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Malvertizing at news.com.au

March 28th 2015

I just saw the following when visiting the news.com.au website using a Windows 8.1 phone and an Australian IP. news.com.au is a very popular website in Australia, but I’m not set up at the moment for mobile site analysis, so feel free to take a look-see and report… It may be that the full site is affected […]

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Not a good look there, Optus

March 27th 2015

Enforceable Undertaking offer by Optus to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner: http://www.oaic.gov.au/privacy/applying-privacy-law/enforceable-undertakings/singtel-optus-enforceable-undertaking What did Optus do wrong?… In February 2013, Optus made a change to its website. Due to a coding error that occurred during this change, between February 2013 and April 2014, when Optus customers who had elected not to have their […]

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Fix for XP Microsoft Update site error code 0x80248015

March 11th 2015

Yes, I know, Microsoft stopped supporting Windows XP a long time ago. However, users of XP should still go to *Microsoft Update* to check for updates to other Microsoft software on their computer. Anyway, I saw this error in a couple of XP virtual machines today. The fix is to change your computer’s clock to a […]

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