Free Microsoft Small Business Guide to Security
Thanks to a tip from The Office Weblog, I’ll probably be spending part of my day reading this document (PDF) and seeing what sort of things I can pick up.
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Former Mets broadcaster Murphy passes away
Former Mets broadcaster Murphy passes away. I watched and listened to him broadcast ballgames many, many times as a youth growing up in NY. He was an icon. More of my thoughts over at the other blog.
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Bored meetings
Next week we’re having a Board meeting. Normally, we have our Board meetings onsite, which I hate. I always end up having to help one Board member or other check their email using their laptop, and our network, and then making sure I reset all their network settings before they leave and can never get…
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Dave’s spam attack
From Scripting News, Dave’s followup to a post about suddenly getting 1000’s of copies of the same message: “Postscript: I hadn’t opened any of the emails, I just did, and saw that he’s marching through all four-letter combinations of email addresses at one of the domains I own. I turned off email forwarding, hopefully that…
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In case you missed it
On Friday, MS released a patch for three critical holes in IE. They released it out of the normal patch cycle, which should tell you how important it is!
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It’s an epidemic!
I’m declaring spyware and browser hijackings as an epidemic based solely on this: Just about everyone I meet who knows what I do for a living, starts asking me about how to clean this crap out of their systems! Seriously, the guy who does building maintenance for our office just stopped by and asked for…