Thursday, September 28, 2006

IBM joins the laptop battery recall IBM joins in the fray by recalling over half a million laptop batteries. PC Magazine covers the story. "Customers are encouraged to call Lenovo at (800) 426-7378 anytime or log on to Lenovo's battery recall web site to determine if they have an affected battery." 4:07:39 PM    comment []

Exploits, exploits and exploits! I don't intend this blog to be a security blog; that's a full time job better served by others. However, you ought to be alert to what's going on out there: MS "re-released" MS06-049 as version 2.0 (new and improved!) to patch NTFS file compression on Windows 2000 SP4. The Internet Storm Center is reporting yet another Internet Explorer exploit, taking advantage of a bug in an ActiveX control. The ISC is also pointing to reports of an exploit packaged in a PowerPoint file. I may have mentioned it before: Do not open attachments from untrusted sources and... there are no trusted sources. I wouldn't advise anyone to open a PowerPoint until they are sure their anti-virus scanners have been updated and clear the file. Better yet, open it in OpenOffice.org. Better yet... imagine a day with no PowerPoint. Wow. 12:00:28 PM    comment []

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