The U.S. Navy is developing a service-wide policy regarding the acceptable use of information technology. The policy will affect approximately 900,000 users, including Navy and Marine Corp service members, civilian employees, and contractors. The policy, which is scheduled to be…
For the record “I Love Firefox”, “Everyone I talk to is trying Firefox” that out of the way. There is a blog entry that is making it’s rounds on concerns some are having when downloading Firefox and installing plugins. The…
The new Santy worm uses the Google search engine to find vulnerable websites and then defaces the sites’ bulletin boards. The worm, formally named Net-Worm.Perl.Santy, attacks website bulletin boards (Internet forums or message centers) running versions of the popular phpBB…
As I was installing my Creative Labs PCMCIA sound card, I was shocked to see the amount of “GARBAGE” creative labs tried to install or place in my bookmarks on my PC. Luckily my Spyware program caught all of it…
Being a diehard MovableType user we will be upgrading this site tonight to MovableType version 3.14. The stop gap measures put into place by parent company Six Apart looks like a good first step towards fixing the problem that many…
The latest security flaw in the Google Desktop Search Engine which caused me so much grief (from the upgrade process) was found by a class at BYU, one of the students involved has been offered a internship by Google. I…
A worm has been methodically spreading throughout the Internet infecting PHP Bulletin Board through a well known flaw. [ZDNet]