Classic Tech Tips Archive

I found a couple of interesting presentations on network security related topics. Primarily these are about using the internet and search engines for gathering information on specific "targets". Thei…

According to the securityfix, Florida leads the nation in the number of networks with signs of computers infested with the sony rootkit. In total, 12,588 networks in Florida seem to have computers wi…

I've probably mentioned before that I like the compactflash format for "digital media". My camera uses Compactflash, so does the nexia audio player I use and the old used pda I've got, uses compactfl…

Brian Krebs has a post today on a Windows wireless networking "feature" which can be somewhat of a security risk. You see, it seems that With wireless networking enabled, Windows remembers the last w…

Microsoft is disputing claims by Steve Gibson, that the WMF vulnerability was an intentionally placed backdoor. There is a response to the claims in the Microsoft Security Incident Response blog. App…

Mandriva 2006 released without Mozilla Firefox 1.5, it came with 1.0.6 (which included security fixes and other patches from 1.0.7).... anyway, source rpm's for Firefox 1.5 became available in cooker…

I'm not quite sure if I'm willing to attribute to design, what I could attribute to a mistake... but, slashdot has pointed out that Steve Gibson in his latest Security Now! podcast (link is to transc…

For several years now, I've used Mondorescue as a backup solution for those customers with a Linux server. It makes for a nice, easily scriptable backup that can go ahead and burn to disc, *(or tape …

I've got a couple of older Mandrake 10.0 servers that I'm still maintaining. They're systems that it hasn't been practical (yet) to do an upgrade to a more recent release of the base operating system…

Good news for Windows XP users (especially XP Home). Microsoft has extended the support period for XP Home and Pro. Originally, security patch related support was expected to end December 31st of thi…

There are a number of vulnerabilites reported with Apple Quicktime player related to the way it handles various file formats. Quicktime Player 7.0.4 is the current released GOOD version, everything f…

Brian Krebs at the Security Fix has done an interesting study related to how long it takes Microsoft to release a security fix for a problem, starting from the time they are notified of the security …

The identities of 50,000 customers of the Atlantis resort in the Bahamas has been lost. The information was copied from the hotel's customer database and can include credit card information as well a…

There has been a bugfix release to Crossover Office, released by Codeweavers. Crossover Office is an offshoot of the Wine project, which is a windows compatibility suite for Linux, to allow Windows a…

Brian Krebs at the SecurityFix has the story. Symantec, has fixed a problem with their SystemWorks and SystemWorks premier software that could allow malicious software to hide in the Norton Protected…

There's a good post at Spyware Confidential about the removal of the SpyAxe and SpywareStrike pests that are circulating widely these days. There is a good CastleCops Wiki page with Malware removal i…

There's a security fix available for a vulnerability in Clamantivirus. Version 0.88 fixes the vulnerability which could allow a remote attacker to control a machine running clamantivirus. The Securit…

Microsoft has issued two advisories related to patches coming out today. Both are remote code execution vulnerabilities, the first affects Outlook and Exchange server, the second is related to embedd…

I can't really say I'm surprised, after the big WMF vulnerability of the last couple weeks, I suspected we'd see closer scrutiny of other WMF "vectors".... but..... The SecurityFix is one of the outl…

One of the real hesitations I had in moving current sites to Wordpress 2.0 was the thought of "what plugins will break?" From what I saw the supported plugins list was short and so was the "broken" p…

Given that I've now had a chance to use Wordpress 2.0 a bit, I thought I'd do a couple posts on some of my impressions. For starters, I'm quite fond of the interface for 1.5.2 that I use here. It's c…

I'll be adding the links shortly, but I've got a new site roughed out... it's along the lines of the previous post. I thought it may not have enough frequent posting to really be an eventful site, bu…

I've got a lot of posts related to shortwave radio and radio broadcasts online (and tv broadcasts online.) Which got me to thinking how I wanted to organize the information. There's a part of me that…

This hopefully will be my last post on the whole WMF exploit stuff.... It's prompted in part by a comment on one of the articles on Windows 98 and the vulnerability. I realized that I hadn't really b…

It looks as though Google will be selling video content for as little as $1.99 each. At CES today they've announced deals with CBS for some current running shows (CSI for instance). Also, a large num…