Song of the week
news://msnews.microsoft.com/uowkBZMAFHA.2104@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl
[why do I get an image of flying Elvis's?]
If you are using a POP connector in SBS 2003 to pull email
PATCH IT
www.sbslinks.com/popconnector.htm
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Blogs of note
TAZ on Exchange webcasts
http://www.taznetworks.com/rss/2005/01/exchange-webcast-for-small-office.html
Small businesses starting their own trade associations
http://www.smallbusinesses.blogspot.com/2005/01/small-businesses-need-dedicated-trade.html
Marketing tips
http://www.smallbusinesses.blogspot.com/2005/01/marketing-tips.html
Almost 1/2 have viruses
http://securityawareness.blogspot.com/2005/01/almost-half-home-computer-users-fall.html
Gates as a Pin up?
http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/microsoft/archives/004180.html?wbfrom=rss
SeanDaniel.com - why we shouldn't run the Security Configuration Wizard
on our boxes
http://seanda.blogspot.com/2005/01/security-why-wait-for-sbs-sp1.html
PDC is starting to heat up
http://www.jeffsandquist.com/PermaLink,guid,002448d6-c783-4379-aa69-e975d5d6ec51.aspx
The buzz on Firefox
http://www.micropersuasion.com/2005/01/firefox_nation.html
Need IT resources?
http://thenorwichgroup.blogs.com/fieldnotes/2005/01/sbs_it_consulta.html
Microsoft's email culture
http://johnporcaro.typepad.com/blog/2005/01/microsofts_emai.html
SBS Knowledge base articles of interest:
http://msmvps.com/bradley/archive/2005/01/23/33708.aspx
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In other news
Technician Sentenced in Thefts of IDs
A computer technician who prosecutors say touched
off the largest identity theft in U.S. history was
sentenced to 14 years in prison Tuesday by a judge
who said the damage he caused was "almost unimaginable."
Philip A. Cummings, 35, of Cartersville, Ga., a former
help-desk worker for a Hauppauge, N.Y., software
company, apologized before U.S. District Judge
George B. Daniels imposed the sentence in New York.
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-5533554.html
http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-fi-idtheft12jan12,1,75957.story
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/01/12/grand_theft_id/
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T-Mobile: Hacker had limited access
Mobile-phone carrier T-Mobile has acknowledged
that an online attacker gained access to its
network, but denied reports that the criminal had
the run of its network and broadly threatened its
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-5534323.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6818785/
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/computersecurity/hacking/2005-01-12...
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Double trouble from Symbian virus
Virus writers have created a mobile phone worm
theoretically capable of spreading via either
Bluetooth or by attaching itself to files. The
use of two spreading tactics by Lasco-A is common
in the world of Windows viruses but previously
unheard of in mobile phones.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/01/12/lasco_symbian_virus/
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Gmail glitch yields access to messages
A problem with Google's e-mail service, Gmail,
let any user query the company's servers for
information on the last message sent, two hackers
announced on Wednesday. The programmers, part
of a community site dedicated to the Unix-like
FreeBSD operating system, found that an
improperly formatted address allowed Gmail users
to retrieve the message body of the last HTML-
formatted e-mail processed by the server.
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-5534210.html
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Apple fixes flaw with iTunes update
Apple on Tuesday released an update of its
iTunes software to address a vulnerability
that could cause earlier versions to crash
and execute arbitrary code.
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-5533750.html
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Microsoft Issues Patches for Critical Flaws
The latest Windows vulnerabilities are serious
in that hackers can get malicious code to execute
on PC without user interaction, says Russ Cooper
of security firm TruSecure. "The worst is the HTML
Help ActiveX vulnerability, because it is the
stealthiest."
http://www.newsfactor.com/story.xhtml?story_title=Microsoft-Issues-Pa...
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/computersecurity/hacking/2005-01-11...
New holes threaten media players
http://computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,98899,...
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Cybersecurity czar call renewed
Congressional representatives are trying again
to create a cybersecurity position within the
Homeland Security Department's Information
Analysis and Infrastructure Protection
Directorate.
http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2005/0110/web-czar-01-11-05.asp
Yet another cybersecurity chief steps down
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-5534064.html
http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/34807-1.html
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'Anti-phishing' verbal signatures get thumbs up
With phishing attacks on the increase there has
been growing support for the introduction of
'verbal signatures' for two-way authentication
between banks and their customers, as suggested
by silicon.com.
http://software.silicon.com/security/0,39024655,39127007,00.htm
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Securing data from the threat within
A company's biggest security threat isn't the
sinister hacker trying to break into the corporate
network, but employees and partners with easy
access to company information.
http://www.crime-research.org/news/12.01.2005/893/
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Computer, physical security expected to merge
Companies will increasingly integrate physical
and computer security systems in 2005, spending
over $1 billion in the United States and Europe,
Forrester Research concluded in a report
published this week.
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-5534312.html
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RFID : ID'ing the Players
RFID is an unproven, unstandardized technology
for supply chain usage. EPC Global (Electronic
Product Code), a spin-off of the UCC (Uniform
Code Council), recently ratified a standard for
tags, but everything else is still in a state
of emerging chaos.
http://www.newsfactor.com/story.xhtml?story_title=RFID---ID-ing-the-P...
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Nefarious characters roam the wild, wild Web
The Internet gives millions of people faster
access to more information than at any time
in human history. A few mouse clicks enables
online users to buy a best-selling book, bid
on baseball memorabilia or book a flight to
Bora Bora.
http://www.crime-research.org/news/12.01.2005/894/
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An open letter to the Security Community::
http://msmvps.com/bradley/archive/2004/12/12/23540.aspx