Thursday, September 29, 2005

Office 2003 Updates


Product Updates Alert: New Office Updates are AvailableThe Microsoft Office Online Downloads site hosts free* updates that you can download to increase the security, stability, and performance of your Office products.
The following new updates are now available:

Update for Outlook 2003 Junk Email Filter (KB904631) This update provides the Junk E-mail Filter in Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 with a more current definition of which e-mail messages should be considered junk e-mail.
Office 2003 Service Pack 2 (SP2) This service pack provides the latest updates to Microsoft Office 2003.
Office 2003 Service Pack 2 (SP2) for Proofing Tools This service pack provides the latest updates to Microsoft Office 2003 Proofing Tools.
OneNote 2003 Service Pack 2 (SP2) This service pack provides the latest updates to Microsoft Office OneNote 2003.
Outlook Live 2003 Service Pack 2 (SP2) This service pack provides the latest updates to Microsoft Office Outlook Live 2003.
Project 2003 Service Pack 2 (SP2) This service pack provides the latest updates to Microsoft Office Project 2003.
Project Server 2003 Service Pack 2 (SP2) This service pack provides the latest updates to Microsoft Office Project Server 2003.
Visio 2003 Service Pack 2 (SP2) This service pack provides the latest updates to Microsoft Office Visio 2003.
Windows SharePoint Services Service Pack 2 (SP2) This service pack provides the latest updates to Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services.
Using the Office Update automatic detection tool on the Office Online Downloads site, you can find out if these updates are suitable for your Office products. Go to the Office Online Downloads site and click Check for Updates to get the latest Office updates for your computer. If any of these new updates do not appear in the list of updates returned by the automatic detection tool, then your computer does not need those updates.
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Thursday, September 22, 2005

Handbook for bloggers and cyber-dissidents


Handbook for bloggers and cyber-dissidents


Blogs get people excited. Or else they disturb and worry them. Some people distrust them. Others see them as the vanguard of a new information revolution. Because they allow and encourage ordinary people to speak up, they’re tremendous tools of freedom of expression. Bloggers are often the only real journalists in countries where the mainstream media is censored or under pressure. Only they provide independent news, at the risk of displeasing the government and sometimes courting arrest. Reporters Without Borders has produced this handbook to help them, with handy tips and technical advice on how to to remain anonymous and to get round censorship, by choosing the most suitable method for each situation. It also explains how to set up and make the most of a blog, to publicise it (getting it picked up efficiently by search-engines) and to establish its credibility through observing basic ethical and journalistic principles.

http://www.rsf.org/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=542


Wednesday, September 21, 2005

Security Alert



Security Alert, September 21, 2005
Unchecked Buffers in VERITAS Storage Exec
Buffer overflow vulnerabilities were discovered in multiple DCOM server components that are part of VERITAS Storage Exec and StorageCentral. The components could be exploited through calls to associated ActiveX controls if a user launched malicious HTML code.
Such code could arrive via email or be stored in a file or on a Web server. A successful exploit might lead to a system crash or allow access to the local system. Symantec released hotfixes for Storage Exec and StorageCentral to correct the problems.

Thursday, September 15, 2005

6 Dumbest Ideas in Computer Security

http://www.ranum.com/security/computer_security/editorials/dumb/

I like it :) & there is a good discussion going on in the blogs on TechRepublic.