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This has not really been that normal a week for me, but at least another article made it into print. The June 2008 issue of TechNet Magazine is headlined by an article I wrote with my friend Roger Grimes, Security Adviser for Infoworld , on Security by...
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Updates Updated May 8 to add information on a second issue. Updated May 9 to add information on possible additional issues as well as instructions for using the recovery console. Updated May 10 with some clarifications, a possible video driver problem...
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What's wrong with this picture? If you answered "why would the IRS use a web server in Korea to ask for information about my tax refund" you are a winner! This is a phishing site preying on people who do not know that all you need to do...
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I do not run any anti-malware software on my primary workstation. It's a habit I got into way back when I was doing penetration assessments. I showed up at the site, fired up ye olde laptop, and went to run some tool. ...went to run some tool. Hey...
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The May 2008 issue of TechNet Magazine is out. It has an article in it that I have been wanting to write for a long time, called Quantum Security . In it I posit the argument that there are some fundamental laws of security, similar to the laws of physics...
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This morning there was an interesting question in the Windows Vista Security Newsgroup . The poster had written an application that users were downloading. However, when they ran the application they received a warning dialog, like this one: The poster...
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Olliver Sommer , a German Small Business Server MVP, flew home from the Microsoft MVP Summit via O'Hare Airport in Chicago. While there, he spotted this wonderful piece of advice for how to configure your computer to use the airport wireless network...
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The Australian MVPs at the Microsoft MVP Summit this week were overshadowed in national pride only by the Canadians, by a lot. So, the Australian's coopted a Brit and, well, me, so their attendance numbers would look better. The result is on Flickr...
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Today I attended the Microsoft 2008 server wave launch event in Seattle. In the process I learned a number of things: The launch event apparently does not need to coincide with actually launching anything. Server 2008 launched a couple of months ago....
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Change log: Updated on April 8, 2008, with information on Norton Internet Security and Windows Installer 3.1. A number of people are reporting errors when running software update tools. The tools include Windows Update, Windows Defender Updates, Installshield...
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This is a bit off topic for me, but it is an important thing to get out there nevertheless. I love living in Washington State. It may be snowing as I write this, but in general, I really like this state, the lifestyle, the people, and our wonderful natural...
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Apple clearly has a de-facto monopoly in the portable music player market, with upward of 70% of that market. It is busily working on monopolies in the music software and downloads markets and is behaving monopolistically in the PC market as well. Some...
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Susan just pointed me to a " Self-assessment questionnaire " for the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI/DSS). While, on the whole, the intent of that standard is good, there are some areas of it that, as usual, stray into the...
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Last week I found a post in the Vista newsgroups from a lady who was having problems installing Kaspersky Anti-Virus. She was getting an error 1722 upon installation on one computer out of three and the installation failed. She had called both Kaspersky...
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Chris Hoofnagle, of the Berkeley Center for Law And Technology just published a fascinating report entitled " Measuring Identity Theft at Top Banks ." If you have not already, and you are at all interested in security and privacy, you owe it...