After bugging a friend of mine inside "the Industry" for the past couple of weeks, he has finally given in and sent me a copy of the Lost series finale. It's a long video at 2 and a half hours but it was great to see things wrapped up from the last six years. Lost changed TV forever and while it's sad to see it go, it's so relieving to finally have resolution. The last episode … [Read more...]
Photocopiers, an Identity Theft Gold Mine
About a month ago, there was an interesting story on the CBS evening news that revealed a little known fact: most photocopiers have a hard drive in them and they contain a copy of every document ever scanned on the photocopier. We've covered using DBaN before to wipe the hard drive of your computers before you get rid of them but did you even know that your photocopier had a … [Read more...]
Follow-up: McAfee’s Response to DAT 5958
I had the privilege yesterday of attending a session with an engineer from McAfee. Before giving a presentation on McAfee's Host Intrusion Prevention System and Whole Disk Encryption products, we were able to have an hour-long Q&A session about the bad DAT (antivirus definitions) file that wreaked worm-like havoc for thousands of computers in my organization and many, many … [Read more...]
McAfee Nukes Windows XP Computers World-Wide
McAfee's definitions for today, 5958 dated April 21st, has a false positive that is detrimentally affecting computers around the world. The definitions are detecting C:WindowsSystem32svchost.exe as W32/Wecorl.a virus. Svchost.exe, as you may be aware is a critical Windows files that is required for network/Internet communication to work. More info as the story breaks and I … [Read more...]
Java 6 Update 20 Released Today
To the surprise of System Administrators everywhere, Sun released a Java update today. Arriving only a week after Java 6 Update 19 was released, the update comes as a surprise to address an exploit found in Java by Tavis Ormandy, a researcher at Google. Apparently Ormandy managed to force Sun's hand as they had replied to his responsible disclosure of the exploit saying that … [Read more...]