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Some of my favorite external RSS feeds for The UltraTech Zone.
These are some of the feeds I read on a regular basis covering Technology, Information Security, IT Management, Career Development and World News Headlines
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Several helpful people just pointed me to some articles on XP Antivirus and its various variants. In case you do not remember, XP Antivirus was the subject of an article I wrote for The Register a few months back. It turns out that the scammers got hacked, and the hacker posted some internal accounting Read More...
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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. The document is meant well, but lacks a bit in Read More...
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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. Visual Studio 2008 launched in November 2007, and Read More...
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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, Adobe Updater, and probably others as well. Read More...
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A number of people are reporting errors when running software update tools. The tools include Windows Update, Windows Defender Updates, Installshield, Adobe Updater, and probably others as well. The errors include 80070005 (from Windows tools) and c0000005 (from others). To see if we can help people Read More...
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Last Friday the last of the Windows Server 2008 Security Resource Kit finally went to press! This was a project I had not really planned and so, to complete it in time, I brought in an amazing crew of co-authors. Together, we managed to put together 17 chapters on how to manage security in one of the Read More...
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The big security news this week is the six vulnerabilities found in various image uploader ActiveX controls. In case you haven't seen the news , there are exploits available publicly for remote vulnerabilities in five different ActiveX controls. US-CERT is offering the, relatively unhelpful, advice Read More...
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A couple of weeks ago I published a script to list installed updates . Predictably, one of the comments ask for a version that can do that remotely. Here it is . This version can be run a couple of ways. First, you can double-click it. If you do it will prompt you for which computer to list the updates Read More...
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If you are still on Windows XP SP2 with Internet Explorer (IE) 6, and you install the security update announced in MS07-069 , then you may just have lost your ability to surf much of the web with IE. Apparently that combination causes IE to crash when you go to a web site, according to Microsoft Knowledge Read More...
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Well, sure it is. According to the Firefox web site, which must of course be untainted by marketing claims since it is Mozilla, " Firefox continues to lead the way in online security". OK, marketing hyperbole aside, I'm a data guy. I care about what the data says. Fortunately, Jeff Jones Read More...
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When I was a child, I learned a saying that I still find important to keep in mind: Those who are sitting in a glass house shall not throw stones The good folks at Mozilla may want to look up what that really means. Two days ago, Mozilla published Firefox version 2.0.0.5 to fix a security vulnerability Read More...
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Snake oil , for those that are not familiar with the U.S. English vernacular, is a derogatory term for some product that makes unverifiable or exaggerated claims. True to the tradition, we now find " Vista Firewall Control ," complete with a PC World article that includes not only incorrect Read More...
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As with Protect Your Windows Network I wrote some tools for the Windows Vista Security book that just came out. However, the Vista book does not come with a CD. Rather, Wiley has made the tools available for download . If you solemnly promise that you will buy the book, you may get the tools from there. Read More...
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Thor Larholm, unhelpfully, published details on what he claims is a 0-day exploit for Internet Explorer (IE) yesterday. This exploit is actually for Firefox, but Thor exploited it by making IE launch Firefox. Firefox creates three protocol handlers. A protocol handler is essentially a mapping from an Read More...
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