Some scary stuff about where the next generation of spyware and malware might be headed in terms of stealthiness. All in this weekend’s edition of Spyware Weekly. Let’s hope the good guys are working to combat this as fast as the malware folks are working to create it!
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The list of stupid business practices got one longer yesterday afternoon, when the Small Business Survival Committee (SBSC) decided that since one person who works here signed up for their newsletter, it would be perfectly acceptable to scrape our website for email addresses and send it to everyone. Have you ever seen what a 3MB…
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By now I’m sure you’ve all heard about the security hole in Firefox, and the “recommended fixes”. Here’s the thing though, turning off Javascript disables all those cool little Greasemonkey scripts, and turning off “Let website install software” just makes it more difficult for people to get extensions for Firefox. It’s those extensions and add-ons…
You know they shouldn’t give very bad worms names that make me think of Mad Max-Beyond Thunderdome. It sort of ruins the seriousness of it, doesn’t it? (And yes that movie reference probably ages me more than I care to admit!) That being said, I’ve seen no evidence of it in our office, which is…
So where I work, we allow attorneys to work from home on a pretty regular basis, we’ll even go ahead and set-up their machines for them to use a VPN connection to our network, and Remote Desktop to work directly from their office machine. We also require that they have a firewall installed if they…
So you know I spent most of yesterday packing up equipment. Then last night, as Angela has said already, her PC had a hard drive crash, and we spent the evening rearranging the equipment in our office and moving the Mac into the office. I spent this morning helping load stuff into cars, and then…