Tag: Microsoft

How to secure your IIS server

Microsoft confirmed yesterday that there is a bug in the company’s web server IIS 6. According to the Microsoft security risk is minimal since it requires that the server is configured in a special way for the security hole to be exploited. In a security bulletin that Microsoft released yesterday …

Google to buy Twitter

The rumours about a merger between Google and Twitter (more like Google swallowing Twitter if you see to the estimated value of the both companies) are flooding the Internet these days and the big question is if there are any thruth behind them at all. Even if the rumours are …

Extremely critical vulnerability in Office

Security companies have found a new and extremely critical vulnerability in Power Point in Microsofts Office suite. The vulnerability allows attackers to take control over the operating system and control computers remotely using special code inside a Power Point presentation. The security company Securia is ranking this as “extremely critical” …

Google – a growing spam problem

Have you recently noticed an increase in spam linking to docs.google.com? If so there’s a reason for it. More and more spammers have figured out how to abuse Googles fantastic services to redirect visitors to other sites (the spammers own sites) 🙁 Most free web services like for example Hotmail, …

Windows Vista a virus?

This Monday McAfee released an update of their antivurs software that by accident classified a file in Windows Vista as a trojan. The supposed trojan should steal the users password according to the incorrect information from McAfee and some users may have gotten the file ”conime.exe” deleted from their Windows …

Updated list of pagerank 10 sites

I decided to update my list of Pagerank 10 websites I posted earlier since Google is said to have updated their pagerank. So here’s the updated list: validator.w3.org Downgraded to PR9 web.mit.edu www.adobe.com www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/index.html New on the list www.adobe.com/downloads/ New on the list www.adobe.com/products/index.html New on the list www.adobe.com/downloads/ New …