CERT warns about Microsoft vulnerability in Windows 2000 and XP, involving a buffer overrun in the Workstation Service. The patch is available here. Now go patch before the worm starts spreading around, mmkay? 🙂
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Thanks to everyone who either left a comment or posted on their own blog their congrats for passing the A+ exams. It may not seem like such a big deal to some of the ubergeeks out there who passed theirs years ago, but it was an important first step in spiffing up my resume and…
Cory points us to a rant about a company called Critical IP, who are apparently calling domain owners, including personal domain owners and trying to sell you business network security. Sheesh, get a clue! Chris creates his Blogger’s Manifesto. I think somebody’s been getting too many flame mails, eh? An InfoWorld article that talks about…
Craig sent me an email this morning: I forgot another one of my valued sources: Cindy Webb. She used to publish “Filter” at The Washington Post and now runs www.cynthiawebb.net. I’ve signed up to receive her new e-mail column. I highly recommend her writings. Subscribed in Bloglines! Thanks Craig! Follow these topics: Uncategorized
Yesterday I finished off a memo to my boss about what I think we need to upgrade before the end of the year and where we stood on some other things. She signed off on the upgrades which means now we get to take the suggestions to the President and the other senior staff people….
That’s the thing about working in IT, every once in awhile, you get to see something go wrong, and say “I have no idea why that just happened”. Today it was an SMTP change implemented by the place that acts as our ISP. I keep a completely seperate account in Outlook on my work desktop,…
Would you believe we’re working on day 5 since I changed the DNS servers for this site and my home connection still does not consistently resolve to the new server? Of course this is the same ISP that told me back a few months ago when it couldn’t resolve the DNS for my other site…