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Street-wise solution to computer viruses
Victor Juma
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- November 12 2009
- spiralling of costs for individual users
- free antivirus
- do not guarantee protection from stronger viruses
- a street-wise solution
- modest cost
- two operating systems
- once a user detects a virus on the Windows system, he can restart with the Linux OS
- standards to be met

BBC NEWS | Technology | Xbox console ban is 'permanent'

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2009 2009-11 2009-11-12 Microsoft Xbox Live digital rights management

referred from http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Fnews.bbc.co.uk%2F1%2Fhi%2Ftechnology%2F8354166.stm?tab=comment&uname=grahamperrin - grahamperrin on 2009-11-12

12 November 2009
Xbox console ban is 'permanent'
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- Jonathan Fildes
- permanently barred and "unable to connect to Xbox Live"
- as many as 1m
- pirated
- We believe that even one modified console on the system is one too many
- a "small percentage" of the 20 million Xbox Live users
- unofficial - but not always illegal
- speculated that new "mods" could soon be on the market that allow gamers to get round the blocks

BBC NEWS | Technology | Microsoft disconnects Xbox gamers

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2009 2009-11 2009-11-11 Microsoft Xbox Live digital rights management

referred from http://www.mguhlin.org/2009/11/diigonotes-trusted-computing-rears-its.html via http://twitter.com/mguhlin/status/5623376807 - grahamperrin on 2009-11-11

11 November 2009
Microsoft disconnects Xbox gamers
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- for modifying their consoles
- as many as 600,000 gamers
- Microsoft confirmed that it had banned a "small percentage"
- ban is 'permanent'
- Digital Rights Management (DRM)technologies to detect pirated software
- many gamers modify their consoles by installing new chips or software that allows them to run unofficial - but not always illegal - programs and games
- some chips are specifically designed to play pirated games
- all consoles have been verified to have violated the terms of use
- affects a gamer's Xbox Live account

10 Nov 09

Linux.com :: Commentary: SCO's Tapestry of Lies

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2004 2009 2009-11 2009-11-10 unread Microsoft

SCO's Tapestry of Lies
Bruce Perens
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- March 10, 2004
- Microsoft has
  arranged virtually all of SCO's financing
- bringing SCO Millions in stock windfalls
- fraud meant to hurt Linux
- for Microsoft, their
  financial backer
- Canopy Group
  - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canopy_Group - on 2009-11-10
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- the saddest part of this whole fiasco is its human
  dimension
- Yarrow and Canopy will walk away with tens of millions
- originally published at http://perens.com/

19 Oct 09

Courier: A Collaborative Phone-Based File Exchange System - Microsoft Research

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Microsoft 2008 2009

Courier: A Collaborative Phone-Based File Exchange System
Amy Karlson, Greg Smith, Brian Meyers, George Robertson, and Mary Czerwinski
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- viewing and exchange of PC-based documents
- away from their desks
- collaborative meeting
- usability issues
- privacy, reliability and speed
- Microsoft Research

11 Oct 09

Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog : SharePoint History

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Microsoft unread 2009

23 Sep 09

Chromium Blog: Introducing Google Chrome Frame

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WebKit open source Google Microsoft Internet Explorer Internet Explorer 6 Internet Explorer 7 Diigo 20090923 2009

Google Chrome Frame
September 22, 2009
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- open source plug-in
- HTML5 and other open web technologies to Internet Explorer
- not yet supported by Internet Explorer
- <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="chrome=1">
- Google Chrome Frame detects this tag
- switches automatically
- WebKit-based rendering engine
- AWESOME!
  
  (And, believe you me, I rarely use this word.)
- Mark Pilgrim's page that detects HTML 5 features
- http://diveintohtml5.org/detect.html
  - http://diveintohtml5.org/detect.html - on 2009-09-23
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- the DoD
  - United States Department of Defense (defense.gov) - on 2009-09-23
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- million-plus network of IE 6 machines
- People don't update their browser from IE6 because they aren't able to. According to Digg's study on IE6 usage, 76% of their users aren't even able to upgrade their browsers. So they likely won't be able to install Google Chrome Frame either.

09 Sep 09

National Vulnerability Database (NVD) National Vulnerability Database (CVE-2009-3103)

Array index error in the SMB2 protocol implementation in srv2.sys in Microsoft Windows 7, Server 2008, and Vista Gold, SP1, and SP2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (system crash) via an & (ampersand) character in a Process ID High header field in a NEGOTIATE PROTOCOL REQUEST packet, which triggers an attempted dereference of an out-of-bounds memory location.

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zero day attack Microsoft Microsoft Windows Server Message Block CVE-2009-3103 2009

If you use any of the following operating systems:

* Microsoft Windows 7
* Microsoft Windows Vista
* Microsoft Windows Server 2008

-- please be aware of a recently reported zero day vulnerability affecting some versions. A denial-of-service attack on an affected system that has SMB2 enabled, for file sharing crashes the system with a BSoD (Blue Screen of Death).

