WinodwsUpdateSilencer - Disable Windows Update Restart Alert Message
Windows Automatic Updates is definitely helpful feature to keep Windows up to date with latest updates and thereby keeping it secure from viruses, worms and hacker.
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9.9.2009 Apple's "Get a Mac" attack
Apple Computer may have broken bread with the Wintel camp, but that doesn't mean it's finding the closer association easy to swallow.
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5.5.2006 Excel vulnerable to new attack
With its February security patches now two weeks away, Microsoft is warning of another critical flaw in its Office software.
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5.2.2007 Code Posted for IE Attack
New software has been published on the Internet that could be used to exploit a known flaw in Internet Explorer.
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27.3.2007 Novell CEO: We're Going to 'Attack' Vista
The 'alliance' between Novell and Microsoft got a bit weirder after Novell's CEO indicated that he was pleased by Vista's slow rate of adoption, and will continue to battle the company directly in the marketplace.
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17.2.2007 Microsoft set to attack Linux with patents?
Is Microsoft getting ready to attack Linux and open-source software with its patents?
Florian Mueller, spokesman for the European NoSoftwarePatents.com and a leading anti-patent activist, thinks that may be the case. Mueller sees a recent Forbes interview with Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer as stopping just " short announcing patent litigation against Linux."
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2.4.2006 Microsoft Confirms PowerPoint Zero-Day Attack
For the third time in two months, a zero-day vulnerability in a widely used Microsoft Office software application is being used in targeted hacker attacks.
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14.7.2006 Microsoft: ‘Very difficult’ to block IE attack vector
A member of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer team says it is “very difficult” to put protections in place to block the protocol handlers attack vector exposed by the recent IE-to-Firefox code execution vulnerability.
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22.7.2007 New attack code crashes Windows XP & Vista
Security researchers have released attack code that will crash Windows XP and Vista PCs that are susceptible to a recently patched bug in the operating system.
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19.1.2008 Chinese Windows 2000 attack crashes PCs
Security researchers have spotted malicious code that triggers a critical vulnerability in the Chinese version of Windows 2000, and warned non-Chinese users to expect attacks.
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16.4.2008 Fake Windows patch e-mail leads to Trojan horse attack
Messages insisting that users install a just-released Microsoft Corp. security update are bogus and actually lead to a site that plants malicious code on PCs, several security companies warned today.
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28.6.2007Gmail users hit by spam attack after outage
After the widespread Gmail outage yesterday users were hit by a phishing attack over the Gtalk chat client. "The malicious message spread via the
Google Talk instant messaging chat system, urging users to a video by clicking on a link connected via the TinyURL service. The link points to a
website called ViddyHo, which invited users to submit their Gmail usernames and passwords." When users entered their credentials the information
would be logged and the email account would be compromised. If you think you may have been subjected to this attack it is advised you change your
password immediately The attack was not immediately picked up by Google either because it did not use conventional means.
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25.02.2009MS Issues Two Fixes for Patch
Tuesday
Microsoft issued two more
critical patches as part of
its regular Patch Tuesday
security update, including a
fix for a vulnerability when
viewing embedded Web fonts and
a flaw in the decoding of TNEF
messages. The company included
its WMF fix with the monthly
security updates...
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11.01.2006Add Word/Excel 97-2003 Documents Back to the "New" Context Menu
If you are using Office 2007 in an environment where everybody else is using Office 2003, you might have already set
Excel or
Word to always save to 2003 format, but
what about when you create new documents using the New menu? The only choices are now to create files in 2007 format, but we can add the old ones
back.
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18.08.2008Add the Quick Launch Bar to the Taskbar in Windows 7
The How-To Geek: In yesterday's article we showed you
how to make the Windows 7 taskbar
work more like XP or Vista, but we left one thing out: the Quick Launch bar. It's really not too difficult to add it back, although it will take
a few more steps...
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21.01.2009TechEd 2007: The WS2K8 Upgrade, and Two Universes Cohabiting One World
Conversations I've had this
week at TechEd with attendees
have made me rethink an
opinion I stated early on,
about how nice it was to see
Microsoft toning down the
marketing message and getting
down to brass, technical
tacks. Some IT managers who
want their employers to get
the message of Windows Server
2008, would appreciate it if
that message were easier to be
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06.06.2007Storm Worm Erupts Into Worst Virus Attack In 2 Years
The Storm worm authors are
waging a multi-pronged attack
and generating the largest
virus attack some researchers
say they've seen in two
years.
