Gee you know it’s pretty serious business when a worm shows as the headline on the Drudge Report, eh?
For the record, after reading through the SlashDot synopsis and following the various links it appears to be a worm using an old MS SQL vulnerability that Microsoft released a patch for back in June and some sites, obviously, didn’t get the patch applied. Tsk, tsk…
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Spent some time this weekend with the wife, and spent some time away from tech stuff, which was needed to get away from my tech frustrations at least. The other frustrations I was feeling on Friday were professional and they’re not going to change any time soon, that’s for sure, but at least I don’t…
The good news? I do have ‘net access in class. The bad news? While surfing towards the end of our lunch break I discovered that the Child Abuse site’s been suspended. I don’t have any idea why, and I don’t have the contact information for the host with me. Of course I also noticed that…
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So did your office recognize Systems Administrator Appreciation Day? Unfortunately, some of our own IS folks didn’t know it was today until our network admin wished them a happy sysadmin day first thing this morning. Later, when I brought in donuts, he was happy to see that someone else remembered. 🙂 We did manage to…
Brad makes an interesting point, is Trillian Pro even legal? You’re paying for access to other, free, IM systems. Or could they claim you’re paying for the add-ons because the free version of Trillian already gives you access to those systems for free? Interesting question, any legal scholars out there? For a little bit of…