Classic Tech Tips Archive

August's advance bulletin of Microsoft updates is already up. Tuesday of course is the monthly Microsoft patch day. It appears as though there will be 12 updates this time around. As usual, it could …

Boy, that would bring in comments.... Googling Google highlighted some behaviour of the Google toolbar that seems a bit fishy. It appears that it blocks attempts to modify the default search provider…

The forums over at LXer.com have a good list underway of vendors that sell linux preinstalled on PC's (desktops and laptops.) They also list those vendors that sell pcs without an operating system.

Linux.com has a good explanation of using binfmt_misc to directly launch a windows (or java or python) application just by typing in the application name. *(without all the contortions of ... /home/u…

Sans has a writeup on Windows local privilige escalation using the Windows scheduler and among other things it might be worth starting out by saying that typically, only Administrative group users in…

It looks like those shredders that take on optical media nor the physical scraping of the reflective surface is enough for some.... Plextor will be marketing a drive designed to wipe optical media (c…

By way of Sunbelt blog... The Phishtank at Internet Defence has a realtime archive of phishing emails as well as real time information on the status of their host sites. On their phishing site monito…

That was a quick turn around.... It appears as though some of the multimedia streaming issues were severe enough to require a quick turnaround for Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.6 Sans had the initial heads u…

There are a couple notes to pass along with regards to some pretty serious vulnerabilities in various wireless network adapter drivers. First, Sans has information on some Intel Centrino updates that…

It seems like I go through this every time I have to search for an SRPM to rebuild... search at rpms.mandrivaclub.com then prompted to login - login... oops wrong password. Login again stranded at ma…

Just by way of information..... I've seperated out the www.computerrepairasheville.com and www.ashevillecomputerhelp.com domains now to point to a seperate web site with the main goal of simplifying …

From the look of it Apple has released a bunch of updates for OS X. A number of security issues are detailed. As always, SANS has some good details and links to more info on each of the ~13 issues. M…

Sometimes you run across a site that's a browser snob. You know the type.... you visit it in Mozilla Firefox or (anything other than IE) and it says, "you must use Internet Explorer version 6 or newe…

Again.... this article referring to an exploit related to the cross platform plugin capability in firefox, is a GOOD reminder to be cautious when looking at potential plugins to install for mozilla f…

Feh..... what a name... well, linux.com has an article up on feh which is a nice lean image viewer for linux. It has quite a few command line switches so it should make cli users happy with the choic…

George Ou has a good post on Banks cheating their way to meet web security guidelines. Many of the observations that he notes come from the Between the Lines column here and are SPOT ON. The biggest …

SANS has an answer to last months browser vulnerability a day blog... for August they'll present a security tip a day. So, if you haven't visited the handlers diary, this may be a good time to "tune …

Sans has info on a security flaw affect several McAfee security products. It could allow remote code execution. The 2007 versions of the products are not affected and a patch is expected soon. For yo…

It has been a few days now, but I noticed that Wordpress 2.0.4 has now been released and is highly recommended due to the fixing of a few security issues. They also list a number of bugfixes as well.…

Some people spend a lot of time finding ways to block the freeloaders from their wireless internet. Others find fun ways to mess with them.... They start off by settup up dhcpd.conf to carve out two …

Here is a link to the info page. It sounds as though there are several images available. Mandriva 2007 Beta 1 has Gnome and KDE centric 586 and x86_64 versions of cd images for download as well as an…

For those of you that aren't aware.... Bleeding Snort is a collection of "bleeding edge" snort signatures. Snort is an intrusion detection framework. This note is by way of SARC that the bleedingsnor…

Lately, I've tried to make use of my phone's voice command system for calls. I've had a couple long drives and used a headset and tried to do something that works better without the headset.... "Name…

Well after a bit of a roundup of some of the security news items the last week, it's time to sum up the Google front.... Googling Google tells us that Infinite storage is on the horizon.... they cite…

Well, let's start with the extensions first. Like ANY software, you should be cautious installing something from an untrusted source. If you think an extension looks neat and cool - look for reviews …