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Google desktop search not evil says Seltzer

eWeek Security Center editor Larry Seltzer tears apart Google's Desktop Search GDS software and then puts it back together and concludes that most of the criticisim being levied against Google, particularly in the areas of security and privacy, are FUD. In his findings, Seltzer says, "[Google's] privacy policy says, among...

Tags: administrative right, Google Inc., Larry Seltzer

Blog posts 2004-10-19

Seltzer: Shoot the messenger (or yourself), not MS

In his most recent column, eWeek Security Center editor Larry Seltzer says that German research outfit Heise Security overstepped a boundary when it set "unrealistic expectations for a new Windows security feature and then [criticized]Microsoft for not meeting them."  Earlier this week, Heise published a report that identified two vulnerabilities in...

Tags: Heise Security, Larry Seltzer

Blog posts 2004-08-20

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Time says Twitter will change our lives; I Tweeted that I puked

Time says Twitter will change our lives; I Tweeted that I pukedambient awarenessHere is my commentary: I am not saying that Facebook, Twitter, etc. are necessarily bad, but I am wondering if there is a question behind the question. These social spaces are places that enable us to...

Tags: RSS, Strategy, Processors, Twitter, Tweeted, Time Magazine

Discussion threads 2009-06-04

Meet Martin McKeay

Anyone who has Googled "security + blog" will have noticed Martin McKeay's blog site at www.mckeay.net. I am not sure how he got to the exalted number two position but it probably has something to do with being one of the first to set up a security blog. In...

Tags: security, blog

Blog posts 2006-08-01

Seltzer blows whistle on 'domain tasting' rat but serious questions remain

Larry Seltzer who I used to work with at PC Week before it changed its name to eWeek has exposed Chesterton Holdings as a rat that either ICANN or Verisign must deal with immediately. The outfit for which very little information is available (it didn't respond to Larry's inquiries)...

Tags: Chesterton Holdings

Blog posts 2006-07-20

Microsoft's predatory pricing of security software

SunbeltBLOG has posted an analysis of Microsoft's pricing for their new security products, OneCare and Antigen, calling Microsoft on predatory pricing aimed at putting the rest of the security vendors out of business. Even though Sunbelt Software is in the security business, too, I don't think this is sour grapes....

Tags: Microsoft Corp.

Blog posts 2006-06-20

Zalewski is no hero - he's a vandal

Larry Seltzer at eWEEK agrees with me about the blatant disregard security researcher Richard Zalewski demonstrated yesterday when he unilaterally decided to disclose a potentially serious security vulnerability in Internet Explorer without providing the information to Microsoft first. Larry's a better man than me and doesn't go so far as...

Tags: Zalewski

Blog posts 2006-04-27

Symantec confesses to using rootkit technology

Oh, dear. We're just getting over the Sony DRM rootkit ruckus and now we have a security company hiding software components from Windows APIs with rootkit technology. News.com reports that Symantec Corp.'s spokesperson admitted to using this rootkit type feature in Norton SystemWorks to hide a directory so...

Tags: rootkit

Blog posts 2006-01-11

More updates on WMF and back to other news

Personally I'm getting weary of all the WMF exploit news. But here's a few more tidbits before I move back to one of my favorite topics, rogue anti-spyware.Microsoft's hotfix has been leaked. SunbeltBLOG has some screenshots here. The leak was first announced at Steve Gibson's site, grc.com. The...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Metafile

Blog posts 2006-01-04

WMF vulnerability patch and more good news

An unofficial patch has been written by programmer Ilfak Guilfanov. It works in my tests. Get it here. Uninstall it before installing the Microsoft patch due on January 10. There's is also a vulnerability checker here. Guilfanov's blog must be getting heavy traffic -- the pages are...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Metafile, Ilfak Guilfanov, patch

Blog posts 2006-01-03

Protection from critical WMF vulnerability

Protection from critical WMF vulnerabilityAnyone tried this yet ?I went through the threads off George's blog here but one person says that it doesn't work with the Registry Disable. Also, has anyone actually tried the Registry Disable ? George ?SSDDSame situation; Different day ;)When will it end! ...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Metafile, WMF vulnerability, software, data execution prevention

Discussion threads 2005-12-29

Is the XP SP2 firewall getting a raw deal?

A recent report on a new denial of service vulnerability involving Windows RDP Remote Desktop Protocol blaming the Windows XP SP2 (Service Pack 2) firewall has touched off a rash of sensationalism from other media outlets that gets blindly regurgitated in the forums. This has caused some unwarranted confusion...

Tags: firewall, Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2

Blog posts 2005-07-19

Fix SMTP and leave port 25 alone for the sake of spam

Larry Seltzer of eWeek, whom I have great respect for and usually agree with, wrote this article on dealing with spam using the controversial tactic of blocking all outbound port 25 access.? The logic behind this is that the vast majority of spam in the world comes from "zombies" (millions...

Tags: domain, SMTP server

Blog posts 2005-04-11

All software is beta. Get over it.

News.com's Paul Festa has a story that shines the spotlight on the extended beta periods that service offerings from companies like Google and Flickr are going through. The story quotes technology consultant Mary Hodder as saying "I feel like 'beta' has become a questionable term.....Google and Flickr just leave...

Tags: beta, software

Blog posts 2005-02-11

IE flaw under SP2: User's problem or Microsoft's?

A security researcher has turned up another problem with Internet Explorer that paves the way for malicious code to sneak by all that Microsoft's Service Pack 2 for Windows XP has to offer from a security perspective, store itself on a hard drive, and install itself the next time a...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Service Pack 2

Blog posts 2004-08-23

The end of the mass e-mailer worm era?

In a recent column, Larry Seltzer [eWeek] suggests that lack of innovation and qualified virus writers signals the end of malicious e-mail worms. I don't agree that e-mail worms are going away--they're merely taking a rest until a clever author figures out how to bypass the minimal security within e-mail clients,...

Tags: e-mail, e-mail worm

Blog posts 2004-07-19