Friday, June 29, 2012

FBI's MegaUpload raid, excessive & ILLEGAL!!!

  The USA's attempt to extradite MegaUpload's Kim Dotcom has taken a wallop.
   A New Zealand High Court has ruled a raid by the New Zealand Police & US FBI, as illegal.
   Justice Helen Winkelmann, also declared that the search warrant parameters were too broad & that authorities exceeded their powers.
More from news.com.

Sunday, June 17, 2012

Internet Explorer security hole

It seems that there is what they call a XML memory corruption vulnerability that is currently being used by the bad guys to get into users machines using Internet Explorer. At the moment there is no fix, but Microsoft has a work around at the link below. Security experts are suggesting to use it.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2719615

Saturday, June 16, 2012

Microsoft in doghouse for making privacy a Default

Microsoft decision to make DNT (Do Not Track) turned on by default has hit a wall of resistance.
Some not happy, some fear it may make some not respect it at all. My thoughts and a couple of questions.