http://www.nettechcorp.com/blog Technology, Innovations and Experiences Fri, 05 Dec 2008 22:18:59 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://www.nettechcorp.com/blog/2008/11/new-worm-attacking-ms08-067-vulnerability/ 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 ... http://www.nettechcorp.com/blog/2008/10/tweet-the-vote-no-digg-the-vote-no-youtube-the-vote-oh-just-vote/ Not being one to be very political, I figured this would be a good lead in to many more posts. It may also lead to a change of the name of my blog to "Indignant Principle". I guess I am missing common sense... With that being said, i can get to ... http://www.nettechcorp.com/blog/2008/10/two-topics-to-never-discuss-religion-politics-yea-right/ If you haven't pached your Microsoft systems, YOU BETTER!!! There are reports emerging Friday morning of a new Trojan exploiting the MS08-067 RPC vulnerability in Windows that Microsoft patched with an emergency fix yesterday. Known as Gimmiv.A, the Trojan propagates automatically through networks, and also installs a number of small programs ... http://www.nettechcorp.com/blog/2008/10/trojan-exploiting-ms08-067-rpc-vulnerability/ Most people tend to register the same username when signing up for services, for obvious reasons. Your username is your personal identity and most people don’t need more than one. It’s also easier to remember. But one thing that is becoming increasingly difficult to remember, with so many new Web ... http://www.nettechcorp.com/blog/2008/10/is-your-username-taken-usernamecheck-will-tell-you/ A reader, Darrin (from ReverseMortgageGuides ), who says he spends about $100,000/month on Google adwords received a voicemail from a Cleary Gottlieb lawyer named Donald Burke. Burke says he’s representing Google in the Yahoo advertising deal . The message, linked below (with part of the phone number toned out), says: ... http://www.nettechcorp.com/blog/2008/10/google-asking-their-advertisers-to-publicly-support-yahoo-search-deal/ I will keep this review short and straight to the point, folks. You know how Google likes to keep things in Beta for years and years? Well, Android is no different. Like many of you I was excited at the prospect of a new OS to muscle it’s way in ... http://www.nettechcorp.com/blog/2008/10/crunchgear-review-t-mobile-g1/ Three years ago today, Rupert Murdoch bought MySpace and its parent company Intermix for $580 million. That turned out to be money well spent. The last time we ran the numbers, we figured that MySpace alone is worth between $3 billion and $20 billion , depending on how much you ... http://www.nettechcorp.com/blog/2008/10/three-years-later-buying-myspace-looks-like-one-of-murdoch%e2%80%99s-smartest-bets/ Microsoft has announced that the latest version of Windows, due in the next couple of years, will be called - drumroll please - Windows 7 . It’s about time Microsoft adopted a naming system that might actually make some sense to users, but I can’t wait for hordes of customers ... http://www.nettechcorp.com/blog/2008/10/microsoft%e2%80%99s-next-os-to-be-called-%e2%80%9cwindows-7%e2%80%b3-seriously/ Here is a one-month stock chart comparing Apple (down 40 percent), Google (down 20 percent), Yahoo (ditto), and Microsoft (down about 10 percent). Microsoft is holding up best. If Yahoo keeps diving, what next? Discuss among yourselves. Crunch Network : CrunchGear drool over the sexiest new gadgets and hardware. View post: Brutal http://www.nettechcorp.com/blog/2008/10/brutal/