Critical Update for IE
A workaround fix for that latest security threat, for those of you, like me, who have to support users who refuse to use anything but IE. 🙂
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Smart Card Driver’s licenses? -Yet another example of how people in Washington are constantly on the lookout for new laws to invade your privacy and keep track of you at every stop. Why else would they propose smart-card driver’s licenses and demand that they interoperate with third party, private systems? This whole thing with the…
If you don’t have automatic updates turned on your self-hosted WordPress sites, you should probably make some time to get them updated. Nothing like having your site hacked because you skipped an update that patches vulnerabilities! And while you’re at it, go ahead and turn on automatic updates. It won’t do major release updates, you’ll…
Free WiFi is not a safe place – Siciliano says in his line of work he’s been seeing an increase in hackers prying on people using free Wi-Fi on their smart phones. Because the free Wi-Fi doesn’t encrypt your data, hackers can use a scanning tool to duplicate a person’s device by cloning their IME…
Scoble gets going again with a bit of a rant against MS for making HTML the default email format in Outlook. Then he tops it off in the next post with this doozy quote: Most people would be quite happy with Plain Text (and those of you who send emails with purple backgrounds shouldn’t be…
We spent the past weekend having an early Christmas with the in-laws. My father-in-law has recently had his Palm die on him and was given a Toshiba e310 that his son had and wasn’t using to replace it. I knew he was having some problems with it, and went in thinking that I was probably…
I needed to go back to fix something way back from the early, early days of this blog, and I saw a headline that blew me away. Lately, there has been much discussion about how the FBI, and others, claim that encryption will only be a boon to terrorists and is an imminent danger to…