Couple of newly discovered vulnerabilities for Windows users. Excel and Powerpoint documents are not safe any more. Specially crafted dword (dotless) URLs (dword URL for VSU) can operate in the local intranet security zone instead of the general internet zone in Internet Explorer. Most people have the local intranet zone set to medium-low level and…
I’ve been a little lax about getting online to update this. Part computer screwup/ part being too busy. Thankfully, all that is over and now I can get back to posting. My family was in town for my gandmother’s 80th birthday. Got to see almost all of my cousins and engage in great conversation over…
The Spectator web site is updated… here is the article about viruses where I was interviewed. Horrible picture, I know. UPDATE 2011-MAR-27: link to article removed as VSU Spectator archives only go back to 2006 not 2001. ouch… my hard drive crapped out. Bad cluster on the REGISTRY! Means Windows can’t boot. And I was gonna do…
Made the school paper today. I was interviewed about viruses. Mostly about how they affect the school and how students can protect themselves.
Here is an article on computer viruses for which I was interviewed for the Spectator, the university student news paper. Lindsey Giddens Staff Writer Viruses are running rampant and are extremely contagious. But these viruses don’t attack your immune system–they attack your hard drive. The term virus is used to describe viruses, worms and trojans.…
A quote for posterity… “It’s like the naked leading the blind.”
Ahhhhh… my VSU personal web page is back. Means I can upload to the web server all the work I have not been able to send for the past couple days. That goes for the real work, not the personal home page which I have not really touched. Need a picture for my desktop… would be…
Archived today. Back to work and playing catchup once again. Seems that VSU is interested in building a football stadium finally. I guess dealing with the local city school in using theirs finally got to be too much. Guess what? I get to do the web page announcing all this. Happy! Happy! Joy! Joy! Those…
VSU email and web are down. I’ve been out of the office so I can only surmise that this is related to the Denial of Service attack on Wednesday evening. Very strange that there was a test attack around 3pm and then consistent bombardment starting at almost exactly 5:30 pm. Like the person knew that…