September 2006 Archives

The Commerce Department recently reported that it has lost over 1,100 laptops in the past five years with the Census Bureau accounting for 672. I'm deriving from this that keeping count of human population is somewhat easier than keeping track... Read More..

A vulnerability associated with the Vector Markup Language (VML) was first discovered around September 19th. It was initially discovered when shady pornography websites were exploited resulting in massive loading of adware. Read CNet's article - Porn Sites exploit new IE... Read More..

Rumors were flying the latter part of last week about this. EMC made it official today by acquiring Network Intelligence for $175M. The acquisition immediately follows EMC's completion of the RSA Security acquisition for $2.1B. With this acqusition, EMC continues... Read More..

Last month's security bulletin from Microsoft included the MS06-040, revealing a critical vulnerability in Windows Server service. MS06-040 attacks continued to proliferate throughout the month and into September. What's interesting is that it's led to a discussion on how Macs... Read More..