Security

Oh what a weekend!

A application I had on this box that I have not used in months apparently had a security issue and you guessed it the busy bees got into the box, GoDaddy was worried that the box was compromised and wanted…

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Todd Cochrane
Microsoft, Security

Windows OneCare?

Running short on time this morning and wanted to point you all at this, the question I have to ask myself even before loading it is this. I have Norton Antivirus, a firewall, a spyware sweeper and a host of…

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Todd Cochrane
Security

Interesting Security Survey

I have been swapping e-mail with a representative of AuthenTec the company that has released some interesting survey results. I am always looking to see how insecure we are and this survey goes about as far as any I have…

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Todd Cochrane
RSS, Security

So is RSS feed Hijacking Next

Security researchers seem to thing that Internet Explorer Version 7 will be the holly grail for hackers and crackers to use to infect PC’s by hijacking RSS feeds. The concept sounds quite feasible considering everything else that these Trojans and…

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Todd Cochrane
Security, skype

Skype has some Bugs folks!

It appears Skype has some security bugs folks and I would rank them in the fairly severe category. Skype has issued patches for some of the critical bugs so you will want to head over to Skype and either download…

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Todd Cochrane