New worm attacking MS08-067 vulnerability

M0re than a month after releasing an emergency patch for the MS08-067 RPC vulnerability , Microsoft on Tuesday warned that it is seeing increased levels of attack activity against the flaw. The company said that there is a new worm, being called Win32/Conficker.A , which is exploiting the RPC flaw and spreading in both enterprises and in home user environments. Conficker opens a random TCP port between 1024 and 10000 and then starts exploiting the MS08-067 vulnerability on other PCs on the network.

Tweet the Vote. No, Digg The Vote. No, YouTube the Vote. Oh, . . . Just Vote.

If you think there is too much noise about the U.S. election now, wait until next week. On Election Day, not only will every media outlet be covering the vote, but so will voters themselves who will have ample opportunity to Tweet, Digg, video, and IM the vote. Most of these “reports” will probably consist of people telling the world that “I’m voting!” or who they just cast their vote for. Who you vote for used to be a private affair, but no more. It is almost as if your vote does not count, unless you IM or Tweet it.

A bad day Phishing isn’t always better than a good day at work!

Ever get tired numerous attempts to get your information? Read the article below for help.
Surely you’ve encountered the “Dear Valued Customer”, “Verify Your Account” or “If you don’t respond within 48 hours, your account will be closed” emails flying across the screen, threatening corrective action unless you take the time to respond. Worse yet, what [...]

Even the most secure systems get breached!!!

“Pentagon e-mail system broken into”

According to BBC News, a hacker has managed to penetrate one of the e-mail systems in the Pentagon. Because of that, up to 1,500 accounts were taken off-line as a precaution.
US Secretary of defense Robert Gates, speaking at a news briefing, said that the penetrated system was an unclassified one that [...]

Web developers that stand out…

What kind of thoughts go into Unhandled Perception? This guy reads entirely to much, but well worth looking at for the content he writes about!!!
I guess when you start blogging, you have to start somewhere!

Cool Innovations

For those of you that like new (and not so new) toys, you need to check out the following:
Sphere is an interactive spherical display prototype that uses custom optics hardware as well as computer vision and graphics software to enable interaction on a spherical surface.

Sphere in action

Who Knows, REVISED…

Well, it has been quite a while since our last blogs! This is due to a couple of less than suitable web hosts, as well as, a REAL crappy interface at the last “Web Host 4 Life” (more to come in this subject…
After a few weeks of recreating out blogs (we went from Blogger to [...]