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March 16th, 2006 at 10:43:31
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March 16th, 2006 at 13:23:31
[...] _________________________________________________________ KevFrey kevfrey@gmail.com . . . . . .. . . . . . Copyright 2006-Kevin FreyTechnorati: Mac OSX flaw del.icio.us: Mac OSX flaw [...]
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March 16th, 2006 at 14:55:31
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March 16th, 2006 at 14:57:31
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March 16th, 2006 at 15:00:31
[...] _________________________________________________________ KevFrey kevfrey@gmail.com . . . . . .. . . . . . Copyright 2006-Kevin FreyTechnorati: Java JRE security vulnerabilities del.icio.us: Java JRE security vulnerabilities [...]
March 16th, 2006 at 15:03:31
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March 16th, 2006 at 15:06:31
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March 16th, 2006 at 15:07:31
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March 16th, 2006 at 15:23:31
[...] _________________________________________________________ KevFrey kevfrey@gmail.com . . . . . .. . . . . . Copyright 2006-Kevin FreyTechnorati: WinAmp playlist upgrade security del.icio.us: WinAmp playlist upgrade security [...]
March 17th, 2006 at 19:29:31
Busy March Security Updates
March 22nd, 2006 at 12:38:31
Scientology vs. South Park (Ummm…)
April 5th, 2006 at 23:29:30
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April 5th, 2006 at 23:43:30
[...] UPDATE (20:45 EST): I tested another Windows 2000 Pro machine, which did NOT have the Ilfak v1.3 patch applied (no patch, and the DLL was still registered) and the update went without any glitch.. no hang, no reboot problems, and the GDI32.DLL is updated as expected. _________________________________________________________ KevFrey kevfrey@gmail.com . . . . . .. . . . . . Copyright 2006-Kevin Frey [...]
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April 11th, 2006 at 17:26:30
Patch Tuesday, 2006-April – As Expected, Microsoft rolls out the IE patch
April 28th, 2006 at 16:58:30
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May 2nd, 2006 at 19:40:31
Firefox 1.5.0.3 is out
Hiya; My Firefox jus
May 3rd, 2006 at 19:15:31
Louis Rukeyser passes away
For years, my wife an
May 26th, 2006 at 13:04:31
WinAmp flaws Fixed
Greetings all; Jus
May 26th, 2006 at 15:00:31
Microsoft Word 0-day flaw = Bad news
Several watchdog gr
May 26th, 2006 at 15:31:31
Windows Quicktime and Apple Security updates
Apple has release
June 2nd, 2006 at 14:51:30
Firefox 1.5.0.4 updates – Extensions – 1.0 discontinued
Firefox just releas
September 16th, 2006 at 11:27:30
Firefox 1.5.0.7 is out
Firefox has been upda
September 16th, 2006 at 11:34:30
Patch Tuesday – September
Hi all –
Microsof
September 25th, 2006 at 23:09:30
0day – VML flaw in Internet Explorer
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September 25th, 2006 at 23:22:30
Windows Update – A serious bug – Windows 2000 users take note..
