Computerworld News: “Attackers targeting unpatched IE bug, Microsoft warns. Microsoft today warned that attackers could exploit a critical unpatched bug in Internet Explorer, first reported in May, and take over a user’s computer.”
“Microsoft Corp. is warning Internet Explorer users to be careful where they browse because attackers are now targeting a critical unpatched bug in [...]
[SANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green] notes “Published: 2005-11-30,
Last Updated: 2005-11-30 01:45:17 UTC by Bojan Zdrnja (Version: 1) Apple has released a new Security Update, 2005-009. A number of products have been patched, including Apache2, apache_mod_ssl, CoreFoundation, curl, iodbcadmintool, OpenSSL, passwordserver, Safari, sudo and syslog. Security Update 2005-009 may be obtained from the Software [...]
Bill McGonigle posts: “The next regular monthly meeting of the DLSLUG will be held: Thursday, December 1st, 7-9 PM at:Dartmouth College, Carson Hall Room L01. All are welcome, free of charge.” Bill Stearns will present LVM - Logical Volume Management.
“Bill Stearns has trained folks on LVM professionally for a nationally-renowned training organization and packages [...]
InfoWorld: Top News reports Mozilla releases Firefox 1.5 on schedule. (InfoWorld) - “The wait is over for the Firefox faithful, as the Mozilla Foundation released the new version of the browser as planned Tuesday.”
The 1.5 release improves performance, smoother updating, support for SVG, JavaScript 1.6, better security and pop-up blocking. I’ve been working with the [...]
Please note the change in location: we will be meeting in Little Hall Room 230, a lab with computers. On the NHTI map located at http://www.nhti.edu/welcome/nhtimap.pdf (warning: 1 Mb+ PDF), the building is marked “K”
The monthly meeting of CentraLUG, the Concord/Central New Hampshire chapter of the Greater New Hampshire Linux Users Group, occurs on the [...]
Computerworld News and eWeek point to an interesting SANS report. Computerworld: “SANS: Cyberattackers found green fields in 2005. After years of writing viruses and worms for operating systems and Internet server software, hackers found new areas to target in 2005, according to a report on security trends released today.”
It’s interesting to see malicious crackers moving [...]
Ken “Caesar” Fisher over at Ars Technica reports “Xbox 360: shortages no joke. Today I ventured out into the wilderness of North Boston to gauge Xbox mania. Initial reports on the ground paint a pretty grim picture for pre-Christmas Xbox shipments.”
There’s two possible explanations. Many, many, many rumor-mongers insist that Microsoft is staging this shortage, [...]
Over at Scripting News, Dave Winer posts Sharing at so many levels!.
“Microsoft has unveiled a new proposal called SSE, which stands for Simple Sharing Extensions for RSS and OPML. “… “Now, in 2005, almost ten years later, we may be grown-up enough to actually work this way.”
Tigers and their stripes. I’m skeptical, of course. There’s [...]
InfoWorld: Top News reports “Update: Microsoft to open Office document format. (InfoWorld) - Microsoftæon Monday said it will offer its Word, Excel, and PowerPoint document formats as open standards, a move that could spark a war with technology rivals over standard document formats.”
Interesting. I wonder if ISO standardization will really change the basic positioning. Will [...]
InfoWorld: Top News: Hackers publish code for critical IE bug. InfoWorld) - Security experts are warning Internet users to be careful where they click, thanks to a nasty unpatched bug in the way Microsoft Corp.’s Internet Explorer browser handles the JavaScript computer language. The bug is of particular concern because security researchers in the U.K. [...]
