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  • Don't fire people until after you wipe their phones

    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 Security administrator can issue a remote wipe command...
    Posted to Jesper's Blog (Weblog) by jesper on Thu, Apr 8 2010

  • Don't fire people until after you wipe their phones

    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 Security administrator can issue a remote wipe command...
    Posted to Jesper's Blog (Weblog) by Anonymous on Thu, Apr 8 2010

  • Hey, Mozilla: Quotes Are Not Legal in a URL

    When I was a child, I learned a saying that I still find important to keep in mind: Those who are sitting in a glass house shall not throw stones The good folks at Mozilla may want to look up what that really means. Two days ago, Mozilla published Firefox version 2.0.0.5 to fix a security vulnerability...
    Posted to Jesper's Blog (Weblog) by jesper on Sat, Jul 21 2007

  • Hey, Mozilla: Quotes Are Not Legal in a URL

    When I was a child, I learned a saying that I still find important to keep in mind: Those who are sitting in a glass house shall not throw stones The good folks at Mozilla may want to look up what that really means. Two days ago, Mozilla published Firefox version 2.0.0.5 to fix a security vulnerability...
    Posted to Jesper's Blog (Weblog) by Anonymous on Sat, Jul 21 2007

  • At Least This Snake Oil Is Free

    Snake oil , for those that are not familiar with the U.S. English vernacular, is a derogatory term for some product that makes unverifiable or exaggerated claims. True to the tradition, we now find " Vista Firewall Control ," complete with a PC World article that includes not only incorrect...
    Posted to Jesper's Blog (Weblog) by jesper on Thu, Jul 19 2007

  • At Least This Snake Oil Is Free

    Snake oil , for those that are not familiar with the U.S. English vernacular, is a derogatory term for some product that makes unverifiable or exaggerated claims. True to the tradition, we now find " Vista Firewall Control ," complete with a PC World article that includes not only incorrect...
    Posted to Jesper's Blog (Weblog) by Anonymous on Thu, Jul 19 2007

  • Blocking the Firefox -> IE 0-day

    Thor Larholm, unhelpfully, published details on what he claims is a 0-day exploit for Internet Explorer (IE) yesterday. This exploit is actually for Firefox, but Thor exploited it by making IE launch Firefox. Firefox creates three protocol handlers. A protocol handler is essentially a mapping from an...
    Posted to Jesper's Blog (Weblog) by jesper on Tue, Jul 10 2007

  • Blocking the Firefox -> IE 0-day

    Thor Larholm, unhelpfully, published details on what he claims is a 0-day exploit for Internet Explorer (IE) yesterday. This exploit is actually for Firefox, but Thor exploited it by making IE launch Firefox. Firefox creates three protocol handlers. A protocol handler is essentially a mapping from an...
    Posted to Jesper's Blog (Weblog) by Anonymous on Tue, Jul 10 2007

  • Security Vendors: Microsoft is making Vista Too Secure

    McAfee today joined Symantec in complaining about Microsoft making Windows Vista too secure, making it difficult for them to rootkit the OS to do their security voodoo. The arguments are centered on two main complaints, which I will attempt to translate into the pecuniary terms they really represent...
    Posted to Jesper's Blog (Weblog) by jesper on Wed, Oct 4 2006
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