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Tune in to get the latest information and announcements from Day 3 at TechEd IT Forum 2007: http://www.myitforum.com/absolutevc/avcsearch.aspx?k=ITForum2007 Tune in tomorrow for more. With 32 videos from IT Forum 2007, it’s just like you were there.

Posted to Rod Trent at myITforum.com (Weblog) by rodtrent on 11-15-2007
Filed under: Community, Internet, Security, Systems Management, Windows, Industry News, Virtualization
Hackers Can Tap Into Vonage Lines, Says Security Firm

Security firm disclosed Wednesday that a security hole in Vonage's VoIP system could allow an attacker to reroute and effectively hijack phone calls. "This leaves the Vonage customer subject to spam, social engineering vulnerabilities, and scams," reads a security advisory issued yesterday...

Posted to John at myITforum.com (Weblog) by jgormly on 10-25-2007
Filed under: Security, Internet
Flaw Still Shadows Firefox

Sometimes it takes more than one or even two kicks at the can to fix a security issue even when the source code is open. Such is apparently the case with vulnerability in the Mozilla Firefox uniform resource identifier (URI) handler, which enables Firefox to call on other Web resources. Security researchers...

Posted to John at myITforum.com (Weblog) by jgormly on 09-08-2007
Filed under: Security, Internet
Do your users load chat clients?

In the month of August to date, there have been 38 malicious-code attacks on instant-messaging networks, double the number experienced in July. According to IM security and compliance vendor Akonix , IM worms with such bizarre names as Delf, Mimbot, MSNHorm and MSNPoopy have emerged this month, proving...

Posted to John at myITforum.com (Weblog) by jgormly on 08-29-2007
Filed under: Security, Internet
Internet Explorer 7 Desktop Security Guide

Internet Explorer 7 offers users more protection than previous versions of the browser through a combination of new features and more secure default settings. In keeping with the need to balance security and usability, the default values for these new features and settings have been configured to offer...

Posted to Rod Trent at myITforum.com (Weblog) by rodtrent on 08-09-2007
Filed under: Internet, Security
Hackers steal govt, corporate data from PCs

Hackers stole information from the U.S. Department of Transportation and several U.S. corporations by seducing employees with fake job-listings on ads and e-mail, a computer security firm said on Monday. The list of victims included several companies known for providing security services to government...

Posted to John at myITforum.com (Weblog) by jgormly on 07-17-2007
Filed under: Security, Internet
Slow sites in IE? Check the Phishing filter

I’ve had an issue with slow access to our mailing list server software for a while. I don’t remember when it started, but it has been excruciatingly slow to access. So, if there were problems with someone’s account on the mailing lists, or management needed to be performed on the delivery...

Posted to Rod Trent at myITforum.com (Weblog) by rodtrent on 06-12-2007
Filed under: Internet, Security, Software
Google named worst privacy offender in study

A new report puts Google in last place when it comes to privacy protection. Despite recent moves to anonymize server logs and other pro-privacy gestures, Privacy International called the company "an endemic threat to privacy." Only Google earned the dismal "black" color bar from the...

Posted to Rod Trent at myITforum.com (Weblog) by rodtrent on 06-11-2007
Filed under: Internet, Security
Chris Pirillo gives me a nickname, explains why his newsletters are spamming

On the issue I posted about here and here …from Chris: Here's the problem, Sparky... Those emails are generated from the feeds from the blogs that aren't being updated with new content... I haven't yet found the people to continue them, so when a part of that feed updates, the email...

Posted to Rod Trent at myITforum.com (Weblog) by rodtrent on 05-31-2007
Filed under: Internet, Security, Industry News
Lockergnome spamming the Mobile Lifestyle list

I’m on the Mobile Lifestyle email newsletter list at Lockergnome. Some time ago it was announced they would get back to distributing the newsletter (it’s been on hiatus for some time). Today, to my disappointment, I received my first issue in a while. The unfortunate thing is that it is ALL...

Posted to Rod Trent at myITforum.com (Weblog) by rodtrent on 05-25-2007
Filed under: Internet, Security, Industry News

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