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November 24th, 2006 at 12:58:30
[...] Note: graph modified from original – Thanks to TQM3 for the continued research and service to the community Anti-spam vendor Postini reports that nearly 80% of all email on the Internet is from known compromised systems hosting spam, while a more in-depth content analysis by multiple vendors has shown that less than 4% of all Internet email is legitimate email. This means that in practice, 96% of all email is junk mail of some kind which is staggering. While this may seem dubious at first, note the following per-day averages culled from my company’s own anti-spam server logs: Average per-day incoming Internet mail stats: Note that we block outright 97.5% of all email received, and when combined with quarantined mail, this increases to 98.3%.This percentage means the mail that reaches my users’ inboxes without any user action, on average, represents less than 2% of all the attempted delivered email. If we were to eliminate spam filtering, users could expect 50-70 more spam messages per-day / per-user on average, adding up to email being "lost in the shuffle" creating productivity loss, massive increase in resource utilization on email servers, and a lot of angry internal customers ;-)Another interesting stat above – on average, we only receive 6 viruses-infected email messages per day out of 55,000+... a rounding error in raw number terms. This indicates the larger and irrefutable trend that email is no longer used as a conduit for spreading viruses as was once the case; rather it is being used to make money from spamming, phishing, identity theft, and other forms of organized crime. Note: The caveat to this statistic is that our anti-spam server drops traffic from known spammer IP addresses and subnets, prior to the virus scanner analyzing the message. It could be that there are many more virus-infected email messages being dropped before virus analysis if those virus-infected messages come from known spammer IPs.The massive up-tick in spam generated and sustained since 2006-June has created a "law of big numbers" problem that is allowing a higher raw number volume of spam through that would have otherwise been blocked pre-June 2006. Botnets are the primary cause of this effect and are the single biggest threat on the Internet at-large today.Sidebar: For those not familiar with the term, botnets are the result of a coordinated installation of a certain type of malicious software designed in such a way as to allow surreptitious and central control of many computers. After compiling the control of these computers (sometimes number in the tens or hundreds of thousands), hackers can use them to perform coordinated attacks against other systems, gather and amalgamate information on large numbers of people (for identity fraud, etc.), and are largely used in organized cybercrime today. The client computers that have this software installed are called "bots" or "zombies" since control of their operation has been seized by the hacker and they are no longer autonomous. The "net" part is the fact that they are operating as a distributed network of computing resources – thus, botnet_____________________________________________________________ KevFrey kevfrey@gmail.com . . . . . .. . . . . ."24-hour banking; I don’t have time for that"- Stephen WrightCopyright 2006-Kevin Frey [...]
November 24th, 2006 at 12:59:30
[...] Note: graph modified from original – Thanks to TQM3 for the continued research and service to the community Anti-spam vendor Postini reports that nearly 80% of all email on the Internet is from known compromised systems hosting spam, while a more in-depth content analysis by multiple vendors has shown that less than 4% of all Internet email is legitimate email. This means that in practice, 96% of all email is junk mail of some kind which is staggering. While this may seem dubious at first, note the following per-day averages culled from my company’s own anti-spam server logs: Average per-day incoming Internet mail stats: Note that we block outright 97.5% of all email received, and when combined with quarantined mail, this increases to 98.3%.This percentage means the mail that reaches my users’ inboxes without any user action, on average, represents less than 2% of all the attempted delivered email. If we were to eliminate spam filtering, users could expect 50-70 more spam messages per-day / per-user on average, adding up to email being "lost in the shuffle" creating productivity loss, massive increase in resource utilization on email servers, and a lot of angry internal customers ;-)Another interesting stat above – on average, we only receive 6 viruses-infected email messages per day out of 55,000+... a rounding error in raw number terms. This indicates the larger and irrefutable trend that email is no longer used as a conduit for spreading viruses as was once the case; rather it is being used to make money from spamming, phishing, identity theft, and other forms of organized crime. Note: The caveat to this statistic is that our anti-spam server drops traffic from known spammer IP addresses and subnets, prior to the virus scanner analyzing the message. It could be that there are many more virus-infected email messages being dropped before virus analysis if those virus-infected messages come from known spammer IPs.The massive up-tick in spam generated and sustained since 2006-June has created a "law of big numbers" problem that is allowing a higher raw number volume of spam through that would have otherwise been blocked pre-June 2006. Botnets are the primary cause of this effect and are the single biggest threat on the Internet at-large today.Sidebar: For those not familiar with the term, botnets are the result of a coordinated installation of a certain type of malicious software designed in such a way as to allow surreptitious and central control of many computers. After compiling the control of these computers (sometimes number in the tens or hundreds of thousands), hackers can use them to perform coordinated attacks against other systems, gather and amalgamate information on large numbers of people (for identity fraud, etc.), and are largely used in organized cybercrime today. The client computers that have this software installed are called "bots" or "zombies" since control of their operation has been seized by the hacker and they are no longer autonomous. The "net" part is the fact that they are operating as a distributed network of computing resources – thus, botnet_____________________________________________________________ KevFrey kevfrey@gmail.com . . . . . .. . . . . ."24-hour banking; I don’t have time for that"- Stephen WrightCopyright 2006-Kevin Frey [...]
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