Sunday, June 29th, 2008
In an update to our June 20th post referring to Grisoft’s AVG anti-virus product spewing fake traffic (in our opinion a flawed architecture design by the company’s CTO, Karel Obluk). Cade Metz, of The Register, has delved a bit deeper into the issue, and has discovered that over last weekend, ...
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Sunday, June 29th, 2008
Usually, I don't have two calls for packets on a shift, but this one definately bears looking into and hopefully finding an answer. There is an increase on port 502, when you look at the targets, that started today. Till today, life has been pretty quiet on that ...
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Sunday, June 29th, 2008
Plenty of USB storage keys are on the market, but Ironkey is the first to use military level encryption. Sold in 1GB, 2GB, and 4GB sizes, the key features a processor called the Cryptochip, which uses Public Key Cryptography ciphers linked to an online account to create encryption keys on ...
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Thursday, June 26th, 2008
Microsoft has released a reliability update for Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) that fixes several bugs in the OS update, including one that threw off errors when users tried to run large applications, such as Microsoft's own Excel 2007 and Windows Media Player.
The update, which Microsoft posted Tuesday to ...
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Thursday, June 26th, 2008
A couple of minutes ago an interesting attempt to phish for Google account credentials made it to my inbox. It had me blink my eyes because while I suspected phishing there were some things with this one that had me check twice to see how it’s done, as things looked ...
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