"We are
basically in the midst of an
incredibly large attack,"
said Adam Swidler, a senior
manager with security company
Postini. "It's the most
sustained attack that we've
seen. There's been nine to 10
days straight days of attack
at this level."
Swidler said in an
interview with InformationWeek
that the attack started a
little more than a week ago,
and Postini since then has
recorded 200 million spam
e-mails luring users to
malicious Web sites. Before
this attack, an average day
sees about 1 million
virus-laden e-mails, according
to Postini. Last Thursday,
however, the company tracked
42 million Storm-related
messages in that day alone. As
of Tuesday afternoon, Postini
researchers were predicting
they would see that day
between 4 million and 6
million virus e-mails -- 99%
of them associated with the
Storm worm. ..
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25.07.2007Mac worm hacker vanishes from blogosphere
Just days after claiming to
have written a worm that could
be used to attack Mac OS X
systems, the anonymous blogger
known as Infosecsellout has
gone quiet.
His (or
her or their) blog as been
renamed. Old posts have been
removed, the blog has been
renamed "Security
Information," and
Infosecsellout says the blog
is finished. Mysteriously,
however, there are two new
posts on the blog, one of
which provides a link to
information on the alleged
worm.
But they are
fake posts, according to
Infosecsellout, who said the
blog was hacked on Tuesday
night and will not be revived.
"Infosecsellout is
now dead," the anonymous
blogger said in an e-mail
message. "It was a great
experiment to see how the
industry could handle some
honesty, which they can't.
They are quick to attack the
credibility of others in order
to hide their own flaws." ..
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19.07.2007Russians launch DDOS attack
Russia launched another cyber warfare attack against the small country of Kyrgyzstan. A distributed denial of service attack (DDOS) took place
against the country in January of 2009. The ip traffic has now been traced back to Russian based servers primarily known for cyber crimes. The
claim is placed against the Russian Business Network (RBN) which is possibly the world's largest botnet with 150 to 180 million nodes. The attack
was successful in knocking three of four internet service providers in the country offline. This is not the first attack from this group which is
suspected of having government sponsorship.
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03.02.2009New Yahoo IM Phishing Attack
Surfaces
Instant messaging security
firm IMLogic warned of a new
phishing attack making its way
through the Yahoo! Messenger
network on Monday. The attack,
IM.Marphish2.Yahoo, attempts
to steal personal information
by dupong a user into
believing that they are in
violation of Yahoo's Terms of
Service...
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12.12.2005Important message to Windows Live Messenger customers
As some of you have noted on our forum, yesterday an important service announcement accidentally went out to a large audience of Windows Live
Messenger users with the following message: "Important service announcement: As part of a recent system enhancement, we need you to change your
e-mail address to continue signing in to the Windows Live™ Messenger Service. To ensure that your access is not blocked and to learn more, go to
http://support.microsoft.com/gp/Messenger/en" The message was sent from "messenger@microsoft.com" and was actually legitimate. However was not
intended to go out to the people that received the Instant Message yesterday. The Windows Live Messenger team has posted a alert for customers to
please disregard the message.
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09.04.2009Twitter suffers Denial of Service attack
Twitter was hit with a Denial of Service (DoS) attack earlier today, causing the site to go down for about 2 hours. Services were restored by 11:30
a.m. EST. A DoS attack is an attempt to make a computer resource unavailable to its intended users. This is typically accomplished by continuously
requesting information from the a site, until the sites network resources become too congested or busy to serve pages. CNN reports that although
services have been restored, the attack is still on going, and Twitter is actively working to defend and recover from the incident.
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06.08.2009Pentagon Target of Cyber Attack
A cyber attack on the Pentagon
Wednesday forced the Defense
Department to shut down about
1,500 computers after its
systems detected a possible
compromise, it said Thursday...
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22.06.2007Microsoft Wont Attack Apple
Vista may be under attack, but Microsoft isnt going to fight back anytime soon.
