Comcast Rolls Out Constant Guard Bot Detection – Comcast has been piloting a security service where it monitors it’s customers PCs for bot activity and notifies them if any is detected. Comcast seems to be taking a good approach to this. They don’t require you to install any software, instead they look for bot related [...] Read more »
Broken Security: It’s The Law (possible future)
The NY Times (among others) reports on the Obama administration’s desire to force software developers to build backdoors into security software. This seems like a law just begging for unintended consequences. This doesn’t have to be viewed as an evil attempt to expand power. It’s realistic to view this as a way to keep the same abilities as they have with the old technology. Just like businesses that see their market fad away as technology advances, legislate rather than compete. Read more »
Microsoft Out of Band Patch for Advisory 2416728
Microsoft will be releasing a security patch to address a vulnerability in ASP.NET documented in security advisory 2416728, “Vulnerability in ASP.NET Could Allow Information Disclosure.” The bulletin lists just about every still supported desktop and server OS along with what appears to be every still supported .NET version. Read more »
Updates and Moving On
It’s been a month since the last update to this site. Reality sets in and I realize I don’t have time to maintain this site and my other site. So I’ll be adding any new security and spam related content to The OS Quest. No more updates to the Spam Chronicles for awhile. What’s already [...] Read more »
Microsoft Patch Tuesday for August 2007
Microsoft patch Tuesday for August 2007 brings us 6 critical and 3 important security updates from Microsoft. Microsoft summarizes the patches in their August summary. Every supported desktop version of Windows is affected by one or more patches. Several Microsoft Office versions are also affected along with several versions of Virtual PC and Virtual Server. [...] Read more »