In addition: the issue may be exploitable to achieve remote code execution.

Symantec Corp. ThreatCon is currently elevated (level 2 of 4).

Secunia Advisory SA36623 currently rates the vulnerability moderately critical (3 of 5).

U.S. National Vulnerability Database vulnerability CVE-2009-3103 will gain a completed summary in due course.

The following actions are advised:

* disable file sharing, unless it is explicitly required
* restrict access to TCP ports 139 and 445. - grahamperrin on 2009-09-09

Microsoft Windows 7, Server 2008, and Vista Gold, SP1, and SP2
denial of service (system crash)
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- http://secunia.com/advisories/36623
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2009-09/0090.html

Threatcon - Symantec Corp.

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zero day attack Microsoft Microsoft Windows Server Message Block CVE-2009-3103 Blue Screen of Death denial-of-service attack 2009

ThreatCon is currently at Level 2: Elevated
remotely exploitable vulnerability affecting the SMB kernel component ('srv2.sys') of Windows Vista SP1 (and later) and possibly some versions of Windows 2008 and Windows 7
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- trigger a crash
- the issue may be exploitable to achieve remote code execution
- in the short term the issue may be used for a denial-of-service attack
- We strongly advise users to block TCP port 445 immediately
- Unless explicitly required, users should disable file sharing

Microsoft Windows SMB2 '_Smb2ValidateProviderCallback()' Denial of Service Vulnerability

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zero day attack Microsoft Microsoft Windows Server Message Block CVE-2009-3103 Blue Screen of Death denial-of-service attack 2009

exploit
- In their currently published
  /data/vulnerabilities/exploits/36299.py
  there is line break error between lines 2 and 3. - on 2009-09-09
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Slashdot IT Story | Windows 7 Reintroduces Remote BSoD

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zero day attack Microsoft Microsoft Windows Server Message Block CVE-2009-3103 Blue Screen of Death denial-of-service attack 2009

Hole in Windows Vista and 7 allows remote reboot - News - The H Security: News and features

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zero day attack Microsoft Microsoft Windows Server Message Block CVE-2009-3103 Blue Screen of Death denial-of-service attack 2009

[Full-disclosure] Windows Vista/7 : SMB2.0 NEGOTIATE PROTOCOLREQUEST Remote B.S.O.D.

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zero day attack Microsoft Microsoft Windows Server Message Block CVE-2009-3103 Blue Screen of Death denial-of-service attack 2009

Microsoft Windows SMB Processing Array Indexing Vulnerability - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information - Secunia.com

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zero day attack Microsoft Microsoft Windows Server Message Block CVE-2009-3103 Blue Screen of Death denial-of-service attack 2009

Vista/2008/Windows 7 SMB2 BSOD 0Day

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zero day attack Microsoft Microsoft Windows Server Message Block CVE-2009-3103 Blue Screen of Death denial-of-service attack 2009

SMB2 BSOD 0Day
Vista/2008/Windows 7
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- confirmed
- recommend filtering access to port TCP 445
- not merely a DOS
- might be a Remote Exploit vulnerability
- especially if it does more than a simple DoS
- much more early distribution of real exploit code going on now than ever before
- SMB has got to be one of the biggest offenders for 0days
- In our enterprise, the top vulns are all SMB or Adobe based

21 Aug 09

BBC NEWS | Technology | Tech giants unite against Google

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Amazon.com Microsoft Yahoo! Google Internet Archive 2009

Google would also be given the right to digitise orphan works.
21 August 2009
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- By Maggie Shiels
- a coalition to fight Google's attempt to create what could be the world's largest virtual library
- Amazon, Microsoft and Yahoo will sign up to the Open Book Alliance
- spearheaded by the Internet Archive
- in 2008, the search giant reached an agreement with publishers and authors
- In that settlement, Google agreed to pay $125m (£76m) to create a Book Rights Registry
- orphan works
- 50-70% of books published after 1923
- Comments on the deal have to be lodged by 4 September
- Open access
- the future of the book industry
- and of public access to the cultural heritage of mankind
- embodied in books
- techniques we have built up since the enlightenment of having open access, public support for libraries, lots of different organisational structures, lots of distributed ownership of books that can be exchanged, resold and repackaged in different ways
- all of that is being thrown out
- The non-profit Internet Archive has
- digitised over 1.5 million
- All are available free.
- The American Libraries Association (ALA)
- but the proposed settlement asks us to trust Google and the other parties
- think the product in essence is good

19 Aug 09

System requirements for Microsoft Entourage 2008, Web Services Edition

IT Pros -— Microsoft for Mac Products | Mactopia

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Microsoft Mac OS X 2009

System requirements
Caution
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- If you are using Microsoft Exchange Server 2003
  or earlier
- do not install Entourage 2008, Web Services Edition.