Last week
we wrote about how a nearly endless
wave of negative stories about Microsofts new Windows Vista operating system “ stories about poor business sales, buggy upgrades, and slow speeds “
was creating the impression that the operating system is a failure. Apple is trying to make that label stick with a series of ads that talk about
Vistas śproblems.ť The ads are the tech industrys equivalent of a political candidate attacking a rival.
Microsoft will respond
to these attacks by staying on message, Neil Charney, a general manager for Windows, tells us. Charneys read all the stories and seen the Mac ads. And
he wonders whether or not theyre effective. But he says he wont spend too much time worrying about it.
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07.12.20075 User Tips for Configuring Your Hardware in Linux
I have heard lots of complaints about configuring hardware in Linux distributions. This argument has had lots of merit in the past, but with each new
distribution or release, managing hardware has become much easier. With
Ubuntu, the most
popular Linux distribution to date, the developers have spent an incredible amount of time adding drivers and apps to help you configure your
computer. I offer these tips for configuring your hardware as examples of how easy it can be. Please remember that each computer build and its
configuration may be different, so these are general guidelines. Usually there are forums dedicated to each distribution where users and developers
can interact and solve specific issues.
Research Your Hardware. Just like with Windows, if you use Windows you need hardware that is
supported by Windows. Wireless cards are the same for Linux. In most cases, it is black or white. Linux supports it, or it doesn’t. You can find
most hardware information
HERE. For laptop support,
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31.08.2008iPhone Update Delivers Unnerving Message
Apple released an update to its iPhone today that applies some critical bug fixes and adds some new features, such as the ability to buy iTunes songs
over a Wi-Fi connection. It also delivered a message to users of unlocked devices...
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28.09.2007Clipboards hijacked in web attack
Computer security firms are warning about an attack that hijacks the clipboard where copied text is stored.
The attack puts a
hard-to-delete weblink into the clipboard that, if followed, leads people to a website selling fake security software.
The code
that inserts the link has been found in flash-based adverts seen on many legitimate websites.
The attack on the clipboard has hit
both Windows and Mac users of the Firefox web browser.
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19.08.2008Microsoft limiting Windows
Live Messenger?
The newly released build
792 of
Windows Live Messenger
continues to surprise, some
days after its release.
Mess.Be<
/STRONG>, in its third
"review" part of the build,
points out a few interesting
error messages which appeared
in the string tables:
- "The following
message could not be delivered
because you have exceeded the
maximum number of messages per
minute. Please try again
later."
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"This message was not sent
because you don't have
permission to send an offline
message."
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"This message was not sent
because it is too large for
the user's offline message
store."
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"This message was not sent
because Offline Instant
Messaging is not yet available
in your region."
Those seem quite limiting.
It is unknown yet in what
cases those error messages
will appear in future builds,
but it is suspected that those
will happen during an offline
messaging session with Yahoo!
Messenger users, as this seems
to be the point of this build:
preparing users to Yahoo!
Messenger
interoperability.
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26.06.2006Could key-logging be behind webmail attack?
Key-logging malware could be behind the recent web mail attack that saw thousands of email addresses and their associated passwords leaked online,
according to one security expert. Amichai Shulman, from security firm Imperva, believes that the size of the scam shows that it is not a phishing
attack. According to Mr Shulman, the majority of people do not fall for phishing attacks, with only one person falling for such an email in every
1000 sent. "The vast majority of people do not fall prey to phishing attacks and the success rates are around one per 1,000," he told the BBC.
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07.10.2009Sun Grid Targeted by DoS
Attack
Not even hours out of the
gate, Sun's public Grid
service has already been hit
by a denial of service attack.
According to the company, its
text-to-speech service became
the target of attackers that
caused the application to
crash...
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23.03.2006Twitter worm caused by 17 year old, out of 'boredom'
Over the Easter weekend, Twitter feel victim to yet another attack against the micro-blogging service, this time the attacker was 17 year old Mikeyy
Mooney, who claims full responsibility for the attack, saying "I am aware of the attack and yes I am behind this attack". The attack was harmless
in a sense that no passwords or users data was compromised or stolen, only leaving messages on peoples Twitter page such as "Dude, www.StalkDaily.com
is awesome. What's the fuss?". The worm infected other Twitter users when someone visited another person's page, making the worm spread
rapidly. The messages linked users to Mikeyy Mooneys own web site which offers similar features and style as Twitter does.
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