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Internet is full of people clever. But even smart people that don’t keep relaxed their guard against scams can be duped sometimes. Recently, I received an e-mail from...

Internet is full of people clever. But even smart people that don’t keep relaxed their guard against scams can be duped sometimes. Recently, I received an e-mail from Paypal.
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I was perplexed by a notice from them, however….

Subject: PayPal Security Advisory

Military Grade Encryption is Only the Start

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Just a casual observation… but it seems like a lot of corporate Security Officers are anti-change. Shouldn’t they strive to be Agents of Change instead?

This doesn’t happen very often so when it does I like to help spread the word. Microsoft released a “critical” update today impacting all supported OS’s from Windows 2000 through the Windows 7 pre-beta.

If you’re a Windows user or manage Windows machines, it seems like you should plan on getting this one and rebooting some rigs. I know I’ll be rebooting a bunch of servers later tonight.

This is noteworthy as the update was pushed today instead of waiting for next month’s “Patch Tuesday.” Therefore, clearly the folks at Microsoft are nervous.

About a month ago, I met with Charles Hedmen II, of Bose, McKinney & Associates. Internal to the firm, Charles was writing several briefs a day to inform other attorneys on key appellate cases in Indiana. Pat Coyle and I discussed a range of social media strategies that Bose might want to take advantage of - but one of them was a perfect fit: Compendium Blogware.

I think this is one of the worst ideas I saw. In a era in which safety are critical factor for any business, to help increasing the spam propagation, now there is a new service...

I think this is one of the worst ideas I saw. In a era in which safety are critical factor for any business, to help increasing the spam propagation, now there is a new service called “Buy Blog Comments“.

In brief, is a new service that allows to leave comment spam on blogs for those wanting be optimized higher inside Google and other search engine. Has been developed by Jon Waraas a guy that owns a company called developer hut and has launched a blog network called BuzzBums. The company have some people in America and Canada that have the aims to write the comments.

Suppose you had about 20 Windows servers to manage. Furthermore, suppose that you’ve lost track of what file shares are on each server — and who has permissions to them.

That’s the situation I’m in. I really need to document the shares and associated permissions for all of my servers. If nothing else, just to get a line in the sand and have something to use as reference when new shares are requested.

Help me find a better way!

Right now I visit each server (via remote desktop) and go to the Computer Management console. Expand “Shared Folders” and click on “Shares”:

Before to starting with what analytics spam is, I tell you exactly what I did to install javascript code and what Google analytics does.
Google analytics is one of the best, if...

I generally enjoy running Vista on my home PC. It does what I want, how I want, when I want. I dual-boot between it and Ubuntu and frankly, as far as user experience goes, they’re darned close to the same for me.

Well, except for Vista’s “Run as Administrator” option. There are some odd wrinkles with this that caused me a few minutes of extreme confusion this morning.

For instance, I’m back to playing EverQuest (an 8+ year on/off love affair). To launch EQ, I need to right-click on the short-cut and choose the “Run as Administrator” option.

Here’s an odd little fraud tidbit that has freaked me out a bit.

Earlier today I received a couple blog comments from a name I didn’t recognize. The message he left in those comments definitely caught my attention though!

Check the Washington Post article on web fraud. There’s a screen capture with a paypal account information for sale that has your business address on it.
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/?hpid=news-col-blogs

The article is:
Web Fraud 2.0: Validating Your Stolen Goods
Posted at 07:00 AM ET, 08/20/2008

Source: Solo Technology

Here’s an odd little fraud tidbit that has freaked me out a bit.

Earlier today I received a couple blog comments from a name I didn’t recognize. The message he left in those comments definitely caught my attention though!

Check the Washington Post article on web fraud. There’s a screen capture with a paypal account information for sale that has your business address on it.
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/?hpid=news-col-blogs

The article is:
Web Fraud 2.0: Validating Your Stolen Goods
Posted at 07:00 AM ET, 08/20/2008

Source: Solo Technology

I have two CentOS based servers at the office. Both built within a day or so of each other and both with the same set of packages.

As mentioned last week, I have both servers setup to notify me when updates are ready (as opposed to automatically updating themselves). However, I’m not quite sure how much I trust that at the moment.

Last week Wednesday, one of the servers started notifying me that kernel updates were ready to go. I manually ran “yum update” on the other server, and it notified me that phpMyAdmin updates were ready…

Yeah, each server was looking at different updates!

As mentioned in a post last week, I’m rolling out some Linux based web servers at work (CentOS to start with). This will allow me to handle the assorted LAMP stack web apps that we use or would like to use in the future (currently WordPress and Joomla!, for example).

Most of us are overloaded with distractions in our work, too much email, too much files, too much images. Sometimes can happens that you may accidentally lose your pictures that...