Wednesday, May 31, 2006

New Phishing Attacks

My thanks to Tonyso for this

Educate your users and friends/family...Microsoft never sends patches (updates) in an e-mail. According to Techweb today, a couple of Trojans are posing as Microsoft patches/updates.


The first line of the spoofed e-mail "Microsoft Cooporation" [sic] -- is a dead give-away that the message is not genuine, the article states.


If users click on the embedded link as instructed to "download the patch and protect your computer against WinLogon attacks" they actually download a keystroke logger "BeastPWS-C" .
Direct your users to the How to tell whether a Microsoft security-related e-mail message is genuine page that reminds them that "We never attach software updates to our security e-mail notifications." "We never send notices about security updates or incidents until after we publish information about them on our Web site. Check the Security site on Microsoft.com to see whether the information is listed there."

Tuesday, May 30, 2006

Microsoft & SAP are about to sing a DUET



Microsoft & SAP are on target to deliver Duet formerly project Mendocino, the joint project application in June. The companies also announced that there will be additional applications scheduled for the second half of 2006.

Watch Demo here of Duet

The official blurb say's

"Duet software, formerly known as Project Mendocino, is the first joint product for use with Microsoft Office and SAP. Created by industry leaders Microsoft and SAP, Duet is designed to revolutionize the way information workers access enterprise applications. With Duet software, you will benefit from time and cost savings, increases in process compliance, improvements in decision making, and decreases in redundancy and data errors".

Monday, May 29, 2006

Anti Virus for Vista Beta 2

If you are testing Vista Beat 2 !! well then, it's more than likely that you have realised that there isn't that many Anti Virus solutions currently available..for it.
Well, check out here from CA and you can get their AV for free.

"FREE eTrust® EZ Antivirus for Windows VistaTM Beta Users"

My thanks to BRETTJO for this info



Keyboard with integrated Keystroke Logger


Now it gets scary: I knew that you can buy pretty small keystroke logger to be placed between the keyboard and the PC. Now, the keystroke loggers are even offered to be placed into normal keyboards - and that to be bought via the internet... They are sold as "security keyboard" :-)
But it is not THAT bad, at least they have a disclaimer:Using the KeyGhost to log/record other people's keystrokes, steal passwords or break into another persons computer without his/her knowledge can be considered as an illegal activity. It is the final user's responsibility to obey all applicable local, state, and federal laws. Our hardware is intended for authorized system administrators, employers, and/or owners of the computer. KeyGhost & partners, the device's creator, and it's employees assume no liability and are not responsible for any misuse or damage caused by our KeyGhost product.
Look at it: http://www.keyghost.com/securekb.htm

My thanks to Roger of Microsoft Switzerland Security Blog for this info

Thursday, May 25, 2006

IASA inaugural meeting of Birmingham Chapter UK


Tonight I attended the inaugral meeting of the UK Birmingham chapter of IASA ( International Association Software Architects) held at Wragge UK in Birmingham city centre.

My thanks to Wragge UK for their hospitality and the use of one of their conference rooms.

A special mention must go to Matt Deacon ( Microsoft Development Architect ) who instigated the initial response with Neil Weller Technical Architect, Timewave Technologies Ltd for opening a Birmingham chapter and made the journey up from London ( although this may change from Birmingham chapter to "Midland" chapter following a certain amount of discussion).

Also thanks must go to Dr Richard Grimes, who gave an indepth and thought provoking talk on Security within Windows32 / COM+ & .NET .

A thoroughly enjoyable evening guy's..... see you at the next one.

Office System Beta 2 available


Download from here

If you have a problem downloading? try again later as microsoft have been trying to get more servers connected due to the demand. That has been phenominal

Microsoft Windows Vista Guide as a Word Document


Keith Combs has blogged that the Windows Vista Guide ( only 59.1MB ) is now available to download as a Word .doc

Go Get it from here


Tuesday, May 23, 2006

MySpace in talks with Google and Microsoft over search engine link-up


MySpace in talks with Google and Microsoft over search engine link-up

Full info here

http://www.revolutionmagazine.com/News/index.cfm?fuseaction=ViewNewsArticle&newsID=560366

Friday, May 05, 2006

Having email replies sent to more than one address


There is a superb handy hint from Allister Frost on the Useful Technology Blog regarding if you need or want the recipient of your email to send their response to more than one email address?