Reporting on Pwn2Own results always proves to be a popular article and the topic is always interesting with the contest changing a little bit each year. This year's contest is taking place over yesterday, today, and tomorrow at the CanSecWest 2013 conference. It places bounties on bugs in browsers Chrome, IE, Firefox, and Safari. This year's twist is also allowing compromises … [Read more...]
Archives for March 2013
The Office 2013 license is no longer tied to the life of a PC
As I discussed at length in a previous article weighing whether to buy Office 2013 or subscribe to Office 365, it seemed Microsoft heavily biased the price point and feature list to favor subscribing to Office 365. One of the factors that contributed to that conclusion was the fact that a license for Office 2013 was tied to the life of a device. If a computer fails under … [Read more...]
Windows Server 2012: Installing Active Directory Users and Computers and Group Policy Management Console
Managing Active Directory and Group Policy can be a little obscure due to the prerequisite of installing the Remote Server Administration Tools on Windows 7 and 8. In Server 2012, there is no separate install of the RSAT tools, you just have to know where to look. Fortunately, it proves consistent by being part of the Add/Remove Roles and Features part of the Windows Server … [Read more...]
Surprise! Java updates to 6u43 and 7u17 as the latest
"Yet another Java update" seems to be a trending topic among the security professionals. While it is not surprising that more Java zero days have continued to pop up, it is a little surprising that Oracle went beyond their February 2013 deadline and pushed out a new update for Java version 6. … [Read more...]
XKCD on “Maybe it has a virus?”
This simple Venn Diagram comic by XKCD has some surprising depth to it. There is no overlap at all? At first glance, it seems that people just seem to suspect every computer problem is a virus. Nobody is ever correct in their assumption? Is the artist making a distinction between "a virus" and malware? I certainly see plenty of problems caused by malware several times a week. I … [Read more...]