Monthly Archives: November 2008

  Download Zonealarm 2009 Pro for free on 11/18/2008 – Download Squad The DownloadSquad is reporting that Checkpoint (the owners of Zone Alarm) are going to offer the Pro version tomorrow for free. This will include 1-year of updates for the firewall. I’ve used ZoneAlarm and ZoneAlarm Pro in the […]

Microsoft released two patches today.  One is marked Critical and the other is marked Important.  They are: Microsoft Security Bulletin MS08-069 – Critical Vulnerabilities in Microsoft XML Core Services Could Allow Remote Code Execution (955218) And Microsoft Security Bulletin MS08-068 – Important Vulnerability in SMB Could Allow Remote Code Execution […]

Just a reminder that Microsoft will be releasing two bulletins tomorrow.  One looks to affect the XML Core Services that both Windows and Office use.  The other is an issue with Windows, but isn’t clear yet.  So, we’ll have to see tomorrow for sure. I’ll post an entry tomorrow when […]

Since the latest news is about the WPA encryption being cracked, I decided to look into some of the routers which are available to find the ones that support WPA2.  While some routers may not support WPA2, if they support WPA1 with AES instead of TKIP, that would work until […]

  SANS Internet Storm Center; Cooperative Network Security Community – Internet Security – isc If you have a wireless router and wireless card in your computers, you really need to read this post (and any related posts for it).  An unsecured wireless connection is begging for trouble.  Even in a […]

If you haven’t already done so, you really need to update your Adobe Flash Player and especially Adobe Reader.  Adobe released updates for them a few days ago, and as of right now, the Internet Storm Center is reporting that there are malicious pdf files that are taking advantage of […]

Just a quick post to tell you that I’m looking for things to discuss.  I’m debating about more information about the MS08-67 worms, or new malware out today.  I’m also considering discussing Master Data Management and Data management-related topics. Let me know if you have any thoughts about these subjects […]

This is going to be one of a few non-computer topics and hopefully the only political topic that I post on. I watched the Election coverage tonight, and watched President-elect Barack Obama’s victory speech with great anticipation. There will be different opinions on what the most poignant and powerful part […]

If you don’t remember what MS08-067 is, it’s the emergency “out of band” update that Microsoft released on October 23, 2008.  Not even two weeks later, the first worms that take advantage of this vulnerability are out in the wild. Internet Storm Center is reporting that the first worm appeared […]

For my Computer course at the University of Phoenix, we created our top 5 applications for the year.  Part of the requirements were that we had to justify them.  I’m presenting my list here, along with a request for other people’s lists.  As new applications are pointed out to me, […]