Wednesday, December 1, 2004

Dare Obasanjo: MSN Spaces Launched. Yet another blogging tool from a $300 billion software behemoth. In all seriousness, it's good to have Microsoft challenge Google in centralized blogging tools. Unlike search, this is an area where Microsoft's version 1 is good enough to win users of Google's offering, and Microsoft products aren't feature-complete until version 3. I have not used the product myself, but I will as soon as I can. [Scripting News] 10:25:45 PM    comment []

For better or for worse.... "While most break-in tries fail, an unprotected PC can get hijacked within minutes of accessing the Internet." So what? Everybody knows that :-) That is actually not the point of my blog entry. The interesting thing we observe in our Linux honeypots lately is that the time to compromise has dramatically *increased*. Skiddies used to "own" unsecured RedHat 7.1 in days, now the same thing will sit for months (same applies to newer Linux variants). Thus, I easily belived that "there were no successful compromises of the Macintosh, the Linspire or the two Windows XPs using firewalls", as the article says. Internet security for home users is actually THAT simple... [O'Reilly Weblogs] 10:23:10 PM    comment []

Three Books On The iPod [Slashdot:] 10:22:25 PM    comment []

Universities struggling with spyware. Plus: Are you having an identity crisis? [News.com Extra] [CNET News.com] 10:17:33 PM    comment []

Dawn of the Dead--Fresh Windows installs turned into zombies in 4 minutes.. Since my last post about patching Windows using Knoppix before connecting it to the net, a new study has come out that finds the time until intrusion is as little as 4 minutes for a fresh Windows XP machine. [O'Reilly Weblogs] 10:16:42 PM    comment []

Yikes! I have to plan an IT project. After covering technology for two decades, Computerworld's Sharon Machlis gets a taste of life on the IT side of the house when she joins a committee designing and selecting software for a content management upgrade. [Computerworld News] 9:07:10 PM    comment []

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