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Microsoft admits it sent Office nag to all WSUS servers

2008-04-19 13:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
System administrators are angry at Microsoft Corp. for pushing a trial anti-piracy program designed for limited distribution to all enterprise update servers, triggering incorrect warnings about counterfeit installations of Office
 
Tags: trial anti-piracy program, incorrect warnings, microsoft corp, office, counterfeit installations, system administrators, servers, enterprise, angry
 
 
 
 
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Microsoft admits it sent Office nag to all WSUS servers

2008-04-21 00:00:00 by HASH0x84725a8 in Network World on Security
 
System administrators have ripped Microsoft for pushing a trial anti-piracy program meant for limited distribution to all enterprise update servers, a mistake that has triggered false warnings of Office counterfeits
 
Tags: trial anti-piracy program, office counterfeits, microsoft, false warnings, system administrators, servers, enterprise, distribution, mistake
 
 
 
 
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MySpace and U.S. Attorneys General Agree to Fight Sexual Predators

2008-01-17 13:12:57 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
MySpace has has reached an agreement with the attorneys general of 49 states -- Texas sat out -- to protect children from sexual predators on the site The attorneys general are all congratulating themselves, as is MySpace -- and there's a lot of commentary out there . To me, this all seems like much ado about nothing The measures -- details here...
 
Tags: myspace, child predators, stop child predators, attorneys, sexual predators, movie-plot threat, tiny handful, security theater, cognitive bias
 
 
 
 
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Desk Checking

2008-04-03 13:28:52 by Liudvikas Bukys in Liudvikas Bukys
 
Ole Eichhorn has written a great essay on the lost art of desk checking , sharing how slow and painful experiences with debugging led to habits of deliberate and careful pre-planning and checking My own parallel experiences: Okay, Im doing to date myself here too. Im also 49 years old, but didnt start programming until Senior High. First...
 
Tags: code, fix code, desk, code faster, experiences, lost, parallel experiences, lost art, desk check
 
 
 
 
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Hackers Run Wild Spending BitTorrent Trackers Donations

2007-12-30 00:50:07 by Editor in Digg / Security
 
The SuperTorrents BitTorrent tracker has been the subject of a major security breach, with hackers donating all the site's money to a religious group. The hackers even went as far as contacting the site's host and canceled all of their seedboxes
 
Tags: hackers, supertorrents bittorrent tracker, major security breach, site, subject, money, seedboxes, host, religious
 
 
 
 
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Say Goodbye to IE6.0! Hello IE7.0!

2008-01-21 16:35:03 by RSnake in ha.ckers.org web application security lab
 
Theres an interesting article over on PC World about an auto-update that Microsoft is pushing on Feb 12th . This update will be an automatic update of IE6.0 to IE7.0. Thats right, folks all you people who were writing exploits against IE6.0 will have little to no market share left. Here comes IE7.0. IE7.0 has a few significant improvements for...
 
Tags: ie6, ie7, love ie6, bad, feb 12th, notable change, people, microsoft, significant improvements
 
 
 
 
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99% PCI Compliance?

2008-01-25 11:58:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
 
Via PCIDSS blog we hear that "99% of Level 1 Merchants and 92% of Level 2 Merchants have met compliance or have submitted an approved remediation program Is this cool or what I bet it is an "or what Others say " more than a year after the TJX breach first came to light, only 30 percent of retailers are PCI compliant, according to Sophos 2008...
 
Tags: level, merchants, internet security report, pci compliant, remediation program, compliance, tjx breach, pcidss blog, retailers
 
 
 
 
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The Authorities Have Your Skeleton On File

2008-02-12 00:30:03 by Editor in Digg / Security
 
A new patent, issued on Friday, covers a system that would scan some, or all, of your skeleton and compare it with a database of skeletons. The database would also pull up data such as your name, address, social security number, and passport number. Worst of all, you might not even know your skeleton is being scanned from a distance
 
Tags: skeleton, social security, database, compare, skeletons, distance, system, worst, covers
 
 
 
 
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Wikileaks: Voice of the people or just bad news?

2008-02-20 08:27:18 by Editor in Adventures in Security
 
I'm all for getting the bad guys, and it's been my experience that law enforcement officials will deal with issues brought to their attention if there is sufficient evidence--and evidence (i.e. proof) is very important. A set of documents alone is often insufficient to prove guilt or to understand all the ramifications of a case. So posting...
 
Tags: sufficient evidence, evidence, law enforcement officials, bad guys, documents, irresponsible behavior, prove guilt, issues, experience
 
 
 
 
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Security Stories of 2006

2007-01-02 16:19:58 by RaviC in Musings on Information Security