Tag: Security

  • Critical vulnerabilities or a clever marketing ploy?

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    Microsoft released updates for critical vulnerabilities in Windows (2000, XP and 2003). This includes fixes for three vulnerabilities that “criminal hackers are already exploiting” according to Brian Krebs. The patches fix vulnerabilities which can allow remote code execution (it doesn’t come much worse than that!). Personally, I think they are trying to scare people into…

  • Ryder Cup blog

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    I’m delighted to see that all my nagging of my old friend John Prendergast has paid off and he has started a blog! However, I wouldn’t have been more surprised if it was about crochet! I never knew John was a closet golf fan. John’s is the Ryder Cup blog (the Ryder cup is the…

  • WordPress updated to 2.0.4

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    WordPress was updated to version 2.0.4 over the weekend. This release contains several important security fixes, so it’s highly recommended for all users. We’ve also rolled in a number of bug fixes (over 50!), so it’s a pretty solid release across the board. WordPress 2.0.4 is available for download here.

  • Blueface won't let me make outgoing calls

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    I have an account with Blueface – Blueface is a VOIP provider. For €19.99 per month I am supposed to get 1,000 minutes of calls to over 20 countries. All good, so far. The only issue is that for some bloody reason, at the end of every month my credit is deleted and I can…

  • Users are 'stupid' – Microsoft

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    I wrote a post over a year ago about how I deal with PCs which have become infected with malware (viruses/trojans/worms/rootkits, etc.): what I do, is to re-install the OS – more often recently it is XP, turn off System Restore, install XP SP2, Microsoft Anti Spyware, Spybot, Adaware, and AVG… or consider formatting the…

  • Out of Office reply policies

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    I saw a post on David Smalley’s blog about Microsoft Exchange Server Out of Office Replies. In his post David mentions that in Exchange server 2000, Out of Office Replies (OOR’s) are not sent outside of the Exchange organisation, and he goes on to explain how you can configure Exchange to allow OOR’s to go…

  • How to pick any lock in seconds

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    Lockpicking is the art of opening a lock without damaging it or using a key – and recently lockpicking has become a sport with clubs and championships. Who knew? One such club is TOOOL (The Open Organisation of Lockpickers). One of the founding members of this organisation is Barry Wels whose video on how to…