Tech Good. These software vendors bitch when someone announces a vulnerability. When they are given prior notice about the vulnerability they drag their feet. I would give vendors a chance and just announce vulnerabilities for vendors that obviously drag their feet like Microsoft. Patch or No, Flaws to Go Public No patch for Windows 98 or…
Companies which insinuate someone has a crush on you are evil. The bastards should be taken out like last year’s garbage. It saddens me that people cannot tell the difference between a hoax and the real deal. Maybe I’ve been around too many intelligent people all my life? I’ve come to expect too much of…
Internet: Scammers are out to con ya. Always be en garde! Just to let ya know, the numbers of one are up. Nigerian scam spam on the rise
Got another project. Setting up a web server with database for the Physics; deptartment. This will be for showing fossils. It will include pictures (maybe VR rotating images later) and descriptions. Sounds like an impressive site. Got to see the planned entry. Imagine button images of the various periods. Click on the button and you see…
Had a close call with Nimda… went to a web page for server which was infected. It tried to download. Think I stopped it, but I am scanning my machine anyway.
Tech News: I’ve said it often enough… students are hackers in sheep’s clothing. This true too… “the majority of academic networks are tempting targets for hackers because of their lack of security, abundance of bandwidth and overworked administrators.”University systems a haven for hackers – Tech News – CNET.com World News: Don’t approach a U.S. Navy…
Seems like Xanga is limping along at the moment. In an effort to further complicate my bloggings… news here. Real rants over there. Tech News: Found this by following an article on Slashdot. Thinking this would be good to implement. How to Defeat Bad Web Robots With Apache Only has experimental Apache 2.0 support. Maybe 4.2.1 will fix…
We knew this would happen again, right? Anniversary of the plane landing in China… Remember? Back last April? C’mon people… ITworld.com – Report: CIA warns of Chinese cyberattack preparations Be afraid. Be very afraid. I get 20+ of these a day since Friday. PCWorld.com – Klez Worm Continues to Spread Think you got a virus? PCWorld.com – Internet…
Get to work on a Saturday. Gotta love firewalls. They block what ever they are configured to intercept… such as TTF files attached to emails. Anyone getting 20 copies a day of the Klez worms? I base my popularity on how many viruses I get from people. Since some of the recent ones like Magistr,…