Ted Roche’s weblog

Despite Microsoft’s attempt to, er, monopolize the security news…
Alex Feldstein posts Attention Greasemonkey Users. “There’s a serious security issue for Greasemonkey. Until I can study this in more detail, and as my use of GreaseMonkey is very minimal, I have chosen to disable it. (Via J-Walk)”
As best I’ve been able to ascertain, the problem [...]

Microsoft Watch from Mary Jo Foley reports Microsoft Suggests Workarounds to Block SP2 Flaw. “Microsoft released a security advisory and some suggested workarounds for a new potential denial-of-service flaw in Windows XP SP2.”
It’s a good idea to double-check systems that ought to have RDP disabled. As part of chasing down a different problem, I was [...]