase a perpetual licence for Office 2007 for $75,00 (AUD) or $25.00 (AUD) for one year. The software is available via CD (to be distributed via the participating Universities) or via download. Each eligible student is […]