Craig Burton

Major Streaming Media Bug in Firefox 1.5.0.5: “
Firefox
1.5.0.5 has a bug that causes it to be unable to play some streaming
media, including Windows Media and Real Media. The MozillaZine forums
and Mozilla Bugzilla suggest that a 1.5.0.6 release to fix the bug may
be coming soon.

Damn it’s tough to keep up.

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Clean Windows XP install without losing data: “
Fred
Langa shows you how to completely rebuild, repair, or refresh an
existing XP installation without losing data, and without having to
reinstall user software, reformat, or otherwise destructively alter the
setup.

If I need this, I’ll bet others do to. My early installations of XP
have become comprimised. Repaving is not an option–it [...]

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    Icon Factory
I was anxious to see what their next edition would be. I guess they don’t work weekends.

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Still Scary after all these years : “
The definitve look at Kim Cameron.

I miss my buddy. He’s not scary, he’s my brother.

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    Navy bans email: “

The
Navy has confirmed that it will block all the commercial email services
that were earlier available to the soldiers. This includes the services
provided by big players such as Microsoft, AOL, Yahoo and Google. This
was done as a result of the navy considering it as a security risk to
its classified networks. However, the [...]

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 Disable File Sharing: Gartner: “

Research
firm Gartner is advising organizations to disable file sharing in the
new desktop software from Google, Desktop 3 Beta. The Search Across
Computers feature allows users on a network to share files by storing
index copies of files on the Google server for 30 days. Gartner says
that employees are often careless in marking those [...]

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Toolbars - a Layman’s Review: “

My
son downloaded the MSN toolbar the other day - just two days after I
had got rid of a toolbar from another reputed Internet giant. There is
the Yahoo toolbar and the Google toolbar and now almost every good site
has a toolbar for free. Until now I did not find one toolbar [...]

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Lifting Fingerprints - Easy as Pie: “

A
caveat included in Microsoft’s PC Authentication device, Fingerprint
Reader, prompted Finnish security researcher Mikko Kiviharju to search
for security flaws in the software, and thereby stumble onto the fact
that hackers can steal users’ fingerprints, as the images scanned are
not encrypted. Microsoft sells the software as a means for users to
avoid the [...]

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A Trojan Called MetaFisher: “

Hackers are taking advantage of a flaw in Microsoftís
Windows Metafile (WMF) to sneak a Trojan into the personal systems of
customers of banks across the United Kingdom, Spain and Germany, and in
the process, steal personal and security information. The modus
operandi involves luring unsuspecting victims to visit malicious
websites through a flood of emails. [...]

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Phishing, Pharming and now Phlooding: “

Whatís
it with all these companies that coin new terms to describe Network
security problems. One thing that goes unnoticed is that most of them
have a fixation for the letter “P” to name the latest network attacks.
Phlooding
is described as a group of simultaneous but geographically distributed
attacks that targets a business’s authentication [...]

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