Have you seen this warning when you try to click a link in Outlook or Word? "This operation has been canceled due to restrictions in effect on this computer. Please contact your system administrator." Here is a screen shot: There are many reason...
If you have ever taken a survival course you have probably heard the instructor talk about how you need to be aware of your surroundings. Much of survival is about recognizing where you are, what is safe, and what is not. The Internet is no different...
October is National Cyber Security Awareness Month, and as I stated in the last post, I decided to celebrate by writing some Security Awareness posts. Almost as if they knew what I was going to write about, I received this spam comment on my last post...
The U.S. President has declared October 2010 to be " National Cyber Security Awareness Month ." While the term "cyber" may not be particularly clear to most people, what this really is about is How To Stay Safe Online ; and not just...
It appears Apple is the only company around that doesn't use Microsoft Exchange. Apple's recently released iOS (not to be confused with Cisco's IOS) 4 apparently wasn't tested with Exchange at all. Many users are reporting slow e-mail...
If you have upgraded your iTunes to version 9.2 you may have run into the problem that your computer no longer recognizes your iPhone/iPad/iPod. I had the problem on one computer, but not the other. When you connect the device it starts installing the...
A very commonly required feature for mobile access to email is remote wipe - the ability to reach out and wipe all corporate data off a mobile device. Exchange ActiveSync supports this feature and has for several versions now. You, as the Exchange or...
Update February 15, 2010 PADI has finally locked down access to the members site to users who are actually PADI members, making the instructor manual unavailable unless you are a member. Apparently it was not supposed to be publicly available even though...
Munir Kotadia, an IT Journalist in Australia, has finally managed to figure out how to blame Microsoft for the fake anti-malware epidemic. Apparently, the reason is that "Microsoft could save the world from fake security applications by introducing...
One of the last areas where more tool support is needed is in monitoring the various attributes in Active Directory (AD). Recently I got curious about the delegation flags, and, more to the point, how to tell which accounts have been trusted for delegation...
It's official. I just received an e-mail from Thawte notifying me that, as of November 16, 2009, the most innovative and useful idea in PKI since its inception, the Web of Trust , will die. Thawte was founded 14 years ago by Mark Shuttleworth. The...
At least for the short to medium term. That is the, quite obvious, conclusion drawn in a Newsweek article entitled "Building a Better Password." The article goes inside the CyLab at Carnegie-Mellon University to understand how passwords may...
Today I finally got wind of my first piece of true standard user malware. MS Antispyware 2008 has turned standard user. The version in question installs the binaries in c:\documents and settings\all users\application data\<something>, and makes...
In an absolutely astonishing move Microsoft's Polish subsidiary decided to do some photoshopping on its Business Productivity Infrastructure page to tailor it to the Polish market. Here you can see the U.S. original . In one of the least sensitive...
Good Wednesday afternoon (or Thursday morning, for those on the other side of the date line). Since my new job largely revolves around speaking to audiences about cloud computing, I've decided that rather than observe from the sidelines I should jump...