Classic Tech Tips Archive

Multiple Security updates release notes. download

Quicktime multiple vulnerabilities Mac/Windows... download page

Flash Player multiple security vulnerability for all versions prior to (and including) 8.0.24.0 details. Update to 9.0.16.0 (OR 8.0.33.0, 7.0.68.0, or 7.0.66.0 from advisory.) Download page.

Several Security issues (September 2006 patch day.) Several previous patches re-released. details. (Updated to correct year - 2006 not 2007 ) update.microsoft.com

Yesterday, of course, Microsoft released it's monthly patches. I found the Windows update site to be painfully slow (and in some cases unresponsive.) It wasn't quite a huge update day by recent stand…

This is getting to be like clockwork, but it sounds like this may be one of the nastiest problems so far. It appears that there is a problem with one of the recent patches from Microsoft MS06-49. It …

Chase Card services mistakenly threw out backup tapes that contained the card information of around 2.6 million customers (according to the article Circuit City card holders (former and current.)) 5 …

Some time back I remember an article I had on vcodec not being a legitimate video codec. At the time there was some malware claiming to be vcodec and "required" to view some content.... well, posing …

Betanews is reporting that Samsung's site has been hacked and is currently serving up malware in some areas. user intervention is required for it to run on the users pc, but be cautious. Samsung has …

Not too long ago I was installing a fax machine for someone that supported Outlook Express' addressbook, but not Outlook's default addressbook. My first thought was to get Outlook (2002)/Outlook Expr…

Once upon a time the bad payload of a malicious email was it's attachment, that still happens, but in many cases the links are the real lure - like a worm dangled in the water in front of a hungry fi…

Sans brings this from AOL, advising of vulnerabilities in the ICQ client and the ICQ toolbar for IE. The latest version of ICQ client is 5.1 and is claimed to not be vulnerable. (Toolbar version 1.3 …

According to this story, there has been another compromise of a debian project server. (Is this the third in the last year?)... the Alioth webserver was offline most of the 5th of September... It was…

So, the stories are out of the analysis of the code for Mozilla Firefox. It seems there were a large number of potential flaws found (71 potential security vulnerabilities) according to the article. …

I didn't really think of this in context, but George Ou points out that Microsoft issued an "out of cycle" patch for their DRM software in response to the FairUse4WM software that stripped DRM protec…

Wow, this is nice - and frankly, something I could probably spend hours with. Search Engine Watch tells us that Google will debut a searchable news archive that takes us back through around 200 years…

Some time ago, I've talked about chntpasswd as a great utility for when you're locked out of a Windows 2000 or XP installation because you've either forgotten (or weren't informed) of the valid passw…

Brian Krebs highlights a study on data theft/breaches. There are some interesting results (just 1/3 of data breaches were from criminal hacking, 29% from stolen laptops or storage media, 23% from imp…

George Ou had a good article on upgrading a laptops wireless to a multiband adapter. It looks like a fairly straightforward process. Personally, I've not risked much with regards to laptop repairs. (…

There's a good article at Michael Sutton's Blog which points out something that really makes sense and I think many people are aware of, but with all the buzz that a new previously undisclosed vulner…

I just noticed over the weekend that Project Gutenberg has updated their downloadable DVD/CD of free etexts. (Tracker at this link.) The last update of the dvd has been a few years (as far as I can t…

In the struggle between fairuse4wm and Microsoft DRM, it appears that fairuse4wm is out on top again. Just to sum up - the last few weeks saw a release of fairuse4wm that stripped DRM from Microsoft …

More than once I've wished for a second (or third) set of keyboard/mouse/video for my main desktop. Linux is a true multiuser operating system which means that it's capable of hosting multiple graphi…

I saw this over the weekend and saw it as marginally more useful than traditional package tracking.... This is called packagemapping.com and is a mashup of package tracking and google maps. I don't k…

Well, the weekend saw news stories of Google planning to eavesdrop over pc microphones to hear what you're watching on tv to target ads..... (I'm not holding my breath on that one, but... I do know h…