Wednesday, September 26, 2012




MONEY TALKS

[I'VE NEVER HEARD IT THOUGH]




Nonetheless it does. From Computer Worlds website comes a story about Google patching 24 bugs in it's browser "Chrome", and paying $29K to bug "Bounty Hunters". Chrome Ver.22 became available to the public yesterday. Microsoft and other companies are paying high bounties as well. To read the full article go HERE.

STAYING AWAKE AT NIGHT?

It's no wonder. Between Microsoft, Adobe, JAVA "Zero-Day" exploits, your bank website not being available and much, much more, comes another one of those "He was looking for one thing on the website and stumbled into....." stories, also via Computer World. Apparently a Danish student was looking for some research material and suddenly, before he eyes, were about 100,000 user names and passwords from other research associates working for NASA, and APPLE (to name just 2). [ed. - pace a few times across floor tonight for me while you're at it].

SPEAKING OF WINDOWS 8

I'm not, but someone, somewhere in the world is....
Intel's CEO said that Windows 8 bug's will "Sting" consumers. Hmmm, I.E.9 came out in March of 2011, still has issues, including the BIG one last week, and yet Microsoft is pushing out I.E.10. Meanwhile, Windows 7, which after more years than Microsoft cares to count, finally restored some confidence with consumers and businesses alike after the terrible "VISTA" affair, yet, pushing out 8 they are. The article about what Intel's CEO said is HERE.

FBI SCAM

Locally, we've seen a somewhat moderate increase in a virus/trojan which displays a full screen FBI warning page. Yeah, it's not real (unless you're doing something real bad, but then why would they warn you before they come crashing through your door, right?), and successful removal varies, depending on what other things have been downloaded without your knowledge. I've worked on several that all seemed to come in via JAVA, and if you've been reading this or the other blogs you know I've been without JAVA for over 2 months and haven't run into anything I couldn't do before. Perhaps you could try this experiment? Benefit - you're not going to worry about new security holes in JAVA. The worse that can happen? You find out there is something you need it for and re-install it!

(Hopefully)
'Nuff Said,
Brian

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